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Jun 10
I have said this before and I'll say it again, you can not hate the press enough.
This is apparently what it means to be making great progress in multicultural Ireland 2026.
@IrishTimes lying scumbags
Jun 10
Little Girl Communicates By Blinking Only, After Accused Man is Said To Have St***ed Her Over a Social Welfare Grievance
The trial of Riad Bouchaker (52) has commenced at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin regarding the November 2023 knife attack at Parnell Square. The prosecution alleges Bouchaker intended to kill two girls and a boy. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. The trial is expected to last five weeks.
Victim and Witness Testimony
The Mother’s Evidence
The mother of the most severely injured girl—now aged nearly 8, but 5 at the time—testified that her daughter is now non-verbal, uses a wheelchair, and communicates only by blinking "yes" or "no."
On the day of the attack, the mother, who works in the city centre, almost stayed home sick. At 1:45 PM, she received a frantic phone call from the crèche owner stating her daughter had been stabbed. She ran toward the school, bypassing cordons at the O'Connell Street Spire where emergency services had gathered. At the scene, she witnessed five paramedics treating her daughter, identifying her by her pink backpack and runners.
Her daughter was rushed to Temple Street Hospital for emergency heart surgery. Due to a 40-minute deprivation of oxygen, the child suffered severe brain damage and now has dystonia, a condition causing involuntary muscle reactions that prevents her from doing anything independently.
Emergency Interventions
Leanne Flynn (Crèche Worker): Intervened after seeing Bouchaker approach the children with a knife. She bravely grabbed him from behind and shouted at him to get away before realising she had sustained a large laceration to her left side.
French Citizen: Crossed the road to intervene, grabbed Bouchaker's hand, and threw the knife away, sustaining a cut to his hand and a scratch to his face.
Emergency Personnel: A flagged-down critical care technician performed CPR on the most severely injured girl, who had no pulse and was not breathing at the scene. Another young girl sustained blood matted in her hair and bone fragments near the crown of her head.
Prosecution and Garda Interviews:
Prosecuting counsel Karl Finnegan stated that intent is proven through actions. He asked the jury to consider Bouchaker's selection of young children, his focus on upper body, neck, chest, and head areas, his repeated stabbing motions, his prior movements, and the necessity of public intervention.
Bouchaker underwent brain surgery in 2021 and sustained further injuries during the public intervention, delaying his Garda interviews by a month.
During interviews, Bouchaker made repeated stabbing motions but maintained he did not intend to kill or harm children. He claimed he was "sick," "not in his right state of mind," and had made a "mistake." He stated he found himself with a knife after throwing something away and was deeply upset by a social welfare application refusal letter.
Trial Modifications and Legal Rulings
Judge Hunt issued several directives and logistical updates for the trial:
Fitness to Stand Trial: The judge ruled Bouchaker fit to stand trial, clarifying there is no evidence of a mental disorder that would support a special mental health defense. The only available verdicts are "guilty" or "not guilty."
Acquired Brain Injury & Accommodations: Due to a head injury sustained during his arrest, Bouchaker has an acquired brain injury causing a short attention span. The court will accommodate him with shorter sessions, an interpreter, and an intermediary.
Jury Instructions: The judge urged the jury to remain objective, noting that the civil unrest following the 2023 attack is irrelevant to the trial. Children may give evidence remotely or behind screens.
Defense Team Reporting Restrictions: Media restrictions remain in place prohibiting the naming of Bouchaker’s legal team due to security concerns stemming from the 2023 Dublin riots.
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dbreen retweeted
Jun 10
The little girl (then 5, now 8) cannot sleep. She cannot talk. She blinks to communicate. She got to use her voice for all of 3 or 4 years of her life before it was stolen. She cannot articulate a single word of her trauma and therefore heal, at least psychologically. Perhaps he stalks her in her dreams. She is trapped in her own mind. No way to share her worries, memories, dreams or thoughts of any kind. Her tears must be silent too. Her laughter as well. If indeed she laughs any more. She has to be sedated at times.
If all this isn't enough for you to say "enough" then I am afraid you are both inhuman and inhumane. She is just a little child. This was done to her because of the government and because of a grown man's minor grievance. A man who never should have been here. A man who still requires an interpreter after 26 years. A man who was reported to have seemed "cheerful" and "jocular" when it was put to him that what he did was gravely serious. He has shown no remorse. The victims and family are subjected to a trial. Not that the child can ever give testimony. 40 mins deprived of oxygen to the brain will produce that effect. Will silence your voice. Potentially forever.
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dbreen retweeted
Jun 6
Fun fact:
I used a VPN & a throwaway SIM to create the twitter account that got me arrested, when I asked the police interrogator how they found me, they admitted they matched up the details of my stabbing that I posted about on the account to the police report I made. Pure evil
Jun 6
“ I don’t trust the police, I’m teaching my son not to call them”
A young mother came to pay tribute to Henry Nowak explained to French media in Southampton
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"The guard of a [legitimate] king is composed of citizens: that of a tyrant is composed of foreigners." -Aristotle
May 12
Ach dul sa Gharda Síochána, athrófar do shaol, agus saol daoine eile.
Is post deacair é a bheith i do Gharda. Ach is post é gur fiú a dhéanamh.
Cuir isteach anseo ar publicjobs.ie/ga/garda-faoi-…
#ItsAJobWorthDoing
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The brutal truth is that our entire system relies on abortion
You can’t keep women in the work force without abortion
You can’t maintain the casual sex culture and disrupt family formation without abortion
Women with children find themselves dependent on men, single women find themselves dependent on the state
Women are more likely to take abuse from employers, less likely to demand raises, less likely to oppose their replacement
People have been conditioned to believe they couldn’t function in society without abortion, and at some level we’ve ensured that’s correct
We’re far from the first civilization to base itself on child sacrifice but don’t lie to yourself, that’s exactly what we’ve done
You can look back on the Mayans in horror because they did their sacrifices on an altar but they could never hope to match our level of slaughter
Until the paradigm shifts there will be no popular support for it’s restriction
May 7
Abortion has never been more normalized or popular.
The pro-life movement, if their goal is to save lives rather than pay themselves $400,000 a year to go on podcasts, should ask why they keep losing at the state level, rather than agitate against Trump.
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dbreen retweeted
May 6
every once in awhile you find a youtube video of such pure unadulterated greatness you have to share it
in 2 minutes this guy solved a decade of bicep and shoulder tightness and small recurring tears
may God shine countless blessings upon this man
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dbreen retweeted
May 1
"A country that is, right now, seriously debating whether its young people should live in sheds in their parents’ gardens." - The Failure Premium.
Apr 30
🇮🇪 Ireland set to surpass Luxembourg and become richest country in Europe by 2030, IMF says.
Community note
The IMF projection refers to GDP per capita PPP, which overstates Ireland's economy due to multinational firms booking profits there for tax reasons; Modified GNI* excludes these distortions for a better measure of domestic income. breakingnews.ie/ireland/irelan… cso.ie/en/interactive…
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Apr 27
Meet the hidden heroes, The Grey Nuns. During the Irish famine in 1847 thousands of starving Irish immigrants washed up on Montreal's docks dying of typhus. The doctors fled, the priests hesitated and a mob tried to throw the sick into the river. Yet forty Catholic nuns walked in instead. They carried dying children in their arms, they nursed strangers and thirty of them caught the disease. Seven of them died, but they saved thousands yet nobody remembers them.
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Apr 18
Continuum Ep. 5 | Why Is Ireland So Left Wing?
Keith Woods explains the remarkable dominance of left wing politics in Ireland.
Contrary to many of the explanations that Ireland's leftism is rooted in "third worldism" or Irish nationalism, Keith argues the answer lies in Ireland's remarkable elite cohesion and their dominance over public life.
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dbreen retweeted
Apr 17
Last time a president said no to Israel:
JUST IN: Trump says Israel is now "prohibited by the USA" from bombing Lebanon
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dbreen retweeted
Apr 17
In Ireland;
A politics journalist writes about the government with an eye on a government advisor position.
A trade union leader negotiates with the government with an eye on a government public body management position.
An NGO head consults with the government with an eye on expanded government funds.
This is the wedge that has disenfranchised the Irish electorate.
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dbreen retweeted
Apr 16
Les boomers sont pareils quelques soit le pays, mdr
Mar 24
“Comprábamos casa con un año de ahorro pero los jovenes no pueden porque van al cine y a la discoteca”
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dbreen retweeted
Apr 13
🇮🇪 🚨
Reminder that the Irish government committed almost €19 billion of our taxes to the EU Covid fund while receiving just €2 billion back in grants 💰 🇪🇺
€19,000,000,000
Again Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are burning through our taxes 🔥💰
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Apr 13
Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.
An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.
The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.
In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.
Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.
In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.
I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.
One of the biggest mysteries to me is how Orcas, the ocean’s most efficient predators, have never attacked humans in the wild… almost like they know something we don’t.
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dbreen retweeted
Orban's persistent stubbornness is what blocked the years-long attempt to institute a refugee quota system across the EU. The EU eventually gave up due to his refusal to accept it.
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When will this prick just f*ck off and leave Ireland?
Apr 12
In my column today, I set out why financial support for Ukraine is 100% in our own self-interest. If Putin wins there'll be more refugees, more wars and price shocks. I also set out why the carbon tax and climate action can free the next generation from the roller coaster of fossil fuel prices we've had to deal with since the 1970's
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There's an eerie feeling about the government's response to the protests.
It has 2008 written all over it. We have money for every cause but our own people.
They've squandered our money, and we all know it. That's why this country is standing up. #FuelProtest #MakeWorkPay #CostOfLiving
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Apr 11
I had initially thought that my fuel was too expensive, but then I learned that one of the hundreds of people protesting isn't perfect, and now I realise I should actually be taxed more.
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