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Incredibly clear example of rules being set up to exclude Palestinians. Shameful by our state.

Ms Abdualu’s mother and her two sisters and brother were killed in an Israeli missile strike in March 2024. Her grandparents, her aunt, and other relations were also killed in the attack. Ms Abdualu was buried under rubble beside the body of one of her sisters for hours before being rescued.

The Finnish government should prosecute #google for breaches of law, suspend all their data centres, criminally charge the operator that cut the trees and google staff responsible, impose a huge fine as punishment and to return the land to a state it was in prior to works started. €50-100 billion?

Saw a clip of Micheál Martin responding to Holly Cairns today, where she raised a moral issue, and says "you don't have a monopoly on empathy", which is a line I've seen him use about 800 times now. Also it's nuts how the way he responds to women isn't discussed more.

This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.

Ireland has the most expensive electricity in the EU.

i would take a bullet for this puffin

⚠️ "Dr Hussam Abu Safiya's son has issued an emotional appeal calling on governments, international organisations and people around the world to act urgently to save his father's life, warning that his health condition is severe." www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

“Restoration without pollution control is not a policy, it’s a gesture, and an incoherent one at that. It spends public money cleaning up what private and public polluters are permitted to dirty, in a publicly-funded loop without end.” By me for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

"Make no mistake: the GENOCIDE in Palestine could be stopped if the European Union, Israel’s largest trading partner, suspended trade agreements, imposed crippling sanctions, and imposed an arms embargo."

Leopard denies spots.

We the people paid for the Cork Harbour limited cleanup. The Irish Steel/Ispat scandal is a case study, or should be. Cork enviro groups saw it coming and were were calling for action from the Council and others for decades, only to be told it was all grand. It wasn't grand. Not for us anyway.

"Ooooh momma, is this reeeeally the end?" - a question many people ask listening to a Bob Dylan track. And the answer is, "No, there's six more minutes."

30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel. Now no one dares.

Footage this morning from “the safest country in the world for …”

How wholesome.

Given the stories from 1954 about Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, et al being recorded pissing on Sandymount Strand while absolutely rat-arsed, it sounds like the ukuleles are the only new addition.

Today I'm celebrating Bloomsday by recreating Joyce's favourite activity: not being in Dublin.

@micheal-martin.bsky.social so FF already knew this in 2017. And the ensuing obfuscation about legality of the OTB had its answer before it was started. Are you going to address this?

There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

Apparently the youngest person the PSNI had to rescue from the flames was a 2 month old baby.

The domestic abuse backgrounds of arrested rioters is even starker for Belfast

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

The craven government exposes its cowardice. Excludes services. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

I feel like this one image alone solidifies why I’ll never understand AI: this little guy was made by a human, centuries ago, but but now their art still exists. They’ve personified their love of making a little guy for people to still experience, this was a part of them they made and lived on

www.thejournal.ie/readme/irela.... This is a first rate article that everyone in this country of not just my son’s generation but also my generation should read.

When I first worked there part time in 2006, I distinctly remember them telling us that Trans people were allowed to use their chosen genders' changing room. This was 20 years ago.

Part of the ancient civilisation Trump speaks of annihilating.

The legend @cmatbaby.bsky.social said a lot more in her acceptance speech than what RTÉ are reporting. (Video posted by Lisa McLoughlin on Instagram - www.instagram.com/reel/DYnTKR3...) #Speirgorm

It is one year since over 450 legal professionals in Ireland, including barristers, solicitors and academics, wrote to the Taoiseach expressing "deep concern" at the Irish Government’s failure to meet its international legal obligations regarding Palestine. No response was ever received.

Massive call out to my brave, beautiful & fearless friend Noa Avishag Schnall @NoaAvishag of the @gbsumudflotilla who yesterday had the courage to shout at Ben Gvir to his face that he was a "genocidal maniac," after which she was assaulted & beaten up by his henchmen.

We did it, lads. We banned trans people from toilets. Now to sit back and watch house prices come down and vegetables stop rotting on supermarket shelves and we'll all come together and feast on Cadbury's Creme Eggs as big as your head, m'boy, And we'll watch Morecambe and Wise, who did NOT die

Stunning. Ireland is due to play Israel in Octoner. But this.

Footage of what they did to Palestinians got out. That should always have been far, far more than enough.

i'll be at the protest outside the dáil tomorrow, against the killing of yves sakila if you're in dublin, come along 1pm

Appalled, perhaps. Acquiescent, certainly.

Wordphobia of the day: Biking is what the Famous Five did on holiday. Around the island on the way to a picnic to feast on tomato sandwiches and ginger ale. Normal modern people *cycle*. Cycling is to 'biking' what driving is to 'motoring'. Please don't say 'I biked'.

Kidnapped in international waters by a rogue state that is committing genocide, ethnic cleansing and illegal invasions and land grabs of its neighbours. But still @MichealMartinTD will not sanction them. Instead he and his government are aiding their crimes. #SpéirGorm