Mona Khalil, the leading figure in sea turtle protection in Lebanon, had refused to leave the village of Mansouri, near Sour. Her house was directly hit. She is in hospital. today.lorientlejour.com/article/1537...

🚨Social Democrats senator Patricia Stephenson today introduces a bill to stop ICE deportation flights landing in Ireland, challenge the claim that government can't inspect planes carrying munitions through or over Ireland – as well as penalise illegal weapon flight operators

"Regret is weaponised selectively, deployed only where it serves a patriarchal purpose." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🔵 DUBLIN CENTRAL 11am and I'm calling it. Daniel Ennis (SD) to win the Dublin Central by-election.

🧵 The Rainbow Project notes that trans people in Northern Ireland remain protected under Article 2 of the Windsor Framework, which commits the UK Govt to ensuring there is “no diminution of rights” following Brexit. Any breach of the Windsor Framework would impact Britain’s treaties with the EU [1]

The Minister is right his plan is, in fact, working. In loosing the rent controls the plan was to increase rents. That was the purpose of the new rules. The government insist that rents must increase to encourage supply, but one way or another the plan was always that you would pay more rent.

This is horrific. Due to the incompetence and inattention of prison staff a man died a horrible, lonely and very preventable death. But as ever, the traditional public service refrain after the tragedy, lessons have been learned. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Cllr. Sutcliffe has posted something racist. Again. And says it was an accident. Again. Absolute embarrassment to the City of Dublin that this man is an elected representative. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

“On a strictly confidential basis” a senior civil servant sent a confidential draft document to a lobbyist at the billionaire Collison brothers-funded Progress Ireland – whose board includes the civil servant’s former boss at his department. www.ontheditch.com/on-a-strictl...

Inner city Dubliners have more than three times the rate of cancer/copd diagnosis than the national average. And we’re never asked about traffic and commuting that creates it. It just happens around us with no input.

Dublin Central is the best place to live in Ireland, and that's because of the people who live here People from all over the world and people who have lived here for generations. Dan is the embodiment of what makes those people special. Energetic, kind and hopeful Dublin Central pride Ennis No 1

Families are paying a second mortgage on childcare while Ireland remains one of the most expensive countries in Europe. A public childcare model would cut costs and support providers. Vote for a person who is proud of his roots and passionate about raising his family in Dublin Central.

📈 New figures show 7,062 eviction notices were served in the first two months of the year - a 51% increase in the same period last year. Notices to quit peaked in February, at 3,138 - the final month before new tenancy rules, including longer-term tenancies by default, took effect on March 1st.

Shamefully the Dáil votes to continue to force women in tragic circumstances to travel to access abortions. The vast majority of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael despite a free vote joined Aontú and Independent Ireland against abortion rights. Sinn Féin abstained on women's rights.

People who fought for Repeal would be stunned to see the approach Sinn Féin are taking to abortion reform and our legislation, the Reproductive Rights (Amendment) Bill. It's appalling to see a self-proclaimed progressive party turn heel on progressing women's healthcare.

The time when women had to beg the government for proper health care has passed. The people spoke in 2018, and they spoke unambiguously. The politicians now have their instructions - Free, safe, legal, local.

As a seagull based economy, Dublin City Centre needs to speed up the transition away from the plastic-bags-on-the-footpath system of commercial waste collection

Surprising coming from a man who has greatly benefited from due process of law over the years. It has long been to his benefit that the state doesn't just intern inconvenient people. www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gerr...

While little of value was lost, still a reminder to live your life in a way that means, when you die, millions of people don't conclude that your death was both amusing and deserved. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Up 2000 year on year. Remember, while no-one in government wants more homeless children, they did make an informed choice that it was a price worth paying.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns has warned Government it risks throwing renters "to the wolves" due to its modular homes plans.

The thousandth example of why the government should grasp the nettle and legislate for residential licence arrangements. Even a statutory definition of a licence in these contexts would be progress.

The Minister for Saying Ridiculous Things is hard at work again. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I'm not sure Vance realises the centuries of feeling that he's up against. The Catholic church was very old before America was born and will probably outlast it.

Fianna Fáil Dublin Central byelection candidate councillor John Stephens lied on a planning application for a second house He falsely claimed in a planning application form his Dublin home was up for sale to secure permission for a second house in Galway www.ontheditch.com/fianna-fail-...

A very detailed and incisive video from @squidgerugby.bsky.social about the doldrums of rugby in Cymru, which manages to be about more than just rugby. Da iawn hogiau. youtube.com/watch?v=SGEv...

I'm raging. Those fucking Mé Féin-er blockaders went and vandalised the memorial to that poor young lad, Johnny Santos, who was crushed by the cement truck on Abbey Street less than two weeks ago. They're just such irredeemable cunts.

Genuinely one of the worst ministers in recent memory. Simply not up to the job. His every pronouncement is just the prelude to the inevitable walkback from more able politicians.

A one-year-old girl has died and her seven-year-old sister injured after an Israeli airstrike hit their father's funeral in south Lebanon

Canvassing in Glasnevin with my brilliant colleague cllr Dan Ennis today. Possibly the first time in my life I walked past the Gravedigger's without going for a pint! If you want community-minded people who live their values representing you in the Dáil, Dan is your man! #SpeirGorm #ByElection

This is the man who says he represents the people of Ireland and is the leader of the 'revolution'.... Fuel protest organiser had tax judgments of €550,000 and was convicted of cruelty after 60 cattle died on farm www.independent.ie/irish-news/f...

A balanced and sensible statement on the right to protest and the limitations of that right from ICCL. www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

The US Constitution provides a mechanism to lawfully remove a President who has lost control of his senses and has sunk into paranoid dementia. The failure to use that mechanism means that his actions, and the blood spilt due to them, are on the those who refused to follow the constitution and act

An incredible legacy. A soldier whose obituary will rightly be dominated by talk of peace and the destruction of weapons of war. May he rest in peace. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Unusually stong words from Micheál Martin. "It confirms what many suspected that the Hungarian government has been doing the bidding for Russia within the European Union for quite some time." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Encouraging to see some action, but this particular group of teenagers have been causing harm and distress in Bangor for a significant period of time. It's unfortunate that it took someone being assaulted for state intervention to occur. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

In a direct rebuke to the heretical prayers for "overwhelming violence" from the US administration, Pope Leo states that [God] "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them." thehill.com/policy/inter...

‘It didn’t matter whose child I rescued’: parents of Iran school bombing victims describe their worst day www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Hugely significant report from IPRT on poverty, inequality and the criminal justice system. The finding that ustice contact is more likely where material hardship interacts with punitive or inaccessible systems should guide Irish government justice policy going forward www.iprt.ie/site/assets/...

Irish metals refinery is in supply chain that feeds Russian war machine, records suggest www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Greyhound racing is cruel and barbaric. It is appalling that millions in irish taxpayer money is wasted in sustaining an industry that would have faded into history without it. The Welsh Senedd and the Scottish Parliament have taken the correct step in banning it m.independent.ie/irish-news/i...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Irish historians of Bluesky, is this true? It's a nice little fact if so. Source: medievalscotland.org/problem/name...

Actually I think it's extremely normal for the mayor of New York City to not want to publicly express views on Irish unification

This is one of the little boys injured in the IDF attack on their family car, killing his parents and two of his brothers. An Israeli soldier slapped him when he asked why they had killed his parents x.com/a_abdulruhma...

A reported 20 families face eviction from an apartment block in Limerick city after receiving notices of termination from their landlord a week before the Government's new rental rules came into effect

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Jim OCallaghan may think that it's not his job to meet the victims of the Creeslough tragedy, but the President of Ireland clearly sees it as part of her job.