Stephen

Not a fan of soundbite Simon

[Stephen @whysonow]

@Default69202648 They pull that card everywhere!! Nothing worse than dealing with

[Stephen @whysonow]

@TheMandyGall Maybe its the lack of time he spends here is doing it to him

[Stephen @whysonow]

@AontuDublin Just table the motion now. No more chances for crooked government parties

[Holy jayzus @HolyJazus]

This man has to go..NOW.

[Stephen @whysonow]

@IrishMissionUN @HMcEntee @andrii_sybiha @kajakallas @dfatirl @UKRinUN @EUatUN @IrlEmbUkraine @franceonu Pity she doesn't stand in solidarity with the Garda https://t.co/g5KoijSD6S many signs of a psycho in

[Stephen @whysonow]

@karldeeter Yes because that has worked so many times before.why not just ban it all together.

[Covid Vaccines were NEVER SAFE @duzBme]

BREAKING IRELAND 🇮🇪
Deer Park Hotel Howth: 175 Ukrainians living rent-free in a 200-bed hotel. Out by 8 Oct.
Moving into Claremont Howth luxury apartments, 100+ units handed over while 17,000+ Irish stay homeless. #HowIrelandWorks #HomelessnessIsNotNormal #IrelandFirst RT

[Stephen @whysonow]

@Toibin1 I think yourself and Michael O Leary @Ryanair should possibly sit down together with a view to running the countrt

[Stephen @whysonow]

@EamonMelia Shockingly the RSA have nothing to say about

[Stephen @whysonow]

@paddymacc1 My kids play cops and robbers.seems very much like their game as they also take

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

Garda Whistleblowers

Mick Clifford: Helen McEntee has questions to answer over handling of garda whistleblower disclosure

The paper trail of how she handled a disclosure from a senior garda suggests she acted without legal authority and in contravention to the best interests of the garda whistleblower.

So why did the minister take the decision to send the protected disclosure on to An Garda Síochána when she had not officially received it and had no legal authority to do so?

How could she not have known that doing so would identify the discloser, Detective Superintendent O’Reilly, and undermine the whole basis for the law in this area?

The recent political and media exposure around the garda whistleblowers gives rise to the obvious question as to whether anything has changed in the brave, new world that was supposed to emerge from the aftermath of the Maurice McCabe case.

#Garda #Whistleblowers @Mickcliff #HelenMcEntee #MauriceMcCabe @irishexaminer

https://t.co/ytKiP1Kgxk

[Paddy McKenna @paddymacc1]

Simon Harris signed the contract for Ireland's National Children's Hospital at a cost of €650 million, with a completion date for August 2022.
The cost is currently €2.24bn, and it is four years overdue, with no completion date in sight.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

Day 11

Irish Times delighted to report that my doggy business is closing down.

But yet still not a mention of the latest Dublins social housing statistics.

Funny world we live in.
Which should be bigger news ?

[Stephen @whysonow]

Should be reposted by every Irish person

[RealIrishNews @RealIrishNews]

Helen McEntee can find her voice for LGBTIQ+ people in Turkey.
She can't find it for Alex Coughlan.

On 22 September the Minister for Foreign Affairs posted that recent actions against LGBTIQ+ persons and organisations in Türkiye were “deeply concerning.” Ireland, she said, stood “in full solidarity” and had, with like-minded countries, raised the matter with Turkish authorities.

The tweet followed a coordinated police operation in mid-September in which Turkish authorities raided LGBT and HIV support groups, detained dozens of activists, blocked social media accounts and framed the sweep as protection of “family values.” Homosexuality is not a crime in Turkey, but Pride events have been banned for years and President Erdoğan’s government has grown openly hostile.

That statement is not, in itself, remarkable.
Foreign ministers comment on human-rights issues abroad. What is remarkable is the silence that preceded it at home.

Alex Coughlan, 37, was found unconscious on Mill Road in Blanchardstown on the afternoon of 17 May 2026.
He died three days later from traumatic head and neck injuries. Two teenagers, then 16, were charged. Gardaí allege they made contact with him the day before through Grindr, saved his number under the name “Prey two,” arranged a meeting, blocked him on the road, punched him to the ground, pursued him when he tried to run, and kicked and punched him while he was on his knees pleading.
A witness described one of them shouting “you f** paedo.” Cards and a gold ring given to him by his father were taken and used within minutes. The case has now been sent forward for trial on murder and robbery charges.

Coughlan was a gay man targeted through a gay dating app. The facts already in the public domain are enough to raise an obvious question: why does a government that speaks so readily about LGBTIQ+ rights in Ankara have so little to say when a gay man is beaten to death in Dublin 15?

No comparable statement from McEntee appears on the record. She has issued condolences for attacks and incidents overseas. She has not issued one for Coughlan. Replies under her other posts noted the omission at the time. The pattern is familiar: distant solidarity is cheap; a killing on a suburban Dublin road that implicates local social realities is politically awkward.

The tweet itself is also sloppy in its framing. McEntee’s post is about LGBTIQ+ people in Turkey, not “Turkish Muslims” as a bloc. Turkey is a Muslim-majority country whose current government wraps its crackdown in family, morality and nation. That context matters. Pretending the two are identical is lazy. Pretending Ireland has no comparable problems of its own is worse.

If solidarity with LGBTIQ+ people is more than a diplomatic talking point, it has to survive contact with a man on his knees on Mill Road. So far it has not.
The Minister found time for Türkiye. She has not found time for Blanchardstown.

[RealIrishNews @RealIrishNews]

Helen McEntee can find her voice for LGBTIQ+ people in Turkey.
She can't find it for Alex Coughlan.

On 22 September the Minister for Foreign Affairs posted that recent actions against LGBTIQ+ persons and organisations in Türkiye were “deeply concerning.” Ireland, she said, stood “in full solidarity” and had, with like-minded countries, raised the matter with Turkish authorities.

The tweet followed a coordinated police operation in mid-September in which Turkish authorities raided LGBT and HIV support groups, detained dozens of activists, blocked social media accounts and framed the sweep as protection of “family values.” Homosexuality is not a crime in Turkey, but Pride events have been banned for years and President Erdoğan’s government has grown openly hostile.

That statement is not, in itself, remarkable.
Foreign ministers comment on human-rights issues abroad. What is remarkable is the silence that preceded it at home.

Alex Coughlan, 37, was found unconscious on Mill Road in Blanchardstown on the afternoon of 17 May 2026.
He died three days later from traumatic head and neck injuries. Two teenagers, then 16, were charged. Gardaí allege they made contact with him the day before through Grindr, saved his number under the name “Prey two,” arranged a meeting, blocked him on the road, punched him to the ground, pursued him when he tried to run, and kicked and punched him while he was on his knees pleading.
A witness described one of them shouting “you f** paedo.” Cards and a gold ring given to him by his father were taken and used within minutes. The case has now been sent forward for trial on murder and robbery charges.

Coughlan was a gay man targeted through a gay dating app. The facts already in the public domain are enough to raise an obvious question: why does a government that speaks so readily about LGBTIQ+ rights in Ankara have so little to say when a gay man is beaten to death in Dublin 15?

No comparable statement from McEntee appears on the record. She has issued condolences for attacks and incidents overseas. She has not issued one for Coughlan. Replies under her other posts noted the omission at the time. The pattern is familiar: distant solidarity is cheap; a killing on a suburban Dublin road that implicates local social realities is politically awkward.

The tweet itself is also sloppy in its framing. McEntee’s post is about LGBTIQ+ people in Turkey, not “Turkish Muslims” as a bloc. Turkey is a Muslim-majority country whose current government wraps its crackdown in family, morality and nation. That context matters. Pretending the two are identical is lazy. Pretending Ireland has no comparable problems of its own is worse.

If solidarity with LGBTIQ+ people is more than a diplomatic talking point, it has to survive contact with a man on his knees on Mill Road. So far it has not.
The Minister found time for Türkiye. She has not found time for Blanchardstown.

[Stephen @whysonow]

@EamonMelia Fucking belly is bursting out of his

[Stephen @whysonow]

@griptmedia Why would he meet them when its easier to send a brown envelope with his name on it

[Stephen @whysonow]

@HMcEntee Meanwhile in Ireland there are questions to be answered by you!!

[Stephen @whysonow]

@IrelandinNY Of course she was delighted to join. Unfortunately for her there are families still waiting for her to tell the truth so all the ducking and diving won't make this go

[Christine Anderson @AndersonAfDMdEP]

Without any doubt!