A barefaced sociopath.

“Groups engaging in far-right rhetoric and discourse .. have grown increasingly emboldened in Ireland to the point they gather and sometimes march openly in military fatigues in our cities.“ - James Carr www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The legacy of British austerity can’t be understood without considering the effects on mental health, especially childhood trauma.

I'd love to "debate" why their MEPs voted with the far right to allow migrants drown in the Med, but no-one in Fine Gael ever seems to want to talk about that.

Jim O'Callaghan and Fianna Fáil are asking you to pick a side. The choice is between them and the landlords and moneyed classes they serve, or between ordinary people and those driven from their homes by war or poverty or oppression to seek a better life. I know what side I'm on. No pasarán.

A "centre-left" party choosing to accommodate the far right is no longer a "centre-left" party, it's at best a "centre-right" party trying to moderate the fascism of the right with paternalism, at worst a cryptofascist party trying to legitimise the fascism under cover of its liberal socialist past.

Remember how Trump said ICE targets “violent criminals?” Trump’s own DOJ now reports that ONLY 2.5% of the people ICE arrested in Chicago have any criminal history. That means 97.5% have ZERO criminal record. They were targeted because they were of Latino ethnicity. This is what fascism looks like

B0ycott all nestle products ##FreePalestine

And these people are being assisted by the recent rhetoric of current government members.

Hard to understand how the UK Labour party has even a single member left, seeing as it it has now become everything that you imagine someone once drawn to joining a Labour party is vehemently against. No one joins a Labour party hoping to punch down on the weakest and advance far right arguments

I mean, did you join hoping your membership fees would go towards making an already difficult life even more difficult for people seeking asylum? Or did you want healthcare taken away from trans people? Maybe you wanted to give the rich even more while taking meagre benefits away from the poor?

And no one who still believes in all the things a Labour party is supposed to stand for should remain a member because you are now in a right wing, racist transphobic, anti-immigrant, party led by venal dullards only interested in power and serving capital

shells has passed through EU maritime territory on its way to Israel.  A second cargo ship likely to pass through Spanish waters in the coming days with tonnes of explosives for the IDF’s largest weapons supplier. www.ontheditch.com/almost-400-t...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/op...

World exclusive with @ShadowWorldInv1 A subsidiary of Israel’s biggest arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, used a Slovenian port to transport 'military' cargo to Israel – a week after the Slovenian government banned these shipments. www.ontheditch.com/elbit-system...

I rang the Police. "I think someone is breaking into my house." "We don't come out for that." "They are holding a I support Palestine Action sign." 5 seconds later, 100 Police and an Apache Gunship arrived.

A United Airlines flight illegally transported ammunition handling systems – among military cargo overwhelmingly funded by the US government – to Israel through Irish territory this morning. They’re being delivered to the IDF’s largest weapons supplier. www.ontheditch.com/united-airli...

Let’s be VERY clear what the President is doing here. Canada is the United States’ number one trade partner. The President is willing to use a trade deal with Canada as a bargaining chip to do Israel’s bidding. That’s not “America first.”

Very saddened to hear of Seán's death, always enjoyed our interactions on and off air. A great loss for Irish culture.🕯

I’m truly going to miss his voice in the evenings. He was such a great presenter. My first memory of him was when I was 10 years old and he was teaching my class how to sing “Swing low, sweet chariot” during his stint teaching in the Friary school in Dundalk in the mid-80s. 😔

aption: 🚨Boycott Pepsi! The newest reports of Q2 2025 are in! And they don’t look good for Pepsi

Now that reports about famine are reaching the media, can we recall that Netanyahu is subject of an arrest warrant since last November on charges including intentional starvation as a method of warfare?

We've been screaming this the *whole* time. When personal profiles are marked "NSFW" just on the basis of them being Trans-owned and nothing else, that's censorship. It all falls-into the suppression of minority group voices. Which stage of jellyslide is my community facing?

What are the first things to be affected by the UK's restriction of "NSFW" content, other than porn? Across multiple platforms, the ban restricts access to LGBTQIA+ content, Trans profiles/groups, resources for mental health, DIY HRT, info on 🇵🇸 and more. But this was always the plan.

The Ditch stands with all those doing what they can to confront genocide and our state’s complicity in it. Nell Buckley, Emma O'Grady, Jane Windey and others appear in Ennis District Court on September 10, and The Ditch will stand with them. We encourage others to join us.

People with power who congratulate themselves on a willingness to take the hard decisions never take a decision that would reduce their income, or their power.

An entire civilian population is at imminent risk of death by starvation because Israel refuses to allow aid into Gaza. I will be making a phone call tomorrow. Maybe you can too. There is literally nothing more important on earth right now.

Very much looking forward to “Starmer: Israel’s Man in Downing Street”. It’s coming soon surely?

Please sign.

Truly astonishing story from EU Observer here

This is the plan CnaM, Ireland’s clueless Internet Regulator, has for here- and the rest of the EU’s Internet.

Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard. I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.

Just noticed this starting on BBC2. 40 years on from Live Aid, we have a man-made famine and genocide in Gaza enabled by the US, UK and EU, and the vast majority of the biggest music stars on the planet would rather die than say anything about it.

‘There is a continued withholding of information, claiming this to be a human resources report. The reality is very different,’ says one patients’ group about this report. Children’s Health Ireland won’t publish it. Here it is in full. www.ontheditch.com/heres-the-re...

Draft: Here’s the report Children’s Health won’t publish Children’s Health Ireland respects legal advice. The Ditch respects the public interest. Will publish shortly.

Confidential correspondence shows government had all but confirmed Nama chief Brendan McDonagh as its so-called housing tsar – while taoiseach Micheál Martin publicly denied any decision had been made It was to be 'kept under the strictest of confidence' www.ontheditch.com/confidential...

Wild.

All the ‘centrist’ journalists are pumping out “this is very complex & you have to be a triple qualified Professor of war in the Middle East, nuclear physicist & topical geography expert to have an opinion on this which incidentally has to be “it’s very complex - here’s why last night bomb was ok”

Boycott Spotify (it’s shit anyway).

Fine Gael senator Paraic Brady didn’t declare a property sale to Longford County Council for €67,000 – nearly double what he paid for it – while sitting on the council’s social housing committee. Robert Troy also made undeclared sales to this council. www.ontheditch.com/fine-gael-se...

The UN Spécial Rapporteur on Palestine is reporting that Israeli boats have surrounded the #Madleen. She is on board and says that the captain is instructing the team to stay calm and seated, with their passports and life jackets on while they ask for safe passage to Gaza with aid. #FreedomFlotilla

A Fine Gael senator on the Seanad agriculture panel didn’t declare more than €16,000 in farming income while serving as a county councillor last year. Paraic Brady was elected to the Seanad on the agricultural panel in February 2025. www.ontheditch.com/fine-gael-se...

Can we please call this what it actually is? It's CORRUPTION!

Over the bank holiday weekend and ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, Irish state authorities assisted two flights through illegally carrying F-35 combat jet parts to an Israel Defense Forces airbase through Irish territory. www.ontheditch.com/two-more-ill...