Patrick Henry

Catholic, Socialist, NH Racing & GAA fan & whatever yer having yerself, so can’t be pigeonholed

[Patrick Henry @patrick_d_henry]

#HowIrelandWorks

[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

Public expenditure minister Jack Chambers enjoyed a taxpayer-funded business-class flight and two nights in a five-star Washington, DC hotel to attend the secretive Bilderberg Meeting – his private secretary flew economy and stayed in a cheaper hotel.

https://t.co/Ntx6cd2HSe

[Patrick Henry @patrick_d_henry]

#HowIrelandWorks

[Dublin Bay North PBP 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @DublinBayN_PBP]

@wereontheditch When the nations biggest current affairs show is presented by the sister of one of the most senior political government ministers nothing should surprise you.

[Cllr Linda de Courcy MSc. 🇮🇪 @LindadeCourcy]

This is from the 1028 page report relating to the proposed rezoning of lands in South Dublin.
We really don't appreciate how much climate policy affects ALL the decisions made at local government level.
However, the ultimate irony is that IF the government were genuinely concerned about climate change and protecting the environment, it would not be considering rezoning hundreds of acres of green space to build thousands of homes.
Housing the world and protecting the environment (as per climate policies) here are mutually exclusive, we cannot do both.
@independent_ire

[Patrick Henry @patrick_d_henry]

@wereontheditch It's called Realpolitik; the interests of the Irish people must always come first.

[Michael Murphy @michaelmurph_y]

Ireland has a shortage of 250,000 homes and its politicians will look you in the eye and tell you mass migration has no effect on housing supply. The Flat Earth society doesn’t have this level of brass neck.

[Patrick Henry @patrick_d_henry]

#HowIrelandWorks

[gript @griptmedia]

“That is real homes, real apartments, and real 3-bed houses being handed over to people who arrive here, often with no valid ID, no legitimate claim to asylum. Meanwhile our own citizens, Irish families, are left begging for accommodation," she said.

https://t.co/gknZ9qxN2O

[Patrick Henry @patrick_d_henry]

@MidiaPetronilla 😂😂😂

[Patrick Henry @patrick_d_henry]

@OlgaBazova No matter where in the world, those Brits always cause trouble 😂

[Patrick Henry @patrick_d_henry]

@twoo212 @Ireland_Votes The regime and controlled opposition came out of those elections as they went into them, with Labour bailing out Fine Gael in #GalwayWest as has always happened over the last 70 years.

[Aontú @AontuIE]

The government’s chaotic immigration system cannot continue.

#aontú

[Aontú Co na Mí @AontuCo]

Important meetings over the next 10 days.

[Patrick Henry @patrick_d_henry]

@wereontheditch No alleged about it. They filmed themselves causing the destruction and then waited for the police to arrive to be arrested.
They are now being prosecuted as political prisoners which is what they wanted.

[Patrick Henry @patrick_d_henry]

@Niall_Boylan He's not a victim; he just didn't get enough votes. What's more interesting is that less than 50% of the electorate came out to exercise their franchise. Rather than self-pity, II & Aontú should review their campaign and find out what's necessary to energize those people.

[Gerald markel @MarkelGerald]

Das " Massaker von Butcha "
Danke für die Recherche von Markus Meissl

Das Eingeständnis eines tschechischen Söldners zum angeblich „russischen Massaker“ von Bucha vor einem tschechischen Gericht:
„Wir waren die Polizei, wir waren das Gericht, wir waren das Erschießungskommando, was das betrifft.“

Die Vernehmung eines tschechischen Söldners, des 27-jährigen Philipp Siman, vor einem Prager Gericht brachte Licht in die Vorgänge in Bucha, als das russische Militär im März 2022 von dort abzog.

Siman, der in der Tschechischen Republik wegen Söldnertums vor Gericht steht, sagte offen, dass er, als er die verlassene Stadt betrat, alles plünderte und mitnahm, was er in die Finger bekam.

In Prag fanden sie alles bei ihm:
Stapel von Bargeld, Gold- und Silberbarren, Schmuck, Elektronik.
Er filmte sogar, wie er die Häuser der Ukrainer durchsuchte, damit „die Russen nichts bekommen“.

Gleichzeitig sprach er über die Repressalien und Gräueltaten in Bucha nach dem Abzug der Russen gegen jeden, der verdächtigt wurde, Russland geholfen zu haben.
Die Kommandeure des ukrainischen Nazibataillons „Karpaten-Sitsch“, dem er zugeteilt war, wussten davon und ermutigten ihre Soldaten - so Siman in seiner Aussage.
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Ich frage mich seit zwei Jahren warum es niemals eine unabhängige Untersuchung zu dem angeblichen Massaker von Butscha kam, warum ignoriert wird, dass die meisten Opfer weisse Armbinden ( Erkennungszeichen der russischen "Kollaborateure" trugen oder warum der Bürgermeister der Stadt, in der angeblich Dutzende Leichen offen auf der Straße lagen, in seinem Videoposting am Tag des Abzugs der Russen ein angeblich verübtes Massaker an seinen Bürgern mit keinem Wort erwähnte.
Nun weiss ich warum seit damals nichts unternommen wurde.

[Patrick Henry @patrick_d_henry]

@Gareth_Dunne @KeithMillsD7 @FineGael Farrell suffers from a bad back

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Instead of hiding his daughter with Down syndrome, Charles de Gaulle raised her proudly and she became the heart of his life....

When Charles de Gaulle died in 1970, he made a quiet request that surprised many. He did not want a grand state funeral in Paris. He asked to be buried in the small village of Colombey les Deux Églises, beside his daughter Anne. For him, that resting place mattered more than any monument.

Anne was born on New Year’s Day in 1928, youngest of three children. She had Down syndrome, a condition surrounded by fear and misinformation at the time. Doctors and society often blamed parents and urged families to hide children like her from public view. For families of power and status, sending such children away was considered normal. Charles and his wife Yvonne refused. They raised Anne at home with her brother Philippe and sister Élisabeth. There was no secrecy, no shame, no separation. She was simply their daughter.

To the world, de Gaulle was distant and unyielding. A leader shaped by war, discipline, and command. But inside his home, Anne revealed a side few ever saw. With her, he laughed freely. He sang songs, told stories, and played games. Friends noticed that the man who rarely showed emotion softened completely in her presence. He called her my joy. Anne asked nothing of him except love, and in that simplicity, he found peace. She was never treated as fragile or inferior. She was respected fully, included always, and loved without condition.

That love did not end within the family. After the war, Charles and Yvonne founded the Fondation Anne de Gaulle. They turned a château into a home for young women with intellectual disabilities, many of whom had been abandoned. At a time when support barely existed, they chose action over silence.

Anne’s life was short. She died of pneumonia in 1948, just after turning twenty, in her father’s arms. In his grief, de Gaulle whispered that now she was like the others, finally free from the limits the world had placed on her.

After her death, he carried her photograph everywhere. He believed her presence protected him, even during an assassination attempt years later. Whether faith or fate, he never doubted her importance in his life.

Charles de Gaulle found his deepest calm not in leadership or victory, but in loving a child the world did not understand. His family showed that dignity is not about ability. It is about how fiercely we choose to care.

© Soul Whisper

#drthehistories

[The Countess @TheCountessIE]

This article in the Sunday Independent demonstrates a worrying trend in Ireland.

We all know and recognise the curated media content in Ireland and how certain topics are treated like heresy.

This is yet another example of how ideology and capture can destroy democracy.

Appointed officials (not elected) rotate between powerful regulators like ComReg, CRU, CCPC & Data Protection.

The public has no say and no easy way to remove them when things go wrong.

This is an insulated elite class with high salaries €200K+ job security, where lateral moves creates a permanent bubble of insiders who rarely face real consequences.

This creates an environment of dangerous group-think. The same small group have worked together for decades. Shared assumptions, networks and career incentives kill dissent or fresh thinking on regulation, competition, privacy.

There is a strong risk of ideological capture, too often seen in Ireland.

A democratic deficit - another feature of present day Ireland. Real power shifts from voters to unaccountable technocrats. Continuity sounds good until it becomes capture and stagnation.

[Patrick Henry @patrick_d_henry]

@DSMooney @fiannafailparty Didn't Jack Lynch have to resign after two disastrous by-elections in Cork, many moons ago ?

[An Claíoṁ Solais @AnClaiomhSolais]

Connolly was an internationalist.

He was absolutely not a globalist.