Paula Geraghty

"Rather than retreat from the horrors of slavery as was happening in Central and South America, Southern states in America committed to a new era of harsher conditions, dehumanizing control, and brutal punishment of enslaved people."

It's funny being a member of two 'minority' communities, you get tokenised at each angle. As a Black woman & Gaeilgeoir, people feel they can easily box you into certain categories and assume your interests.

Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong?

"Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong? New court cases [in the US] seek to define content created by artificial intelligence as defamatory — a novel concept that has captivated some legal experts."

Provide Safe Shelter For All People Seeking Safety .

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: no one should have to sleep out in the rain. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift.ie

ILI Conference 2025 People · Process · Place · Possibility 09:00- 17:30 on 7th November at Chartered Accountants House, Pearse St, Dublin 2

I’ll be giving the closing address at the Irish Landscape Institute’s conference in Dublin next week about various ideas emerging from my Saving The City podcast series.

If you haven’t listened to the series yet, please do!

It’s on all platforms, and the feedback has been really heartening.

A cartoon showing a man between a white construction worker and a black man. He points to the black man and says "Careful mate ... that foreigner wants your cookie" The man in the middle has a plate full of cookies; the construction worker has one cookie; the black man has no cookies.

I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.

Is this the same asylum system that his party/government set up, that both FF and FG have run for years separately and together, that made millions for themselves and their developer pals, that refugees and NGOs have literally protested against for years because the system is not working and cruel.🤔

The Government could nationalise all privately rented accomodation for £792bn and all £80bn a year profit it makes would go to the Government.

6m Social Houses in 1 day.

‘General strike if necessary’: Alberta unions declare intent to bring down UCP government | Globalnews.ca Leaders from unions representing hundreds of thousands of Albertans stood in solidarity while saying they are exploring the process or triggering a general, province-wide strike.

"Not necessarily a general strike, but a general strike if necessary."

#abpoli #cdnpoli

Not one of the problems faced by people in Ireland is caused by immigration - every single one of them is a result of over a century of rule by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.
As they pivot to naked racism to win over the crayon brigade to prop up their terminally dwindling influence, remember that.

So unsurprising.

Govt should reconsider immigration policies, says Harris Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris has said Ireland's asylum seeker system is not working and that the Government should reconsider existing policies "in a very serious way".

This pile of riot-appeasing baloney can roll right down the beach and cheerfully sink beneath the waves.

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Poppy pizzas, clearly not quiches before you pipe up. Regurgitated from my Twitter account

We will fight them on the quiches

Government asks councils to limit media access to new policing committees The National Union of Journalists has said there should be a presumption in favour of meetings being held in public.

This is nothing short of disgraceful. But of course, there's no guarantee the news media would actually devote the resources to staffing JPC meetings anyway. A republic -- if you can keep it. jrnl.ie/6852400

Shireen Abu Akleh was an American citizen and journalist who was assassinated by Israel in broad daylight while wearing a blue PRESS vest.

David Quinn • @DavQuinn • 3h (Further to my comments on RTE yesterday, and please read to end!) Those who run @FineGael probably think people like me want them to re-embrace the 8th amendment or something like that. We know that is totally unrealistic. But here are some things they could do (in no particular order): 1. Admit immigration is too high. 2. Stop pandering to left-wing NGOs and the left in general. 3. Defend free speech. 4. Stand up to those who think men are toxic. 5. Admit men can't get pregnant. 6. Oh, and give tax-payers a break for crying out loud, like you're supposed to do! You're Fine Gael, after all.

Amazing how a few spoiled votes gives them the confidence to say the quiet part out loud & hoping to shift the Overton Window with a few far right dog whistles. Especially in a country that has just voted overwhelmingly for a socialist, inclusive, anti war head of state. #speirgorm #Áras2025

Anything but acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, people do want something different, and came together on the ground to work for it.

Looking like a resounding victory for Catherine Connolly.

A huge moment for the united left in Ireland, for the many young people whose energy and optimism fuelled Connolly’s campaign, and a pretty clear rejection of uninspiring government party candidates who couldn’t offer a vision.

#Aras25

He is.

The Irish Times said there was one thousand at its peak.

A tweet from Sky News reading 'Aston Villa fan Andrew Fox says he has received online abuse and even death threats following the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the match in Birmingham.' A follow up tweet says 'This is a correction of a previous post that incorrectly identified Mr Fox as Jewish'.

A page from the Henry Jackson Society website for Andrew Fox, Research Fellow, which says he joined HJS in 2014 and that 'Andrew specialises in Defence, the Middle East, and disinformation'.

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

square concrete slab on the ground with “OLD DYKES AGAINST TECH BROS” stenciled onto it

here is my favorite sign from today

the overclass consensus is to support the interests of foreign football hooligans against the efforts of law enforcement to protect the British public. WTAF is going on?

Can you imagine if a left-wing candidate’s performance had been as incoherent and all over the place as Humphreys’? Can you imagine if Connolly was being sued for defamation by a sitting TD? The status quo perception of the left as unserious and the establishment as well-oiled is long outdated

Heather Humphreys on the News at One asked about her government's failings on issues like housing.

She points to what they inherited in the construction sector and the economy.

Unrelated: She has thanked Bertie Ahern, Mary Coughlan and Mary Harney for their endorsements since yesterday.

#Aras25

Heather Humphreys called herself brave today for withdrawing the Green Paper on disability and claims she did so after consulting with disability groups

not only did Humphreys never meet with members of the Scrap the Green Paper coalition, she didn't even reply to correspondence

Heather Humphreys claiming the "hard left" use defamation suits to "bully" people who criticise them is very funny given

1. It was her government which failed to deliver the promised anti-SLAPP legislation
2. That likely wouldn't have helped her anyway in this case of very unambiguous defamation

Gardaí to investigate Airbnb profits from Israeli settlements after conceding High Court case Airbnb has hundreds of properties on its platform in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in Palestine.

An Garda Síochána has now been compelled to investigate accusations of money laundering by property letting company Airbnb related to its hosting of rental properties in occupied Palestinian territory after it conceded a case brought against it at the High Court today. jrnl.ie/6846075f

Once again, our nearest neighbours have had a brilliant idea which forgets about the jurisdiction within their border which allows people to choose their nationality.