The shitlib community are replacing letters with asterisks in her name to talk about how upset they are. I've only seen them do that with Gemma. That's the level.

This situation with the slow torture of Russian embassy staff in Dublin is silly and dangerous.

Even if Putin does bathe in Siberian antler blood which can only be extracted painfully (real mainstream media story) you don't take it out on the diplomats.

We keep good relations with the Nigerian embassy here even though Nigeria has one of the most brutal regimes in the world if the number of refugees fleeing the country for Ireland are to be believed.

I haven't posted much about Dr. Jennifer Cassidy because there wouldn't be much interest, but she's the talking head RTÉ brings on as our top expert in geopolitics.

I watched a recent video of her speaking. She wrote her thesis on the prediction that politicians would start using social media more after she saw some diplomat playing Angry Birds at a UN meeting. She teaches Statecraft at Oxford now, she'll constantly tell you, specialising in disinformation.

Her big revelation was that social media platforms are innately neutral and their effect on society is dependent on whichever political actors are using them. She draws a contrast between badman Trump's use of twitter and her hero Zalensky to emphasise the point.

If you look at her twitter feed she just tweets out whatever the latest narrative Five Eyes are propagating through the media interspersed with sad songs on her violin for the dying Ukrainians.

If I was in her position, at the very least I'd urging Irish leaders that treating the Russian diplomats poorly will have blow back on Irish diplomats and citizens in Russia. It undermines the entire diplomatic system.

I used to think there must be some intelligent people behind the curtain making rational decisions and the fluff was just a front for optics reasons but it's difficult to believe that now.

I wouldn't blame the Russians if they started exercising their diplomatic immunity.

🔗 irishmirror.ie

Twitter bans clips of Ukrainians committing war crimes against Russian prisoners.

Would be inconvenient for the public to see Ukrainians blowing off the kneecaps of captured Russians (second video clip).

Our Doanie has the update.

>the pedophiles who groomed me

story checks out.

https://twitter.com/emmy_zje/status/1511677306611412994

Always remember, the State does not concern itself with the wellbeing of Irish children. That's the opposite of its primary function.

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/killarney-girl-suffers-as-grants-for-hoists-removed-from-funding-scheme-41527444.html

Ireland received almost three times the number of asylum applications in the month of January this year compared to January 2021 according to official figures. This was before the Ukrainian war started.

In January, there were 392 requests for asylum compared to 138 in the same period for last year.

The top countries of origin:

Somalia 18.9%
Nigeria 18.4%
Georgia 12.5%
Algeria 7.4%
Afghanistan 6.1%
Other 36.7%

The Sun reported almost 3,000 asylum applications were made in the months of November, December & January in total.

Last year, Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman promised to spend half a billion euro constructing 'own door' accommodation for all asylum seekers arriving in Ireland regardless of the merit of their claims.

Up to 90% of asylum seekers have failed their asylum applications in past years, but most are never deported.

Minister David Stanton has stated the average number of family members refugees applied to bring to Ireland between 1996 & 2015 was 20.

🔗 ipo.gov.ie

Judge Joanne Carroll is shocked at the the number of his prior convictions since coming to Ireland from Romania in 2015, but then gives him three months in prison and no deportation order.

Who is really at fault here?

Judge Carroll was in the news last year for refusing to grant free legal aid to individuals who were fined for breaching the covid regulations.

Guarantee Ionut Muti got it for every one of his 52 convictions and will continue to get it for all his future ones. Thanks, judge.

🔗 independent.ie

The vermin responsible for gang-raping a 17-year-old girl near Kilbeggan and Tullamore have been named.

🔗 rte.ie

Bit late to be thinking about that now.

🔗 Russia expels two Irish diplomats in ‘unjustified’ move

I mentioned briefly that a lot of people born in Britain living here are probably retirees as they're spread differently to other migrant groups concentrated in the cities. This map shows you where they live.

The legend tells you the darkest red regions have a British born population of between 3.9% and 19%. You have to click on the areas to reveal exact figures. Choose a layer in the top right first.

The map only reflects people who were born in the UK but don't have Irish citizenship.

You can see it's almost like the cities of Dublin, Cork and Limerick have a magnetic force around them repelling British people. None of them want to live there.

Aside from Wicklow and Wexford, there's a heavy preference for the west of Ireland and there's a thick concentration on the Cork & Kerry coast.

You can't throw a stone down there without hitting an old hippy from England. They go there to gaze off the edge of the known world, and then there's nothing to return to. The Ian Bailey types.

A clip on west Cork blow-ins from Jim Sheridan's documentary Murder At the Cottage about Ian Bailey and the murder of Sophie du Plantier. I recommend it.

"When I was born, every house was full of locals. Now there are forty two people here. They're all blow-ins. I'm the only native."

On the Isle of Man they call them 'wheneyes'.

They're always starting stories with "When I was in...."

Here's where the people 'with African nationalities' reside as recorded in the 2016 census (live map).

It's the inverse of the British one above.

There's a spread in the east centering around Dublin, stretching up into parts of Louth and Meath, down into Wicklow and out into Kildare and Laois.

The cities of Galway, Limerick and Cork also have concentrations along with the towns of Longford, Letterkenny and Tralee.

The legend tells you that in the darkest green areas their percentage of the population ranges from .3% to 7%.

In the lighter green areas, they're 0 to .3% of the population. The rest have none.

I hope these maps are work in progress as the data isn't displayed as well as it could be.

As I'll highlight in the next post, this map excludes Africans with Irish citizenship but I guess it would probably look similar regardless.

Zooming in on the electoral division of Balbriggan Rural.

🔹 1,118 people with African nationalities recorded in 2011 out of a total population of 15,071 (7.4%).

🔹 470 recorded in 2016 out of a total population of 16,430 (2.9%).

There hasn't been an exodus of Africans out of Balbriggan. The Nigerians haven't gone home (except on holiday and to purchase their cribs).

The State has just been handing out pieces of paper with harps in the corner to them.

It would make more sense for the CSO to produce diversity heat maps using the ethnicity or birthplace data, but not from the State's perspective as it's more desirable to conceal how many foreigners are around the country, on social housing lists etc.

The public might start asking difficult questions.

TD Holly Cairns has done the research and apparently if you swamp a nation with foreigners while supressing any opposition, and then give them all full voting rights without even requiring citizenship, it strengthens Democracy®.

She goes on to say she wants 16-year-olds voting too.

🔗 HollyCairnsTD