The Watchdog

Challenging the norm

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

Holiday Inn Dublin Airport, young fighting age male refugees fleeing war hanging around drinking all day...Ficking disgraceful @HolidayInn @Failte_Ireland

[RM.tv🇮🇪 @RealMessageEire]

🚨Holiday Inn, Dublin airport🚨

Foreign men drinking and taking drugs all day and night harassing locals.

Credit: @irish_Patriot1

#IrelandIsFull

[Maria Patricia éIRe 🇮🇪 @MariaPIreland]

Scotland, 10k police, bodycams cost 13 Million.
Ireland, 15k Gardaí, bodycams 100/150 Million.
Who's stuffing their pockets?

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

@FineGael @RayMcAdam Fine Gael have destroyed Ireland

[Malachy Steenson @MalachySteenson]

RTE is funded from YOUR pocket to push the State's narrative, I am the only one not afraid to sit in front of them and call them out.

#DublinCentral - Dublin Central - https://t.co/kAseQO7lrU

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

@Nick_Delehanty Nick your retweeted false info Boylan will catch ennis in the betting and Hutch is currently 11/5

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

@nwl88444048 What are yea spoofing for in favour of Hutch, Boylan will over take ennis in d betting tomorrow

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

@thejournal_ie They don't reflect the public views of the party, BUT! behind closed doors that's all we talk about.

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

@nwl88444048

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

@Independent_ie

[Susanne Delaney @SuzieD755164]

I fully expect this woman will get a visit from the Gardaí tomorrow. Not that she has done anything to warrant that. But this is the way Ireland has gone. Sadly. As for Bertie Ahern, his actions [to be silent publicly but gossip at the door for a vote for his associate]....are both cowardly and contemptuous in the extreme. Listen to the end...where he manipulatively tries to turn the tables on the woman after realising he has been set up.

[Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @Trickstersworld]

🚨Scoop🚨
Dublin Central By-election candidate Ray McAdam to give a press conference this morning in advance of a newspaper hit-piece linking him to nationwide self-styled mafia organisation known to security agencies as Fine Gael.
More as I get it.

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

@caulmick It shows how bad politics is when the calibre of nominees is way below par, cronynism, gangster is etc. Ireland is truly in shit creek without a paddle..

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

@RayMcAdam So we not have enough poles in the city centre, considering your the lord mayor and running in north Central would you not spend your time getting the pavements cleaned along Dorset, gardiner street and so on. The place is filthy under your watch😡

[Eamon Melia @EamonMelia]

Ray is a FG Cllr but Ray never mentions Fine Gael in any of his videos or on his twitter profile. Ray is obviously ashamed of FG and if you vote for Ray and FG you should also be ashamed for voting for a party who after 15 years in power have destroyed this country.

[RealIrishNews @RealIrishNews]

Dublin Lord Mayor Ray McAdam's Luxury Globetrotting: Tens of Thousands – Possibly Hundreds – on Taxpayer-Funded Trips to the French Riviera, San Jose and Beyond.

Since taking office as Dublin Lord Mayor on 30 June 2025, Real Irish News can reveal Fine Gael councillor Ray McAdam has racked up eye-watering travel bills on the public purse, with Freedom of Information releases exposing lavish international junkets amid Dublin's housing crisis and council rent hikes.

In March 2026 alone, McAdam and Dublin City Council staff and councillors embarked on over a dozen official trips to glamorous European capitals and the US west coast including the French Riviera, Berlin, Prague, Amsterdam, Rome and San Jose in California.

The documented luxury is hard to ignore.
French Riviera, nearly €11,400 on a four-star Royal Antibes hotel with its own private beach.
Five delegates enjoyed three nights in sea-view apartments at €592 per person per night, with one extra night costing over €625.

San Jose, California: €24,000 total for a five-person, four-night trip.
McAdam flew business class at almost €5,900, while DCC chief executive Richard Shakespeare’s seat cost €4,185. The group stayed at the four-star Westin in the city centre (around €460 per room per night), with accommodation alone hitting €11,000.

Add in flights and hotels for Berlin, Prague, Amsterdam and Rome all part of the same month’s spending spree – and the March bill alone runs into tens of thousands.
When you factor in McAdam’s full term to date, including earlier trips like Toronto in December 2025, the true figure for international travel and hospitality since he took office is widely speculated to be heading into the hundreds of thousands of euros.

McAdam has defended the California jaunt as “selling Dublin” for investment, claiming it follows long-standing practice for twinned cities and that business class was council policy for long-haul flights with immediate work.

But critics including other councillors – have slammed it as “an absolute insult” to ordinary Dubliners facing spiralling rents and a cost-of-living crunch.

What exactly is the Lord Mayor doing on these trips on the public euro?

Jetting business class to sun-soaked private beaches on the French Riviera or Silicon Valley networking hubs while council tenants get rent hikes?

Sightseeing in Prague or Rome under the guise of “official business”?
With no detailed public breakdown of every trip’s outcome, no announced mega-deals or job figures tied directly to these junkets many Dubliners are left asking whether this is genuine city promotion or simply the perks of the office at taxpayers’ expense.

As McAdam campaigns in the upcoming Dublin Central by-election, these revelations raise serious questions about his value for money.

In a city battling homelessness and soaring living costs, should the Lord Mayor’s travel habits really be this lavish?
The public deserves full transparency on every euro spent and clear answers on what, if anything, these five star lifestyles are delivering for Dublin or thr Country.

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

@pigeonkeeper1 @courtsnewsIRL I hope I get him when I'm in court

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

@HMcEntee Any chance you can stand with the people of Ireland Helen.. The violence on our streets is a daily occurrence all our the country, under Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, Gardai have gotten more money but crime has got worst. Can you explain that to us please😡

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

The diversity quota in colleges is so strong, Irish kids are now an minority, also in the work place if your Irish it is becoming harder to get a job in any industry.

[Gabhán @OffgridIreland]

Irish kids busting their arses with 600+ leaving cert points, getting straight-up rejected from medicine.

Because the universities are too busy selling half the places 50%-70% to fee-paying foreigners who’ll f**k off home afterwards. Not quotas they say.

Just ‘revenue streams’ yeah training the world's doctors instead of our own, then they have the gall to tell us the healthcare would collapse without foreign staff.

This isn’t education policy, it’s demographic replacement with extra tuition fees.

Your own children last in their own country while the government cheers ‘diversity.’

That’s not racist, lads that’s just the future you voted for.

Absolute state of Ireland.

[The Watchdog @watchdog124]

@nwl88444048 And they all come from Store Street Garda Station, didn't 2 of infamous Garda Commissioners come through store street as well

[Peadar Tóibín TD @Toibin1]

What's next after the fuel protest?

How many farmers received summonses and tickets?

How do we remove the government?

Join the key meeting tomorrow night.
https://t.co/kKAFVdJ2qp