Latvia: Members of Ireland’s Defence Forces have taken part in EU Defence Agency training on battlefield scenarios involving drone attacks.

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The Ditch has learnt that a civil servant at Jim O’Callaghan’s Department of Justice has admitted to passing confidential staff data to a foreign intelligence agency. www.ontheditch.com/civil-servan...

"French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot deleted a post that falsely quoted Francesca Albanense. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul left his online. Over 100 artists are now supporting the UN Special Rapporteur. "

The cause of slave revolts is slavery - unknown Pic of the day #photography

Big news! 🏃‍♂️💙 Sanctuary Runners has received generous funding from the PTSB Community Fund 2025 to support our work bringing communities together through running, jogging, and walking! #SanctuaryRunners #RunAsOne #RunInSolidarity

‘We are not radical - we just paid attention in History class.’

There is no issue more riddled with Experts than “defence”. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we’ve listened to the same cabal of academics, all brandishing identical talking points about emerging threats and changing realities. www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...

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“This is a United Nations facility that has been invaded by a United Nations Member State, in full defiance of international law.” our Jonathan Fowler tells TRT. UN facilities are protected under international law. Attacks on them undermine the UN system.

"They don't care" is an understatement. Media spin on the crisis they knew was gonna happen when they stopped building social housing and relied on the private rental sector - where the majority of homeless come from.. it's POLICY #speirgorm

trump is a bully and this isn't a "standoff" (who writes these stupid headlines?). it's a new threat and abuse of power against some of america's closest allies.

X says No. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

Very well said @tupped.bsky.social. It’s all about the framing… how do we feel about having a child sex abuse material factory in Dublin 2? (In Ireland of all places, where we have a long history of ignoring such places when they are run by ’respectable’ institutions) #SpeirGorm #MustRead

Powerful vested interests and their allies in government just hate judicial review being available to the great unwashed. Ireland's government is trying to cut people who are not rich out of Court by changing the law so that even if they win, their legal costs are not recovered. #JudicialReview

Happy Monday! I added Saturday’s Parkrun to my page, though I’m leaving out my long daily walks: eventmaster.ie/fundraising/...

You heard the man - pay your taxes. #TaxBillionaires

Grateful for this woman's emotion and clarity. 'Everyone deserves to have a safe home, no matter what country you come from.' www.rte.ie/video/id/288...

54 Palestinian bodies previously held by Israeli forces show clear signs of torture.

Imagine having voted for every policy that increased child homelessness by 100% in just 4yrs - and let’s not forget the lifting of the no-fault eviction ban that is the main driver of homelessness - and thinking that you have the high moral ground on the housing crisis…

One thing this election seems to be showing is that the influence of the Indo, Mail etc has declined considerably. Nobody is listening anymore. #aras25

There are four barristers in the cabinet, including Jim O'Callaghan. If they had an ounce of gumption they'd speak up about the nonsense FG are sprouting. #aras25

Fine Gael know all this, but they think the Irish electorate is too thick to understand the nuance of it, so they attacked CC anyway. Remember what they think of you when you go to the ballot box.

The Ditch x Village Magazine Heather Humphreys honoured a disgraced ex-garda after he was accused of extreme domestic violence and found by a tribunal to have corruptly organised planting weapons and fabricated evidence. An ‘exceptional award’ she said. www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-ho...

Simon Harris says a Catherine Connolly win in the presidential election next week "would not impact Government thinking on changes to the triple lock in any way," reports Irish Times political correspondent @ellenmcoyne.bsky.social Dissolve the electorate and elect another. - Brecht #Áras25

If the tiny circle of political journalists that dominate our broadsheets and airwaves left their bubble for a moment, they'd find 14,000 signed up volunteers knocking on doors, holding fundraisers, and talking to people about why @catherinegalway.bsky.social is the only candidate.

Both FG and FF had planned to run candidates supporting their moves to integrate Ireland into EU defence arrangements. One or other would win. They would then claim to have a popular mandate. That looks set to backfire spectacularly. #TripleLock #Áras25 #PlanYourVote

A company under garda investigation was incorporated just a month before Heather Humphreys was the star attraction at its February “charity” event. www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-wa...

The ballot paper for Ireland’s presidential election is unlawful – and gives an unfair advantage to Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s candidates. The legislation is clear. The Ditch is challenging – in the High Court if necessary. Our letter in full: www.ontheditch.com/presidential...

Having a flashback to when a senior Garda contacted my college in Oxford to try to get me expelled because of my conviction Then head of the college former DPP Ken McDonald told me about it in a slightly embarrassed tone Funnily enough, he also had a conviction for drug dealing

Comment: The British state these men, which is to say colonialism killed them. Their GAA membership was their commitment to republican ideals. It also marked them as targets of the same structural forces our flag sided with in Croke Park on Sunday. www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...

“She is a person of principle. When she speaks you know that it is honest and from the heart. I think that she would make a fantastic president.” - John MacDonagh, Labour Party, Galway. #Spéirghorm #IrishNeutrality @catherinegalway.bsky.social

"The chosen people of God is all humanity."

You do *not* resolve conflicts, and the NI conflict wasn't resolved, by outside powers dictating who can and who can't speak for one party. Especially if those outside powers have been actively assisting ethnic cleansing and mass war crimes in that conflict for 75 years, and now genocide.

She's right, for good or bad, as the IRA were part of the fabric of Ireland. That doesn't equate to Ireland = IRA, same as Palestine ≠ Hamas, but part of the fabric nonetheless, people getting their grundies all shitty need to look at the GFA or learn how to read. PART of the fabric. Fuckin hell.

An Irish airline illegally transported munitions to Israel – despite just months before taking part in a Microsoft Teams call with Department of Transport officials after reports of its munitions flights to Israel. www.ontheditch.com/department-o...

Canvassed Donegal with Catherine on Thursday and Friday. Hectic few days but a pleasure to see the esteem this woman is held in. We should all be proud to have her as president.

I'm listening to Clonan refutes Humphreys' portrayal of their meeting on disability payment changes on RTÉ Radio 1. Pretty damning interview, I know who I’d believe

Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechia and Italy blindly side with Israel. Others wring their hands. Defying declared values, the EU is rendered complicit in the daily slaughter of innocents.

🔵 Such a lovely positive story here about three wonderful guys from our Letterkenny group who took silver in last weekend's Donegal Half Marathon relay race! @annapr.bsky.social @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social @thomaspringle.bsky.social sanctuaryrunners.ie/2025/08/28/s...

Some news from me, thanks to a team of super activists who have been working for months, the biggest flotilla to try and break the siege on Gaza is leaving on Aug 31st. I'm proud to be going on it and obviously nervous. We'd love if you'd follow globalsumudflotilla.org #FromEveryRiverToEverySea

It remains unclear how and why Ireland suddenly declared it was adopting this definition.

Catherine won’t need this lift to top the pole. Great visit to Ballyshannon show today.

According to international law experts who spoke to The Journal, powerful Western countries and their leaders could, at least in theory, find themselves facing charges in The Hague. http://jrnl.ie/6779851

Cork says Abolish Frontex.

I've just signed this petition calling on our government to change their rules so that people seeking asylum can access all education and training courses. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/gi... @uplift.ie

'It is deeply disappointing that EU members have still taken no collective, concrete action.’ - Mary Robinson www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

The world will remember how the EU and its member states respond to this catastrophic tragedy. Silence and neutrality in the face of genocide constitutes complicity. Inaction emboldens perpetrators and betrays every principle the Union and its states claim to uphold www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Comment: Savagery like the attack on the innocent man in Tallaght can be expected as long as government punishes migrants for problems it creates, then feigns shock when members of the public mirror acts of sadism perpetrated by the state itself. www.ontheditch.com/o-callaghan-...