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@joemichalczuk Privatisation is 100% not the solution. It encourages the rot.

A shower screen shattered all over my wife this week. Over the next 72 hours, the NHS got almost everything wrong. A cautionary tale of a system that is broken (with the usual caveat that everyone working in it is doing their best) 👇 I called an ambulance. All good at first: “It’s on its way.” Ten minutes later: “Actually, there are no ambulances for hours - can you get her to hospital?” So I loaded my bleeding wife into the car, along with the kids and the dog, and drove to A&E. Ten hours later, she came home - having given up after not even being offered a plaster. The next morning, we called our GP: “Any chance she could see a nurse?” “No - as the ambulance referred her to hospital, we can’t see her.” So I went to the pharmacy and bought a first aid kit. Because apparently that’s where we are now - me and a pack of plasters, in one of the richest countries in the world. This morning, still in pain, still untreated, and with a ballooning foot, we went to an urgent treatment centre. At first, smooth. She was seen in under two hours. X-ray done. “Nasty cut, but nothing broken.” Relief. Two hours later, the phone rang. It was the hospital. “Sorry - we got that completely wrong. Your foot is broken and the wound needs antibiotics.” If it wasn’t so serious, it would be laughable. And the truth is - anyone who uses the system has a story like this. We need to stop clinging to an idealised version of the NHS and have a grown-up conversation about how to fix it. Free healthcare for all should remain a principle - but pretending the current model works isn’t helping anyone. Almost every other developed country combines public healthcare with some level of private provision - and all deliver better outcomes as a result. Yet in the UK, even suggesting that tends to get shut down before the conversation starts. That’s not protecting the NHS. It’s protecting a cult. We don’t need ideology. We need honesty about what works. We need a brilliant NHS in practice for all of us - not one we’re told to revere while it quietly crumbles, and where anyone who speaks up is dismissed or discredited. When are we going to get serious about the things that actually matter - and have the difficult national conversations needed to fix them? We don’t need to abandon the NHS. We need to be honest about fixing it. We shouldn’t just shrug our shoulders. We have to be better. We need to vote for real change.

@thejournal_ie No. Either a full ban or no ban. Generational bans are highly discriminatory and should be unconstitutional.

A bill has passed in the UK that will ban anyone born after 2008 from ever being able to buy tobacco. Do you think a generational smoking ban should be considered in Ireland? Vote below: jrnl.ie/7019929

@thejournal_ie So transparently contemptuous of rhe people.

"Every radio station in the country has just been notified by Coimisiún na Meán of a huge increase in the Levy to be charged on the radio broadcasting sector for 2026," independent broadcasters said, adding that it would be "simply unaffordable" for some. jrnl.ie/7020237

@irishexaminer This headline is a lie. Far left terrorism was found to be far far more likely than far right. In fact the risk of far right violence was so small as to be statistically negligible.

Ireland faces evolving terror threats including Islamist and far-right risks, report finds irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4183…

@TheGriftReport Should be millions not tens of thousands

Hertfordshire Police will pay £34,000 compensation to 47-year-old IT director Samuel Smith after admitting in a High Court settlement that they unlawfully arrested him at his home on 6 March 2025 and detained him overnight in a cell at Hatfield police station. Smith, who blogs under the pseudonym 'Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General', had written about two men who falsely accused a woman of being a paedophile, describing them as an extremist and a drug user, which prompted the complaint for false and malicious communications. Around a dozen officers raided his Hertfordshire property, seized his electronic devices during an unlawful search and held him in custody despite body-worn footage showing him visibly shaken answering the door in his dressing gown. Just six days later internal police logs confirmed the search was not lawful, no offence had been committed and the investigation was dropped. Hertfordshire Police admitted in the court order that the arrest and detention were unlawful, that officers had trespassed and that Smith committed no crime. As part of the out-of-court settlement the force apologised, scrubbed the arrest record from the Police National Computer and added a marker stating he was the subject of false allegations.

@NewstalkFM Horse shit. Most Irish people couldn't give a fuck about the carbon footprint scam and rightly so.

Most Irish people blame the Government - not themselves - for Ireland's high carbon footprint, a new poll has found. newstalk.com/news/carbon-fo…

@JackPosobiec Traitor politicians along with the far left filth infesting media that enabled them.

What happened to Ireland?

@gavpepper85 @breakingnewsie A gratuitous waste of taxpayers money

Dublin hospital hired interpreters for foreign-language patients nearly 11,000 times in 17 months breakingnews.ie/ireland/dublin… via @breakingnewsie

@JackPosobiec Irish far left traitors frothing at the mouth at an American highlighting their treason.

When I look at the lush green meadows of Ireland and the beautiful mountains, I just can’t help but think, you know it would make this better? 100,000 Somalians

@DailyMail Marxist propaganda peddled by the traitor class just like the picture you deliberately chose certainly doesn't help.

Half of under-30s say they wouldn't take up arms for Britain under any circumstances trib.al/wEGavDo

@elonmusk Second time I had to like and repost this post

The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. 𝕏 did not.

@thejournal_ie Well it wasn't fg or ff in independent or simon wouldn't have asked for them to come forward.

The Court of Appeal has refused to reveal the identity of a former TD who provided a character reference on behalf of a one-time government advisor convicted of sexually exploiting a 13-year-old boy at a Christian children's camp jrnl.ie/7019032

@lozzylozboz They are the traitor class. European elite, not Irish.

Seriously, what the 🥴😅 what's wrong with these people 👇

Crazy story out of Qatar: A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she'd "fall in love" after he slept with her. The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own WhatsApp messages saying the opposite. Her husband posted a TripAdvisor review calling the hotel "unsafe for women." The hotel got it pulled, then a hotel employee filed a defamation complaint against him under Qatar's cybercrime laws. Nearly a year later, when he returned to Qatar for work, he was detained, informed he'd been tried in absentia and fined, and then held for four nights in a deportation centre. The deportation order lasts five years, which severely hurts his career as a Middle East healthcare consultant. In other words, Marriott International, an American company, used Qatari law to silence a complaint about a woman being sexually harassed at their property.

@DailyMail Another propaganda piece bu the traitor class legacy media

INSIDE THE XENOSPHERE: From college dropouts to self-professed loners, we expose the far-right Irish 'influencers' who are successfully tapping into a world where racist and misogynistic content can be a highly lucrative business trib.al/ZdFFlOo

@GXBlue1 @TheGriftReport

@TheGriftReport In so much pain, she can enjoy an active sex life and get pregnant, with no concerns about pushing the baby out. But...working...oh, no, can't do that, has to have enhanced benefits! Scrounger.

Special needs teacher Sophie Cole, 32, from Cork has been told she will never work again after a classroom attack by a pupil. In 2022, while clearing up spilt water, the child grabbed her hand and slammed it into a steel table. She was diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), one of the most painful conditions known and often called the ‘suicide disease’. Doctors say there is no cure, the pain will likely be permanent, and she is now permanently unfit for work. The assault has left her unable to drive, forced her to give up her career and hobbies such as running and CrossFit. Sophie is currently pregnant with her first child and relies on invalidity payments.

It's hard to have anything but contempt for a judiciary that spouts this type of absurdity.

@thejournal_ie I'm assuming it's a shinner then

Tánaiste Simon Harris has appealed to the TD who gave a character reference to a sexual offender to come forward and "have the courage to put their name to it". jrnl.ie/7018242t

@LangmanVince She's worse than the liars. She's weak.

In the back of my mind Politicians like Marjorie Traitor Greene always gave me red flags. But I had to admit that Giorgia Meloni had me completely fooled!