Stephen Kelly

Please do not stop talking about Irishman Alex Coughlan who was murdered last week in Dublin. The media say the attackers are an Irish boy and a boy with dual nationality, although a video of the attack posted by the "boys" in question seems to contradict that completely. They look more like ruthless foreign killers than "boys." We don't know their names and we don't have their images, because child protection laws in Ireland prevent that information from going public. The world's attention was on Ireland for a week for an apparent racial murder of a Congolese man, which turned out to be entirely untrue. The post mortem showed no physical injuries. But Alex Coughlan was murdered.

"Goodbye Viktor Orbán, hello Patrick O'Donovan" RTE today obtains documentation showing the extent of interference during the fuel protests by media minister Patrick O'Donovan with Coimisiun na Mean, the money-no-object €60m/year budget media regulator which is under the control of .... Patrick O'Donovan. Everyone in the State can complain to CnM about balance in news coverage. But here we have a senior minister abusing his office & position, and the power imbalance of his oversight role of CnM, to block news coverage which he deems to be critical of the government. Meetings, phone calls, emails show the Minister throwing his weight around. And here we have CnM passively acceding to the interference, and agreeing to meet the Minister in person to discuss how they could address his displeasure. After the uproar in April - Opposition politicians and the NUJ - it was Patrick O'Donovan's boss, Simon Harris who announced that O'Donovan "was no longer seeking a review" That's no longer good enough after the details revealed today of the extent of the interference. There should be a motion of no-confidence in media minister Patrick O'Donovan next week. It is also a matter of deep concern that CnM will facilitate interference in our news media, especially given CnM's role with showering media outlets with extra money.

What if the west isn't the villain they told you it was? We’ve spent years accepting accusations about racism, intolerance, and slavery without challenging the bigger historical reality: The societies most condemned today are also the ones that led the world in ending slavery, expanding rights, and building the most tolerant nations on earth. That’s the conversation nobody wants to have.

Keir Starmer has never mentioned Henry Nowak He hasn't ever mentioned Wayne Broadhurst, a man murdered by an afghan migrant in the street He hasn't mentioned Rhiannon Whyte either, a young mother who was murdered by an asylum seeker who was placed in the hotel she worked at

Stabbed because he was white. Handcuffed because he was white. Buried by media because he was white.