I’ll be live with Last True Gael at 8 over on YouTube for a discussion of the long term demographic and economic planning being undertaken by the Irish government, particularly the recent “Future Forty” reports. https://youtube.com/live/wexaaUG-DRg?feature=share

NEW - British government is "withholding data that may link Covid jab to excess deaths" as it would lead to "distress or anger."

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You can say Malachy isn’t perfect or whatever but let’s just focus on winning for once.

Malachy is already a councillor, has an established profile on migration, has a canvassing team and was able to get 1.5k first preferences last time, with Hutch getting 3k (assuming most were taken from Malachy). So I think it is just better to give energy there.

It would be preferable to get someone better than Noel Thomas in Galway West but it would be hard to do for the same reasons (already a councillor, established profile on IPAS etc) and Galway West is a harder constituency to crack on migration than Dublin Central will be - but if a better candidate could be attempted against him than by all means go ahead.

I think for Dublin Central we should just let it be Malachy’s show though.

Just a quick post on the excess deaths.

I've seen people post rip.ie figures from 2020-2025.

One of the things I see people doing wrong is that they are not adjusting for age. That was fine in 2021, even 2022 but as far out as 2025, it's incorrect.

We've a much older population, and deaths tend to go up by (pre 2020) 500-1000 per year anyway. So as a result you're overstating the amount of people who died.

That's not to take away from the harm these mRNA vaccines have done.

In my opinion, this does damage to the case you're trying to build here. Once you adjust for this, things start to look a bit more sane.

I will be going live at 8 for a deep dive into the origins of the Open Government Partnership. LINKS BELOW. https://youtube.com/live/Kpc9OUSNzsw?feature=share

We're into the last stretch of 2025. Here are the links to streams I did this year in one post.

1: Stream where I went through Storm Eowyn, the underlying reasons it was so devastating (sitka spruce, engineering practises etc), and Dublin 4's response, how that showed an interesting truth about the country.

2: Stream where I talked about the logic behind the tariffs after the collapse in the stock market earlier this year, some basic history of the United States dollar, the academic theories behind it, and the Irish economic and business response.

3: Stream where I talked about a Red C/Electoral Commission survey that asked some extremely revealing questions about Irish society and young people, in addition to future developments in the housing market.

4: Stream where I did an analysis/review of the television series Hardy Bucks, how it is an extremely underrated show and how it documents the change in Ireland post crash and the decline of the rural town.

5: Stream where I went through the psychology of ageing, Irish boomers, how the economy is build around this older generation of people, and India propping up Ireland's mortgage and housing market.

6: Stream where I talked about the aftermath to the death of Charlie Kirk, and the psychological response/social status response people had to it.

7: Part one of two streams on the Irish presidential election. I talked about why Connolly was the best candidate to vote for.

8: Stream where I did a review/analysis of the television series Love/Hate, its hidden themes (religion, agnosticism) its disconnect from Irish society currently, and the decline in quality of Irish television programmes since it aired.

9: Part two of the two streams on the Irish presidential election. I talked about the results, went though the data, talked about what it meant for Ireland.

10: Stream with The Don/The Receipts where we talked about Ireland's Future Forty reports.

11: Video I did on writing an equation (using a David McWilliams article) to calculate what the true demand/pent up demand for housing is in Ireland.

Thanks for anyone who listened or commented. I want to do two more streams by the end of the year. One on Russia/Ukraine and another potentially more lighted, fun one. But otherwise, here's what I did in 2025.

Going to do a livestream at 8PM on the Russia/Ukraine war if interested. Link below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NNaiQwz0vQ

I will be live on YouTube and Odysee at 8 continuing the analysis of the Open Government Partnership. This stream will look at the open data and open government movements of America and Britain as an aspect of American soft power and how Ireland came to join the OGP. https://youtube.com/live/2KTZuh-VrJ8?feature=share

Going to do a follow-up/part two to my previous Russia and Ukraine stream tonight at 8pm if interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gGRuxGhb8

Merry Christmas everyone.🎄🎄🎄

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/live/yf29LU1uENk

Going to do a livestream on authoritarianism, nudge psychology, and recent political events at 21:30 tonight if interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfIoxd_vvYE

"None of this means the liberalisation path Ireland took was the only possible route, or even the optimal one. That debate is legitimate. I won’t pretend that 10,000 abortions per annum, Aisling Murphy, or the genital mutilation of children is defensible.

What is not legitimate is the willful blindness of much of the contemporary Irish right to the national self-interest embedded in multilateral liberalism and to the real, material gains it delivered." https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/01/21/ireland-will-miss-globalism-when-its-gone

A U.S. congressional judiciary committee has accused the European Commission and Ireland’s media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, of collaborating with politically biased fact-checkers and NGOs in what it describes as a campaign of election interference ahead of the last two Irish elections.

The committee alleges that the Irish media regulator sought “to censor true information and political speech” on polarizing topics such as the Covid-19 pandemic, mass migration, and transgender issues.

These claims are detailed in a report titled 'The Foreign Censorship Threat, Part II: Europe’s Decade-Long Campaign to Censor the Global Internet and How It Harms American Speech in the United States'. The document was released while Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Helen McEntee, is in Washington this week for political meetings.

The report emphasizes that most major technology companies have their European headquarters in Dublin, making Irish electoral outcomes particularly consequential for the European Commission’s digital policy agenda and the enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA). It adds: “For the same reason, Ireland’s media regulator, the Coimisiún na Meán, is one of the most powerful in the world.”

Similarly, the report accuses the European Commission of activating a censorship apparatus known as a “rapid response system” ahead of several recent European elections under the auspices of the Disinformation Code and the DSA Election Guidelines:

"European Commission-approved fact-checkers are given the ability to make priority censorship requests in the weeks before and after major elections."

"These so-called fact-checkers are invariably leftwing and pro-censorship—anything but politically neutral. Moreover, the requirement that these fact-checkers be approved by the European Commission creates a clear structural incentive for the participants to censor Euroskeptic opinion and content that undermines the Commission’s preferred political narratives."

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