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Heir on trial for murdering financier dad at luxury Irish hotel once tried to perform ritual SACRIFICE of stranger’s baby on flight, court told

An American on trial for allegedly murdering his millionaire father in Ireland during a mental health crisis once tried to sacrifice a stranger’s baby aboard a flight, a jury was told.

Prosecutors testified in a Dublin courtroom that Henry McGowan was aboard a flight to Paris in 2022 when he had his first diagnosed psychotic episode, according to the New York Times.

McGowan, who was 30 at the time of the alleged murder, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. 

McGowan is on trial for allegedly murdering his father, John, in the five-star Ballyfin Demesne hotel in Laois. He escaped the watch of his family and friends at his Brooklyn apartment back in November 2024 and frantically purchased a flight at Newark Airport.

His family called the authorities, who checked on the disturbed man at the terminal, but he apparently masked his symptoms and was deemed to be fine.

While aboard the plane, 30,000 ft in the air, McGowan felt he needed to perform a ritual sacrifice of an infant.

He made his way to a couple with their newborn and tried to snatch their baby from a bassinet, according to testimony read in court.

Upon arrival in Paris, McGowan was arrested and spent a month at a psychiatric hospital in the city, noted the outlet.

He was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, a condition combining symptoms of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

After his release, he regained his footing and, in 2023, he followed a treatment plan for his bipolar I diagnosis and was destined to make positive changes.

All hell broke loose less than a year later, in October 2024, when he allegedly relapsed into a manic episode and fled to Europe again.

Though he stayed in touch with his family, a friend met up with McGowan in London and expressed immense concern for his well-being.

The acquaintance called the McGowan family to say that he was ‘roaming the city in a hot pink faux fur jacket and had a wild look in his eyes.’

Without hesitation, his father booked a flight to Dublin on November 11, the next stop on his son’s voyage.

He had planned to corner his son when they connected at the airport, but after McGowan’s plane landed, he was missing, and his phone’s location stopped updating.

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Electricity shortage event “plausible” in next 5 years

Ireland’s energy regulator has warned that a national electricity shortage is a “plausible” scenario within the next five years if peak demand reaches currently projected levels.

The assessment was published by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) as part of its Risk Preparedness Plan (RPP). The report, a legal requirement for all EU member states every four years, examines potential disaster scenarios to assess their hypothetical severity and likelihood.

“CRISIS-TYPE SCENARIOS”

Working in “close collaboration” with grid operator EirGrid, the CRU examined “crisis-type scenarios” that could “lead to significant national-scale impacts on the electricity system” and the general public.

The findings were based on the All-Island Resource Adequacy Assessment 2025–2034 (AIRAA), a joint report by EirGrid and SONI which forecasts how supply and demand will align over the coming decade.

“If the maximum demand forecast trajectory described in the AIRAA materialised, it is plausible that there could be an electricity shortage event within the next 2 to 5 year period,” the CRU stated, noting that “as such mitigation plans to address this must be put in place.”

“REASONABLE WORST-CASE SCENARIOS”, NOT “PREDICTIONS”

However, the regulator stressed that the findings should be viewed as “reasonable worst-case scenarios” rather than “predictions”. The RPP is designed to ensure the energy system can plan and prepare for potential crises.

“These are not predictions of what will happen, but are plausible events that could occur in a reasonable worst case and typically would involve the alignment / occurrence of a number of simultaneous issues to occur to be actualised,” the regulator said.

The report noted that Ireland shares common risks with other EU nations, including extreme weather, natural disasters, malicious cyber attacks, pandemics, solar storms, and supply chain disruptions.

MITIGATION EFFORTS

To manage these risks, the CRU pointed to existing mitigation measures, including the Security of Supply (SoS) Programme and the recently introduced Large Energy User (LEU) connection policy.

The LEU policy specifically targets the power demands of new data centres, which accounted for 22% of Ireland’s total metered electricity in 2024, according to Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures. Under the new rules, these facilities are required to provide 80% of their power from renewable generation to reduce pressure on the national grid.

Further investment is also underway following the CRU’s approval in November of an €18.9 billion capital programme. The five-year plan aims to modernise the existing network and build new infrastructure to meet rising demand.

As an additional safeguard, the Moneypoint power station has been reconfigured as a backup facility. Following the end of coal-fired generation at the site last year, the plant now operates using Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO).

“Moneypoint power station is available as a generator of last resort since the start of July 2025,” the CRU confirmed. The facility will remain in place as an emergency “strategic reserve” until 2029.

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Ireland’s Simon Harris to Push EU-Wide Ban on Social Media Anonymity

Ireland’s next term leading the European Union will be used to promote a new agenda: an effort to end online anonymity and make verified identity the standard across social media platforms.

Tánaiste Simon Harris said the government plans to use Ireland’s presidency to push for EU-wide rules that would require users to confirm their identities before posting or interacting online.

Speaking to Extra.ie, Harris described the plan as part of a broader attempt to defend what he called “democracy” from anonymous abuse and digital manipulation.

He said the initiative will coincide with another policy being developed by Media Minister Patrick O’Donovan, aimed at preventing children from accessing social media.

O’Donovan’s proposal, modeled on Australian restrictions, is expected to be introduced while Ireland holds the EU presidency next year.

Both ideas would involve rewriting parts of the EU’s Digital Services Act, which already governs how online platforms operate within the bloc.

Expanding it to require verified identities would mark a major shift toward government involvement in online identity systems, a move that many privacy advocates believe could expose citizens to new forms of monitoring and limit open speech.

Harris said his motivation comes from concerns about the health of public life, not personal grievance.

Harris said he believes Ireland will find allies across Europe for the initiative.

He pointed to recent statements from French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who he said have shown interest in following Australia’s lead. “If you look at the comments of Emmanuel Macron…of Keir Starmer…recently, in terms of being open to considering what Australia have done…You know this is a global conversation Ireland will and should be a part of,” he said.

Technology companies based in Ireland, many of which already face scrutiny under existing EU rules, are likely to resist further regulation.

The United States government has also expressed growing hostility toward European efforts to regulate speech on its major tech firms, recently imposing visa bans on several EU officials connected to such laws.

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Archaeologists Have Discovered a Massive Ancient Structure in Ireland—It Could Be the Largest Prehistoric Site of Its Kind

Compelling evidence of a massive ancient structure has surfaced in Ireland, where archaeologists working in the country’s Baltinglass hillfort landscape have discovered one of the largest settlements ever identified in the region.

The discovery of a massive enclosure at Brusselstown Ring may represent the most extensive prehistoric nucleated settlement ever identified in Ireland or Britain, according to new research that appeared in the journal Antiquity.

Drawing on data from several recent surveys and test excavations, archaeologists report the discovery of hundreds of roundhouse platforms clustered within the remains of a monumental hillfort. The findings, they say, point to an unprecedented level of population density and social organization among the site’s builders during the late Bronze Age.

A Prehistoric Settlement of an Unprecedented Scale

Located in County Wicklow, Brusselstown Ring comprises a large area spanning more than 40 hectares, with portions that extend outward toward a larger contour fort that extends to nearly three times this size.

“The Baltinglass hillfort cluster in County Wicklow stands out as one of the most complex prehistoric landscapes in Ireland, sometimes referred to as ‘Ireland’s Hillfort Capital’ due to its exceptional concentration and diversity of monuments,” the study’s authors write.

Spread out across more than a dozen hilltop enclosures along the southwestern Wicklow Mountains, archaeologists have already discovered seven major fortifications and other features in the area, which reveal ongoing use and construction efforts that ran from the early Neolithic up until the Bronze Age.

In the past, surveys conducted in the area had already identified as many as 300 possible sites that would have served as temporary shelters. Now, drawing on recent analysis of aerial imagery of the landscape, more than 600 minute topographical anomalies were revealed, which the archaeological team says is consistent with prehistoric roundhouse platform construction of the period.

Of these features, just under 100 appear within the inner enclosure, while the remaining 500 or so exist between the inner and outer ramparts.

Hillforts of this size—particularly those extending across multiple summits—are exceptionally rare not only in Ireland and Britain, but even among the great oppida of continental Europe. If the discovery is confirmed to be what archaeologists now believe it represents, it will mark the largest known prehistoric settlement ever found in the Atlantic Archipelago, vastly outsizing past roundhouse concentrations at sites that include Turlough Hill in County Clare, as well as the Mullaghfarna site in County Sligo, each of which contains as many as 150 dwellings but lacks enclosure features.

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New baby graveyard found at home where 796 infants were buried in septic tank

A second baby graveyard has been found at the site of a maternity home for unwed mothers run by Catholic nuns in Ireland, where the remains of almost 800 infants were already found buried in a septic tank.

Excavations are currently underway at a seemingly inconspicuous patch of grass next to a children’s playground in a small Irish town after a evidence of a mass grave was uncovered.

The land, attached to a home run by nuns between 1925 and 1961 in the town of Tuam, 220km west of Dublin, was left largely untouched after the institution was knocked down in 1972.

But in 2014, amateur historian Catherine Corless, presented evidence that 796 babies, from newborns to a nine-year-old, had died at Tuam’s mother and baby home, leading to an Irish Commission of Investigation into the so-called mother and baby homes.

During its almost 40-year operation, the facility housed a number of women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and were shunned by their families. They were often separated from their children after giving birth.

A planned two-year excavation of the unmarked mass burial site began in July, conducted by the Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention in Tuam (ODAIT), which has since found evidence of a second burial site at the home.

Daniel MacSweeney, who is leading the excavation, told Irish broadcaster RTE a total of 11 sets of infant remains have been discovered in the new location, around 15 metres away from a memorial ground on the site.

All were buried in coffins, and date from the period between 1925 and 1961, when the home operated.

They were found less than a metre below the old surface, which had been covered by gravel more recently.

“We have indications of further potential graves of infant and child size, and over the coming weeks and months we will excavate them and see what we find there,” he said.

“There is also a historic map that shows a larger burial ground in this part of the site. We will also excavate there and see if there are further burials.”

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How the MI5 ‘allowed Britain’s top agent inside IRA to get away with murder’… these are the damning findings of a report into mole ‘Stakeknife’

Britain’s top spy inside the IRA was effectively allowed to get away with murder because the security services felt ‘a perverse sense of loyalty’ to him, a damning report has concluded.

The Daily Mail can reveal that the double agent codenamed ‘Stakeknife’ was even taken on holiday by his handlers to evade arrest when he was wanted by police.

The extraordinary revelation was contained in MI5 files disclosed to Operation Kenova, the nine-year police investigation into the man unmasked in 2003 as Freddie Scappaticci.

Once celebrated as Britain’s most prized asset in the intelligence war with the IRA, he is now thought to have cost more lives than he saved.

Directly linked to at least 13 murders, Stakeknife was a senior member of the terror group’s internal security unit, known as the ‘Nutting Squad’, which abducted, tortured and killed suspected informers.

Operation Kenova – led by Sir Iain Livingstone, the former Chief Constable of Police Scotland – slams MI5, accusing it of ‘serious organisational failure’ for trying to restrict the investigation. 

Sir Iain’s report, leaked to the Daily Mail, takes issue with a former head of MI5 for stating that the agency had ‘limited knowledge’ of Stakeknife’s activities. In fact, it says, MI5 was involved in running him ‘throughout the entirety of his operation as an agent’.

Astonishingly, the report reveals Stakeknife’s Army handlers ‘took him out of Northern Ireland on holiday when they knew he was wanted by [police] for murder’.

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Enoch Burke: Irish School Teacher Jailed Following His Stance Against Transgender Ideology

Irish teacher Enoch Burke was arrested and jailed in November 2025. He was charged with contempt of court, and authorities insist this has nothing to do with his refusal to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns.

Technically, they are correct that his imprisonment stems from repeated violations of a court order barring him from returning to the school during his suspension.

However, it is also true that the entire case began with his refusal to give in to transgender ideology, which led to his suspension in the first place. Burke was a teacher at Wilson’s Hospital School in County Westmeath, Ireland.

In 2022 the school instructed staff to refer to a transgender student by a new name and the “they/them” pronoun, and Burke refused to comply.

After he publicly objected at a school event and confronted school leadership, he was suspended pending disciplinary proceedings.

The school then obtained a court injunction barring him from its premises for the duration of his suspension.

Despite that order, Burke repeatedly returned to the school, prompting officials to seek court enforcement. He has since been found in contempt of court multiple times.

In late November 2025, a High Court judge ordered his committal to prison again, describing his repeated attendance as trespass and noting that fines were no longer effective.

Along with jail time, Burke is now facing fines exceeding 225,000 euros.

Historically, Ireland was one of the strongest Catholic countries in the world.

For most of the twentieth century more than 90 percent of the population identified as Catholic, and weekly Mass attendance often exceeded 90 percent.

Religious vocations were high, with thousands of priests and more than a thousand seminarians in the mid-1960s.

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Ireland’s Globalist Deputy Prime Minister Finally Admits Mass Migration Exacerbating Housing Crisis

Ireland’s deeply entrenched political establishment is facing uncomfortable questions after Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris finally admitted what ordinary citizens have been saying for years: mass migration has exacerbated—and continues to exacerbate— the country’s housing crisis.

His comments, genuine or not, mark a sharp departure from the government’s usual attempts to downplay the crisis.

Harris, a member of the globalist Fine Gael party, told reporters in Dublin that a growing population and a relentless stream of migration “correlates” with mounting pressure on limited housing stock. For most ordinary Irish citizens, this was merely an acknowledgment of what’s been obvious to them for many years.

Again, stating the obvious, he warned that Ireland risks damaging “social cohesion” if it continues importing more people than the system can sustain. Citizens struggling to find shelter naturally see these remarks as long overdue.

For years, the ruling globalist coalition argued that migration played only a minor role in the housing crisis, if any at all. Housing Minister James Browne claimed last autumn that it accounted for only a “small part” of the problem.

That phony narrative is collapsing as rent costs soar, homelessness climbs, and thousands of newly arrived, unvetted migrants are placed in hotels and in homes while Irish families remain on waiting lists. As is the case so often these days, the lived experience of voters contradicts official talking points.

Harris felt as if had to qualify his statements by insisting he was not endorsing anti-immigration arguments, but he noted that even he could not ignore the blatantly obvious strain on housing and public services. His attempt at nuance, however, did little to calm a public exhausted by spiraling costs.

He argued that Ireland’s deeper issue is the government’s inability to build infrastructure despite a booming economy. Many see this as an indictment of a political class long distracted by global agendas rather than national priorities.

Ireland has the money for expansionary budgets, according to Harris, but somehow cannot provide basic necessities like water systems, energy capacity, and housing. For citizens on decade-long waiting lists, this contradiction feels like a betrayal.

He said the “centre” must deliver faster to preserve public trust. But critics argue the so-called “centre” has long lost credibility the moment it embraced never-ending mass migration without planning for—or having any regard for—its consequences.

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Is Ireland About to Erupt Into a Civil War Over ‘Illegal Immigration’?

Official details surrounding the alleged rape of a 10-year-old Irish girl by a 26-year-old “asylum seeker” are murky due to a system that protects not only the victim, but also the alleged predator.

As the Irish Times reports, police “have been unable to speak to a 10-year-old girl, who was allegedly sexually assaulted in west Dublin last month, ‘due to medical advice,’ a court has heard.”

On top of that, the alleged perpetrator in the case “cannot be identified due to the nature of the charge.” The unidentified man is accused of sexual assault of the girl on Oct. 20, 2025, “after the girl went missing from care.” 

It has been reported that the young girl was under the care of Tusla, Ireland’s Child and Family Agency. She had gone missing during a supervised field trip to the city center before the assault occurred somewhere near the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, one of the facilities used to house asylum seekers.

Most of the details in the case that have been officially revealed are procedural ones, like court dates, sanity tests for the accused, and physical and mental health assessments for the victim. 

The public reaction to the rape, however, provides a little more context, given that the Irish citizenry is reacting to what they know even if authorities aren’t releasing confirmed details. 

Within 48 hours of the crime and for several nights, violent protests flared up around the City West Hotel, which is a large former hotel that has been transformed into a migrant center housing 2,000 illegal migrants. 

Fox News reported that the perpetrator is “an illegal migrant — who had deportation orders standing against him — is accused of attacking the girl.” According to that report, police said their officers who responded to the situation were attacked as “they tried to cordon off the building” and protect the migrants inside. Roughly 300 officers responded. 

Protesters waved green, white, and orange Irish national flags. Some chanted, “Get them out, get them out,” which Fox News reported was centered on the shelter’s residents. The protesters threw empty glass bottles and bricks. They discharged fireworks. They pointed lasers into the cockpit of a police helicopter. And two protesters on horseback tried to breach the police line. 

The local police commissioner, Justin Kelly, apparently unaware that the American media redefined what a “peaceful protest” is during the Black Lives Matter unrest in America in 2020, said, “This was obviously not a peaceful protest…The actions this evening can only be described as thuggery. This was a mob intent on violence against Gardaí (Irish police).” 

The Irish news media has reported that the suspect in the rape case arrived in Ireland six years ago from Africa. He failed his application to the European Union (EU) for international protection in 2024 and was ordered to be deported in March. 

Against this backdrop, a group calling itself the “New Republican Movement” has popped up with a foreboding video it posted online, calling out those in power in Ireland who they accuse of facilitating mass immigration and indoctrination of children in schools. 

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New Republican Movement to Irish politicians: “We will not sit back any longer and watch our culture and religion destroyed by the people we put in power”

A group calling itself the New Republican Movement has emerged in Ireland, appearing in a video posted on social media on 28 November 2025, threatening elected representatives in the Newry, Mourne and Down area.

The video features three masked men, one of whom appears to hold a handgun, reading a statement that labels local politicians as “legitimate targets” due to their policies on immigration and alleged “sexual indoctrination” of children in schools.

The group says it is protecting Irish culture and religion from a migrant invasion and traitors in power.

Earlier today, Liz Churchill posted the video below on Twitter (now X) with the comment: “It was only a matter of time … The New Republican Movement of Ireland has put a target on anyone ruining the lives of the Irish and who compromise the safety of women and children.”

The statement in the video read:

To the people of Newry, Mourne and Down, we, the New Republican Movement, have watched their councillors, MLAs, over the past 12 months. The level of disrespect shown to the people who put you into power. This cannot be ignored any longer. We are proud men of Ireland. We are patriots. Your policies and decision-making regards to flooding our communities with undocumented, military-aged men is not acceptable.

We will not sit back any longer and watch our culture and religion destroyed by the people we put in power. Also, the sexual indoctrination of our children, schools, has not gone unnoticed either. The New Republican Movement will take immediate action against anyone who threatens our ways of life and the safety of our women and children.

We have your addresses, know your movements; every one of you are legitimate targets as of today. The New Republican Movement, 28/11/25.

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