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Gareth O'Brien retweeted
ANCA fails to consider the correct flight paths from the North Runway. Even the Minister has publicly acknowledged the current flight paths are not as planned and need to be reviewed! This is all in the wrong order!
Gareth O'Brien retweeted
Divergent flight paths. Why are they still turning sharp, low and hard over many communities. What’s the reason when alternatives exist? Ryanair and Aer Lingus both said at the Oireachtas Cte they would fly straight out if asked to do so. Incompetence of highest order.
Gareth O'Brien retweeted
ANCA proposes significantly more noise and less protection for residents. Doesn’t add up!
Gareth O'Brien retweeted
Ireland ordered more than 130 electric double-decker buses before ensuring its depots could even charge them.
As of July, most of the buses were still sitting idle in storage, even though many were delivered more than two years ago.
The cost of storing and servicing the electric fleet has now reached almost €7 million.
Officials blame missing grid connections and charging infrastructure. But a charger is not an optional extra for an electric bus. Ireland bought the photo opportunity before building a functioning transport system.
Taxpayers paid millions for the electric buses.
Paid millions more to store them.
Then kept paying to run diesel buses anyway.
Gareth O'Brien retweeted
You had *checks notes* thirteen years in government to make these graphs look different. Thankfully only one of us teaches economics. You wouldn’t even get into my class 💁🏼♀️
Gareth O'Brien retweeted
In May 2018, @ReginaDo noted that while the practice of bogus self employment existed, it was not as widespread as some critics suggested.
In 2026, Revenue Chairman Cody revealled that 280 organisations voluntarily revealed they had misclassified staff and
Gareth O'Brien retweeted
The irony that the daa held up the 40m infrastructure application by taking 20months to supply noise information to the noise competent authority
Requested in Mar ‘24 and delivered in Nov ‘25
Sure what’s the rush when the Minister will bail you out
Gareth O'Brien retweeted
Our society appears to tolerate a grossly incompetent and unsafe healthcare provider, an ineffective and incestuous Medical Council all supervised by an insipidly toothless HIQA and overseen by a government department whose very existence is a contradiction in terms. How in the heck did we arrive here, dear electorate?
Gareth O'Brien retweeted
Wrong-site surgery is classified internationally as a “never event”.
When basic safety systems work, these incidents should not happen.
At the same time, a national audit of waiting list governance at CHI Crumlin found procedure coding mismatches between clinicians’ records and national datasets.
Patient safety depends on reliable systems, accurate records and strong clinical governance.
In 9% of cases, the procedure recorded in the national dataset did not match the clinician’s description.
Examples identified by the auditors included:
•Excision of accessory digit (foot) recorded as
amputation of a complete digit of the hand
•Valve repair recorded as
non-invasive diagnostic test
•Dental extraction recorded as
comprehensive oral examination
•TPVR procedure recorded as
non-invasive diagnostic investigation
These examples come directly from the audit findings. @CHI_Ireland @npsoIRL
Doctors accidentally operate on patient's wrong testicle during surgery at Irish hospital
The Health Service Executive (#HSE) has described the “low” number of such incidents over the two-year period as “encouraging”. However, a patient advocacy group criticised this stance and said wrong-site surgery should never happen.
“Four patients underwent operations on the wrong part of their body. For those four people and their families, there is nothing encouraging about it,” said Stephen McMahon of the Irish Patients Association.
#WrongSiteSurgeries
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Gareth O'Brien retweeted
Apple understands that users miss the experience of always inserting USB cables wrong the first time, and wondered how they could recreate this experience with USB-C…
Gareth O'Brien retweeted
"Mandatory not Compulsory"
The Department of Social Protection has said it is facing 24 separate legal actions connected to the use of biometric data in the Public Services Card. @ciananbrennan
In an update for the Public Accounts Committee, the department said it was “aware of 24 outstanding circuit court cases brought by members of the public arising from the Public Service (sic) Card/retention of biometric data”.
#PSC #HowIrelandWorks @ReginaDo
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Gareth O'Brien retweeted
We need to realize the architecture of this isn’t at all the chaotic mess it may seem.
It’s deliberately constructed like this so that people fall between stools, get shoved from pillar to post and noone has to take ownership or responsibility for anything.
Gareth O'Brien retweeted
BREAKING: MAGA lunatics target Renee Good’s 6-year-old child by flooding his school with harassment and threats — forcing them to switch to online-only classes.
If you were wondering how low MAGA outrage culture can sink, here’s your answer: they’re terrorizing a 26-student elementary school because a grieving 6-year-old goes there.
After Minnesota mother Renee Good was shot and killed by a federal immigration officer, profit-hungry right-wing media and callous MAGA influencers didn’t stop at smearing her. They went after her son’s school, too.
Southside Family Charter School, a small, community-centered K-5 school where kids eat meals together, mentor one another, and take field trips, was forced to move classes online after a flood of threats poured in. Why? Because the New York Post and MAGA social media mobs decided the school’s social justice curriculum made it a political target.
Let that sink in: a school teaching kids empathy and history is now being treated like a crime scene.
The school’s “offense”? Teaching about George Floyd’s murder. Posting a sign reminding ICE that they need a judicial warrant to enter. Encouraging staff to follow the law and protect students. In MAGA world, that’s apparently enough to justify threats, harassment, and calls to defund a school full of children.
Right-wing accounts went full conspiracy mode, claiming without evidence that Renee Good was a “domestic terrorist,” that the school “trained” her to fight federal agents, and that her death was somehow justified. One TikTok pushing this garbage racked up more than 100,000 views.
And then came the feckless politicians.
Republican Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia, safely hundreds of miles away, demanded that all federal funding be stripped from the school, calling it “anti-American.” Because nothing screams patriotism like punishing traumatized kids and educators for not worshipping ICE.
This is the MAGA playbook in plain sight:
Dehumanize the victim.
Smear the community.
Target the children.
School leaders, who are trying to grieve while protecting their students, shut down social media and pulled their online presence just to stop the threats. Still, they emphasized what MAGA rage can’t erase — the fact that the community has rallied around them.
This isn’t about safety. It’s not about education. It’s not about the law. It’s about sending a message: If you question authority, teach history honestly, or dare to humanize immigrants, MAGA will come for you—even if you’re a tiny school full of children mourning their friend’s mom.
They silenced Renee Good with bullets; now they’re trying to silence her son’s classroom with false words.
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