Speciality Specific Findings: •risk that patients are not treated within clinically recommended timeframes. •risk that waiting lists do not accurately reflect the true length of patient waiting times. •risk of inconsistent clinical prioritisation and triage recording. •risk that compliance with NTPF protocols cannot be demonstrated. •risk that funded initiatives are not sufficiently governed or evidenced. •risk that initiative eligibility and delivery cannot always be validated. •risk to data quality, performance reporting and management decision making. •risk of over-reliance on informal or verbal processes. •risk that service capacity constraints continue to drive long waits.

10 June: The Ditch publishes a story on an unreleased report showing child patients are forced to wait significantly longer than private patients at Children's Health Ireland facilities 11 June: Paul Murphy raises the story in the Dáil, saying, "That’s pretty much across the board in terms of a massive discrepancy of waiting time in public versus waiting time for private" 15 June: The HSE is forced to publish the report – which it had refused to do before The Ditch story and Murphy's intervention – and RTÉ's Fergal Bowers covers it. "The HSE added that the review does not identify evidence of inequity in access to care and this is important," he wrote. An RTÉ radio segment with Bowers questions previous interpretations of the leaked report The report itself:

There have been zero small boat crossings across the 40km English Channel between Calais in France and Dover in England for two weeks. You get these gaps from time to time. However, in Ireland, the weekly "arrivals", most of whom come into the State via N Ireland have remained in the suspiciously narrow weekly margin of 170-280 for nearly two years. Why? Google "staged transportation" or read last week's article below...

In 2022 Jen Psaki was asked about claims that the US were operating biolabs in Ukraine. She denied the existence of "bioweapons" programs and then called the whole thing Russian disinformation. The White House was knowing and deliberately lying to the World. She blamed Russia.

The HSE, Children’s Health Ireland, the state: all have refused or failed to publish the report. Here it is. An internal audit exposing how child patients on public lists are forced to wait for vital surgery – those with private health insurance don't. ontheditch.com/the-unpublish…

"I'm making this speech to warn anyone who's watching that what we're experiencing right now is a key moment of corporate takeover." Shed-sits, gutting democratic oversight in planning, pushing nuclear power... The corporate capture of the Irish government is real. #NoShedSits

Ireland's hospital waiting lists have exceeded one million patients for the first time ever, following an increase of nearly 10,000 people in a single month. The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has expressed extreme concern over the figures, pointing out that the ongoing practice of cancelling elective procedures to manage emergency room overcrowding is severely impacting patient health outcomes. #WaitingLists #HSE #Hospitals #ICHA irishtimes.com/health/2026/0…

Abolishing the Triple Lock is a direct erosion of Ireland’s military neutrality and our sovereignty. No more UN safeguard means any future government can send our troops wherever they want with just a Dáil majority. Like what they did with the EU migration pact. They’re going to do it against our will. We need a referendum on neutrality before it’s too late.

Family at centre of Irish deportation to South Africa, has been deported again! And where are RTE, Irish Times, Ivana Bacik, Richard Boyd Barrett and others now? Probably trying to get the egg off their faces! In February 2026, we had wall-to-wall coverage of the "South African" family, the Oyekanmi family (mother, three children) who were being deported from Dublin to South Africa. Irish Times featured the family several times, RTE reported a protest outside the Dept of Justice, Ivana Bacik led the campaign in the Dail to stop the deportation with close support from Richard Boyd Barrett. There was a legal challenge to the deportation, with the family represented by KOD Lyons. On 28 February, they were deported to South Africa. But then, they were deported again on 3 March 2026 from South Africa to Nigeria on the basis they are Nigerian nationals (and not just the mother as claimed in Irish media). The family have been the subject of at least two parliamentary questions in the South African parliament, see below. There are local claims in South Africa that their passports used to enter Ireland were fraudulent, but that hasn't been verified. Given the heartstring-tugging coverage by our mainstream media, you might think the South Africa to Nigeria deportation might merit a footnote, but that might be "decidedly unhelpful" as it may call into question the soundness of our asylum system ( particulaly the vetting, and the soundness of our media, and the soundness of certain politicians). H/T @Paula8178681

This is not just wrong on every level but dangerous. It shouldn't pass as serious commentary. 'International law is a means to the end of protecting Irish interests.'

The Parnell Square accused Riad Bouchaker (52) visited and spent 10 minutes at a Sunni Muslim mosque on nearby Talbot Street, 90 minutes before allegedly launching a knife attack on children. Whilst there have been reports on RTE and Mirror that the accused visited a premises at 8-9 Talbot Street, none have disclosed that this "premises" is a Sunni Muslim mosque. If Paddy McGinty had visited a church 90 minutes before allegedly carrying out an atrocity, you can be bloody sure that would be reported.

RT @ClareDalyIRL: The jaws of a carefully set trap are closing on @kajakallas. Fitting somehow if it's this, the first good thing she's a…

The Ditch: The Party Line | Episode 14: Fascism at Home, with William Wall 'It seems plain enough to me that whatever about a posture or certain aesthetics that might hint at a right populism, at its core it's Declan Ganley and his big gaff outside Galway, hoovering up state contracts in the US. They might posture as right populists but it seems to me like a right, capitalist podcast for the right capitalist class. 'I think that that brings it very much home because we are concerned about the rise of the right on behalf of trans people. We are concerned about the rise of the right on behalf of immigrants. We're concerned about all of these things partly out of what you might see as a kind of solidaristic response to the people who are potentially at the receiving end of their rise. 'But we are also concerned because we are trying to win class politics for a mass of people in this country.'

Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=Cma_65kd…

The match – for now – will go ahead at a neutral venue. The campaign against it continues. Israel shouldn’t be treated as a normal nation, least of all by one that intervened at the ICJ in support of a case accusing it of genocide. ontheditch.com/comment-the-p…

Whilst British authorities were very quick to provide details of Belfast beheading accused Hadid Alodid arrival in Belfast on 10 Feb 2023, and his asylum process and British ministers are now being challenged, and there is even some detailed reporting on Alodid's journey from Sudan to France, we are now four days on and there hasn't been a peep out of Irish authorities. When did Alodid fly from Paris to Dublin? What airline? What documentation did he have? Was the airline fined for allowing him BOARD without documentation? Did he claim asylum in Dublin? Irish authorities have form for ridiculous ineptitude (or worse), meet the 26-year old male Afghan asylum seeker below with the girl's name. You'll recall with the prosecution of Habib Shamel Shah for a murder in Limerick that Irish authorities didn't know if Shah was 27 or 32 years old, or if he arrived in Ireland in October 2022 or October 2020. Four days after the Belfast attack, we have details on the accused's history in N Ireland, and we have history of his journey from Sudan to France. But Ireland is a black box, and it's beginning to look sinister that Irish authorities can't disclose the details.

They are saying the quiet part out loud now. @danobrien20 on @morningireland saying that Ireland should do nothing about thousands of innocent civilians being starved and slaughtered, because speaking out against genocide will impact Irish jobs. International law is finished.

“It’s insane, we have a rogue US military contractor handling our most sensitive data. Palantir has a contract running our nuclear missile program. We have no national security.” Palantir. IT'S WORSE Than You Think @carolecadwalla

Wast€rs #ReTurn Dublin City Council dumps €155,000 worth of ‘completely useless’ Re-turn bin surrounds ...internal emails show that senior council officials branded them “an eyesore” and “not fit for purpose” last month, before ordering workers to remove them from 110 public bins across the capital. #HowIrelandWorks independent.ie/county/dublin…

When the government says they want to remove the Triple Lock to 'reclaim' sovereignty, they actually mean they want Ireland to be part of a common EU military force. irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…