Dad, engineer, Christian libertarian.
Interested in science, sports, culture, statistics, ethics, politics, history and probably in that order too.
#ProLife
@GeorgeTakei
Do you think it was fair of a guy couple to travel many miles to find a baker to deliberately antagonise?
Isn't that what the judge found?
@esaagar
@ConnorC94096361
@elonmusk
I guess that policy is going to change under Musk.
But was Connor being a bit disingenuous. Twitter took down everything to do with the Hunter story, not just the hacked documents. It seemed quite partisan in it's application.
It shows a particular Dublin mindset to hear about a tragic explosion in Donegal and tweet that she hopes they find the 'culprits'.
Incredible but revealing from
@FineGael
TD and junior minister Josepha Madigan.
@rtenews
A GP angry about the HSE's inept mismanagement of Covid tells
@TodaywithClaire
that there's more to than Covid and he's seeing delayed life threatening diagnoses because of fear patients have of going to their doctors.
Claire sounds stunned that he's gone off narrative.
@MrAndyNgo
It's interesting that unarmed protesters who entered the Capitol in January are still detained in custody but a suspect in a mass shooting is out on bail!
@amnesty
Is praying quietly outside an abortion facility considered 'peaceful protest' by Amnesty or far right intimidation?
You seem to pick and choose human rights to suit your own agenda.
@WellingMichael
I don't understand how it is morally acceptable to remove life saving equipment from one patient and give it to another based solely on their age.
Is this really where modern society is at? This is where moral relativism has got us.
Just back from Northern Spain. One building had
#pride
flags, nothing nowhere else.
No buses, no trains, no corps, no bars, no businesses, no police cars, no gov agencies, no regional Govs.
What has infected Irish media, Gov, and NGOs with this over the top
#Pride2023
madness?
@TomFitton
@elonmusk
@lwoodhouse
@esaagar
@Twitter
@nypost
Pretty sure there's some servers being cleaned up at the moment. Someone somewhere will inevitably leave something incriminating but it may not assist a smooth transition to dig too deep on past 'mistakes'.
Hospitality sector seems amazed that the paying public don't want to have an expensive meal in a controlled environment where your ID is checked and verified, your guest list is restricted and your server is masked as though you're a biohazard.
#COVID19
Let's face it Irish politics wouldn't be any the poorer without:
Simon Harris
Regina Doherty
Eoghan Murphy
Kate O'Connell
Alan Farrell
Charlie Flanagan
Josepha Madigan
Noel Rock
Timmy Dooley
Lisa Chambers
Katherine Zappone
Ruth Coppinger
Bríd Smith
#GE2020
Make it so
I see Ireland's proposed draconian 'hate speech' laws are getting a lot of negative coverage worldwide, even Martina Navratilova has weighed in.
This is one international angle
@rtenews
won't cover.
How can self respecting journalists be quiet?
@morningireland
@drivetimerte
@SenMarkey
Yesterday you were fine with Bezos, Dorsey, Gates, Zuckerberg, etc?
Is it just that Musk doesn't finance Dems enough to be considered onside?
@LeoVaradkar
So there will be 2 types of citizens in Ireland?
One, on presentation of appropriate papers, will enjoy more freedoms, that we took for granted 12 months ago, than the other.
Even thinking about the implications of this are making me nauseous.
High Court challenge needed.
Irish Refugee Council says women and children are in danger in Citywest Centre.
From whom, they don't say.
It's not staff so they mean all the undocumented male asylum seekers that this Gov has allowed to enter but won't be called out for by media or NGOs.
@rtenews
Are
@rtenews
deliberately spreading misinformation?
They refer to Referendum as removing reference to women's "duties in the home".
There is no such mention in the Constitution, it's an obligation on the State not to force women out if they wish to stay at home.
#VoteNoRef24
It's interesting how
@rte
now reports on Sweden when it imposed some restrictions around Covid, still a lot less than Ireland's, yet ignored them when they were fully open this Summer!
Can
@rtenews
not simply report the news without fear or favour?
#COVID19
Students should take heart listening to Paul Murphy TD on
@drivetimerte
.
He's a prime example that a complete bluffer can make a successful career with little behind him.
So Ainé is told by ESRI researcher that most asylum seekers are men under 40 coming from countries that are not suffering famine or conflict yet doesn't ask the obvious question as to why they're allowed to stay?
To ask would obviously be 'far right'!
@morningireland
Wouldn't life in Ireland be so much simpler if people involved in the cervical cancer cover-up had been held to account and forced to resign or charged with negligence.
A man who has been convicted of murder of a young man in Dunleer has been given bail before sentencing, meanwhile a teacher is being locked up indefinitely for contempt of court.
It's hard to believe that contempt of court can be a judicial life sentence!
@CMOIreland
Outdoors: very low risk. How can anyone contract a viral load in the open?
Summer: low risk.
Weren't we here last year but without any vaccinations?
All elderly and vulnerable have been vaxxed, do you not trust the science?
A week after 5000 Italians flew into Dublin from
#COVID19
infected areas for a cancelled rugby match on unrestricted flights we have a spike of cases in Dublin.
Thanks
@LeoVaradkar
@simoncoveney
@SimonHarrisTD
for putting open borders above the health of the nation.
#todaysor
So
@EamonRyan
is in Paris this morning to sign papers on a power interconnector with France which generates electricity from Nuclear power but won't countenance nuclear here.
Is that not the height of hypocrisy?
@morningireland
@GeorgeTakei
So you think Hunter's alleged corruption should be ignored because he's Joe's son?
Isn't that the problem with US politics, that justice depends on which side of the fence you're on.
@WHO_Europe
@hans_kluge
"Children contaminate their parents"!
I doubt you could come up with a more offensive pejorative phrase if you tried.
Are WHO still refusing to allow Taiwan be a member of your organization because China wouldn't like it?
Two apparently healthy young Irish people dying soon after getting vaccine injections should cause CMO & HSE to pause vaccine rollout at least to under 15s until further investigation.
@TodaywithClaire
@rtenews
When we wonder how we're in such a mess in health services in Ireland every Winter just remember Paul Reid, no medical services management experience, is HSE boss, Dr. Tony Holohan who 'dealt' with Cervical Cancer scandal is CMO and Stephen Donnelly is Health Minister.
I heard on
@rtenews
that HSE are concerned about outbreaks of Covid in nursing homes again?
These are institutions where almost 100% of residents are vaccinated.
If they lockdown nursing homes again, what was the point of the vax program?
This will happen every Winter.
@Independent_ie
"Two Kerrymen bought a baby" would be a more accurate headline.
In some EU countries, like Germany, they'd be charged with child trafficking.
Our media or political class don't want an honest debate about this modern slave trade in babies.
No mention on
@TodaywithClaire
of
@EamonRyan
's double bluff on the PCR test to let him travel to Glasgoy, rather than follow the rules and isolate for 10 days.
Party on!
If Tesco, Aldi, SuperValu, Dunnes, Lidl are open to 60 or 70 shoppers and selling flowers, why can't florists who serve about 2 customers max at a time not be open?
Unfair, unjust, not science-based just Gov control.
@CMOIreland
@MichealMartinTD
#liveline
@RTENewsPaulC
@LeoVaradkar
@rtenews
That's coercion. They have no basis in science or Covid prevention.
Pretty shocking admission and equally shocking that media let him away with that .
Austria has passed a law on mandatory vaccination, which seems illegal under EU law on free movement of citizens.
Why aren't the EU Commission complaining about 'rule of law' breaches in this case?
@rtenews
@FergalBowers
@ronportnoir
@rtenews
I don't remember any 'fearless' commentary where you challenged the Gov line on Covid.
It felt as though you were simply a direct mouthpiece for HSE/Gov.
@gavreilly
A 4th dose of a 'vaccine' within 1 year is unprecedented.
Even journalists with no technical/scientific background can grasp that the injections are not 'vaccines' at that stage, they're top ups and more study is required into their long term side effects for those patients.
We have a media that condemn a priest for having a 30min mass with 10 socially distant parishioners in the back of a draughty church while it applauds thousands of virtue signallers having a mass rally in town.
Lockdown enforcement is over when Leo won't condemn this farce.
No kidding
@IrishTimes
carried half page ad with "It's not a choice if you kill someone".
The ad was sponsored by a Vegan group with an image of a turkey.
Imagine if Prolifers tried to get the same ad and wording instead with a picture of a baby in her mother's womb. Not a hope!
It's hard to believe that euthanasia and abortion, which were promoted by Nazis, are now promoted by the left and to oppose these totalitarian measures is portrayed as 'extreme right-wing', especially by media.
Who is pulling the strings?
@JamesTHooper
@SherriGal
@binarythis
This thread is almost priceless, except for the creeping feeling that we have front row seats to the collapse of western society. In the olden days such people just had to keep their daft ideas to themselves and their families, now they openly seek affirmation for lunacy.
This
#GretaThunberg
saga is getting more and more bizarre. She is being lifted up on the shoulders of 'Climate deranged' idiots.
What I see is a young girl with Asperger's who needs help, others apparently see a Messiah.
I can't support charities that don't support basic biological science when it comes to something so important as cancer.
Biological men get prostrate cancer. Cosmetic surgery by men to look like a parody of a woman is simply cosmetic and doesn't change biology.
Prostate cancer awareness is important to everyone born with a prostate. Men & those born male or assigned male at birth. A woman who was assigned male at birth has a prostate. We are highlighting that everyone with a prostate needs to get their PSA checked.
The wedding party in Longford is a shocking indictment of the Irish State.
Armed Gardai are unable, or unwilling, to enforce a Court order for the event to be cancelled.
Meanwhile
@gardainfo
are arresting a priest for saying Mass for 6 or 7 parishioners.
@rtenews
In the bad old days shamed Irish parents drove their pregnant daughters to the mother&baby homes.
In the new dawn proud
#togetherforyes
parents drive their pregnant daughters to the abortion clinic.
Same misogyny, just wrapped in a new blanket of faux compassion.
#LoveBoth
Sorry
@trocaire
, but we will not be sending the boxes back. The Trocaire support by attending a politically motivated demostration about/against free speech is not where I expect the money to go. Nobody from Trocaire has apologised for their attendance.
The Irish State has clarified to the High Court that it is an offence under the public health regulations for a person to leave their home for Mass, other than for weddings and funerals
#VMNews
@PaulTreyvaud
They could fix it tomorrow by refusing entry to anyone who does not have identification.
Nobody can arrive in Dublin airport without having had documentation to board a plane.
No passport, no entry- like every other proper country with basic border control.
There has been comment about this on
@rteliveline
.
If it is age appropriate material for kids why doesn't Joe Duffy or
@RTE
or
@rtenews
read out some passages that concerned parents object to?
#LeaveTheKidsAlone
#GE2020
Time for Ireland's first 'Women's Pro-Abort Party' filled with the rejects of all other parties:
Zappone,
Chambers,
Doherty,
Burton,
Coppinger,
O'Sullivan,
Noone,
Mitchell O'Connor,
O'Connell.
What a list of candidates!
#prochoice
#repealthe8th
@todowd
@muirtheimhne
@paulreiddublin
@ICGPnews
Are you publicly saying that you refuse to see patients based on their prior medical history?
Do doctors get to pick and choose what illnesses they wish to treat in surgeries now?
@Niall_Boylan
No. Clear evidence from UK and others that it has a detrimental effect on young girls.
Feminists should be up in arms about it but are too 'woke' to accept the truth.
Seems to be a committed campaign to unseat the only visible Prolife Senator in the Seanad, Ronan Mullen.
The level of vitriol and abuse leveled at him online is staggering, given the Caroline Flack tragedy only yesterday.
@TwitterDublin
really needs to do more!
#BeKind
@NewstalkFM
This is the same guy who told a couple getting married to disinvite their unvaxxed guests from their forthcoming wedding.
I guess, as a paid up member of the inner circle, he never expected the shoe would be on the other foot.
#Tubridy
Not sure why Mary McAleese's 'threat' to abandon her Catholic faith is news?
Surely her faith is a private matter as we are constantly being told by 'right-minded politicians and media.
The Church has survived 2000 years without Mary McA I suspect it'll survive 2000 more.
On
@RTERadio1
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly got an easy interview.
RTE reporter never challenged him on the idiocy of the Covid cert but wanted to see stricter measures for non compliance?
Don't worry about the science.
@IrishTimes
@IrishTimesOpEd
Kathy going to bat for Helen McEntee plays the straw man misogyny card.
I think the Minister's record speaks for itself, both in Justice and her previous roles.
She is wy out of her depth in office.
@SimonHarrisTD
@TodaySOR
One would hope that as a highly paid Gov. Minister you would be at your desk trying to sort out the historic mess the Health Service is in rather than this childish twitter spat! Let's hope the people of Wicklow see what you are doing right now?
#wicklow
#GE2020
#pknt
#todaysor
The number of journalists coming to the defence of the embattled Minister for Health
@SimonHarrisTD
on the
#ChildrensHospital
scandal illustrates how little journalistic integrity there is in Irish media. Not one commentator takes issue with biased media handling of the affair.
Ireland has a higher mortality rate than the US for
#COVID19
but
@joeliveline
is asking Irish people has Trump handled Covid well? Trump shut down foreign flights and was called 'racist'.
No fear Joe would mention Leo's handling or Nursing homes.
Funny Friday already?
#liveline
According to
@rtenews
this is 4000 anti-abortion campaigners, although they did not use this group photo. Instead they used a photo of some marching through Belfast, meanwhile a photo of a few pro-aborts was captioned as 'protesters gathering'. Can they not recognise their bias?
Holly Cairns is like a 5th class debater when she seeks to withdraw diplomatic status from the Israeli ambassador on
@morningireland
. By her logic shouldn't the Palestinian envoy be sanctioned too?
It is hard to believe
@SocDems
are taken seriously as a political party.
@rtenews
There's a shocking outbreak of 'far-rightism' among the population.
I wonder why Irish people suddenly don't want to house mostly male asylum seekers, 70% of whom mysteriously lose all form of identification from the airplane to immigration control.
Deport all the undocumented.
It was notable in all the coverage of Sinead O'Connor, most publications chose older, more photogenic photo stock and avoided her more recent incarnation as a hijab wearing Muslim.
It suited the narrative better and avoided the obvious contradictions.
#marian
So
@senatornoone
's Abortion Committee was able to find doctors who represented the 2% of GPs who have signed up to provide abortions but couldn't find any doctors who represent the 98%! A bit bizarre, you'd think a free and fair media would question this?
@rte
@IrishTimes
@AlanFarrell
It's not good news Alan.
There is no scientific basis for the discriminatory Covid Certs/Passes.
It is a coercive measure that all democratic representatives should be deeply ashamed of.
@KittyHollandIT
A sad tweet showing that you can't appreciate great Gothic art that transcends your ideology. I suspect you are almost alone in your view in the
@irishtimes
newsroom on this, or else its a joyless hell hole.
@JOEdotie
Lynn Ruane gets away with slagging off another Senator and then the Chair, rather than calling Ruane to account, lands in with the same accusation. Then before the other Senator can respond she suspends the meeting!
Farce! Only pro-aborts allowed to talk!
@rtenews
Sorry
@cooper_m
your interview with Peter Tatchell fell way short of basic journalist standards. Why?
You never followed up on anything that Peter said.
Very strange interview, it was as if you wanted to protect him?
Are you a
@greenparty_ie
member?
@TodayFMNews
@mdmak33
@LeoVaradkar
It is amusing that the Greens think the farmer is the problem and contributing more emissions than the multinational factory next door?
@greenparty_ie
@angela_mcgowan
@rtenews
Paediatric doctors have said it's RSV and it is a direct result of lockdown.
We are getting two years of RSV infections because kids weren't interacting.
@TomOHanlon17
@NeilRedFM
There are people in Direct Provision from South Africa, yet thousands of Irish holiday there every year.
Economic migrants are not refugees.
RTENews reported last night that despite a pick up in off license sales, overall there was a drop in alcohol sales nationwide, yet it proceeded to interview two experts who told us to cut down on our consumption?
Don't let facts get in the way of the story.
@KittyHollandIT
Wouldn't it be great if George Hook and Kevin Myers could have been so easily forgiven as the contrite Kitty has been by all her media colleagues.
@MickBarryTD
You're on the wrong side of history, Mick.
In 10 years' time, we'll laugh at your attitude to biological women's rights on Reeling In The Years.
I hope half your voters know what you think of them. They may need to be informed before the next GE.
@NewstalkFM
Maybe Roderic O'Gorman should not post ads in all those foreign languages he previously used to say "Sorry lads, the gravy train has run out of steam, go elsewhere."
@LeoVaradkar
A very strange tweet Leo! Are you so concerned about what the anti-faith
@IrishTimes
think that you can't even acknowledge that
#NotreDame
is first and foremost a place of worship, just as much as the Sikh temple you respectfully visited yesterday with covered head.
@Michael_O_Regan
What's 'zero tolerance'?
You mean up until now you have been 'tolerating' the unvaccinated?
Should we have zero tolerance on obesity too, after age the most reliable predictor on how ill a person with Covid gets?
In January Simon Harris was unsuitable as Minister for Health.
We held a General Election because of him.
He is even more unsuitable to manage the
#COVID19
crisis now.
@MariaWalshEU
Repercussions?
He's a Catholic priest in a Catholic church, giving a sermon to Catholic parishioners.
What's it got do with you?
Don't you want separation of Church and State, or is it just when it suits you?
@EndWokeness
@Tamzilla_52
It's notable that none of her colleagues ask her to step back. She's inflaming the situation and yet clearly her 'known ideology' has other police officers afraid to intervene for fear of her wrath.