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"CCCC tend not to work off footage that surfaces on social media or is the possession of anyone else outside the official broadcaster because it is open to legal challenges." Pure rubbish. Gardai ask for any sort of footage all the time, no?! independent.ie/sport/gaelic-g…

It's neither here nor there to the story below - but the fact that a potential future Tory leader thinks this is a smart comms strategy should worry people in the party. Petty populism.

BBC STATEMENT "The claim the BBC took down a story after reviewing footage is completely wrong. We did not remove any story and we stand by our journalism. "Our news stories and headlines about Sunday's aid distribution centre incident were updated throughout the day with the

🔴Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan was offered chance to declare confidence in Commissioner Drew Harris, he didn’t take it. Worth reading the exchange between ⁦Brian Mahon⁩ and Minister. ⁦The Irish Daily Mail⁩

Ireland needs to ditch empty promises and economic fairy tales and start confronting reality irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

SUSPENDED Social Democrats TD Eoin Hayes was a surprise attendee at the first meeting of the Ireland-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group. Mr Hayes was suspended after lying about his €199,000 shareholding in Palantir, which would be worth more than €1m now if he held them.

My article on voter fraud case in Kerry this week - the guards *must* do more on this. Who precisely gave the polling card to David Moriarty? Do the guards have no curiosity?

So the govt is going to tell us they will spend incredible sums on infrastructure today...but won't say where. Is this a bad joke? RTE news : Concerns raised over level of details in Govt's NDP rte.ie/news/2025/0722…

Allegations of voter 'irregularities' in 2019 in Kerry (that place again) will not be prosecuted by the DPP, the Irish Daily Mail can confirm. 👀

Pretty much sums it up.

The govt is launching a consultation *today* on exempting cabins and modular homes from needing planning permission. This was announced four-six months ago? What took so long to launch a damn consultation? Housing crisis, what housing crisis?

Interesting interview with Danny Healy-Rae this week on Radio Kerry.

Yea, this isn't going to wash. Just apologise and move on is surely the correct thing to do ethically and politically? Why is she digging in?

After a pretty terrible summer for Simon Harris - senior figures in the party fear he will drag down the party presidential candidate...

I want whatever FF TDs are having if they think it's a smart move to re-litigate the crash, bank guarantee, bailout and Bertie's bank accounts.