Jonathan Skelly

Perennially confused rocker #LFC #Lizzy

[Jonathan Skelly @JSkelly1]

@IbrahimaKonate_

[Jonathan Skelly @JSkelly1]

@DivockOrigi @TheAnfieldTalk 👑

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then firing on international rescue crews, all with the world watching in real time. There are no words left for the horrors that U.S. political leaders are enabling.

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

Think Michael Healy-Rae the wealthiest TD in the Dáil, is a man of the people? Lets have a gander at this cutest-of-hoors staggering finances and property portfolio....

He declared 14 houses for letting in Kerry, three guest houses, one rented commercial unit, a vacant premises, an apartment for letting, an unspecified number of apartments in a separate development, an unspecified number of rooms for letting, and student accommodation in Limerick. That's before you get to the rest.

Based on CSO median property price data for December 2025, his residential and guest house portfolio is estimated to be worth around €5.6 million. Twelve properties in the Killarney, Kilgarvan, Kenmare and Barraduff area, where the median house price sits at €332,500, give a rough valuation of €3.99 million.

Then his six properties in the Tralee and Castleisland area, with a median of €270,000, add another €1.62 million on top. The actual figure could be higher or lower. The register isn't that specific.

On the rental income side, 14 Kerry two-bedroom houses at current market rents would generate €18,340 per month, or €220,080 per year. https://t.co/eVNC8FjlgK figures show listed monthly rents on two-bedroom houses in Kerry rose 7.3 per cent last year to €1,310, with four-bedroom houses up 8.8 per cent to €1,879.

Then there's the land. He owns 100 acres of farmland and forestry in Kilgarvan, another 42 acres of forestry, and a further 4 acres of farmland elsewhere in the area. Based on the most recent Sherry FitzGerald assessment of €14,125 per acre for southwest farmland, the 100-acre holding alone could be worth around €1.46 million. The Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers values Munster forestry at €6,960 per acre, putting the 40-acre forestry plot at approximately €278,000.

His company Roughty Properties received €470,000 from the Department of Children in 2024 for Ukrainian accommodation, paid out month by month, €49,640 in March, €52,080 in April, and so on. He also draws income from Kerry County Council's rental accommodation and housing assistance payment schemes.

He has been a landlord since he was 18. When he first entered the Dáil in 2011 he already owned 14 properties! The register shows 16 properties in 2016, 19 in 2018, 21 in 2020, 24 in 2022, and 28 for 2025, including his family home.

Public records show none of the four companies he directs, Roughty Properties, Black Cap & Co, ML Healy-Rae Properties and Roughty Plant Hire, ever drew down a mortgage. The family plant hire business, now primarily run by his nephew Johnny Healy-Rae, recorded net assets of €4.6 million at the end of 2024.

It received €501,000 for Kerry County Council work in 2025 and €384,000 in 2024. Cork County Council paid a further €334,135 across the same two years. Ah but sure begorrah, he doesn't care about money. He's a lovely wee hat and sure he only cares about de poor folk like you and me...

[L'Espresso @espressonline]

L'annessione della Cisgiordania, con i soldati complici dei coloni. Gaza annientata. L'avanzata in Libano. Il confine violato in Siria. La guerra all'Iran. Pulizia etnica e massacri. Così la destra sionista dà forma al Grande Israele

Il numero de L’Espresso, in edicola e su app

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Eleven memorable moments from our number 11 ❤️

[Jonathan Skelly @JSkelly1]

It’s always the ones you least expect 🤷‍♂️

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Proud to say I've been invited to visit Israel later this year. I'll be going to apologise on behalf of every decent Irish person for my country's descent into medieval antisemitism.

[Jonathan Skelly @JSkelly1]

@OdohertyI64991 🤷‍♂️

[Jonathan Skelly @JSkelly1]

@LaurensJulien @PSG_English Oui 😉

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Commentator Stefan Renna on Swiss public broadcaster RTS sparked controversy during Israeli captain AJ Edelman’s second bobsleigh run at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, bringing up Edelman’s past social media posts supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, including one calling it “the most morally just war in history.”

He compared the situation to the IOC’s restrictions on Russian and Belarusian athletes, and asked why similar neutrality standards were not being applied to Israel.

Israel’s bobsleigh team, “Shul Runnings,” finished 26th out of 26 sleds, recording the slowest start and finish times in both heats, according to official results. Despite the ranking, pilot AJ Edelman stated, "We are victors, not victims.” Edelman holds dual Israeli and U.S. citizenship.

[Clinton @614clinton]

I got laser eye surgery today.
The surgeon came in a little bit afterwards and asked me if I wanted the
good news or the bad news first.
I said, "I'll take the good news first."
The surgeon said, "Well, you're about to get a new dog!”

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.

[Jonathan Skelly @JSkelly1]

@officialbarnesy @IbrahimaKonate_ @LFC Yes John!! 🔴🤟🏻

[Jonathan Skelly @JSkelly1]

HOW DO YOU TURN THIS ON

[Kingmakers ⚔️ @Kingmakers_Game]

GTA6, but you're dropped in the 1400s.
No cops. Just the angry knights you ran over 🚗

[Jonathan Skelly @JSkelly1]

@monkeysponge @PartedBeard Yeah agreed, to be fair to him it’s a work in progress that’s probably at least 2 windows away from being healthy enough to judge him. We’re a weird one where he is definitely the head coach and the summers business was no where near enough.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1845-1852, Ireland. The Great Famine kills over one million people. This is taught as unavoidable crop failure. Except: During the famine, Ireland was a net exporter of food.

While Irish peasants died eating rotten potatoes, Irish farms shipped cattle, pigs, butter, and eggs to England. Massive quantities. Enough to feed everyone in Ireland twice over. Ships left Irish ports loaded with livestock while people starved within sight of those ports.

Why? English landlords owned the land. Irish tenant farmers worked it and paid rent in produce. The landlords sold that produce in England. The peasants were left with whatever they'd grown on personal plots: almost exclusively potatoes because potatoes could feed a family on minimal land.

When potatoes failed, peasants had nothing. But the livestock belonged to absentee English landlords who continued exporting because that was their property. The British government could have stopped this. They chose not to.

The stated reason was free market economics. The actual reason: the English ruling class considered the Irish overpopulated. The famine was viewed as natural population control.

Charles Trevelyan, who administered famine relief, wrote that the famine was "a direct stroke of an all-wise and all-merciful Providence" that would teach the Irish better agriculture. He opposed effective relief because he believed suffering was educational.

Irish peasants had been perfectly capable of diverse agriculture before English colonisation. Ireland had raised cattle for millennia. But English land policies pushed Irish Catholics onto marginal land. On one or two acres, you can't raise cattle. You grow potatoes. When potatoes failed, they had no fallback because they'd been systematically denied access to animal agriculture.

Protestant Irish farmers and English landlords continued raising cattle and exporting beef. Armed soldiers guarded these exports. There are documented cases of starving peasants being shot for trying to steal food being exported during a famine.

Your Irish ancestors weren't allowed to eat the cattle they raised because those cattle belonged to English landlords. You're told beef is environmentally destructive and you should eat sustainable plant proteins. The cattle still get raised. They just go to people who can afford them.

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

From rural Egypt to the world stage.

Our new Mo Salah documentary charts the Liverpool forward's rise to the top.

[Jonathan Skelly @JSkelly1]

@gcooney93 I’d argue the former, they have downed tools for whatever reason. Pity as I think there are others to blame for the summer business and current holes in the squad

[Jonathan Skelly @JSkelly1]

Magic 🥳

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

🥲🇮🇪 Troy Parrott was emotional after his hat-trick for Ireland... ❤️

"This is why we love football because things like this can happen... I love where I'm from, my family are here, this means the world to me." (@RTEsport)

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

We will never see anything like this again in our lifetimes.

If you have a few minutes, watch it. Probably the greatest music video ever made.

Michael Jackson - Thriller (1983)