For clarity: "Israel assaults Lebanon" and "Iran blocks oil tankers" are not equal things here in terms of the ceasefire - Iran is blocking tankers BECAUSE Israel is not just continuing its slaughter, it is intensifying it. There is no "both sides" here - Israel and the U.S. lied.

Can anyone advise - what are the earliest translations from Irish to English or English to Irish which can be used to help define early meanings of Irish words in English (medieval/ early modern) ? #gaeilge #spéirghorm #bearla #medievalsky

The Irish Examiner understands that the gardaí have not yet reached the “enforcement” step of its graduated policing plan.

The Israeli national airline last week illegally transported munitions of war funded by the US through Irish territory to the Israel Defense Forces. Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians on Monday in an airstrike near a Gaza school. www.ontheditch.com/us-funded-mu...

The Israeli national airline last week illegally transported munitions of war funded by the US through Irish territory to the Israel Defense Forces. Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians on Monday in an airstrike near a Gaza school. www.ontheditch.com/us-funded-mu...

Half of the children in one school in Dublin are #homeless. No roof over their head. Nowhere to do homework. Nowhere to play. No where to be a kid. This should offend us all. It’s a national disgrace at the hands of Govt inaction & now 4000+ children in #Dublin alone are the casualties.

Further to the Irish Examiner post/headline, this goes one step further, foregrounding Iran's actions ahead of Israel's slaughter. It's propaganda dressed as journalism, and it's appalling.

Whilst we need to be careful in the use of the term genocide wrt Lebanon this is otherwise correct. Where is the UK's condemnation? We have zionists running our country which makes the UK complicit. How anyone can support a government that endorses illegal war and genocide is beyond me.

Friends, Trump has now turned his hate towards the Pope. We must together stand against this. This isn’t Christianity. And love does conquer all… Blessed are the peacemakers! 🕊️ Let’s together join the Prayer Vigil for Peace… Saturday April 11th, 5pm.

The irony of Jim O’Callaghan having to announce he’s calling the army in to break up a protest filled with the people whose racism he has been assiduously courting and pandering to since taking office.

I have to admit it smarts just a little to have to sit and watch a bunch of racist motorists cause the exact scale of chaos in Dublin that a Housing movement should've been doing years ago

Kildare Cllr Tom McDonnell addresses the fuel protest crowd in Dublin with calls to forget about Palestine/Israel. Empty the IPAS centres and rage bait the more than willing crowd over attacks on Irish people by African males. But it's all about the fuel crisis right?!

Israel launches over 100 airstrikes on dense commercial and residential areas across Lebanon without warning during a ceasefire. 254 people killed, 1165 injured. Not even a word of condemnation for this barbaric violence from Irish or EU leaders. www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Imagine saying this to a Vatican official. I imagine the cardinal producing a small notebook from his robe, jotting in it briefly and then returning it to the folds.

“I also informed the gardaí that it is essential our ports and fuel depots remain open and fully accessible.” - Minister for Justice, this afternoon.

40 people operating the Whitegate blockade says @jennieos.bsky.social now five hours in. No mention of Garda presence.

An act of national sabotage, says the Taoiseach.

Ireland: Over two hours after the State's only Oil Refinery has been blockaded, Zara King on VM News reports from the scene that there are no Gardai present.

Democrats push vote to halt US military action in Iran - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/democrats-push-vote-halt-us-military-action-iran

Vance says the "Israelis offered to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon" to give the cease fire talks a chance. That's ridiculous - Israel massively escalated the bombing today. But I think it outlines what Vance would like Israel to do. To cease fire while not saying so publicly.

JD VANCE: With no disrespect to the cardinal, I don't know who Cardinal Christophe Pierre is REPORTER: He's the ambassador to the Holy Sea and US VANCE: Okay, I've met him before. Sorry. I just didn't remember the name. I've never seen this reporting. I'd like to talk to him.

This is funny given the focus on the russians being the number 1 threat

RTÉ says six tractors and two trucks are all that it takes to blockade Whitegate Oil Refinery, the country's only refinery.

Around half of Ireland's fuel supplies are now blockaded and locked in due to protests. As a result, Fuel for Ireland's CEO Kevin McPartlan said a significant proportion of the country's emergency strategic fuel supply cannot be accessed. www.rte.ie/news/2026/04...

Look, we've always known that certain groups of protestors get waaaaaay more leeway than others. But this is pushing it to new extremes, it's unsustainable, little bits of society start to crumble when authorities have hypocrisy this heightened on display

"I'll never apologize for the United States of America, ever. I don't care what the facts are." — Vice President George H.W. Bush in 1988, after the United States shot down Iran Air 655, killing all 290 civilians on board. He followed with "I'm not an apologize […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Frankly, "complete distrust toward the American side" should rightly be the stance of its former allies also. The orange is shuffling off this mortal coil but hurtling the world towards instability that will outlast him by decades.

Meanwhile #ClimateEmergency

The United States lost the war with Iran and is now also forcing the rest of the world to pay the reparations the US owes.

Meanwhile, Bondi and Lutnick still have to testify within the coming months, and now, so does Gates. ground.news/article/bill...

But Iran will pay for the wall.

Hopefully those EU leaders who so foolishly supported Trump at the outset of the conflict will have learned their lesson. The EU has to stand for international law, for otherwise it stands for nothing.

The Irish Government has been on an all-out offensive to get us into bed with Western military powers. They scaremonger about security to frighten us into accepting more money being wasted on weapons instead of homes. And to push us into closer military links with states who were complicit in genoc

“Big money will be made”.

“The investigation began after authorities identified irregular betting activity associated with military events.”

Exactly how I’d respond, though I’d probably wear some PPE.

My thoughts tonight go to my Iranian friends & neighbours and our brothers & sisters in their homeland, living in fear of what the darkness will bring. This has the potential to be humanity's darkest night in a long time, and we all need to ask ourselves how we got here and how we can get out of it.

Hard agree

embarrassed for Dems as opposition

Now seems like a good time to remind everyone that the only way to destroy an entire civilization overnight is with nuclear weapons, and Donald Trump has the absolute power as President to follow through on that threat. It could take as little as 5 minutes. Here's how it would go down:

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

NO lies DETECTED!!! #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

How is this even possible? No TD or Senator should get ANY Government business whatsoever. It's an obvious conflict of interest. Ireland needs to replace its Purchasing Guidelines with Purchasing RULES. Australia is a good example: www.finance.gov.au/government/p...

Australia's most decorated soldier has been arrested and charged with five counts of war crimes relating to the killing of unarmed ⁠civilians while on deployment in Afghanistan.

Slowly but surely, Ireland is being drawn into the military-industrial complex …

Defence policy in Ireland is being openly shaped by the defence-tech industry and economic interests. 'A spokeswoman for the Irish Defence and Security Association (IDSA), which represents companies in the sector, said it had been lobbying for this change.' www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...