Four presidents

“President Catherine Connolly” still seems unreal. Such an amazing day for Ireland #speirghorm

When they finally get that court complex up and running we'll all be driving flying cars from The Jetsons, so I wouldn't worry too much.

When they finally get the new family court complex up and running at Hammond Lane they’re gonna need to look more carefully at traffic at the Lincoln Lane intersection Not sure I’ve ever seen a car actually stop at those stop signs #speirghorm

It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.

If you have two parties, and one party wants ethnic cleansing and eugenics, and the other party wants to cooperate with them and meet in the middle, you have one party that wants ethnic cleansing and eugenics.

Long shot, but does anyone know anyone in Leeds/ W. Yorks more generally who could fix an old hifi amp for me? DMs open....

A genuine embarrassment and national shame that this man is still platformed by our media and in the pro-Palestine movement

Again, this is internet crackpots funded by a hateful, malicious squillionaire, combining with the national press to stamp fuck out of some innocent punter just quietly going about their life and work. An utterly malignant system, full of very bad people.

The State, uniquely, is in a position to react differently. Instead of making better decisions, they just decide they'll make it too hard to sue them, and then they carry on breaking the law exactly the way they were beforehand.

Obviously it's never an unpopular move to take money away from lawyers. I get that. But if you make it uneconomical to work as a solicitor or barrister suing the Government, then that same Government can essentially do whatever it wants without fear of being stopped in the courts.

The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly? m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...

No they won’t because this is unlawful in about five different ways m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

This is an entirely uncontroversial view in international law and usually taught in 101.

I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

He pretty much did this lol

Haven't seen anything from the "protect women and children" folks about this. But I know, pointing out hypocrisy does not do anything.

Gift link to M Gessen (always a smart read) on passports as social control. One detail that gets forgotten: US passports only introduced a gender marker in 1976 in response to “unisex” styles. 1976!!!!!

Remember, criticising the Orange Order is sectarian.

It is absolutely fine to hate hideous people even during their downfall and after their deaths. There should be no shame to this. It's what they spend their lives earning.

Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve. I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.

Leaving aside the conflict of interest thing, surely Yates is unemployable after this because he’s just obviously terrible at his job?

Because it’s drowned out by the hateful, racist shit of Labour’s immigration policies, which they drone on about pretty much every day.

Biden knew that Israel was committing crimes against humanity in Gaza and then decided to keep US commitments to Israel, shortly before handing it over to Trump www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

For starters - no Irish State/Gov agencies/politicians should be on Twitter. None. They could do this today and it would actually be more than just empty words.

it's really quite something that as far as I can tell, not a single member of government has had anything to say about the conviction of Josip Strok's murderers. not even a token "glad to see justice has been served"

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu on charges of genocide.

When it comes to U.S. support for Israel, often the conversation revolves around the Jewish community and their feelings about the nation. But in fact, Christians are by far the larger and more consequential group. Particularly evangelicals like Billy Graham have been huge backers.

If you wouldn’t post on Stormfront you shouldn’t post on X.

An 88 percent increase in the number of whole homes to rent in Gaeltacht areas on Airbnb – in just six years 'The history of the Gaeltachts as places of radical and forward thinking gets forgotten now when they've become a holiday destination,' say @CnaG www.ontheditch.com/airbnb-expan...

Is Carol Nolan the stupidest member of the Dáil? www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/q...

Even though it mustered only 356 words to justify putting Trump's spiteful anti-trans passport policy back into effect, #SCOTUS managed to show us two of the flawed analytical moves it keeps making *only* in Trump cases to provide cover for granting emergency relief. My latest, via "One First":

“He claimed that he learned from a comment by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and from RTÉ News that 80pc of asylum seekers were economic migrants” Lies told by politicians have real consequences www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

People still have to travel from Ireland as they are just passed the 12 week limit, or they medically can not use pills or in cases of termination for medical reasons #speirgorm #mybodymychoice Women denied abortion at home could soon get help across EU borders jrnl.ie/6866526

If you aren’t enjoying the prospect of four years of Rama Duwaji all over the media then idk what to tell you

WTF is going on

This is what the White Rose resistance were executed for

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

I just don't think Labour have any credibility on this issue given their role in bringing in the 2015 Act, soz

This is the most Irish news story I have ever seen #speirghorm www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

Being pro-trans and pro-immigrant is a winning strategy, like we've been saying all year These overpaid, Centrist pundits and consultants need to be ignored

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This absolutely comes from the legal fights of transphobes to “protect their beliefs”. Congratulations, JK Rowling, Maya Forstater, Julie Bindel, Alison Bailey, et al. One more time: transphobia harms everyone. Everyone.

Oh, and as @philipoconnor.bsky.social has reminded me - guess who is in that 1 in 5? Did you guess Timmy Dooley because if so, gold star for you. He's a landlord.

79% of homes sold in Dublin this year were bought by landlords, 75% by large landlords. About 1 in 5 TDs are landlords. This is disgusting dog whistling. The problem has never been people seeking asylum. The problem is people seeking to endlessly profit from folks just looking for a home.

Remember the rule, folks – if it's outside a politician's home, it's "toxic behaviour", but if it's outside a so-called 'asylum hotel' it's a "reasonable concern" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...