More than happy to be wrong but I'm sticking with my instincts. The #EU will rue the day they decided to deify #Zelensky and ignore everything they know about how #Ukraine operates. Consequences will be felt for decades.

Please don’t renew in 2027. Those lit up billboards are a blight on the city scape. Paying for the bikes would be a better investment.

@LarryPDonnelly Larry, you have been stand out in measured, truthful commentary and insight. At the end of the day, that serves both the US and the Dems better than the usual approach.

Not engaging with the Trump team in the last six months was an absolute dereliction of duty by Irish leadership. Indulgent, dangerous and childish. Representation in the best interests of Ireland is the job. Our diaspora must be sickened.

I’d say at least two out of the four politicians see the inside of a church far more often than I do. Sad to see that they are so churchophobic that they can’t bring themselves to say “ thoughts and prayers”. Prayers are not specific to any faith but millions of us in Ireland still say a quiet prayer in the face of violence and evil.

Listening to @ThomasByrneTD on RTE. Any EU country that clings to a collective approach to the US without having a fully worked up bilateral plan is in serious trouble. The big EU countries will be doing just that. Our particular situation makes us vulnerable on both sides. Hope there’s a sense of urgency and crisis around this. Ignore the news cycle and get on top of it.

RT @AnMailleach: Going Postal. Making the electoral process less secure is no way to improve political engagement. This week's @Independent…

Our national self abasement doesn’t seem to have a limit. If you don’t believe in your own country and people, don’t expect any respect from the rest of the world. I don’t know what happened or what we’re at. #Eurosong2025 #Eurovision #Ireland

@LeoForde Haven’t heard that for years Leo 😂

Appoint the most competent women or men. Appoint for the sake of the country, not for the sake of gender balance.

@PatrickGiobuin Bit scary tbh. Personalities matter in this instance and it’s hard to see a fit on any level.

RT @AnMailleach: This is an awful idea. It leads to certain ideas being elevated to acceptable truths and other competing ideas ruled out.…

We’re going to read so many crap pieces like this across the media. Just an indication of how indoctrinated they are. They just don’t get it. Gender theory is not accepted and is about as real as magic in most people’s eyes. The big No is spreading and there’s no going back. Biological reality will always prevail. But not in time for too many young kids. If this was the only thing @elonmusk and @POTUS achieved, it would be enough.

@ExCllrRedmond Condolences Keith, to you and your family. A tough milestone in every life.

RT @rapperdays:

Becoming clearer every day that at least half the Dail see their purpose as the greater global good. Lovely for them. The warm fuzzy glow of being the kind people. Someone will have to make the hard, nauseating choices that serve and protect the people in this country. Hopefully that someone exists.

What’s the EU version of USAID? 🤔

@Michael08483429 I don’t know how anything was going to change without a serious disruption. It has ever been so.

We had it all. Just waiting to bear fruit. Then we forced tech talent out of the country. Now our best minds build their companies in other jurisdictions and we’re vulnerable to Fang companies who will ultimately have to do what’s best for them. We watched Irish leadership degenerate into the mindset of provincial leaders in an ever overreaching EU. We lauded them. I think the last person I can remember being seriously ambitious for Ireland was Haughey. With all his flaws, he at least had some vision for the country. We only had to grasp what tech could mean for Ireland and back it. It didn’t have to be an either or with FDI. We just had to grow our own alongside and recognise the talent battle they faced, and make it easier. Ireland is led by the average and the fearful. The place holders. Our own fault.