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Dave retweeted
We are in the midst of a five-alarm fire on free speech and privacy internationally.
Politicians across the West are demanding new powers for their spy agencies to do what East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, did.
Americans, Europeans, and anyone else online will have their privacy invaded, and personal information, including information about their health and sexual orientation, potentially shared with foreign spy agencies, if the Australian Senate passes the @AlboMP government's totalitarian bill.
New investigative reporting by @MikeNayna, @NAffects, and @itshermargaret reveals that the Albanese government buried in its censorship legislation a radical change to the nation's Privacy Act, one that would open the door to unprecedented secret spying globally.
It's coming at a time when governments in Europe, the UK, and Brazil are all demanding ever-more censorship of their enemies.
Behind the war on free speech is a war on ordinary people seeking to defend core civilizational pillars, from borders to industry to the rights of women.
The iconic 2006 film "The Lives of Others," about the Stasi, is about what happens when politicians decide their citizens are the enemy. That's what's happening today.
It's fitting that the main character on that film poster should be Australia's Prime Minister @AlboMP, whose legislation would weaponize the nation's censorship agency, the "eSafety Commissioner," to spy on citizens and report them to their governments for thought-crime violations.
Every free person in the West should be alarmed by this development and see @AlboMP and his apparatchiks for what they are: a clear and present danger to our freedoms and civilization itself.
It's up to free people to spread the word about this five-alarm fire and resist with everything we've got.
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Dave retweeted
Seems incredible overkill by money-no-object taxpayer-enabled Coimisiun na Mean to launch an investigation into local radio station Tipp FM over a single segment of a programme broadcast two years ago and to threaten the local radio station with a fine of up to โฌ20m, a fraction of which would destroy it.
Should say, it is the Examiner which claims "it is understood" the investigation relates to this single broadcast, but presumably they've confirmed that with CnM or with Tipp FM.
This investigation will be incredibly intrusive in the operation of Tipp FM, but for the โฌ40m operating cost CnM it's inconsequential, and presumably they need something to investigate to justify their existence (32 directors, nearly 300 staff, swanky offices, money-no-object** legal & PR).
cnam.ie/investigations-commeโฆ
** except when they're up against Elon Musk who can knock their lights out
Dave retweeted
"When the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland ceased operations in early 2023, it had 40 staff.
It was then replaced by Coimisiรบn na Meรกn. Which has more than 300 staff. Of those 300 staff, more than 10% are on more than โฌ100k a year, funded by your taxes."
Dave retweeted
The India-fication of the country continues apace!
Non-EU work permit data published for October 2026, these are new and renewed work permits (in 2024, 15% of work permits issued were renewals)
3,373 work permits issued in the month of October 2026, 33% India
33,362 issued in first 10 months of 2026, 31% India
These are jobs which could not be filled in Ireland or the EU. It is beyond scandal that there is not an accommodation precondition before issuing these visas, and that's why we have 34 to a bungalow, along with non-EU driven homelessness and society that is increasingly at each others throats in competition for housing.
FF & FG, ladies and gentlemen, not that our Opposition cares much about it either.
You can read the data by company and separately by secotor at the Department of Enterprise here.
We really need to get data by country, sector & company combined. We also need to see new permits only. But this is the best that is disclosed.
enterprise.gov.ie/en/publicaโฆ
Dave retweeted
Coimisiรบn na Meรกn is investigating two radio stations to see if they broke a code that...
"includes prohibitions on the stigmatisation and incitement of hatred against people or groups in society, and on the encouragement of views or behaviour prejudicial to the protection of the environment."
First of all, reporting about the investigations in the national press before proceedings and appeals (if needed) are concluded poisons the well of public opinion against those investigated and potentially prejudices the proceedings against them by putting pressure on CnaM to find guilt (as if CnaM needed encouragement).
But more importantly, TippFM is the largest radio station in the country that allows voices - rational, well-spoken, researched and presented voices that present heterodox opinions and actual debate in relation to some of the government's most controversial social and economic policies.
Fran Curry of TippFM was one of the only radio hosts who invited me on to speak about Vandalising Ireland this year. He was probing, professional and fair. He is one of the most popular regional radio hosts in the country precisely because he operates with a proper journalist's instinct - he follows the story, presents all sides, interrogates all sides and then allows listeners to make up their own minds.
This investigation - and its high-profile announcement in the national media - will have a deeply chilling effect on public discourse. It is impossible to see this as anything other than CnaM and the national media - doing the bidding of the state in attempting to police and shut down any criticism of how the country is being governed.
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Coimisiรบn na Meรกn has launched separate "formal broadcasting investigations" into South East Radio and Tipp FM
rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/110โฆ
Dave retweeted
Top 100 IPAS Providers in 2026 YTD:
Capewrathhotel: โฌ๐ฐ๐ฌ,๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ,๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ.๐ด๐ฒ
Bridgestockcare Limited: โฌ๐ฎ๐ด,๐ฏ๐ญ๐ฌ,๐ต๐ณ๐ด.๐ฒ๐ฑ
Mosney: โฌ๐ฎ๐ฐ,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ญ,๐ฏ๐ญ๐ณ.๐ฑ๐ต
Guestford Ltd: โฌ๐ฎ๐ฏ,๐ฑ๐ฏ๐ฑ,๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฎ.๐ต๐ญ
Smorgsroimanagement Limited: โฌ๐ฎ๐ญ,๐ต๐ฑ๐ฐ,๐ต๐ฏ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฏ
Holidayinndublinairport: โฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ,๐ฒ๐ณ๐ด,๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฒ.๐ฒ๐ด
Kintrona Ltd: โฌ๐ญ๐ด,๐ณ๐ต๐ฏ,๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Tirawley Ltd: โฌ๐ญ๐ด,๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ,๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Bravacapital Ltd: โฌ๐ญ๐ฒ,๐ญ๐ด๐ณ,๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Vistabayunlimitedcompany: โฌ๐ญ๐ฑ,๐ญ๐ญ๐ฎ,๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฐ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Allprosecurityservices: โฌ๐ญ๐ฑ,๐ญ๐ญ๐ฎ,๐ญ๐ณ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฑ
Eastcoastcatering(ireland): โฌ๐ญ๐ฎ,๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ณ,๐ด๐ฏ๐ฐ.๐ฌ๐ด
Gatewayintegration: โฌ๐ญ๐ญ,๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฎ,๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ญ
Dideandochaseireann: โฌ๐ญ๐ฌ,๐ฏ๐ณ๐ฌ,๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Millstreetequestrianservices: โฌ๐ต,๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ,๐ญ๐ณ๐ฑ.๐ณ๐ต
Tif Co Ltd: โฌ๐ต,๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฌ,๐ฑ๐ญ๐ด.๐ฏ๐ฒ
Nextweek& Co Limited: โฌ๐ต,๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฒ,๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ด.๐ฐ๐ฌ
Thedhotel: โฌ๐ต,๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Seefinevents Limited: โฌ๐ต,๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฏ,๐ฒ๐ด๐ต.๐ฌ๐ฏ
Cloudviewproperties Limited: โฌ๐ต,๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ,๐ฑ๐ณ๐ญ.๐ฒ๐ฑ
Keldesso Limited: โฌ๐ต,๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ด,๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ณ.๐ฎ๐ณ
Subalpine Ltd: โฌ๐ต,๐ญ๐ณ๐ฒ,๐ต๐ด๐ฏ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Heronwell Limited: โฌ๐ต,๐ฌ๐ด๐ฏ,๐ฑ๐ต๐ฎ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Townbe Ltd: โฌ๐ด,๐ฒ๐ณ๐ด,๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ.๐ฑ๐ฒ
Fazyard Ltd: โฌ๐ด,๐ฒ๐ณ๐ด,๐ณ๐ต๐ญ.๐ด๐ฌ
Carnbeghotelandspa: โฌ๐ด,๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฐ,๐ญ๐ฑ๐ณ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Deloitteireland Llp: โฌ๐ด,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฒ,๐ด๐ณ๐ด.๐ฏ๐ด
Ravenglass Limited: โฌ๐ด,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฑ,๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฑ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Coolebridge Ltd: โฌ๐ณ,๐ด๐ญ๐ฎ,๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ด.๐ด๐ฌ
Jmaventures Limited: โฌ๐ณ,๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฏ,๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Trabolganholidaycentre Ltd: โฌ๐ณ,๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ,๐ฒ๐ญ๐ณ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Doublepropertyservices: โฌ๐ณ,๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฐ,๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฏ.๐ต๐ฐ
Airwayscentreun Limited: โฌ๐ณ,๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ญ,๐ญ๐ญ๐ฑ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Igoemergencymanagement: โฌ๐ฒ,๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฏ,๐ณ๐ด๐ฎ.๐ฒ๐ฌ
Trailheadunlimitedcompany: โฌ๐ฒ,๐ฐ๐ด๐ญ,๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ.๐ฑ๐ฐ
Windwardmanagement Limited: โฌ๐ฒ,๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ด,๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ด.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Propiteeribisredcow: โฌ๐ฒ,๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฒ,๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฏ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Crossapropertyventures Ltd: โฌ๐ฒ,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ด,๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Praemonitus Ltd: โฌ๐ฑ,๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ,๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Slideville Limited: โฌ๐ฑ,๐ฒ๐ณ๐ด,๐ฏ๐ต๐ต.๐ต๐ต
Abbeytrillsagconholding Ltd: โฌ๐ฑ,๐ฐ๐ด๐ฌ,๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ด.๐ฎ๐ด
Jjuniorservicesun Limited: โฌ๐ฑ,๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฑ,๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฏ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Tattonward Ltd: โฌ๐ฑ,๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ,๐ต๐ด๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Brightoncapital Ltd: โฌ๐ฑ,๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฌ,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Parkviewresidential: โฌ๐ฑ,๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ญ,๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฒ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Transboil Ltd: โฌ๐ฑ,๐ญ๐ฏ๐ฑ,๐ณ๐ด๐ฎ.๐ณ๐ฌ
Pumpkinspice Limited: โฌ๐ฐ,๐ต๐ด๐ฑ,๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ด.๐ฌ๐ฒ
Campbellcatering Ltd: โฌ๐ฐ,๐ต๐ณ๐ฏ,๐ฒ๐ญ๐ญ.๐ณ๐ญ
Totalexperience Limited: โฌ๐ฐ,๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ต,๐ฌ๐ฑ๐ณ.๐ด๐ฏ
Burveaunlimitedcompany: โฌ๐ฐ,๐ฑ๐ด๐ฌ,๐ฐ๐ต๐ฑ.๐ฌ๐ญ
Motver Ltd: โฌ๐ฐ,๐ฑ๐ฏ๐ฐ,๐ณ๐ญ๐ด.๐ฑ๐ฌ
Bcmcgettigan Ltd: โฌ๐ฐ,๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฏ,๐ฏ๐ญ๐ฏ.๐ญ๐ด
Punchestownenterprises: โฌ๐ฐ,๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ฐ,๐ฒ๐ณ๐ณ.๐ด๐ฎ
Internationalorganisationformigr: โฌ๐ฐ,๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ,๐ญ๐ด๐ณ.๐ญ๐ด
Powertique Limited: โฌ๐ฐ,๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ญ,๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Rathmineshospitality: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ด๐ต๐ฎ,๐ฏ๐ฑ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Bohrmount Ltd: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ณ๐ด๐ด,๐ด๐ฎ๐ฌ.๐ต๐ด
Tenzing Ltd: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ฒ๐ญ๐ฐ,๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Onsitefacilitiesmanagement: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ฑ๐ฏ๐ฎ,๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ณ.๐ณ๐ฎ
Wallsloughvillage Ltd: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต,๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฏ.๐ณ๐ฑ
Northerngateservices: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฌ,๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Shorestone Limited: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฐ,๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฒ.๐ญ๐ฎ
Dromaprop Limited: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฐ,๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Oscardawn Ltd: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ฏ๐ญ๐ด,๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ฎ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Pbmproductons Ltd: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฒ,๐ฒ๐ญ๐ฐ.๐ฒ๐ณ
Maplestar Ltd: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ,๐ต๐ฑ๐ฒ.๐ด๐ฌ
Killequestriancentre: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ฎ,๐ต๐ต๐ฐ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Vesadaprivate Limited: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฐ,๐ฎ๐ต๐ฑ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Thegatewayhotel: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฌ,๐ต๐ฏ๐ฐ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Mcgmcgrathinvestments Ltd: โฌ๐ฏ,๐ฌ๐ณ๐ฌ,๐ต๐ญ๐ฒ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Earlsline Limited: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ต๐ฌ๐ด,๐ต๐ญ๐ฑ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Gormanstonpark Limited: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ด๐ต๐ด,๐ฎ๐ต๐ณ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Binderbook Limited: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ด๐ฒ๐ฒ,๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Flodale Limited: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฒ๐ด๐ต,๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ณ.๐ฒ๐ฒ
Forbairtorgateoranta: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ณ,๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฐ.๐ต๐ฏ
Coziqenterprises Limited: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฒ,๐ต๐ด๐ฑ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Convoytownpark Ltd: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฎ,๐ฎ๐ต๐ณ.๐ฌ๐ฒ
Themhotel: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฒ,๐ฌ๐ณ๐ต.๐ฒ๐ฒ
Swiftcastleroscrea Limited: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด,๐ฐ๐ด๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Seatownplacehousing Ulc: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฒ,๐ฒ๐ญ๐ฑ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Cwgsinvestments Limited: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฌ,๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฌ.๐ณ๐ญ
Dhmgproperties Limited: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฑ๐ฏ๐ฐ,๐ฏ๐ฑ๐ณ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Realtnamarahospitality: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฑ๐ฏ๐ฐ,๐ฌ๐ต๐ฌ.๐ฑ๐ฌ
Ruskinconcepts Ltd: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ต,๐ฏ๐ญ๐ณ.๐ต๐ฐ
Gardinerstreetprojects Dac: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ญ,๐ณ๐ณ๐ฎ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Emnradvisory Ltd: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฐ๐ด๐ฏ,๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ.๐ต๐ฌ
Easykeepservicesun Limited: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฏ๐ณ๐ฒ,๐ด๐ต๐ด.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Sidetracks Ltd: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ต,๐ต๐ณ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฐ
Earlofdesmondhotel: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฑ,๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Codelix Ltd: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฏ๐ฑ๐ฑ,๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฑ.๐ฏ๐ฎ
Mccurtainstreethoteliers Ltd: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ,๐ต๐ฒ๐ด.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Stompool Ltd: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฏ,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Wshiunlimitedcompany: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ด,๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฎ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Flanagansonline Ltd: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฒ,๐ฏ๐ต๐ฌ.๐ฑ๐ณ
Greenfieldmarketgarden: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ,๐ฎ๐ด๐ฑ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Mythshear Limited: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฑ,๐ต๐ฌ๐ฒ.๐ญ๐ฐ
Depaul: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ญ๐ต๐ฏ,๐ต๐ญ๐ฎ.๐ณ๐ฒ
Rocarojadevelopments Limited: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ,๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฑ.๐ฌ๐ฌ
Townsendpropertyservices Ltd: โฌ๐ฎ,๐ญ๐ฏ๐ฑ,๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฏ.๐ฐ๐ฌ
The Govt is on track to spend ~โฌ1.22B for 2026 on IPAS!
We are also noticing some new trends:
There are 37 new providers and 210 contracts have been terminated.
It seems the market it consolidating.... bigger providers like Bridgestockcare, Tirawley etc are getting bigger and smaller providers being cut-off.
You can now tracker "gainers" and "decliners" on the website "Public Data Unpacked"
Make sure to spend time on here and let us know any other trends or data you find.
The Govt has published its Immigration Accommodation Costs for Q1 & Q2 2026.
First six months: โฌ643.69M
Q1: โฌ311.28M
Q2: โฌ332.41M (up 6.8%)
Below are the Top 20 companies & groups:
Tifco/Travelodge Group: โฌ43,897,254.90
Cape Wrath Hotel (Citywest): โฌ26,848,965.22
Bridgestock Care Limited: โฌ18,531,180.61
Mosney Unlimited Company: โฌ18,249,727.79
Subalpine/Millstreet group: โฌ17,007,036.86
Guestford Ltd: โฌ15,592,999.27
Brava Capital Ltd: โฌ12,635,064.00
Kintrona Ltd: โฌ12,460,040.00
Tirawley Ltd: โฌ12,273,654.00
โBantyโ McEnaney family companies: โฌ11,170,810.00
Allpro Security Services Ireland: โฌ10,684,088.15
Vista Bay Unlimited Company: โฌ10,019,798.00
Gateway Integration: โฌ7,692,500.00
Didean Dochas Eireann Teoranta: โฌ6,891,320.00
East Coast Catering Ireland: โฌ6,725,709.20
The D Hotel (Fairkeep): โฌ6,539,000.00
Deloitte Ireland LLP: โฌ6,344,309.40
Seefin Events Unlimited Company: โฌ6,160,729.02
Heronwell Unlimited Company: โฌ6,055,728.00
Carnbeg Hotel: โฌ5,631,101.00
Keldesso Limited: โฌ5,586,322.19
Punchestown Enterprises - โฌ3,204,146.46
These Top 20 account for โฌ261.64M or 40.6%...
Since 2020, โฌ7.1billion has been spent on IPAS.
More details below..
Dave retweeted
At least one NGO funded by George Soros? Gript is referring to MRCI but the accounts of so-called "Hope and Courage Collective" reveal the majority of its funding comes from the George Soros ecosystem (Civitates) and the founder of Ebay, Pierre Odymar (Luminate).
HCC... an anarchist in Marrakesh, a failed (local council candidate) politician and an NGO lifer. Still trying to discern what credentials they have for .... anything really.
Dave retweeted
๐ถ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ช๐ต๐ผ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ (๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ด)
= โฌ340.45/MWh on 31-Oct-2026
Highest Price = Ireland (โฌ340.45)
Lowest Price = Norway (NO2) (โฌ187.36)
Dave retweeted
Power is Power
The chart below shows electricity prices in Europe just now, priced per MWh. Just horrific and economically ruinous for any modern economy.
The world spends about $4.2 trillion on electricity and this is split between:
โข Generation (2/3
โข Transmission & Distribution (1/3)
The world spends around $1.5 trillion on capex and $2.7 trillion on opex. The $1.5 trillion capex gets you 1-2% capacity growth each year. So a rough rule of thumb is that every 1% of GDP you spend on power infrastructure gets you 1-2% more electricity.
If you wanted to grow your power supply by eg 8%, you might expect that to cost 6% of GDP. Nobody has the supply chain to do that, if you want to grow this particular supply chain it will cost you more GDP points on second order things.
Nowโฆ
Demand for power around the world is booming, because of 3 big technology trends.
1. Air Conditioning (yes still) +20% consumption
2. Electric Vehicles +80% consumption
3. AI Data Centers +XYZ% consumption
Different regions have different progress on these three trends. US has a lot of AC, little EV and a lot of DC, Europe has little AC, lots of EV little DC. China has a lot of AC and EV.
Now generation splits into fixed costs for the generator plant (site and technology specific) and variable costs for fuel.
Dispatchable Power Cost, by Fuel Type
1. $6 / MWh - Uranium
2. $19 / MWh - Nat Gas ๐บ๐ธ
3. $22 / MWh - Coal ๐บ๐ธ
4. $40 / MWh - Coal ๐จ๐ณ
5. $90 / MWh - LNG
6. $130 / MWh - Biomass
7. $160 / MWh - Nat Gas ๐ช๐บ ๐ฏ๐ต
8. $200 / MWh - Oil
Fracking has given the US a structural energy cost advantage. If you talk to people in China about what is the most impressive thing the US has done they say โfrackingโ. The challenge with US Nat Gas is that itโs now fully developed and expansion is sort of tapped out.
What the 21st Century demands is a lot of power, you either have it or you donโt. When you look at planetary scale energy and compute trends you see myriad gigantic arbitrage opportunities.
Interesting times!
Dave retweeted
Utter basketcase RTE which is completely dependant on Government for its funding and existence gives us "5 reasons why the housing crisis may be turning a corner"
Here's nine yeasons the housing catastrophe is getting worse...
(1) Commencements in year to September 2026 of 32,573 indicative of downstream annual output, versus govt targets of 43,000 in 2026 alone.
(2) Monthly housing activity show two consecutive months of declines in August & September 2026
(3) Housebuilding employment in Q2,2026 showed a quarterly and annual decline
(4) We're handing out around 3,000 work permits to non-EU each MONTH (without any accommodation precondition)
(5) RTE itself acknowledges pent-up demand TODAY of 250-300,000 units. With Government policy to turbocharge immigration, that pent-up demand is INCREASING.
(6) Housing cost (purchase/rent) and availability is driving 7/10 Irish people to consider emigrating
(7) Emergency homelessness is relentlessly increasing
(8) asylum minister Colm Burke is evicting Ukrainian and IPAS refugees from State-run centres into the private market to compete with natives
(9) Planning permissions, longer term indicator of supply, are (based on Q2,2026 of 11,912 approvals) running at 48,000 annualised, and some of these won't be built and if they are, it may be up to five years.
Dave retweeted
The plan would appear to be to move thousands of former IPAS into social housing as a priority category while much of the private sector rental and buys are going to people on work permits. We have the evidence of our own eyes apart from the statistics.
MATT TREACY's research suggests that, with up to 40% of social housing going to people born overseas in some areas, and with IPAS centres almost full since 2024, it is clear that former IPAS residents are increasingly being pushed into emergency and social accommodation.
gript.ie/the-use-of-emergencโฆ
Dave retweeted
I'm shocked listening to @john_mcguirk & @sarahcatryan pod this week..
For 20 mins they discuss the strikes, complaining about pointless & costly programmes like "free school meals" & "free school books"
After 18 mins, they question:
"Who even asked for these programmes?"
Let me tell you....
THE TRADE UNIONS DID!!
Since 2014, INTO and Fรณrsa were organising campaigns for a "national school-hunger strategy", alongside NGOs.
Kevin Callinan, now Fรณrsa General Secretary and the man leading public-sector pay negotiations, was heavily involved
It gets worse...
In its own Budget submission, ICTU explicitly calls for further expansion of BOTH hot school meals and free schoolbooks...
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cheaper school transport, expanded GP visit cards and easier medical-card eligibility.
School meals cost โฌ286 MILLION
Schoolbooks: โฌ170 MILLION
Everyone seem to be underestimating the wider political and economic agenda of the Unions.
ICTU's Budget 2027 proposals include:
โข โฌ1 increase in min wage.
โข A new second tier of Child Benefit (โฌ773m)
โข Publicly provided childcare.
โข Greater welfare entitlements
โข Easier access social housing .
โข More public transport and green-energy spending.
โข A new State construction company.
Fรณrsa also campaigns heavily on expanding asylum system, which is currently costing us BILLIONS.
This all sounds wonderful but how do they propose funding it???
MORE TAXES:
โข Self-employed PRSI to move from 4% o 15%
โข Removal of agricultural reliefs,
โข Remove 9% hospitality VAT rate
โข.CGT on death:
โข 1% wealth tax.
โข Land/Site Valuation Tax
โข Eliminate CGT Entrepreneur Relief
โข More Carbon Taxes
โข Remove income-tax relief on insurance premiums.
To be clear- I have enormous sympathy for ordinary teachers, nurses and other public servants struggling with the cost of living.
But they have been completely failed by their own Unions, who have consistently prioritised every virtuous cause over them.
You cannot demand an ever-expanding State without acknowledging the financial consequences.
You reap what you sow.
(highly recommend @JohnandSarahIrl 's podcast every week)
Dave retweeted
My God, what is happening to my country?
Irish man Graham Carey sentenced to 2 years in prison for incitement to hatred against migrants.
Can I remind you -
- Angolan migrant Kasonga Mbuyi received a suspended sentence for stabbing a tourist at Dublin airport.
- Congolese man Bakuani Diasivi received a suspended sentence for punching a child.
- Filipino man Ramon Terrobias received a suspended sentence for possession of CSAM.
- Nigerian man Christopher Oshodin received a suspended sentence for โฌ145,000 welfare fraud.
- Indian man Visek Rajesh Leela attempted to abduct a young boy and received a suspended sentence.
- Indian man Vimalkarthick Balasubramaniam sexually assaulted a 14 year-old-girl, received a suspended sentence.
- Indian man Eldhose Yohannan sexually assaulted two patients while working in a hospital. Suspended sentence.
- Indian man Kartikey Gupta sexually assaulted an Irish woman at a concert. Suspended sentence.
- African man Stephan Obelngoa received a suspended sentence for grabbing a little blind girl from her mother, lifting her in the air and smashing her into the ground.
I could go on....
Do you understand what's happening in Ireland?
An Irish man has been sent to prison for 2 years for "incitement to hatred" against migrants, while migrants walk free from Irish courts for violent crimes.
Dave retweeted
In Ireland, they are sending someone to prison for two years over speech.
He called refugees "rape-ugees".
While he is in prison, there are two Jordanian refugees in court for the alleged rape and false imprisonment of an 18-year-old girl who got lost on a night out in Galway.
Graham Carey (42), who referred to refugees as โrape-ugeesโ and was said to have threatened to throw their โbleeding corpses into the seaโ, has been jailed for the maximum term of two years for incitement to hatred.
courtsnewsireland.ie/man-whoโฆ
Dave retweeted
Ireland's shittiest monthly housing supply indicator, courtesy of AIB today which provides an indicator of construction activity in the month of September 2026. Any reading over 50.0 is an expansion on the previous month, any reading below is a contraction.
Housing construction suffers second consecutive month of contraction. It's in line with lacklustre housing construction employment, and it's all pointing to completions in 2026 of around 35,000, compared to 36,000 in 2025 and a government "target" of 43,000.
Drop in the ocean compared to the 300,000+ needed TODAY.
Dave retweeted
๐จ Dublin City Council spending โฌ5.2million per week on homeless accom!
Dave retweeted
A month after Councillor Gavin Pepper brought us the non-Irish on Dublin city housing list including 9% Somalian, a fortnight after Fox News in America published the non-Irish on social housing list figures by county in Ireland, and a week after (unfunded by govt) Gript did the same, the Indo today (specifically funded by CnM - Local Democracy Reporting Scheme, Indo overall has received โฌ1,261,112 so far this year from CnM) swings into action and brings the news to a targetted audience in Kerry.
What a time for Irish media!
@Nick_Delehanty here we go!
Nearly one in three of Kerryโs social housing applicants are not Irish citizens - report | Irish Independent share.google/VGbZO7MBDdBfFogโฆ
Dave retweeted
North Korea governance by asylum minister Colm Brophy
SF justice spokesman, Deputy Matt Carthy has found out that there is now a BACKLOG of 21,203 appeals by failed asylum seekers at the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) our Dublin-headquartered state-operated tribunal. That's up from a BACKLOG of 20,593 on 20 May 2026, and up 700% from ~3000 in 2023. It will never be cleared without an amnesty, despite what Colm Brophy says.
But this is just part of the story. Since June 2026, there is a new appeals panel, Tribunal for Asylum
and Returns Appeals TARA and wily Colm Brophy hasn't revealed what the backlog is at TARA, and no disrespect to Matt Carthy, but he didn't ask. It's likely to be ~1,000.
This info used to come out monthly in a report, but Colm Brophy abruptly halted the report on 10 June 2026 after the May 2026 report was published. And now we depend on snippets of info, usually framed through Colm Brophy's narrative that he's doing a great job (and he isn't).
Reminder how our Government has abruptly stopped publishing asylum seeker information which would almost definitely reveal a deterioration. And instead is providing briefings to selected journalists who dutifully and gratefully re-report what they're told with the political framing and narrative provided by the Government. It's North Korea stuff.
We haven't seen a monthly asylum report since 10 June 2026 when the May 2026 report was published, this shows the backlog of appeals by failed asylum seekers, the verified deportations, staffing, all of which metrics have been going in the wrong direction for 18 months.
We haven't seen a no-accommodation report for single adult male asylum seekers since May 2026, which were published in June 2026 and last updated on the Department of Justice website on 1 July 2026. These were trending up again, and are newsworthy because all of them can make compo claims against the State.
We haven't seen the monthly piechart of asylum claims by Top 5 nationality since May 2026.
What is happening instead is, the wily asylum minister Colm Brophy below is giving misleading briefings to journalists, he says asylum claims have reduced after the EU Migration PAct came into effect with some stats, but gives the impression he's claiming credit, when in fact, it's the PSNI/UK Border Force which has clamped down on illegal migrants in the wake of the Belfast attempted beheading on 8 June. That sort of briefing to selected journalists.
Where are the Opposition politicians in demanding the monthly statistics are restored and published? I would say, where is the mainstream media but they couldn't give a toss about these statistics, never had.
North Korea.
Dave retweeted
Wind helps us save millions of cubic meters of gas burning on windy days. Thank you, wind. But we have hit peak wind, so don't expect an increase in those fuel burn savings in your lifetime or your kid's lifetime.
โWind does not set our wholesale price of electricity; gas does, ultimately. Wind also increases the portions of our bill that we pay as final retail price of electricity. Wind increases overall grid/network costs and even increases the cost of running a gas plant itself.
โSolar doesn't work at night and is barely noticed in the winter.
โGas supplies almost 100% backup of our entire electricity grid; therefore, it is critical for EV car charging and those with heat pumps for heating. For electrification of society, it's therefore critical.
โGas is always required...100% of the time, 365/24/7, as it supplies synchronous power and will be required for the rest of this century at least (beyond 2100)
โ1/3 of households, mainly urban, use that same gas for heating their homes with gas boilers; another 10% now rely on our gas-backed grid to operate electrically powered heat pumps.
โIreland has zero days of gas storage availability and is the only country that is fully reliant on gas AND has no such strategic storage or import facilities.
โVery few other countries have made themselves this dependent on gas and fooled themselves into thinking wind would replace it.
๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ ๐ถ๐
๐ผ๐ป ๐ฌ๐ฒ-๐ข๐ฐ๐-๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ
๐ฅFossil/Thermal 60%
๐Wind 10%
โกNet Imports 26%
๐งHydro 3%
โ๏ธSolar 2.4%
โ๏ธMax Solar ๐ด.๐ด% (491MW) at 11:โ15
๐ฅMax Fossil/Thermal ๐ฒ๐ด% at 18:โ45
๐Max Wind ๐ฎ๐ฌ.๐ฐ% at 23:โ00
๐Min Wind ๐ฐ% at 10:โ00
โฐPeak Demand 6.05GW at 19:โ30
