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Shamim Malekmian

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Journalist for @DublinInquirer.com mostly covering immigration. Send tips/stories/hellos to Shamim@dublininquirer.com.

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Years after promise of a new integration strategy, Dublin City Council still doesn’t have one There’s a desperate need for a roadmap to improve efforts to help people navigate immigrant life, and connect, say councillors and community workers.

Years after promise of a new integration strategy, Dublin City Council still doesn’t have one. There’s a desperate need for a roadmap to improve efforts to help people navigate immigrant life, and connect, say councillors and community workers. Read more here: www.dublininquirer.com/years-after-...

22.10.2025 07:18 — 👍 20    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Years after promise of a new integration strategy, Dublin City Council still doesn’t have one There’s a desperate need for a roadmap to improve efforts to help people navigate immigrant life, and connect, say councillors and community workers.

Years after promise of a new integration strategy, Dublin City Council still doesn’t have one. There’s a desperate need for a roadmap to improve efforts to help people navigate immigrant life, and connect, say councillors and community workers. Read more here: www.dublininquirer.com/years-after-...

22.10.2025 07:18 — 👍 20    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Phewww

22.10.2025 07:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is supposed to be a complementary measure to the EU Migration and Asylum Pact, which Ireland did opt into, so I'm not surprised that they're interested in this too at all.

21.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Man jailed for 18 years for raping daughter and assault A man who repeatedly raped his young daughter and subjected his former partner to a "prolonged, horrific and cruel attack" in which she thought she was going to be murdered has been jailed for 18 year...

Where is the "protest" for this 10 year old?

RTE news : Man jailed for 18 years for raping daughter and assault

www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

21.10.2025 20:33 — 👍 50    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 0

An actor!

21.10.2025 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh I wouldn't take anything he puts in his weird spreadsheets seriously.

21.10.2025 18:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is what I mean

21.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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As a colleague noted, they have only been calling for civil unrest in response to one of these reports, the one reportedly involving an immigrant. 2/

21.10.2025 14:12 — 👍 39    🔁 27    💬 2    📌 1
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What I thought was a "rural pursuit"

21.10.2025 12:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A while ago, I was compelled to write to the editor to complain about an unambiguously false headline designed to stir hate and draw clicks. Didn't get a reply.

21.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh yeah that too🤦🏽‍♀️

21.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How some media outlets get away with stereotyping an entire group of people over and over will never stop bothering me.

21.10.2025 11:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Stood up by a source but thank you to the driver of the Red Line Luas I got on to get back for his very kind smile.

21.10.2025 10:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Of course he does

21.10.2025 10:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So close to bringing up racist skull science...

21.10.2025 09:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In a perfect world, Mirror's crime reporters would have to publicly explain why they think ethnicity of alleged perpetrators of crime is relevant to what had happened.

21.10.2025 07:57 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
Staggering difference in coverage of the incident in Citywest, between RTE and Mirror.

Which do you believe? 

Bearing in mind RTE downright refused to name Kitty Holland in connection with the Ryan Casey defamation settlement this summer (but Mirror did).

Staggering difference in coverage of the incident in Citywest, between RTE and Mirror. Which do you believe? Bearing in mind RTE downright refused to name Kitty Holland in connection with the Ryan Casey defamation settlement this summer (but Mirror did).

If this cruel old man approves of your reporting, you need to be doing a lot of soul-searching.

21.10.2025 07:51 — 👍 34    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0

And it's not like rural areas get well served by this, it's never for stuff like reducing dereliction, it's always nonsense like blood sports, and letting people continue to pollute our drinking water or letting people build holiday homes everywhere. It's so frustrsting

21.10.2025 07:10 — 👍 59    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0

😔😔

21.10.2025 06:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

💓💓

20.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
'Doomed to fail': Case attempting to stop presidential election has been thrown out of court
The man who brought the case offered to assume the role of President of Ireland until a referendum could be held to amend the constitution.

'Doomed to fail': Case attempting to stop presidential election has been thrown out of court The man who brought the case offered to assume the role of President of Ireland until a referendum could be held to amend the constitution.

Can folks stop being delulu now?

20.10.2025 16:44 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

All of them have built-in AI at the moment, anyway.

20.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MetroLink is NOT expected to cost more than €20bn. It's currently expected to cost around €9bn. The €20bn figure has been debunked several times and for a national newspaper to publish it as if it's fact is incredibly damaging.

Facts matter.

20.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 66    🔁 12    💬 7    📌 0
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Just reading an academic paper and it has this disclosure at the end, which I thought was interesting, first time I've encountered it.

20.10.2025 14:54 — 👍 28    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 1
A tweet from Mary Kenny reading

A reminder that Persia has a long tradition of writing.

Over a tweet that reads

This guy has been running a colored pencil shop in Tehran for 30 years. The walls are covered with thousands of pencils, and he's the only one who knows where each one is.

A tweet from Mary Kenny reading A reminder that Persia has a long tradition of writing. Over a tweet that reads This guy has been running a colored pencil shop in Tehran for 30 years. The walls are covered with thousands of pencils, and he's the only one who knows where each one is.

??????????????????

20.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 1
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people in the comments pointing to this or that to prove it's AI when the AI sprinke symbol or whatever it's called is right here

20.10.2025 12:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Poster for the film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Poster for the film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Watched this 1974 film about immigration and isolation last night, and how much the anti-immigrant rhetoric shown in the film sounded exactly like what we hear today, depressed me to no end. 😔

20.10.2025 07:53 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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