Bishop Alan McGuckian: Belfast City Hall should unite, not divide, and choose life @DownandConnor ⬇️ catholicbishops.ie/2026/09/2…

Hysterical reaction of Stalinist Paul Murphy to political attempts to throw out Arab parties and others from Israeli elections. Israel is a democracy and if this even gets as far as the Supreme Court it will be thrown out.

This is the kind of subliminal framing a rag like @IrishTimes excels at - 'failed' candidate. In any election where there's only one winner, every other candidate who didn't win is also a 'failed' candidate.

Isn’t this a good thing? Christians keep December and the pagans can have January- good luck with that-job done

So Kevin Bakhurst @kevinbakhurst RTÉ Director General has blocked me. Interesting. I was going to ask him why RTE Middle East section is not covering a report that his old comrades at the BBC reported on yesterday about child rape and forced marriage in Gaza. “Although data collection to establish actual figures remains tricky, in the second quarter of this year, the UNFPA says the number of reported cases of early and forced marriage had increased by 123% on the first quarter. Early or child marriage involved girls aged 12 to 17.” I guess RTE under his leadership wouldn’t want Irish readers to know what is going on in Gaza, might interfere with "the narrative." bbc.com/news/articles/c94gm7…

Despite Ireland facing the highest electricity prices in Europe, Energy Minister Darragh O'Brien has not met with three of the state's four largest energy suppliers in a year. Read more in the comments 👇

RTÉ News used a prime-time slot to feature a handful of socialist protesters opposing the Ireland v Israel match. The broadcaster has become obsessed with promoting these protests, often with little or no balance. Where is the same coverage of peaceful protests against IPAS centres and illegal immigration? After all poll after poll says the majority of Irish people don’t have Gaza in their radar and immigration, cost of living and housing. The polls suggest less than 5% of people even think about it. RTE please focus on Irish Issues that matter to Ireland through the lens of normal people and not the nutcases. Illegals wandering the streets, still no children’s hospital, the outrageous cost of fuel and stop focusing on political parties and figures that are representing Palestine and not their own constituency anymore.

Second appearance on the main nightly TV news and again it is about the only Jewish majority state in the world. I don’t like to focus on individuals, but the Taoiseach needs to cop on. Our leader needs to focus on Ireland’s national interests, not the obsessions of a small minority about one distant conflict of many in the world.

The Islamist hounding of John Cleese is a disgrace. These cranks need to be put in their place. They need to be told that our freedom to speak is far more important than their fragile feelings. If we want to mock Muhammad, we will, says Brendan O’Neill buff.ly/xSntmX7

BREAKING NEWS: Earl Spencer has apologised to me for his defamatory lies published in his new book, Swan Song, published today. But I am pursuing legal action against him and his publisher Penguin to have the lies removed, and damages paid to the King’s Trust.

¿Alguien puede explicar cómo es posible que las «feministas» en Occidente apoyen a un régimen que literalmente ahorca a mujeres por negarse a usar hiyab?

The cancellation of Ed Sheeran is going about as well as the cancellation of JKR 🤣🤣🤣

Weird how this keeps happening.

€860 for less than half a tank of home heating oil for a 89 year old woman. The is 3 weeks of her total income and it wont last until Christmas. The government are taking €180 of this in tax.

Ireland has supplied approximately 2 million tonnes of alumina to the Russian war machine since 2024. It is Ireland, not the EU, that has lost its credibility.

Because the BBC is captured. This is an extraordinary piece of editing. It's as if the BBC is trying to memory-hole the October 7 atrocities. Uncle Stalin would be proud of them.

It is 5 days away. Israel’s international football team play the Republic of Ireland in Hungary, Sunday September 27. Then on October 4 Ireland play Israel. Our domestic National Socialist fascists have spent the last five months demonising the FAI, publicly denigrating and defaming its board members, demanding the games be cancelled, politicising the League of Ireland, brainwashing the media, football supporters, players & the rest of Ireland in hate, compelling their willing supplicants in RTE to not broadcast the games, denying Ireland football supporters the right to attend the matches, intimidating the government parties and indoctrinating almost all of Ireland’s sports journalists, who know nothing about the complexities of the Middle East, to adopt their narrative. They have been successful in so far as FAI board members have been too cowardly to sue for defamation those behind their targeting on “ Stop the Game”social media a/cs, the Sports Minister early on prostrated himself before the mob saying he will not attend the games, their campaign to undermine our freedoms has been supported by all our opposition political parties & MEPs without a single dissenting voice, no tickets for either match have been sold by the FAI to Irish supporters of our international team, journalists who normally bang on about freedom of expression have supported barriers being erected to stop supporters attending the games & RTE journos & sports commentators don’t want to commentate or be seen at the game, some for fear of backlash from their unions or colleagues . As the games loom the hate promoting obsessive National Socialist fascists are, as I predicted, escalating pressure on players & trying to bully & intimidate them into not playing. Attempting to appease them, the team manager has embraced part of their hate fuelled narrative. Like all fascists, the unelected mob claim to speak on behalf of all of Ireland. They don’t. And they have failed in their ultimate objective. The game will go ahead on Sunday September 27, as will the second game a week later. RTE’s “slimmed down coverage”, lacking commentary from sports journos masquerading as experts in Israeli/Palestinian conflict won’t be missed. As with its boycotting of Eurovision, RTE while not commentating on the match, will idiotically send a news team to report from outside the stadiums where the games are played which will avoid contamination by not filming from inside a stadium! Our Irish team will meet an Israeli team representing all of Israel, both Jewish & Arab, & each team should shake hands, show respect for each others humanity & football skill & not surrender to the fascist mob,to the hate or the antisemitism intrinsic to the Stop the Game campaign run by a sub group of Irish Sport for Palestine which is a sub group of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign to which all RTE unions, incl its NUJ have allied. Yes,it is only football but its also about something more. Its about Irish society, our freedom to differ, to not be intimidated by mob rule, to enjoy the pleasure of sport, to exercise our constitutional rights,RTE’s role as a public service broadcaster & our rights to support our national team. It is also about our footballers not internationally disgracing themselves & our country by being intimidated into withholding a handshake from someone who is a Jewish or an Arab Israeli, to not present to the world as a country totally contaminated by anti Zionism & antisemitism in which those who hate dominate. It is about not presenting Ireland as obsessively dedicated to the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state & irrationally believing the weaponising of football matches contributes to achieving that objective. Ultimately for our Irish team the sole focus should be winning both games & pride in playing for Ireland. All the background noise & bullying should be ignored & treated with contempt. The bullies & obsessive shld be told Stop Targeting Our Team

If Trump did this they’d be roaring about it but the intent is the the same as his $5k promise

NEVER FORGET WHAT HAMAS DID TO YAGIL YAAKOV. Yagil was only 12 when Hamas terrorists stormed Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 and dragged him and his 16-year-old brother, Or, into Gaza. As they broke into the safe room, Yagil pleaded: “Don’t take me. I’m too young.” He turned 13 in captivity. Yagil and Or were released 52 days later. Their father, Yair, had been murdered on October 7 and his body taken to Gaza. After his release, Yagil described the fear, abuse, burns and bruises he endured. He was a child. Hamas kidnapped children. Hamas tore families apart. Hamas turned their homes into scenes of terror. Remember Yagil. Remember the hostages. Remember October 7. Never allow the world to forget