Tóibín calls for a new political movement. Speech by Peadar Tóibín at commemoration for Frank Driver,... youtu.be/Lyk6ASgInvE?a

.@Pontifex welcomes Irish Bishops’ message: The Wonder of the Child in the Womb 'Day for Life' statement: The Wonder of the Child in the Womb – Reflecting on the humanity of the unborn⬇️ catholicbishops.ie/2026/06/1…

SINN FÉIN TO BRING FORWARD BILL TO SCRAP 3-DAY WAIT Sinn Féin is set to bring forward a bill to scrap the 3-day wait period before abortion in the Dáil next Tuesday evening. The Bill is seeking to remove the mandatory three‑day waiting period before an abortion can be certified. However, critics say getting rid of the time to reflect could increase the already spiralling abortion rate with close to 11,000 abortions in the most recent year for with statistics are available alone. The party says the current requirement is “unnecessary”, “arbitrary”, and a barrier to access, but the proposal is likely to spark renewed debate over the safeguards originally promised during the 2018 referendum. The Bill, introduced by Sinn Féin health spokesperson David Cullinane, would amend the 2018 abortion legislation to delete the statutory pause between a woman’s first consultation and the certification of an abortion. When introducing the Bill, Cullinane told the Dáil that the measure is “straightforward and targeted”, insisting that the waiting period “does not provide care, does not provide support, and does not make the service safer”. “The mandatory wait is a barrier, and it should be removed,” he said, adding that Sinn Féin had been “clear and consistent” in opposing the requirement since 2018. The Bill also reflects a policy position endorsed at the party’s most recent Ard Fheis. Critics of removing the waiting period have long argued that the three‑day pause was a key safeguard presented to voters during the referendum campaign, intended to ensure space for reflection and support. Pro‑life groups, such as the Life Institute are expected to oppose the Bill, saying “it dismantles one of the few remaining checks in Ireland’s abortion framework.” Sandra Parda of the Life Institute recently warned that scrapping the 3-day period of reflection before an abortion could see “already spiralling” rates rising, with estimates of up to 2,000 additional abortions every year. Ms Parda also highlighted data released to Carol Nolan TD from the HSE which showed that between 2019 and 2024 a total of 10,426 did not return for an abortion after the 3-day period of reflection which followed their first appointment. The Government did not oppose the Bill at First Stage, though Ministers have not yet indicated whether they will support or block it when it comes before the Dáil next week. It is expected that a free ‘conscience vote’ will apply as it did in the recent, but more wide-ranging Social Democrat Bill which dealt with the same issue. Sinn Féin says its Bill is an “overdue” first step, while pro-life advocates argue it represents a further liberalisation of Ireland’s abortion regime. thelifeinstitute.net/news/20…

The government seeks to end Irish Neutrality. Another sovereignty swap with the EU. Please help the push back.

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Catastrophic for more children in utereo.

Head scratching here too. Is it to trivialise motherhood? Devalue children? Or just attention seeking. It seems like a subtle pressure to abort. Time is a luxury. Insist on it. Keep the 3 day wait, because we are worth it.

Israel is destroying every single home in the southern 40 miles of Lebanon. This is not “targeting Hezbollah strongholds.” These are Christian villages and Sunni villages and Shia villages where people have lived for centuries.

Abortion pills can be given without a woman's knowledge and thereby cause feticide — one reason to ban them. Abortion pills can be taken knowingly and thereby cause feticide — another reason to ban them. Dangerous for the mother and fatal for the child! wafb.com/2026/06/12/la-man-a…

I'm still on a quest to understand what is happening at @rte and Ireland's broadcast regulator Coimisiún na Mean @CNaM_ie - I'm doing a bit of research at the moment that is yielding fascinating results. It will likely take another week or two - link will be the one in bio 🔍

When I was growing up, Arklow had a fleet that filled the harbour from top to bottom. Due to EU policy it became a shadow of what it was. It completely killed the Irish fishing industry It looks like our farming industry, the best in the world, is going to meet the same fate.

NEW: Over a thousand Catholics are processing with the Eucharist in a Rosary procession through Derry Comes as part of a global initiative, with 400 parishes & 50 Marian shrines holding prayers in unison 🎥@MLJHaynes

Ireland is being made to shrink its dairy herd, with healthy in-calf cows going to slaughter early, to satisfy a nitrogen figure set in Brussels. Start with how cruel the timing is. Barely a decade ago, when the EU scrapped its milk quotas in 2015, Ireland told its farmers to do the opposite. Expand. Grow the herd. Build the new parlour. The government's own strategy pushed dairy hard for export growth, and thousands of families borrowed heavily and did exactly as they were asked. Now the same establishment that cheered them bigger is ordering them smaller. The instrument is a rule that sounds technical and harmless. The EU caps the nitrogen that livestock manure may spread on the land. Ireland's grass-fed dairy farms, among the most efficient and lowest-carbon on earth, held a hard-won allowance to graze a little heavier. After a water-quality review, that allowance was cut, from 250 kilos of nitrogen a hectare down to 220, across great swathes of the country from 2024, and it has stayed under threat ever since, its conditions tightening at every review. To drop under the new line, a farmer has three doors. Find more land, ship his slurry away, or get rid of cows. Land is scarce and the squeeze itself sent rents soaring, so for many the only door left is the herd. The Irish Farmers Association reckoned an extra sixty nine thousand acres would be needed nationally just to stand still. One senator, a farmer himself, warned that up to forty one thousand cows, a great many of them pregnant, could be sent to slaughter to comply, and called it an animal welfare catastrophe in the making. Sit with that. Healthy, productive, in-calf cows, on some of the greenest grass in Europe, culled early because a stocking number on a form moved by thirty kilos. The very cows the nation was begging the farmer to buy ten years ago. This is what modern environmental policy looks like at the sharp end. A good cow loaded onto a lorry she never needed to be on, on a wet Tuesday in County Cork, to shift a figure in a spreadsheet.

Why does the EU need to take on any burden? Why opt to take on what is perceived as a burden? Who is compelling, encouraging Europe to take on these migrants?

Were you guys listening when a similar bill failed a couple of weeks ago? Is there nothing else that needs attention? Seriously? Abortion? For What died the Sons of Róisín?

A cabinet of Hitlers.

This week, the Irish Examiner Cormac O'Keeffe article from 2025 on the Jihadist attack on a priest in Galway was up for an award. It didn't win, but it reminds us the attacker used an 8-inch hunting knife that had a serrated blade, and that the attacker had a "notebook with sketches of beheadings. They found actual videos of Islamic State beheadings in some of his digital devices." irishexaminer.com/news/court… The attacker stabbed the chaplain seven times in the arms, chest, face, and stomach; the attacker was only stopped by the remarkable intervention of soldiers at the entrance. The attacker was convicted of attempted murder. The attacker later said he was avenging Islamic State in the African country of Mali (where Irish troops had previously been deployed). There have been high-profile beheadings by Islamic State of their enemies in Mali. Was the Galway Jihadist attack an attempted beheading?

How did Alodid enter Ireland? On what visa? @OCallaghanJim

South Lebanon right now. Israel is dropping massive bombs on civilian homes in Nabatieh.

A Male Transgender childcare worker in Ireland was sacked from his position in a Donegal Creche after offering an 11 year old child a "FREE KISS FROM ME" and "“A BIG KISS” as a "Prize" if the innocent child won a safari game that the man had initiated. Within only 4 DAYS of this man in a dress working in the creche they began to receive complaints from parents regarding his concerning behaviour with their children. After further worrying incidents the creche sacked him, so he pulled the discrimination card and took the creche to court. Luckily he lost his case today. Hopefully the owners of the creche learned something from it all, don't hire certain people in the first place and stop risking innocent children just to display your own fake virtue.

Aontú Castleknock Cllr. Ellen Troy @ellentroy5 condemns the recent Electric Ireland price hikes by a semi-state body. She denounces its actions, influenced by government, that wish to profit off peoples' misery. #aontú