Alex

I'm so sorry, I always worry about our boy when we are away

If you are still looking for tips, would you be able to borrow a trap from anyone around you? Leaving it with some of her/your things may work

Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began.

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More than 200 journalists have now been killed by the IDF in Gaza.

And so many journalists here haven’t expressed a single sliver of solidarity or outrage about it.

Dereliction, even if ignoring all the other important reasons it shouldn't be tolerated, is a safety issue

This was always the goal of bathroom bans, to fully push trans people from any semblance of public life, and it won't end there either, the "gender critical" project is currently trying to exert pressure over businesses that hire trans people in the UK, so that trans people are unemployable...

Fine Gael councillor co-owns company accused of charging migrant nurses unlawful ‘agency fees’ One nurse paid over €3,000 into another Fine Gael councillor’s account as part of the recruitment process.

NEW: Baby Pereppadan, a Fine Gael councillor, co-owns a company accused of charging nurses unlawful ‘agency fees’.

One nurse paid over €3,000 into another Fine Gael councillor’s account as part of the recruitment process.

http://jrnl.ie/6784617

An Taoiseach is both correct and at the same time glossing over how little we actually do. Ireland still not even rising to the level that our AG said (Feb. 2024 at the ICJ) was required of us under international law, so far as banning trade involving illegally occupied Palestinian territory goes.

Visitors stage anti-migrant march in Galway Galway city centre was especially busy last Saturday, with racegoers, summer tourists and the unusual addition of a march by far-right agitators, met by an anti-fascist counter demonstration, causing…

Galway city centre was especially busy last Saturday, with racegoers, summer tourists and the unusual addition of a march by far-right agitators, met by an anti-fascist counter demonstration, causing a number of streets to be closed during Raceweek www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

I do low-key think that aspects of the political class haven't reckoned with the reality that there are huge numbers of people (people 25 - 40 ish?) whose introduction to politics was the crash and the fallout from it
Like, we remember the people involved in it

I think the big argument against let it rip planning reform is that most of the private developers want to build absolute arse. If all you want to do is have big number for report, then yeah, cardboard box semis in a swamp with no school or bus stop will do that for you. But it's shit.

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

The government's rhetorical argument made for domestic political consumption, that it would be wrong for them to have to provide for the basic needs of asylum applicants because they don't provide for the basic needs of Irish citizens who are victims of the housing crisis was unintentionally honest.

More than anything this play just drives home how weird it is that seemingly nobody in "mainstream" politics is actually trying to make anything better. The best we ask for is for the Worse to be smaller and more incremental.

Govt says it needs to hear from Attorney General b4 it puts a ban on services into the Occupied Territories Bill.
Here's the thing: The AG made no distinction between goods and services when giving Ireland's legal view to the ICJ last year. All trade supporting illegality must stop.
I agree.

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Comment: O'Callaghan delivers cruelty against migrants His deportations have a theatrical quality that should unsettle anyone who cares about basic human decency.

Comment: Savagery like the attack on the innocent man in Tallaght can be expected as long as government punishes migrants for problems it creates, then feigns shock when members of the public mirror acts of sadism perpetrated by the state itself.

www.ontheditch.com/o-callaghan-...

Oh fun! I suppose at least you didn't have to readjust to unmedicated symptoms?
I can only imagine having to do that

Hopefully the joy of doing things lives up when you get to try meds!

gods strongest soldier for coming off them, that's all I'm saying

Ireland. The far right has been gathering strength for a few years by focusing on immigration. They attacked planned affordable housing, mostly for the elderly.

Misinformation/lies? Refugees would be moving in.

It's not the 1st or 3rd arson with these motives.

Govt needs to get it under control.

Unfriendly reminder that in most specialties, surgeons would kill for the kind regret rates gender affirming surgeries have

As the Online Safety Code is coming into force today (and I was just, I think, on the news) here is my recent Gist on why it is a bad idea, badly drafted and looks like it will also be Badly Implemented.

Jenny Maguire: Why the potential closure of Sex Workers Alliance Ireland signals a deep societal failure We all have our own mental images when we think of sex workers. Women in short dresses on street corners. Windows in Amsterdam’s red light district. Perhaps a clip from a trafficking documentary you s...

The loss of SWAI would be terrible for people engaging in sex work in Ireland www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

have complicated feelings on this because side effects are real and women have the right to do what they want with their own bodies, but backlash against hormonal contraception is undoubtedly part of a wider anti-feminist trend trying to convince women that progress has actually been bad for them

Court ruling would give newly arrived asylum seekers more rights than homeless people, Minister claims Such a ruling by the ECJ would be ‘very hard to justify’ to Irish citizens and other member states, says Jim O’Callaghan

Very cool words from the Minister for Justice, stirring up more racist resentment for migrants by using the fact we have an existing homeless problem against them.

With all the talk of 32m2 homes it’s important to aware that other European countries compensate smaller homes with
- public luxury of parks, playgrounds & public spaces
- beautiful urban enviroments (i.e. no dereliction)
- external private storage
- shared laundry
- real rent caps
- secure tenure

I hate the mincing about what if the OTB affected companies here. Yes, good, they shouldn't be trading with occupied lands

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

The GBNews-style dog whistle framing seeks to present this as IP applicants doing down the homeless people of Ireland.

In fact our homeless population have no rights whatsoever to seek redress from the State for it's failure to provide housing, and the govt is determined to keep it that way.

Catherine Connolly, presidential hopeful, gave her first press conference today — here's what she said The €350,000 salary, her trip to Syria and a United Ireland were all up for discussion.

Catherine Connolly, presidential hopeful, gave her first press conference today — here's what she said http://jrnl.ie/6764968

"The Irish Embassy in Tel Aviv’s requirement that flights be purchased before visa approval resulted in a €38,000 loss on non-refundable tickets for the club."