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I’ve received disturbing reports from multiple borrowers who were coerced into signing NDAs after banks excessively overcharged them on mortgage interest rates. So we now have victims of systemic banking fraud being silenced to protect the perpetrators. Banks are simply exploiting power imbalances by pressuring vulnerable customers with threats of litigation or unlawful debt collection unless they sign gag orders in exchange for “partial refunds”. These NDAs, often buried in settlement agreements, aim to conceal overcharging that has cost Irish households billions, as seen in the wholly inadequate tracker mortgage examination. Courts deem such clauses unenforceable when they hide fraud, per public policy and contract law principles like unconscionability. NDAs cannot legitimize criminal concealment - ongoing redress hunts reveal persistent misconduct - yet banks are pushing NDAs to evade scrutiny. Borrowers are reporting concerns to the Central Bank with no immediate action being taken. Ultimately, banks cannot buy your silence on their fraud. Share your story.

Devastating to die SO YOUNG. Aleksandra Jasińska ”Inez” was just 20 yo when executed together with her brother and 140 insurgents. They all went out of a manhole after an exhausting march through Warsaw sewers. They chose not the right one and went straight into the German hands... #WarsawRising1944

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Blessed Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus was a French Discalced Carmelite priest and spiritual writer whose life bridged the trenches of war and the heights of contemplative prayer. Born Henri Grialou on December 2, 1894, in the small mining town of Le Gua in the Aveyron region of southern France, he grew up in a modest family as one of five children. His father died when Henri was only nine, an event that opened the way for him to attend a Catholic boarding school without cost and deepened his early sense of a priestly vocation. He entered the minor seminary and later the major seminary, but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War. Serving as a lieutenant on the front lines, he distinguished himself in battle and was decorated with the Military Cross and named a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. After the war he returned to seminary formation and was ordained a diocesan priest on February 4, 1922. That same day, during a retreat, he experienced a profound confirmation of a deeper call while reading about Saint John of the Cross. Just three weeks later, with some reluctance from his bishop and his mother, he entered the Discalced Carmelite novitiate at Avon near Fontainebleau, taking the religious name Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus in honor of Saint Therese of Lisieux and her little way of spiritual childhood. As a Carmelite, Father Marie-Eugene threw himself into the apostolate of preaching and teaching the riches of Carmelite spirituality. He took part in the wave of renewal in the French Church between the wars, especially around the beatification and canonization of Saint Therese and the declaration of Saint John of the Cross as a Doctor of the Church. He held important positions within the order, including roles as provincial and apostolic visitor to Carmelite nuns in France. His responsibilities later took him to Rome and led him to travel extensively, visiting monasteries and convents around the world. He became known as a wise spiritual director, a gifted lecturer, and a man of deep devotion to the Holy Spirit, whom he called his friend, and to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title Notre-Dame de Vie, Our Lady of Life. His most lasting contributions came through his writings and his founding work. He authored major studies on the spiritual life that synthesized the teachings of Saints Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and Therese of Lisieux, making Carmelite contemplation accessible and attractive to modern souls. His two-volume work, I Want to See God and its sequel I Am a Daughter of the Church, remains a classic guide for those seeking a serious interior life. In 1932 he began laying the foundations for what would become the Secular Institute of Notre-Dame de Vie, a group of lay men and women, priests, and consecrated members living the Carmelite charism in the world while pursuing holiness through prayer, work, and apostolic zeal. The institute spread internationally, with its first branch established in the Philippines in 1954. Father Marie-Eugene suffered a long final illness with patience and offered his pain in union with Christ. He died on Easter Monday, March 27, 1967, in Venasque, a date that coincided with the feast of Our Lady of Life which he himself had helped establish. His cause for beatification opened in 1984, he was declared Venerable in 2011, and he was beatified on November 19, 2016, in Avignon. Blessed Marie-Eugene lived with the conviction that contemplation and holiness are not reserved for cloistered religious but are a calling for every baptized person. Through his example, his writings, and the institute he founded, he continues to invite souls to cooperate faithfully with the unique grace God gives each one, to seek the face of God in prayer, and to bring the fire of Carmelite spirituality into the ordinary circumstances of daily life.

THOMAS O'REILLY: Maria Walsh is sole Fine Gael MEP to reject measure, one of just six EPP members to oppose migrant return hubs plans largely authored within her own group. Sinn Féin & Fianna Fáil MEPS also voted against the migrant return hubs. gript.ie/fine-gael-mep-…

The HSE paid at least €306m to just five private, for-profit companies for the provision of disability services in 2025, the Irish Examiner can reveal- wow were is it going certainly not on disability services archive.is/6JCnv

27 March: The anniversary of Christ's Resurrection. "The Resurrection, and its consequences, were the ‘gospel’ or good news which the Christians brought". C. S. Lewis. What turned scared disciples who denied Christ, into apostles who were prepared to be martyred.

#OnThisDay in 1979 the IRA disappeared Gerry Evans, 24, Catholic decorator from Crossmaglen reportedly abducted hitching a lift from a dance in Monaghan. Body located in a bog, 15/10/2010, Co Louth. Said his mother never locked the door of the house in case son would return #OTD

JFK's personal secretary wrote explosive hidden memo claiming he was murdered in secret US government plot trib.al/QCM59jz

⚖️COLD CASE UPDATE: Suspect arrested in Houston's infamous ‘Lovers Lane’ cold case after nearly 36 years. Floyd William Parrott has been charged with capital murder in the 1990 killings of Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson Parrott was arrested in Nebraska and is awaiting extradition to Texas

@MissMargo79 @liarpantsafire Yeah, same just happened me in a nother Spaces- @elonmusk PLEASE fix Spaces!!!

@liarpantsafire I can't listen for some reason, it just keeps spitting me out xx

World-renowned forensic scientist Dr. Henry C. Lee died Friday at his home in Henderson, Nevada. He was 87.

The youngest American killed in the Vietnam war was Dan Bullock. He was only 14 years old when he enlisted in the USMC in September of 1968 after falsifying his birth certificate. He died in 1969 and was just 15 years old.

Senator John Kennedy confronts Durham County, North Carolina Sheriff Clarence Birkhead for releasing undocumented immigrants accused of murder Again, he released an illegal who committed murder “ICE was notified that they could come pick up the individual, but for some reason they did not, and the judge issued the conditions for release. I am a custodian. I do not determine who is released or held. I follow the court’s order.” Senator John Kennedy “Sheriff, I don’t mean any disrespect, but you ought to be ashamed of that. How can you possibly be for public safety if you hate our immigration laws so much that you would let a convicted murderer back on the street?”

🚨JUST IN: The money flown out of the Minneapolis airport by fraudsters has been tracked and used to purchase: - Resorts in Kenya - Apartment buildings in Nairobi - Properties in Turkey - Luxury homes - Luxury cars - $790 million American tax dollars flown from Minnesota and sent overseas

Most people have never heard of Jack Lucas, and that’s a damn shame. Jacklyn Harold Lucas was not some made up war legend. He was real. A teenage Marine who wanted in the fight so bad he lied about his age, forged his mom’s signature, and joined the Marine Corps at 14. When the Marines found out how young he really was, they kept him out of frontline combat in Hawaii. But Jack was not built to sit in the rear while other Marines went forward. In early January 1945, at 16 years old, he left his unit and stowed away on the USS Deuel, an attack transport carrying the 5th Marine Division toward Iwo Jima. He hid for about a month, then turned himself in on February 8, just before he would have been listed as a deserter. Instead of booting him off the ship, they reduced him in rank to private and let him stay with the 26th Marines. Think about that. This was a 16 year old kid, about to turn 17, hiding on a ship in the Pacific because he was dead set on getting into the fight. He turned 17 while still at sea, only days before the landing on Iwo Jima began. Then came February 20, 1945. 2 Japanese grenades landed in the trench with Jack and 3 other Marines. He did not run. He did not freeze. He threw himself on 1 grenade and pulled the second under his body to shield the men around him. By all logic, that should have killed him. It did not. He survived, though the blast tore through him with more than 200 pieces of shrapnel. For that act of raw courage, 17 year old Private First Class Jack Lucas received the Medal of Honor. That is what makes this story hit so hard. Not just that he was young. Not just that he fought. Not just that he saved other Marines. It is that he refused to stay behind. He literally snuck his way into 1 of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history because he believed his place was with the men going forward. That kind of mindset is almost hard to process now. The real story is this. He enlisted at 14. He stowed away to reach Iwo Jima. He turned 17 at sea. Then he threw himself on live grenades and saved his fellow Marines. You do not need to exaggerate a damn thing about Jack Lucas. The truth is already bigger than most fiction.

David Shearing (Ennis) murdered a family of 4 adults and two children back in 1982 while they were camping in the woods. He killed the parents and grandparents first and kept 13 year old Janet and 11 year old Karen alive for a week, while he sexually assaulted them. He then shot them in the head and burned all 6 bodies in the family vehicle. He's now asking for parole🤡 No. He needs to die behind bars.

Rex Heuermann, the man accused of killing seven women on Long Island over the course of 17 years is expected to plead guilty. Sources close to the case told NewsNation that Heuermann is planning to plead guilty on Apr. 8, effectively agreeing to a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. The guilty plea must be accepted by a judge. More: tinyurl.com/ybzc93tc @lauraingle

Countess Yvonne de La Rochefoucauld served in SOE’s F (French) Section during WW2. Both she and her husband were arrested by the Gestapo; he died in a Nazi concentration camp, while she endured severe torture yet survived. This is her extraordinary wartime story: (🧵)

William Russell Lane-Joynt (27 March 1855 #Limerick-6 June 1921 #Clonskeagh #Dublin)👨‍🎓 @tcdalumni @KingsInns. Barrister, philatelist, 1908 Olympic shooter! Founded Irish Philatelic Society & helped Duke of Leinster form collection; bequeathed @NMIreland!📯 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R…