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Fintan O'Toole: Ireland’s far-right movement will emerge from the ‘breakfast roll-atariat’ irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…







In 2001, "a black market visa scam was discovered by Gardai. Forged documents from language schools were passing among Dublin's Chinese community for hundreds of euro." independent.ie/news/schools-f…

@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 💁🏼♀️

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VISAS SCANDAL Foreigners are able to stay for up to seven years once they sign up as students, with 25-week English courses. Many of these 'students' are exploited in the black economy. They are also exploited in rental accommodation. Many never leave.

@PaulTreyvaud get your posters ready Paul!


What you've done is blatantly obvious. Picked the data points that suited the outcome you wanted and ignored those that don't. YES c. 35k irish grads left last year BUT roughly the same number returned AND with grads from overseas we had a net 'brain gain'. You'd fail my class

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!

Spain approves plan to give around 500,000 undocumented migrants legal status bbc.in/4tGrlZi


BREAKING: Britain's economic prospects have been downgraded more than any other major economy in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) latest update on the state of the world. trib.al/LhyFrlA 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube


SPANISH ENERGY MINISTER ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF 4 DAYS OF OIL RESERVES, WITH 8.3 DAYS REMAINING.






