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Fintan O’Toole: For Sinn Féin, Tiocfaidh ár lá is being replaced by Turn the Other Cheek Sinn Féin is rightly proud of republicanism’s role in the fight against fascism in Spain. So why is it now opposing assistance for Ukraine?

For Sinn Féin, Tiocfaidh ár lá is being replaced by Turn the Other Cheek

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Crowd raves in protest outside Dublin hotel seeking injunction against Yamamori Izakaya Venue owners say they find it ‘extremely difficult’ to accept recent claims made by neighbouring Hoxton Hotel

People 4 Profit hold rave against capitalism in Dublin City
Revolutionary socialists join Crowd raving in protest outside Dublin hotel seeking injunction against Yamamori Izakaya mucic venue

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

The Town Hall in Youghal, Co Cork (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2021)

Youghal elected Jewish mayors in 1555, 1569, 1576 and 1581

"Youghal is the first town in either Ireland or Britain to have a Jewish mayor when William Annyas or William Moses Annyas Eanes (Ben Yohanan) was elected Mayor of Youghal in 1555."

www.patrickcomerford.com/2021/08/when...

Vinod Khosla suggests scrapping taxes for most Americans in response to AI job losses Vinod Khosla said AI warrants a "rethink of capitalism," and taxing capital more could allow 125 million people to be removed from US tax rolls.

If artificial intelligence eliminates millions of jobs, it might make sense to scrap income taxes for the vast majority of Americans and target capital instead, Vinod Khosla the venture capitalist says.
www.businessinsider.com/vinod-khosla...

YouTube video by BBC News Gisèle Pelicot: The Newsnight Interview

Watch 'Gisèle Pelicot: The Newsnight Interview' on Youtube here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMA5NCx-Afc

The other Nato island crisis: Greece, Turkey and the Aegean fault line Greece Letter: ‘As the “sharp end” of Europe vis-a-vis the Middle East, Greece is comparable perhaps to the Greenland-Denmark axis at Europe’s other end’

The other Nato island crisis: Greece, Turkey and the Aegean fault line
by Richard Pine
Legacy of Ottoman Empire continues to be felt throughout the Balkans
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Small businesses set to be hit with huge An Post price hikes A national stamp now costs €1.85, while the €3.50 stamp for letters to Europe represents a rise of 85c

Mad! Small businesses set to be hit with huge An Post price hikes
Letters now treated as small parcels!
@conorpope.bsky.social
@anpostcommerce.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...

Ahead of the election in 🇭🇺 Orbán threatens to “clean up” journalists, civil society and judges.

This is how democracy is dismantled - by silencing scrutiny and eroding independent institutions.

We won't step back. Defend democracy with us. 🇪🇺

Donate: hubs.li/Q043k81H0

Challenge to Met Police's Freemason disclosure rule thrown out The Met had announced that membership of the Freemasons or similar organisations would have to declared.

Legal challenge against the Met Police over its decision to force staff to declare whether they are or have been Freemasons has been thrown out by a High Court judge.

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

Wow.

Hackathon to habit: embedding AI at Nesta and BIT AI adoption isn't binary, but rather a continuum from non-use to deep integration within organisations

AI adoption isn't binary, but rather a continuum from non-use to deep integration.
via @nestauk.bsky.social

www.nesta.org.uk/blog/hackath...

Fintan O’Toole: For Sinn Féin, Tiocfaidh ár lá is being replaced by Turn the Other Cheek Sinn Féin is rightly proud of republicanism’s role in the fight against fascism in Spain. So why is it now opposing assistance for Ukraine?

For Sinn Féin, Tiocfaidh ár lá is being replaced by Turn the Other Cheek
@fotoole.bsky.social reveals Sinn Fein
Why is SF now opposing assistance for Ukraine?
Useful idiots or dedicated campists?
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Rain recorded every day this year at Valentia Observatory It has rained every day so far in 2026 at the Valentia Observatory in Co Kerry, a continuous run of 46 days.

Rain. Rain. Rain every day this year at Valentia Observatory in Kerry,
record daily total for February at Dublin Airport

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Join Kate McAney for the talk ‘Leather Wings and Bushy Tails’

Learn about the conservation work of VWT Ireland, focusing on the Lesser horseshoe bat, pine marten and Irish stoat.

7:30pm, 18 February 2026
Tara Building, Room T1.17, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

@irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social

Carrie Prejean Boller Is Not Going Quietly The former beauty queen, dismissed from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, says that it’s “anti-Christian” to accuse her of anti-Semitism.

In 1862, General Ulysses Grant expelled Jews from his military district during the Civil War, a move reversed by President Lincoln. In 2026, Candace Owens praised Grant’s expulsion. And this week, a now ex-member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission wouldn’t tell me whether that was antisemitic.

Russia has embraced a novel technique: Sabotage-as-a-Service.💣

It’s outsourcing disruption like gig work. Immigrants and petty criminals are recruited via Telegram with offers of quick jobs: hang a poster, set fire to a telecom box, cut a cable, snap a photo. Cheap. Simple. Anonymous.

Irish rock group postpones İstanbul show after authorities cancel heavy metal concerts - Turkish Minute #Irish instrumental rock group God Is An Astronaut said its #İstanbul concert scheduled for Friday night was postponed for reasons “beyond our control,” days after authorities barred two heavy metal...

Irish rock group postpones İstanbul show after authorities cancel heavy metal concerts www.turkishminute.com/2026/02/13/i...

Children 'weaponised' in toxic trans debate, Cass says Clinician Dr Hilary Cass says "people at the extremes" had caused a lot of distress for young people.

Children 'weaponised' by both sides of trans debate, Hilary Cass says in BBC interview today
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Congratulations Edwin Edogbo! Representjng Ireland, Munster and Cobh.

Congratulations Edwin Edogbo! Senior international debut for Ireland, coming off the bench to replace James Ryan in the 69th minute during a Six Nations victory over Italy at the Aviva Stadium yesterday

#ireland #irishrugby #IREVITA #CobhPirates

Congratulations Edwin Edogbo! Representjng Ireland, Munster and Cobh.

Congratulations Edwin Edogbo! Senior international debut for Ireland, coming off the bench to replace James Ryan in the 69th minute during a Six Nations victory over Italy at the Aviva Stadium yesterday

#ireland #irishrugby #IREVITA #CobhPirates

Le Rugby Club de Vannes cultive une forte identité bretonne qu’on ne trouve nulle part ailleurs dans le sport breton.
Les Catalans ont le Barça, les Bretons ont le RCV. Més que un club, ouzhpenn ur c'hlub 🤍🖤
#FiertéBretonne #Breizh

www.ouest-france.fr/sport/rugby/...

Children 'weaponised' in toxic trans debate, Cass says Clinician Dr Hilary Cass says "people at the extremes" had caused a lot of distress for young people.

Children 'weaponised' by both sides of trans debate, Hilary Cass says in BBC interview today
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump loses support of Irish as AOH releases statement Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) condemns a racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama shared from President Trump’s social media account and calls for accountability. President Trump is facing cr...

Trump loses support of Irish Americans as AOH releases statement

The Ancient Order of Hibernians condemns a racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama shared from President Trump’s social media account and calls for accountability.

www.irishcentral.com/news/trump-i...

Sudanese Courts Sentence Two Women to Death by Stoning for Adultery Despite International Obligations - ACJPS Two Sudanese women have been sentenced to death by stoning in separate cases in Sudan, raising serious concerns about Sudan’s compliance with its international human rights obligations, particularly f...

In 2026, Sudanese Courts Sentence Two Women to Death by Stoning for Adultery

www.acjps.org/publications...

Was it Prendegast's passing, or everybody else around him slow?

What day is it? 💚💚💚

Six Nations, Ireland's revival starts against Italy today.
#IREVITA #Irishrugby #rugby

3 former Irish players on @virginmediaireland.bsky.social sport TV, reluctant to criticise form of Irish players - need different outhalf

#IREVITA #Rugby #M6N #6nations

Wonder how long Prendegast will last, not playing well today
#irevita

Wonder have ALLMEP members briefed Helen McEntee? @johnlyndon.bsky.social

🔴 Today, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, the Paris Peace Forum and ALLMEP are co-hosting a high-level exchange bringing together political leaders and leading civil society actors to advance Palestinian–Israeli diplomacy.