I used to work the late shift in Dunnes in town. You can imagine we got all sorts going on. The main security guy was Muslim so of course he got extra abuse. Never saw hi team restrain anyone. There are ways of dealing with situations, even with violent people losing their temper. It’s a skilled job

I cannot for the life of understand why pay in RTE is dubbed a national scandal while man chocked to death outside Arnotts in broad daylight isn’t.

this story coming the week after Yves Sakila was killed is extraordinary timing. Dan Andrei Alexuc should be alive too. there is no excuse for ever restraining someone with pressure on their neck jrnl.ie/7045341

...and speaking of knocking on doors for months and months.... www.instagram.com/reels/DYmFtQ...

People who think summary execution is an appropriate response to petty theft are unfit to participate in civilised society

Hard to get my head around the fact a former Taoiseach said that we shouldn’t be letting Congolese people into the country and a week later a Congolese man has been killed George Floyd-style by security guards kneeling on him on Dublin’s traditional main shopping street

Long-form analysis of the polls for the Dublin Central & Galway West by-elections. Looking at what the numbers mean for each of the parties & candidates, a deeper look at how transfers can influence the outcome of both, plus what we can or cannot expect to happen based on these numbers.

"Deportees’ belongings not always being returned is a recurring issue in the reports." dispossessing people of their belongings – perhaps their only belongings – while deporting them is astonishingly cruel, even if we presume it's always negligence www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Daniel Ennis is proud of Dublin Central and passionate about making it a better place to live. Vote for solutions over stagnation. Vote for hope over hate. Vote for positive change over broken promises. This May 22, vote Daniel Ennis number 1.

Hot take; if you are standing on a crowded bus, there are free seats, and there aren't older and/or disabled people who are in need of them - you are not doing anyone any favours by *not* taking those seats, and continuing to crowd the aisle for everyone else as a result.

Absolutely incredible headline.

Micheál taking his concept of a Government that can't do anything to strange new places

No, Bertie is not being "jumped on" for talking about immigration. He's being criticised because he pandered to racist scaremongering about Muslims and Africans, and provided no substance to whatever supposedly legtimate point he was allegedly trying to make. m.independent.ie/irish-news/b...

Families are paying a second mortgage on childcare while Ireland remains one of the most expensive countries in Europe. A public childcare model would cut costs and support providers. Vote for a person who is proud of his roots and passionate about raising his family in Dublin Central.

All I will say is that literally anyone who has listened to me for months would have heard me make essentially this argument in relation to Daniel Ennis. Unless SF really pull the stops on GOTV amd first preferences, they simply do not have enough to stay ahead once transfers are accounted for.

What's crazy is that everyone knew this would happen and warned this would happen, and yet if you dared point it out to any members of the government they'd react like a cat whose paw you accidentally stepped on

The bill has been defeated, by 85 votes to 30. Only three government TDs voted in favour, despite having a free vote, with Sinn Féin abstaining.

Sinn Féin's response here is really disappointing, honestly. I particularly admire the gaul to claim that we don't have a democratic legitimacy to propose a bill to remove the completely unscientific three day waiting period - that was literally in our manifesto, on which we won our seats!

People who fought for Repeal would be stunned to see the approach Sinn Féin are taking to abortion reform and our legislation, the Reproductive Rights (Amendment) Bill. It's appalling to see a self-proclaimed progressive party turn heel on progressing women's healthcare.

Israel is using dogs to rape Palestinians. There's multiple testimonies. When I first reported on this obscenity, it triggered a firestorm. The New York Times has now, finally, reported on it - and Israel's systematic use of sexual violence. New post: www.owenjones.news/p/new-york-t...

If you still haven't done so yet out of laziness: You can import all your settings, bookmarks and history from Chrome to most alternative browsers in basically a minute cause they all have import tools for it. The switch I made to Vivaldi took no time at all.

POLL: Irish Times/Ipsos B&A Galway West by-election (May 1-5, MoE 4%) S Kyne (FG) 17 N Thomas (II) 16 H Ogbu (Lab) 12 M Nic Fhionnlaoich (SD) 9 C Keane (FF) 8 M Cubbard (Ind) 7 M Lohan (SF) 7 N Murphy (Grn) 6 T Welby (Ind) 6 O Nugent (Aon) 4 S Garrity (Ind) 3 D Rooke (PBPS) 2 others 1 or below

The Social Democrats will today introduce a bill aimed at updating Ireland's abortion laws, especially to ensure that women do not need to travel abroad to terminate a pregnancy. jrnl.ie/7025791

The funny thing about Hannah Spencer is that she’s literally exactly what everyone pretends they want from politicians in political media: a working class woman who has broken into politics from a normal job, speaking her mind from genuine lived experience. And they fucking hate her for it lol

I am happy to hear that Motion 29 at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis - which will commit the party to adopt of policy to ban fox hunting - has passed. A good evening for the SF members who argued and voted through the motion, and for bringing the country a step closer towards actually adopting a ban.

Dunno what it says about me, but recently my instagram feed has featured posts talking about how scheduled meet-ups every month or two with friends isn't optimal for maintaining proper friendships, and instead recommends smaller "rituals" to do every week or so with those friends.

The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it. It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within. www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...

It’s a great night for the Leftist chatterati

People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”

a good, readable timeline of far right involvement in the fuel protests from Stephen McDermott here www.thejournal.ie/ireland-fuel...

So, nothing for anyone outside those sectors who are still paying the full prices at the pumo for their cars, or for home heating oil?

With backdoor deals leaking now I hope rural folk who are getting nothing to help heat their homes or keep their cars running for example, realise this movement's leaders are a mainly bunch of mé féiners who care only for themselves. I also hope the left do much better for rural people going forward

Kind of wish reporters would stop letting the protest leaders get away with saying shit like "it's not us blocking the roads, it's the government blocking the roads" We're not idiots

I have to give it to the Irish Government's handling of the fuel protests - they have done a great job absolutely infuriating the country by not actually doing anything. No follow-through on threats, no follow-through on claims of dialogue with protesters, & now somehow expecting this to fool folk;

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

false identification of DF armoured vehicles in training for deployment to Lebanon made it all the way to the EU Parliament today thanks to former journalist Ciaran Mulloolly who has evidently left any sense of responsibility to the truth in his past

Just worth saying, for absolutely legal clarity: the government does not have the legal prerogative to abolish carbon tax in its entirety. Carbon tax is a form of excise, and EU directives require excise on diesel to be a minimum of 33c per litre. (1/2)

Without saying how old you are, say something that shows your age: When I was born, Divorce had not been signed into law just yet in Ireland.

When unions and left groups organised cost of living marches, farmers and small buisness owners were nowhere to be seen. They wouldn't be capable of considering solidarity for a fleeting second. Ireland is there for them and them only. Everyone elses role is to work their poverty wages.

If climate protesters had blocked roads for as long as the fuel protesters did, there would be people on the radio demanding the army be called in to shoot them all

protesters blocking one (1) road after Irish citizens are illegally detained by the Israeli state vs getting ready to shut down the national roads network with a temper tantrum over fuel prices

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

Full post prob Monday, but for now: Dáil Seat Projections for April 2026 Sinn Féin 44 (+5) Fianna Fáil 42 (-6) Fine Gael 41 (+3) Social Democrats 13 (+2) Independents 12 (-4) Labour 10 (-1) Independent Ireland 5 (+1) PBP/Solidarity 3 (nc) Aontú 3 (+1) 100% Redress 1 (nc) Green Party 0 (-1)

this is some Hall of Fame FFG gobbledygook right here

One straightforward consequence of the evildoing of the Israeli government should be that the civilised world refuses to have anything to do with them. Boycott. Divest. Sanction.

the british media's anti-trans campaign really kicked into gear when a coroner ruled they had driven a young woman to suicide

Wrote about #Ballinrobe. The Facebook comments where the paper posted it are all "leave the lads alone, they made a mistake". Not a single day goes by on this fucking planet that I don't come close to combusting with rage and fury over misogyny.

Israeli forces tortured a 2 year old child from Gaza. Tareq Abu Azzoum reporting.