Two little snowflakes but at least Harris doesn’t pull a sickie every time the going gets tough. I’ll give him that much…
Tánaiste Simon Harris has confirmed he spoke to Patrick O'Donovan on the phone shortly before the Minister for Culture fell ill and was rushed to hospital rte.ie/news/2026/1028/159706…
The daily Irish news cycle of fear:
Climate change
Climate change
The Russians
Trump/Iran
The Russians
Climate Change
Trump/Iran
The Russians
The Russians
Climate Change
Trump/Iran
Trump/iran
The Russians
Etc etc etc
‘If you think you’re safe here, it’s an illusion’ — Lithuanian foreign minister warns Ireland of growing Russia threat buff.ly/z1niYla
Tweed Cap retweeted
The top 152 nonprofits ( NGOs?) received €3.69 BILLION in public funding in Ireland in 2024.
I've spent months analysing the financial returns of thousands of organisations registered with the Charities Regulator, trying to establish how much public money flows into Ireland's nonprofit sector, where it goes, and how concentrated that funding actually is.
Within my research population of 2,634 organisations, primarily across health, social services, housing and local development, I identified approximately €4.98 billion in reported public funding for 2024.
But here's the striking part.
Just 152 organisations received €3.69 billion of that money.
That's 5.8% of the organisations accounting for 74% of the public funding within my research population.
The remaining 2,482 organisations shared approximately €1.29 billion.
Those 152 organisations break down as follows:
62 in Social Services
60 in Housing & Local Development
30 in Health
And the concentration goes further.
Of the 2,634 organisations, just 1,671 received €100,000 or more in public funding. Those organisations accounted for approximately 99.4% of the total.
This is where our public discussion about "charities" and "NGOs" becomes completely confused.
We routinely talk about Ireland's thousands of registered charities as though they're one homogeneous sector.
They're not.
The register contains everything from tiny volunteer-run community organisations to enormous, professionally managed service providers receiving tens or hundreds of millions of euro annually.
Some provide essential disability, housing, healthcare and social services on behalf of the State. Others are community groups, representative organisations or advocacy bodies.
These are fundamentally different types of organisations, operating at completely different scales, but they're all thrown into the same administrative category of "charity".
An important caveat about my figures.
This is NOT a comprehensive analysis of every nonprofit, community organisation or publicly funded group in Ireland.
There are thousands of organisations outside my research population, including small community groups, sports clubs, voluntary associations, organisations that aren't registered charities, and entire sectors I've deliberately excluded.
The actual number of organisations operating across Ireland's wider nonprofit, voluntary and community sector is considerably larger.
My research deliberately focuses on a few core areas, particularly organisations involved in delivering publicly funded services.
Another important point: this is 2024 data.
We're approaching the end of 2026, so these figures are already almost two years old.
If public funding has increased by 5% or 10% since then, the €4.98 billion identified in my research population could now be approximately €5.23 billion to €5.48 billion. That's an illustration, not a verified 2026 figure.
And remember, that still wouldn't represent total public funding across Ireland's entire nonprofit and community sector.
I've also encountered serious problems with the underlying Charities Regulator data, including missing financial reports and obvious reporting errors.
152 organisations. €3.69 billion. 74% of the public funding within my research population.
And I've had to spend months assembling, cleaning and classifying government data just to establish these basic facts.
In hindsight we can now fact check the 2022 Green Party delusion (and lies) versus the reality.
Solar farms accounted for roughly 4% of Ireland's grid-scale electricity generation over the course of 2025
“Professor Marina Romanello said…”
Should we all go to A&E at once?
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Climate change should formally be declared a global health emergency, experts have warned after they found that impacts on human health are outpacing the action countries are taking rte.ie/news/2026/1028/159703…
Or perhaps they just googled him and saw this…
An Irish European Parliament worker who was refused entry to Israel has said that he believes his nationality was a factor, as has another man who was refused on the same day.
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Can she show us on these graphs where what she is saying is true? To date more solar & wind energy has = more expensive electricity.
Russia didn’t close Shannonbridge, Lanesborough or Moneypoint power stations. The government did that.
Reducing Ireland's "reliance on fossil fuels" is key to easing costs for households and businesses in the long term.
That's according to Deloitte Ireland Chief Economist Kate English.
#TonightVMTV
Ah sure…it’s just a bit of fraud..a victimless crime really..sure it’s not even a real crime..
There was a case in Longford this week that sums up the Irish state's approach to migration better than almost any I've seen:
Welcome, Citizen Mauricio:
johnandsarah.ie/p/welcome-ci…
Why governments let inflation rip 👇
Debt without austerity: how the United States cut its debt-to-GDP ratio by 45 percentage points without paying the money back
In 1946 US federal debt stood at 119.1 per cent of GDP. By 1951 it was 73.6 per cent. The government had not paid most of it back. Inflation did the work, by design.
Front cover of The Inflation Tax by Felix Nikolas Prehn
Where does a Gaza Student get the money to sue the Irish state in the high court?
Well, they don’t, it’s free of course.
A Belfast based human rights law firm - Phoenix Law.
The same law firm that represents the Kneecap zombeens.
But you’ll pay the states legal cost for losing.
The High Court has overturned a decision by the Minister for Justice to refuse a study visa to a Gazan student and ordered that the application be reconsidered and a decision made within ten days rte.ie/news/courts/2026/1027…
The COP31 meeting in Turkey.
It’s almost that time of year again.
For the world’s most privileged to arrive by jet to luxury fine dining in 5 star hotels and insist that the proletariat aren’t doing enough to save themselves from the computer modelled climate apocalypse.
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The latest climate pledges put forth by nations will cut global greenhouse gas emissions just 6% by 2035, a UN report has said, weeks before COP31 talks in Turkey rte.ie/news/2026/1027/159690…
Tweed Cap retweeted
Locals in Finglas being interviewed on @VirginMediaNews after the murder last night 🙄
Another Gov funded NGO article from the UN SDG’s stable.
“Social Justice Ireland”
Ireland's minimum income benefits aren't even close to enough to keep people out of poverty, new research shows.
Those earning less than €377 per week below the poverty line, but the jobseeker's and disability allowance are just €254. thejournal.ie/ireland-social…
Refreshing to read some truths for a change. Fair play.
@AnMailleach
"what should we do about the rise of the far left?"
Another unexpected and excellent article in the legacy media this week. This time it is Eoin O Malley Malley writing for The Sunday Independent (he is also an Associate Professor in politics at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University) who wonders if everybody has been wrongly focusing on so called "far right" when really it is the far left who are a threat to our society, with their propensity for being violent and encouraging violence in the pursuit of their ideological obsessions. We have put the full article within this post.
He has a go at @pb4p here, and won't be popular with his students after the mid term for that. Perhaps he may even have to deal with what we have had to deal with on a regular basis now for years - unprovoked aggressive physical and verbal attacks from far leftists, along with targeted campaigns of harassment, that most often go unpunished. They view everything through the lens of oppressor versus oppressed, and apparently having an opposing view to them makes you "the oppressor", hence they feel they have a right to unleash hell upon you. We hope @AnMailleach will not have to deal with these so called "anti fascists" (they are of course the real fascists), yet that is the reality of what you have to put up with when these ideologues feel entitled to target you.
The far left have really let their mask slip and others are FINALLY starting to see how dangerous they actually are, and how they've marched through our institutions, capturing them along the path. A lot of damage has been done by now - but we welcome the change of tone, even if it is as the clock strikes thirteen...
"After alarmism over far right, has France shown we’re looking in wrong direction?"
Every month, the Sunday Independent asks a sample of Irish people to choose the issues that most concern them. Top come cost of living, housing and immigration.
At the bottom are usually social media, the Trump administration, Gaza and the rise of the far right. Though the polls show few people regard these as very important, the State spends an inordinate amount of time and energy on them.
The rise of the far right was the reason the previous justice minister, Helen McEntee, wanted to introduce hate-speech legislation. When asked what the far right was, she couldn’t define it, but she saw it was people who might question migration policy and be "anti-government".
I was in the US last week, having been asked to speak about the rise of the far right in Ireland. As many cities in France burned because of protests encouraged by far-left leaders, I asked whether concerns were misplaced.
Should we not be asking what to do about the rise of the far left?
The protests in France emerged from concerns over school funding and probably a sense that career progression has been upended.
In the rioting and looting that followed, far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon praised “white and ugly”. We also see intellectuals such as Nobel prize winner Annie Ernaux defending the protests on the basis that they are standing up to “austerity”, ignoring the galactic cost of the French state. They stood up to austerity by looting luxury shops. Louis Vuitton for all?
While some of that rioting and looting might have been opportunistic and recreational, one might have said the same about the Dublin riots two years ago. Yet those riots sparked reams of statements from politicians concerned about the rise of the far right.
We see no such hand-wringing for events in France. In fact, People Before Profit has celebrated what it terms the “youth revolt”. The Denakryte party has a meeting next Thursday where it will bring together people to “build a movement here capable of confronting capitalism”. PBP wants to bring protests “from the streets of Paris to the streets of Dublin”.
Were it not for the haplessness of PBP’s leadership, one might think that the State should do something about this. It is hardly overstating the case to say that the threat to France is existential. We absolutely do not want what we’ve seen on the streets of Paris brought to the streets of Dublin.
*The danger of the far left is not confined to France.* Last week in Spain, the ethno-nationalist party Vox had its opening event in the Spanish election disrupted by masked anti-fascist protesters. Riot police were needed to allow the meeting go ahead.
Anti-fascism looks an awful lot like fascism when they try to prevent those they disagree with from holding electoral events. The dangers of the far left are not confined to its violent attempts to upend the economy and democracy. It is also a threat to normal social relations.
Take the Government-funded ad telling us that grandparents should think twice before hugging their grandchildren: one of these occasional flare-ups where ordinary people get to see the capture of the State by ideologues who have no sense of Irish people or their values.
There is now, it seems, nothing that the far left feel the State should not regulate, including normal family relationships.
We might dismiss this as a thoughtless and zany group pushing an agenda. But it is far from thoughtless. It is planned. The aim is to transform social relations, including how we think and speak.
*Another example was the "Family A versus Family B" case study that was being taught* to our Junior Cert students through a SPHE curriculum that is pure ideology.
It characterised a traditional red-headed family wearing Aran jumpers, who eat bacon and cabbage, play GAA and holiday in Ireland, as inferior to the “diverse” mixed-race “blended” family who holiday in Europe and eat exotic foods.
As with the ads permission for a bus ad, that particular exercise was withdrawn because its absurdity was widely seen. But the ideological capture of the State continues through the state funding of NGOs."
Tweed Cap retweeted
We now see the full extent of preplanning and empire-building that went into the United Nations' global warming campaign.
It was all behind the scenes. Today, the UN has a workforce of roughly 190,000 and an annual budget of $3.45 billion. It has become a vast self-managing, self perpetuating bureaucracy - arguably the largest non-governmental network in the world. The UN had been laying the groundwork for an environmental crisis for decades before it was finally announced in 1988.
The UN took control of the World Meteorological Organization in 1951, transforming it into a specialised UN agency. The WMO operates with an annual budget of approximately $138.7 million and has a staff of 350 to 400.
The WMO bridges the gap between raw meteorological data, international political agendas and global news media - linking thousands of land stations, ocean buoys, aircraft and satellites. While its stated role is to share critical weather and water data, this massive infrastructure has been effectively co-opted into a public relations framework.
Consequently, the world has been bombarded with weather hysteria for almost 40 years. Mainstream news outlets routinely prioritise speculative, worst-case climate models over empirical observations - like 'rain bombs' - maintaining a permanent state of crisis designed to shape public compliance.
The information gathering agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, runs the scientific arm. It operates with a core secretariat of just 15 staff members and an annual budget of roughly $12.5 million. The IPCC was established 38 years ago, ostensibly as a neutral body to gather objective scientific information on climate.
In reality, the IPCC became the driving force behind the greatest environmental and social upheaval in modern history. Highly politicised from its inception, it was founded entirely by UN agencies - the WMO and the UN Environment Programme. This gave the UN absolute control over the global climate agenda and funded what has become the largest propaganda campaign in history.
The UN has also run annual fund raising COP summits around the world for 30 years. They have become junkets for the rich and privileged.
The IPCC did not recruit independent scientific staff; instead, its administrative apparatus actively sponsors and selects studies that supported the carbon dioxide hypothesis. Research raising questions or doubts are minimised or discarded. Critics find their studies starved of funding and publishers, while some even faced threats to their academic tenures.
Local weather outlets and national agencies now operate inside an ecosystem heavily influenced by these overarching, high-alarm targets, broadcasting continuous warnings of 'global boiling', catastrophic sea-level rise, and 'Code Red for Humanity' - with UN leadership acting as the chief amplifier. This environment birthed foundational, highly charged studies designed to lock in future warming projections.
For decades, the UN promoted only extreme scenarios. A prime example is the IPCC's reliance on high-end warming trajectories - such as projections warning of up to a 5.5-degree temperature rise - predictions so extreme that even mainstream scientists have increasingly conceded they are implausible.
Armed with a crisis of its own making, the UN called for the rapid dismantling of hydrocarbon fuels - coal, oil, and natural gas - the very energy sources that lifted humanity out of stagnation and powered the Industrial Revolution. Almost every aspect of modern civilisation, from transport networks to industrial manufacturing, relies entirely on these dense, inexpensive and reliable energy sources.
Climate management bears no relation to the UN’s foundational charter of resolving international conflict; it's a textbook case of bureaucratic mission creep.
The sheer complexity of this UN machinery, combined with an aura of technical authority, is precisely what insulates it from public scrutiny.
This absolute non story bag of shite article concludes with:
HM coastguard said
“An RAF aircraft was sent to investigate and established communications with the vessel, whose crew confirmed a distress signal was activated as they left an area of large swells”
The Irish Coast Guard and British Royal Air Force have been monitoring a tanker linked to Russia that declared a false emergency off the west coast.
jrnl.ie/7204739t
Tubrity says that he is “fascinated” by Fianna Fáil.
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The Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that Ryan Tubridy would be “very welcome” to move into politics
newstalk.com/news/ryan-tubri…
“If there’s lots of wind available, we’ll ask customers to flex up, so to use their appliances at this time instead of their usual time,” Walsh says.
Assuming that you’ve nothing better to do than to watch the füčking wind..with a basket of washing in hand…
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