Not one person who is against the fuel blockade, missing a crucial hospital appointment, unable to get to or from work or school vox popped on the 9 o clock news. Not a single vox pop with a fire fighter or paramedic prevented from doing their jobs. #balance #speirgorm

If you love them, set them free. Or at least jailbreak them. www.zdnet.com/article/your...

Facebook and Whatsapp (also Meta).

The Muslim Sisters of Éire will not be able to provide their much appreciated soup run to folks in need due to the protest and the blocking of O’Connell Street. "This is especially difficult given that we have been running this service outside the GPO for 11 years."

They're managing it?

I feel like explicit death threats from motorists against cyclists should be taken very seriously considering how regularly motorists kill cyclists in this country. I think we need to start asking what role malice may be playing in some supposed accidents #spéirgorm

Live scenes from the most biodiversity ravaged country in the EU.

Those fancy new watercannons filled with unspread slurry, kills two birds with one stone afaics.

4yo child: “I love tractors and trucks!!!” Me, narrowing my eyes: “I’ll bet you do, you little fascist”

Maybe a performative deportations tweet would help...

an alternate view of the gallows trailer makes the death threat even more explicit

One of the ways protests work is by sheer numbers. It takes a lot of people to block a city, ergo a lot of people feel strongly about an issue. When 11 fascists with massive vehicles block a motorway it presents a disproportionate picture of the level of support.

The local petrol station noticeably busier than usual.

Tell it to homecare workers driving round in their own cars for basically minimum wage.

Trying to deploy a tractor to AWS eu-west-1 as I type.

Still, I'd love to know what protests get pepper spray and what protests get "good natured chats between protestors and Garda"

The gentle irony of people liking this.

Just a regular concerned citizen doing concerned citizen stuff...

Maybe he could imagine the tractors are female TDs that disagree with him

I thought Big Jim would be able to handle the tiger he likes to poke on the regular...

The paid ads promoting the #IrishFuelProtests blocking Irish ports and streets are being funded by a tow truck company At least the one we could find is; we can't know who else is putting money behind this because Meta "banned" ie. hides, political ads www.thebriefing.ie/who-is-fundi...

every environmentalist who has for DECADES been saying we need to get off oil and gas, watching governments panic at this energy crisis

This should be the end of the Israel trade agreement but... www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...

Though of course you would really like to argue that. End the trade agreement or step down.

And of course that gets a sympathetic ear from FFG who believe in public squalor funding private wealth.

An excellent use of miniscule public money. For context we spend €20m on greyhound racing that disappears 2k dogs each year. Interesting that the Examiner decided the middle of a far right driven showdown was a good time to publish this.

Maybe teaching the tractor fascists that they could set up roadblocks, demand identity documentation, and board buses for headcounts even if they were high ranking officials in the IFA, that theiy could do what they pleased wasn't the smartest strategy as pointed out by many of us at the time.

Yes - Ford built their first car plant outside the US in Cork in 1917 and my understanding is that the aggressive removal of tram lines and railways from Ireland post-independence was a direct result of their lobbying.

honestly, even if I had zero questions or concerns about the fuel protests, the speed with which they've received seemingly unconditional solidarity from segments of the left based on nothing feels like a huge slap in the face to progressive activists who work ten times as hard to win weaker support

This is hardly a revelation. There have been plenty of apps in the app stores that take advantage of the notification APIs to do things like preserve deleted WhatsApp messages for years.

Thinking about how quickly Gardai acted when removing the laid off Debenhams workers who blockaded trucks removing merchandise from stores over unpaid severance they were owed. Or when there's an eviction to done. Or when there's a student protest. But never act against far right bollockses.

The person, Christopher Duffy, being interviewed by Newstalk and other media organisations, is a well-known far right agitator and outright racist. His Facebook page regularly posts and shares racist content, conspiracy theories and worse. He seems to be one of the main organisers behind all this.

SF siding with this is definitely a choice and no surprise to anyone paying attention.

In my police force we'd have loaded up the water cannon with slurry by now.

Has time on his hands now that he can't lay waste to hedgerows for a few months.

As someone who witnessed multiple US astroturf (as opposed to grassroots) spectacles like this during BOTH lead ups to Trump, I promise you, these protests are created, funded & planned to the nth by the same anti-democracy forces.

Fuel protest but also Trans people for some reason.

What’s the point in a civilization where one country psychotically murders its neighbours with impunity and everyone else with the ability to intervene just shrugs.

I don't agree with the way Ireland's carbon tax is set up; it's unfair to set up a system where people who cannot afford to switch keep paying without rebates. But notice how often the carbon tax is mentioned, even though excise and VAT are each more than twice as high.

Just a reminder that in the programme for government, there is an undertaking to educate the public on the realities of immigration. The government has found it more convenient until now to leave people ignorant, opening the door for these lads.

This is the person @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social has on the Last Word right now.

#Spéirghorm Time after time, he says what the rest of us think.

Robocop (now Dr. Donal Corcoran) became the Gardaí's ethics advisor www.thesun.ie/news/3123943...

Pure ignorant entitlement.

If you’re for the sentiments of the peace walk, join in! Take part in whatever way you can, or volunteer for a role in the event. “No group is too small, no distance is too short – music & merriment are welcome!” Blesséd are the peacemakers. Keep Ireland’s neutrality. #spéirghorm #LeilasWalk

They're sitting in vans for two days straight gobbling up fuel during a shortage it's blindingly obvious they're rich lol

Of course they are all going to take the politically convenient option. It has nothing to do with the actual welfare of kids. You might think we'd be more protective of our partipatory and privacy rights as we watch the mad king run amok but...