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@robggill Its not Aontu...its the Toibin family cult

Aontu got a spanking in two by-elections in what should have been fertile ground for the party - a rural and a working class constituency - and here is Peader with his one hit wonder - immigration.

New 'Stack article on Dublin Central bye-election and the rising anti-immigration vote in Ireland. Link in bio.

@VC2243 Dont care anymore. I dont listen to anything they say. I no longer consume any Irish media.

Is there no end to this insanity?

The Irony of a Sinn Féin Councillor Fleeing the Crisis Her Party Helped Fuel Niamh Fennell, a young Sinn Féin councillor in South Dublin, is stepping down from her elected position and emigrating to Australia. Despite holding two jobs, she cannot secure a home of her own in Ireland. Soaring living costs and a brutal housing shortage have driven her away. She describes herself as one of those young people “with no home of my own.”This is more than a personal setback. It stands as a damning snapshot of policy failure. Ireland’s housing crisis runs deep. Dublin prices have now surpassed Celtic Tiger peaks, supply trails far behind demand, rents remain punishing, and even dual-income young professionals find themselves locked out. The real sting lies in the party she represents. Sinn Féin long championed open-door rhetoric, large-scale humanitarian inflows such as Ukrainian refugees and asylum seekers, and firm resistance to stricter controls. The party consistently downplayed how rapid immigration strained housing, services, and community cohesion. It pushed a globalist welcome that left Irish-born young people like Fennell competing in an ever-tighter market. Net migration surged, piling intense pressure onto a construction sector that could not keep up. Hotels and emergency shelters buckled under the load. Public frustration erupted in wave after wave of nationwide protests. Only after their poll numbers dipped across all main parties did Sinn Féin begin pivoting toward tighter rules and service audits. Now one of their own councillors is voting with her feet. She is walking away from the very party that spent years dismissing border concerns as backward or uncompassionate. The "squeezed middle" she speaks of, hardworking yet priced out, bears the heaviest burden. Young natives face delayed families, prolonged renting, or emigration while the system strains to absorb rapid demographic change. This story is not unique to Ireland. Across the West, rapid immigration collides with chronic underbuilding caused by zoning rules, NIMBY resistance, high costs, and green policies. The result inflates prices and erodes living standards for working and middle-class families. Supply and demand remain unforgiving. More people chasing limited homes drives costs higher, regardless of good intentions. Citizens who expected their country to prioritise their stability first feel the squeeze most acutely. Fennell’s departure lays bare the human cost of these mismatched policies. A supposedly progressive party, rooted in nationalism and working-class support, now confronts the fallout of elite consensus on borders and housing. Ireland introduced some tighter measures in late 2025, yet the damage persists in sky-high prices, with zero chance of reversal with such high demand. Young, ambitious Irish people should not have to emigrate simply to afford what their parents’ generation took for granted. A councillor quitting her post to seek a better life abroad exposes the emptiness of promises from parties that treated housing as secondary to ideological goals. Ireland urgently needs faster homebuilding, immigration levels matched to infrastructure capacity, and leaders who place citizens’ daily realities above abstract globalism. Fennell’s exit delivers a quiet but powerful rebuke. When you cannot house your own young people, you should not be surprised when they leave. The party that helped create this environment is now watching its own voices depart along with tens of thousands of Irelands talented children.

The government's Re-Turn scheme, that they said would clean towns and villages, is now insensitivising people to bin scavenge and throw the contents of bins all over the streets.

@fiannafailparty @MichealMartinTD Bin The OTB

"It's great to be virtuous, deputy, but for the workers’ representative, you lack all virtuosity when it comes to protecting Irish workers. We have to take everything on board and be sensible about it at the same time." @MichealMartinTD debates the opposition in the Dáil today.

Ireland has a shortage of 250,000 homes and its politicians will look you in the eye and tell you mass migration has no effect on housing supply. The Flat Earth society doesn’t have this level of brass neck.

@thejournal_ie Bimbo

Helen McEntee said she hopes a law banning the importation of goods to Ireland from illegal Israeli settlements will be in place by the Dáil’s summer recess. Senator Frances Black, who proposed the Bill in 2018, has condemned the exclusion of services. thejournal.ie/mcentee-hopes-…

@BenGilroyIRL Did he call her midget ?

This was so impressive it won him a seat??? 😂😂😂

🚨 AMERICANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. Most people are still viewing President Trump’s foreign policy through the old post-WW2 lens. That lens is obsolete. What P Trump is attempting is not a minor policy adjustment. It is a complete restructuring of the global economic and geopolitical order. Read that again. For 80 years, America operated under a “globalist” framework: • America paid the bills • America defended everyone • America opened its markets • America carried NATO • America protected shipping lanes • America subsidized allies • America tolerated trade imbalances • America exported democracy while factories disappeared and debt exploded at home That system enriched multinational corporations, global institutions, foreign economies, and permanent bureaucracies. But millions of Americans watched: - manufacturing collapse - wages stagnate - communities hollow out - endless wars drain trillions - China rise into a superpower using America's own economic system against itself President Trump is trying to replace that model with something entirely different: 👉 A transactional, America First economic coalition built around ENERGY, TRADE, SECURITY, MANUFACTURING, and STRATEGIC DEALS. That Truth Social post about the Abraham Accords wasn’t just another statement. It was a blueprint. If this succeeds, you are looking at the construction of a massive economic/security network that could include: - The United States - Saudi Arabia - UAE - Qatar - Egypt - Jordan - Israel - Pakistan - Türkiye - India - parts of Latin America - strategic Indo-Pacific partners - and critically, a normalization framework with BOTH China and Russia where competition still exists, but catastrophic conflict is avoided through economic leverage, negotiated spheres of influence, energy coordination, and transactional diplomacy This is one of the most misunderstood parts of President Trump’s geopolitical strategy. Many Americans still think in Cold War terms: America vs Russia. America vs China. Permanent hostility. Permanent escalation. But President Trump’s approach is far more transactional and realist. Instead of trying to ideologically remake the world, the strategy appears focused on: - preventing direct great-power war - reducing the chance of nuclear escalation - using trade leverage instead of permanent military occupation - creating economic interdependence where possible - forcing burden-sharing among allies - and positioning America as the central negotiating power between rival blocs That does NOT mean “surrendering” to China or Russia. It means recognizing a reality many in Washington refused to accept for decades: China is already an economic superpower. Russia remains a military and energy superpower. The question is no longer whether they exist as major powers. The question is whether America can position itself at the center of a new balance of power that benefits Americans instead of endlessly draining American wealth trying to maintain a fading unipolar system. This is why you are seeing: • negotiations instead of immediate escalation • energy diplomacy • tariff wars instead of troop surges • pressure campaigns tied to trade access • selective partnerships instead of blind alliances • attempts to split rival coalitions apart through deals President Trump is essentially trying to create overlapping economic zones where America is no longer carrying the world for free - but instead sits at the center of the world’s most powerful deal-making network. Combined economic power? Potentially $65-75+ TRILLION in GDP. Over HALF the global economy. Think about what that means. This is about: ✅ energy dominance ✅ shipping lanes ✅ critical minerals ✅ AI infrastructure ✅ manufacturing chains ✅ food security ✅ military positioning ✅ trade corridors ✅ investment flows ✅ currency leverage ✅ stabilizing relations between major powers where possible ✅ isolating hostile behavior through leverage instead of endless occupation wars And younger Americans especially need to understand this part: THIS DIRECTLY IMPACTS YOUR FUTURE. If America remains trapped in the old system: - debt keeps exploding - jobs continue leaving - housing becomes less affordable - wages get crushed by global competition - endless foreign entanglements continue - America slowly declines like other aging empires But if America successfully repositions itself at the center of a new energy/manufacturing/trade coalition: - industrial jobs return - energy prices stabilize - strategic industries reshoring accelerates - infrastructure investment increases - supply chains become more secure - America regains leverage instead of bleeding leverage This is why you see such aggressive pushes around: • tariffs • domestic manufacturing • energy independence • critical minerals • Middle East normalization • India relations • securing trade routes • reducing dependency on hostile supply chains • stabilizing great-power relations through leverage and economic pressure instead of permanent military escalation This is not random. This is an attempt to build a new geopolitical architecture for the next 50 years. And whether people like President Trump or hate him personally is becoming irrelevant to the scale of what is unfolding. The Abraham Accords themselves are historic because they shift the Middle East from perpetual religious/geopolitical conflict toward economic interdependence. Peace through prosperity. Trade instead of proxy wars. Economic incentives instead of permanent instability. That changes everything: - investment floods in - shipping stabilizes - energy markets calm - regional growth accelerates - tourism expands - infrastructure projects explode - security cooperation increases And if normalization frameworks eventually extend outward toward Russia and even portions of China’s economic system, you could be looking at the emergence of the largest interconnected economic balancing structure in modern history. Not a utopia. Not permanent peace. Not the end of competition. But a system where economic incentives and strategic leverage become more powerful than endless military occupations and ideological crusades. The old order was based on permanent management of conflict. This new model attempts to monetize stability. Will it fully work? Nobody knows yet. There are enormous risks, contradictions, and power struggles involved. Traditional allies are nervous. Global institutions hate it. Rival powers are cautious. Some countries will resist. Others will attempt to manipulate it. But Americans should at least understand the scale of the play being attempted here. This is not “normal politics.” This is a potential civilizational realignment. And if younger Americans do not start paying attention to economics, geopolitics, energy, trade, manufacturing, and global power shifts now - they are going to inherit a world they do not understand. Read. Research. Think critically. And SHARE this so more Americans understand what may be unfolding in real time.

@MichealMartinTD Any discussion on the muslim invasion of Ireland

Busy agenda at Cabinet today: ▪️ Occupied Territories Bill. ▪️ Significant progress on Waterford City and Ballymore Eustace wastewater treatment. ▪️ New proposals to broaden scholarships in higher education and research. ▪️10-year strategy for suicide and self-harm reduction.

@TJ_Politics All 20 Protestors get top billing from the Journal

“FAI shame, shame. We will stop the game.” Pro-Palestine protesters gathered outside Leinster House today to demand that the upcoming Ireland vs Israel match does not go ahead.

@NotCelthicc @rtenews A South African pontificating about FF FG. Fix your own rotten country first.

@rtenews Spineless ineffectual coward. A vote for FF or FG is a vote for Israel at this point and defending their interests. Only parties that are outspoken allies of Palestine should be considered. Given out history we shouldn't be aiding genociders and land thieves.

The Taoiseach has said that including services in the Occupied Territories Bill is "not implementable". The text of the legislation was passed by Cabinet this morning and it is set be enacted within weeks rte.ie/news/politics/…

@rtenews None of his business

Social Democrats TD Daniel Ennis has said that Ireland's senior football team should not play against Israel in its upcoming fixtures later this year rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

All Dead Thanks To Fianna Fail n Fine Gael .

@LindseyGrahamSC How does this protect Israel from a potential nuclear Iran

President Trump’s most recent proposal requiring expansion of the Abraham Accords as part of a negotiated settlement to the Iran conflict is simply brilliant and would result in the most significant change in the Middle East in thousands of years. With Saudi Arabia and others like Pakistan making peace with Israel, the region will know a level of stability never dreamed of before President Trump and will eventually lead to regional integration making the Middle East a powerhouse for economic opportunity and good instead of a powder keg. I expect our Arab allies to embrace this, as well as our friends in Israel, focusing on this task as failure is not an option - which would be a correct analysis. @realDonaldTrump/116635193825443617" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…

Trump just turned the Abraham Accords into an accountability trap for the Gulf states and Iran walked right into it. Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey have never held Iran accountable is due to exposure. They share a neighborhood. They can't sanction, shame, or confront Iran while having zero security architecture binding them to the West or to each other. The Abraham Accords change that math entirely. Once Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey are signatories, they aren't just recognizing Israel they are locking themselves into a collective security posture. A breach of the Iran deal becomes their problem to call out, not just America's or Israel's. You can't sign a normalization framework and then look the other way when your new partner Israel is threatened by a nuclear Iran. The accords create skin in the game. If Iran violates the deal, the Gulf states aren't just silent bystanders anymore. They're co-signatories of the broader peace architecture. The political cost of looking away just went from zero to enormous. That's why markets are surging and oil is dropping. The world is pricing in something it hasn't seen in decades, a Middle East where the neighbors themselves have a structural reason to enforce the peace. Genius.

Golda Meir: The Woman Who Refused to Break. In October 1973, Israel was blindsided. The Yom Kippur War erupted on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Tanks rolled across the Sinai. Syrian forces stormed the Golan. In 48 hours, Israel’s survival hung by a thread. At the center stood Golda Meir, 75 years old, chain-smoking in the war room, with the weight of a nation on her shoulders. Her generals came to her with grim news: ammunition was running low. Casualties were mounting. One advisor suggested preparing the world for the possibility of defeat. Golda looked up and said: “We do not have the luxury to despair. If we lose this war, there will be no second chance for us.” She picked up the phone and called U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. No begging. No panic. Just steel. “Henry, I need those planes. Not tomorrow. Today. My people are dying.” Kissinger later recalled: “When Golda spoke, you understood this was not politics. This was life or death.” Within hours, Operation Nickel Grass began — the largest U.S. airlift in history. American C-5s landed in Tel Aviv carrying tanks, artillery, and ammo. But Golda’s bravest moment wasn’t the phone call. It was day three of the war. Intelligence told her Egypt and Syria might push to Tel Aviv if the lines broke. Ministers urged her to consider evacuation plans for the government. She slammed her hand on the table: “We will not leave Jerusalem. We will not leave Tel Aviv. We will stand here. If we must die, we die standing.” She then walked into the press room, exhaustion on her face, and told the world: “We have always said that we are ready to die for our country. We prefer to live for it.” Israel held the line. Then counterattacked. Then crossed the Suez. The war that began with disaster ended with Israeli forces 100 km from Cairo and 40 km from Damascus. Golda never called herself a hero. Years later she said: “I was only doing what any mother would do to protect her children.” Why this story matters: Leadership isn’t about fearlessness. It’s about showing up when you’re terrified and refusing to let fear decide. That’s what Golda did....

Big Moves By Trump In Middle East ?

@Independent_ie Thomas was ahead for all the Counts until the last . This is not a fair system. Public debate and referendum required on a new voting system.

Mary Regan: How Seán Kyne made a remarkable comeback to take Galway West seat for Fine Gael buff.ly/8cSR2hM