John Paul Phelan

Husband & Dad. Fine Gael Vice-President and former pol. Chair of @TullogherGAA. Economics grad. Barrister. Kilkenny & LFC [email protected]

[Eric Adams @ericadamsfornyc]

Details are still emerging, but according to reports, incredibly brave Israeli passengers aboard today’s Flydubai flight overpowered an attacker, allowing a flight crew to land the plane safely.

Because they stepped up, so many people will return home to their families. A terrible tragedy was averted.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, the threat of terrorism remains real. We must never become complacent. The price is paid in human lives.

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

In the speech, 196 words were devoted to Ukraine/Russia and 671 to Israel/Palestine.

[Cllr Pio Smith @CllrPioSmith]

No protests outside the embassy of 🇮🇷 in Dublin over this.

[ZZ Flop ✡️🇮🇪 @ZzVvbbbbn]

Brian Kerr was manager of Ireland when we played Russia during the Second Chechen War (death toll 50-80k).

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

If this guy is your human rights hero, you've got a serious problem

[ZZ Flop ✡️🇮🇪 @ZzVvbbbbn]

Remarkable how little coverage the war in Ukraine has been getting in the Irish media, despite more bombs dropping on Ukraine in July and August than in any other months of the war so far.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Russia has roughly three times as many military casualties as Ukraine, but Ukraine suffers over a dozen times more civilian casualties.

That single fact says everything about the nature of this war

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Kyiv now looks like this every single day. There are smoke stacks 24/7
It’s a major European capital bigger than Paris and being terrorised every day.

[Nina Khoshkish @nkhoshkish]

46 years ago, the Islamic Republic executed my grandfather.

Nearly five decades later, it continues to execute Iranians en masse to preserve its grip on power.

The regime has executed *at least* 950 people in 2026 alone.

My latest for @Jerusalem_Post:
https://t.co/Ay30H7LbV1

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

mRNA vaccines are vaccines

Chemtrails don't exist

Turbo cancer doesn't exist

Covid does exist

Covid vaccines worked

Ivermectin doesn't work for Covid

Ivermectin doesn't work for cancer

Vaccines eradicated smallpox

Vaccines don't cause autism

You're welcome

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

8 people were killed waiting for a train last night. A journey they would never make.

Russia has been murdering civilians at train stations constantly. They killed 60 civilians evacuating Kramatorsk in 2022.

There’s no soldiers here. Just innocent people waiting to go home

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”

~ Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi (z’l), who was born OTD 1919.

[Séamus Kearney @SeamusjKearney]

Midwest Radio, the last two minutes of commentary before & after the final whistle.
#Mayo #AllIreland

[Gaelic Games Stats @gaelicgamestats]

Mayo are only the third ever side to comeback from 7+ points down in an All Ireland Senior Football Final and win the title.

1947 Cavan v Kerry (8)
1986 Kerry v Tyrone
2026 Mayo v Kerry

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Quite the chutzpah for Turkey to open this kettle of fish.

If Turkey is now committed to "decolonization," does that mean they will give back the lands taken from the many ethnic and religious minorities who have been victims of Ottoman & Turkish imperialism?

Will the Armenians have their ancient lands restored to them, or receive reparations for the genocide inflicted on them in 1915?

The Kurds given the right of self-determination?

The ancient Greek regions returned?

Will the 1974 Turkish invasion and occupation of Northern Cyprus be reversed?

Will the descendants of Jewish families who fled Kemalist policies of forced assimilation be given compensation?

Will the Hagia Sophia be returned the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, from whom it was stolen?

Will there be a truth & reconciliation project recognizing the millions of slaves taken & trafficked by the Ottoman Empire, particularly the countless boys kidnapped from Balkan Christian families for forced military service?

Will compensation be given to Christians for the hundred of Churches and monasteries destroyed?

The possibilities for Turkish decolonization are endless.

[Lord (David) Alton @DavidAltonHL]

Mehdi Khanaki was executed in Iran at dawn today. A pro democracy activist in the Iranian Resistance, in January 2026 he participated in anti-regime protests. Arrested on 10 February 2026, Khanaki was a 26-year-old law graduate. Following his arrest, he was severely tortured. The regime’s systemic and endemic use of torture and the death penalty is designed to strike fear and to create a reign of terror. It has had the opposite effect. The spilling of young Iranian blood simply deepens the widespread desire across the country to usher in fundamental change. @Ed_Miliband @JavaidRehman @HFalconerMP @hrw @SecRubio @burnham @EdwardJDavey @TomTugendhat

[Kilkenny GAA @KilkennyCLG]

𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙇𝙮𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙃𝙮𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙞 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙃𝙪𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙚 & 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥

The countdown is on!

The launch of the @michaellyngmtrs Hyundai Intermediate Hurling League & Championship has everyone looking ahead to what promises to be another fiercely competitive campaign.

We'll be sharing photos and reels from the launch throughout the week before the first round gets underway next weekend. Keep an eye on our channels, and don't miss the player and sponsor interviews across our local newspapers, radio stations and social media.

Every score, every tackle, every game counts from here!

Who will be crowned Michael Lyng Motors Hyundai Intermediate Champions by the end of October? 🏆

#KilkennyGAA #ClubHurling #IntermediateChampionship2026 #ChampionshipSeason

[Thomas Niblock @thomasniblock]

The BBC opener for the All-Ireland hurling final.

I had one of the most beautiful days filming this. We hope you can join us on Sunday..

Live on BBC2 Network & @bbciplayer , Sunday, 3pm

[Young Kim @RepYoungKim]

Too many have forgotten the difference between communism & freedom.

Let me show you.

North Korea vs. South Korea at night.

[The Irish Politics Newsletter @IrishPoliticsNL]

This is shocking.
At an EU Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Lynn Boylan lamented that it was “a pity we can’t use our own language.” When it was pointed out that she could, in fact, speak Irish, she backtracked almost instantly: "I wasn’t prepared, so I’ll use English."