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"Dogs bark, but the caravan will move on" #ReunionOfPeople #TiocfaidhÁrGrá #KissAllHons No DMs - if you've something to say, tell the whole class
Dec 30 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Probably the second biggest gobshite in the Gardai, Chief Supt Aidan Minnock of the Garda immigration unit, gets top coverage today across our news-hungry mid-holidays Main Media. This is Aidan. Image Aidan again assures us that thre's no such thing as an 'unvetted migrant' in Ireland and that's "far right" hokum. Let's review the vetting, shall we?
Dec 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Colourful (and so far, unsuccessful) Kerry election candidate Michelle Keane is in jail!
Immediate reason is, she won't give an undertaking to a Judge not to make comments about Kerry garda sergeant Melanie Walsh.
Background is a conversation between Sgt Walsh & Michelle but... Image Michelle is alleged to have made racist and homophobic comments on social media.

And Sgt Walsh phoned her. Michelle recorded the conversation and posted it on social media with commentary that a Judge has now said is defamatory. Image
Oct 28 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Why did the 3-person SF inquiry panel determine the complainant version of events was more credible than the Brian Stanley version? Seemingly, it was this text exchange in the thread 🧵below, which the panel interpreted as supporting the complainant. Image Complainant (C) to Brian Stanley (BS)
[FRIDAY 8.33am] I deserve compensation for the emotional trauma you put me through on Wednesday night. I have a picture of the room we were in and of you in your boxers.
Sep 24 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A factcheck from Kitty Holland, this should be good!

Can't exactly see a clear answer to the question posed in the title, but the implication of there being no asylum applicants in the homeless in emergency accommodation, suggests there's no link. Which is rubbish, Kitty. Image This is a house, we have a shortage of them and as, a result, we have record homelessness*
This house could be occupied by (a) asylum applicant or (b) someone in homelessness
As we saw from Sen Keogan last year, an asylum applicant may be placed in the house. Image
Jun 30 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
Still trying to get my jaw back off the ground from reading the Sunday Times report on Escort-Ireland, the hugely profitable illegal prostitution website operated by the McCormick family of convicted pimps.
Where to start?
Image Sunday Times claims “Escort-Ireland had been until recently operating in Spain, where the sale of sex is legal” No, it’s still operated by Periodic Table SL whose accounts for 2022 were filed in April 2024 and reported here.
May 13 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
RTE barter account investigation

A short thread.... Contrary to what was suggested last Oct, there has been no examination of transactions in the barter account in the period 2012-2016, and we know that at least some of these are juicey, like these
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Apr 27 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Why are so many Nigerians in prison in Ireland?

A short thread... Image Every month, the Irish Prison Service publishes statistics on inmates, including the top 5 non-Irish numbers. You’ll find the monthly reports here.
irishprisons.ie/information-ce…
Mar 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Govt will be pleased with commencement notices for 3699 housing units in the month of February 2024, bringing the annual rolling 12-month total to 35752, the highest since records began (2012) and likely highest since 2007.
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Image The problem is, the "housing deficit" was 250,000 units in 2018, see Leo Varadkar below, and we have 400,000 additional population since then.
And the thicko eejits in Leinster House, on all sides, are squabbling over whether the annual target should be 30,000 or 50,000
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Feb 5 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
10 tell-tale signs that RTE ia pulling the wool over our eyes about #reform and #lessonslearned since the scandals last summer... 1. Costs, Oliver Callan, €150,000 for 200 1-hr weekday light entertainment radio shows, moving to Cork’s most expensive offices, scandalised at €60k/yr #FairCity photographer but okay with €50k?


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Dec 28, 2023 • 26 tweets • 7 min read
An alternative [to Paul Reynolds] review of Garda performance in 2023... January - Garda Sgt Cathal Middleton (42) given 5-month prison sentence for sexual assault Image
Oct 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
How Ireland works. A Garda division in Cork is doing something unique in Ireland – its job. And what does it get in return? Ignorant criticism from the local paper.

A thread... Despite the decriminalisation of one person selling prostitution, it is an offence to purchase prostitution, and it is an offence to organise prostitution, live off the earnings or operate a brothel. We have between 800-3000 prostitutes operating in Ireland
Aug 7, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Sarah Carey, and why it’s an affront to public service broadcasting to platform her on RTE. Quick thread, because it seems many people have either forgotten or misremembered Sarah Carey conduct at the Moriarty Tribunal, and what happened afterwards. Image As a marketing officer for Esat, the phone company that won the auction for mobile spectrum in 1995, Carey was a witness at the Tribunal in the 2000’s As part of the Tribunal process, she was provided with confidential documents which she leaked to the Sunday Tribune paper. Image
Apr 19, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Introducing the McCormick family organised crime group which operates Escort Ireland, a website whose sole purpose is to encourage the breach of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, which outlawed the purchase of sex. Who’s who and how much? First up, we have Peter McCormick, born 1959, the ex-RUC reservist from N Ireland who has at least one conviction for pimping in 2003 ImageImage
Apr 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
A fortnight after the killing of a prostitute in Limerick, how are we doing with identifying the apartment number and the circumstances of a woman arriving from Romania three weeks previously, operating a brothel from a 2-bed [could be 3-bed] apartment? Image Journal reports today how trafficked prostitutes are paying €2k a week in rent for an apartment in non-Dublin areas. Who are the landlords? Opportunistic, or are traffickers and pimps buying the apartment?
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Apr 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Published!
Social Housing report for Q4,2022
4,278 homes completed [representing 47% of the 9148 which CSO say were completed nationally in Q4]
Brings to 6710 the total for 2022. Leo Varadkar has been calling that "nearly 8000" for three months!
assets.gov.ie/253682/e2c3491… Image The target in Housing for All was 9,000 units for 2022.
Govt shifted the goalposts late last year by revising down the target to 8000.
Today's figs show they've substantially undershot that target with 6710 delivered. Image
Mar 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Niall Collins mansion has become mansioner!
It's now 4,000 sq ft excluding full height attic storage which would be another 1,000 sq ft+, and there's two stables and indoor horse training area.
How many stables has Mary Lou in her 2,733 sq ft mansion? It's really a Collins compound, with three Collins houses on the same site. Remains a mystery how Niall got planning permission with such a small entrance onto such a busy road.
Feb 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Leo Varadkar
19 January - "Corruption can’t be tolerated in any form"
9 February - "You know, I think that was at a particular point in time" speaking about Bertie Ahern lying under oath to a Tribunal about the source of €200k, which was likely obtained through corruption. Mind you, this is the same Leo Varadkar who gave Damien English a standing ovation after English submitted false information on a planning application to obtain a substantial financial advantage.
Feb 6, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Woodvale and Shankill Community Housing Association Limited (WSCHA) is a housing association in N Ireland with around 450 homes in the Shankill and Woodvale areas of west Belfast.
And something is awry... According to the WSCHA 2022 balance sheet, the 450 homes are worth ~£30m, but the company values homes at their acquisition price minus annual depreciation over 100 years.If the homes were valued on the open market, they’d be worth ~£60m. So, quite a major outfit. Image
Jan 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Statement from Govt this evening on #NursingHomesGate. Seems they paid out €480m under one heading but that was, according to Mail, less than 10% of estimated liability. Curious that not one single claim made it to an open court, consistent with concealment strategy. Image It's a red herring about the origination date of the legal strategy, whether it was 2002, 2007 or 2011, fact is, it was continued throughout the last decade.
Jan 29, 2023 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Did Gardai play a role in the Regency Hotel attack on 5 February 2016?
TLDR? This is a summary of the Hutches & Kinahans trying to, and occasionally succeeding in, killing each other in a 14-week period just prior to the Regency boxing weigh-in which was not policed by Gardai... The following is going seem a bit mad to you because the proposition is this: a rogue Garda or Gardai colluded in a militaristic gun attack on an event attended by a large number of innocent adults and children. But bear with it...
Jan 29, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Hmmm, "the department of health does not comment on matters pertaining to litigation"
This story in today's Mail on Sunday of a 12-year long strategy by govt to deprive the most vulnerable of €10bn due for unlawful nursing homes costs, looks like a govt-toppling bombshell. The Ombudsman published this report in 2010, which revealed that residents of nursing homes had claims against the State worth billions because the State failed to provide them with care, or charged them unlawfully.
ombudsman.ie/publications/r…