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...

Earlier today The Ditch, with @disclosengo.bsky.social, published a story about a secret shipment of ammunition links to Israel. These workers recognised their power. They used it. ‘This container has been set aside, and the dockers will not load it onto the ship.’

The DWP has claimed it has 'saved £1 billion' - but in reality, it hasn't at all In the latest twisted move by the DWP, it is now trumpeting a success over something that was its fault in the first place www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

I just don't know how people see this and can be fine going on with things as they are. There's nothing that can justify the sheer cruelty of this.

Israel: We deliver.

The BBC is still promoting Israel's lies - 20 months into the genocide. Coverage of the aid massacres is another depraved case study in the biggest scandal of Western journalism of our time. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/bbc-promot...

Official Israeli records show the value of goods imported to the Occupied Palestinian Territories from Ireland last year is 40 times higher than the figure claimed by Irish authorities CSO says €272,000 Israel Tax Authority says more than €11 million www.ontheditch.com/irish-export...

The Ditch’s Paulie Doyle talks neutrality at the Rupture Radical Book Fair tomorrow at 1.30pm The fair runs 12-5pm with talks from 12-7pm and a social afterwards – free entry in the Teachers Club

Miss Rachel isn’t on Bluesky, but her posts about Gaza should be. I wish this wasn’t so unusual to see from people with big platforms.

The Ditch first reported on the Irish Central Bank facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds in September last year. The Israeli Bonds CEO has told potential investors that purchasing bonds is "the best way" to help Israel support "the war campaign”. www.ontheditch.com/central-bank...

I take it as an enormous badge of honour that professional whinger John Boyne refuses to go to Pantibar. And indeed clearly he has never been there if he thinks you won’t find “actual” gays and lesbians there lol