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Alan O'Riordan retweeted
A butcher found carrying two large bags of ketchup near a burgled Eddie Rockets at 4 am received a suspended sentence, with a judge warning he will serve it in full if he reoffends.
gript.ie/no-jail-for-butcher…
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
“As a society we’re not able to empower people to speak out”.
As allegations about David Walliams preying on girls as young as 15 surface, Banseka Kayembe argues on Novara Live that media companies are incentivised to “bend towards stars”.
The fact that many showbiz jobs are so precarious means people who witness inappropriate behaviour feel less able to speak out, she says.
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
This morning I was told of the passing of my good friend and colleague, Danny Kelly. The tributes to him in the coming days from those who knew him and worked with him will give you an idea of how much he was loved.
I loved him too. Very much so. A man who I called "Dad" on air because I wished he was. I hope you give me a few minutes to read my thoughts, and I hope they do you justice, Dan.
By 2008 I was a mess. I would sleep 18 hours a day, the other 6 mostly wanting to die. Once or twice a week I would open my laptop, organise football tabs, gossip and news as prep for jobs in broadcasting that I knew would never come, "just in case". When hope dies, we die, after all.
Then Danny Kelly came into my life.
I was driving out of London having been to see a psychiatrist about the state I was in and had BBC London on the radio. Danny was presenting with a guest, reviewing books. My name came up in the conversation, so I called in.
We hit it off straight away, talked about football for what seemed like forever but was probably a standard 10-12 minute section. But for me it sparked a temporary respite from sleep and chronic mental health issues and even for that I was grateful.
A couple of years later Danny joined talkSPORT to do the 7-10pm slot through the week. He told me he was offered a few co-presenters but he remembered that conversation we had and he wanted me to do it.
A lifeline of work, passionately talking about our sport, having fun and feeling a value as a human again. Something lost for 7 long years.
Danny gifted me that. Without that I know I wouldn't be writing this today.
"Always fresh, never frozen" was the tagline in a Domino's read we had to do in the show, something we'd instinctively greet each other with until our last meeting, in a pub, broadcasting for talkSPORT around 3 years ago. I didn't know that time would be the last, but perhaps fittingly we hugged as I left, I'm glad I did.
The shows were loved. They were funny, honest, insightful and I hope, along with Saggers after that, proof that Danny's belief in me was worthy. But to say my love for him was only thanks for a job doesn't even scratch the surface.
His kindness, his phone calls late at night ( Dan was a notorious night owl) of support, his man hugs, his indomitable spirit, his big brain on anything from football to music to geopolitics, his love, as I know many others will testify, came from the biggest of hearts and the biggest of souls housed in a giant of a man in every sense.
Dan, thank you, thank you for the kindness, the fun, the hope, the support and for being someone to look up to and aspire to be.
I love you very much, I know I'll hug you again some day. Thank you for everything.
"I love football Stan, I love it ".
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
Why I stand with Tipp FM against this monster of a state agency:
johnandsarah.ie/p/i-stand-wi…
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
BREAKING - The Spanish National Police confirm Operation Bernabé following the disappearance of Darren Hoolahan.
Six searches on Oct 27, including one where Hoolahan is thought to have been held captive. 5 arrests of Kinahan mob. 3 handguns, AK-47 & a submachine gun seized
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
#Iran | Déclaration d'attribution à l'Iran de cyber-attaques visant la France.
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
Seems incredible overkill by money-no-object taxpayer-enabled Coimisiun na Mean to launch an investigation into local radio station Tipp FM over a single segment of a programme broadcast two years ago and to threaten the local radio station with a fine of up to €20m, a fraction of which would destroy it.
Should say, it is the Examiner which claims "it is understood" the investigation relates to this single broadcast, but presumably they've confirmed that with CnM or with Tipp FM.
This investigation will be incredibly intrusive in the operation of Tipp FM, but for the €40m operating cost CnM it's inconsequential, and presumably they need something to investigate to justify their existence (32 directors, nearly 300 staff, swanky offices, money-no-object** legal & PR).
cnam.ie/investigations-comme…
** except when they're up against Elon Musk who can knock their lights out
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
A group of Israeli settlers have seized eight Palestinian homes on Wednesday in Jericho, located in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian sources reported that the settlers, accompanied by their families, stormed the eight homes, which were empty at the time of the raid
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
Settlers move into Palestinian homes near Jericho, as residents reportedly flee haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1…
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
Italian chef fired for refusing to put pineapple on pizza bbc.in/4egT8uf
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
MATT TREACY: At one end of the permit spectrum there are smaller businesses who prefer to hire their own compatriots; and at the other larger ones who seem to prefer to hire non-Irish people as part of some conscious ‘diversity’ thing. A bleak future.
gript.ie/work-permits-increa…
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
🇮🇪 Irish publishing scandal. 🇮🇪
"“Huge congratulations to Ronan Lyons on having his book Brittle top the Irish book charts as no 1 bestseller,” Daft(dot)ie wrote in a post on LinkedIn."
Property website Daft were caught with their pants down artificially boosting "Brittle" to the No.1 spot on the Irish non-fiction book charts by bulk buying 1,800 out of 1,947 copies in a week sending it to No.1 on the Irish best seller charts. Lyons has been stripped of his best seller status by Nielsen.
Importantly, as the article states, "For 20 years, Ronan Lyons has been the author of the Daft(dot)ie housing reports."
Daft boosted sales to promote their in-house housing expert and in doing so artificially manipulated the Bestseller list.
And there is a more important subtext. The cover carried a blurb from establishment whisperer David McWilliams. Lyons, the author, is a Trinity Professor who regularly appears on RTE, TodayFM, Irish Times, Matt Cooper show etc. The book was published with Atlantic Books and distributed across all major bookshops across Ireland.
Even with all of these factors, the book wouldn't have registered a ripple without Daft artificially boosting it and in doing so trying to turn it into a publishing phenomenon.
I compare this to Vandalising Ireland which went to no.1 in Ireland, hung around the top 5 in the best sellers for a couple of weeks and dominated the Irish Amazon charts in 2025. It further took several No.1 spots on US Amazon. It happened despite the national media blacking it out. It happened despite many bookshops refusing to stock it and many others begrudgingly stocking it - that is leaving it under the counter, or failing to restock once sold out. It became a hit against all the odds and against the best efforts of the national media.
And this is a major problem.
People now understand that people like Lyons and McWilliams are - to use an over-used term - controlled opposition. They are cozy insiders and lobbyists posing as truth-tellers. But of course, these people are part of the establishment and back them up by providing 'solutions' that in no way risk the economic model (demographic-shattering FDI over-reliance and EU federalisation). When FF/G mess up so spectacularly that they can't cover up their disastrous policies anymore, these are the people rolled out to deliver stern warnings, diffuse anger, give the illusion of change but ultimately, keep FF/G in power.
People are sick of being patronised. People are sick of seeing the same faces and hearing the same old arguments from people desperate to keep their seat in the D4 media bubble so it is no surprise that Lyons' book *actually* flopped.
The artificial boosting of Lyons's book is a scandal. Daft are the primary villains but they are only one of the guilty parties. The news outlets that artificially boosted his arguments are equally guilty. And of course few will find it plausible that Lyons himself had no idea of Daft's plan.
This scandal gives people a glimpse into just how tightly controlled by the D4 clique all public discourse, all media and all politics are in Ireland.
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Economist Ronan Lyons’s housing crisis book loses its Irish bestseller crown as bulk sales stripped out buff.ly/1UO5lvY
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
This is a police officer photographed during yesterday’s events outside a secret Azov facility in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, near Kyiv, where beaten men were reportedly discovered and protests erupted.
He has become a symbol of how ordinary Ukrainians increasingly see the police: as an institution serving the interests of Zelensky’s corrupt regime and enforcing its machinery of forced mobilization.
Police officers appear in almost every video of the notorious busification raids — Ukraine’s brutal practice of snatching men off the streets and dragging them into military vans.
They twist men’s arms behind their backs. They carry them by their hands and feet and throw them into vans like sacks of human cargo.
They hunt down soldiers who have gone AWOL and hold them in places like this shadowy facility in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka.
They lie to protesters and journalists about the whereabouts of detained men. They obstruct medical personnel attempting to provide them with the care to which they are legally entitled.
They fail to protect jour"vigilantes" — thugs who attack civilians in the name of defending Azov’s supposedly spotless reputation.
This is the hideous face of Zelensky’s regime: a regime that, in its insatiable hunger for ever more power, is steadily devouring what remains of its own people's trust.
The more power it grabs, the more legitimacy it loses.
Alan O'Riordan retweeted
So, yesterday, Russians consciously turned a school shelter in Ukraine’s South into a collective grave. Dropped nine (!) aerial bombs. 27 tons (!) of explosives.
29 people confirmed dead. 48 missing. 2 first responders, 4 policemen, and the rest - local civilians.
It’s diabolical.
#Komyshuvakha
