International Small Business Alliance

06/07/2025

Dear Sligo County Councillors,

Please accept my apologies if you have already received my below e-mail from Friday. I had a major Microsoft glitch on Friday evening and yesterday, so I’m not sure whether you all received it or not. I did have a couple of responses, so it did get through to some.

As I understand it, you are due to vote tomorrow on the Strandhill Public Realm Enhancement Proposal. As some will be aware, I have put in a lot of research into this proposal and have liaised with multiple people / groups within our community and further afield. It appears that there is unanimous support for my position. I am asking you all to either have tomorrow’s vote deferred or to vote against it.

 Please also note that the CEO’S report did not consider my very pertinent submission or subsequent correspondence.

There are several reasons why I believe this vote should not take place or that the proposals be voted against, which I have documented in previous correspondence to CEO, Martin Lydon (attached).

Crisis in Public Spending:

No one will deny that Ireland has a catastrophic public spending crisis / culture. Government / public authorities are spending money like confetti. To counter this, government set up the Dept. of Public Expenditure and Reform in 2011, headed up by Robert Watt. Under his watch, the Dept. went from one catastrophe to another, with the National Children’s Hospital now six times over budget. Mr. Watt was reward with a promotion to Dept. of Health and a €90+ pay rise.

Next up is the OPW: Bike Shed €336k; Dept. of Finance Security Hut €1.4m;block wall at Lansdowne House €490k from €200k; Leinster House Printer €500k+ and it goes on and on.

Silo Thinking / Silo Planning / Silo Spending: This culture is wrong, lacks cutting edge thinking and creates massive waste of public funds.

Exchequer set for challenging times:

Ireland’s corporate tax structures are finally coming unstuck. Government have just admitted that some of the Apple money is being use for day-to-day spending. It is highly likely that there will be significant profit repatriation to the U.S. going forward. In short, the party is coming to an end.

Strandhill Project:

15/06/2025

14/05/2025

Sligo County Council's Proposed Strandhill Public Realm Enhancement Scheme: - "Nero Fiddles While Rome Burns"

Below is the submission that Sligo Co. Co. Executives will did not want you (the public) to see. Why? In my humble opinion, my submission grasps the nettle while Sligo Co. Co. prefers to play tidly winks with Strandhill's present and future at of course, enormous expense. Some may agree with me, some not, but the imperative for Sligo Co. Co. is to act in the public interest at all times, when public money is being spent.
Thank you to The Sligo Champion for publishing my letter.

10/03/2025

Alan Shatter's Perverse World:- [Alan Shatter is former member of Irish Parliament and former Irish Minister for Justice]

Alan Shatter's unwavering defense of Israel, despite the colossal civilian death toll in Palestine, exposes a shocking indifference to human suffering.

His dismissal of international condemnation and Irish concerns reflects a callous, one-sided stance that justifies war crimes under the guise of self-defense.

Instead of acknowledging the brutal reality of occupation and mass slaughter, he doubles down on propaganda, shielding Israel from accountability while vilifying those who dare to speak out. His position is not just misguided—it is ethicically and morally bankrupt.

08/03/2025

Surely, this is absolute proof the Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris TD have deliberately lied about housing completions in the run up to GE24. In fact my experience of Fianna Fáil leader Martin is that he has absolutely no regard for the truth, whether it's going into government with Fine Gael, Ireland's sovereignty, immigration, Ireland's neutrality - whatever! The man is a compulsive liar, who cares not a damn for the public interest but how many political notches he has on his bed post.

Congratulations to all who voted for these traitors. It's clear that a new Republic is needed.

23/12/2024

Fuel Prices:

Why is fuel in Sligo and elsewhere between 9c and 14c more expensive than Stewarts in Carrick-On-Shannon? I can guess. I would say that Stewarts are getting lots of irate calls from other fuel suppliers, pleading with them to tow the line.......

11/11/2024

CEMENT MAFIA:-

Leo Varadkar in Ukraine:- As reported in Ukraine, Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal cosied up with Leo Varadkar regarding CRH plc's proposed acquisition of Dyckerhoff's Ukrainian cement assets. It transpired that Ukraine's Anti Monopoly Committee recently approved the merger. This was a patently corrupt decision setting the Ukrainian people up to be fleeced, with CRH plc now controlling circa 50% of Ukraine's massive cement market.

Back just before the turn of the century, when the European cement cartel moved into the Ukraine (Lafarge, CRH, Dyckerhoff), People's Deputy, Tara's Steskiv reported that the Europeans had, with the support of top Ukrainian officials, banned cement exports, thus cutting off a currency flow to the Ukrainian economy and drove cement prices up between 4 and 5 fold (from 50-60 hryvnias to 200-250 hryvnias per ton), while increasing cement production.

It beggers belief why large Irish political parties continue to protect this criminal mafia - perhaps LeoVaradkar or MichealMartinTD or Simon Harris TD might care to comment or maybe Mary Lou McDonald.

13/09/2024

The March For Justice Wednesday Sept 18 - Assemble 10.30 at Four Courts

13/09/2024

The March For Justice Wednesday Sept 18th - Assemble 10.30 at Four Courts

24/03/2024

Monday should be interesting, keep an eye out.

20/03/2024

Wonder what Paddy has up his sleeve. Like Paddy or not, he is sure doing his bit to drain the swamp.