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If I correct a reader... that is not Trolling. If I suggest a solution & it goes against your opinion... that is not Trolling. #Context
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
6 in 10 (59%) of all the homeless people in emergency accommodation in Dublin are not Irish.
23% are from the EU/EEA or the UK and 36% are the rest of the world. Only 41% are Irish.
It's costing the taxpayer hundreds of millions to house people who shouldn't be here.
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
Its like the entire social apparatus of the State is nothing but a giant portrait of Dorian Gray. The public face is presented as sophisticated, vibrant, and beautiful. The reality is a festering wreck, kept out of sight, because no wants to face what we have really become.
No special care bed is available for a boy who vomited up almost 40 bags of crack cocaine, the High Court has heard
rte.ie/news/2026/1103/159782…
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
This is absolutely wild.😱
TD Carol Nolan acted on some information I put out last week regarding the Charity Regulator and missing pdfs and discovered that charities are not required to file their accounts with the regulator by law!
What an admission from the Charities Regulator to Qs from Independent TD @CNolanOffaly .
"A charity is not currently required to file its financial statements with the Charity Regulator."
17 years after the Charities Act was introduced, that provision is still not enacted.
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
This is the correct approach. The only reason this series was commissioned is so that the demographic replacement of the Irish people which has been deliberately engineered by the Irish establishment can be marketed as inevitable to the boomer RTÉ demographic. It is an inoculation so that they have a list of soundbites such as "sure, who will pay our pensions?" to regurgitate to their homeless grandchildren around the Christmas table.
Not watching the Miriam O’Callaghan-fronted 2-part documentary on our declining birth rate because RTE has failed to report the declining native population (in fairness, because neither the Central Statistics Office nor think tanks have publicised the decline, and RTE doesn’t really have the capacity to do the research and crunch the numbers itself). But if RTE News doesn’t know what’s going on with the Irish native population generally, fairly safe to say one of its veteran presenters is clueless also on demographics.
It is worth noting that the 2-part documentary is produced for RTE by an Independent production company, with co-funding from Research Ireland (taxpayer). Also worth saying that whatever the production company is paying Miriam to present is ON TOP OF what RTE is paying her, probably around €20,000. So Miriam may come very close to equalling her husband’s pay in 2026; it must be uncomfortable to have been the big earner for most of your marriage but to be leapfrogged by your husband in 2025.
#TheyAreLaughingAtUs
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
Employers are deliberately recruiting workers from overseas as tens of thousands of young Irish emigrate.
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…
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
Ireland has the most expensive electricity in Europe.
Fuel fuels the cost of living.
The govt could do something about the cost of living but they choose not to.
Side note: the govt owns the ESB
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
Guess which authority saved the Irish taxpayer €10m this week, and nearly €250m since mid June 2026?
Take a bow PSNI, UK Border Force and UK Home Office Immigration Enforcement!
Thanks to them, we had 152 asylum "arrivals" in Dublin last week, down from a Jan-Jun weekly average of 243. At a cost of €122,000 apiece per Department of Justice, that's a saving of €10m last week, and given the 40% reduction in weekly arrivals since the Belfast attempted beheading on 8 June 2026 and immediate crackdown, that comes to over €240m.
Of course the wily junior asylum minister Colm Brophy is claiming all the credit himself for the reduction in arrivals, but he is lying his arse off.
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Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
Before you give yourself a clap on the back @OCallaghanJim the fact is at no time under EU Law was Ireland obliged to support these Romanians living here in Ireland unless they were self supporting.But no that criteria is never applied until they commit crime here.
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
Charity of the Month! Ireland’s prostitution charity Ruhama publishes its annual report, and separately annual audited accounts. It’s eye-opening.
Before we begin, and in answer to what Garda Commissioner Drew Harris did next, he’s now on the Ruhama board.
Last year, Ruhama’s income increased 25% to €2.5m with nearly all coming from the taxpayer. Around 60% goes on staff, though it’s coy on its project expenditure, with its CEO Barbara Condon presumably on €80-90,000 excluding pension costs. It has increased its staff by 33% in the year to 43.
In terms of its core function of helping prostitutes, particularly those trafficked and coerced, transition to other employment, it’s hard to know how genuine its "clients" are, and whether dubious “prostitutes”, nearly all non-Irish are using Ruhama to access employment and housing.
It makes much of its “welfare checks” conducted with our friend, Superintendent Derek Maguire’s Garda Organised Prostitition Investigation Unit. As noted by others, like Senator Michael McDowell, Gardai with Ruhama recently conducted 266 welfare checks during Operation Global Chain and didn’t identify a single trafficking victim which is just not credible. Welfare checks have become a substitute for law enforcement (which should be like shooting fish in a barrel) and Ruhama welfare checks are dubious.
We no longer have any faith in Ruhama which in 2026, appears to be a self-sustaining (and expanding) NGO and its annual report is a word salad of Li(ngo) Bi(ngo). We don’t actually know what the final infographic below means, what is a “non-cisgender” which apparently excludes what they call “transwomen”?
Ruhama 2025 annual report is here
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Separate 2025 audited accounts here
ruhama.ie/wp-content/uploads…
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
This is the fundamental problem with Irish media now. They aren’t independent of the State anymore, worse, they aren’t independent of the govt of the day.
They rely on politicians to pay their wages now. It’s why journalists parrot the party line, why they publish its propaganda and crucially, why they don’t ask awkward questions anymore.
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
Who knew that donating to the Red Cross would fund a house rental for 2 years.
You learn something new everyday.
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
The plan would appear to be to move thousands of former IPAS into social housing as a priority category while much of the private sector rental and buys are going to people on work permits. We have the evidence of our own eyes apart from the statistics.
MATT TREACY's research suggests that, with up to 40% of social housing going to people born overseas in some areas, and with IPAS centres almost full since 2024, it is clear that former IPAS residents are increasingly being pushed into emergency and social accommodation.
gript.ie/the-use-of-emergenc…
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
In case you're young and don't speak fluent propaganda, "massively unfair" in the headline translates to "normal".
Oh, and the 236% increase in applications proves, what the 'far right' have been saying for years - word about Ireland's confetti passports is out across the globe and economic opportunists are scrambling now that the government has been pressured into behaving like a minimally functional state.
Numbers applying for Irish citizenship soars by 236% ahead of 'massively unfair' rules change irishexaminer.com/news/polit…
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
The problem with the national children's hospital fiasco is that no single government minister has been held to account. No single minister has resigned.
The hospital is a litmus test for how broken Irish democracy truly is. Other big government failures are often in polarising so an embattled minister can rally the troops and lean into ideology. This obscene, grotesque, incomprehensible failure by several ministers and governments is not a partisan issue. It is simple economics. Every informed citizen should be, and likely is, outraged and that outrage should drive consequences.
And yet...nothing happens.
That is the definition of a crippled democracy - a government that operates in a bubble free from any consequences because they have castrated the national media - who have downplayed and distracted from this outrage - through financial handouts and because their 'opposition' - SF - has acted as a silent partner for the past two decades and care more about Palestine and abortion (social and ideologically-driven policy) than holding the government's feet to the fire on bread and butter economic issues.
When FF/G can overspend on a single project by €1.6 billion and shrug it off, then they know they can get away with anything.
Aontú found out there are more problems in the Children's Hospital.
316 manual sliding doors need fixing, 126 of the 244 bathroom pods had drainage issues, 11 of the 22 operating theatre floors require remediation. 3 which have to be redone a third time.
thesun.ie/news/17744562/chil…
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
How can one government spend so much money without it ever seeming to make a difference to anyone's life? #Budget2027
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
It can’t be acknowledged enough that @Ben_Scallan always finds himself alone in asking the questions that 75% of regular Irish people would ask and that the rest of MSM purposely don’t.
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
You can never build enough houses if you give the houses to all comers through your open borders.
The maths will never math.
Now we have the Louth social housing figures by nationality.
gript.ie/34-of-louth-social-…
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
So let me continue the story of the Indians who bought the local shop. 6 members of Irish staff now all gone. 4 members of staff all Indian. In a single swoop 'community' is gone.
Searlait ni Chochlain retweeted
RTE continues to abuse its position to foist voices upon us which are pro-Nato, pro-weapons spending, anti-neutrality or anti-Triple Lock or a combination thereof.
Its weekend flagship current affairs programme today features Dan O'Brien. Somehow, I doubt there'll be criticism of all the weapons spending .... €1bn on armoured cars and cannon, €500m on radar to replace the radar we gave to Ukraine, €600m with Airbus for helicopters and surveillance planes, €250m for a new ship, €40m for Javelin missiles, €20m for drone missiles, €60m for array sonar which will destroy marine life etc, etc.
Brazen, but then again Brendan O'Connor is paid €240,000 a year for 4-hrs week on-air for 40 weeks a year at an utterly bust basketcase 100% dependant on a government decision to back the outfit.
