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#Gaza #Spotify #ceol #music #streaming

From the CWS ARCHIVE. 16th May and 13th June 2020.

“This year’s budget has left many disabled people worse off, and the upcoming protest on the 8th of December will demonstrate just how urgently change is needed.”
#Ireland #Disability

According to a military guy interviewed on RTE, hacking is a "border-agnostic attack vector".

Those media courses are worth every penny.

Ben Franklin's Forgotten Trip to Ireland | Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast

The new episode of Transatlantic is live! This week Fin and I chat about Benjamin Franklin's Forgotten Trip to Ireland-and how the Dubs nearly did away with him with some dodgy grub :-) shows.acast.com/transatlanti...

Trinity Students with Disabilities Face Broken Lifts, Inaccessibile Accommodation, and Exclusion from Sport Participation

As the worst people this country has to offer are complaining yet again about minimal accomodation being made for students with disabilities:

universitytimes.ie/2025/02/trin...

As if the world weren't harsh enough for young people, I see someone started the 'accommodations for disabilities are rubbish' discourse.

Maybe we could skip this ritual for fecking once. Just get over yourself if you're brooding over a student getting a quiet space or a computer to take an exam.

In a more compassionate world, whatever this is would between her and the psychiatrists at a secure residential facility.

This is NUTS. :/

They will have him all wired up on life support dangling there like a Dune character before too long it seems

Dental nurse who broke red light and knocked down student given suspended sentence Ruth Kavanagh (29) did not stop to provide assistance following incident in Dublin in 2022

Rules Of The Road:

1) Run red light and hit a schoolgirl at the crossing, knocking her 3 meters into the air and breaking bones

2) Drive off without seeing if the girl is alive

3) Conceal it with work to car

4) Deny it when questioned

5) Get let off with fine
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

European Union: UN experts alarmed by risk of humanitarian assistance criminalisation GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed alarm at EU discussions about proposed legislation on the smuggling of migrants and its compatibility with international human rights law – particularly the potent...

On the current disgraceful EU proposals:

“there is a serious risk of criminalisation of life-saving action and assistance to victims of human trafficking, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and other persons in need of international protection, including children”

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Wsj headline Gen Z shoopers are not spending like retailers need them too

Minimum wage employers complaining that people don't have any disposable income or savings.

Fungie, le dauphin de Dingle : la légende irlandaise devenue statue - 2Tout2Rien Fungie, dauphin solitaire de Dingle devenu statue en Irlande : une légende marine entre histoire vraie, hommage en bronze et charme insolite du port.

www.2tout2rien.fr/fungie-le-da... 🐬

#Christmas

As I said at the time, once Connolly was elected, all these outlandish and embarrassing claims would be forgotten because they were absolute fantasy, the role of the President is actually not very interesting, and Connolly is perfectly competent

But but but I was PROMISED that Catherine Connolly would cause a major diplomatic incident if she had to meet Zelenskyy 😡

RTÉ Irish language documentary to revisit the Moriarty Tribunal findings tonight Michael Lowry has said that he has better things to be doing than watching tonight’s edition of Scannal on RTÉ which focuses on the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal.

RTÉ Irish language documentary to revisit the Moriarty Tribunal findings tonight jrnl.ie/6890057

Police in Norwich, England protecting the public from yet another terrorist opponent of British arms sales to Netanyahu.

YouTube video by The Journal Hundreds of old landfills left in limbo despite risk of leaking toxic waste into waterways

Environmental vandalism by the state on an epic scale

www.youtube.com/shorts/8Wuhh...

There's quite a lot of research that demonstrates that growing up in a bilingual environment is hugely beneficial in terms of further language learning later in kife, and in flexibility of thought and the ability to analyse complexity in a range of subjects.

'They started punching us': Asylum seekers followed before alleged attack in Co Dublin village One man who came on the scene told of how the men had been ‘badly beaten’ and left bloody by the incident.

Asylum seekers have told of how they were followed by men on motorcycles before being subjected to an alleged attack in rural Co Dublin yesterday.

The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.

www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...

Screenshot of newspaper headline: As more speak Irish in Northern Ireland, some Brits bite their tongues In Belfast, even in Unionist neighborhoods, Gaeilge, the one-outlawed Irish kanguage, is enjoying a remarkable resurgence with new schools and bilingual signs.

Once outlawed, the Irish language is being spoken more in Northern Ireland - WAPO

archive.ph/QlNAP

#Gaeilge #language

"..never put plastic in a microwave.. The BPA, phthalates, plasticisers are added to the plastic but they're not chemically bound to it.. So if you put anything in a container that has these chemicals in it, & then put it in a hot environment, they will come out of the plastic and go into the food.”

Consider how effectively the governing parties and business lobby's grá for trade with the apartheid regime in S. Africa is brushed under the carpet — and their abuse of workers who refused to collaborate. The same groups who have spent the bones of a decade blocking the Occupied Territories Bill.

People have said this to me on Bluesky recently, how the US had unanimous support and nobody opposed the Iraq war, which is pretty galling when I had a story published in an anthology entitled 'Irish Writers Against War', and I'm in the march against that war, which features on the front cover.

If you're old enough to remember a million people on the streets protesting Britain's rubber-stamping of Bush's illegal war, and Tony Blair's response - 'a million isn't that many, really' - you won't be surprised by anything happening in 2025.

noticeable trend in irish and british podcasts using the word "lame" in the american sense meaning "uncool." grow up.

Steep rise in number of people jailed for breaching domestic abuse orders In 2020, the number of people jailed for breaches was 99. This rose to 167 in 2024.

“An epidemic unlike anything we’ve seen before.”

There has been a 69% increase in the number of people jailed for breaching domestic abuse orders. jrnl.ie/6890010