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The EU Court has found that we have failed to even bring in the laws we’d need to comply with our obligations to combat water pollution.
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The EU Court has found that we have failed to even bring in the laws we’d need to comply with our obligations to combat water pollution.
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During his meeting with high school students in Slovakia, PM Fico said that EU would allocate money "to continue the war" in Ukraine.
When the students objected, he told them to go to Ukraine if they support the war.
The students walked out.
When the students objected, he told them to go to Ukraine if they support the war.
The students walked out.
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
During his meeting with high school students in Slovakia, PM Fico said that EU would allocate money "to continue the war" in Ukraine.
When the students objected, he told them to go to Ukraine if they support the war.
The students walked out.
When the students objected, he told them to go to Ukraine if they support the war.
The students walked out.
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My letter in today's Clare Champion calling out the xenophobic dog-whistling from our local TD, Timmy Dooley, as well as Sinn Féin's Matt Carthy.
Immigrants are not the reason I've struggled to retain housing or buy my own home - Government policies are. Landlords like Timmy Dooley are. #Spéirgorm
Immigrants are not the reason I've struggled to retain housing or buy my own home - Government policies are. Landlords like Timmy Dooley are. #Spéirgorm
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My letter in today's Clare Champion calling out the xenophobic dog-whistling from our local TD, Timmy Dooley, as well as Sinn Féin's Matt Carthy.
Immigrants are not the reason I've struggled to retain housing or buy my own home - Government policies are. Landlords like Timmy Dooley are. #Spéirgorm
Immigrants are not the reason I've struggled to retain housing or buy my own home - Government policies are. Landlords like Timmy Dooley are. #Spéirgorm
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‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’ People fleeing war, poverty, insecurity are being abused daily by local racist gobsh*tes, desecrating the tricolour as they harass women, children & men. Shameful! #speirgorm
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’
‘Intimidation’ includes children being told ‘go home’ and witnessing parents being called derogatory names
www.irishtimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’ People fleeing war, poverty, insecurity are being abused daily by local racist gobsh*tes, desecrating the tricolour as they harass women, children & men. Shameful! #speirgorm
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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Memories of plunging my hand deep into the very cold peat to uncover Iron Age wooden planks last seen over 2,000 years ago.
In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.
In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Memories of plunging my hand deep into the very cold peat to uncover Iron Age wooden planks last seen over 2,000 years ago.
In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.
In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.
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In discussions about Ireland's infrastructure deficits, the focus on 'inefficiencies' in the planning system completely detracts from the more fundamental contradiction between for-profit, developer-led planning and planning for social needs within ecological limits. 🧵
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
In discussions about Ireland's infrastructure deficits, the focus on 'inefficiencies' in the planning system completely detracts from the more fundamental contradiction between for-profit, developer-led planning and planning for social needs within ecological limits. 🧵
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Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
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French fishermen are sending fishing nets to Ukraine to protect against Russian drones
Fishermen from the coast of Brittany have created a organization,Kernic Solidarités,to aid Ukraine 🇺🇦.They have already sent 2shipments of horsehair fishing nets,totaling 280km in length,according to The Guardian
Fishermen from the coast of Brittany have created a organization,Kernic Solidarités,to aid Ukraine 🇺🇦.They have already sent 2shipments of horsehair fishing nets,totaling 280km in length,according to The Guardian
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
French fishermen are sending fishing nets to Ukraine to protect against Russian drones
Fishermen from the coast of Brittany have created a organization,Kernic Solidarités,to aid Ukraine 🇺🇦.They have already sent 2shipments of horsehair fishing nets,totaling 280km in length,according to The Guardian
Fishermen from the coast of Brittany have created a organization,Kernic Solidarités,to aid Ukraine 🇺🇦.They have already sent 2shipments of horsehair fishing nets,totaling 280km in length,according to The Guardian
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One thing to do, especially if you’re a science writer or editor, is when you have occasion to mention the names of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, just say “Watson, Crick, and Franklin.” No one can stop us, and it is correct.
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
One thing to do, especially if you’re a science writer or editor, is when you have occasion to mention the names of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, just say “Watson, Crick, and Franklin.” No one can stop us, and it is correct.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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For those in any doubt, the ongoing nitrates derogation debate is not about the science on water quality, it's political wrangling, with our rivers, lakes and seas caught in the crossfire.
Our waterways deserve better- one can't drink politics.
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
Our waterways deserve better- one can't drink politics.
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
For those in any doubt, the ongoing nitrates derogation debate is not about the science on water quality, it's political wrangling, with our rivers, lakes and seas caught in the crossfire.
Our waterways deserve better- one can't drink politics.
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
Our waterways deserve better- one can't drink politics.
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
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Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, spoke at De Balie in Amsterdam about the role of citizens in war, Russian aggression, and the fact that occupation is not peace.
📹 Center for Civil Liberties/Facebook
📹 Center for Civil Liberties/Facebook
November 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, spoke at De Balie in Amsterdam about the role of citizens in war, Russian aggression, and the fact that occupation is not peace.
📹 Center for Civil Liberties/Facebook
📹 Center for Civil Liberties/Facebook
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😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣GASP!😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😅
November 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣GASP!😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😅
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Simon Harris said this week that 80% of asylum applicants fail, but as Mick Clifford points out here, that is a highly selective figure cherry picked with a very obvious agenda.
Read this.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Read this.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Mick Clifford: Simon Harris should weigh his words about immigration more carefully
In the social media age we must speak carefully on topics about which a flood of misinformation is already being used to stir up outrage
www.irishexaminer.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Simon Harris said this week that 80% of asylum applicants fail, but as Mick Clifford points out here, that is a highly selective figure cherry picked with a very obvious agenda.
Read this.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Read this.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
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Banjaxing TWO Presidential campaigns in the same election - Irish politics' own Typhoid Mary
If you're one of The Adults In The Room™ in Ireland you can be on a fat state pension in your 40's while arguing for welfare cuts, go bankrupt running a bookies, FF will still pay you to banjax their presidential run, and you'll still be invited on the airwaves to talk shite forever
archive.ph/Tjnk0
archive.ph/Tjnk0
November 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Banjaxing TWO Presidential campaigns in the same election - Irish politics' own Typhoid Mary
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This is attempted murder on a mass scale - a hate crime.
So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children.
www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
CCTV catches moment intruder torched asylum centre housing children
Gardai have rebranded attack in Drogheda as a potential attempted murder after camera footage was released
www.thetimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is attempted murder on a mass scale - a hate crime.
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"The general problem is that the traditional right adopts the rhetoric of the far right, but instead of gaining seats, they lose them to the extreme right. This is something we see in almost all of Europe."
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
"The general problem is that the traditional right adopts the rhetoric of the far right, but instead of gaining seats, they lose them to the extreme right. This is something we see in almost all of Europe."
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Sweet! I wish it was the whole song, but this was enough for a little hit of joy. "Mad World" indeed!
October 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Sweet! I wish it was the whole song, but this was enough for a little hit of joy. "Mad World" indeed!
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A public consultation is open until Monday on a new pedestrian crossing near the Glen River Park.
Residents have also asked for more traffic calming measures.
The crossing is an opportunity to create a raised table. If you can, add your voice to that demand.
ℹ️ consult.corkcity.ie/en/consultat...
Residents have also asked for more traffic calming measures.
The crossing is an opportunity to create a raised table. If you can, add your voice to that demand.
ℹ️ consult.corkcity.ie/en/consultat...
Ballyhooly Road pedestrian crossing
YouTube video by Oliver Moran
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A public consultation is open until Monday on a new pedestrian crossing near the Glen River Park.
Residents have also asked for more traffic calming measures.
The crossing is an opportunity to create a raised table. If you can, add your voice to that demand.
ℹ️ consult.corkcity.ie/en/consultat...
Residents have also asked for more traffic calming measures.
The crossing is an opportunity to create a raised table. If you can, add your voice to that demand.
ℹ️ consult.corkcity.ie/en/consultat...
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From the 1990 Presidential Campaign an Anti Mary Robinson and Austin Currie Leaflet from a group called Clann Na bFinini (The Family Group).
#aras25
#aras25
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
From the 1990 Presidential Campaign an Anti Mary Robinson and Austin Currie Leaflet from a group called Clann Na bFinini (The Family Group).
#aras25
#aras25
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#thicktrunkthursday #giants #sequoia #treescape #trees #uphill #phonephotography #towering #USNPS #NPS #wanderlust #arboreal #nature #westcoastkin #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #naturephotography #elders #wayoutwest #ancients #giant #conifers #coniferous #conifer #phonephotography #slope
October 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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I do wonder if the bar of perfection we expect these days may be a bit much.
We know so much more about every facet of a candidates political stances, personal lives, previous jobs, etc. I think it'd be rare to find someone more than a 75% match with your personal values.
Just go with the closest.
We know so much more about every facet of a candidates political stances, personal lives, previous jobs, etc. I think it'd be rare to find someone more than a 75% match with your personal values.
Just go with the closest.
October 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I do wonder if the bar of perfection we expect these days may be a bit much.
We know so much more about every facet of a candidates political stances, personal lives, previous jobs, etc. I think it'd be rare to find someone more than a 75% match with your personal values.
Just go with the closest.
We know so much more about every facet of a candidates political stances, personal lives, previous jobs, etc. I think it'd be rare to find someone more than a 75% match with your personal values.
Just go with the closest.