The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

We're struggling to house people and media are asking elected reps whether we need to cut EU migrants, Visa holders, or international protection seekers. Why isnt the question whether we need to cut vacancy, dereliction, or short-term lets? Property rights trump human rights in Ireland #spéirgorm

Naftali Bennett: "The truth is clear. Israel's standing in the United States is collapsing." The country is increasingly viewed as a "pariah state". Perhaps a small glimmer of hope can be gleaned from that stark admission. - Paul Kearns, in Tel Aviv. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

“As friends of Ireland and strong advocates for a close relationship between Ireland and the United States, we write to express our deep concern over Ireland’s one-sided approach to Israel, a vital ally of the United States,” say 23 members of Congress. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... #otb

Seeing Irish people simp for Humphreys because she'll keep her head down reminds me of that MLK quote "...the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice" #spéirgorm

Wouldn't you be livid after spending all that money on posters?

And a delightful humiliation for Micheál Martin, who I hate the way King Cyrus hated the Athenians

I hear there's a lock-in in Fagan's tonight... #Aras25

Men will literally drop out of a presidential election instead of going to therapy

Humphreys realising she's gotta get by without her little sidekick now

Oh, and it would be nice if the people who would tweak with our neutrality would be upfront about the reason this has become urgent: Afghanistan fell and everyone saw, America can't and won't win wars alone anymore, other countries need to pay for western hegemony now.

I think we protecting neutrality and anti-war diplomacy is right because it's right. I don't think it helps us in our dealings with other countries or means that anyone sees us as an honest broker. I'm sure lots of them think we're smug and rich. But we should do it, even if it's unpopular.

But some other countries don't take our neutrality seriously. Stalin didn't. Most of our EU neighbours, especially the easterly ones, do not. And we do rely on the military assistance of other states in emergencies, like evacuating Irish citizens from Afghanistan.

Our history has shown us that borders are three problems in a trenchcoat, pretending to be a solution. And it's nice to think that we can bring that experience to the rest of the world in positive ways.

Furthermore, we grant passports to descendants of citizens because we don't expect anyone to earn their citizenship on the battlefield. We put animals on coins instead of murderers in uniform. We made a poet our first president, not some general. It's not just neutrality, it's being anti-war.

Some thoughts Ireland's neutrality: Irish neutrality and non-violence is important, it's a huge part of our history and identity. An anti-conscription movement led to the birth of the State. Replacing the RIC with an unarmed police force was a policy priority. And who could forget the boycott?

Of all Jim Gavin’s gaffes, it turns out it was his spare one that took him down.

Remember folks Ireland operates under the PRSTV system. Payback Rent or Scupper The Vote.

I’m still thinking about Gavins response to the question on the #womenofhonour -he saw nothing, he knew nothing-and he wants to be President? Can you imagine him responding as our previous presidents have done to issues as national trauma! He’s the see nothing,do nothing candidate #speirgorm #aras25

Maria Steen starting her campaign by claiming immigrants do not share "our" social or culture values all the more amazing in the context of her exposing an extreme and doctrinaire version of Christianity that is not even shared by most of her fellow Christians in Ireland.

Steen is one of the most insidiously awful people this country has ever produced. An empathy free self-regarding fundamentalist who wants to turn Ireland into a theocracy and who loves a microphone almost as much as she loves herself. I’d rather have the idiot fighter in the Áras

"...bringing the proposals to Cabinet this week to make apartments more attractive for developers" The housing crisis distilled into one phrase. I bet the phase "low-hanging fruit" was used when James Browne was coming up with this new incentive. www.thejournal.ie/apartment-ch... #IrishPol

The IDF is an organisation. An organisation that is currently enthusiastically engaged in a genocide of an unarmed and imprisoned civilian population. Calling for the death of that organisation would seem to be both reasonable and morally imperative

i think in a few decades we will view what being online has done to certain peoples brains the way we view the effects of lead poisoning on society

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Israel is intentionally starving millions of *occupied* civilians, and has now set up an 'aid' organisation at which, when people go to try to get food, are repeatedly massacred in huge numbers. It's pure evil. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Testimony from US contractor: Snipers fire from what used to be a hospital. Bombs and bullets fly all day long in one direction – toward Palestinians. zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

Brian Wilson. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann.

Nine EU member states, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Czechia, Croatia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Greece, and Bulgaria remain opposed to even carrying out a 'review' of the EU Israel trade agreement, which says Israel must respect human rights and international law. - Elaine Loughlin @irishexaminer.bsky.social

The United States of America has a secret police force like other authoritarian regimes

Excited to announce @frankmcdonald60.bsky.social will be joining us on the panel at tomorrow’s AAI event on The Social Life of Queer Space in Dublin. Tickets still available via Eventbrite at the link below x www.eventbrite.ie/e/aai-panel-...

"Our best friends in the world, Senators I know as strong supporters of Israel, warned they cannot support us if images of mass starvation emerge..". - Netanyahu. Quote of the Year.

Hey pals. I’m hosting this panel on Thursday evening w the AAI on the evolution & experience of Queer Space in Dublin from the mid C20th to today. Speakers incl architects & event organisers. Also a chance to check out @brianteeling.bsky.social ‘s exhibition w GHN! Bígí linn x Tix: bit.ly/4k0YIl7

What role do Irish companies have in the US deportation industry? @investigates.thejournal.ie found airlines who run flights for ICE have links to several aircraft leasing companies in Ireland. Coming up just after midnight on thejournal.ie

AP: His bank accounts in his home country of the United Kingdom have been blocked.

Given the unspeakable genocide still going on in Gaza, it was sickening to see Israel chosen by an online vote as the second to get through to Saturday’s Eurovision final and that a country carrying out this mass murder was allowed to take part in the competition as if all of this was “normal”.

If you bomb a hospital filled with patients it's unambiguously a war crime, but if you say there was a known enemy combatant inside at the time, that's still unambiguously a war crime, like seriously, what are we even doing here

This is the other Eurovision www.bbc.com/news/live/c1... Sponsored by the EU, US and UK.

Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

So, if you see any Britain-fixated Irish politician or columnist suggest that yesterday’s U.K. Supreme Court’s decision should be followed here, you may point out that Ireland’s legal system recognises the CJEU, not the U.K. SC, as its superior court.

Since Luas Cross City was finished, Dublin's Parnell St is likely one of the worst cases of redundant space for cars. It's an underused dual carriageway in the heart of the city centre with pinch points at both ends. The vast majority of people are pedestrians but footpaths are cramped.

For those with an interest in Irish housing & urbanism.. I’ve been running a series on Housing Solutions w the AAI. This Thursday’s event will feature a panel on Cloughjordan ecovillage, what they’ve achieved & the challenges they face Architecture meets sociology www.eventbrite.ie/e/aai-housin...

Good read “Land prices are pure monopoly rent.. all excess profit, unearned and ‘extractive’. We.. cannot detect market failure by looking at the price of land.. all we’re seeing is the logical consequence of a fixed stock of locations” open.substack.com/pub/fresheco...

Is Starmtroopers a word yet? www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Indeed

Got the call today that we've been outbid on the house we've been praying for. An immigrant didn't take it from us. Fine Fáil and Fine Gael policy did. Thanks to them, 2 professionals working full time can't save faster than house prices are rising. 3 years into our journey now. #spéirgorm

Shame on this government and their Ceann Comhairle. An authoritarian stroke by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and their Lowry and Healy Rae 'independents'. Sums up the day's events. #LowrysLackeys #FakeOpposition

Michael Lowry denies he was giving two fingers to Paul Murphy in the Dail today. He claims Paul Murphy was shouting abuse at him and he beckoned him with his two fingers to come over to his seat.

Sums up the day. #LowrysLackeys #FakeOpposition #HowIrelandWorks