Catching up on the news

#TraitorsIRL The Faithful:

Chilling. Catherine Connolly's launch is sending shivers down the right spines. Vote for Catherine Connolly, the only candidate who is pro-neutrality, anti-genocide, and pro-workers' rights.

BBC News, "The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest" "In most these cases, the victim was under 12 years old"

"I had a campaign ready, I had groups throughout the country, we probably had 200 or 300 people dedicated to the campaign. We were ready to go."

An important message for #speirgorm

I just typed-up a short, to the point email, copied it and fired it off to my local TDs (www.contactyourtd.ie) but you can click on this link ⬇️ and it'll do the same in a few seconds

Paudie should've left them saying you've all met my son without naming him, looked Nick dead in the eyes and strolled off #TraitorsIRL

British TV shows: Armed Forces Appreciation Week 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Irish TV shows: FUNERAL WEEK #TraitorsIRL

Good that Mark and Christine are gone because they were both too obviously Faithfuls. Leave the rest in to steadily become more insane #TraitorsIRL

"Does anyone have any evidence they'd like to bring to the #TraitorsIRL table?" Oyin:

This morning, the Bloody Sunday families, supporters, and representatives of other justice campaigns marched to the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast for the murder trial of Soldier F #BloodySunday2025 #OneWorldOneStruggle

Crimecall abruptly cancelled by RTÉ after Oyin's first show as the new presenter #TraitorsIRL

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Farmers will have a tough time understanding why we need to shrink cow herds while joyfully celebrating the prospect of doubling passenger numbers in Dublin airport (no mention of climate pollution in this puff article) www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

Fascists well beaten on the streets of Dublin today:

Palestine, 2025. english.palinfo.com/news/2025/04...

Again today 1pm Cork City Ireland

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I'm reading My Fight For Irish Freedom by Dan Breen and I think it's been glossed over how much Irish revolutionary activity was cycling, sustained by a mainly vegetarian diet. Newstalk and the IFA would be rolling in their graves.

Eight Palestinian students have arrived in Limerick to begin their studies having been evacuated from Gaza. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

From @thejournal.ie

This has been weighing on my mind too. So, Dubliners: this link shows the names and contacts of the councillors for each ward. I’m going to write to mine and say that I will volunteer to do leafleting for any non-fascist candidate who runs against them if they nominate the rapist.

Equivalent to 5 years of worth of state funding to the FAI.

Ireland:

Ireland after actually not losing a soccer game

YES SEND THEM ALL OFF REF

Know your rights, exercise them, or lose them. ➡ We need to hear from you if Gardai board your North to ROI bus or train, ID check, ask for papers, remove or detain passengers. [1/4]

It sounds like Spanish national airport operator AENA is very much over Ryanair and MOL. Haven’t seen something this… forthright in quite some time, and goodness me, forthright it is. www.aena.es/en/press/sta...

CMAT rn:

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

We are so back: 8radio.com

Stop pretending you don't see Disney+ here and cancel your subscription now.

NEW EPISODE of Three Castles Burning. Brian Kerr on fantastic form, remembering all from the great Liam Tuohy to his days as a UCD lab technician. Drimnagh, Libya and North Korea's 1966 heroics all feature.... podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/b...

What comes first, a united Ireland or England leaving the UK?

Ireland spending half a billion on a couple of F35s, to protect our 5,000 homeless children and 100,000 empty homes.

There should be less presidential debates and more physical and mental challenges relevant to the role. Make the candidates shake the hands of two full GAA teams to see who does it weirdly. #Aras25 #speirgorm

Discovered that DAB lives again (for now) in Dublin. Retuned the car radio, and now have @8radioireland.bsky.social whenever I'm out and about. (And a load of other stations, some reminiscent of the more exotic reaches of Freeview, that I'm made aware of when visiting my folks.)

But we can't consider a united Ireland because the violence might "return".

I truly want nothing to do with the EU anymore. No amount of economic benefit is worth the horrors they expect us to ignore. What a pathetically weak and cowardly union. We should be sanctioning Israel in every conceivable way. Not just token gestures