Wendy Lyon
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The kids are all right. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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Gerard Cunningham
30 minutes ago
Four presidents
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“President Catherine Connolly” still seems unreal. Such an amazing day for Ireland
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Cathal Malone
about 8 hours ago
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.
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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
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Liam Hogan
about 10 hours ago
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.
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Pookleblinky
9 months ago
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.
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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉
2 days ago
Long shot, but does anyone know anyone in Leeds/ W. Yorks more generally who could fix an old hifi amp for me? DMs open....
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Fiona Small
2 days ago
A genuine embarrassment and national shame that this man is still platformed by our media and in the pro-Palestine movement
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flyingrodent
2 days ago
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.
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Cathal Malone
2 days ago
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.
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Cathal Malone
2 days ago
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.
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Cathal Malone
2 days ago
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...
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Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/objectors-will-be-on-the-hook-to-pay-six-figure-legal-costs-under-judicial-reviews-clampdown/a586093487.html
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No they won’t because this is unlawful in about five different ways
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
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Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/objectors-will-be-on-the-hook-to-pay-six-figure-legal-costs-under-judicial-reviews-clampdown/a586093487.html
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Bethany Elliott
4 days ago
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?”
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭
2 days ago
This is an entirely uncontroversial view in international law and usually taught in 101.
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Arshy Mann
3 days ago
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...
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Intercepted communications link Indian government to B.C. Sikh leader’s assassination | Globalnews.ca
British intelligence provided Canada with initial tip tying India’s government to temple leader's 2023 killing.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11514695/intercepted-communications-india-temple-assassination-canada/
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Anne Trubek
3 days ago
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/
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Shamim Malekmian
3 days ago
He pretty much did this lol
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Shamim Malekmian
3 days ago
Haven't seen anything from the "protect women and children" folks about this. But I know, pointing out hypocrisy does not do anything.
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Sarah Werner
4 days ago
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!!!!!
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Opinion | The Ruling About Passports Isn’t About ID. It’s About Social Control.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/opinion/supreme-court-trump-passports-gender.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.ut27.PSmPHzQigUbu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Steph
3 days ago
Remember, criticising the Orange Order is sectarian.
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Siobhán McElduff
3 days ago
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.
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Louise
3 days ago
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.
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Leaving aside the conflict of interest thing, surely Yates is unemployable after this because he’s just obviously terrible at his job?
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Paul Bernal
3 days ago
Because it’s drowned out by the hateful, racist shit of Labour’s immigration policies, which they drone on about pretty much every day.
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elia ayoub
3 days ago
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-...
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Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump.
New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted ...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-intelligence-israeli-war-crimes-gaza_n_690e361ce4b0dd4ea75b6445
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Josef O'Shea
3 days ago
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.
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Dean Buckley
4 days ago
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"
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Mark Chadbourn
4 days ago
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu on charges of genocide.
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Geoff Brumfiel
4 days ago
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.
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If you wouldn’t post on Stormfront you shouldn’t post on X.
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The Ditch
4 days ago
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
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Airbnb Gaeltacht expansionism: 88 percent listings increase
To truly understand Airbnb expansionism in Ireland look to the Gaeltacht.
https://www.ontheditch.com/airbnb-expansionism-gaeltacht/
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Is Carol Nolan the stupidest member of the Dáil?
www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/q...
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International Protection
International Protection Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 4 November 2025
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2025-11-04/1298/#pq_1298
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Steve Vladeck
4 days ago
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":
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189. The Breezy Inequity of Trump v. Orr
The Supreme Court's latest grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration illustrates in technicolor the direct (and ugly) consequences of the two different ways it keeps messing up "equity."
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/189-the-breezy-inequity-of-trump
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“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
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First person in Ireland jailed for identifying asylum seekers appeals sentence
The first person in Ireland to be jailed for illegally identifying asylum seekers has appealed his conviction and sentence.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/first-person-in-ireland-jailed-for-identifying-asylum-seekers-appeals-sentence/a1873029558.html
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The New Yorker
5 days ago
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
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Sharrow 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃
5 days ago
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
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#mybodymychoice
Women denied abortion at home could soon get help across EU borders
jrnl.ie/6866526
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Women denied abortion at home could soon get help across EU borders
MEPs have voted to support a new EU funding scheme for safe and legal abortion access across member states.
https://jrnl.ie/6866526
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If you aren’t enjoying the prospect of four years of Rama Duwaji all over the media then idk what to tell you
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WTF is going on
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Sarah May
5 days ago
This is what the White Rose resistance were executed for
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JenniferJames100
6 days ago
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
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I just don't think Labour have any credibility on this issue given their role in bringing in the 2015 Act, soz
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6 days ago
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This is the most Irish news story I have ever seen
#speirghorm
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‘There are four Seamus Coyles: Junior, Beany, Bendy and Professor’ – councillor avoids speeding conviction after penalty notice did not specify nickname
A Fianna Fáil councillor has escaped a speeding conviction after arguing that as many as four people with identical names live in the same rural area as he does.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/there-are-four-seamus-coyles-junior-beany-bendy-and-professor-councillor-avoids-speeding-conviction-after-penalty-notice-did-not-specify-nickname/a675637377.html
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Dom Ervolina
6 days ago
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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cait (and adonis)
7 days ago
struggling to pronounce the name of the new mayor of New York? please enjoy this helpful guide
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Patrick Ness
6 days ago
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.
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Jen Keane
6 days ago
Oh, and as
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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.
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Jen Keane
6 days ago
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.
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Netpol
6 days ago
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...
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