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Belfast born. Galway domiciled. Here for the news and the views. Despise bots and their puppet masters. Ex-The Other Place, and happy to be cleansed of it.
This is so grim.
Irish immigration officials refuse visas for 47 Palestinians due to come to Ireland for GAA tour jrnl.ie/6757964
Don't be fooled by the government's new promises that gutting minimum standards 'will increase housing'.
It's just shrinkflation for apartments!
Making unlivable units to squeeze even more profits, while gutting real communities.
A disgrace.
Dune and Dusted.
09.07.2025 18:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It will go up in flames tonight.
09.07.2025 18:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0HOLY BIBLE Holy Bible © @Holy_Bible1 Follow Matthew 18:19 MATTHEW 18:19 "He prayed for her, she prayed for him and God smiled knowing that their names are already written next to each other."
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
09.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 3574 🔁 714 💬 254 📌 725cant believe that this response from a sitting member of Congress from Florida, to one of his Dem colleagues, is real
09.07.2025 17:33 — 👍 11151 🔁 2725 💬 1015 📌 577Keir Starmer’s spokesperson is unconcerned that Elon Musk’s X AI Chatbot Grok is endorsing Hitler. Not only were calls to leave the social media platform dismissed, but the Anti-Semitic comments from "MechaHitler" were described as merely a ‘matter for the company’.
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/09/k...
A Palestinian man has taken an action against the Garda Commissioner for refusing to investigate an allegation that Israeli settlers barred him from his land and used it to build cabins later advertised for rent on an Irish-registered website.
http://jrnl.ie/6758222
Oh great
09.07.2025 18:14 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I hate living here sometimes. Fucking shameful.
09.07.2025 13:25 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0Mick Clifford, three years ago when the far right threat was manifest but still containable. #Ireland
09.07.2025 13:27 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Limerick-based Analog Devices International is sending critical components to the Israel Defense Forces’ largest weapons supplier
Backed by the IDA with an €85 million grant last year, its microchips were found in Russian weapons used to attack Ukraine
www.ontheditch.com/limerick-com...
I love the use of the passive 'have been placed'.
09.07.2025 14:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But you get arrested on sight for saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". Saying those words is terrorism. Whereas this burning of effigies of refugees, that's just culture
09.07.2025 11:46 — 👍 114 🔁 69 💬 1 📌 1Guardian headline: open organisers poised to move tee times amid concerns of loyalist parade disruption.
Good to see the Guardian's one story on marching season is about moving tee times.
09.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0People in Britain might be interested that their government is having discussions like this with heavily armed Union Jack waving far right terrorist organisations inside the UK.
Or they would be if their media and politicians chose not to stay very, very quiet about it.
#PalestineAction #Gaza
But KNEECAP #SpeirGorm #OrangeOrder #TwelfthOfJuly #RacistBigotedLoyalists
09.07.2025 12:09 — 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 1Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has called on the Government to immediately intervene to bring 18 children from Gaza to Ireland for vital medical treatment
09.07.2025 12:13 — 👍 37 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0All of this was predicted and explained daily for years on end. The government had every opportinity to stamp on it while there was still time. They and their media outriders chose instead to mock those who warned them, both sides it and pander to the fash. They own it, every single bit of it.
09.07.2025 12:15 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0A better headline would be "Man assaulted in racist attack."
You can also try "Man assaulted in racially-motivated attack", but it's better to be as clear as you can with these things. 👍
"Death to the IDF" = 😡
Death by the IDF = 👍
"When people tell you who they are, believe them."
09.07.2025 12:27 — 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0A BBC news headline which says “Penguin says it did “all necessary due diligence” with The Salt Path
I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.
09.07.2025 12:39 — 👍 5684 🔁 1057 💬 155 📌 84Musk Apologises For Uploading Hitler's Consciousness To Grok https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/07/09/musk-apologises-for-uploading-hitlers-consciousness-to-grok/
09.07.2025 06:05 — 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0They managed to have a 10 minute segment on Claire Byrne about water shortages and mentioned everything except the 82 data centers that consume the same amount of water per day as a town of 50,000 people. Superb stuff, really doing a journalism
09.07.2025 09:24 — 👍 214 🔁 63 💬 5 📌 1The point of this absolutely stands, but the pedant in me can't help pointing out that the chances of being fined by any council if your dog takes a shit on the footpath are basically nil.
09.07.2025 09:44 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0