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My friend's memory of crossing the border as a child in the backseat of his dad's car is of a terrified 18 yr old soldier pushing his machine gun in the window at them, shaking finger on the trigger, and his dad trying to calm him down.
They were scared all the time.

All this arguing about the definition of genocide grows tiring. Let's get down to the real nitty gritty.

Ok so @simonharrisireland.bsky.social accepts that the kidnapping by Israel of Irish people on flotillas heading to Gaza was illegal - what actions is he going to take to address this breach of international law? #speirgorm

Had to do an icebreaker listening exercise at my training day today and the thing my random colleague and I learned about each other is that he grew up in Bundoran IN MY DAD'S CHILDHOOD HOME

@jgrenewriter.bsky.social You must research this claim about Chaucer and nut milks immediately.

This dog for president!

A news alert text from Sky News. It says: Lists of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released under swap deal have been exchanged, Hamas says.

Israelis are hostages. But Palestinians are prisoners.

Language matters. But, two years on, apparently it still doesn’t to many mainstream media outlets.

What a failure it has been.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

October 7 redux — so now what from the EU? Complacent EU officials in Brussels may shrug off accusations of double standards as part of a new geopolitical reality. But others know that no amount of clever spin or PR can hide the difference in ...

Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza is exposing deep #EU divides👇🏼https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar0a1a35c6

tinyurl.com/IRLFlottila Form letter and all relevant addresses to call for tds to get them out of Israel.

Well, that was my point, tip of the iceberg, I just couldn't find a better gif.

I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...

Kind of wish the Irish guy on Bake Off would stop with the hi diddlying. Tofu Irish stew sausage rolls what?

He's so angry!

Ursula Von der Leyen has made me go from a generally positive towards the EU to a critical Euroskeptic in a relatively short time. Awful person.

(Not just here, the EPP significantly contribute here, along with all our FF and FG MEPs being useless on anything worthwhile).

The ultimate cake and eat it too.

Cursing my luck as I throw my wacky "Man who doesn't want to be President gets elected President" sitcom script in the bin

He's still on the ballot and his transfers still count. This is all very wrong and undemocratic.
The electrol legislation needs to be changed so people who opt out can be removed.

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Ah, meanwhile, Israel will keep killing a hundred Palestinians a day, starving more and watching approvingly as settlers murder and force people off their land. Got it.

You know the big media coverage last week of the EU considering action on Israel? Guess what.

I don't really see they you would think that. It was what plenty of people wanted.

This was my assumption. Just regular Fianna Fáiling.

I saw mention last night on tv that Michaeál knew about it when nominating him. Which...is strange?

Funny in't it? Funny it ain't?

The President | President of Ireland Welcome to the website of the President of Ireland.

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And it has come to life oh so beautifully.

Does this mean that votes given to his name will transfer to HH??