Dara Martin

So where have we seen such sentiments as these expressed before? On page 45 of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederic Engels no less. Link below if you want to check it for yourself. Personally, I'm not surprised, as the Neo-Liberal and Progressive ideologies that underpin the EU, UN and hence Ireland, are rooted in Postmodern Neo-Marxism/Neo-Communism, and seek to erase terms such as mother and woman, and erase any notion of family as we know it. Children are to be offered up to the state for indoctrination and for whatever purposes the state determines - as agents of change for social transformation perhaps? The starting point for every parent is to go through each and every school book and online item your child will be exposed to, including the books that normally stay at school (check those ones first). Sadly our education system is not what it was even just 5 years ago. A terrible disservice has been done to Irish parents and our future generations. The irony in the piece from the Communist Manifesto is that Communist and Totalitarian regimes will always seek to dominate education when they are the ruling class. A case of Marxist inversion in action - they accuse you of what they are already doing or intend to do. marxists.org/admin/books/ma…

🚩🚩What is happening within the NCCA? Why do the individuals involved in curriculum development believe they have the right to "liberate children from the over-protective instincts of their parents"? Have they no regard for the Constitution? This is from a report on the seminars for the redevelopment of the Primary Curriculum Framework, discussing how the purpose of a national curriculum should be to instill values in children. @gript @Ben_Scallan @GL_Kavanagh @JasonOsborne_GM @NaturalWomensIE @WomensSpaceIre @TheCountessIE @laoisedebrun @hynesalan @sjholmesirl @NiamhLanes @DavQuinn

RED FLAGS

Scandalous

Leaving aside their personal beliefs on abortion - I don't know and it's not relevant - imagine the case someone like @OdohertyI64991 or @Casey5122dark could put forward on national television for the humanist's or pro-life libertarian's case for a child's right to life as future citizens of the nation. These would be ideas that help shape the intellectual landscape but the national media do not want this. They want 'You're literally Dev or you're progressive like us'. Imagine how stimulating discussions - not the bs imported 'hardball' shouting matches that pass for discussion on national tv - surrounding the nuances of access to abortion for foetal abnormality, incest and rape with a table of thinkers that actually represent different viewpoints on the matter. Ireland has been sold so short by the anti-intellectual (as well as morally bankrupt) national media.

I noticed during the initial abortion debates that RTE also engaged in scapegoating and intentionally narrowing the parameters of the debate to being a religious Vs secularism debate. This was calculated to make anyone who opposes abortion feel like they 'want to take the country back to Dev's Ireland' and in leagues with the priests. When any debate is reduced to "church Vs...", in post collapse Ireland, the church loses every time. RTE in particular and all national media are playing a dishonest role by ignoring the many, many secular people who have issues with abortion. It is not the church against the world. There is a broader coalition that includes many non-religious or nominally religious conservatives and libertarians who believe - for an array of reasons - that abortion, certainly abortion on demand, is wrong. RTE and the national media in general has kept these voices out of the debate to create a discussion of false dichotomies presented as 'normal' society against the extremes. They present the church as extreme in its pro life position while presenting the extreme pro-life position as 'normal'. They do this on all important matters of the day, such as immigration, the pressure it puts on housing, femicide by immigrant men etc. The media calls critics 'far right' extremists while presenting mass immigration as 'normal'. The Irish national media are the biggest drivers of political polarisation in Ireland. They do it in an intentionally dishonest fashion. The smear all opposition to their hyper liberal social positions as extremist.

Minority opinion: "the final text goes far beyond the scope. Instead of (doing normal stuff) it promotes ideological concepts, including gender identity and intersectionality and numerous other references that promote abortion .... as such we are demanding action from the EU..." Mentions activists who have been "attacking" something/someone.. "We support (initiative in general) but the ideological stuff is beyond the scope.

If it weren't for Brexit, For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers would likely have ended up in the court of justice of the EU in Luxembourg. And we all know what that means. Happy Brexit Day, TERF Island.

Transing European health by stealth x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Today in the "gender" committee of the European Parliament, members will vote on a new report on gender inequalities in health. It is the early phase of a project that, among genuine provisions that will be beneficial for women, risks further entrenching gender identity and gender ideology medicine in EU law. What's worse, while the original text calls out the lack of "transgender-specific healthcare" in EU member states, a number of proposed amendments call for pseudoscientific and contested "gender affirming care" by informed consent (i.e. puberty blockers and hormones from your GP, and surgery on demand). This is a particular risk to young women, especially gender non-conforming lesbians and those with autism and other vulnerabilities, who are the demographic most likely to get caught up in the transgender social contagion and to make permanent alterations to their bodies. Such policies and laws, where enacted, are likely lead to legal cases as has already happened in the UK the US. Meanwhile, conservative members of the committee have proposed amendments that would protect women from these abuses. The committee will vote on a compromise proposal today. The proposal was put forward by @BillyKelleherEU. His political party, @fiannafailparty has at least one senior member who has allowed the "transition" of an adolescent child and is advocating for gender ideology medicine to be mainstreamed in the Irish public health system. I will be livestreaming the committee meeting from 3pm CET today. europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…

“Young children do not discover a transgender identity, they construct it within the narrow cognitive and social scaffolding available to them. Far from being an innate essence revealed early in life, a child’s cross-sex identification often emerges through ordinary developmental processes: literal, pre-operational thinking, rigid gender schemes, adult labelling, social reinforcement, and ecological consolidation.” “Drawing on established theories from Piaget, (et al) this analysis shows how early conformity is rapidly interpreted, affirmed, and locked in by parents, schools, clinicians, frequently before the child possesses the abstract reasoning and exploratory freedom needed to test it.” “What presents as self knowledge is often premature foreclosure, an identity co-authored by the very adults claiming to follow the child’s lead.” Please take note and stand up for your school children as schools push gender ideology into SPHE and RSE and through the Trojan horse of “well being.” Check out our Guide on how to keep your child safe from dangerous ideologies. Thecountess.ie/ideologies

@griptmedia @Ireland2020 @Ben_Scallan Is anyone who doesn’t prioritise gender identity above biology considered ‘far right’ and considered anti-LGBTQ? What about women’s rights? What about women’s sports? What about LGB rights?

People Before Profit refuse to answer a Gript question about the Triple Lock, refusing to speak to @Ben_Scallan and dismissing the question through their press officer. An Irish Times journalist then repeats Gript's question, which Paul Murphy immediately answers.

Ireland's media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, has paid €83,103,429.00 in public money to broadcasters, newspapers and journalists since 2023: Virgin Media Television Limited €2,989,200 Tyrone Productions Ltd €2,671,569 Irish Times Group €2,544,114 Macalla Teoranta €2,278,861 Bauer Media Audio Ireland €2,095,553 Iconic Media Group €1,998,484 Mediahuis Ireland €1,964,38 Animo TV Productions Limited €1,930,00 Celtic Media Group €1,256,083 Keeper Pictures Ltd €1,070,000 Loosehorse Limited €1,055,117 Meangadh Fíbín Teo €1,024,678 Dyehouse Films €996,000 Turnip & Duck Ltd. €920,000 Element Pictures (The Dry)Limited €900,000 Deadpan Pictures €870,000 Scratch Films €826,432 Hot Press €801,487 Samson Films €800,000 Studio Meala Limited €795,000 Village Magazine €33,177 Dublin Inquirer €197,385 The Journal €197,500 This raises serious questions about editorial independency. Ireland's entire mainstream media landscape is being propped up by Govt. Whether its current affairs or light entertainment, the Irish Govt are involved. This is not good.

Absolutely. This is a total lie. All DOGE did was require contact with the aid recipients to confirm that funds were being used legitimately. Anything less than this is insane! Multiple people from USAID have been charged by the Justice Department with stealing money. Moreover, they pled GUILTY!! justice.gov/opa/pr/usaid-o…

Senator Malcolm Roberts nails the massive shift in immigration policy. Historically people came here wanting to integrate and become an Aussie. Now the system and ideology is so broken we are bending over backwards to adjust to cultures who have no interest in assimilation and demand all the social welfare benefits we have to offer. Just take a look at Lakemba. When you swamp the place regardless of race it destroys our culture.

The HSE has confirmed two reviews found ambulance delays contributed to patient safety incidents since 2020. It will not say what those reviews found. It will not say what was done about it. A health service that cannot measure its failures cannot fix them.

She Pledged Palestinian Freedom From A West Bank Pulpit. She Has Never Made That Pledge For Nigeria's Massacred Christians. On Sunday morning Dame Sarah Mullally, the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, stood in a church in Birzeit in the occupied West Bank and told the congregation she would use her role to seek the peace you desire and the freedom you deserve. It was a specific, named, actionable commitment. A promise from the senior Christian voice in Britain to one community in one conflict. Search for an equivalent promise made to Nigeria's Christians and you will not find it. In 2024 alone, over 4,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria, the majority by Islamist Fulani militia and Boko Haram affiliates. The Open Doors World Watch List, the most comprehensive annual survey of Christian persecution globally, documents severe persecution across more than 50 countries. Iraq's Christian population has collapsed from 1.5 million before 2003 to fewer than 250,000 today, one of the most complete destructions of an ancient Christian community in recorded history. The Coptic Christians of Egypt face sustained institutional discrimination and periodic massacres. Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing what some researchers describe as a slow motion genocide of Christian communities, conducted largely by Islamist groups, largely in silence. Dame Sarah has not made a five day pilgrimage to stand with any of them. She has not stood at a pulpit in Kaduna or Cairo or Kirkuk and pledged to use her role to seek the freedom they deserve. The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, used his Christmas Day sermon at York Minster to say that Israel had committed genocidal acts. Neither Archbishop has used that language about the groups killing Christians in their thousands across Africa and the Middle East. That asymmetry is not accidental. It reflects the ideological framework the Church of England has absorbed so completely that it can no longer see it operating. The same progressive institutional culture documented across British policing, the NHS, the BBC and the Ministry of Justice has captured the Church of England too. Its moral grammar has been rewritten. Suffering that fits the framework gets named, visited and pledged to. Suffering that does not fit the framework gets a footnote in an inaugural address that mentions Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of Congo alongside Ukraine and Russia, carefully balancing the optics without committing to anything specific. This matters because the Archbishop of Canterbury is not merely a religious figure. She is in law and in cultural memory the senior Christian voice in a nation whose institutions, laws, liberties and moral inheritance were built on Christian foundations. When that voice makes its most specific and most actionable commitment, it is not to the 4,000 Nigerian Christians killed last year. It is not to the last 250,000 Christians clinging on in Iraq. It is not to the Coptic families burying their dead in Egypt. It is to the community whose cause resonates most comfortably in the progressive institutional culture the Church now inhabits. Justin Welby resigned over catastrophic safeguarding failures. Dame Sarah was installed while live safeguarding complaints against her remained unresolved. Abuse survivors called it a galling betrayal. The Church pressed ahead. The institution that could not pause a ceremony for its own survivors has found the moral clarity to make a specific political commitment from a West Bank pulpit within weeks of taking office. The Church of England once stood for something that transcended politics. It spoke for the persecuted, the forgotten and the voiceless regardless of whether their cause was fashionable. It does not do that now. It speaks for those whose suffering fits the approved narrative and stays carefully silent about the rest. Nigeria's Christians are still waiting. They will keep waiting.

Christianity is being treated differently because the institutional framework that has captured British public life operates on a hierarchy of protected characteristics, and Christianity sits at the bottom of it. It is the majority faith, the historic faith, the foundational faith of the civilisation that built the institutions now dismantling its place within them. That makes it, in the progressive framework, the faith of the powerful rather than the oppressed. And in a framework built around oppressor and oppressed, the faith of the powerful does not get protected. It gets managed. Other faiths receive more institutional deference not because they are more important but because the progressive framework treats them as more vulnerable. The same logic that produced the Hampshire Race Action Plan, the NHS sectioning targets and the BBC's Brexit consensus has produced a Church of England that cancels Easter services in the spirit of inclusivity while participating in Refugee Week. Christians are expected to be more tolerant because tolerance has been redefined as a Christian obligation rather than a universal one. It is asked of Christians precisely because Christianity has always taught it. The demand is made where it is most likely to be met and least likely to be resisted. And Christians in other countries are unsupported because their suffering does not fit the approved narrative. Nigeria. Iraq. Syria. Egypt. The Archbishop just pledged freedom to Palestinians from a West Bank pulpit. She has made no equivalent pledge to any of them. The answer to all four of your questions is the same. The framework has been captured. Until that is named and reversed nothing else changes.

4,079 children are on the waiting list for the new gender clinics, down from 6,225 last year. 260 children are aged 7 - 11. Stephanie Davies-Arai, director of Transgender Trend, said that children should be “allowed to grow up and grow out of it”. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/2…