Trading with the Occupied Territories is illegal under international law. He's not only refusing to sanction Israel, he's refusing to uphold our basic responsibilities as a nation.

You would think that at some point while you're ironing out the GDPR implications of discrimination your conscience would kick in and you'd give up on the whole thing.

They killed him. They knelt on his throat. There is no way to sell that other than intending to do serious harm. There needs to be prosecutions and Arnott's needs to explain what kind of training their security is getting.

In its case for leaving Wood Quay for new HQ, the council is ignoring a government retrofit grant, says councillor. The Department of Environment has said it will fund up to 50 percent of the costs of retrofitting projects for public buildings.

Hard to argue with him here.

Watching the British local elections results come in and really regretting wishing on a monkey paw for Starmer out.

The Stephens Green redevelopment is just another in a long list of developers attempts to ruin the city, and it demonstrates a need for greater public oversight in the planning process. There's something broken with the management of the city when things that make it unique are cast aside so easily.

I hope to never meet the kind of pathetic egotist this vision of AI appeals to.

I am convinced the number of times car alarms have prevented theft is infinitesimally smaller than the number of times they've been set off for no reason. If it was even 100:1 I would be shocked.

Ballroom Grift. By all accounts, super lax security at last night's WHCD, gunman gets in, gets neutralized, Felonious Pedolf calls a presser to push his ballroom grift, and BOOM, right wing Twitter immediately goes to work in chorus. What a crock of shit

Having had to walk by these protests to get to work, we shouldn't touch them with a ten-foot bargepole. I'll just say I was unsurprised when I heard there was an incident with people related to the protest abusing the MSoE and leave it at that.

No other group in the country could block O'Connell Street all day like the IFA has. The fact they can get away with it shows they have the political clout to have their demands met without ruining everyone else's day.

Documents say asylum law centre was in “unprecedented crisis”. The Legal Aid Board tried to hide it with redactions. A technical fail made it easy to reveal what sat behind the black rectangles. The board said it redacted accounts that weren’t “evidence-based”. www.dublininquirer.com/documents-sa...

I cannot tell you how much the requirement to advertise jobs before applying for work permits is a pointless exercise aimed at placating racists, which does nothing but delay and prevent jobs from being filled with people qualified for them who happen to be non-EEA citizens

As ICE apprehends more children every day, it raises a simple question that’s also one of grave moral concern: What does detention do to a child’s health? "I see a regression of developmental milestones. They don’t want to eat. They have problems sleeping. They wake up screaming,” one doctor said.

Pat Leahy: "The Irish people do not want the Taoiseach to criticise Trump to his face and never will vote for anyone who will" Meanwhile, in the real world:

In my capacity as a communications professional I would advise against making an argument on the character of others after you've hired Peter Mandelson.

That a vast swathe of our commentariat feel emboldened to complain about our President having called out war crimes as war crimes is a sign of social and moral decay. Too many have bought into the idea that pragmatism is the same as being callow and callous.

Merz joining Trump's attacks on Spain typifies Germany's attitude to the EU. They prioritise their own short term interests over the integrity of the EU. We need to deepen our ties with Spain and form a bloc to be a counterweight to german power within the EU before their stupidity tears it apart.

I honestly think taxing the super-rich out of existence is for their own good. That amount of money seems to do something deeply unpleasant to human brains.

It is shocking how competent they've made the Bush administration look.

Anyone who thinks positive regime change is possible in Iran should remember the US-Israel axis replaced Bashar al-Assad with an Islamic State remnant in Syria.

Interesting to see what the current EU regime will do. Do they prioritise their neo-colonial ambitions or protect the integrity of the union by backing up an uncooperative member state. One of their greatest foreign policy goals is now completely at odds with the continued existence of the union.

Quite probably the most despicable person in Irish politics that never identified as a citizen journalist.

I'm not surprised, but I'm still disgusted by the eagerness of western powers to repeat the Iraq War with Iran knowing exactly what happened last time, and knowing it will be far worse this time if the US and Israel are allowed to continue to escalate.

Those who fail turn learn from history (Israelis attacking French fans in the Stade de France a little over a year ago) are doomed to repeat it.

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The next time you hear some politician blaming pearl mussels or the Habitats Directive for flooding disasters, might be a good time to point this out to to them.

It's one of the greatest failings of the age that extreme incompetence is generally accepted as a decent defence from the people running the world. "I didn't know what the lads cooking the burgers were up to" would get an assistant manager fired from McDonalds, but it's fine for world leaders.

'Granted, if our problem were orcs or the Dark Lord Sauron or something, then it would be easier to sympathise with Martin’s insistence that he is not Gandalf. Until then, it seems fair enough to ask for some semblance of a real, timely solution.' This week's column is about Magic Wand Micheál.

As anyone who has tried to get neurodiversity support from the state can tell you, our mental health care system is inadequate. I would still be waiting for ADHD treatment if I hadn't been able to put together the money to go private, and I would still be suffering from constant, crushing anxiety.

I analysed the DoJ’s immigration chatbot for @iccl.bsky.social and the amount of seriously wrong information it gave was shocking even to me. The idea that people fleeing persecution would be expected to rely on a chatbot in lieu of actual legal advice is 😱😱😱 www.dublininquirer.com/chatbots-con...

God, he's filleting out the most cruel and incompetent of the Conservative Party. I give it two years of a Reform government until even the DUP want to leave Britain.

CC exercising homeric levels of self-restraint to not just shout "I Told You So" at everyone..

Dept wants to put limits on recoverable costs, leaving people facing six-figure bills even when they win. That would be the end of public-interest environmental litigation, favouring wealthy and commercial interests, and undermining environmental protection. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Note who was defending Harris here.

You wouldn't have high expectations of the live animal crib culture war minister, but even by his subterranean standards this is abysmal.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

If I were Christian I would be very upset by the fact you rarely see politicians follow the words "my Christian faith shows me" with something positive.

The moral and legal failings aside, the short-sightedness of the EU (and our lot) is truly staggering. Trump has already laid claim to Greenland and made it clear the EU is a problem for him, but here they are trapped by their own cupidity with Venezuela. Unable and unwilling to do the right thing.

It doesn't take a genius to see that this will be used to spread far-right propaganda much in the same way as advertising/algorithm manipulation on social media and YouTube. Only this time it's already programmed to actively manipulate users into trusting it above everything else.

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

With my tinfoil hat on, I detect an effort to normalise talk on immigration that would have been considered extreme a few years ago. No mention of any achievements or the like, just wishy washy statements like "he hasn’t shied away from the thorny issue of immigration"

🛍️ As we head into the busiest shopping days of the festive season, don’t be that person! 🧘‍♀️Keep calm and respect retail workers. 🙏 It costs nothing to be nice.

Our birth rate is not high enough to afford to take care of our aging population without immigration supplementing our workforce. He'll have our elderly starved and frozen instead of admitting his party has failed the country.

This needs to be resisted by the union movement. Not only is it a threat to democracy, it is a threat to our legislative goals especially around minimum wage, remote working, and our ambitions to increase private sector union participation.

Jim O'Callaghan is the most cruel, despicable Justice Minister in my lifetime. And yes, I'm including disgraced former minister Alan Shatter.

It's very funny watching the same people who complain about participation trophies celebrate Trump literally and figuratively giving himself a peace prize.