Conor Humphries

Zelenskiy arriving at government buildings in Dublin

Northern Ireland court finds soldier not guilty of murder over 'Bloody Sunday' killings

Court falls silent as verdict read

Judge says those responsible should hang heads in shame

Chances of any prosecution seen as remote

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Court strikes down Irish police decision not to investigate Airbnb over Israeli settlements @reuters @sadakaIreland www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away in the remote desert, a @Reuters investigation has found.

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Russia's industrial titans furlough workers as its war economy stalls The efforts to reduce labour costs show the strain on Russia's economy as President Vladimir Putin and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance square off in Ukraine.

Russia's industrial titans furlough workers as its war economy stalls reut.rs/4mWnFis

Right-wing activists divide Dublin with lamp-post flag blitz @reuters

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CEO of Europe’s largest airline prepares for a press conference #Ryanair

Two Hamas sources tell @Reuters that group's ceasefire negotiation delegation in Doha survived Israeli attack

Fantastic. Great stuff.... One issue though: the last time I checked (a couple of years ago) there were no insurance companies willing to cover bikes in these in Ireland (several options for bike bunkers in uk, however, so clearly it is possible)

Luxembourg approves latest Israeli bond prospectus The latest bond prospectus issued by Israel has been approved by Luxembourg and not the Central Bank in Ireland.

The latest bond prospectus issued by Israel has been approved by Luxembourg and not the Central Bank in Ireland.

Sobering to see names of all the media workers killed in Gaza

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Exclusive: Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law President Donald Trump's administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition to the European Union's Digital Services Act, which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies, an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters showed.

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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Files suggest that by July this year, 11,500 terabytes of Israeli military data – equivalent to approximately 200m hours of audio – was held in Microsoft’s Azure servers in the Netherlands, while a smaller proportion was stored in Ireland. @theguardian.com

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All seems to be working pretty well now, thanks Sam! Links on WhatsApp and seem to work fine (not asked for password) ; on X, I’m prompted to sign in, but clicking on either the DubInq white dot or the safari symbol brings me to safari where I’m already signed in 👌🏻

I just realised same thing happens with reuters.com 🙃

Dublin Bike expansion not the answer. Bleeper has proven itself 100x more useful/flexible. And Moby just badly run. Flood the city with Sheffield stands and use fines to force operators to fine/ban users who don’t park properly. It’s not rocket science

Trump pressures 17 pharma CEOs to cut US drug prices U.S. President Donald Trump sent letters to the chief executives of 17 major pharmaceutical companies, urging immediate action to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Americans, the White House said on Thursday.

Trump tells US pharma companies they must “return excess overseas revenue to American patients and taxpayers”, warning he will "deploy every tool in our arsenal" to end abusive drug pricing practices.

Irish taxpayers should probably be getting nervous

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Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

Musk ordered the shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia, people familiar with the command told Reuters reut.rs/45mrXK8

Irish Times front page runs letter from French news agency ⁦‪@AFP‬⁩ warning that its journalists in Gaza face threat of starvation

Issue I found is that if I went to DubInq site from whatsapp/twitter/bluesky on my iphone (which is how I arrive 99% of the time), it opened on a browser that didn’t have the cookies saved. Seems to have resolved itself. Not sure how 🤷🏻‍♂️

Filipino families flee Northern Irish home after night of anti-immigrant violence Michael Sancio, a resident of the Northern Irish town of Ballymena, said he was woken at midnight on Tuesday by masked men banging loudly on windows.

Filipino families flee Northern Irish home after night of anti-immigrant violence reut.rs/3SJ4ZGe

Northern Ireland hit by third night of violence but main flashpoint calmer Violence erupted in different parts of Northern Ireland for the third successive night on Wednesday, with masked youths starting a fire in a leisure centre but unrest in the primary flashpoint of Ballymena was notably smaller in scale.

Northern Ireland leisure centre hosting immigrants attacked on third night of violence www.reuters.com/world/uk/dis...

Crowd thinning out. Bins burning
#Ballymena

PSNI pushing crowd back quite easily so far in Ballymena on third night of trouble. A handful of rocks thrown over last 20 minutes

Photo essay on cutting, and restoring, Ireland’s bogs by Clodagh Kilcoyne @pictures.reuters.com
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Trump whisperer? Italy's Meloni navigates a high-stakes relationship He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. She praises a strong and shrewd defender of the West. Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni are fast forging a new transatlantic "special relationship".

.@crispiandjb.bsky.social on the new high-stakes transatlantic special relationship: Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni

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