Emmet Kirwan

More than 200 journalists have now been killed by the IDF in Gaza.

And so many journalists here haven’t expressed a single sliver of solidarity or outrage about it.

Saying 'Isreali airstrike' as if it was an accident.

Absolutely, the loop the loop sentence structure of the above headline and others written over the last two years by so many outlets should be studied in all journalism courses. It's maddening.

'Has been killed by Isreal'. Fixed that for you. The Israelis have already admitted to killing them. There's no need to dance around it.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Don’t worry.

The BBC has cast doubt on it so now you can pop your head over the parapet and say killing journalists is bad.

(Jeremy Bowen is great by the way.)

Wall to wall hacks sharing solemn “press freedom” posts whenever Donald Trump calls Chuck Blastoise of WBYN News a silly name - but multiple targeted strikes on the only ones documenting Gaza and it’s crickets.

Shameful.

For reals. Humanity has had access to ChatGPT for several years now and no one has generated a single piece of creative art or media that has had any impact whatsoever. If ChatGPT did what they say it does, we would be witnessing a huge influx of culture shattering novels, movies, etc.

Performers from Riot on stage, standing in a circle.

Saw ‘Riot’ last night at Vicar Street. Wildly entertaining, a circus for grownups! Specifically Irish too. Highly irreverent, hugely relevant to our times. @pantibliss.bsky.social & @emmetkirwan.bsky.social on top form. Plus AMAZING sean nós dancers!

@thisispopbaby.bsky.social

How a Radical Ideology Infected the Supreme Court and Poisoned the Country Originalism, a framework with roots in the segregationist past and funded by right-wing oligarchs, helped lead to Trump’s unconstitutional regime.

Two leading historians on why "Originalism" is bogus and very very bad for the republic. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Highland towns and villages are utlra woke now.

But not disgusted and sickened enough to vote against facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds.
The Irish people are against the genocide of the Palestinian people, but the government is actively aiding it in every was it can.
Never judge them on what they say - judge them by what they do.

Gaza: Israel denying food to Gaza is ‘weapon of war’, says Unwra chief Two months after all humanitarian aid was blocked, Philippe Lazzarini tells international editor Jeremy Bowen “starvation is spreading” inside Gaza.

Israel denying food to Gaza is 'weapon of war', UN Palestinian refugee agency head tells BBC

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Government: "We've finally identified the right person to put out that giant fire that's been raging for years"

Me: "Are they an arsonist?"

Government: "Of course not."

Me: "Good."

Government: "They do make money from arson though."

Amazing how much money the people tasked with solving the housing crisis make from the housing crisis. Probably something to read into there but I'm very tired.

Cabra is in a rent pressure zone, so that’s the first law he’s breaking and also planning laws. Houses built for private residential dwelling need a change of usage to become short term lets. But then he would know that, but the rules don’t apply to people like him.

NAMA chief charging tourists €10,000 a week for Cabra home McDonagh was set to be appointed government’s new housing tsar.

NAMA chief Brendan McDonagh’s north Dublin home – which The Ditch revealed was registered under the alias PB McDonnacha – is being advertised to rent on a short-term letting site for more than €10,000 a week.

He was to be government’s new housing tsar.

www.ontheditch.com/nama-chief-c...

Mark Carney’s win shows the appeal of a politician who rejects the woke agenda The Canadian’s victory has lessons for mainstream politicians across the democratic world

Stephen Collins writes an entire article about a rejection of woke and fails to define what woke means once. Woke is whatever makes reactionaries feel uncomfortable. Its definition is awake to injustice. Anyone who uses woke as a perjorative is deeply unserious. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Ofwat investigating ‘rip-off’ cost of water firms’ infrastructure works Watchdog for England and Wales looking into claims refurbishment costs are ‘breathtakingly high’ compared with other countries

£435mn to build a sewage works in England, £29mn in Denmark. Tell us again how a privatised water system brings efficiency & value for money?

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The real story of the next few days will be how many columns David Quinn will write and have published about how the next pope must be Catholic in the ways that David Quinn approves of.

Gaza-based photojournalist Fatma Hassona was the main subject of the film "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk." She was killed with her family this week in an Israeli airstrike, just a day after the film was selected to premiere at Cannes.

Director Sepideh Farsi spoke with Democracy Now!

Headline reading "Freemasons regret Conor McGregor-Tucker Carlson interview being held in their venue"

You think the Freemasons are on the side of the little guy and then they go do something like this

Sinn Féin are Britain-maxxing. They’re Tan-pilled. They’re going full Rowlingcore. They’re in their Cockwomble era. They’re Butcher’s Apron mode etc

CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.

The housing crisis is an attack on the chance of community A society of non-places is a non-society: fragmented, rudderless and incapable of collective action.

Comment: 'The housing emergency is more than a national disgrace that has produced record homelessness and mass suffering. It is an attack on our ability to foster meaning in our lives and to develop communities.'

www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...

Gardaí deny woman was cavity-searched after Leinster House Gaza protest Gardaí have rejected claims made by TDs that some women who protested outside the Dáil about Gaza were strip-searched - and one subjected to a body cavity search after being forced to take off her und...

old enough to remember Dara Quigley. old enough to remember Maurice McCabe. old enough to remember the Guard convicted last month of sexual assualt in a station who denied everything.
old enough not to take an AGS statement at face value #speirgorm
www.independent.ie/irish-news/g...

Verona Murphy is not good at the job of Ceann Comhairle -loath as I am to say that about any woman. What has shocked me though is the weaponisation of misogyny & sexism in her defence by the Gov … this is a diminishing of the awful reality of what most women face in a misogynistic society #speirgorm

Cult of civility bullshit. There may be a genocide but Paul, decorum please.

But but but the opposition were loud! So they’re Trump in this thesis.