Ah yes. The annual reminder of how utterly shit "Ireland's Call" is.

I doubt there's a septic tank and percollation area still working in Ireland right now.

Gaza’s total population “fell by about 254,000 people, a 10.6% decline compared with pre-conflict estimates”, research shows Can we call it a genocide already or it's still not enough for you!?

"[A new British intelligence report] echoes warnings some of us have made for years, only to be dismissed as nutters, doomsayers and extremists." "Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse...” You won't find more crucial reading than this.

It's baffling to me how Ireland is only on 65.30% of our quota for this (see citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...) given our apparently vehement support of Palestinians. If you've not signed yet, do it, and get 5 friends to do it too. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#... #speirgorm

Selling her Nobel 'peace' Prize to the paedoph!le is going to damage her reputation. I wonder what she gets in return?

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

The very best habit to start in 2026 is to tune into 8Radio.com. @8radioireland.bsky.social

"Growing up in Gaza, I didn't realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn't face a constant threat of death. It was only after I left that I understood I had grown up in a concentration camp, and that it shaped my life."

Sorry but we literally debunked this like last month when he did this dog whistle. Fintan O'Toole literally did the maths, in the Times no less, that showed that this isn't true. Why are we bothering to publish such an obvious lie when we know it's a lie?

Trans people exist. In every culture and every society on the planet, and have done throughout recorded history. They are a natural part of the human condition and always will be because (spoiler alert!) they are born every day. They aren't an ideology, they are people. Hate is an ideology though!

Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Israel's cheerleaders should just be honest. They want to criminalise all speech condemning Israel's behaviour. They want Israel to be able to slaughter as many Palestinians as it wants, and for it to be a criminal offence to oppose that. That's their actual intentions!

What a total disgrace that Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and, above all, Sinn Féin voted this down. Very few want this terribly cruel colonial sport, which sees hordes of horses, riders, and dogs rampage across the countryside. The wishes of the majority were ignored. Again. share.google/GFZMEYpIfSe0...

Pretty much every interaction I have with ChatGPT ends with me asking it to explain it's mistakes. As a search engine it has it's used, but for problem solving it's a bullshit generator.

Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire". www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Making a killing.

The victims. Regardless, per recent research, 100,000 is the stepping off point: www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-ge...

Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says

Here are the Irish MEPs who just sided with the far-right (fascists, racists, sexists, homophobes, climate deniers) from across the EU They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction

There's no polite way to say this - if you still think Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are capable of solving the housing crisis, you're a fucking moron.

This is Israel.

Ivan just gave a solid argument for an investigation into Irish media for conflicts of interest. He just threw himself and every other Irish journalist under the bus. The public should know who else is double dealing. It's a question of the trustworthiness of Irish journalism

Is there going to be any effort by the EU to assess the scale of deaths in Gaza? Is it 70,000? 200,000? 500,000? Israel has to be held to account for what they have done.

This is what entirely giving up looks like. #speirgorm

We've had trying to burn children in their beds. We've had shitting on ballot papers. Today, in expressions of "reasonable concerns," we have cutting the leg off a living, suffering creature, a pig.

April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed. November: Housing crisis here until 2040.

The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs. That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK. As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.

This should be treated in the same way as any other crimes against Humanity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you thought Israel's crimes against humanity would not shape other crimes for years to come you are a fool. People have been warning about this for decades. If we let Israel get away with this it will be repeated over and over.

More bollocks. The only thing stopping Ireland from solving its housing crisis in a few years is the ideological inability of Martin et al to do so. Nothing to do with the EU, or anyone else.

This. To quote a Republican Spanish Civil War poster, “If you allow this to our children, yours’ will be next.” It was true then as the world rapidly found out, and it is true now. What has been done to Palestinians is a turning point in the world, not for the better. The doors are blown off.

Today marks 108 years since the Balfour Declaration, which in 1917 saw the British Empire promise historic Palestine to the Zionist movement laying the foundation for waves of ethnic cleansing and the ongoing colonisation of Palestine by apartheid Israel.

Israeli warplanes strike Gaza as settlers raid West Bank villages - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-warplanes-strike-gaza-settlers-raid-west-bank-villages

The person who tried to murder the children in Drogheda needs to be hunted down and jailed for a very long time.

Palestinians were never wrong — they are being annihilated by mercenaries from around the world. Israel summoned its terrorists from everywhere to destroy Gaza. Archive | Jabalia, early 2024: Israeli terrorists mocking displaced and killed families, each in their mother tongue.

A girl in Gaza found a bag of instant noodles left behind by the israelis: starving, she opened it to cook them, and they exploded in her hands (Sarah Wilkinson)

The “increasingly fragile” ceasefire is a euphemism for “Israel murders scores of civilians, including kids, whenever it feels like it”, and somehow the “international community” plays along with this ghoulish charade. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Connolly’s landslide buries political myths about Ireland’s presidential process - how the establishment's attempts to explain #Aras25 are fatally flawed from the outset, and who really matters in the aftermath. philipoconnor.com/connollys-la...

“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians,” says Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi. “Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime."

It'll be interesting to see who FG and their media decide to beat up as consolation for losing the election. My money is on 'Deggo' from the Fontaines, but they might just go "rural pursuit" some foxes.

...that is sickening

#BREAKING | Outcry after Israel returns Palestinian bodies in 'horrific condition' to Gaza

Important thread that *every* Irish environmentalist should read before voting in the presidential election. In short: Humphreys was just as disastrous for the environment as she was on social policy.

The Green Party are supporting Catherine Connolly *because* we care about nature, and because we have always said that climate justice and social justice are inseparable.

I reckon Trump had a bet with someone that he could help murder half a million Palestinians and still get a Nobel Peace Prize. Nothing else makes sense.