Mark Geoghegan

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

🚨 READ THIS. SHARE THIS. BECAUSE NOBODY IN POWER WILL. 🚨

HE LIVES IN OUR COUNTRY.
HE TAKES OUR MONEY.
HE CALLS OUR HOME "THE ABODE OF INFIDELS."
AND HE JUST REPORTED A BRITISH MP TO THE POLICE FOR DISAGREEING WITH HIM.

His name is Roshan Muhammed Salih. He runs 5Pillars. And what you are about to read will make your blood run cold.

Not because it is shocking. Because every single word of it is documented, sourced, and sitting in plain sight. And nobody. Not one single authority in this country. Has done a damn thing about it.

Let's start with Hamas.

On October 7th 2023 Hamas butchered 1,200 of our allies. They raped women next to the bodies of their murdered friends. They dragged grandmothers through the streets. They burned families alive. The world watched in horror.

Roshan Salih told his 210,000 followers on X that the IDF probably killed their own people and made the whole thing up.

He called the United Nations rape investigation "a complete fraud."

He has never. Not once. Condemned Hamas.

Not once.

Because in his own words, published in the Guardian, in black and white, with his name on it, Hamas are "legitimate actors." His words. The Guardian. 2009. Go and read it.

Now let's talk about the Taliban.

While British soldiers were coming home in body bags from Afghanistan. While Gold Star families were burying their children. While the nation grieved. Roshan Salih went on camera and said "I am supportive of Taliban, wish them a lot of success."

This year, in August 2026, he published a piece celebrating five years of Taliban rule calling Afghanistan "more Islamic, largely at peace."

More Islamic.

Girls banned from school. Journalists executed. Women flogged in the street.

More Islamic. That is his measure of success. Written on a platform operating out of London. Out of our country. Using our laws. Hiding behind our press freedoms.

Now here is where it gets truly ugly.

This man spent five years as the head of news for Press TV in London. The Iranian regime's propaganda arm. The channel Ofcom banned from our airwaves for taking editorial orders directly from Tehran. The channel that to this day is linked to Iranian intelligence operations on British soil. He was their man in London. Their first London news editor. Their voice in our capital city.

And while he was there he wrote in the Guardian that the Iranian government is "fundamentally decent."

The Iranian government that bankrolls Hamas.
The Iranian government that arms Hezbollah.
The Iranian government that hangs gay teenagers from cranes.

Fundamentally decent.

Before Press TV he was at Al Jazeera. Qatar's state-funded Muslim Brotherhood-aligned propaganda network. Before that the Islam Channel. Fined by Ofcom for antisemitic hate speech. His entire career is a tour of our enemies' payrolls. 18 years of Saudi, Qatari and Iranian money flowing through his bank account. 18 years. And then he had the nerve to tell you he was "completely independent."

He is not independent. He never was.

Now look at who he surrounds himself with.

His book was launched by the Islamic Human Rights Commission. A charity now under ACTIVE statutory inquiry by the Charity Commission. Breach of trust. Funding extremist activities. Their chair has been linked to Hezbollah support. This is where Salih chose to launch his book. Not Waterstones. Not a university. A charity being investigated for funding extremists.

His 5Pillars co-founder Dilly Hussain platforms Taliban spokespeople. His website has published content from Moazzam Begg. Arrested at an Al-Qaeda safe house in Pakistan. That Moazzam Begg. His platform gave an interview to Mark Collett. An actual neo-Nazi. An interview even the press regulator ruled was discriminatory.

One platform. The Taliban. Al-Qaeda. Neo-Nazis. Hamas denial. Iranian regime propaganda. Hezbollah support.

All of it under his editorial control.
All of it hosted on servers paid for with our charity money.

Yes. Our charity money.

In 2020 5Pillars received a £3,000 COVID emergency grant from the Public Interest News Foundation. British charity money. Taxpayer-adjacent money given to help journalism survive a pandemic. Three days later his platform published a video calling homosexuality "a gross crime against Allah." When the regulator found them guilty of inciting hatred against the LGBTQ community he did not apologise. He quit the regulator. He called for a separate Muslim press regulator outside British standards. Outside British law. Outside British accountability.

Because British standards do not apply to him.

Nothing does.

His 5Pillars company at Companies House has a confirmation statement that is currently overdue. He cannot even be bothered to file basic legal paperwork while running a terror-adjacent media operation in the heart of London.

And it gets worse. It gets so much worse.

In 2017 under his editorship 5Pillars produced a video that former government Extremism Commissioner Sara Khan documented in detail. A video explicitly promoting "physical jihad." The caliphate. Islamic penal codes. Stoning. Amputation. The exact ideology that sent British Muslims to join ISIS. Produced. Edited. Published. Under his name. On his platform.

Physical jihad.

From London.

In 2024 he declared on camera that "our focus as Muslims must be to ensure that Israel ceases to exist, no matter how long it takes."

No matter how long it takes.

From our country.

And now this week. Today. October 8th 2026. The day this post goes out. Fresh from his keyboard. 5Pillars reported Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick to the Metropolitan Police and the Prevent counter-extremism programme.

Why?

Because Jenrick said the Islamification of Britain is one of the greatest threats to our way of life.

Because Jenrick wants to ban the burqa.
Because Jenrick wants to end Sharia courts.
Because Jenrick wore a hoodie saying Hamas are terrorists.

For this 5Pillars wants him arrested under the Public Order Act. Referred to Prevent. The programme built to stop terrorism. Being used against a British MP by a man who called Hamas legitimate actors and praised the Taliban on camera.

Read that sentence again. As many times as you need to.

The man who promotes physical jihad wants to Prevent the man who says Hamas are terrorists.

This is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is accidental. This is a strategy. Deliberate. Calculated. Relentless. Use our laws against us. Weaponise our tolerance. Report the patriots. Shield the extremists. Scream Islamophobia at anyone who looks too closely. File police complaints against MPs while filing zero about yourself despite 28 years of documented pro-terror content sitting in plain sight on the internet.

He called Reform UK voters "outright racists and Islamophobes."

He called Jewish interfaith volunteers "Zionist infiltrators."

He dismissed the grooming gang scandal as "fake noise" designed to help Nigel Farage.

He said Muslims in Britain should pull their children out of school especially the girls.

He called for a mass physical training programme for Muslims to defend themselves.

Defend themselves against what?

He does not say.

He does not need to.

His audience knows.

This is who is operating in our country. Right now. Today. With 210,000 followers being fed a daily diet of Hamas apologia, Taliban celebration, Israeli elimination, Prevent manipulation, and anti-British hatred dressed up as news.

28 years.

Not one charge.
Not one arrest.
Not one serious parliamentary debate.
Not one serious newspaper investigation beyond what you are reading right now.

Just a man in London calling our home the Abode of Infidels while we pay for his charity grants, protect him with our laws, and allow him to report our elected politicians to the police for saying what the majority of this country believes.

The Charity Commission is circling his IHRC allies.
The press regulator already convicted him twice.
His own company is delinquent at Companies House.
His own words are the prosecution case.

We do not need new laws.
We do not need new powers.
We need the authorities we already have to do the job they already exist to do.

And we need every single person who reads this to share it until someone in power cannot ignore it anymore.

Because Roshan Muhammed Salih has had 28 years to love this country.

He called it the Abode of Infidels.

He made his position clear.

Now it is time we made ours.

SHARE THIS POST. TAG YOUR MP. TAG YOUR MEDIA. TAG EVERYONE.

BECAUSE SILENCE IS HOW WE GOT HERE.

[Mark Geoghegan @marcyrpto]

@Newsforce This never happens on virgin airlines

[Mark Geoghegan @marcyrpto]

@SuzieD755164 @grok is this true, that the Irish state keeps no records of criminal convictions of migrants once they're granted citizenship?

[Dries Van Langenhove @DVanLangenhove]

Very disturbing.

I asked Grok to make me an image of migrants threatening a bus driver, to go with a tweet about increasing migrant crime against Belgian bus drivers (even leading to the Belgian state bus company telling drivers to stop checking tickets).

Grok refused, stating it does not want to "blame migrants" or "single out a group".

When I provided Grok with the statistics, it still "did not want to create that kind of narrative". By "narrative" it actually means reality.

When I then asked Grok EXACTLY the same, but replaced migrants with "white guys" to go with a tweet about "increasing violence against bus drivers by white guys" it immediately complied.

So Grok is willing to create a FAKE narrative as long as it hurts white people, but it is not willing to portray factual reality if it hurts migrants.

[TheLiberal.ie @TheLiberal_ie]

🚨BREAKING - Dublin 🇮🇪 please share
Gardai arrested a number of migrant men who were armed with guns in the garden of remembrance.
They quickly dumped the guns into a nearby bin as gardai approached.
We have no idea what they were planning, but it could have been catastrophic.
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[TheLiberal.ie @TheLiberal_ie]

It’s now over 24 hours since e we reported a number of armed male migrants were arrested in central Dublin 🇮🇪
All national media have refused to cover this story because it goes against their agenda.
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[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

RTÉ is covering the “No Kings” protest against Trump's visit which is organised by "campaign group Uplift".

What RTÉ fails to mention is that Uplift is a powerful NGO with substantial backing from international groups, billionaires & Irish Govt itself.

According to its latest accounts:

Billionaire founder of Ebay, Pierre Omidyar, gave €127,312.

€75,000 from Civitates, a Brussels-based pooled fund whose foundation partners include George Soros’s Open Society

€74,907 from Rowan Trust, an Irish activist-led philanthropic fund (More on them soon)

€18,612 from the Sunrise Project, an Australian-founded international climate campaigning network.

€14,201 from St Stephen’s Green Trust, primarily supported by a Dutch family foundation

The Irish Govt also supports Uplift,

In 2021 and 2022, Uplift’s accounts recorded €150,000 from Rethink Ireland for the Far Right Observatory, for which Uplift acted as lead partner and legal entity.

Uplift is entitled to campaign and protest.

But when RTÉ presents it simply as a “campaign group”, viewers should also be told about the extensive international funding from billionaires and historical Govt co-funding behind its operations.

[Keira Connolly @keira_con]

I always had such respect for @SharkeyArtist He is one of the good guys, and has always said it as it is. Much respect !

[J.K. Lunden @Jklunden]

🚨BABIES CAN’T CONSENT. I’VE ASKED THE AUTHORITIES TO TAKE NOTICE
I sent a complaint letter to the President of the Association of Lactation Consultants in Ireland (ALCI) this evening. I also sent a personalised cover letter with a copy of the complaint to Tusla, HSE, Children's Ombudsman, Nursing and Maternity Board of Ireland (NMBI), International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA), International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE). I also sent an email to the hotel hosting the event.

_______
To: Mairead O'Sullivan, President of Association of Lactation Consultants in Ireland (ALCI)
[email protected]

Dear Mairead,
As a mother who breastfed my two children, and as the founder of the Natural Women's Council, an organisation campaigning for the safety and wellbeing of women, children and families, I am absolutely appalled that you would invite this man to speak on your panel at your upcoming conference.

The Natural Women's Council has broad outreach across every county in Ireland, and our subscribers have expressed serious concern about ALCI's decision to provide a professional platform to Jacob Engelsman.

According to the Irish Daily Mail article published today, Mr Engelsman specialises in helping men induce lactation for “curiosity, fun, or sexual gratification.” The same article refers to his previous presentation, “Inducing Lactation for Kinksters,” and his involvement in an adult lifestyle and fetish convention.

These facts raise profoundly serious questions about safeguarding, infant welfare, maternal dignity, professional standards and the use of public funding.

Breastfeeding is a biological function of the female body. Men cannot breastfeed in the ordinary biological sense. Attempting to induce lactation in a man does not make male lactation equivalent to the natural breastfeeding relationship between a mother and her infant.

Most importantly, a newborn baby cannot consent.

A newborn is entirely dependent on adults for protection and care. Deliberately encouraging an infant to suck at an adult man's nipple, where the adult cannot naturally provide breast milk, in circumstances where the stated purpose may include “curiosity” or “sexual gratification”, is, in my view, an appalling abuse of the vulnerability of a newborn child and a deeply disturbing form of exploitation of an infant for adult purposes.

That should be an immediate and fundamental safeguarding concern for any organisation involved in infant feeding.

An infant must never become the vehicle through which an adult's curiosity, personal desires, identity or sexual interests are fulfilled. The interests of the adult cannot be placed above the welfare, dignity and protection of the child.

The reported case in which a mother subsequently found “co-nursing” unbearable, while the baby ultimately refused to latch onto the man, is particularly disturbing. The reported account describes this as a profoundly distressing experience for the baby's mother.

This should prompt serious ethical and safeguarding scrutiny, rather than being presented as an area of professional development without very clear consideration of the rights and welfare of the mother and child.

Women have a right to bodily autonomy and boundaries. Babies have a right to have their welfare prioritised. Neither should be required to accommodate an adult's preferences.

This is not an objection to providing appropriate and compassionate care to transgender or non-binary people. It is an objection to abandoning biological reality, maternal boundaries and infant-centred safeguarding in the name of inclusivity.

I am also deeply concerned by the reported receipt of annual HSE grant funding by ALCI. If public money is being used to support ALCI, its activities or this conference, there must be proper accountability for how that money is spent.

Taxpayers should not be expected to fund activities involving the promotion or facilitation of adult practices that have no demonstrable benefit to breastfeeding mothers and infants, particularly when Ireland continues to face significant barriers to breastfeeding and many mothers struggle to obtain adequate practical support.

I therefore require ALCI to provide clear answers to the following:
1. What safeguarding assessment was undertaken before inviting Mr Engelsman?
2. Was ALCI aware of his work helping men induce lactation for “curiosity, fun, or sexual gratification”?
3. Was ALCI aware of his presentation entitled “Inducing Lactation for Kinksters” and his involvement with adult fetish events?
4. What evidence-based clinical benefit does this subject provide to Irish mothers and infants?
5. What specific safeguards are in place to ensure that the welfare of infants and the bodily autonomy and boundaries of mothers take absolute precedence over adult preferences?
6. What governance and professional review process was followed before approving this speaker?
7. Is any HSE or other taxpayer funding being used, directly or indirectly, to support this conference, including speaker fees, travel, accommodation or organisational costs?
8. Will ALCI now reconsider and withdraw this invitation?

A disclaimer stating that ALCI does not endorse a speaker's views does not absolve the organisation of responsibility for who it chooses to platform, the subjects it legitimises within a professional setting, the standards it promotes, or the manner in which public funds are used.

ALCI exists to support lactation and, fundamentally, mothers and babies. Women and children must remain at the centre of that work.

I consider this invitation profoundly inappropriate, degrading to breastfeeding mothers, and deeply concerning from an infant safeguarding perspective.

There must be a clear line between providing compassionate professional care to adults and facilitating adult desires at the expense of the dignity, welfare and protection of a newborn child. That line must never be crossed.

I expect a substantive written response addressing each of the safeguarding, ethical, governance and public-funding issues raised in this complaint.

Yours sincerely,
Jana Lunden
Mother and Founder, Natural Women's Council

[SnDMedia @SnDMediaNews]

“This Land Is Soaked in the Blood of Our Ancestors”: Barrister Tracey O’Mahony Dismantles White-Privilege Lecture

Was this Ireland’s own Joan of Arc moment?

It began on 21 August with a nearly three-minute video: “Dr Ebun Joseph – Anti-Racism Advisor to the Irish Government but who is she?” O’Mahony set out a plain timeline.

Joseph arrived from Nigeria in April 2002 while heavily pregnant and gave birth a month later, in the years when some Nigerian women travelled to Ireland for birthright citizenship. She started as a care worker in 2007, moved into career guidance, rebranded as a diversity consultant in 2015, published on “whiteness and racism” in 2017, and by 2018 was lecturing in Black Studies and Critical Race Theory at UCD. In 2024 the government made her official adviser.

In her first annual report as Special Rapporteur on Racism she warned that racism is rampant and recommended mandatory anti-racism training for the civil and public service, plus compulsory anti-racism education in schools. She also founded and runs the Institute of Antiracism and Black Studies, which sells that exact training. The question now is blunt: is a state post being used to drum up business for her own company?

O’Mahony also recalled the 2019 Galway Bay Hotel episode: Joseph ordered house red wine, was served blackcurrant juice, and asked whether it was a mistake or racism. She later wondered if the salad had been washed and said staff had “whipped out” the only Black server. Joseph replied by listing extra credentials. She did not contest the facts.The first video spread fast.

Commentary channels called it a “zinger” that “took off like a rocket.” The X post drew thousands of likes and nearly a thousand reposts; YouTube copies added tens of thousands of views. Five days later came “This is Ireland.” That post alone passed 200,000 views, with more than 4,500 likes and 1,200 reposts. Together they became the week’s most shared rebuttal of official race policy.

Joseph’s reply treated extra qualifications as licence to tell Irish people their whiteness is a problem and that they must be retrained on white privilege. O’Mahony turned to history...

The Irish have lived on this island for thousands of years. They fought the Normans, the Tudors and Cromwell. They endured confiscation, the Penal Laws, exile and the Famine that killed a million. They rose in 1916 and won independence the hard way. “We were never the masters of plantations.
We were the ones dispossessed and starved alive.”Irish people, she said, will not have their story rewritten to fit someone else’s racial ideology. “This land is soaked in the blood of our ancestors.” Ireland remains the land of céad míle fáilte, but kindness is not weakness. “Above all else we are ruthlessly proud to be Irish.”

The two videos first record how Joseph rose and now shapes policy that matches the training her institute sells; then they refuse an imported claim that a colonised people are privileged oppressors. In a country where official anti-racism often treats Irish identity as the problem, O’Mahony gave viewers the unapologetic answer they had been waiting to hear.

Move over Eva Vlaardingerbroek. Ireland has its own shield maiden of the people.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

Govt funding for the National Women's Council rose by 30% since the Family Care Referendum

State Funding:
2024: €1.1million
2025: €1.43m (+30%!)

Lets Recap:

The NWC wanted to remove Women & Mothers from the Constitution on Mother's Day 2024.

They backed the Yes/Yes proposal that suffered the largest referendum defeat in history. 73.93% rejection

In the aftermath of referendum, then CEO Orla O'Connor refused all media. (à la Dee Forbes)

Regardless of all this, in 2025 the State awards the NWC a "unique role role in co-designing" the next National Women's Strategy.

The State gives them 30% boost in funding.

They published a 36 page strategy document. Not one mention of the word "mother".

The accompanying Action Plan runs to 52 pages. It does not use “mother” or “wife” once.

It does however, include new policies around "tradwives" & the "manosphere".

Yet, the NWC provides no citation establishing the prevalence of either phenomenon in Ireland.

The most prominent Irish research into the "manosphere" and "tradwife" influencers is a DCU study, "Recommending Toxicity"

This study used just ten fake accounts on ten blank smartphones as the basis for its entire research.

It labelled as "toxic" content around “alpha masculinity" such as discipline, wealth and emotional stoicism.

Read that last part again.

*** *** ***

Every part of this is absolutely ludicrous.

Giving this amount of money, power & authority to a group of unelected, unintelligent activists cannot continue.

Its time to de-fund the NGOs.

[Dr. Eoin Lenihan @EoinLenihan]

Days after the murder of Ashling Murphy, Micheal Martin posted an official statement that read,

“We have spent much of the past week … questioning our attitudes towards women. Are we doing anything to help? Are we doing enough to help? Are we part of the problem?”

Yesterday after the murder of Jamey Carney he stated that a "Societal response" was required.

In both cases, he leaned into the nonsense narrative that 'misogyny' is to blame. Both women were murdered by people who should never have been in the country. They were people Martin's government or coalition partners allowed into the country and in the latter case, forced into a once booming tourism hotspot - "no veto, no consultation".

He is a deeply dark human being.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

Ireland's media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, has paid €83,103,429.00 in public money to broadcasters, newspapers and journalists since 2023:

Virgin Media Television Limited €2,989,200
Tyrone Productions Ltd €2,671,569
Irish Times Group €2,544,114
Macalla Teoranta €2,278,861
Bauer Media Audio Ireland €2,095,553
Iconic Media Group €1,998,484
Mediahuis Ireland €1,964,38
Animo TV Productions Limited €1,930,00
Celtic Media Group €1,256,083
Keeper Pictures Ltd €1,070,000
Loosehorse Limited €1,055,117
Meangadh Fíbín Teo €1,024,678
Dyehouse Films €996,000
Turnip & Duck Ltd. €920,000
Element Pictures (The Dry)Limited €900,000
Deadpan Pictures €870,000
Scratch Films €826,432
Hot Press €801,487
Samson Films €800,000
Studio Meala Limited €795,000
Village Magazine €33,177
Dublin Inquirer €197,385
The Journal €197,500

This raises serious questions about editorial independency.

Ireland's entire mainstream media landscape is being propped up by Govt.

Whether its current affairs or light entertainment, the Irish Govt are involved.

This is not good.

[nwl @nwl88444048]

Incredible (and stand to be corrected, but have checked extensively before writing this) that not one single politician or one mainstream media outlet is prepared to tell you, that it is people from outside the EU that make up 70% of the increase in homeless-in-emergency-accommodation in the past year (664 out the 961 increase), that despite there being a monthly decline in May 2026 of homelessness overall, the number of non-EU homeless INCREASED in the month. That Irish now make up less than 50% of the homeless.

They are petrified that you will link homelessness to immigration (especially non-EU), when the statistics plainly show that to be the case.

Here's the spreadsheet prepared inhouse here showing the analysis for the past year (it shows adults only because the Dept of Housing doesn't provide a split for children).

Look at the RTE report, they KNOW that this is a contentious issue, both for politicians and society generally, but completely ignore the non-EU homeless.

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

I’ve only just finished reading the first victim testimony in this report, by a woman named Chloe, and I had to pause multiple times because I couldn’t read through my tears. To know that this has happened, and continues to happen, to hundreds of thousands of white girls, not just in the UK, but undoubtedly in all of Europe, is almost unbearable. This is not a failure of our authorities; it is the ultimate betrayal. Those responsible must pay.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

This is FALSE ❌

1. The Govt literally pays €30million+ to a private company, Didean Dochas, to buy houses across the midlands for asylum seekers.

This company owns the houses, rents them back to the State and routes all profits through Isle of Man.

2. Cluid Housing & other approved housing bodies pick and choose who gets which house in what area.

The idea that there is an orderly queue is a myth.

What am I missing?

[Mark Geoghegan @marcyrpto]

@owenjonesjourno Is the far right in the room with you now🤦‍♂️.?

[Cllr Gavin Pepper @gavpepper85]

I believe two referendums are now needed in Ireland.

The first should be on Ireland’s position regarding EU migration policy. The Irish people should have a direct say on major decisions that affect our country, our communities, and our public services. Legal migration is welcome and necessary. People who come here with proper visas, skills, and a willingness to contribute are an important part of Ireland. But uncontrolled or illegal migration, and any EU policy that limits Ireland’s ability to manage its own borders, should not be decided without the clear consent of the Irish people.

The second referendum should be on the future of RTÉ. It is time to ask the public whether RTÉ should remain publicly funded or be privatised. Many good and decent people work in RTÉ, and this is not an attack on them. But RTÉ must fully disassociate itself from political party influence, whether that influence is real or perceived.

Where any staff, presenters, board members, contributors, or decision-makers have current or past connections to political parties, those connections should be openly declared. A publicly funded broadcaster cannot be seen to have links, loyalties, or sympathies towards any political party, including Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, the Social Democrats, Labour, Sinn Féin, independents, or any other political group. RTÉ must be completely independent, politically neutral, transparent, and accountable to the people who fund it.

Taxpayers are being asked to fund RTÉ while many ordinary people are struggling with the cost of living, housing, health, and public services. If RTÉ receives public money, then the Irish people deserve confidence that it represents all sections of society fairly, not just the views of political insiders or establishment parties.

The Irish people deserve a say on both issues. These decisions are too important to be left only to government, political parties, or insiders.

[Mark Geoghegan @marcyrpto]

@AhernHerbe8277 @TaraTevlin30154 @rtenews Or shame.... if he had a conscience.

[Dr. Marcus De Brun @indepdubnrth]

Dear Editor & Readership of the Irish Times.

It is somewhat refreshing to read your article of 12/2/26 that refers to me and to my Twitter account, and more specifically to two Twitter posts that were posted on my account several years ago, and are no longer available even to confirm context or content.

Over 5yrs of long form publications published on line in 'Cassandra Voices' and elsewhere by me in respect of Covid Science -and my letters to your paper in respect of Covid policies -were all ignored by your paper throughout the pandemic period.

Your focus on two tweets taken out of context and possibly made under the influence of alcohol; would be thoroughly hilarious were it not for the fact that it is an obvious attempt at a character assassination, and a preamble to the usual form of 'cancel culture' that your paper has applied (and continues to apply), to anyone; physician, scientist, politician, Journalist or otherwise, who might dare to disagree with the sacred doctrines of wokeism or the established Covid dogma, as curried by your paper throughout and to this very day.

Publications such as yours (at home and abroad) have consistently denied contrary opinions to established views in respect of the medicine of covid and the politics
of Ireland. The former is usually described as a 'conspiracy theorist' or 'anti-vaxer', and the latter -irrespective of history or credential credential - is generally dismissed as a 'right wing' extremist.

Your article fills me with sadness; not in respect of the hurt it attempts to deliver to myself and my family, that was accomplished several years ago and is merely being reinforced today.

Instead, your article hurts because it is yet another dictate, applied purely to deprive Covid policies of any revision. It is an attempt to deprive the victims of lockdowns or vaccines, of any voice, or any imperfect advocate.

You have deprived 'US' whomever we might be, of a place at the table, where public discourse might serve as the antidote to public division.

It is your selection of those allowed to the table that has paralysed political evolution and divided our society into the arbitrary camps of Left and Right. When in truth, we are all united in the pursuit of faith, hope, and kindness.

Thank you for your recent publication. If the capacity to 'look deeper' or to 'think independently' still persists within our divided society - then perhaps as they say : 'there is no such thing as bad publicity.'

Yours etc

Dr Marcus de Brun.