The Countess

CEO and Founder of The Countess, Laoise de Brún BL, @laoisedebrun discusses the news that the Minister for Justice will appeal the EU Commission decision to fine Ireland for what the Commission said was Ireland’s failure to comply with the EU Council 2008 framework on hate. Laoise explains the nuance of that Council framework and how Ireland has in fact complied. She also explores why the Council may wish to suppress debate and dissent. Laoise points out that one person’s fact might be another person’s hate, given that there is no definition of hatred in the currently shelved Hate Speech element of the Hate Crime Bill.

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Reminder. National crime averages can mask huge regional increases. The real signal is buried in the localised stats. Take Dublin North Central. The quarterly average for sexual offences was 26.7 before 2020. After 2021, it climbs to 47.1. That is a 76.5% increase. This is exactly why national aggregation can be misleading. It can dilute sharp regional changes and obscure where conditions are worsening most. If you want to understand what is happening, do not stop at the national average. Go local.

It went so so well. Absolutely buzzing. 💪🏻💪🏻😅😅🥂🥂🥂 I brought up all the issues below as well as the survivors of the homes and then having heard all the submissions, I noted in summary the paradoxical nature of motherhood: it is what immediately makes women more vulnerable to violence and discrimination yet imbues them with a fearless, protective strength unparalleled. It is that instinct after all that propelled mothers to raise the alarm at the IPAS interfaces. I recounted the haunting words through her tears, of that Mother protesting in Newtownmountkennedy; “My grandmother walked down that lane, I walked down that lane, I cannot now let my own daughter walk down that lane because it is too dangerous.”

The Irish Times is wrong to attack the Countess, Carol Nolan and Ken O'Flynn. Far from being 'fringe' their concerns are data driven. All evidence available to us shows that there is absolutely a link between immigration and increased criminality. 👇👇👇 thefederalist.com/2023/11/29/iri…

@EoinLenihan That’s a great article Eoin.

The Court of Appeal has rejected the “extraordinary” claim put forward by a Guyanese sex offender, who had only been in Ireland for two weeks before he imprisoned and raped an 18-year-old, that his trial was unfair because he was forced to withdraw his false claims of being of previous good character. courtsnewsireland.ie/guyanese-rapis…

@EoinLenihan @kenoflynnTD @CNolanOffaly Thank you Elon.

The hit-piece in the Irish Times about the @TheCountessIE, @kenoflynnTD and @CNolanOffaly's call for transparency on data surrounding migrant criminality is shameful government gatekeeping. International data from across Western Europe has shown that certain migrant groups are heavily over-represented in criminality in general and sex crimes in particular. I wrote a piece in 2023 for the @FDRLST that provided data on migrant crime across the continent. For example, one 10-year data study by Real Clear Politics showed that across the EU, “each one percentage point increase in immigrant population is associated with a 3.6 percent increase in the homicide rate.” In the same piece I researched murder rates of women in 2022 - the year Ashling Murphy was murdered - and found that in at least 5 of 12 murders of women that happened that year, the murderer was an immigrant. So, not only is there evidence that there is a link between crime and immigration as the Irish Times deny, the anecdotal data is striking and warrants full disclosure of data by the state. Not doing so is costing lives. More power to The Countess and all their backers. thefederalist.com/2023/11/29/iri…

Today I challenged the Minister on sentencing for child sexual abuse material offences. Possession is not a victimless crime. Every image is abuse. Every download repeats that harm. Yet suspended sentences continue. The Minister will not introduce minimum sentences. That is wrong. • No national data on sentencing outcomes • Estimated 50–150 suspended sentences in recent years • Many cases avoid immediate custody Where is the deterrent? I will keep pushing for accountability and consistency in sentencing. #Justice #ChildProtection #Ireland

The Countess was condemned as a “fringe hate group of transphobes” by @paulmurphy_TD in an abuse of parliamentary privilege not long after we launched. I wear it as a badge of honour. All these student union types think they are subversive when in fact they would have been condemning unmarried mothers 50 or 60 years ago. They are the orthodoxy, the machine, the Establishment.

#JoinTheFringe #ReleaseTheData

I am addressing the UN later today between 2pm and 5pm CET to be precise. The Countess submitted to the UN Report on Violence Against the Mother and were selected to give expert testimony from Ireland. I will be bringing up trans ideology, immigration, surrogacy, the attempted removal of A.41.2, our abysmal, stagnant breastfeeding rates, the lack of breastfeeding or postpartum supports, obstetric violence, the lack of a trauma-informed approach in the family courts or understanding of coercive control, tax individualisation, our non-replacement birth rate, the denigration of mothering and motherhood at a social, economical, cultural and political level. Have I missed anything off? PS This is the second time the UN has asked @TheCountessIE to provide expert testimony yet we have repeatedly been turned down by our own government to provide similar as a stakeholder group in Ireland. It’s almost as if all those consultations with stakeholders are a forgone conclusion / the echo chamber/ the manufacture of consent? We are asking to be admitted by the Irish government as an official stakeholder in the interest of balance and in furtherance of representative not sham democracy. @Education_Ire @HSELive @DeptHealthIRL @DeptJusticeIRL @DeptCultureIRL

@candescent_eve You’re right of course. The pornification of Ireland now starts in the classroom unfortunately.

@TheCountessIE Can't help thinking that the widespread consumption of porn led these lads to presume the depiction of a rape would be entertainment

If you want proof of how low Ireland has sunk into misogyny, this float featured in a St Patrick’s Day parade in Ballinrobe, Co.Mayo. It depicts a r4pe scene & claims to be commentary on the Epstein scandal. It misses the point that underage girls/boys & young women were exploited & trafficked for sex. It minimise & offers up for laughs, the sexual abuse of women & girls & boys We are witnessing a rise in sexual abuse/assaults in Ireland. The Govt & media refuse to discuss the reasons for the rise, or to release the data. @CormacLucey extrapolated data that shows a strong correlation between sexual convictions & the rise in asylum seekers. How can we ever expect an adult conversation when parade organisers think this is funny & allow it to take part in a family friendly event? And how does such an X post garner thousands of likes? We are not a serious country.

@Dal_Riada_ @fiannafact x.com/cormaclucey/st…

@TheCountessIE I believe the crime statistics were collated by @fiannafact

@AhernHerbe8277 @fiannafact x.com/cormaclucey/st…

@TheCountessIE Correction: @fiannafact did this research, not Cormac Lucey

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@TheCountessIE That is the most bogus chart I've ever seen. Show me the sources

It will be hard to get the government to release ethnicity data on crime. But its easy to prove the huge increase in prisoner numbers + sex crimes and assaults came after the 2021 wave. The correlation is 100% with asylum seekers, not immigration more broadly.

independent.ie/irish-news/app…. It’s made the papers now. The parade organisers are distancing themselves from this float. It meant cancelling the parade’s second lap around the town. Some selfish people just spoil the day for everyone. What a shame.

@BU6ENHA6EN The float is normalising sexual violence for cheap laughs at a family event. That isn’t edgy commentary and it was not appropriate, given the day that was in it.

@TheCountessIE Ok, but Epstein wasn't a migrant and the float is obviously leaning into the circus that is the files and the cover up. No need to clutch your pearls over this one.