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On the eve of St John Henry Newman being proclaimed Doctor of the Church (tomorrow), I’m delighted to have a chapter (“Newman’s engagement with Locke’s epistemology”) in a new volume, titled "John Henry Newman the educator. His formation, philosophy and lecacy". Details: gracewing.co.uk/page175.html
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FAFCE re-elected Vincenzo Bassi as its President for another three years.
Ulrich Hoffman and Kalman Daboczi, representatives of Catholic Family Associations of Germany and Hungary have been elected as vice-presidents.
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Thanks to @mullallyelaine for having me on for a chat!
Just to clarify - "woke" means being awake to or having awareness of the intersecting systems of oppression that the various critical theories claim operate within our society to create inequality (white supremacy, patriarchy, cisnormativity, heterosexism, Eurocentrism, ableism, adultism etc). All of society, including our institutions, media, law, education, social norms etc are allegedly shaped by these systems of oppression and function to privilege certain (dominant) identity groups while marginalising and oppressing others. If you are white, male, European, Christian, heterosexual, cisgender, able bodied... and on and on and on - you are said to be granted unearned advantages and power purely on the basis of those identity characteristics. If you do not work to tear down these supposed systems, then you are accused of being complicit in the oppression of minority groups.
So when someone says something is "woke" they're usually identifying something which is a product of the application of the above beliefs. Flying the trans flag in schools is woke because it's an attempt to disrupt cisnormativity (peoples biological sex matching their "gender" is normal). Race-swapping a historical character in a movie is woke because it is intended to challenge and disrupt white supremacy.
The type of education I speak about in this podcast aims to foster critical consciousness (a woke worldview) in children. That is, it's attempting to get pupils to see the world as structured by these systems of oppression, to see this as the source of all inequality, and to motivate them to engage in activism in an attempt to redistribute power and privileges from groups deemed dominant, toward groups deemed marginalised.
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' I wasn't here,at the time'.
The NWCI are never 'in time' with the vast majority of the WOMEN of Ireland.
'The wording was wrong'
'The voters were wrong'
' The NWCI are never wrong.'
As usual @SenatorKeogan GOT IT RIGHT.
The National Women’s Council refuse to admit they got the Referendum wrong.
Brilliant from @SenatorKeogan
Let’s not forget, the NWC wrote the Govt’s “National Strategy for Women & Girls” which fails to mention the word mother once!
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We started the week with Trinity Professor Ronan Lyons being stripped of his Bestseller status after it emerged Daft - who he has worked for for 20 years - block bought his book to push it to No. 1.
We end the week with an NUIG 'fake news expert' faking having a doctorate.
It's a start but there's a hell of a lot more dead wood in academia to be cut out.
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Yesterday, National Women's Council told us "they are a members based organisation" and "they get their mandate from their members"
But its members are not ordinary women. They are 200+ NGOs receiving €345million* from Govt:
ActionAid Ireland €𝟭,𝟭𝟵𝟵,𝟮𝟬𝟵
Age Action €𝟭,𝟯𝟳𝟱,𝟵𝟳𝟬
AkiDwA (Akina Dada Wa Africa) €𝟲𝟯𝟰,𝟬𝟬𝟬
Alcohol Action Ireland €𝟮𝟴𝟳,𝟴𝟰𝟵
Amal Women Ireland €𝟲𝟯,𝟲𝟵𝟱 (Cuan funding only)
Amber €𝟵𝟲𝟭,𝟬𝟴𝟲
Amdalah Africa Foundation AMDAF €𝟱𝟭,𝟲𝟯𝟬 (period ending 4 January 2025)
An Cosán €𝟯,𝟬𝟵𝟬,𝟮𝟮𝟬
Aoibhneas Domestic Abuse Support €𝟭,𝟴𝟯𝟬,𝟯𝟲𝟭
AONTAS €𝟭,𝟴𝟵𝟱,𝟵𝟮𝟭
Ascend Domestic Abuse Centre €𝟰𝟮𝟵,𝟰𝟬𝟯 (Cuan funding only)
Barnardos €𝟮𝟮,𝟱𝟱𝟵,𝟬𝟬𝟬
Belong To €𝟴𝟳𝟬,𝟭𝟮𝟴
Bodywhys €𝟱𝟱𝟴,𝟮𝟬𝟵
Bray Women’s Refuge €𝟵𝟬𝟵,𝟬𝟰𝟰
Cáirde €𝟮,𝟯𝟰𝟮,𝟯𝟬𝟰
Childminding Ireland €𝟯𝟰𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬
CKU Centre for Counselling and Therapy €𝟭𝟲𝟭,𝟱𝟰𝟱
Community Law and Mediation €𝟰𝟯𝟵,𝟮𝟵𝟯
Community Work Ireland €𝟯𝟮𝟯,𝟵𝟯𝟭
Coolock Development Council €𝟭,𝟭𝟰𝟭,𝟰𝟯𝟯
COPE Galway Domestic Abuse Service €𝟮,𝟬𝟵𝟰,𝟯𝟬𝟵 (Cuan funding only)
Cork City Childcare Committee €𝟳𝟮𝟴,𝟳𝟵𝟰
Cork Sexual Violence Centre €𝟱𝟳𝟵,𝟴𝟳𝟰
Cultúr Migrants Centre €𝟱𝟰𝟭,𝟴𝟳𝟵
Derry Women’s Centre £𝟮𝟯𝟮,𝟲𝟲𝟬
Disability Action NI £𝟮,𝟲𝟰𝟲,𝟯𝟱𝟰
Domestic Violence Advocacy €𝟳𝟯𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟱 (Cuan funding
Donegal Intercultural Platform €𝟮𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬
Donegal Travellers Project €𝟭,𝟭𝟲𝟬,𝟳𝟯𝟬
Donegal Women’s Centre €𝟲𝟬𝟰,𝟱𝟴𝟴
Doras Buí €𝟭,𝟯𝟳𝟵,𝟮𝟴𝟵
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre €𝟯,𝟰𝟱𝟵,𝟲𝟲𝟴
Dublin Wellwoman Centre €𝟮,𝟰𝟭𝟬,𝟬𝟴𝟯
DVR Domestic Violence Response €𝟮𝟵𝟯,𝟴𝟮𝟵
Early Childhood Ireland €𝟭,𝟲𝟯𝟵,𝟯𝟱𝟳
Empower €𝟲,𝟭𝟴𝟳,𝟬𝟳𝟮
Exchange House €𝟮,𝟮𝟲𝟴,𝟰𝟭𝟰
Féileacáin €𝟮𝟱,𝟬𝟬𝟬 (Central Bank funding)
FIT Fastrack into IT €𝟮,𝟲𝟳𝟬,𝟮𝟭𝟳
Friends of the Earth Ireland €𝟭𝟱𝟬,𝟳𝟯𝟮
Galway Traveller Movement €𝟮,𝟭𝟭𝟳,𝟳𝟯𝟭
Haven Horizons €𝟮𝟴,𝟯𝟯𝟵
Immigrant Council of Ireland €𝟲𝟳𝟰,𝟯𝟴𝟱
INAR Irish Network Against Racism €𝟭𝟮𝟴,𝟮𝟯𝟵
Inchicore Family Resource Centre / St Michael’s Estate Family Resource Centre €𝟭𝟱𝟱,𝟴𝟵𝟭 (Cuan-funded)
Inclusion Ireland €𝟵𝟳𝟵,𝟲𝟬𝟲
Independent Living Movement Ireland €𝟱𝟰𝟯,𝟬𝟱𝟭
Irish Cancer Society €𝟭,𝟴𝟱𝟲,𝟬𝟬𝟬
Irish Council for International Students €𝟴,𝟯𝟵𝟯,𝟳𝟭𝟮 (includes scholarship administration)
Irish Cycling Campaign €𝟭𝟭𝟬,𝟴𝟯𝟴
Irish Girl Guides €𝟱𝟳𝟭,𝟭𝟮𝟭
Irish Heart Foundation €𝟭,𝟬𝟮𝟯,𝟭𝟵𝟱
Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed €𝟭,𝟭𝟳𝟬,𝟬𝟲𝟴
Irish Penal Reform Trust €𝟮𝟱𝟴,𝟭𝟴𝟬
Irish Refugee Council €𝟯𝟯𝟴,𝟯𝟭𝟱
Irish Traveller Movement €𝟭,𝟬𝟯𝟭,𝟴𝟮𝟮
Laois Domestic Abuse Services €𝟲𝟬𝟰,𝟲𝟭𝟲
LGBT Ireland €𝟰𝟬𝟮,𝟰𝟯𝟲
LIFELINE Inishowen €𝟳𝟰,𝟯𝟱𝟴
Limerick Family Planning Clinic €𝟰𝟬𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬
Longford Community Resources Roma & New Communities CDP €𝟭𝟱𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 (annual programme allocation; year unspecified)
Longford Women’s Link €𝟮,𝟭𝟬𝟯,𝟱𝟱𝟱
Love & Care for People €𝟭𝟳𝟰,𝟲𝟮𝟰 (2025)
Marie Keating Foundation €𝟭𝟲𝟯,𝟰𝟯𝟬
Mayo Rape Crisis Centre €𝟮𝟵𝟴,𝟱𝟭𝟯
Men’s Development Network €𝟭,𝟴𝟭𝟰,𝟱𝟯𝟲
Mental Health Reform €𝟱𝟯𝟮,𝟳𝟱𝟲
Merchants Quay Ireland €𝟴,𝟮𝟯𝟲,𝟲𝟲𝟰
Mercy Law Resource Centre €𝟭𝟰𝟳,𝟭𝟯𝟱
Migrant Rights Centre Ireland €𝟱𝟲𝟬,𝟴𝟳𝟭 (2025; includes EU funding)
Migrants Centre NI £𝟵𝟭,𝟳𝟭𝟬 (year ended March 2025; partial public funding, Northern Ireland)
MOVE Ireland €𝟵𝟯𝟮,𝟴𝟮𝟰
National Adult Literacy Agency €𝟮,𝟰𝟱𝟯,𝟴𝟱𝟭
National Traveller Women’s Forum €𝟯𝟯𝟱,𝟳𝟳𝟴
North Leitrim Women’s Centre €𝟯𝟲,𝟲𝟯𝟬
One Family €𝟭,𝟱𝟰𝟰,𝟰𝟵𝟲
OSS Cork €𝟮𝟴𝟱,𝟱𝟲𝟯 (Cuan funding only)
Outcomers €𝟮𝟱𝟲,𝟵𝟴𝟲 (2025)
Oxfam Ireland €𝟲,𝟵𝟳𝟯,𝟬𝟬𝟬 (year ended March 2025; Republic of Ireland reporting entity)
Pavee Point €𝟯,𝟮𝟯𝟵,𝟬𝟴𝟰
Performing Arts Forum €𝟮𝟳𝟬,𝟵𝟬𝟬
Relatives for Justice £𝟭,𝟱𝟲𝟳,𝟵𝟵𝟮
Roscommon Women’s Network €𝟮𝟴𝟲,𝟯𝟮𝟴
Ruhama €𝟭,𝟵𝟭𝟴,𝟯𝟮𝟲
Safe Ireland €𝟭,𝟰𝟮𝟲,𝟱𝟵𝟰
Saoirse Domestic Violence Services €𝟮,𝟵𝟲𝟭,𝟱𝟮𝟲
Saol Project €𝟭,𝟭𝟭𝟳,𝟮𝟴𝟰
Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality €𝟯𝟴𝟵,𝟭𝟲𝟵
Sonas Domestic Violence Charity €𝟯,𝟬𝟵𝟮,𝟮𝟴𝟭
Spunout €𝟯,𝟮𝟮𝟳,𝟳𝟱𝟰
St Catherine Community Carlow €𝟮,𝟬𝟭𝟱,𝟱𝟭𝟰
Technological University of the Shannon: €𝟭𝟴𝟲,𝟭𝟭𝟰,𝟬𝟬𝟬 (whole-university public income)
TENI Transgender Equality Network Ireland €𝟮𝟯𝟱,𝟭𝟳𝟲 (includes €𝟰,𝟳𝟵𝟬 from the European Commission)
The Shona Project €𝟭𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬
The Unforgettable Women’s Network €𝟲𝟱𝟬 (2021; historical figure)
Tintean €𝟲𝟳𝟲,𝟰𝟭𝟬
Treoir €𝟴𝟳𝟲,𝟮𝟯𝟵
WALK €𝟭𝟮,𝟭𝟭𝟯,𝟳𝟴𝟬
West Clare Family Resource Centre €𝟰𝟯𝟲,𝟬𝟴𝟭
West Cork Counselling and Support Services €𝟭𝟰𝟵,𝟬𝟴𝟳
Wexford Women’s Refuge €𝟭,𝟲𝟮𝟮,𝟬𝟲𝟭
Willow Domestic Abuse Services €𝟭,𝟲𝟵𝟴,𝟲𝟮𝟬
Women for Election €𝟭𝟵𝟮,𝟮𝟬𝟭
Women’s Aid €𝟭,𝟲𝟵𝟳,𝟰𝟬𝟭
Women’s Collective Ireland €𝟮,𝟮𝟮𝟲,𝟯𝟵𝟳
Work Equal €𝟭𝟴𝟭,𝟳𝟬𝟬
*the above is a list of 107 organisations receiving at a combined €345million in 2024.
*Technological University of the Shannon is included here which receives €𝟭𝟴𝟲,𝟭𝟭𝟰,𝟬𝟬𝟬 as it whole university public income.
*there are an additional ~100 entities that may also receive Govt funding but its unclear from accounts.
The point I am making here is that the NWC is an essentially an aggregator of hundreds or NGOs & Govt funded organisations.
It does not represent normal Irish women who have no involvement in these orgs.
Great questioning from @SenatorKeogan below:
The National Women’s Council refuse to admit they got the Referendum wrong.
Brilliant from @SenatorKeogan
Let’s not forget, the NWC wrote the Govt’s “National Strategy for Women & Girls” which fails to mention the word mother once!
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People who attend religious services weekly or more are much more likely to report being "very happy" compared to those who attend seldom/never.
For those born in the 1980s:
A weekly attender is 2x as likely to say they are very happy vs a never/seldom attender.
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More women were killed during the French Revolution just for being religious in 3 years (hundreds of them) than all the Spanish Inquisition's witchcraft trials in 300 years (6).
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A group of health professionals has called for an urgent national discussion on Ireland’s crashed birth rate – and said that Ireland’s spiralling abortion rates is the elephant in the room that cannot be ignored.
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Dutch man born from sperm donor calls IVF and surrogacy 'psychological terror for a child'
"What I want to emphasize is that the right to have a child does not exist. But the right to grow up with biological parents does exist."
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🚨 Forbidden Colours, whose "Hate Review" amounts to an over 450-page smear campaign against those it disagrees with, has received funding from EU institutions and the King Baudouin Foundation.
Last week, we sent a letter to @FRB_KBS, asking them to publicly distance themselves from the report's biased, dubious findings.
This was their response ⬇️
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Elma Walsh opposing assisted suicide on Liveline hits home: "Dónal was given seven weeks [to live]. He lived for seven months."
"He had a great positive impact. If he had gone and had assisted dying, that opportunity would have been totally lost.”
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This is an updated record revealing the incredible access "Hope and Courage Collective", "Institute for Strategic Dialogue" and European Digital Media Observatory Ireland have had in our mainstream media in the past six month. Whilst they're all in the business of monitoring extremism, they appear to have all missed the growing cluster of Jihadist attacks in Ireland. Strange.
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A dead-on analysis, and these policy failures all trace to the lack of moral character necessary for statesmanship. Future generations will marvel that so many people sympathetic to traditional morality could delude themselves that a man so devoid of virtue could be a good leader
Republicans are going to have a terrible night, and the simple reason why is that Trump has put up perhaps the worst *performance* this term of any president in a century or more.
Remember that he entered with an actual mandate: the House and Senate, a popular vote victory and a swing-state sweep, and 6-3 Supreme Court. Democrats were afraid enough to vote for mild but real immigration restrictionist legislation in the Laken Riley Act. Everyone wondered how far the "Vibe Shift" would go.
Trump managed to turn that into essentially zero durable wins whatsoever. He personally *hates* the very idea of legislation, the notion that he would have to spend time going back and forth with Congress, learning details and making compromises. So he simply didn't do it! He didn't make a compelling case for abolishing the filibuster. He didn't try communicating clearly to the public in support of popular bills to get to 60 votes. He just decided not to do it at all.
So they passed an unpopular tax cut, some funding for ICE, and a sop to the crypto industry, and that was basically it. Least productive Congress in decades, due to the tastes of one man.
Trump adopted one of the worst macro policies we've ever had: high deficits, high tariffs, and attacks on central bank independence. We managed to pay higher interest rates while still having high trade deficits AND weakening the dollar. Just a total failure.
On immigration, perhaps THE signature issue, Trump essentially min-maxxed effectiveness and backlash. Instead of trying to leverage the political moment for new laws and a self-deportation agenda (that is, walling off the economy to remove the benefit of irregular presence in the US), he opted for a maximally aggressive approach. The administration spent attention, funds, legal manpower on stunts like deporting random people to Salvadoran prisons with essentially no due process. ICE and Border Patrol were encouraged to be aggressive and confrontational, which helped contribute to the shooting deaths of American protestors. It turns out, that's extremely unpopular!
What about the approach of going after employers? The obvious vector? Trump hated that idea! He repeatedly has said he doesn't want to target businesses (especially farms) that use large amounts of illegal labor. This is just an incomprehensible position. Instead of charging a few dozen businessmen and removing the incentive for millions of illegal workers to be here, you arrest people off the street one by one at the cost of thousands of dollars in manpower per each, while their crying wives and kids post TikToks about it.
Upshot on immigration: electoral strength turned into a crippling electoral weakness in exchange for deporting maybe 6% of the illegally present population.
The tariffs were a total shitshow. Embarrassing rollout, no underlying theory of action at all. No targeted focus on key industries. Our country tariffed products we can't grow. We tariffed *inputs* of our own valuable exports. The schemes and amounts changed constantly, sending the stock market reeling and presenting scenes of chaos to the world.
Trump's messaging throughout has been generationally bad. While facing nearly 2:1 unpopularity, he spends his days posting AI slop, saying he'll rename New Mexico or invade allies, among other bizarre remarks. He brags about a ballroom and a pool repainting while gas hits records. At no point has he ever attempted any kind of message discipline.
Then there are the deeply unpopular attacks on rule of law, his "game-recognize-game" pardons for all manner of scammers and criminals, the crypto schemes that he and his family engage in, the evilly conceived and embarrassingly executed legal attacks on Comey, Jerome Powell, and others. With his monthslong stand on NOT releasing the Epstein files, he became maybe the first president ever to stake out a 99-1 issue on the 1% side.
That's not even getting into Iran, DOGE, his candidate recruitment choices, or countless other things. Simply put: Trump has managed to royally screw up virtually every single facet of his presidency. It's been undeniable, voters have noticed, and there's really no escape from it. This is what the GOP base chose in early 2024, and this is the world they're living with now. Where they handed the reins of history to a fat, vain, washed-up old man and let him drive.
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Above everything else, this right here is why Republicans got wiped out tonight. The leader of the party lives in an epistemic bubble of megalomania, where facts, reason, and data mean nothing. All the bad policies followed from this.
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In 2026, we have been highlighting the extraordinary access that EDMO has in our mainstream media, alongside fellow (separate) extremist monitoring outfits, the so-called "Hope and Courage Collective" and the hifalutin Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
Before getting his feet under the table at EDMO, Aidan O'Brien was with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
