Dre Greenlaw's Sean Payton beef exposes another side of the NFL's most overrated head coach

Dre Greenlaw spent Sunday making life miserable for the Denver Broncos. Then, after helping the San Francisco 49ers beat his former team 24-14, he made sure Sean Payton heard about it.

Greenlaw finished with 12 tackles and a forced fumble, then needed Fred Warner to pull him away from Payton after the game. Apparently, beating his former coach wasn't quite enough. He had a few things to get off his chest, too.

Greenlaw told a San Francisco Chronicle reporter that Payton hadn't spoken to him since Week 12 last season and that he learned about his release from his agent.

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"He couldn't be man to man and call my phone and say, 'We're going to cut you,'" Greenlaw said.

So, a guy who makes his living dealing with people couldn't pick up the phone? Given how well Payton handles the media, you'd think communication would be one of his strengths.

If you've read my NFL columns, you know where this is going. I've been calling Payton overrated since before he took the Denver job, and Greenlaw being furious with him hasn't changed my opinion; it only strengthens it.

Sean Payton is the most overrated head coach in the NFL.

If you're tired of reading that, imagine how tired I am of hearing people call him a genius. Somehow, we keep having this conversation.

I made the same point during a recent appearance on "Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich." Payton is very good at playing the media game. He's friendly with reporters, gives them access and makes them feel important. Those relationships buy him far more favorable coverage than his coaching deserves.

Remember the draft-night report comparing Payton's excitement about Bo Nix to his excitement about Patrick Mahomes? That's the kind of coverage I'm talking about.

Then there's Mike Macdonald. Earlier this season, the Seahawks coach described a dispute with Payton that got ugly enough for Seattle to threaten a lawsuit.

Macdonald said Seattle studied publicly available fan videos of Broncos training camp to prepare for a game between the teams in 2024. Because of that, Payton accused the Seahawks of cheating. According to Macdonald, Seattle threatened to sue if Payton made those accusations public.

Payton later acknowledged that he'd reacted before checking where the footage came from. His explanation: "So obviously, I called shooting before I started looking."

So, the guy who served a season-long suspension over Bountygate decided to play NFL hall monitor without doing his homework. That's rich.

Macdonald apologized for his comments becoming public, called Payton a "phenomenal football coach" and said he respected him. Payton accepted the apology, and both said they'd moved on.

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Fine. They can settle it. That doesn't make Payton's original behavior any less ridiculous. Put that story next to Greenlaw's account, and the version of Payton we get from his media admirers starts looking awfully incomplete. Being nice to reporters apparently doesn't guarantee everyone else gets the same treatment.

Let's start with the part that always seems to get flipped around. Payton didn't find Drew Brees stocking shelves at a grocery store and teach him how to throw a football. Brees was already a Pro Bowl quarterback in San Diego.

In 2004, two seasons before he joined Payton, Brees completed 65.5% of his passes with 27 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Then, after his shoulder injury scared off Miami, New Orleans landed a quarterback entering his prime. That's an incredible break for a first-time head coach.

Payton deserves credit for what they accomplished together. But I don't understand why we're supposed to assume he made Brees, rather than acknowledge how much Brees made him.

In Payton's 15 seasons coaching the Saints, they made the playoffs nine times, reached three NFC Championship Games and won one Super Bowl. That's a good résumé. It's also six seasons without a playoff appearance, with Brees there for all but the last of those 15 seasons.

Then, after one season without Brees, Payton stepped away from the Saints in January 2022 and left the New Orleans roster in tatters. A year later, he was back in the NFL with Denver.

Payton wanted out of a bad situation, that he created, so he quit and simply waited for a better opportunity to come around. This part seems to rarely come up.

And yes, Denver reached the AFC Championship Game last season. I wrote about Payton then, too. The team had a good season in an unusual down year for the AFC where Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow and Patrick Mahomes all suffered injuries.

Payton's reputation seems permanently attached to that championship from the 2009 season. Meanwhile, the NFL suspended him for the entire 2012 season over Bountygate. That part gets considerably less attention when everyone starts gushing about what a great leader he is.

Then there's the quarterback-whisperer stuff. Payton handpicked Bo Nix, and I still don't think Nix is nearly as good as the coverage would have you believe. And he hasn't gotten much better. If anything, he's gotten worse. Nix's completion percentage dropped from 66% as a rookie to 63% last year to 60% through four games this season.

His yards per attempt and passer rating have fallen, too, and his regular-season touchdown-to-interception ratio has also slipped, from 29 touchdowns and 12 interceptions as a rookie to 30 touchdowns and 14 interceptions since the start of 2025.

If Payton gets credit for developing his quarterback, he also gets scrutiny when his handpicked signal-caller starts going backwards.

Give me the offensive minds of Sean McVay, Kevin O'Connell and Ben Johnson. Those are the coaches I'd want building an offense today.

I'm tired of hearing about Payton as though the rest of the league hasn't learned anything since he and Brees won a Super Bowl over 15 years ago.

Which brings us back to Greenlaw. The Broncos were entitled to move on after an injury-filled season. A phone call, though, seems like a pretty reasonable expectation, especially for a longtime NFL veteran like Greenlaw.

Payton offered a much warmer assessment publicly after Sunday's game: "I think the world of him. I really love everything about him and he plays with that emotion."

That's a nice thing to say, but it doesn't answer the complaint. It's easy to praise a guy at a podium. After all, the podium is where Payton does most of his best work.

For his part, Greenlaw said his postgame message to Payton was to "get the f*** off the field." Not particularly subtle, but after 12 tackles and a win, he clearly wasn't interested in subtle.

And credit to Greenlaw for telling Payton to his face.

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Journalist hilariously fails claiming WNBA's popularity isn't affected by Caitlin Clark's playoff exit

Watching left-wing media try to discredit Caitlin Clark and her dedicated fan base has been a tale as old as her rookie season. The fact remains that Clark is one of the most popular athletes in America. Her jersey sales have outdone LeBron James' since 2024, every single one of the top 15 WNBA broadcasts this season was one of her games, and every game she has played in has been a sellout. She is one of the most influential, transcendent sports figures of all time, so claiming that her playoff exit won't affect attendance and viewership is a laughable attempt at devaluing the golden goose. That's what journalist, activist, and retired NBA player Etan Thomas tried to do on Monday morning. Spoiler alert: He failed miserably.

Thomas posted a video of the crowd from Game 1 of the WNBA Semifinals between the Atlanta Dream and New York Liberty. At first glance, it looks like a sizable, raucous group waving their rally towels, but looks can be deceiving. Thomas framed it as a sellout, posting on X saying sarcastically, "Nobody will watch the WNBA playoffs now that Caitlin Clark is no longer playing. Support will plummet. Viewership will plunge. She is the only driving force that brings out fans." Meanwhile…..State Farm Arena Game 1 of Atlanta Fever vs New York Liberty Semi Finals yesterday.

If you take a look up from the lower bowl, above the suites, you'll realize that the entire upper bowl is tarped off. State Farm Arena holds almost 17,000 fans, but the announced attendance for the game was 9,745. Why would they do that, Etan? Maybe because they don't have Caitlin Clark coming to town. The sales and interest for the Liberty isn't anywhere close to the ticket sales juggernaut of Clark and the Fever.

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This level of delusion and Caitlin Clark hate must be studied. It's clearly warped Thomas' mind because he really thought he was cooking here.

As you can imagine, Thomas got roasted in the replies.

One X user broke down the numbers in regards to attendance and viewership. It's a glorious way to show that Thomas did not think this post through before sharing.

"The attendance when they (Atlanta Dream) played the Fever this year in non playoff action...June 20, 2026: 17,044 and August 16, 2026: 17,044. They should have kept their playoff game at Gateway because they more than likely lost money for moving to the bigger venue and leaving 7,000+ seats empty!!! viewership numbers are not out but I highly doubt they will come close to August 16, 2026 (Dream vs. Fever at State Farm Arena): 2.6 million viewers on ESPN. ESPN called it the most-watched WNBA game ever on cable."

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Another user hysterically responded to the post by using a reference from The Lion King saying, "Look, son. Everything the darkness touches… those are seats that weren’t filled." I'll be honest, that made me laugh out loud.

At this point, Thomas needs to just log off. He clearly has it out for Clark, her fans, and Sophie Cunningham. He famously claimed that Cunningham had "White privilege" after she was flagrantly fouled by the Chicago Sky's DiJonai Carrington earlier this season. Carrington, after being ejected, posted on Threads: "WHITE PRIVILEGE" while tagging the Indiana Fever.

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Again, this is the problem with journalists and activists like Etan Thomas, their minds are so warped by their political worldview that they can't even comprehend that Angel Reese, A'ja Wilson, and other players, just don't come remotely close to driving audiences to buy tickets and tune into games like Caitlin Clark. Reese has improved her game and become a Defensive Player of the Year. Wilson continues to dominate the stat sheet, securing her fourth WNBA MVP this season. But, they don't sell shoes, tickets, and attract eyeballs for their games like Clark.

Thomas would do well to delete this post and save himself from further embarrassment when the viewership numbers come out. In the meantime, Clark and her fans will continue to live rent-free in his mind.

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Kelsey Mitchell’s Caitlin Clark comments deserve context, including the benefits of all that attention

Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell spent part of her season-ending press conference explaining what it’s like to play alongside Caitlin Clark. She talked about nasty online messages, the attention that follows the Fever and how difficult some days have become.

"I don’t think people really understand how much we endure, man," Mitchell said Saturday. Later, she asked people to give the players "grace."

Some coverage quickly turned that into Mitchell taking a shot at the Fever fanbase. I don’t think that’s an accurate reading of what she said.

Mitchell has publicly praised Clark in the past and acknowledged the opportunities she helped create. She’s also allowed to explain what’s difficult about being her teammate. Neither makes her an enemy of the woman playing beside her.

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But the benefits of all that attention still belong in this discussion. Mitchell’s salary went from under $60,000 in 2020 to $206,000 in the season before Clark arrived in the WNBA to $1.4 million in 2026.

That’s a pretty substantial part of the Caitlin Clark experience, too.

Mitchell discussed getting "a lot of flak" for "being on her team," referring to Clark. She also referenced people throughout the basketball world and spoke positively about the Fever organization, praising it as "unbelievable."

I read that as a broader description of the scrutiny that comes with playing alongside Clark. Her answer didn’t establish whether the criticism came from Fever fans, Clark’s detractors or some combination of the two. Those people exist, obviously, and being associated with the league’s biggest star makes Mitchell a target for their criticism, too.

That’s different from declaring that Indiana’s own fans are the problem. Mitchell didn’t identify everyone sending her messages, and we shouldn’t fill in those blanks just because one interpretation makes for a more inflammatory headline.

For example, The New York Times-owned Athletic ran the headline: "Kelsey Mitchell counters Fever GM’s defense of fans, vows to ‘be selfish’ in free agency." There’s one problem: None of Mitchell’s quotes in the story identifies Fever fans as the people she’s criticizing.

Mitchell played six WNBA seasons before Clark arrived; her professional career didn’t begin when the rest of the country started watching the Fever.

She’s experienced a version of this franchise that most of its current audience never saw. So, yes, I’m interested in hearing her describe what changed. That’s a worthwhile subject for reporters to explore.

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And Mitchell has described the positive changes.

In a recent SLAM interview, she credited Clark and Angel Reese with creating opportunities for players throughout the league.

"When Angel Reese and CC came in, it opened up so many doors for us: resources, financial, all of it," Mitchell said.

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Mitchell explicitly recognized the financial benefits, and portraying her as someone who refuses to acknowledge them would be wrong.

Jason Whitlock raised a worthwhile point on X while discussing Mitchell and teammate Aliyah Boston.

"Their complaint is the media only covers one aspect of the Caitlin Clark experience," Whitlock wrote. He also argued the two Fever players "have every right to explain their experience playing in the shadow of Caitlin Clark."

Mitchell’s perspective belongs in the coverage, and reporters should be interested in what she says, particularly given how long she’s been in Indiana.

Where I’d push back is the idea that discussing the benefits amounts to telling her to shut up. Asking players to keep the upside in perspective doesn’t prevent them from explaining the downside. And explaining the downside doesn’t mean the rest of us have to agree with every conclusion they draw from it.

For example, Mitchell described the difficulty of competing for fans who might not like her. But having fans dislike you is a fairly standard part of the athlete experience. They don’t have to appreciate your effort or acknowledge that you’re doing your best because they want you to fail.

My main complaint with many WNBA players is that they often act like the unpleasant parts of being a public figure are something uniquely unfair to them. They aren't. I'm not a professional athlete, nor am I a very recognizable figure. But even I've received plenty of online hate for doing my job.

It comes with the territory, and the same attention that helps drive bigger paychecks also brings more criticism.

That's the tradeoff and most people happily make that deal.

Spotrac lists Kelsey Mitchell's WNBA cash earnings from 2018 through 2025 at $1,122,442. Her $1.4 million salary this season exceeded what she earned over those first eight seasons combined, and she's in position for another seven-figure contract in free agency this offseason.

Mitchell’s performance earned her a maximum contract. The new collective bargaining agreement made that maximum much more valuable, raising it to $1.4 million as part of an enormous increase in player compensation. The previous maximum was around $250,000 per year.

Clark’s ability to attract viewers is central to the league’s growing business. ESPN and ABC aired five WNBA regular-season games that averaged more than 2 million viewers this year, and all five featured Indiana.

CBS, NBC, ION and Prime Video also drew their biggest regular-season WNBA audiences for Fever games.

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Then Thursday’s season-ending game against Las Vegas averaged 2.25 million viewers across USA Network and CNBC, making it the second-most-watched WNBA first-round playoff game ever. Can you guess who played in the most-watched first-round game ever? Yeah, it was Clark and the Fever against the Connecticut Sun in 2024.

The point is simple: Clark's massive audience has value, and the players are benefiting from it.

And that’s where I still have a problem with the way this subject gets discussed around the league. The negative attention regularly becomes the main story, while the benefits get left out. I think that’s often because those benefits point to a story many WNBA players and media members don’t want to tell: a White girl from Iowa is driving the league’s popularity spike.

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Getting obnoxious DMs from online trolls is part of the experience. But so is earning more in one season than you earned in the previous eight. Letting the first part dominate how you describe the whole thing gives the trolls an awful lot of influence.

Mitchell isn’t nearly the worst example of that attitude. But Saturday’s answer still fit a familiar pattern of emphasizing what players have to endure without spending much time on what they’ve gained.

Last year, Minnesota Lynx guard Courtney Williams gave what I thought was perfect advice for dealing with online hate.

"Press the block button, bro. Press the block button and then move on," Williams said.

Then came her most important comment: "We wanted more eyes on the game... So let’s embrace it."

Credit to Williams for having the guts to say it. It's unfortunate that many of her colleagues didn't seem to heed her advice.

Mitchell has acknowledged the good that came with Clark’s arrival, and she deserves credit for that. But Saturday, she spent a lot of time explaining what she has to endure as Clark’s teammate. If we’re going to tell the full story of Mitchell’s experience, what she’s gained from all that attention belongs in it, too.

That includes the $1.4 million paycheck.

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Robert De Niro jokingly prods Jimmy Kimmel with a baseball bat while posing as FCC chair, threatens host

Actor Robert De Niro joined Jimmy Kimmel on stage Wednesday, prodding the late-night host with a baseball bat and jokingly slapping him while posing as FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

"I don’t know if you know this, but the last time we were here in Brooklyn, we were just getting back on the air after we had that unexpected FCC vacation week," Kimmel said during the show. "And while I would like to say that things have improved over the last year, they haven’t really. We are still being threatened by the FCC."

De Niro entered the set and said, "You’re being threatened by the FCC? Who is threatening you? Am I threatening you? Do you feel threatened by me?"

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De Niro listed off a series of insults about President Donald Trump and asked the late-night host if he had said them before Kimmel questioned, "What is the point of this?"

"Did I tell you it was your turn to talk, numbnuts? You speak when I tell you to speak, and otherwise you shut the f--- up," De Niro said, as he appeared to slap Kimmel.

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The FCC did not return Fox News Digital's request for comment.

De Niro went on, "Did you say that President Trump has touched more women than the music of Adele?"

Kimmel responded and told De Niro, "Come on now. You have to admit that’s pretty funny, right?"

"You’re doing it again!" De Niro responded. "Am I going to have to tie your d--- to a bag of doorknobs and kick you down the stairs?"

"Robert De Niro is a washed-up has-been who hasn’t been relevant in 30 years," White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Now, he just beclowns himself by spewing hate speech and inciting violence against others. Instead of embarrassing himself every time he speaks, he should seek immediate treatment for a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain."

The White House also called out Jimmy Kimmel in a statement.

"Jimmy Kimmel is a no-talent loser who has beclowned himself with tanking ratings and by spewing disgusting lies to his dwindling audience. He is so devoid of actual talent that nobody with any commonsense would ever watch him unless it was to laugh at his miserable failures," Ingle said.

The liberal late-night host, upon returning to host his show after a summer break on Sept. 8, jabbed at Carr and said, "We're still here."

The late-night host noted that it was the 4,000th episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

"We’ve done 4,000 of these. Which is, it’s a lot of shows," Kimmel said. "According to the White House, it’s too many shows."

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"There are those who said we would never last this long. There are even those who used the regulatory might of the FCC to unconstitutionally try to make sure we didn’t last this long. But we did it the hard way, Brendan. And we are still here," Kimmel added.

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Radio host Howard Stern joined Kimmel on Tuesday and issued a warning to ABC during the interview, should anything go wrong with Kimmel's show.

"He has done everything for the company. And I hope that they keep that in mind," he said. "Oh my God. I don't know about you, but if something goes wrong, oh, is ABC going to have hell to pay. Am I correct? Are you with me?"

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Irish PM says Ireland ‘not overrun’ by immigrants, legal migration tied to economic success

NEW YORK — Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin pushed back on the notion that Ireland has been "overrun" by immigrants as nearly one in four residents is now foreign-born, arguing that the country's dramatic demographic change has been driven largely by legal migration tied to its economic success story.

Martin, in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, acknowledged failures in Ireland's asylum system after a record surge in applications, saying it "was too slow" in recent years.

He also addressed moves to tighten citizenship rules and opened the door to publishing crime statistics by nationality amid a heated debate over immigration and crime.

The issue has become a political flashpoint across Europe and the U.S. and comes weeks after President Donald Trump warned about Europe's approach while appearing alongside Martin in Dublin.

"That immigration, what you're doing to yourselves, you're just killing yourselves," Trump said.

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"Ireland is not overrun in any shape or form," Martin told Fox News Digital. "But we are conscious that it is an issue that has to be addressed robustly, firmly, fairly as well in terms of those seeking asylum."

"All over Europe it's tightening up because of the pressures and migration has created significant political pressures across Europe," he added.

"Obviously, illegal migration is the more potent issue. And our system was too slow in processing those seeking asylum. That has changed. We've accelerated the application and the consideration of applications, and we've also now accelerated the appeals process."

Martin said his government is developing a new migration strategy that includes proposals to increase residency requirements for citizenship from five to eight years and introduce language and economic self-sufficiency requirements.

Immigration has become increasingly intertwined in Ireland's political debate with concerns over housing, crime and rapidly changing demographics in a country that was drastically more homogeneous a generation ago.

The issue burst into international view in November 2023, after Algerian-born Irish citizen Riad Bouchaker stabbed three young children and a childcare worker outside a school in Dublin, triggering riots as anger among some opponents of mass immigration spilled into violence on the streets of the capital. The unrest was followed by sustained opposition to government efforts to house asylum seekers in communities across the country, with some protests also descending into violent clashes.

Immigration returned to the spotlight this summer following the violent killing of Jamey Carney, a 43-year-old American mother from New York who was found dead at her home in County Kerry.

Her Jordanian boyfriend, the suspect in the case, had applied for asylum in Ireland but was rejected and was appealing the decision while remaining in the country. He fled Ireland for Turkey shortly after the killing, later traveling to Jordan and Irish police are now seeking his extradition.

Fox News Digital asked Martin whether the case exposed weaknesses in Ireland's immigration system and whether laws needed to be changed.

"We're looking at all of that in terms of tightening up the laws," Martin said. "We will make sure that, particularly if people's applications are rejected, that there's fast movement in terms of the consequences of that."

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Critics of Ireland's immigration policies have argued that migrants are disproportionately responsible for crime, while opponents of that view say such claims unfairly stigmatize the country's growing foreign-born population. But the debate has been difficult to settle because Irish national crime statistics do not routinely publish nationality breakdowns, leaving limited public data to test competing claims.

The lack of data has prompted calls for greater transparency from women's advocates and some Irish lawmakers, including proposals to publish crime statistics broken down by nationality.

"I've no issue with data ... because that can inform, because sometimes you get a kind of distorted picture," Martin said when asked whether crime statistics should include the nationality of alleged suspects. "So as far as I'm concerned, data is important."

But Martin pushed back on the argument that nationality itself drives crime.

"I don't think crime is specific to any nationality," he said. "But there are issues there, and in some cases, yes, there's been horrific crimes committed, but not all by illegal migrants either."

Housing has become another flashpoint as Ireland struggles to build enough homes to keep pace with its growing population.

Martin acknowledged that workers arriving legally in Ireland add to housing demand but said his government’s answer is to increase supply, with about 36,000 homes built last year, up more than 20% from the previous year and the highest annual total since 2011.

The Irish government's reliance on hotels and other properties to house asylum seekers has itself become a flashpoint. The state spent about $1.4 billion on asylum accommodation and related services in 2025, while also buying properties outright, including the sprawling Citywest Hotel and Convention Centre for about $175 million.

The allocation of scarce public housing has further fueled the immigration debate.

The pressure is particularly acute in Dublin, where figures released by the city council this month showed 42% of the 15,005 households on its social-housing waiting list were categorized as non-Irish, fueling anger online as Ireland's homeless population hit a record high last month.

Nationally, 28.7% of social housing applicants — nearly 18,000 households — were non-Irish citizens in 2025, according to government figures provided to Fox News Digital. That included nearly 3,200 applicants from outside the EU with refugee status, up 64% from the previous year.

Asked whether Irish citizens should receive preferential treatment for social housing amid pressure on waiting lists, Martin backed the idea, saying that "our position is basically its citizens get priority."

Ireland's demographic transformation has been rapid.

Nearly one in four people living in Ireland was born abroad, up from about one in seven two decades ago. At 23.3%, Ireland now has the fourth-highest percentage of foreign-born residents in the European Union, according to Eurostat.

The transformation accelerated after the EU expanded eastward in 2004, a decision that helped fuel a sharp rise in immigration during Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" economic boom, when years of rapid growth transformed the country from one of Western Europe's poorer economies into one of its wealthiest.

"It's a bit like America really, free movement for the states here," Martin said. "Our economy's expanded hugely."

Martin pointed to financial services and medical devices as industries that rely on skilled foreign workers, including non-EU workers arriving on work permits. More than half a million non-EU citizens were living in Ireland at the start of 2025, accounting for 9.3% of the population, according to Eurostat.

"It has been very dramatic, I agree, in the last three decades, largely because of the economic growth of Ireland," Martin said. "You can't switch off an economy either."

Ireland's economy has undergone a remarkable turnaround since the economic stagnation of the 1980s, through the "Celtic Tiger" boom and a devastating crash in 2008, before rebounding strongly. Over those decades, Ireland became a major European base for U.S. multinationals including Apple, Meta, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

Martin has been at the center of Irish politics through much of that period, serving in successive Fianna Fáil-led governments from 1997 before becoming prime minister, or Taoiseach, in 2020 and returning to the post in 2025.

Ireland's economy continued to expand in 2025, with GDP growing 8%, according to Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO).

But prosperity has not eliminated pressure on households: nearly 45% reported difficulty making ends meet, while 64% identified housing and the same share identified inflation and the cost of living as among Ireland's most pressing problems, according to the CSO.

Ireland's more recent migration pressures have included a post-pandemic surge in asylum applicants, including people arriving from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. Applications jumped from roughly 3,500 a year before COVID to a record 18,561 in 2024, before falling nearly 30% last year and continuing to decline in 2026.

Separately, more than 120,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion arrived under the EU's Temporary Protection system rather than the asylum system. Martin said roughly 80,000 remain in Ireland, with many now working and contributing to the economy.

Martin also emphasized that EU free movement works in both directions, with Irish citizens themselves living and working throughout the bloc.

"Irish people are working and living all over Europe," Martin said. "That's the other side of that story and that is something perhaps that we're not as conscious of, but it is reality."

Martin also placed Ireland's modern demographic transformation within the country's much longer history of emigration, pointing to the exodus that followed the Irish Famine.

"Ireland had 8 million people in 1845 before the Great Famine. That led to the big wave of Irish people migrating to come to America," Martin said.

"We're not at that level yet on the island of Ireland, so we need to look at it through the broad sweep of history in a historical perspective."

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FOX News Media expands podcast portfolio with new original show ‘the Girls’

FOX News Podcasts will bring together unique female voices and experiences across news, politics, sports, comedy and culture for a new original podcast, "the Girls," New Media President Porter Berry and EVP Megan Albano announced on Monday.

"the Girls" will debut on Thursday, Oct. 1, with a premiere episode featuring FOX News Media stars Rachel Campos-Duffy, Harris Faulkner and Kat Timpf, newly named FOX News contributor Melissa DeRosa and former ESPN host Samantha Ponder. The personality-driven conversation series will feature an array of leading female voices with new episodes dropping every Thursday.

"’the Girls’ is a natural addition to our growing podcast portfolio, and we’re thrilled to continue expanding our slate of distinctive shows that complement our existing lineup while creating new opportunities for our audience to engage with our content," Berry said.

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Albano added, "We’re excited to deliver a no-holds-barred format that captures the authenticity and perspectives of the many dynamic women of FOX News Media and beyond."

Each episode will include a rotating cast of co-hosts week to week, moving beyond the traditional news roundtable for a free-flowing conversation that can touch any subject.

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The podcast will offer distinct perspectives and revolve naturally around the issues impacting real life with undeniable chemistry, refreshing candor and no script. Nothing is off the table, from politics and pop culture to money, marriage, parenting, relationships and even careers. 

The new podcast is the latest addition to FOX News Media’s new media division, which features an established suite of podcasts including "Hang Out with Sean Hannity," "Ruthless," "Will Cain Country," "Planet Tyrus" and "The Riley Gaines Show."

‘the Girls’ is available across all podcast platforms, including FOX News Digital, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

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The Young Bucks make AEW history with victory in three-way ladder match at All Out

The Young Bucks are back on top of the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) tag team division.

Adam Copeland and Christian Cage put the AEW Tag Team Championship on the line against Matt and Nick Jackson and Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler (known as FTR), who returned to the fray at All In. At All Out, it was a three-way ladder match.

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For anyone who has watched Copeland and Cage’s careers, seeing them go into the ladder match would be akin to Michael Jordan playing at the United Center. The match was almost as exciting as watching Jordan cook defenses on the court.

It was all about the spots and the bumps.

Harwood and Copeland met each other at the top of a ladder with one ladder set up perpendicular to the ropes. Harwood suplexed Copeland onto the ladder. Cage and Wheeler got to the top turnbuckles and each hit a big splash on Harwood and Copeland respectively.

In another spot, Wheeler was sent flying through a table from the ring onto the floor. Matt Jackson placed Harwood onto a table next and Nick Jackson hit a 450 splash onto the competitor.

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The Young Bucks had another big moment minutes later. Each wrestler climbed to the top of a tall ladder with Harwood and Copeland sprawled across tables on the floor. They each hit an elbow drop and a splash. Wheeler was in the ring watching it all unfold. He saw an opportunity to hit a suicide dive through the middle of the ladder and onto Cage.

Bodies were strewn across the floor. The match came down to who wanted it more. The Young Bucks survived a Shatter Machine from FTR.

Matt and Nick Jackson climbed to the top of the ladder and captured the title belts.

It is the fourth reign for the Young Bucks. They have the most tag team titles in AEW history. Their win also ended Copeland and Cage’s reign at 125 days. It is the Young Bucks’ first title reign since April 2024 when they won the titles at Dynasty.

The new champions will seemingly take on Kevin Knight and Kyle Fletcher first.

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