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Dispatch · 16 Apr 2026

“No more excuses”: von der Leyen declares the EU age verification app ready.

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  • Von der Leyen declares the app “technically ready” — easily downloaded, an ID card to prove your age, accessible from computer, phone or tablet, with “the highest privacy standards” and integration into your digital wallet — telling Europe there are “no more excuses”; Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, France and Cyprus are pushing ahead and the rest of the EU must follow swiftly. “Where have we heard that before?”, Dooley asks.
  • Ireland is a “frontrunner”, von der Leyen says, with a testing phase under way and Patrick O’Donovan tasked with introducing the app in the coming months — while Jack Chambers, freshly back from the Bilderberg meeting in Washington D.C., hasn’t been questioned by a single politician about what he was doing there, Dooley notes, and a “lame duck Taoiseach” meets Friedrich Merz — “the BlackRock man” — ahead of Ireland’s EU presidency in the second half of the year.
  • At the same time Dara Calleary, the Minister for Social Protection, is preparing a bill to use the public services card — signed up to by 70% of the population over a 15-year period, Dooley says, with implications for biometric data — for age verification and a stroke national ID; hook that up to the EU app and then the digital euro, he argues, and “you’re away in a hack”: a surveillance state sold as friendly “opt-in” soft power, “all for your safety and convenience”, up and running by the end of the year.
  • The child-protection framing is what Dooley finds “absolutely astounding”: this from an establishment that ran the longest school closures, hitting left-behind communities hardest — in a country where one in five children are in poverty (over 225,000), over 70,000 children sit on hospital waiting lists according to Children’s Health Ireland, CAMHS is at complete crisis point and 5,319 children are in emergency accommodation; if they really cared, he argues, they’d solve homelessness rather than take away rights.
Transcript
00:00

Hello everyone

Hello everyone. Big story in Europe over the last couple of days has been announcement by Ursula von der Leyen, the European president, to say that the European Union age verification app is now ready for action. She stated that it was technically ready. And this is to prove age to access online platforms. Here we go. Digital ID, digital wallet.

So, uh, von der Leyen has come out and said it's technically ready. And she said it's going to be user-friendly. Where have we heard that before? And you can easily download the app and use an ID card to prove your age to access platforms. And it has the highest privacy standards. Where have we heard that before? And she also went on to say that it can be accessed from any device, a computer, a phone, or a tablet.

And von der Leyen herself has said that there is no more excuses. And you can integrate the app into your digital wallet. So, there we have it from the horse's mouth herself. It's technically ready and let's get moving on it. She also went on to say Ireland is a frontrunner in this. Surprise, surprise, surprise. Currently, there's a testing phase taking place.

And we've seen Jack Chambers most recently at the Bilderberg meeting in Washington, D.C. Wasn't questioned on what he was doing there by any of the politicians since he arrived back. And, uh, there are other politicians such as Patrick O'Donovan who was tasked with introducing this in the coming months. Von der Leyen also went on to say other countries such as Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and Cyprus are pushing ahead with this pretty quickly.

And the rest of the European Union has to follow very, very swiftly. So, interesting enough, we've got the European Union presidency coming up in the second half of this year. Already, lame duck Taoiseach is off in Germany today meeting Friedrich Merz, the BlackRock man, who is the Chancellor of Germany. And he's facing his own pressures here at home following the motion of confidence in Martin that uh three of his younger TDs weren't happy with and wrote a.

02:57

Letter to Martin after voting confidence in the government

Letter to Martin after voting confidence in the government. They said they weren't happy. Maybe they should have voted against the government if they really weren't happy. But more of the same hypocrisy coming from the uh Fianna Fáil party who are accused to celebrate their 100th anniversary pretty soon. Maybe the best party should be to uh end the Fianna Fáil party. And to uh that could be a good celebration. Wouldn't that be good for the people of.

Ireland? We've had 100 years of them. I think time is up for Fianna Fáil in Ireland. This comes at the same time when another Fianna Fáil minister, Dara Calleary, the Minister for Social Protection, is preparing a bill around using the public services card for age verification and stroke national ID. Here we go. Already, 70% of the population over a 15-year period have signed up to this. And this has implications for biometric data.

Surveillance state. Linking it in with your technically ready EU age verification app. And then hook that up to your digital currency, digital euro. And you're away in a hack, aren't you? It's all for your safety and convenience. And when they say they're protecting children, I find that absolutely astounding. The uh hypocrisy. Well, Barraface law is about protecting children. Didn't really worry about children in the context of lockdowns with the longest school closures here in Ireland that impacted disproportionately.

The children from communities that are already left behind. Also, one of five children in Ireland are in poverty. That's over 225,000 children. In Europe, it's one of four children are at risk of poverty. This is the great European Union of the children's safety. No big plans done up for uh trying to eradicate poverty, is there? Especially amongst children. And uh in terms of hospital waiting lists, there's over 70,000 children on hospital waiting lists in Ireland according to Children's Health Ireland.

And many more are waiting on disability services, special needs assessments, not to mention mental health with the CAMHS system at a complete crisis point. And also with the scoliosis scandal. You all know about that. The last few days, remember how I was saying that uh people are missing cancer appointments. Over 900,000 people are on hospital waiting lists. One of the richest countries in Europe, but yet we can't support the basic needs of our citizens.

“The last few days, remember how I was saying that uh people are missing cancer appointments”

05:46

Not to mention the uh the homelessness as well

Not to mention the uh the homelessness as well. If they really cared, they would solve the homelessness. Wouldn't they? 5,319 children in emergency accommodation, so-called emergency accommodation. And uh one of five children are in unsuitable accommodation. Damp, overcrowded conditions. And uh molds, many children suffering in completely uninhabitable conditions. They are in my not suitable conditions.

So, far from any of this nonsense that they're trying to push that it's for your safety, protection, privacy, blah, blah, blah. It's fundamentally about taking away our rights. And remember when they say it's just an opt-in, and they'll use the soft power to say it's nice and friendly. This is the bigger agenda. Tie it into your digital euro, digital wallet, and have it up and running by the end of this year when Ireland and Patrick O'Donovan is.

The digital minister for the European Union. So, uh thanks so much for supporting my videos. Really appreciate them. Thanks for everybody who subscribed. Please share them and please share this message message far and wide to what's really going on in Ireland. And uh well, many are still caught up in the nonsense being pushed by the media, more and more are waking up to the reality of Ireland and what's taking place.

Well, Martin is hanging on by a shoestring essentially to power. The tighter Martin, European Union president manager. So, thanks so much for supporting my videos. And take care. Slán go fáil from Dublin today. Bye-bye.

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16 Apr 2026 · Digital ID · 7:36

“No more excuses”: von der Leyen declares the EU age verification app ready.

Ursula von der Leyen announces the EU’s age verification app is “technically ready” — user-friendly, usable on any device, with “the highest privacy standards” and integration into the digital wallet — and names Ireland a frontrunner already in a testing phase. Dooley argues the app is one building block of a surveillance-state architecture running from the public services card through digital ID to the digital euro, sold as child protection by a state that leaves one in five of its children in poverty.

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TL;DR
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Von der Leyen declares the app “technically ready” — easily downloaded, an ID card to prove your age, accessible from computer, phone or tablet, with “the highest privacy standards” and integration into your digital wallet — telling Europe there are “no more excuses”; Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, France and Cyprus are pushing ahead and the rest of the EU must follow swiftly. “Where have we heard that before?”, Dooley asks.
02
Ireland is a “frontrunner”, von der Leyen says, with a testing phase under way and Patrick O’Donovan tasked with introducing the app in the coming months — while Jack Chambers, freshly back from the Bilderberg meeting in Washington D.C., hasn’t been questioned by a single politician about what he was doing there, Dooley notes, and a “lame duck Taoiseach” meets Friedrich Merz — “the BlackRock man” — ahead of Ireland’s EU presidency in the second half of the year.
03
At the same time Dara Calleary, the Minister for Social Protection, is preparing a bill to use the public services card — signed up to by 70% of the population over a 15-year period, Dooley says, with implications for biometric data — for age verification and a stroke national ID; hook that up to the EU app and then the digital euro, he argues, and “you’re away in a hack”: a surveillance state sold as friendly “opt-in” soft power, “all for your safety and convenience”, up and running by the end of the year.
04
The child-protection framing is what Dooley finds “absolutely astounding”: this from an establishment that ran the longest school closures, hitting left-behind communities hardest — in a country where one in five children are in poverty (over 225,000), over 70,000 children sit on hospital waiting lists according to Children’s Health Ireland, CAMHS is at complete crisis point and 5,319 children are in emergency accommodation; if they really cared, he argues, they’d solve homelessness rather than take away rights.
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7:36
Transcript · auto-captions, polish pending

Hello everyone

Hello everyone. Big story in Europe over the last couple of days has been announcement by Ursula von der Leyen, the European president, to say that the European Union age verification app is now ready for action. She stated that it was technically ready. And this is to prove age to access online platforms. Here we go. Digital ID, digital wallet.

So, uh, von der Leyen has come out and said it's technically ready. And she said it's going to be user-friendly. Where have we heard that before? And you can easily download the app and use an ID card to prove your age to access platforms. And it has the highest privacy standards. Where have we heard that before? And she also went on to say that it can be accessed from any device, a computer, a phone, or a tablet.

And von der Leyen herself has said that there is no more excuses. And you can integrate the app into your digital wallet. So, there we have it from the horse's mouth herself. It's technically ready and let's get moving on it. She also went on to say Ireland is a frontrunner in this. Surprise, surprise, surprise. Currently, there's a testing phase taking place.

And we've seen Jack Chambers most recently at the Bilderberg meeting in Washington, D.C. Wasn't questioned on what he was doing there by any of the politicians since he arrived back. And, uh, there are other politicians such as Patrick O'Donovan who was tasked with introducing this in the coming months. Von der Leyen also went on to say other countries such as Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and Cyprus are pushing ahead with this pretty quickly.

And the rest of the European Union has to follow very, very swiftly. So, interesting enough, we've got the European Union presidency coming up in the second half of this year. Already, lame duck Taoiseach is off in Germany today meeting Friedrich Merz, the BlackRock man, who is the Chancellor of Germany. And he's facing his own pressures here at home following the motion of confidence in Martin that uh three of his younger TDs weren't happy with and wrote a.

Letter to Martin after voting confidence in the government

Letter to Martin after voting confidence in the government. They said they weren't happy. Maybe they should have voted against the government if they really weren't happy. But more of the same hypocrisy coming from the uh Fianna Fáil party who are accused to celebrate their 100th anniversary pretty soon. Maybe the best party should be to uh end the Fianna Fáil party. And to uh that could be a good celebration. Wouldn't that be good for the people of.

Ireland? We've had 100 years of them. I think time is up for Fianna Fáil in Ireland. This comes at the same time when another Fianna Fáil minister, Dara Calleary, the Minister for Social Protection, is preparing a bill around using the public services card for age verification and stroke national ID. Here we go. Already, 70% of the population over a 15-year period have signed up to this. And this has implications for biometric data.

Surveillance state. Linking it in with your technically ready EU age verification app. And then hook that up to your digital currency, digital euro. And you're away in a hack, aren't you? It's all for your safety and convenience. And when they say they're protecting children, I find that absolutely astounding. The uh hypocrisy. Well, Barraface law is about protecting children. Didn't really worry about children in the context of lockdowns with the longest school closures here in Ireland that impacted disproportionately.

The children from communities that are already left behind. Also, one of five children in Ireland are in poverty. That's over 225,000 children. In Europe, it's one of four children are at risk of poverty. This is the great European Union of the children's safety. No big plans done up for uh trying to eradicate poverty, is there? Especially amongst children. And uh in terms of hospital waiting lists, there's over 70,000 children on hospital waiting lists in Ireland according to Children's Health Ireland.

And many more are waiting on disability services, special needs assessments, not to mention mental health with the CAMHS system at a complete crisis point. And also with the scoliosis scandal. You all know about that. The last few days, remember how I was saying that uh people are missing cancer appointments. Over 900,000 people are on hospital waiting lists. One of the richest countries in Europe, but yet we can't support the basic needs of our citizens.

“The last few days, remember how I was saying that uh people are missing cancer appointments”

Not to mention the uh the homelessness as well

Not to mention the uh the homelessness as well. If they really cared, they would solve the homelessness. Wouldn't they? 5,319 children in emergency accommodation, so-called emergency accommodation. And uh one of five children are in unsuitable accommodation. Damp, overcrowded conditions. And uh molds, many children suffering in completely uninhabitable conditions. They are in my not suitable conditions.

So, far from any of this nonsense that they're trying to push that it's for your safety, protection, privacy, blah, blah, blah. It's fundamentally about taking away our rights. And remember when they say it's just an opt-in, and they'll use the soft power to say it's nice and friendly. This is the bigger agenda. Tie it into your digital euro, digital wallet, and have it up and running by the end of this year when Ireland and Patrick O'Donovan is.

The digital minister for the European Union. So, uh thanks so much for supporting my videos. Really appreciate them. Thanks for everybody who subscribed. Please share them and please share this message message far and wide to what's really going on in Ireland. And uh well, many are still caught up in the nonsense being pushed by the media, more and more are waking up to the reality of Ireland and what's taking place.

Well, Martin is hanging on by a shoestring essentially to power. The tighter Martin, European Union president manager. So, thanks so much for supporting my videos. And take care. Slán go fáil from Dublin today. Bye-bye.

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