Stephen Mather

Ukraine’s top general, Valeriy Zaluzhny, just gave a hard-hitting interview, and it’s a wake-up call for the West. The war has changed. If NATO doesn’t adapt, Russia could grind on until 2034. Here’s what you need to know:

The problem with the National Development Plan is that there is no plan. This week’s @Independent_ie column independent.ie/opinion/commen…

Ukrainians didn’t flee by choice - russia’s unprovoked war forced them to. Ireland’s Accommodation Scheme was a humanitarian lifeline, not a profit scheme. Public debate must never target people escaping bombs and missiles. 🇺🇦🇮🇪

Ireland’s problem is down to cabinet performing like a non executive board of directors instead of an executive decision making body. We have evaporated democratic input through the public appointments process and devolving responsibility to ineffective + inefficient quangos. 1/2

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Paris Match on Ireland possibly selecting the Rafale combat aircraft. @SimonHarrisTD @MichealMartinTD Defense: Rafale in the running to equip Ireland share.google/CRyD1hsvdznuRa…

Prioritise corporatism over the concerns of working class Americans, embrace the agenda of the hard left on the culture wars and…Wala! Lowest approval rating for Democrats in 30 years - despite Trump. thehill.com/homenews/campa…

Potentially very big news.

BREAKING: Austria says it's ready to discuss joining NATO and abandoning neutrality due to Russia.

Ireland is a country whose foreign policy is being led by someone who didn't finish college and never had a job but who's now using the state to live out his Student Union rebel phase. Irish people knew who this unserious twerp was and voted for it anyway. 🤷‍♂️

US authorities arrest 56 Irish citizens under Trump’s immigration crackdown buff.ly/y3xghbY

Social Democrats continued to claim TD’s allowance despite suspension thetimes.com/world/ireland-…

BREAKING: The Swedish fighter jet JAS 39 Gripen has been used in active battle for the first time ever. The Royal Thai Air Force used the planes today to strike Cambodian artillery and MLRS systems that were preparing to strike Thailand 🇸🇪🇹🇭

Michael Flatley, who currently lives in Monaco, says the "average Irish person on the street" is unhappy with the status quo and "somebody has to speak for the Irish people" and so will be putting himself forward for the presidential nomination.

It's often assumed that Trump will be a lame duck because Democrats will win back one or both houses next year. That seems very far from assured given the Dems disastrous polls. wsj.com/politics/elect…

The UN and other international organizations continue refusing to distribute the hundreds of tons of aid that Israel has let into the Gaza Strip and is now gathering dust near a border crossing

I’ll just leave this here 😂

Elon Musk ordered a blackout of Starlink coverage during Ukraine’s counteroffensive in Kherson in Sept. 2022. SpaceX engineer Michael Nicolls: We have to do this. 100+ terminals went dark. Drones died. Comms failed. Ukraine failed to encircle Russians at Beryslav, Reuters. 1/

Are we finally going to wake up to the insanity that was Green Party policy to stifle energy production???

Larry Donnelly sets out bluntly the forces Ireland faces as it pursues the OTB. As a legal scholar he points out that international law is less likely to be cited in US courts in relation to Israel/Palestine than the old testament. On the potential economic impact of enacting…