Journalist specialising in defence/ security affairs. 40+ years in Journalism. Former Irish Independent News Editor. NUJ member Pix: Jaguar EBRC...and Jack.

Wexford, Ireland
Joined May 2010
The Australian government has introduced new legislation to allow Defence to conduct counter-uncrewed systems operations, including the ability to detect, identify, monitor, track, and where necessary, take action against drones. defenceconnect.com.au/land/1…
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Wouldn't at all be like #Ireland to forget important times in #Irish #military #history. Like this ARW raid that saved many innocent lives in Liberia in 2004. m.youtube.com/watch?v=k3WQrh…
Fact check: Irish troops have previously deployed on #PeaceEnforcement missions
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SOMALIA: Ministry of defense says 75 Al Shabab militants were killed and 56 others wounded in Monday's attack in Leego,according to a statement. The statement did not specifically address the reports of military losses r suffered by the Somali army forces in the attack.
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British Type 31 Frigate Variant Offered To The U.S. Navy Babcock is looking to pitch its Arrowhead 140 design for an American frigate requirement, potentially in partnership with a major U.S. shipbuilder. twz.com/sea/british-type-31-…
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Footage of multiple Ukrainian Storm Shadow cruise missiles slamming into Russia’s Proton military electronics plant in Orel this weekend. The strike heavily damaged a chip fab at the factory.
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🚨Out of the 11 women who tie Donald Trump to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, 5 of them—Beatrice Keul, Stacey Williams, Jill Harth, Katie Johnson, and a Jane Doe—have directly accused Trump of raping or sexually assaulting them in Epstein’s company or direct physical presence: • Beatrice Keul credibly alleges that Trump violently raped her at a November 1993 pageant at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and that Epstein, Trump, and others used this pageant as a “hunting ground” to prey on vulnerable young women and girls; • Stacey Williams, who offered a detailed and corroborated account of Trump sexually assaulting her in the early 1990s while she was alone with him and Epstein in an office at Trump Tower; • Jill Harth, who has also publicly detailed Trump aggressively pursuing and violently sexually assaulting her and another woman in 1994 at a Mar-a-Lago party where Epstein and Trump were the only men present; • Katie Johnson, who gave FBI a detailed account of her repeated rape at the hands of Trump and Epstein in 1994 in New York City when she was a minor; • A Jane Doe, who offered FBI a graphic account of Trump assaulting her when she was a minor in the mid-1980s in New York by forcibly pushing her head down to his exposed penis. Beyond these direct allegations of physical assault, three survivors speak of encounters with Trump whose circumstances indicate that he was a participant in Epstein’s crimes, as shown by how Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, tried to make (or made) these women available for sex. •Two Epstein survivors, “Jane” and “Kate”, told FBI that either Epstein or Maxwell seemingly offered them up to Trump for the purposes of sex or indicated their availability. Jane and Kate were deemed so credible that federal prosecutors called them to testify as government witnesses, subject to probing cross- examination, against Ghislaine Maxwell at her criminal trial. • Another survivor, Maria Farmer, described how Epstein had to actively prevent Trump from preying on her late at night after Trump confused her with a teenage girl potentially victimized by Epstein.
🚨BREAKING: Rep. Jamie Raskin released a new Committee staff report detailing evidence involving 11 women, five of whom directly accuse Donald Trump of rape or sexual assault in Jeffrey Epstein’s close company or presence. The report concludes that, based on the available evidence and witness testimony, Trump and Paolo Zampolli, who until recently served as a senior Trump Administration official and diplomat, may have been co-conspirators in Jeffrey Epstein’s conspiracy to traffic and abuse young women in the 1990s. These stories are united by time, place, and the distinct factual similarities in how Trump and Epstein pursued, manipulated, and abused these women. With one exception, these accounts of sexual assault and conspiracy involve episodes that took place between 1992 and 1997 in New York City and Palm Beach, at a time when Trump and Epstein were “close friends” and participated in a shadowy subculture organized around young female modeling. Witnesses speak consistently of modeling pageants and parties where young women and girls were forced into predatory situations and routinely taken advantage of, abused, and raped. They give similar accounts of the competitive and sinister relationship between Epstein and Trump and how it was channeled into their shared pursuit of young women.
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JUST IN: Gadi Eisenkot, Israeli opposition candidate with huge chance of wining the elections says Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons “Netanyahu is delusional, he knew Iran did not have nuclear weapons”
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#Movies @Netflix 'Unabomber' is a fresh look at Ted Kaczynsky. He murdered 3 people over 18 years with mail bombs. This looks more at Ted's early life as a student in Harvard. Russell Crowe is solid as his mentor. Interspersed with a 1995 hunt for him. Not bad.
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BREAKING: New Details of Rape Allegation Against Trump Beatrice Keul says Trump promised her a visa and admission to NYU, then raped her in a Plaza Hotel suite in 1993, tearing her dress and leaving her bleeding and bruised, and told her “the show must go on.” The new House Judiciary Democrats’ report says four other women also accuse him of rape or sexual assault in Epstein’s company. The White House denies it all, but five accusers and a DOJ accused of stalling is not something a president already found liable for sexual abuse gets to wave away. time.com/article/2026/10/26/… #BlueSky #MedSky #LawSky #press #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #HouseJudiciary #MeToo #Accountability
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De landmacht breidt uit met nieuwe pantservoertuigen. We kopen extra CV90-gevechtsvoertuigen, brugleggende tanks, ondersteunende pantserrupsvoertuigen en zware bergingsvoertuigen. Lees meer via: defensie.nl/nieuws/20261026-…
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❗️This morning Ukrainian forces are conducting a cruise missile raid on western Russia for the third time in a row; Russian channels report several missiles and jet-powered drones heading toward Voronezh and Tambov.
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More than 200 Ukrainian POWs have been killed in russian captivity. They survived the battlefield. They did not survive russian captivity. Their deaths demand justice. russia must be held accountable.
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Read the FBI receipts. Trump allegedly beat a 13-year-old girl unconscious after she fought back against his assault. This is the "leader" the GOP protects? This is pure, unadulterated evil. Justice must be served, no matter how high up the ladder it goes! 📉⚖️🇵🇸
🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: Congressman Goldman just went live with FBI 302 receipts exposing the Epstein Files. Evidence shows Trump unzipped his pants, forced a 13-year-old’ girls head down, and she bit his p*nis in self-defense, he beat her unconscious.
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