Tony Stack

In 2024, Jeffrey Sachs told Tucker Carlson: "It doesn't really matter who's president. Israel has run American foreign policy in the Middle East for 30 years." "We have a plan for seven wars in five years." "We've had six of those seven wars."

Gout Gout was at Ipswich Grammar School to play soccer. He had never trained as a sprinter. He was twelve years old, wearing sand shoes, and somebody told him to line up for a race at the school carnival. The kid next to him was wearing spikes. He had won nationals. Gout left him in the dust. His classmate Tyson Walker was in the race too. "Everyone there stopped and watched," Walker recalled. "We had GPS athletics the next week and he broke every record and just didn't stop. He's just kept going faster." A coach named Di Sheppard saw him run that day. She told him he could be an Olympic medalist. He later said it was the first time anyone had ever told him anything like that. He was twelve. He joined her squad and started training twice a week. Here is where the story gets strange. At 14 he ran 10.57 in the 100m, the fastest ever by an Australian under 16. At 15 he broke the national U18 200m record. At 16 he clocked 10.04 in a heat, then 10.17 legal in the final, then woke up the next morning and ran 20.04 in the 200m, breaking Peter Norman's Australian record from the 1968 Olympics. That record had stood for 56 years. Usain Bolt saw the footage, posted a photo, and wrote "He looks like young me." The Bolt comparison is worth sitting with. Bolt didn't race 100 meters professionally until he was 21. His first professional 100m was 10.03. Gout Gout ran 10.00 flat at 18. And his coach still only puts him in the gym two days a week. She's managing the fact that his body is still growing. The power phase of his development hasn't started. He is running these times on stride length and raw top-end speed alone. His parents are Dinka, from South Sudan. They fled to Egypt, then to Australia, two years before he was born. Third of seven children. The family name was misspelled during transliteration from Arabic. It was supposed to be Guot. His father has been trying to change it back because "gout" is a disease name. The kid kept running. Brisbane 2032. Home Olympics. He'll be 24, the same age Bolt was when he set the 100m world record in Berlin. Adidas already signed him through that year. The fastest man in Australian history started in sand shoes at a school carnival. Nobody told him to stop.

@Chrisirvine @tompidcock I was shouting for Tom , so close

What a Monument race. Fantastic by @tompidcock sticking with Pogacar to the line, only losing by half a wheel to the 🐐

@willchamberlain Well if they weren't attacked by Israel and their sidekick....

Please tell me more about how Iran wasn’t an imminent threat. Should we have waited until their ballistics could reach Bermuda?

@davidmcw 14% youth (under 25’s) now unemployed and our young leaving our country in their thousands. Want to rethink that heading ?

@davidmcw Jobs where? Supermacs?

Ireland's job creation record is possibly the most impressive in the world, bar China.

The huge outpouring of grief for Ruth Staunton since her unexpected passing last week is a testament to the amazing person she was & how much she meant to so many people. Sincerest condolences to Jeremy, their children Dylan, Finn, Cian & Annabel and her family & friends from everyone at Munster Rugby 🌹

@Nick_Delehanty That would only make a small dent, the underlying trend remains unchanged

Quick Maths Irish Govt to cut excise duty by 25%. Current Pump price: €2.33/L Current Excise: €0.43 25% cut = ~€0.11 New Excise = €0.32 VAT (23%) also falls → ~€0.025 saving Total drop ≈ €0.135 New price ≈ €2.20/L 😬😬😬😬 This alone is not close to enough.

There’s a 16 year old named Gout Gout He may be the fastest person alive

Forwards are evolving too fast. #BULvCAR

New backline move just dropped🧠

@Nick_Delehanty We have rising youth unemployment yet no TDs seem to see how work permits have taken jobs typically done by our young. They'll pretend all of a sudden Irish young people have gotten too lazy or too good to work in shops, garages, hotels, restaurants oireachtas.ie/en/debates/que…

What are Work-Permits? In order to get a "General Employment Permit": • Job must be eligible (not on Ineligible List👇🏻) • Salary of at least €37k • Candidate must have relevant skills/experience • Employer must advertise the job locally first • Permit issued by Dept. of Enterprise. The list of ineligible jobs is extensive.. its difficult to see how so many business qualify. The system clearly being abused. Source: enterprise.gov.ie/en/what-we-do/…

Work-permits for IPAS centres? In 2025, Ireland issued over 31,000 work-permits, these are meant to be for specific skills or labour shortages. I knew the system was being abused by chippers & takeaways, but I didn't expect to find...🧵

@bfitzx @pmosligo @NewstalkFM It doesn't have planning. Unsaleable

ESB workers have arrived at an illegally built mansion in County Meath, following a legal battle spanning more than 20 years. Chris and Rose Murray made five failed attempts to get retention, and they told Amy Molloy of the Irish Independent that they feel they are being 'treated worse than the Kinahans'. They built the home in 2006 without planning permission. Speaking to Claire Byrne this morning, Rose said: "There's a warrant out for myself and my husband's arrest" over the ordeal. Earlier this week, Meath County Council took possession of the property, which was constructed without planning permission. The electricity supply is now set to be disconnected, with demolition crews expected to begin work shortly afterwards. 🎧Watch for more and listen back to the entire interivew on the GoLoud app.

The absolute neck on some people The state of this article.. Three business owners interviewed about how “times are about to get tough” But here is the real story: Dennis McGettigan’s is a director of Rocco Green Limited, which has been paid €11million+ in IPAS His family McGettigan hotel group has taken in €90million from IPAS.... yet he still claims “the cost of running a business in Ireland is crippling.” Not for you it ain't buddy. Ciaran Marron, CEO of solar company Activ8. His wife, Orla Marron, is a director of High Grove Property, which has received over €8.6 million in IPAS since 2023. The other directors are John and Gary McEnaney, ownership split 50/50. These people are not struggling. In fact, they are doing BETTER THAN EVER... All paid for by you If anything the war will be boom time for asylum contractors. But the money isn't enough for them They want the limelight. They see themselves as the backbone of the country. They want to be adored 🤮 🤮 🤮 (Amazing how the Indo does'nt report any of this)

How can a person convicted of sexual assault be allowed to walk free on bail until sentencing??

Keep bovaer in the news because if we don’t, it’ll be slipped into farm feeds with no benefit to the consumer whatsoever

Only in Ireland can something be phased out… by extending it for another year. "The scheme, which had been due to expire this month, will be extended once more to March 2027. Minister of State Colm Brophy said “the time for the scheme” is “coming to a conclusion”. "It is therefore my view that we will be extending the scheme, as indicated, for 12 months as part of a phasing-out process" lol Why can't the Govt just make decisions quickly... is that not the job?