The great day had arrived. The most famous Irish prisoner since Oscar Wilde was returning to his ancestral homeland in a blaze of publicity and unprecedented outpourings of joy. Dublin Airport throbbed with anticipation, flashbulbs popped, TV cameras whirred amid an explosion of cheers and tears as the child - that's how he was referred to - eventually emerged, flanked by an array of virtue-signalling dignitaries. Yes, Ibrahim ('Paddy') Halawa was back from his four-year long hunger strike undertaken while confined in a microscopically small cell of six square inches in Egypt. Success at last for the massive campaign waged at huge cost to the Irish taxpayer to get the child back. This included frequent visits to Egypt by senior Government figures and just about every parasitic quango in the country.
Now some cynics might point out that Paddy's bloodline is 100% Arabic, that he had claimed while in Egypt that 'I might have been born in Ireland but I'm fully Egyptian' and he's an active supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. But most good-hearted people would agree with Dublin's Archbishop Diarmuid Martin that 'he's as Irish as any of us'. He now faces a glittering array of media interviews including a special guest appearance on our flagship TV talk show. And he can rest assured that not a single awkward question will be asked about the mass of lies, obfuscations and self-contradictions that has characterised this charade from the very beginning. Because the see-no-evil performance of the Irish MSM has brought the already abysmal journalistic standards (an oxymoron?) to new lows.
Meanwhile, half a world away an actual Irishman waits to begin a jail sentence for a crime he claims he did not commit. Éanna Ó Cochláin was sentenced to 12 years in prison for smuggling 0.38 grams of cannabis in the Philippines four years ago. The psychiatric nurse, who lived in London with his wife and daughter, denies any knowledge of the drugs and says they were planted on him. A practice which it seems is quite common in that country. Now he might be guilty or he might not. But....12 years for 0.38 grams of cannabis??? Pablo Escobar he ain't, that's for sure. Would seem to be an ideal case for the Irish authorities to exert themselves on behalf of one of its citizens. But noooo. Nada. His representative has criticised Irish politicians saying they have not taken any interest in the case. "Our Irish politicians are not interested. To be fairly brutal, nobody has given a damn. He (Éanna) cannot see why the Irish government won’t try and help."Well I can help with an explanation here Éanna. You see you are a White fair-haired Christian male. As such you're at the bottom of the totem pole, the last in line. You have nobody, least of all your own kith and kin, to help you fight your corner. The Western mind has been taken over by the human equivalent of Monomorium santschii, a parasite so terrible that it can actually induce its unwitting host to murder its own mother. In human terms it's known as pathological altruism. And that's why your own kith and kin ignore you while lavishing unquestioning support on hostile foreigners who in return despise everything about their benefactors.