Ivor Crotty

Multi-award winning (Emmy nominated) digital storyteller & educator. Newsroom builder. Closely monitoring. Midfield. Irish. Wicklow. Peace.

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

Absolutely despondent at the state of Irish foreign affairs & security reporting.
A profound industrial-level failure akin to the financial irresponsibility that has imploded the economy.
Was it for this Hubert Butler went to the Balkans, O'Clery and Martin wrote from Moscow...?

[Eddy Wax ✍️ @EddyWax]

Total impact on Ceuta migration crisis: 0 people entering EU proper

[marcela mora y araujo☮️💚 @marc_cart]

Al fin

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

We are all SO surprised.
When 30k TRIED to cross into Poland from BELARUS in a yr it was "Hybrid war!" (in fact 1,700 crossed in 2025, 5,000 in '24 and 12,000 in '23). Now 50k(?) in a day and we get nasty sniping from conservative FMs and a pregnant silence from EU "leaders"

[Jorge Liboreiro @JorgeLiboreiro]

The European Commission declines to say whether the migratory crisis in Ceuta qualifies as a case of state-sponsored instrumentalisation.

The official line, right now, is to praise Morocco.

"Moroccan authorities have been fully mobilised and cooperating very constructively."

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

@joehas ))))) there was a unified call there in fairness)) (We in Wicklow had a very rare day in Croker the week before).

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

@joehas Absolutely agree on Morocco - though can 50,000 people be randomly directed at an international border without some form of orchestration, in a well-policed, industrially robust, monarchy, amid territorial tensions, etc. Aghast at response from Brussels and across EU tbh

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

The purity of disingenuity is only matched by the intensity of idiocy.

[Ulf Kristersson @SwedishPM]

Det är viktigt att Spanien agerar skyndsamt för att återfå kontroll över situationen och uppfylla sina åtaganden inom Schengensamarbetet. Om utvecklingen skulle riskera att påverka Sveriges säkerhet eller migrationssituation är regeringen beredd att vidta de åtgärder som krävs för att värna ordning och kontroll.

Den socialdemokratiska regeringen i Spanien får nu inte göra samma misstag som Socialdemokraterna i Sverige 2015 - där ett nej inte är ett nej.

Sedan vi fick uppgifter om detta har migrationsminister Johan Forssell varit i kontakt med sina nordiska motsvarigheter och utesluter inte att vidta de åtgärder som krävs för att 2015 inte ska hända igen.

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

@ministerBZ Why not Morocco?

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

There are multiple suggestions from Twitterati that the influx of migrants from Morocco coincides with a bunch of events suggesting a US hand at play. Fascinating.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Italy calls for closing the Schengen area to Spain after thousands of migrants cross into Ceuta from Morocco.

[Ulrike Guérot @ulrikeguerot]

Genauso werde ich in meinem nächsten Buch „Endlich Europa“ argumentieren, @JonasToegel ! Weder Deutschland noch Europa brauchen eine „europäische NATO“, sondern endlich ein neutrales & von den #USA emanzipiertes Europa, dass eine europäische Sicherheitsarchitektur mit Russland anstrebt, wie in den 1970er bis 1990er auch von europäischer Seite geplant. @WestendVerlag
Vielleicht machen wir dann als Verlagskollegen mal eine neue Diskussion dazu?

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online. https://t.co/2E4jrezneR

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

@davidmcw RTE just doesn't raise that, even though there's at least one presenter who hosts shows who was a senior executive at Facebook.

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

@JorgeLiboreiro Women's World Cup is Brazil 2027

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

Mother of God the system is broken

[EU_Eurostat @EU_Eurostat]

In 2025, 27.5% of the EU’s population aged 16 or older were unable to afford 1 week of annual holidays away from home. 🧳✈️

Highest shares in:
🇷🇴Romania (61.4%)
🇬🇷Greece (46.6%)

Lowest in:
🇱🇺Luxembourg (10.6%)
🇸🇪Sweden (12.4%)

👉https://t.co/EmHY9aA3y5

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

@BrianMcDonaldIE @pyjamas_black Yes, they begat the singer-songwriter virus (Rice upstairs in the Lobby was like a mass, and the shhhhh-ing at Hansard gigs was Sigur Ros-esque) but remember the only way to "make it" then was to get in line, dance for Louis Walsh and hope for a SIndo back-page snap from Lilly's.

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Musicians including Glen Hansard played a special version of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land is Your Land' outside Apollo House in Dublin earlier

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

Ufffff. A musician champion for homeless people, he used his platform to advocate for progressive change, while breaking hearts and winning and Oscar. I had high hopes for his latter years.

Beidh sé caillte go mór.

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Oscar winner Glen Hansard, who found fame after starring in The Commitments and with his band The Frames, has been killed in a motorcycle crash in Co Dublin.

Hansard (56) died following a single-vehicle crash at the Strawberry Beds, Lucan, just before 4.30am.

Read: https://t.co/KZ7eHsnhJn

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

@sallyhayd Take care Sally. Looking forward to your despatches

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

@PBresnihan @BigPaulieDoyle ... visitors and investors... but not voters

[Ivor Crotty @IvorCrotty]

@LFC Give him another week