Tomás O’ Flaherty

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UPDATE: FOI REFUSAL - TDs IDENTITY HIDDEN IN CHILD ABUSE "REFERENCE" CASE: I submitted an FOI to the court service to discover which TD gave a highly regarded ex government advisor Daniel Ramamoorthy a glowing character reference for the trial judge for sentencing despite him being a child sex offender. Ramamoorthy was often seen as a success story in the Irish tech and political consulting space. He has been convicted of the sexual exploitation of a minor and the possession of child abuse material. The court heard details of how he used his position and tech-savviness to groom and exploit a 13 year old teenager and yet his defence team argued his two year four month sentence was too harsh because the convicted man had excellent record of public service. Justice Paul McDermott was allegedly visibly stunned at the reference because it ignored the victim entirely and heaped praise on Ramamoorthy's "brilliance" and "hard work", with zero mention of the gravity of the crimes or the harm done to the young victim. The judge described the move as "quite extraordinary," suggesting that a TD’s public duty should not lie in providing such references for children sex offenders. The fact that a politician provided such a reference has sparked outrage, but the anonymity of that politician has added to the sense of public anger. Hopefully, in time the TD, who should resign, will be revealed. They obviously had no issue whatsoever providing a brilliant character reference (by the very nature of being a child sex offending pedophile who used his position to exploit a minor, your character is heavily flawed to say the least). They also clearly now don't have the courage to stand up and admit who they are. Character references are, of course, not only meaningless when you have abused a child and have been caught with child sex abuse material pm your devices, but they are especially meaningless when they are penned by someone who seems to think nothing of these crimes and who won't stand over for they did. In order to save their own skin.

@SuzieD755164 If we had a media or press in Ireland who weren’t funded and controlled by the government they would be hounding them about this. It’ll come out eventually, probably when a position arises and one of these slíbhíns needs to stab one of the other slíbhíns in the back.

@EmployRightsIE @CormacLaffan Evidence 👇🏻 x.com/videosirish/st…

This is a huge problem in Ireland too and its why we have one of the most abused asylum systems in the world.

Let's see if we can get this to trend, if you agree please repost I will never again vote for any @fiannafailparty candidate, in Local, National or European Elections #FiannaFáilOut

@Independent_ie For the record, the same Social Democrats ran this guy in local elections and tried to gaslight people into thinking he was a woman.

I spoke to @GBNEWS today about the fuel protests, how the media and government handled protestors and what impact this week will have on Irish politics. 👇👇👇 youtu.be/p48Fc_png7A?si…

@Nick_Delehanty Just 24 hours earlier they had the opportunity to actually do something about it but they got whipped and chose their full term pensions and government. It wouldn’t surprise me if this letter was devised by the FF leadership, with their longer term prospects in mind.

Is this the moment ?

I'd be stunned if the same is not happening in Ireland. Surely, our own media will take on to investigate this here, and either uncover it, or reassure us all that it is not happening here...surely? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@MichaelPTKelly @Ireland2020 Of course there are. This video confirms it. x.com/videosirish/st…

@AnMailleach @TheCountessIE A not so strongly worded statement?

This seems a more significant intervention for the government than MHR’s withdrawal. This might actually impact the direction of the government.

@chat_annie @Cui__bono It’s an end of life drug that was given to people who were not at end of life until given that drug.

@Cui__bono What's wrong with that particular drug. Am I missing something here? What point are you trying to make

Data obtained under Freedom of Information from the HSE Primary Care Reimbursement Service shows a strong correlation between COVID-19 deaths in Mar/April 2020 and a sharp increase in prescriptions for midazolam under the General Medical Services scheme. 1/n

@fatima_gunning @MIGA_FOR_EVER Afraid 😏 I’d say there’s no chance you’ll see her at a family wedding or funeral so.

Flynn previously accused a taxi driver of committing “a crime” when he was afraid to drive onto her halting site at night. She now claims to be “afraid” or going to protests where people hold “tri” flags.

@Nick_Delehanty 💯 it bothers me a bit that they sit with FF in the Renew group in the EU parliament, but they stepped up to the plate in the past fortnight and they appear to be the closest we have to a middle ground centrist party. I’ll certainly be voting for Noel Thomas in the bye election.

Richard O’Donoghue 👏 👏 Independent Ireland need all of our support.

@Independent_ie Using your disabled daughter as tool for the media to do a hit job on protesters, on behalf of your beloved fine gael. Also your home in Kells doesn't scream "help me cost of living crisis"

@SineadOS1 @KB6233 @LeoVaradkar Arse bandit

@LeoVaradkar You had *checks notes* thirteen years in government to make these graphs look different. Thankfully only one of us teaches economics. You wouldn’t even get into my class 💁🏼‍♀️

The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile. That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap. That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel. People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.

Barry Heneghan, It’s genuinely disappointing to see how people have been let down. At the last general election, there was a strong working-class vote behind you—people who believed you’d stand up for them, for farmers, for lorry drivers, and for families trying to get by. Those same people are now feeling completely abandoned. Right now, it feels like those who backed you have had two fingers stuck up at them. That trust is hard earned, and once it’s gone, it’s very hard to get back. People won’t forget thi

@keira_con @Ireland_Votes Could be a surprise incoming from the other government TD from Galway, if he is true to his word 😉

@Ireland_Votes Speaking to quite a number of people who voted for Sean Canney as he promised change they said they will never vote for him again, so he best take a photo in the dail as he will never sit as a TD in there after this government goes

NEW: Independent TDs Sean Canney, Marian Harkin, and ‘Boxer’ Moran have confirmed they will vote confidence in the Government. Barring any backbench rebels, the Government has secured the 87 votes they need to win the vote.

The enshittification of Ireland and the hollowing out of our institutions is the single largest threat to Irish civil society and prosperity. In this damning piece, I'm going into more detail about the graph I posted yesterday: why it's happening in Ireland, why the way we're thinking about the protests is entirely wrong, and what this means for our collective governance. Link to the article is below!