Not even St Brigid escaped the distorting dogma of the craven Irish liberal elite. She\u2019s no longer a Catholic saint, if you heeded that ludicrous video released by Helen McEntee\u2019s Foreign Affairs Department last week, but a purple-haired, pro-abortion, candlewick-clad\u00a0woke<\/a> diversity \u2018goddess\u2019 who might even have been a bloke.<\/p>\n Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has suffered huge personal and professional damage\u00a0<\/p>\n In Government advert, St Brigid is a purple-haired, pro-abortion, candlewick-clad \u2018goddess\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n This week, Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan<\/a>, who\u2019s suffered huge personal and professional damage because of his advocacy for the rights and safety of women and children, addressed the US Congress<\/a>\u00a0on the \u2018trans\u2019 issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n And he echoed the weekend comments of broadcaster Claire Byrne, who cited the trans debate as a \u2018difficult topic\u2019 that RT\u00c9 lacks the courage to broach. We\u2019ve simply never been allowed to have a conversation, he told Congress, about \u2018men in women\u2019s prisons, men in women\u2019s sport, children taught lies in their schools\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018Ireland is the country of my birth, and its women and girls deserve the debate they were denied,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n He linked the 2023 Dublin riots to the \u2018silencing of alternative voices\u2019.<\/p>\n The way in which the Irish Government sneaked the Gender Recognition Act past a distracted public, in the wake of the same-sex marriage referendum in 2015, has long been held up by liberal lobbyists as the perfect legislative feint.\u00a0<\/p>\n A report by law firm Dentons praised the way it skulked beneath a \u2018veil of protection\u2019 offered by more popular measures, avoided press coverage and debate, and exploited a \u2018general lack of awareness\u2019 of the impact of the new law.<\/p>\n Linehan called on US politicians to put pressure on the Irish Government to confront \u2018the conversation it never had.\u2019 And with the Taoiseach and seven ministers, including Helen McEntee, heading to the US for St Patrick\u2019 Day, his intervention couldn\u2019t come at a better time.<\/p>\n Yet in this country, we seem doggedly oblivious to the evidence that the tide has turned on the trans cult.<\/p>\n Last year\u2019s ground-breaking UK Supreme Court ruling, that women are biological females and not men in frocks, has been followed by a major malpractice suit against \u2018gender-affirming\u2019 health practitioners in New York.<\/p>\n Graham LInehan in advance of his address to the US Congress on the \u2018trans\u2019 issue this week<\/p>\n Last week, a young woman was awarded $2 million damages from the psychologist who \u2018affirmed\u2019 her belief that she was a boy and the plastic surgeon who cut off her breasts when she was 16.<\/p>\n To judge by the response of Labour\u2019s Marie Sherlock to Linehan\u2019s views, though, Irish politicians and commentators have yet to realise that the battle has been lost. \u2018I\u2019d much prefer the conversation to be about the lack of healthcare for trans people,\u2019 she said, \u2018than looking back on a conversation had ten years ago.\u2019<\/p>\n I\u2019d love for Marie to show me where and when that conversation took place ten years ago \u2013 remember how the trans lobby lost its rag, threatening all manner of bans and boycotts, when Liveline dared to broach the subject in 2022? Small wonder RT\u00c9\u2019s been too terrified to touch it since.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll be last to admit that JK Rowling was right: \u2018This is nonsense\u00a0and the world knows that’<\/p>\n Following last year\u2019s UK Supreme Court ruling, Sinn F\u00e9in health spokesman David Cullinane initially welcomed its \u2018common sense\u2019 before having his card marked and deciding that, in fact, it was a very \u2018complex\u2019 issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n So we\u2019ve a cringing left-wing cohort in this country who are simply too scared to speak out on behalf of women, forced to share prison cells and homeless shelters with trans-identified males, or troubled children whose gender confusion is \u2018affirmed\u2019 to validate the warped ideology of the trans mob. Let\u2019s hope they\u2019re all around to explain themselves when the dam burst of medical negligence cases, taken by detransitioners against the doctors and agencies that failed them, begins to ravage our public finances.<\/p>\n But, even as the number of kids identifying as trans falls off a cliff in the States, and more and more sporting bodies ban males from female games, it looks like we\u2019ll be the last to admit what other countries can plainly see: as JK Rowling put it: \u2018This is nonsense and 99.9% of the world knows it’s nonsense. The Emperor is naked. He may be wearing lipstick but his balls are swinging in plain sight.\u2019<\/p>\n \u00a0Connolly needs to listen to ALL voices<\/p>\n VISITING the North this week, President Catherine Connolly, left with Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and First Minister Michelle O\u2019Neill, vowed to \u2018ensure through my work that all voices from all backgrounds are heard, regardless of gender, age, belief, ethnicity or nationality\u2019.<\/p>\n President Catherine Connolly with\u00a0 Emma Little-Pengelly and\u00a0 Michelle O\u2019Neill<\/p>\n What a shame, then, that she didn\u2019t welcome members of Ireland\u2019s Jewish community, at a time when antisemitism is on the rise in this country, in the week after the Bondi Beach massacre \u2013 in which the targets were exclusively Jews. And while she condemned the attack, she didn\u2019t find time to join Justice Minister Jim O\u2019Callaghan at a Hanukkah event in Herzog Park days later to pay respects to the victims. But that same week she did fit in a meeting with a member of Kneecap, and was happy to invite Greta Thunberg to the \u00c1ras, a decision that \u2018troubled\u2019 the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland for its timing. Still, must have been a diary issue.<\/p>\n Amal won\u2019t monetise her children… in stark contrast to Brand Beckham<\/p>\n In a recent interview, Amal Clooney, left, revealed that when she and George entertain at home, they ask guests to hand over their mobile phones because they don\u2019t want images of their kids to be snapped or shared.<\/p>\n They do their best, she said, to \u2018minimise the impact\u2019 of their fame on their nine-year-old twins, adding: \u2018We don\u2019t put their pictures out there, or anything like that.\u2019<\/p>\n The Clooneys are worth around \u20ac500m and somehow scrape by without monetising their kids<\/p>\n As it happens, the Clooneys have an estimated net worth below that of the Beckhams, at around \u20ac500million, but they\u2019re somehow able to scrape by without monetising their offspring or trademarking their names. I wonder if Posh and Becks still think it was worth it, given the devastating public bust-up with their eldest, Brooklyn, who\u2019s accused them of caring only for the \u2018brand\u2019?<\/p>\n This week, after a month of global headlines, Brooklyn\u2019s billionaire father-in-law Nelson Peltz told of the advice he offers his own family: \u2018Stay the hell out of the press \u2013 how much good did that do?\u2019 He\u2019s wasting his breath, as it seems both sides of the feud are addicted to social media and can\u2019t function under the radar. Brooklyn ended his explosive statement by saying all they wanted was \u2018peace and privacy\u2019 \u2013 he\u2019s got a funny way of showing it.<\/p>\n A response that reeks of entitlement<\/p>\n FOLLOWING retired newsreader Jan Leeming\u2019s complaint about a \u2018screaming\u2019 infant in a fancy restaurant last week, the children\u2019s mother, Alex Edwards, has hit back.<\/p>\n Jan claimed the parents were indifferent to their kids\u2019 disruptive antics, and sure enough Ms Edwards\u2019s response positively reeked of entitlement. Her one-year-old \u2018loves to wave at people\u2019 but she noticed that \u2018two elderly women\u2019 were not \u2018responding to my children in the way that people usually do\u2019.<\/p>\n In other words, she does this all the time and expects other diners to suck it up. And there was more than a hint of ageism in her suggestion that old people should avoid restaurants that offer kids\u2019 menus \u2013 I mean, how dare Jan Leeming still be alive, let alone expecting a peaceful meal in a pricey restaurant, at 84?<\/p>\n Mitchell an easy target in the Epstein files fallout<\/p>\n George Mitchell with Bill and Hilary Clinton alongside former taoiseach Bertie Ahern<\/p>\n Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern is hardly the only one bewildered by the decision of Queen\u2019s University in Belfast to cancel George Mitchell, a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, because he was mentioned in the Epstein files.\u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking on radio, Bertie said it is \u2018not clear\u2019 to him what Mitchell is being accused of, and pointed out that Jeffrey Epstein was \u2018trying to meet half the world\u2019. He said there was no evidence the former senator replied to any emails from Epstein after the latter\u2019s conviction for sex offences, and can scarcely be blamed for the paedophile\u2019s continued efforts to reach him.\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite \u2018no findings of wrongdoing by Senator Mitchell\u2019, a bronze bust has been removed from the Queen\u2019s grounds \u2013 yet Hillary Clinton remains the university\u2019s chancellor, even though she and Bill, above with Mitchell and Ahern, are to testify before Congress about their links with Epstein. Was the 92-year-old senator an easier target for some woke posturing, perhaps?<\/p>\n \u00a0Hail the hero 13-year-old<\/p>\n Austin Appelbee, right, who swam for hours through treacherous seas to save his family<\/p>\n \u00a0I\u2019ll admit to sitting dry-eyed through Hamnet, despite all the sniffling around me in the cinema, but the story of Austin Appelbee, the 13-year-old who swam for hours through treacherous Australian seas to save his stranded family, reduced me to a blubbering wreck. His mum Joanne, from Monaghan but living in Perth, had taken Austin and his younger siblings kayaking and paddle-boarding last Friday, but huge waves prevented them getting back to shore. In what was almost a Sophie\u2019s Choice-type quandary, Joanne reluctantly let Austin swim to shore, 4km away, not knowing if he\u2019d make it but certain that, otherwise, none of them would. After four hours, she feared her incredibly brave lad had drowned \u2013 and then the helicopter arrived. 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