Stephen Maye

SÉAMUS CLARKE on public institutions displaying the LGBT+ Flag: Individuals should enjoy the broadest possible freedom to express their identities, beliefs and values. Public institutions should belong equally to everyone- and should remain neutral. gript.ie/should-public-…

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he? And somehow that is the whole point I have watched him for most of my life First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need Then as something bigger The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture James May the patient one Richard Hammond the brave one And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was He owned it, apologized and carried on No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback He just kept being himself and let the work speak The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed The format was never the magic The men were You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view No editing it into a success story No pretending the numbers work when they do not His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care He showed that too Most people would have cut it And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care And then there is the part nobody warned me about Men who raise animals for meat and still love them Who name them, worry about them, sit with them Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them And feel the full weight of sending them off He does not hide that He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard That is not weakness That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product That is the whole secret There is no act There never was And that is exactly why we keep watching Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

@Ryanair My granddaughter in London wanted to book flights to Knock but has only four weeks left on her passport will she be allowed to travel

In case you missed it, today an activist journalist working for the Irish Times which is funded by the government and an Anarchist activist working for an NGO which is funded by the government tried to write a hit piece about the independent author and journalist who wrote a book about how the government, NGOs and the media are Vandalising Ireland. I can't think of a better advertisement for that book. Make sure you have your copy!

My son started his Leaving Cert today. Like every parent, I wish him and every student the very best. But no matter how well he does, he's already planning to leave Ireland. His brothers have gone before him. Think about that for a moment. Three Irish sons, forced to build their futures on the other side of the world while politicians congratulate themselves and tell us everything is fine. It is not fine. What is the point of encouraging our children to study hard, work hard, and achieve their dreams if they have to leave their own country to have any chance of a decent future? Ireland is losing its young people. We are losing our sons and daughters. I oppose the EU Migration Pact and I believe the Irish people should be given a referendum. Let the people decide the future of their country. Good luck to every Leaving Cert student today. You deserve more than a certificate. You deserve the chance to build a life in the country of your birth.

I hadn’t realised this. Re-Turn is making bin charges more expensive. Bin companies are losing €15m in revenue from aluminium cans and PET bottles. The cans are worth €800 - €1400 a tonne & bottles €500. So we are paying twice! Deposit charge + higher bin charge. I think we need to start a Boycott.

An Garda Síochána must now intervene and address the very serious public accusations being made by this politician. The Garda investigation has not been completed, and no security guard has been convicted of murder by any court. Until a court finds someone guilty, it is completely wrong and dangerous to publicly label people as murderers. This was not a racist attack, and making false or unproven claims of that nature risks inflaming tensions and encouraging hostility. Public figures have a responsibility to be extremely careful with their language, especially in a situation as serious as this. There must be a full and thorough investigation, due process, and respect for the presumption of innocence. Public accusations like this can destroy lives and make a fair investigation harder. This cannot be allowed to spiral out of control.

@SamaHoole ...and then government cuts down the newly planted trees to put up non recyclable wind turbines. NetZero nonsense.

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it. Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at. Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets. That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting. This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid. So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram. The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck. And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

A very sad announcement. I have just been convicted a second time for 'hate speech' and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge's frustration. In an ironic turn of events it's actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least. Call me naive but I didn't think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration. In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence. Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.” That's a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth. Even the regime media write: "It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove's main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration." You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible. Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it. The only argument they present is that I created a "hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration. Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail. Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than €420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win. If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM. If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.

WATCH: Senator Sharon Keogan has raised concerns about “African religious rituals” used in “cursing” Arnotts, while a person praying “quietly” within 100m of an abortion clinic can face criminal sanction. gript.ie/senator-concer…

This letter in today’s Irish Times is magnificent. Please read and share Sir, – Micheál Martin’s hysterical over-reaction to the Israeli detention of Irish citizens participating in the Sumud flotilla embarrasses Ireland on the international stage yet again. These people were not innocent holidaymakers suddenly snatched at sea, but political provocateurs who desperately sought arrest and detention by Israeli forces. This event should be treated as the publicity stunt that it was. The real injured parties here are the ordinary Israeli and Irish taxpayers who have to pay for the arrest and repatriation of these middle-class narcissists. The best way for this Government to stop the genuinely shocking humiliation and mistreatment of Irish citizens would be to focus on the homelessness crisis in Ireland, or the ever-growing hospital waiting list, and ignore the self-indulgent gimmicks of the anti-Israeli lobby. – Yours, etc, DR DAVID WOODS, Dept of Classics, University College Cork.

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

@Nick_Delehanty ANYBODY profiteering from #HumanTrafficking needs to be investigated, and to be made personally liable for any personal injuries/death suffered by the Irish victims or their bereaved families. This should include auxiliaries such as #NGOs, transport companies 'IPAS' oligarchs.

We should also mention.. Carol Dwyer is a director of the company that operates the highly controversial Kippure estate, which was built entirely WITHOUT planning permission for IPAS accommodation.

Interestingly Carol Dwyer is also the sole director of Blakeney Investors, which happens to own 100% shares in a company that lodged plans with DCC for 753 apartments and a 204 bedroom hotel at East Wall.... Small world!

One company is particularly interesting: Gateway Integration ULC It operates an IPAS centre in East Wall. Carol Dwyer is director It has earned over €50million. All profits routed through Isle of Man Alan Gannon, brother of local TD Gary Gannon, was Gateway’s "community engagement officer". Last year they hosted an event which was attended by Mary Lou & others.... Cllr Daniel Ennis gave the speech.

All of these companies are ultimately owned through Isle of Man company called "Besga Lp Inc" We have no idea of who the real beneficial owners are. All we know, is that they are all connected. Carol Dwyer's job is to be the face... not the owner.

Who is Carol Dwyer? (Anyone following closely will know her name) She runs a corporate services firm "Beacon Company Secretaries" She is a director of major IPAS contractors: Gateway Integration: €50m+ Seefin Investments: €31m+ Airways Centre: €27m+ & others 👇🏻

Dominicks Bargains Ltd made headlines this week for getting caught selling illegal cigarettes But everyone has overlooked the 3 people who incorporated this company: Tony Walsh - Director (fined by Revenue) Daniel Ennis - CoSec (Social Democrat Cllr) Carol Dwyer - Presenter (IPAS Director €120mil+)