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[Paula @Paula8178681]

@MusgraveGroup My local Centra gets an all Indian crew dropped off by minibus in full uniform for stock takes, scanners out, doing the whole job.
Meanwhile schools are off, Irish teenagers are applying everywhere for summer/part time work and getting nowhere. Youth unemployment is running over 10% (CSO figures) while the same sector claims “labour shortages” and lobbies for more non EU visas.
Stop marketing yourselves as the “Irish community store” if you’re outsourcing to imported agency teams instead of giving local kids a start. Sort it out.

[nwl @nwl88444048]

Ukrainian refugees in Ireland up to 28 May 2026

122,359 arrivals seeking temporary protection, around 30,000 have returned home or moved to a third country, leaving around 90,000 in the State.

In 2026, there have been 1738 arrivals in the first five months, average of 79 per week.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Protests in Southampton tonight. Do NOT give the state ANY excuse to throw you in prison. Because they will use anything.

I know people are angry. I am angry. But do not throw your life away doing something you will later regret.

The police need to treat protestors fairly, and any unacceptable behaviour by any officers must be recorded and called out.

But I will say this again.

Do not get violent.

That is not how we win.

We win at the ballot box, peacefully and democratically.

We win by electing Restore Britain across our country.

It's the only way.

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

Do you want to know something interesting about the decision to remove Winston Churchill, Alan Turing and Jane Austen from bank notes?

Savanta, a market research company, was chosen to run a focus group.

The result of that focus group is that Churchill was “divisive”, Turing “an imperialist” and Austen “contentious and not representative”.

Yet that focus group had only 119 people in it.

And only one person called Turing “imperialist”. Someone who probably did not even know that he was not only instrumental in the Allies winning WW2 but was a gay man who was chemically castrated to “cure him”.

Turing was left fat, flabby and so unhappy that he carefully injected cyanide into an apple and ate it. He was found with half the apple by his side.

The Bank of England claims that the focus group was only part of its decision and it ran a broader public inquiry that favoured animals and flowers. Who did they ask? Primary school kids?

[gript @griptmedia]

The Offaly TD said that the EU Migration Pact is “the crack through which chaos will enter” - while, separately, a petition seeking an opt-out or referendum on the Pact reaches almost 14,000 signatures

https://t.co/jVowqvMBt5

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

16 year old Mernda Aussie teen Declan was hunted by a Sudanese youth gang then stabbed 56 times and he received 66 blunt force injuries.

One of Declan's African killers was released because he was deemed too young to take responsibility for murder.

In 2025, the animal took part in an aggravated home invasion in Gladstone Park, Melbourne that saw a 60-year-old man stabbed countless times, shot in the arm & bashed repeatedly with a hammer.

[Cormac Laffan 🇮🇪 @CormacLaffan]

This is insane.
The migration pact numbers are based on GDP and population size.
We all know we have an outsized GDP and a small population.
We will be overwhelmed, it's not rocket science.

[Risteárd Ó hArrachtáin @HarrachtainO]

Dublin now exhibits all the traits of the worst European cities.
“Diverse” gang fights in the streets, so common they are ignored by the locals, frequent stabbings, rows of dodgy foreign-owned shops, and Roma beggars everywhere. It is Marseille or Naples but with bad weather.

[Niall Boylan @Niall_Boylan]

What is going on in this country. First the HSE suggesting boys can have periods and now the department of education suggesting it’s not just women that get pregnant.
Have civil servants and government departments been struck down with some mental illness?
What next? Will they teach kids that Spiderman is real? Or ask them how many homes does Santa Clause visit on Christmas Eve and how does he do it? 🤦🏻‍♂️

The Exam Commission said the term ‘pregnant person’ was ‘designed to be respectful and inclusive, ensuring the question was inclusive and accessible to the cohort of candidates taking this examination.’
What utter nonsense. PEOPLE DON’T BABIES, WOMEN HAVE BABIES.
The commission needs to remove or amend the question future and any other questions that take part in a fantasy and delusion.

[Michael McCarthy @punishablepress]

The state of Irish media:

[Kiera Diss @KieraDiss]

This dirty UP-SKIRTER in MANCHESTER has somehow managed to get Facebook to take down this video by @Realityukmedia exposing him!!!

Make sure his face is known around Manny and beyond.

Link to full video on YT below 📺

[Watchdog @WatchdogIRL]

Nice referendum, 2001
Lisbon referendum, 2008
Made to take again. Promises made at the time on Triple Lock & immigration to get us to accept the treaties, now being broken.
Birth right citizenship referendum, 2004 - ignored
Removing Women from the constitution 2024 - ignored.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

As a lesbian, I am so tired of this nonsense. I am tired of corporate Pride and activist Pride.

This week HelloFresh decided that the best way to celebrate Pride Month was to post jokes about preparing for anal sex and offering high-fibre recipes to help people "prep". They then doubled down with a discount code called BOTTOMSUP.

Inclusion! WOO! 🙄

The thing that frustrates me is that people like me have spent years defending gay rights against accusations that we are hypersexual, inappropriate, and incapable of ordinary family life.

That was one of the central prejudices gay people faced. For decades, opponents portrayed gay men in particular as sexually obsessed and depraved. They argued that homosexuality was all about sex rather than love, commitment, relationships and family. The fight for equal rights was partly a fight against exactly that caricature.

And now here we are. A major multinational company has decided the best way to celebrate Pride is to publicly discuss anal sex. What an achievement.

The same-sex marriage movement wasn't about sex. It was about love, commitment, and the ability to build a life with the person you love. It was about family and equality before the law.

Most gay people are not what the weirdos in the HelloFresh marketing department think we are. We go to work, pay bills, walk the dog, argue about whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher, and try to build a decent life together.

You know... Normal things.

The overwhelming majority of gay people just want to be accepted and left alone. We want the same freedoms, responsibilities and opportunities as everyone else. We don't need multinational corporations making dirty jokes about us to feel "included".

What makes this even more ridiculous is that HelloFresh's core market is clearly not radical "queer" activists with blue hair and septum rings.

Their customers are overwhelmingly middle-class couples and families. Busy parents. Professionals. People with disposable income who want convenient meals after work.

How hard would it have been to make a genuinely wholesome Pride advertisement?

Two mums cooking dinner with their kids or two husbands hosting friends. A same-sex couple just making dinner together or flipping a coin to see who has to cook. A simple message acknowledging families and love. Instead they went with rectum jokes.

Somewhere along the way after the TQ+ hijacked our movement, Pride stopped being about acceptance and started being about performance. A small but influential group of activists have convinced themselves that being as shocking, vulgar and sexually explicit as possible is somehow brave and intrinsically "queer". They think boundaries of any kind are oppression including standards and decorum. They think manners are censorship.

The result is campaigns like this one and somehow people are shocked when there is backlash against us all.

I actually feel really sorry for gay men in particular because one of the oldest stigmas they have faced is the idea that they are dirty, promiscuous and defined entirely by sex. This campaign reinforces that stereotype.

If you wanted to design an advertisement that would make ordinary people roll their eyes and think Pride is ridiculous, or shield their children's eyes in horror, you would struggle to do better than this.

The irony is that HelloFresh's marketing department thinks this is progressive. It's regressive and distasteful. It takes decades of work by ordinary gay people who want to be seen as neighbours, colleagues, parents, partners and family members and reduces all of it to a crude sexual punchline.

The people who fought for our rights wanted dignity, but the people most enthusiastic about Pride today seem determined to turn it into a fetish convention with corporate sponsors.

[Niall Boylan @Niall_Boylan]

Coming up on the show live at 12pm:
Are loyalty cards one of the biggest consumer scams ever created?
Supermarkets and retailers insist they’re rewarding customer loyalty, but critics say they’re actually penalising people who refuse to hand over their personal data.
Take Tesco as an example. If you have a Clubcard, you get the “special” price. If you don’t, you can end up paying substantially more for exactly the same product. So is that really a discount, or is it a surcharge for protecting your privacy?
Civil liberties campaigners argue that consent is meaningless when the alternative is paying more at the till. Some say loyalty schemes are nothing more than legalised data harvesting, tracking what you buy, when you buy it and how often you shop.
Should loyalty cards be banned altogether? Should shops be forced to offer the same price to everyone? Or are people getting worked up over nothing and simply refusing free discounts?
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[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I have been married for 40 years now - four children, two grandchildren. The best decision was ever made was building our family. It is an appalling shame that so many British men and women feel unable to do the same for reasons outside of their control. My generation has spectacularly failed them all. We need to own up to that, and we need to fix it.

There is finally a pro-family political party that will reverse so much of the damage done - Restore Britain.

How?

Tax breaks for parents. Let working men and women keep more of what they earn to spend how they choose. This is THE most important policy above all else. Merge tax allowances for married couples. Trust families to spend their money, not the Government.

A Restore Britain Government will front-load child benefit. Pay more in the earlier years when the help is needed. Wouldn’t cost a penny, but would mean that parents get help when they really need it buying prams, cots, nappies etc.

This would be exclusively for British children with one or two British parents.

Widen VAT exemptions for child-related items, and expand tax-deductible childcare costs.

Reducing tax obviously helps, but we need more - Restore Britain would make childcare fully tax deductible. All hours.

Regulation should be eased so that ratios aren’t so strict, with more children per adult allowed. Encourage youngsters into childcare with proper bursaries, apprenticeships and so on. Tax incentives for more nurseries/pre-schools.

Foreign children with foreign parents would not be eligible for free childcare paid for by the taxpayer.

If a healthy Brit is on benefits and refuses to work? They will not receive free childcare. You’ve got the time, look after your child. Working parents should be given the help. Not the healthy indolent.

The two-child cap would be reinstated.

If you want more children but can’t be bothered to work? That’s your problem, not the taxpayer.

Restore Britain will abolish stamp duty for British families (full policy coming soon). Priority on social housing lists. No foreign national families in social housing would free up an enormous amount of space for British men and women to build their family.

Restore Britain would overhaul spousal visas - British citizens should be able to raise their families in Britain with a foreign spouse, without being treated like criminals by the Home Office. This would be alongside the ‘red list’ to crush fraud. That is positive immigration, and should be welcomed. Restore Britain will welcome it.

IVF and fertility treatment. There should be proper investment in helping those who struggle to have children naturally. Not brutally rationed as it currently is. More rounds, more chances. This would not be offered to the entire third world as it is now - it would all be funded by simply not doing that.

A Restore Britain Government would allow parents to take their children out of school for a limited number of term-time days per year, as the parents see fit. If the child is developing well, that is a decision for the parents. A small change that will save families thousands...

Restore Britain stands with the young British men and women who want to build a family.

Most importantly, our wider plan of restoration will give them the confidence they need to have children, to bring them into the world. On tax, deportations, crime. Everything. It all needs to change to restore belief. That is our objective.

Our plan will make a family possible for millions more British men and women - this is how we Restore Britain.

[SnDMedia @SnDMediaNews]

WHERE ARE THEY? Gardaí Launch Urgent Hunt for Two Missing Kildare Schoolgirls

Gardaí are seeking the public's help to locate two missing teenagers from Newbridge: 13-year-old Emily O'Connor and 14-year-old Katelyn Rose Gill, who have not been seen since Friday, June 5th.

Emily O'Connor is described as around 5 foot 3 inches tall, with a slim build, black hair, and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing black leggings, a black top, and white runners.

Katelyn Rose Gill is approximately 5 foot 7 inches tall, also slim, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black tracksuit and white runners.

The girls were last sighted in Newbridge at around 3pm on Friday, June 5th. Gardaí believe they may now be in County Wexford and have serious concerns for their welfare.

Anyone with information about their whereabouts is urged to contact Naas Garda Station on 045 884300, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any local Garda station.

[Karen Ievers @karenievers]

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Excellent letter in today’s Irish Times.

H/T @etc_tess

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[Grifty @TheGriftReport]

JEREMY CLARKSON LAUNCHES CHEEKY ONLY FARMERS PLATFORM TO BOOST BRITISH FARMERS WITH BOOKABLE COUNTRYSIDE EXPERIENCES

Jeremy Clarkson has launched Only Farmers an online platform and app as his own wholesome take on OnlyFans to help struggling farmers connect directly with visitors.

The site lets farmers offer bookable experiences including workshops animal encounters pick your own days tastings farm stays private hire and seasonal events with users signing up for a waiting list ahead of full launch.

It starts with UK farms before opening to visitors from around the world and allows bookings straight with the farmer rather than through middlemen.

Clarkson announced the platform on yesterday tying it into the fifth series of Clarksons Farm which premiered on the 3rd of June with episodes five and six dropping on 10th of June

The move follows his Hawkstone Farmers Choir winning Britains Got Talent and continues his long running campaign to highlight the daily challenges facing British agriculture.

Clarkson described it as delivering experiences in the countryside you never knew existed with the app already generating huge interest from rural communities.

Thoughts?

[Mandy Gall @TheMandyGall]

What about the ordinary person who's not a celebrity millionaire....where's their A-Team?