Eoin Wallace

Liverpool, Leinster Rugby and Ireland fan and a family man.... no problem giving my insight - YNWA

[Wrestling Pics & Clips @WrestleClips]

This John Cena tribute video is the best thing WWE has ever done.

So f*cking beautiful.

We will miss you John 🐐❤️

#ThankYouCena https://t.co/igTyvg5vcX

[paul joyce @_pauljoyce]

Mo Salah says his relationship with Arne Slot is broken and Liverpool have thrown him “under the bus.”

https://t.co/0HB7bWeUba

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

💰 Simon: "The biggest clubs are spending huge dough!"

🤷‍♂️ Danny: "Their net spend is about £60m! Hardly stupid!"

Simon Jordan and Danny Murphy reject claim that #LFC are trying to buy the league title! ❌

[Bloomberg @business]

France’s Capgemini plans to acquire IT outsourcing firm WNS for $3.3 billion, beating rival suitors to a deal aimed at expanding its AI operations https://t.co/qsXlhL52IO

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

A comedian asked an audience member to come up on stage and tell a joke.

This is so funny. 😂

[gript @griptmedia]

The asylum seeker housing business laid bare.

GRIPT’s Gary Kavanagh has mapped €4.3bn of State payments to private companies to provide accommodation, and related services, for asylum seekers and Ukrainians, firm by firm, name by name.

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

Shaq just shit himself on national TV 😭😭😭

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Seth Meyers's opening tonight about Trump's chaotic tariffs is epic.

Holy hell. 🤣

[Irishman @IrishmanIRL]

"The genie is out of the bottle, we now know who the owners are, all they want is a quick buck"

Mattie McGrath speaks about IPAS centres in the Dáil

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

HOLY SHIT.

"The relationship Canada had with the United States is over"

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

Leaders' Questions - Thursday 7th November 2024

Uproar in the Dail
What are they hiding?

They lied repeatedly about the costs of the Phone Pouches. Norma Foley denied on the floor of the Dáil that she was lobbied by the manufacturer YONDR who presented her with a phone pouche. @PearseDoherty

#Dail #LQs #GE24
##HopeForAChange

[The Flare @TheFlareNews]

Athlone has not only defeated the government but they’ve also caught them out in a massive lie.

A company that wasn’t even created did a “environmental survey” of the area.

The locals have had enough and Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Fein will be getting no votes.

This is a MUST WATCH.

[gript @griptmedia]

"You have nothing to say other than 'Oh, I didn't see it'...Do you think people at home watching this will think that's good enough?"

@Ben_Scallan pushes Irish Education Minister Norma Foley on reports that "f*sting" and "r*mming" are being discussed in Irish sex ed classrooms.

[Lawyers For Justice Ireland @LFJIreland]

ALL EYES ON THE PRESIDENT: HATE CRIME BILL

Will Michael D. Higgins sign the Bill into law OR do the right thing and refer it to the Supreme Court for judicial scrutiny? ACT NOW by adapting the submission below and sending it to the President, who can sign the Bill 5 to 7 days after it is presented to him.

FOR THE URGENT ATTENTION OF THE PRESIDENT

TO: Michael D. Higgins
[email protected]

Re: Criminal Justice (Hate Offences Bill) 2022

The Criminal Justice (Hate Offences Bill) 2022 (‘The Bill’) was one of five bills rushed through the Dail in six hours on 23rd October 2024 (The Irish Times 24th October 2024). Such rushed legislation demonstrates a pattern that you, Uachtarán, raised in your “unprecedented” letter to the Oireachtas in July 2021, when you expressed grave concern that you were asked to sign too much “complex” Covid legislation within a short period of time, much of which required “detailed analysis of the Constitutional implications”. No doubt you will, therefore, be extremely alarmed that no lessons have been learned by the government or the 78 TDs who voted in favour of the Bill which was passed in such lightning speed without a proper debate or legislative scrutiny.

Democracy demands that this Bill should not be signed into law, particularly as the legislation contains provisions depriving a person of their liberty. I, therefore, call upon you as President to engage your solemn power and refer the Bill to the Supreme Court on the grounds that the legislation contains provisions of such national importance they require full and proper judicial scrutiny on the Constitutional implications.

Specifically, the provisions of the Bill are repugnant to Article 40.4.1 (no citizen shall be deprived of his personal liberty save in accordance with the law), Article 40.1 (all citizens shall be held equal before the law) and Article 40.6.1.ii (the right of the citizens to assemble peaceably and without arms). The Bill also has wide reaching implications on Article 40.6.1 (the right of the citizens to express freely their convictions and opinions), as the Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, has announced, the government’s intention to extend the legislation at a later date to the ‘hate speech' element, which was "shelved" for now due to "lack of consensus".

The provisions of the Bill undermine the rule of law that legislation must be clear, precise and unambiguous and its legal implications foreseeable, particularly as they contain increased prison sentences for offences aggravated by ‘hatred’, a term that is not defined in the legislation. The Bill extends the meaning of ‘protected characteristics’ to include gender identity, defined at Section 3 (d) as “the gender which a person expresses as the person’s preferred gender or with which the person identifies and includes transgender and a gender other than those of male and female”. Such an inexplicable definition of gender has no place in the Irish Statute Book and goes far beyond the obligations of Member States to implement the provisions of Council Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA, which makes no reference to gender. The inclusion of such terms in the Bill, if enacted, will clearly have implications in other areas of law, including but not limited to, ‘hate speech laws’ and equality legislation.

The fact that Minister McEntee in her speech to the Dail on 23rd October 2024 explicitly referred to the provisions applying to those engaging in their right to protest is particularly worrisome, as vague legislation is wide open to abuse by successive governments to interfere with the rights of citizens.

The quick passage of the Bill through both Houses of the Oireachtas without proper scrutiny of the Constitutional implications has monumental consequences for the people of Ireland now and in the future. Only you now hold the power, Uachtarán, to uphold our Constitution and the will of the people by refusing to sign this legislation into law.

Yours etc

Signed

[Senator Rónán Mullen @RonanMullen]

A shameful guillotining of consideration and debate of amendments to the ‘Hate Crimes’ legislation took place last Wednesday night in the Seanad.

The Bill goes back to the Dáil now.

So we had no Report Stage for the Minister to explain her thinking; no explanation for the new, dangerous definition of ‘gender’ other than that it is inclusive; even a claim by the Minister not to understand my position on the issue.

Let’s spell it out one more time. The Bill comes up with a new definition of ‘gender’ that conflates the issues of ‘gender’, as always understood, and ‘gender identity’. The timelessly understood idea of the gender binary, i.e. male and female, is displaced by a new, fluid and unscientific gender spectrum notion.

This conflation is totally unnecessary for the protection of any individual or class of person. The Bill could simply have listed both ‘gender’ and ‘gender identity or expression’ as separate protected characteristics, (as was done for example in the 2017 Victims of Crime Act). But the Minister would not do this. No adequate reason was ever offered for the new definition other than that it was 'futureproofing' (Simon Harris) and ‘inclusive’ (Helen McEntee).

The new definition will have an immediate contagion effect across all criminal legislation aligned or altered by the ‘Hate Crimes’ Bill. The same politicians who foisted this on us will (if returned at the election) continue to seek to harness all laws built around the ordinary meaning of ‘gender’ (as in male or female) and apply these instead to an indefinite range of gender identities.

The new definition will give new cover to those promoting gender ideology to young people—especially in new school curricula. It will give ideological support to the invasion by certain men of womens’ spaces and sports. It will provide cover for dangerous HSE approaches to gender dysphoria. It will be used to shore up the unpopular Athena Swan charters imposed by the HEA on third level academics. It will lead to a dismantling of the Equality Acts. Men can be women, and you simply have to suck it up.

This Government sought to erase women and the concept of ‘mother’ from the Constitution earlier this year as part of the same fringe ideology. The People, by a large majority, stopped them. The Government refused to learn and doubled down on its woke policy.

Your TDs could actually block this Bill in the coming days—if they were willing to defh the party whip. So please let them know what you think. I told the Minister on Wednesday that she will not deserve the votes of any parents of schoolgoing children if she maintains this corrupt definition of ‘gender’ in this legislation. Politicians who will not stand up for sex/gender really do not deserve to be returned. They are enablers of harmful practices.

The voters will have an opportunity to choose new representatives soon for the next Dail. They should punish irresponsible TDs and choose more wisely next time. Look for good quality Independents and sympathetic small parties, and Members of the larger parties only if they vocally and clearly defy their political masters. We urgently need change.

[gript @griptmedia]

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[Gabby @thenaijacarguy]

When you’re asked “What are your strengths” during a job interview.

[T.Max @TinaMax8]

The contract for the modular homes was awarded to John Sisk & Son, the firm behind the €336,000 bike shelter at Leinster House, without being publicly advertised, it has emerged.
https://t.co/NBHFQp44Fp

[Eoin Wallace @eowallace80]

@Simpsons_tweets Still going strong and going to truly miss it