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The presenter wasn't remotely interested in talking to the forecourt owner from County Clare once he mentioned he supported the protests, he cut him off while he was talking #liveline

They just can't help themselves, can they? A piece in today's Guardian about the release of the 1926 Irish census. The headline and intro give the impression that the country was truly multicultural and cosmopolitan back then. But when you get further into the article, you learn that foreigners represented no more than a "smattering" at that time. In other words, Ireland was very obviously a monoculture. Why do they engage in this intellectual dishonesty? theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…

In 1987 Ray Bourke, the corrupt Fianna Fáil minister sold out the entire nation of Irish people. He gave away all our natural resources. The net effect is that big oil companies: • Owns 100% of the oil and gas they find under Irish waters; • pay no royalties to the Irish State; • can write off 100% of their costs to tax; • profits taxed at 25% (international average is 68% ); • can export it outside Ireland; • can choose whether or not to sell the gas back to Bord Gáis at full market rates. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse outcome. We need leaders who actually love Ireland and will get our oil back. New terms will be agreed. Éire 2040: The Atlantic Republic 🇮🇪

The sneaky government are trying a new tactic to fool the Irish people into complying with Digital ID by suggesting that their digital wallet "allows" for registration for "key" social welfare benefits, such as working family payment. Be very clear. You can already do this online, without their digital wallet. You can apply by post. You DO not need their digital wallet to apply for working family payment or any other social welfare benefit. Under the EU Regulation on the Digital Wallet the government CANNOT restrict access to public services to those who comply. Do NOT be fooled. Do NOT comply.

If these characters suddenly produce an IPAS contract out of their back pocket it will look extremely bad for the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil councillors and TDs who have supported the overwhelming opposition of the people of Laois.

Why don't we just turn the whole island into an IPAS centre, get rich, and move somewhere else?

In Syria, Muslims enter the house of a sick, elderly Christian woman and demand that she convert to Islam, or they will confiscate all her medicine and let her die. Christians are humiliated and murdered on a daily basis in Muslim countries. Meanwhile, Muslims in the West cry about ‘Islamophobia.’

€40 000 000 for Bentleys but zero for repairing the bent spines of Irish children. Resign, you embarrassment.

What relationship? Ireland is in a situationship where we give Ukraine money and they increase Ireland's welfare expenditure by 20%.

Easter egg hunt for kids in Douglas village shopping centre this afternoon and a man in his 50s dressed as a woman with pig tails went into the ladies. My wife went after him, asked him to leave and when he refused she got security and they removed him. Posted security at the toilets after.

In Ireland a Somali fakeugee can "crack one off"(masturbate) in a doctor's surgery in front of women and children. And the judge says we won't convict him as it could jeopardise "asylum" application. Meanwhile Enoch Burke his sister and his mother are all in prison. This fucking country is run by dangerous bastards. When is it going end? @TheLiberal_ie @MickOKeeffe #IrelandisFull @does_derek @OldNormality

>banned girls from going to school because “the Qur’an says men are superior” >too dumb to open a water bottle >needs a woman to open it for him

FFS, it seems like every time you step on a plane you're giving millions upon millions of Euro of Irish taxpayers money away. €330 million in 2025. €25 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund in January this year. And now an additional €40 million you've just announced. Would you ever think of staying home and saving us a fortune?

It's Spy Wednesday, let's look at how Italian masterpiece "The Taking of Christ" by murderous hellraiser Caravaggio ended up hanging in a dining room in Leeson Street! The iconic scene depicts Judas Iscariot betraying Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, identifying him to the Roman soldiers with a kiss. The work was commissioned by Ciriaco Mattei, a Roman nobleman in 1602. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) had a life as full of shadows and violence as his paintings. The master of baroque was a notoriously violent criminal. His signature technique was manipulating shadow, utilising tenebrism and chiaroscuro. When he wasn't in exile or prison for assault or murder, he was one of the most famous and sought-after artists in Rome. Whether you are a Christian or not, the masterpiece has an astonishing power within it. The vividness of the moment, the chemistry of the interrelationships depicted, has a universal quality. And of course, that mesmerising play of light and shadow. Incidentally, the man on the right holding the lantern is believed to be Caravaggio himself! Perhaps it takes a sinner to truly capture the drama and betrayal of such a moment. The masterpiece was lost and presumed destroyed for centuries. In 1786, an 18th-century engraver and topographer called Giuseppe Vasi misattributed the painting, not merely as a Dutch copy, but to a specific artist: Gerrit van Honthorst, known in Italy as Gherardo delle Notti, one of Caravaggio's own followers. The label stuck, repeated in every successive inventory, including a Mattei family stock-taking in 1793. There was even a telling typo that would prove crucial centuries later: the label consistently misspelled Honthorst's nickname as "Gherardo della Notte" rather than the correct "Gherardo delle Notti." That small error, faithfully copied across generations of documents, would become one of the key clues in the eventual authentication. In 1802, Duke Giuseppe Mattei, needing to pay his debts, sold the painting along with others to William Hamilton Nisbet, a wealthy Scottish art collector then in Rome. The "Honthorst" hung in his Scottish home until 1921, when it was sold at auction in Edinburgh, passing through one more set of hands before ending up with a Dublin woman named Marie Ryan, better known by her married name, Marie Lea-Wilson. She had a heartbreaking reason to be in Scotland. Her husband, Captain Percival Lea-Wilson, had been a District Inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary, shot dead on a Gorey street in June 1920 by the IRA on the direct orders of Michael Collins. The killing was revenge for Lea-Wilson's treatment of republican prisoners after the Rising, when he famously ordered the elderly Proclamation signatory Tom Clarke to strip naked in public. Collins, who had witnessed the humiliation, waited four years to settle the account. In the aftermath of that devastating loss, Marie received spiritual support from the Jesuits, particularly Father Thomas Finlay SJ at the Leeson Street community house. When she had qualified as a doctor she gifted the religious painting to Fr Finlay as a token of her gratitude. It hung on the wall of the dining room at 35 Leeson Street, where it would sit quietly for the next six decades, admired as a fine old Honthorst by anyone who thought about it at all. In 1990, Father Noel Barber, then Superior of the Leeson Street community, contacted the National Gallery of Ireland about restoring some paintings. The Gallery's Assistant Director, Dr Brian Kennedy, came to it with senior conservator Sergio Benedetti. Benedetti took one look at the canvas and felt his pulse quicken. After 3 of painstaking analysis, it was confirmed an original. Much of the archival credit belongs to Francesca Cappelletti and Laura Testa, PhD students at the University of Rome. You can view it in National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…

The govt’s first priority is the safety of Irish Citizens. It is indefensible that someone offered sanctuary here should abuse it by spreading their own hate & threatening Irish people. @DeptJusticeIRL @dfatirl

It would be helpful if @PresidentIRL Catherine Connolly disavowed her previous association with this man.

#collies locked away in sheds or on chains are robbed of freedom to be happy.So many ppl deny them smthing that costs nothing.#Tyke is an older,blind dog here but when given toys, it was the puppy in him that played.They both lost a decade in a shed.#BrieandTyke

1952, Ongoing Observations Seated along the edge of St Stephen’s Green, 3 men rest & observe the passing day. Facing Georgian terraces and the light traffic of Dublin’s slower pace of life then. A moment of routine framed by sun & shadow through the lens of Nevill Johnson.

You need to understand the value system of Muslims. Why do you think in the UK Muslims spent over 50 years raping schoolgirls whilst 99.99% of Muslims did all they could to protect the rapists? Name me any Muslims who spoke out about it. But the REAL question is: why did the British state and an army of state employees facilitate these rapists?

“Anyone who lives with animals will know that they certainly do experience pain and it would be a hard soul who would seek to dismiss it in any way.” MATT TREACY: The cruel fate of the Beagle at the hands of the animal experimenters. gript.ie/treacy-the-cru…