Ray Walley @WalleyRay

On this day in 1996, a journalist called Veronica Guerin stopped her car at the traffic lights at Newlands Cross. Two men on a motorbike pulled up alongside her. One of the helmeted men produced a gun and fired six bullets into the reporters car. The thugs may have brutally murdered the 36 year old wife and mother of a 6 year old son, but they could not kill her courageous crusade. The Artane native always had a competitive streak, playing soccer and basketball at a national level whilst in school. Her determination and uncompromising sense of justice brought her to an award winning career in crime journalism. Guerin’s no holds barred investigations brought light to the darkest and most dangerous corners of gangland Ireland. Her exposés of Dublin's drug cartels eventually led to her assassination. Her murder outraged the nation and resulted in the Proceeds of Crime Act 1996 and the creation of the Criminal Assets Bureau.

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🎥 Is the public getting the full story about marijuana? In this thought-provoking presentation, journalist and author Alex Berenson examines the evidence surrounding modern cannabis, mental health, psychosis, addiction, and public perceptions of risk. He challenges many of the assumptions that have shaped the marijuana legalization debate and argues for a closer look at emerging research. Watch here: youtu.be/Nj-i3qmZC-A?si… What do you think? Are we having an honest conversation about the risks of high-potency cannabis? #Cannabis #Marijuana #MentalHealth #Psychosis #BrainHealth #PublicHealth #CannabisAwareness #THC #AddictionScience #EvidenceBased #DrugPolicy #AlexBerenson

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it. More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months. And here’s the part that should make your blood boil. Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence. The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it. Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price. We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us. wapo.st/3QmJjSz

I agree completely. I almost supported it and was struck by conscience the seriousness of consequences of the Bill made me pause. I was not persuaded of the so called safeguard’s.

Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK

a month ago

Julian Smith MP (@JulianSmithUK) explains why the assisted suicide Bill should never have been a Private Members' Bill, and, importantly, why it should not be brought back. conservativehome.com/2026/05/20/jul…

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As Dignity in Dying splash their cash around Westminster’s MPs, our beloved but underfunded hospices are trying to fundraise Eg

St Michael's Hospice, Hereford @StMichaelsHosp

a month ago

Summer in Herefordshire is packed with family fun. From wagging tails to family festivals, there’s something for everyone. Join us for: 🐾 Hereford Dog Day – June 7 ⚽ Sue Parry & HereFest Family Festival – June 27 🌷 Open Gardens – May–Aug More info: Bit.ly/SMH_EventsandC…

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My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve_news. We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla

9 months ago

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

⌛ The final negotiations are taking place on the EU’s Digital Omnibus on AI ⚠️ European doctors are deeply concerned that vital safeguards will be removed governing high-risk AI innovation in medical devices 👉 cpme.eu/news/move-fast… #CY2026

Europe has significantly less violent crime than the United States. Large countries like Germany, Spain, and Italy have homicide rates only a little bit higher than Japan’s. This is a bizarre lie.

Fox News @FoxNews

2 months ago

ERIKA KIRK: “If you look around the world right now, Europe has surrendered itself to third world criminals — and under the Biden administration, we were on track for that for ourselves. But President Trump came in and course corrected."

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It would seem, Emily, that the central fact here can no longer be in any doubt. The Prime Minister did not lie; he was not informed, and it would also appear that this was policy within the Civil Service. It also seems to have been common knowledge that Boris Johnson failed the vetting process, and yet became Prime Minister.

Emily Thornberry @EmilyThornberry

2 months ago

Pleased to see the FCDO are reviewing the information provided to the Foreign Affairs Committee regarding Mandelson’s vetting process. It is unacceptable that the Committee has been hoodwinked like this. We will have answers.

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"That's it Donald, now cough"

Maybe there is a legal reason for RTÉ not having a photo of John Griffin in this article. Still, I don't think it's particularly useful to appeal for information on his whereabouts if people don't know what he looks like. Anyway here's Interpol's Red Notice with his face.

RTÉ News @rtenews

3 months ago

On the 21st anniversary of her death, gardaí have made a fresh appeal for information that might help them close their file on the murder of art student Emer O'Loughlin rte.ie/news/2026/0408…

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Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86

3 months ago

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given.

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A reminder that James Dyson exported his company’s headquarters to Singapore and we are no longer self-sufficient in Hoovers.

🔴 Iran has allowed a French ship through the Strait of Hormuz a day after Emmanuel Macron criticised Donald Trump Follow the latest updates below 🖇️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

⚠️ European doctors urge policymakers to take immediate and coordinated action to address the growing public health crisis posed by gambling and gaming. 👉 Read our full policy: cpme.eu/api/documents/…

How outcomes in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma changed, from 1986 to 2026

In Northern Ireland, external bowel cancer screening is offered between the ages 60-74 but in England, Scotland and Wales it starts at 50, if early screening saves lives - why is NI treated differently? From ⁦@Ailser99⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

GPs refer when they need to refer. If they are rejected, it could cost lives. We could see cancers diagnosed at later stages, potentially when it becomes untreatable? And of course GPs will get the blame from terrified and rightly angry patients for something which is out of their control. This is the consequence of a politicised healthcare system.

David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP

3 months ago

This is an absolute disgrace and will lead to unnecessary suffering and deaths. The Government should be ashamed of themselves. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

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.”GP organisation opposes legalising Cannabis” #CADrugsUse ⁦@CitizAssembly⁩ ⁦@MythsCannabis⁩