@irishbigmac.bsky.social
40-something Ireland. Twitter refugee I was @MacMiadhachain there, deleted it and left.
Full page, Examiner 14.02.2026 on Ireland's support for US deportation flights.
Valentine's Day edition of the Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social has a full page feature on Ireland fuelling ICE deportation flights.
By @colinivan.bsky.social with due credit to @gbrockell.bsky.social
“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment”
― Malcolm X
Simon Harris on the radio trying to muddy the waters around the Occupied Territories Bill. The one side only ceasefire in Gaza is irrelevant. Israel is still robbing Palestinian land and installing settlers against International Law. They shouldn't be allowed to profit from it.
#SpéirGorm
#BDS
Listen to the reaction there. Real Irish people, cheering on the debut of another real Irish man.
Don't pay too much attention to what anonymous blue tick accounts based in Tel Aviv, Bangladesh, or the US think.
Maria Steen, she of the Holy Handbag, argues in the Times that we should introduce a form of marriage with "no possibility of divorce." Maybe she is too young to remember that we already tried this. It ended very badly for some - that's why we introduced divorce.
#FeckOffIona
The British Museum has quietly removed the word ‘Palestine’ from maps, information panels and galleries, after lobbying.
www.newarab.com/news/british...
Reading this hit for me as I'd just learned a friend's DJ gig was cancelled cus one of the other acts was put on a dox list for a Charlie Kirk joke and the venue got so many threats they had to shut the whole thing down (yes this happened in Ireland)
15.02.2026 13:14 — 👍 27 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0Maria Steen on RTE radio and Hillary "Andrew Wakefield" Cass* on RTE website is a reminder that forces of hate and oppression need to be constantly defeated...
*Cass report has been so massively shredded by actual science only the ignorant or the malevolent refer to it with any credence
Ireland should not play UEFA games against Israel. We should demand Israel are banned from the competition. Sign and share the petition if you agree my.uplift.ie/petitions/fa... @uplift.ie
#speirghorm #speirgorm
You Are Now Entering Free Minneapolis painted on a gable wall in the style of Free Derry Corner, with four very cool people who seem like legends in front of it.
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14.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 977 🔁 138 💬 3 📌 12
Ireland should not play UEFA games against Israel. We should demand Israel are banned from the competition. Sign and share the petition if you agree my.uplift.ie/petitions/fa... @uplift.ie
15.02.2026 02:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
14.02.2026 02:37 — 👍 23093 🔁 8100 💬 592 📌 1345“[The FAI] could show a real bit of balls and refuse to play Israel. They should stand up in my view for the Palestinian state, the Palestinian people and the Palestinian football organisation.” - Brian Kerr, former Republic of Ireland manager
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All these right wing white men concerned about birth rates-look in the mirror & see why women choose not to give birth in the world of inequality you support; a world of virulent misogyny, racism, anti-migrant, anti environmentalism, & hate towards LGBTI kids. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
14.02.2026 11:30 — 👍 51 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 2
Brilliant to see so many leading organisations in Northern Ireland - like Queens University and Belfast City Council - quitting Twitter as it’s incompatible with their values.
Maybe Scotland could learn a lesson here and do the decent thing too…?
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has called on the FAI not to participate in the UEFA Nations League matches against Israel and added "Israel should be given the red card".
14.02.2026 12:01 — 👍 59 🔁 12 💬 8 📌 6No loss.
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EU leaders condemn Trump’s Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ at Munich conference - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/eu-leaders-slam-trumps-gaza-board-peace-security-conference
14.02.2026 11:34 — 👍 36 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 1
Far-right thug Tommy Robinson flees UK after police warning over terror threat Far-right thug Tommy Robinson took to social media this evening to proclaim himself a 'priority target' for ISIS, adding he had fled the UK after receiving a call from Bedfordshire Police
Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.
14.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 2976 🔁 881 💬 318 📌 81Host: So when Donald Trump walked in, there were women in there who weren't fully clothed.
Hughes: Correct. Women were not fully clothed when Donald Trump came in.
Host: And some of those women were, what, as young as 15?
Hughes: Yeah, as 15 years old.
The US is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if Trump orders an attack, US officials told Reuters - a far more serious conflict than previously seen.
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The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!
13.02.2026 21:33 — 👍 5062 🔁 1218 💬 67 📌 46
Great news, the outrageous ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful. This was blatant repression of solidarity with Palestine, all while the British government was arming apartheid Israel's genocide of Palestinians. All arrested must be freed. #FreePalestine
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Nigel Farage claims "Look at net migration numbers. Oh, it isn't good that net migration is coming down".
"Do you know why? Its because there is an exodus: those of a situation + a financial position to be fortunate to have a choice"
A v misleading exaggeration/narrative of falling net migration
Farage is clearly misleading the public.
The main reason that net migration fell by 445,000 (year to June 2025 it was 205k, having been 649k a year before) is that immigration fell by 401,000.
The BBC should fact-check/verify and report that this was untrue.
The Ditch can reveal that 75 Irish citizens have served in the Israel Defense Forces during its genocide in Gaza.
Opposition asked government about Irish nationals serving with Israeli forces – while they committed war crimes – two years ago.
www.ontheditch.com/seventy-five...
Hard to move away from the idea that the UK government would prefer trans people to just kill themselves so they don't have to pay for a trial and jail for murderers.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…” #HousingFirst
