Posts by Rita O’Reilly
With over 60% of votes counted, Péter Magyar is on track for a super majority in the Hungarian parliament and Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat
Follow Hungary’s election turnout and later, results, on its electoral commission website
— HU/EN language option
Latest turnout: 66.01% at 15:O0 (GMT+2)
vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026?filt...
European countries are stiffening their resistance to U.S. requests for help against Iran despite Donald Trump's growing fury against Washington's historic allies.
The Guardian on Aughinish connections to the Russian war machine. Read and watch more on this from our 2022 @news.rte.ie Prime Time investigation
Kremlin-linked firms and banks control Aughinish owner
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
The UK High Court ruled that proscribing Palestine Action was unlawful and disproportionate. The ban remains in place pending an expected appeal
UK's High Court rules that the government's decision to designate Palestine Action as a terror group was unlawful. https://cnn.it/4rcZq2f
A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. n.pr/4tx7oVq
image from today's hearing
Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them
(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
RTÉ Investigates: The Psychiatric Care Scandal
by reporter Conor Ryan and producer/director Frank Shouldice, next on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player, 21:35
The family of a psychiatric patient who died in Cloverhill Prison more than five years ago have called for the immediate release of a report into the circumstances of his death.
A rapid rise in numbers of acutely psychotic people in prison is deepening a crisis in psychiatric care, RTÉ Investigates finds.
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
It could be a while before normal service resumes at Salthill Co Dublin.
Rail services are currently suspended.
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches French office of Musk's X - www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Russian forces attacked Ukraine's capital of Kyiv, its second largest city of Kharkiv and other centres early today, officials said, triggering fires and dealing new blows to energy infrastructure
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
“If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
BREAKING: Peter Mandelson resigns from Labour to avoid causing "further embarrassment" to party as result of Epstein links.