A business student who smeared blood around a cell and started “kicking off” claimed he had been poisoned by gardaí, a court heard.

>Arisitot Tambidila (25) maintained he “lost his power” after he drank a glass of water given to him by gardaí.

>A garda witness said Tambidila was doing bunny hops, dancing up and down and repeatedly saying “oh yeah” in his cell.

>Garda Kieran Murray told Blanchardstown District Court he was called to the Red Cow Luas stop on March 31, 2021 following reports of an aggressive male.

>Gda Murray said Tambidila told him “f*ck yous, f*ck yous, this is my country, not yours”.

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🚨 Community Alert for Blanchardstown again. The Aquatic Centre sits on the same campus as the National Indoor Arena.

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11,946 Brazilians are registered to vote in Brazilian elections in Ireland.

That's up from 2,111 who were registered in 2018, a 465% increase.

A majority of Brazilians in 2018 voted for Bolsonaro who won the overseas vote with almost three times the total votes of his then rival Fernando Haddad.

In 2018, RTÉ told us there were 25,000 Brazilians living in Ireland so only a small percentage bothered voting. Most of the Brazilians one RTÉ reporter spoke to in Dublin told her that they were happy with Bolsonaro's election as president and hoped it would move Brazil on from the country of poverty, corruption & violence they left behind.

However, the 2016 census recorded 13,640 Brazilians. 9,846 of those were living in Dublin county with 7,986 living within the city.

I've talked before how the census does not accurately reflect the number of migrants living here and that the media know this and are able to quote figures from some undisclosed source when they want to, but then still rely on the census data to tell us what percentage of the population are migrants, knowing it's bad data.

Anyway, what explains the huge increase in the voter turn out?

Political scientist André Rosa had this to say on one of the Brazilian news sites:

“The profile of Brazilians who left the country in the last four years is very different from the one who already lived abroad in the 2018 elections. In addition, there is a much more competitive opponent to Bolsonaro, former President Lula”. Rosa also aded that many former Bolsonaro voters abroad were disappointed in him and promised not to repeat their votes.

It's probably true, and a changing profile in Brazilian immigrants could explain why the toilets in the Dublin Marks & Spencer's became a gay Brazilian sex den in recent years. However I'd say there was a big effort to get the vote out too.

I heard RTÉ's coverage yesterday morning and the host couldn't hide how giddy she was at the projection that Lula would win the election. They had an English expert on as usual assuring her this would be the case. It was a noticeable difference to the sombre mood at Montrose when Meloni was projected to win in Italy.

There was only one location where Brazilians could vote: The Erin School of English on North Great George's Street in Dublin city which had 16 boxes to collect the votes. So that's why the queue was massive.

As for the result, there are two sets being shared around online about the result in Dublin.

One set claims the vote share spread as follows:

🔹 Lula: 73.80%
🔹 Bolsonaro: 17.51%
🔹 Others: 8.69%

Another set claims Lula received 6,307 votes while Bolsonoro received 1,112, while 'Other' is unlisted.

These sets don't match up though and I can't find an official count.

The second round of the Brazilian election will now occur on Oct 30th as no candidate reached over 50% of the vote.

With 99% reporting, the complete results are:

🔹 Lula: 48.4%
🔹 Bolsonaro: 43.2%
🔹 Tebet: 4.3%
🔹 Ciro Gomes: 3%

123 Million votes were cast but 5 million were spoiled (4%) — all counted electronically. There are accusations of subversion.

So it wasn't the outright victory Lula supporters were banking on and a tight win on the the 30th while still likely is no sure bet. Lula supporters are disappointed in the result.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lula won in every European country except Greece. Bolsonaro also took the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Mozambique and the Dominican Republic. Lula won everywhere else.

45,273 Brazilians were registered to vote in Lisbon.
Porto, also in Portugal, has 30,098 registered voters.
Paris has 22,629 registered Brazilian voters and the UK has around 35,000.

So aside from Portugal, Ireland does have large Brazilian population for our size.

First in a video series chronicling policy decisions from the 1400's to 1800's, unravelling exactly how The Great Hunger came to be.

(Using the recent explosion of AIDS as source material)

Next video gets into the corn & potatoes of the situation - looking at events you'd be less aware of if you haven't been imbibing AIDS as of late.

207,843 new PPS numbers have been issued so far this year.

Just 47,395 of these went to people who were born in Ireland.

50,482 went to people fleeing Ukraine were granted.

That leaves 109,966.

>Meanwhile, those tasked with solving all of the escalating problems from housing to student accommodation, school places, hospital overcrowding and policing, will purport to scratch their collective head and ponder how this can all be.

Matt Treacy has the details:

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We all know it was the Americans. They know it, we know it. I bet they were popping champagne bottles in the State Department when it happened. The only people who believe the Russians did it are Twitter libshit narrative enjoyers.

Dr Matt Treacy puts on his tallest pair of swamp waders to interrogate the efforts by academia and the media to yoke Irish people under the black grievance industry.

>We are told that, in common with all the other white devils, we have a terrible history of colonialism and slavery to atone for. And the best way to do that is to meekly accept that if Irishness exists at all, it is some shabby thing that requires radical re-invention.

Lot of research went into this. Long read but it's worth it:

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Labour Party members took part in what was advertised as a free speech debate last week, hosted by a distressed Dr. Vittorio Bufacchi, an Italian lecturer in philosophy at UCC who acts as Labour's chairman in Cork.

Curious what it would sound like, I tuned in to discover it was more a conversation about the shrewdest way to censor their political opponents so the public would stop electing them as had just happened in Italy.

But ex-Labour leader Brendan Howlin had a warning that they might only accomplish the very thing that they're trying to prevent.

Howlin also said they're simplifying the process to uncover the identity of anons online by transposing something called Norwich Pharmacal orders into Irish law.

The European Parliament has published a digital services act which seeks to streamline procedures for content moderation, labelling, alert notifications, fact-checking, and flagging procedures, mandated across all platforms.

It's part of something they're calling "The European Democracy Action Plan" so no doubt it's completely benign.

Howlin also says the government are outlawing SLAPP suits against journos.

The case that Dr. Bufacchi is referencing in his question here is the defamation action filed by Mary Lou McDonald in the High Court against RTÉ over the content of an interview aired on Radio One in February about the controversy around which politicians were and were not invited to speak at a rally organised by the State-funded NGO National Women’s Council of Ireland.

McDonald was one of the politicians who was invited to speak at the rally, but she did not speak on the radio segment. During the broadcast, the RTÉ host referred to the historic handling of sexual abuse allegations by Sinn Féin.

Just to give you a taste of the calibre of the people educating Belfast's future elite at Queen's University, here are some of the rambling remarks made by Dr Suzanne Whitten who also lectures in philosophy.

In response to a question about the argument that we just need more speech to counter bad ideas, she says counter speech isn't going to work to stop far-right parties as being far-right is a complete ideology about how the world works which isn't possible to counter with rational argument.

She adds though it can be difficult to differentiate far-right speech from conservative, old fashioned opinion as far-right people use dog whistles to hide how bad they are. It's like a disease which needs to be dealt with differently.

Likewise more speech won't thwart the disseminators of disinformation because "it's not as if they are presented with facts they're going to change their opinion."

She also praises Hope Not Hate for petitioning advertisers to stop working with the Daily Mail.