The EU Court has found that we have failed to even bring in the laws we’d need to comply with our obligations to combat water pollution.

During his meeting with high school students in Slovakia, PM Fico said that EU would allocate money "to continue the war" in Ukraine.

When the students objected, he told them to go to Ukraine if they support the war.

The students walked out.

Dear Sir, I was deeply disturbed to hear Timmy Dooley, alongside Matt Carthy, on The Tonight Show echoing far-right sentiments regarding immigration and the strain on our housing supply, particularly with regard to international protection applicants. There is a marked difference between debating the carrying capacity of a functioning housing market, and discussing how many desperate people we must sacrifice to avoid fixing a broken one. My partner and I have been struggling to retain housing and to buy a house for the better part of 4 years. Immigrants are not to blame for our difficulties, housing policies that prioritise the investments of landlords such as Timmy Dooley are. I do not want to hear discussions about which type of immigrants we should turn away first. I want to see leadership deciding which aspects of our broken housing system we will tackle first. I want to hear debates on which emergency measures we will take to ensure illegal short-term lets are brought back into continuous use. I want to hear how the government plan to address their ineffective policies regarding dereliction. I want to hear what policy changes can be implemented to accelerate progress on tackling vacancy. The government's aggressive right-wing pivot following their defeat in the presidential election was sadly predictable. It is obvious the government wish to present immigrants as a scapegoat to desperate people such as myself, in the hopes of appealing to the worst parts of our nature.

I would like to take this opportunity to reassure any vulnerable people who may be reading that this ploy will not work. I am sorry for the escalating atmosphere of fear and xenophobia you have been subjected to. You deserve better than this from a country where migration is such an integral part of our own troubled history. The people of Clare deserve better than the weak leadership we saw last night. Regards, Rob O' Sullivan Kilrush

My letter in today's Clare Champion calling out the xenophobic dog-whistling from our local TD, Timmy Dooley, as well as Sinn Féin's Matt Carthy.
Immigrants are not the reason I've struggled to retain housing or buy my own home - Government policies are. Landlords like Timmy Dooley are. #Spéirgorm

‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’ ‘Intimidation’ includes children being told ‘go home’ and witnessing parents being called derogatory names

‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’ People fleeing war, poverty, insecurity are being abused daily by local racist gobsh*tes, desecrating the tricolour as they harass women, children & men. Shameful! #speirgorm

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Memories of plunging my hand deep into the very cold peat to uncover Iron Age wooden planks last seen over 2,000 years ago.

In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.

You are right, all Ireland is angry about this shocking treatment and outcome. Citizens (and parents of minors) should have unrestricted access to their medical data. Also, from family experience, can well believe the toxic environment in CHI where egos dominate.

In discussions about Ireland's infrastructure deficits, the focus on 'inefficiencies' in the planning system completely detracts from the more fundamental contradiction between for-profit, developer-led planning and planning for social needs within ecological limits. 🧵

The parents must be exhausted living like this for so long.

Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.

French fishermen are sending fishing nets to Ukraine to protect against Russian drones

Fishermen from the coast of Brittany have created a organization,Kernic Solidarités,to aid Ukraine 🇺🇦.They have already sent 2shipments of horsehair fishing nets,totaling 280km in length,according to The Guardian

One thing to do, especially if you’re a science writer or editor, is when you have occasion to mention the names of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, just say “Watson, Crick, and Franklin.” No one can stop us, and it is correct.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

For those in any doubt, the ongoing nitrates derogation debate is not about the science on water quality, it's political wrangling, with our rivers, lakes and seas caught in the crossfire.

Our waterways deserve better- one can't drink politics.

www.rte.ie/news/politic...

Unreal. I mean the Blackwater flows through Fermoy. I think there are more than 7,000 citizens concerned about the state of our rivers. The international food conglomerates and their shareholders care nothing about the rivers but lobby hard. Should call him the minister for agribusiness.

Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, spoke at De Balie in Amsterdam about the role of citizens in war, Russian aggression, and the fact that occupation is not peace.

📹 Center for Civil Liberties/Facebook

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Mick Clifford: Simon Harris should weigh his words about immigration more carefully In the social media age we must speak carefully on topics about which a flood of misinformation is already being used to stir up outrage

Simon Harris said this week that 80% of asylum applicants fail, but as Mick Clifford points out here, that is a highly selective figure cherry picked with a very obvious agenda.

Read this.

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris

Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”

Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris

*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*

Banjaxing TWO Presidential campaigns in the same election - Irish politics' own Typhoid Mary

This is attempted murder on a mass scale - a hate crime.

"The general problem is that the traditional right adopts the rhetoric of the far right, but instead of gaining seats, they lose them to the extreme right. This is something we see in almost all of Europe."

Sweet! I wish it was the whole song, but this was enough for a little hit of joy. "Mad World" indeed!

YouTube video by Oliver Moran Ballyhooly Road pedestrian crossing

A public consultation is open until Monday on a new pedestrian crossing near the Glen River Park.

Residents have also asked for more traffic calming measures.

The crossing is an opportunity to create a raised table. If you can, add your voice to that demand.

ℹ️ consult.corkcity.ie/en/consultat...

From the 1990 Presidential Campaign an Anti Mary Robinson and Austin Currie Leaflet from a group called Clann Na bFinini (The Family Group).
#aras25

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I do wonder if the bar of perfection we expect these days may be a bit much.

We know so much more about every facet of a candidates political stances, personal lives, previous jobs, etc. I think it'd be rare to find someone more than a 75% match with your personal values.

Just go with the closest.