And 3 of the 4 just happen to be gay which is unsurprising coming from Glinner, a man who these days is just a bunch of bigotries held together with spite

We have a moral responsibility to stamp out racist talk when we hear it from our families, friends, neighbors, colleagues. Racism is not other people's problem to bear, it is our problem to solve. We (white people) are the solution. #SpeirGorm

99% of barristers: Don’t identify me with my clients! Cab rank rule, independent referral bar, etc Laoise de Brún BL: Does my wig look good in this picture? www.independent.ie/county/wickl...

Did you know if you want to own your own shop and live above it, Irish banks consider that two strikes against you and deny your mortgage application. Ask me how I know! I don’t think this remedies that, this is for landlords. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

This is pretty much the only thing you need to know about any news story coming from Washington

The fash love enhanced games cause it means there's a shortcut to being fit and strong, & they are not talented or dedicated enough to do it the hard way. The fash love AI cause it means there's a shortcut to being creative, & they are not talented or dedicated enough to to it the hard way.

The Galway Advertiser did a great job at the #GalwayWest by-election - and as well as being v funny - this sums up perceptions vs reality for regional news these days

A nurse’s entire take-home pay now barely covers the average Dublin rent. People are being evicted while sick, grieving and struggling. This housing crisis is causing real human misery.

The idea of Vote Left, Transfer Left was pretty strongly adhered to in Dublin Central as the count went on. What happened was that the voters didn’t consider SF to be left. The SF candidates big transfer moments came from Steenson and Hutch.

this is the first thing Peadar had to say after two by-elections in which his party ate shit so bad that the combined FPV share of both their candidates was barely more than the FF candidate in Dublin Central who received the lowest FPV share in FF's entire 100 year history

This company that has built an apparently unworkable system for Irish Rail, reportedly headed to the bin at the cost of €50 million, is the same company the NTA has hired to bring contactless payments to Dublin's bus system. www.dublininquirer.com/the-nta-has-...

'The victim was known to Gardaí'

He didn't "become unwell". The inquest literally found that his neck was compressed, resulting in death. This kind of reporting is why I wrote this piece this morning on understanding violence - especially choking as a tool of restraint- and how it works. philipoconnor.com/on-violence/

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

Weirdly there is no outrage about this compared to spending half that amount on a permanent bike shelter that would service many more people.

Thank you for calling the Rental Market, For rent increases, press 1 For eviction notices, press 2 For all other options, please stay on the line and 1 and then 2 will be with you shortly.

Why won't the government allow a conscience vote tonight on our bill to Sanction Israel? Do they want to continue trading with this genocidal apartheid state? Or to do everything we can to stop it? Join the protest tonight at 5.30pm outside the Dáil ahead of the vote. #VoteToSanctionIsrael

There’s a weird attitude among many Irish people that no punishment is too great for the smallest of crimes. Plenty of Irish people are also racist. When those two things meet, you get the most disgusting opinions imaginable

No surprise The man who told us he can't do anything about dereliction because owners come crying to him when properties are publicly registered & who said “Any normal person, like you or me, to be landed in this on top of your daily life, it’s a tall order.” Is same man who👇

I don't know exactly what the mechanism would be but if a site hasn't been paying the vacant or derelict sites levy then it shouldn't be eligible for the vacant or derelict homes grant. It's either vacant or it's not 🤷‍♀️

Remarkable to hear RTE mention the words "shoplifting" at the end of the News but not mention the words "security guards" or "choked" or "physical assault." Despite the fact there's no evidence so far of the first and video evidence of the second.

I’m not a legal guy, but surely as well a criminal Investigation, Arnotts & security company, should be investigated by the HSA for a death in the workplace? Hold them all responsible for letting people act like animals at work which resulted in a man’s preventable death. #speirgorm

a big part of why i think the wealthy are so in favour of the rapid acceleration of tech at all times is because it enables them to commit more crimes. crimes the law hasn't thought of yet and can never possibly keep up with. simply unfathomable crimes of every genre

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

After 36 yrs @kerrycoco.ie are still making mistakes enforcing the Derelict Sites Act Their "various inaccuracies in the files” have cost us all They've thrown away €655,000 & wasted staffs' time How will they ensure these mistakes won't be made again? #Speirgorm #DerelictIreland

Ever rising rents & house prices, record evictions, councils dereliction of duty refusing to do their job & enforce 36 year old law, empty homes everywhere, record nos in emergency accommodation, streets & on sofas No doubt @fiannafailparty.bsky.social & @finegael.bsky.social made huge difference

Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/still-hurt-b...

‘coloniser mindset’ is a bang on assessment. there's a cohort in Irish society that fully understands our history with landlordism but embraces all its worst aspects. is it unprocessed shame or are they just awful people, who knows

Ireland has *immeasurably* benefited from immigration. Despite its problems (none of which were caused by immigrants) it is a vastly more interesting, vibrant - and *fun* - place than it was in the grey dreary miserable 80s thanks to immigrants. And anyone who walks through Dublin city centre and...

LIFE has been responsible for some of the greatest conservation success stories across Europe, including Ireland. But now the EU want's to scrap it as a stand alone funding source in the name of 'simplification' www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

How many hundreds of thousands of Africans does a man have to kill by yanking foreign aid to get called racist around here?

David Cullinane, going on his public statements, would be an absolute disaster as Minister for Health. He's shown himself to be a transphobic pro-lifer (we know what you find if you scratch just a little bit deeper with those kinds of people) whose beliefs trump people's healthcare needs.

Mike bringing the receipts on Sinn Féin's abandonment of progressive positions (some of which it never held). If there is to be a first progressive government in Ireland, they can't be part of it.

terfs are really like: i was born in the wrong generation 💔 i couldn't work in a magdalene laundry so now i have to do this 💔

There's lesson there for Irish politics. Just because a right turn feels like "Common Sense" doesn't mean it's the clever move.

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50% rise in evictions with advent of new rental rules This is causing unreal longterm damage to peoples lives The coloniser mindset continues in #DerelictIreland Canvas: "eviction is murder we wrote" by ffud.art

We all knew this would happen. You don't need to be a housing expert (And I'm not) to understand how this legislation would influence the landlord class. You only need to have spent any time at all renting in FFGs Ireland. They knew this would trigger evictions and they did it anyway #Spéirgorm 1/2

Fuck you, @micheal-martin.bsky.social. and everyone else along with you who sold out the Irish people for your forty pieces of silver. May you never know a moment's peace. www.thejournal.ie/eviction-not...

Really disappointing hearing Bertie's comments...he was in government when we moved here in the 90s. We even had the opportunity to meet him and take a photo with my bunscoil. My dad was even starstruck meeting him at the time!

📈 New figures show 7,062 eviction notices were served in the first two months of the year - a 51% increase in the same period last year. Notices to quit peaked in February, at 3,138 - the final month before new tenancy rules, including longer-term tenancies by default, took effect on March 1st.

Not that it’s the point, since these things should never be put to a vote anyway (but the joys of this country where everyone gets an opinion on women’s bodies), but no it never came up. Not once. And I knocked on A LOT of doors.

See also the %s re their treatment of trans people and the climate This is what happens when politicians (in this case in the UK) see the world through the warped lens of Twitter/FB and right wing main stream media, and Irish politicians should take note

The sooner Ireland and the EU end all economic & political relations with this terrorist state, the better. Kudos to Haaretz, a rare voice of truth, for reporting on Gestapo-style Israeli policing.

There's a face untroubled by thought.

Nial Ring on Morning Ireland saying that we are all to let Bertie say whatever he wants because he brought peace to the North. I'm so shit sick of that line. It was trotted out about Mandelson for months. Immigrants didn't wreck Ireland's economy, Bertie did. Stop with the great peacemaker guff.

The three day mandatory waiting period for an abortion is essentially, "Calm down dear, now you're getting emotional," in legislative form.