Five Irish citizens among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla
Author Naoise Dolan and Independent TD Barry Heneghan among those on board boat captured in Mediterranean
Five Irish citizens are among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla, including writer Naoise Dolan. They were not breaking international law and should be released immediately.
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine π΅πΈ
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I wouldn't trust this man to tell me what day it is. But if anyone needs urgent care & goes to hospital they should get that care as quickly as is humanly possible. If ERs had to check citizenship or residency status or insurance cover before providing care more people would die seeking urgent care.
01.10.2025 20:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The International Criminal Court needs support.
01.10.2025 20:10 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
There's no two ways of putting this;
Nature in Ireland is fucked and our ambition for restoration does not go far enough.
We also have to make hard choices where we will lose somethings to make space for others because of climate and anthropogenic impacts.
There is no easy answer to this.
29.09.2025 15:25 β π 30 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
Six police around a woman sitting with a poster
UK 2025
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29.09.2025 15:16 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
He is also actively involved in the ongoing harassment of a family in North Belfast despite already being told by the DUP MLA to wise the fuck up and leave them alone
27.07.2025 10:33 β π 20 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
Rivers and lakes are good too though. And can be just as dangerous. Best go wherever makes you happiest I guess - risk is ever present regardless.
27.07.2025 02:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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Join the thousands of people who have donated to fight the proscription of Palestine Action in Britain here. www.crowdjustice.com/case/palesti...
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Reposting purely to π
12.06.2025 01:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Funny and true.
I suspect another reason companies are adding in AI is about capturing more personal data from you. Probably best to avoid using it logged into anything until there is more transparency on that.
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So thatβs 2 million plus people being knowingly starved, while being βdisplacedβ from ruin to ruin under bombardment.
57 kids dead from malnutrition already.
13.05.2025 17:07 β π 88 π 64 π¬ 2 π 2
A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days
Climate change is increasingly predisposing polar regions to large landslides. Tsunamigenic landslides have occurred recently in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), but none have been reported from the east...
...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures...
This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it.
Best we listen up.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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12.05.2025 15:55 β π 10363 π 1532 π¬ 221 π 85
I wonder if it has any spy tech on it. I do not mean this to be insulting, just going by history, if the US gave something like this to another country, particularly to a country in that part of the world, it would be riddled with the stuff.
Itβs wrong to accept it. Might be very stupid too.
12.05.2025 02:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
If youβre going to get a train at 7:30 otherwise, and youβll be tired enough on the 5:30 to fall asleep, maybe get that one? Whichever way youβre most likely to get some/most sleep would be what Iβd choose.
12.05.2025 02:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We should get that here. Smear tests are the worst.
10.05.2025 19:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"What's new, and which makes things all the more disturbing is the extent to which people in power are willing to distance themselves from human rights obligations."
- Michael OβFlaherty, Council of Europe.
10.05.2025 08:52 β π 23 π 5 π¬ 4 π 1
How exactly did βwokeβ manage to become a derogatory term? Do all these people who are anti-woke actually want to go around in a somnambulist state? How are they not being mocked for being dozy af?
10.05.2025 19:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βBook-banning, queer-hating racists do not belong on our school boards.β
10.05.2025 11:03 β π 9 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
A page right out of the autocrat's playbook--come for the loudest critics. Note they started with the activists and organizers who were focused on the war in Gaza.
10.05.2025 10:47 β π 74 π 48 π¬ 1 π 1
People generally, but in particular people of European descent, need a much greater awareness of how colonial powers treated the people in the lands they colonized and how much they profited from it. Anyone who talks about it as a positive thing should realise how stupid and inhumane they sound.
10.05.2025 11:50 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
She was jailed for writing an opinion column
10.05.2025 02:44 β π 7166 π 1457 π¬ 136 π 41
A string of headlines by different outlets saying Trump fired the Democratic commissioners on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and then one headline from The Verge that begins: βTrump illegally firesβ¦β
Be like The Verge.
10.05.2025 03:59 β π 4813 π 931 π¬ 25 π 26
For those who dk, βMessianic Jewishβ means heβs a Christian in the sense that he believes Jesus to be the Messiah.
So this is a Christian calling himself Jewish who pretended to be Muslim to entrap Muslims.
10.05.2025 07:31 β π 576 π 196 π¬ 16 π 5
Tusla has failed to deliver on its plan to reduce the proportion of childrenβs homes run by private companies
βHaving private, for-profit care goes against all you are trying to achieve for children in care,β says Terry Dignan, a spokesperson for charities that run childrenβs homes.
Tusla has failed to deliver on its plan to reduce the share of childrenβs homes run by private companies. βPrivate, for-profit care goes against all you are trying to achieve for children in care,β says Terry Dignan, a spokesperson for charities that run childrenβs homes. www.dublininquirer.c...
10.05.2025 10:57 β π 10 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0
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