The IRBC - Spooftocracy

Decided to start a fresh tracking of the IRBC faileptitude as the previous post was now enormous.

Like those who tracked Trump's golfing or Musk's private jet use...transparency, fact and truth matter. 

And the only place you are going to find it in regards to Europe's most ridiculous excuse for a rarity committee is right here. (Well...apart from that single posting on a closed WhatsApp group from Seamus Feeney...cos ya gotta love Irony right? 🤣)

Where did we leave off? July 2024

It's now August 2024.

So let's look at Ireland's excuse for a rarity recording system.

• Do they produce monthly provisional lists as per their own system outline? - No
• Did they sneakily change the wording on their website from "Monthly" to "Regular"? - Yes
• Do they even produce this regularly? - No
• Do they update the Irish list after the publication of each Irish Rare Bird Report? - No
• Are you lucky if that happens once a decade? - Oh dear, No.
• After announcing that they would make announcements on rare birds on Twitter, do they do so? - No
• Do they announce membership changes - No
• Did they ever get a second "Keeper of the provisional list"? - No (and there's a Cringe title btw. 🤣)
• Do they make announcements on the IRBC website anymore? - No

This Uber-Cringe group is now simply a vehicle for desperate, stringy spoofers and mental cases (scroll down to "Stand on your own feet" here if you want some background on that) to play lord of the manor. 

The faux prestige of saying "I'm on the rarity committee" to a community that pretends it still does anything.

You can see the future of it now. 

We could start a pool on who will get on there in due course and it would be easy to win. You just need to name their desperate wannabe mates. You know, The other lads that string or throw Man-baby tantrums and delete their tweets/evidence.

And so I leave you for now with this.

Because this is still hilarious and always will be. A stalking nutter, who sang their praises for donkey's years, defended them at every turn, left in the void wondering where all the outputs have gone. 🤣

Cringe. A word synonymous with Irish birding.

Update: September 2024

Yet again, no sign of a provisional list from the Spooftocracy IRBC.

Isn't it time everyone stopped pretending there is a functional rare bird recording body in Ireland?

Bit sad all the losers out there saying "all my list is accepted by the IRBC" when this catastrofuck is on full display, run by spoofers who can't ID Herring Gulls, Grey Herons or Reed Warblers. 🤣

Update: October 2024

Yet again, no outputs from the Spoof Rare Bird Committee. The provisional list system is dead.

I for one am shocked. Shocked I tell you. Well, not that shocked. 🤣

UPDATE December 2024

I do love being right. 😉

It pleases me greatly when one of my predictions comes to pass. Even when it was one this easy to make. 

Anyone, even the visually impaired, could have seen that the addition of bird flusher and all round desperate wannabe, Brian "McFlushkey" McCloskey to the IRBC was inevitable. His lickarsery of various members had increased dramatically in recent years and it was a sure thing. 

Cian Spoofer Cardiff will be on within 2 years, wait and see 🤣. The propaganda groundwork is already being laid. I begrudge no one a find, but the mark of a liar in birding (I won't use the made up term stringer, liar is far more serious) is not the birds they've accurately found... it's how the act when they KNOW, outright, that they have made a mistake. 

The most recent case of me catching Cardiff out involved him claiming to have seen an American Golden Plover on the Mullet. 

When I saw his shots on Twitter it was instantly discernable that the bird photographed was not an AGP. I queried. And he deleted the tweet, claiming he had uploaded the wrong photo... TWO photos he had uploaded to Irishbirding, were also deleted. He then claimed to have video. The video never appeared. 

In private, his mates know exactly what he is doing when he deletes evidence of his misidentifications (as you see above). 

They know. 

But like any biased clique, they don't care. Shoulder shrug. "No one likes to be wrong". Being a liar is OK...when there is a culture of liars in birding. 

Back in the day, Lickarse O'Keeffe "Waffled that good birders are often wrong and SEEN to be wrong. It was a nonsense lie then. It's a nonsense lie now. In a culture predicated on lies, does it surprise anyone the double standard exists that liars would allow themselves to lie?

With McFlushkey, You can all expect decisions to be made via WhatsApp conference with Mullarney and Brian's paediatrician in due course! 🤣 (I should know. He was asking my ID Opinions for years! 🤣).

We can already see how his tenure will go. Mistakes will be deleted, just like his dodgy mates, because the paradigm now for these clowns is never to simply hold your hand up and say "oops. I was wrong". It's hide the evidence and pretend it never happened.

Ooo all the Goshawks are accepted. Oopsie. Turns out there's been a review on Goshawks open since 2015... I'm sure you'll hear the results aaaannnny decade now. 🤣

The real question, which no one will step up to answer...is how did things get this bad, get to this point, where you have people like Des Higgins or Herring Gull King or McFlushkey in any kind of position?

And if there is anyone out there ridiculous enough to suggest this kind of criticism is unacceptable or distasteful...Brian has said similar about Paul Connaughton, his now fellow team member, for example. 🙂 

Awkward.

I somewhat pity Cusack here. It's so rare that people acknowledge that getting on the IRBC is not about what you know, but who you know.

And he must now be in the uncomfortable position of having to pretend that his mate McFlushkey is there because he merits it. 🤣 

And then, of course, there's jumping on the old band wagon of "Owen's a stringer" for calling him out for the two faced prick he is. He only did this for a few minutes though, slagging off my Avocet during the Summer...before deleting the tweet (luckily a friend screengrabbed it) because pretending he's an innocent wee bell end is very important to him, but also, mostly... he's just a cowardly pussy. 🤣

Best of luck with all that in alls n'anyways.

The addition of Count Dowdall as a new chair position is a mark of how bad thing are. Resurrecting him from his crypt to get the coven in order? 🤣

Legend has it Jimmy sleeps in a cocoon of his own wings. 😉 

Again, a great deal of pity there. He will have to be dealing with a ridiculous level of incompetence compared to his tenure in the 80s.

Meanwhile....still no outputs. No provisional list, and it seems Irish Birds is delayed...Shocking.

It's not going well, is it. Be honest now. 

As you were.