Kellie Turtle

Paris has reached Dublin!

Imagine if the Executive parties treated the Lough Neagh scandal with even half the effort which they expended on Drumcree: Crisis meetings, emergency court cases, constant pressure - even breaking the law to achieve a goal. Instead, there's simply no urgency as the lough dies.

Love that he announced this yesterday on International Day of Older Persons. They just love reminding older ppl that they don't matter. Fwiw, from my policy experience in the age sector I am convinced that the pension triple lock is a highly successful policy that should be emulated not scrapped.

A gut-punch of a statistic, reflective of what's happening throughout the entire natural world. But using the word "stocks" to describe a wild population of one of Earth's most breathtaking, magical species indicates precisely why we've reached such a predicament. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

Micheál Martin applauded at the UN, condemning what’s happening in Gaza/West Bank “Nobody will be able to say that we did not know. Let it not be said that we did not act.’ Meanwhile his Gov has refused visas to fully funded students from Gaza. Talking out of both sides of his mouth

Danny Thomas' subscription model is between £4.99 to £17.99 a month to watch livestreamed hate and terror. Smash the hate economy. No to the monetisation of hate, violence & terror. Inaction is complicity.

Zero tolerance, not quiet acceptance

Hopefully for Ed's sake he had already decided he never wants to tour in Ireland again 😬

A big thanks to the people protesting THAT PIG in Doonbeg. As always Sarah Clancy able to get to the heart of the matter. Reminding us of the terrible attrocities prepatrated by the united states of terror on ordinary citizens. Both directly or indirectly.

The spirit of our dear departed Janey Godley is in Doonbeg, Co Clare, Ireland today.

You know who thought of this before, Fox News? Congress! In 1965. When they made offering and taking money for voting ILLEGAL. 52 U.S.C. §10307(c).

Finally an incel policy we can get behind.

He’s running. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/excl...

The Irish govt would really rather line the pockets of gangsters and crooks than just let people seeking asylum live normal lives in the community. 🤦‍♀️😬😡

Brenda Fricker on playing Megan in Casualty: I couldn't do her job ever. Just go down to the hospital and watch what they do for an eighth of the salary I earned pretending to be a nurse. It makes you blush. You break your heart with people being kicked in the teeth by life. I couldn't handle it.

Come and join in the unity chats

Mike Nesbitt's scathing resignation letter in full

Michael here is telling us that access to health for trans people was decided by an unelected guy who wandered into Stormont 5 minutes before and told him to undo his previous, agreed approach. Isn't democracy grand.

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Wishing the people of Clacton the courage to choose a bin over a fascist at the polls today. 🤞

My new response when anyone asks me to do anything

An interesting piece by Walter, and good to include Belfast's grassroots women's activists. But I resist the idea that women just need to put our differences aside and work together. When some women are choosing fascism, our differences matter. I think the piece hints at that complexity though.

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

If the EHRC had any integrity as an NHRI they would admit that the UKSC judgement cannot be interpreted in a way that excludes trans ppl without breaching rights contained in the GRA and other privacy protections. The only path to actual clarity is for govt to prevent regression through legislation.

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Pubic Service Announcement The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. Always has been, always will be. Today the new EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect. Let us be clear, the guidance changes nothing about how we operate.

There's an argument for not commenting on a funeral because it belongs to the family who, despite all else, have lost a loved one. But the Irish celebrity class turned that into something else today and frankly it was grotesque. Playing voicenotes at funerals is it now? A hard watch for many reasons

Today I will be listening to Tigers Have Spoken on repeat in honour of everyone who has ever been made to feel less than human by a man.

Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.

In all the discomfort around the recent death of a perceived national treasure, I am somewhat relieved that my favourite new young Irish band has not posted anything about him, despite the fact there is a clear musical lineage there. Not going to name them in case I jinx it but it's not Kneecap 😬

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

"To me, they should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" Today PM Andy Burnham paid tribute to care workers and said he'd work with others to reform social care. UNISON is calling for the Fair Pay Agreement in care, a National Care Service, and a fair visa system

Excellent result.

Data down the drain: As householders live under a hosepipe ban, data centres have a transparency problem no one wants to solve... jrnl.ie/7114784

Not sure which of these is giving me more joy this fine evening. It's a close call 😆

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Rowling looming over a progressive Irish cultural festival with her menacing insinuations & a phalanx of expensive lawyers dashing off legal letters. And all because the organisers don’t want transphobes peddling hate at their event. A nauseating spectacle of spite.

Simple message, really. Thanks for the bluntness, @nondriver.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth

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Can confirm this to be true 😆 Honestly though, imagine being so ignorant about Northern Ireland that you think you can argue an explicitly political festival can't reject an event on the basis of political views 🫣🤦‍♀️