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What’s the odds they think it’s for the ones fresh off the boat

This is why you can’t afford a hotel Paddy.

Interesting part of the above story is Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the border-breach a “violent assault” and blamed it on “mafias who traffic in human beings”. Earlier this month he warned that “Spain will not tolerate any use of the tragedy of illegal immigration as a means of pressure” and will seek to […]

Dublin Pride has a message for Azov

Claire Byrne had an item on during the week about a shortage of pharmacy staff. It’s so bad, this poor pharmacist speaking here was forced to hire an Irish graduate — imagine! Had to train them up and everything. Absolutely shocking. Apparently the sector had been reliant on cheap labour from the EU but it […]

That’s three videos to surface now of Alamin Mohammed assaulting children in Kilkenny. Think of all the new laws they’re always pouring energy into which they say we need to give added protection to “the most vulnerable members of our communities”. None of those laws do anything for the victims here. They’re not designed to. […]

The reviews keep pouring in for this new poster campaign, and it’s annoying all the right people.

Adam Long asking Minister Roderic O’Gorman about the ban on “conversion practices”. Long worried whether it would be fully LGBT inclusive but O’Gorman assured him the trans community definitely wouldn’t be left out of the “protections” in keeping with “best international practices”. Long also wanted assurance there would be no religious exemptions just as there […]

JRD (Twitter) Kathleen Funchion gives her support to Darragh O’Brien for trying to shut down Carol Nolan, again reminding us that Sinn Féin will always side with the government in opposition to any genuinely independent voices.

The Prime Time bit on immigration earlier. Following a report including soundbites from asylum industry lobbyist Nick Henderson, they wheeled out Minister for Climate Action Richard Bruton to face Miriam O’Callaghan as as the government must have figured neither Helen McEntee nor Roderic O’Gorman could handle it. O’Callaghan did the usual RTÉ thing of pretending […]