I seen a video of Mick O'Keefe confronting "Islamists" in Waterford today. They are from (the peaceful) Ahmadiyya sect, and are considered  heretics by 99% of Muslims. This group are ruthlessly targetted by Islamists in Pakistan and are not allowed to call themselves Muslim in multiple Islamic countries. That's because they are complete and utter pacifists. None of them should be here, but be careful labelling the wrong people Islamists .. if anything the Ahmadiyya sect are are good example - demonstrating how mainstream Islam won't even tolerate its most pacifist adherents.

Is Rose McEleney, the director of "Pastures New" a Donegal-registered company behind the Naas military-style camp, the same Rose McEleney from Donegal with an HSE email address working in community inclusion?

It's worth noting that HIQA has exposed most of the recent controversies surrounding Tusla. It's rare for us to have a semi-state deserving of our gratitude.. but in this case it's well warranted. https://www.hiqa.ie/about-us/management-team

The foundation of what good governance remains in this country largely relies on older regulations that instituted oversight organizations, such as the Charities Regulator, the Lobbying Regulator, and HIQA. The advent of "new legislation" after COVID-19, together with the impact it will have on regulatory bodies (see An Coimisiún na Meán + Electoral Commission) poses a serious threat.

The Electoral Commission recently added someone from the University of Sheffield to their independent advisory board, the same University that conducts linguistic analysis of Irish social media on behalf of FuJo, EDMO etc. In other news, Mid West Radio is now running advertisements on air warning Mayo people about "Misinformation and Disinformation" straight after they had their broadcasting license renewed by Comisiún na Meán.

Another advantage of what appears to be a resounding "no no" will be valuable insights it provides into the prevalence and precise geographic distribution / location of far leftist thought throughout the country. We are going to get extremely granular data on the problem.

Please please please remember to record and keep any and all tallies and especially localised LEA/ED/Constituency tallies because they have value going forward.

Local newspapers, local radio stations, anywhere you can get detailed results, please, store them for future use.

Because it was such an overwhelming victory, some news outlets that normally publish these datasets may not bother because its basically pointless from a media perspective

Attn Finn (and LTG):

Now that the focus is on NGOs we might want to update the line about 30,000 NGOs on €6bn a year.

Great line but it stretches credibility. For a reason.

Most are GAA clubs and Parishes etc. A major part of the funding is for outsourced health care.


Happily someone has done the audit for us. Another NGO - Benefacts. Turns out they weren't helpful to the cause and lost their funding in 2023.

All that remains is a defunct website with their end of year reports.
https://benefactslegacy.ie/reports/
Those reports contain links to spreadsheets covering all NGOs by category and more. But the links are all dead. Someone didn't want them public. Unless...


If you look at the reports in the "Wayback machine" you can download all the spreadsheets and more.
20,000 NGO/Charities worth.
They're fascinating.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220207181325/https://www.benefacts.ie/assets/uploads/2021/05/Section38s.csv

Which of 56 sectors they're in. Which have CHY no.s which CRO.

For example everything on this page is available.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210926211533/https://www.benefacts.ie/data-services/open-datasets/

Happy hunting

Benefacts to be Wound Up | The Wheel
https://www.wheel.ie/news/2022/01/benefacts-be-wound

Now the quiet part out loud part is that the main hub for all NGOs in Ireland (The Wheel) claims the NGO sector is worth 14 billion not 6.

The 2021 report
https://benefactslegacy.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/benefacts-charities-in-ireland-2021.pdf
says 800m went to the1500 charities involved in Local Development (p 16)

Whereas 3,4bn (60% from the state) went to Health Care (incl 34 hospitals) and 2.4bn went to social services.

Local development 800m, International development 500m, Advocacy and Rights 250m seem like who we should be concentrating on.

If you want to narrow it down even further you focus on the NGOs on record as lobbying the government. And then focus on the top ten percent of these. Start with the ones meeting on influencing government policy multiple times a year. Don't start with the 5 rainbow flag wavers association in North Leitrim.

Go for the big ones, not the foot soldiers
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