Graham Tormey

@CarterA8828 @MrPitbull07 reads like AI too

@MrPitbull07 I want to believe this is real but the picture looks AI. The boy’s left arm and hand are incomplete.

He knocked on the door expecting a signature. Instead, a terrified 8-year-old boy ran straight into his arms... James has driven the same route for six years. He knows the houses, the dogs, and usually, the families. But the house on Highland Avenue always gave him a bad feeling. Usually, the blinds were drawn, and it was too quiet. Today, he walked up the path with a box, scanning the label. Before he could knock, the door flew open. It wasn't a parent greeting him. It was 8-year-old Ethan. He was wearing Spider-Man pajamas, barefoot on the cold concrete, and his eyes were wide with terror. From deep inside the house, James heard the unmistakable sound of shattering glass and a man’s slurred, angry screaming. Ethan didn't wait for the package. He bolted through the screen door, running straight into James’s legs, burying his face in the driver's uniform. "He's hurting mom!" he sobbed, his little body trembling violently. "Please!" James didn't check his schedule. He didn't drop the box. He dropped everything and scooped the boy up, rushing him away from the porch and toward the safety of his truck. A neighbor, who had been watching the disturbance from her yard, was already on the phone with 911. James sat on the back bumper of the truck, positioning himself as a human shield between the boy and the house. Ethan was hyperventilating, terrified his father would come out. James just wrapped his arms around the shaking boy, ignoring the cold. "I've got you, buddy," he kept whispering, rubbing the boy's back. "You're safe. I'm not going anywhere. You're safe." They sat there for ten agonizing minutes until the sirens wailed down the street. Officers stormed the house, taking the father into custody and ensuring Ethan’s mother was safe. James stayed right there on the bumper until the very end. To the company, he was just a driver behind schedule. But to the boy in the Spider-Man pajamas, he was the only hero who mattered.

@Glenna_lynch @danobrien20 It's not about European Wars or any Wars, It's about feeding European money into the American Military Industrial Complex. Its bled America dry and its looking for fresh meat.

I think the public would fully support significant defensive investment, in the context of military neutrality. The problem is people don’t trust the Government to draw the line at that. They know that’s not the end game. It’s pretty clear that the state isn’t motivated to refuse to be dragged into European wars. The opposite in fact.

Another Ireland-hostile opinion piece in the The Wall Street Journal, the paper of record of corporate America. Free-riding needs to end. Leadership in Dublin is needed urgently.

@CandidCelt @SeanDubIreland He's a creep and a loony.

I’m not on the Enoch Burke train, don’t think he’s going about things the right way. But would you have him teach your kids after all this? I would in a heartbeat. You can’t doubt his morals, conviction, determination. Would love some of that instilled in my own kids at school. Some private school will eventually make a lot of money by having him on the payroll.

@panthersgod This is a brilliant idea for a game. looks like a lot of fun.

Anti-blackness really makes me so sad and angry sometimes, because I know FOR SURE that if they made these protagonists Japanese absolutely no one would be complaining about this.

@Muinchille @KarlMartinIrl @FatherStone4 @TheDagda___ wow, that recently?

@KarlMartinIrl @FatherStone4 @TheDagda___ Don't look at me. The last time I voted FF, Chambers was in primary school. 😀

What has happened to Micháel Martin? I mean, OK, never the best politician in Ireland, much less Taoiseach, but he's falling apart in front of our eyes.

@LoveKarleigh @HorrorGorl and because tgey don't spend their own revenue on Military spending they can afford all sorts of fun things like free healthcare.

@HorrorGorl About 1% of taxpayer $ goes to foreign aid, and Israel gets the biggest share of it, based on my research. However, that is entirely military funding. We don't pay for any social services for them.

I don’t understand why our tax money is paying for Israel’s healthcare

@MHealyRae Do people really buy this bullshit 'thick culchie' act?

The message to the haters is the same now as it was then, give it up. I ignore negative comment they’re not my lived reality. 99% of people I meet are decent. To the loud 1% who think otherwise, I won’t be bothered by your twisted, nasty remarks. Move on and be productive.

@BigMattSays @IrishTimes Extremely well, probably with too much deference to be honest but they would certainly be welcome.

@IrishTimes I think the unionist community know exactly how they would be treated in a united Ireland.

Ben Collins: One of the many benefits of a United Ireland is that unionist votes and voices will matter much more in an all-Ireland Dáil and Seanad, than they do in Westminster. The time for a referendum is fast approaching, perhaps in the next decade. irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…

@TheArchivistLC @teddy__george7 @PaulinusOfTrier Am I supposed to care about the Vatican? Turn it into a museum.

@teddy__george7 @TheArchivistLC @PaulinusOfTrier only one use for Aristocracy

@CharlieFlanagan paymasters getting antsy are they?

🇬🇧 🇮🇪 Important information from a most reliable source to digest before rushing to border polls. Irish unification would hit South harder than 2008 crash irishtimes.com/business/econo…

@udippy @CharlieFlanagan It's not another country.

@thejournal_ie Yes.

Poll: Should Irish citizens in Northern Ireland be able to vote in Irish presidential elections? jrnl.ie/6684141

@BrianFlanagan1 @DavQuinn This is the problem right here. protecting the gas priducers.

@DavQuinn Not until they detach from gas prices and there is genuine competition.

Wait, have we an admission that renewables are NOT reducing energy prices? rte.ie/news/2025/0418…

@JackMur681 @JamesDonnellySF Partition is a historic wrong, it is a drag on our nation and needs to be ended.

Wonder how some of the Fianna fail folk feel now knowing that their party leader is a man who has absolutely zero interest in a United Ireland. Republican party? Good joke that.

@BennettWaisbren these all suck

ChatGPT 4o's new image gen is insane. Here's what Severance would look like in 8 famous animation styles 🧵 1/8: Rankin/Bass – That nostalgic stop-motion look like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Cozy and janky.

@realLangerDan I think a small modern wing of Grippens or Eurofighters to maintain our own airspace is essential, personally we should also have drone capabilities. but I don't think that necessitates messing with the triple lock. Better pay and conditons for military personel is also needed.

As far as our security is concerned, I believe we have 2 options. Either invest in an actual air force capable of air interception. Or, allow an ally such as France to do so on our behalf with Ireland granting the French a naval and air base on the Shannon estuary Which is it?

@danielryan908 @pmac79 Its sad that you feel that way, but understandable.

@GrahamTormey @pmac79 What

Must be something seriously wrong with people from Tipperary when they vote for that snake Lowry.

@Inevitablewest He's a stupid wanker and he's full of shit.

🚨BREAKING: Conor McGregor issues chilling warning: "IRELAND IS PURPOSELY BEING ETHNICALLY CLEANSED BY ITS GOVERNMENT!"

@danielryan908 @pmac79 sad

@pmac79 Probably cause we know nothing ever changes it doesn’t matter who’s in government it’s always going to be shit if it’s fg ff or even sf what we can affect is our local and Lowry tbf gets stuff done in tipp that’s why he got my n1