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Hard not to think at least some of the bureaucratic cruelty surrounding these cases, which the courts have exposed and condemned, is part of Jim O'Callaghan's hardman act to solidify his profile as a future leader of Fianna Fáil. This should be disqualifying. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Last week the FB algorithm fed me a post by an estate agent in a small town in Galway congratulating a couple on buying a house, and the comments were just wall to wall go back to your own country because they happened to look Asian

"...if it were the case that he decided to give credence and support to a far-right fringe issue in order to cause trouble to a charity he felt had not supported him, it would represent petty-minded narcissism of a Trumpian order."

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Hi @micheal-martin.bsky.social, this is illegal. Can you ask your Minister for Justice to send his guys down to arrest the pilots and give asylum to the renderees? Thanks.

Ireland has some responsibility on this. One of the greatest contributions we could be making to collective EU & global democracy & security (far more useful then disastrous attempts to remove the triple lock) would be having the courage to step up to our role as digital regulator in a serious way.

I am so tired of this Jack Chambers vs Jim O'Callaghan tough guy posturing impacting all our lives. #spéirghorm

If you were minded to support the Jim O’Callaghan position this week I invite you here, into this tiny calm and quiet room to just reflect on the people you’re standing with. Do these people (the ChatgTD, Aontú, Genghis Khan, an actual burning waste basket full of rotten potato peelings) appeal?

Far right protesters can walk into libraries to threaten people with a police escort and block roads asking brown skinned people for ID while the Gardai look on. The same Gardai will happily put a dozen leftie students in A+E for a week during an eviction protest. I hope this helps your analysis

New Gist: The Petty Bourgeoisie This week Jim O'Callaghan, the Minister for Justice, had a rollercoaster ride through the media landscape, provided that rollercoaster was Oblivion, the vertical drop into darkness. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

The Taoiseach is now backing the Justice Minister's actions in intervening to silence a charity. I'm not exaggerating. The Justice minister boasted about his role in pulling the ad himself. The government are intervening to silence messaging they don't like. Fascism is at your doorstep #spéirgorm

Really feels like the larger issue here is that our politicians are still taking their cues from discourse on "x," a website largely built around the interests of racists and csam enthusiasts, and from which all normal people have long since fled.

So by Peadar’s logic, we build resilience through tolerance of non consensual physical touch?

Who reads this shite? Six screenshots from the facebook suggestions on Instagram, claiming to ve diffacvounts, all oisting the same thing: My daughter-in-law pocket-dialed me at 7:15 this morning. She never knew I answered....

Thanks to Ciara Ní Bhroin for writing this piece on the DRCC consent ad row - props to @aidanobrien.bsky.social who gets a mention www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

In one afternoon FF/FG ministers came down like a tonne of bricks on a rape crisis centre when they spent weeks hiding while Musk's Nazi website they use was producing CSAM. Like many of you, I really really hate these bastards.

Here's a photo of a helicopter landed on Joanne's 227 foot support yacht that follows around her 290 foot main yacht

Tom Flood nails this fundamentally faulty reasoning @tomflood.bsky.social

1. A minister should not be able to censor the work of an NGO or advocacy group. The point of NGOs is to challenge, influence policy or act in the interests of their issue. 2. No one should touch a child without consent. 3. Jim O'Callaghan wants to be in the media every day this is a tactic.

Let's all be clear on this. Jim OC was catapulted into a senior cabinet position with almost no political record or utterance behind him outside of internal FF fluff. He has proceeded to reveal.himself to be incapable as well as malicious in office, and it is about time Fianna Fáil pulled him out.

This 100%

This is Dublin Rape Crisis Centre's donations page. Now would be a really good time to show your support for all their work - including education on consent. www.drcc.ie/donate/

Consent to be touched respects the person who has the right to choose whether they want it. Nobody has a right to physical interactions with children, whether or not the intent of that interaction is physical. The alternative is an unconscionable denial of children's rights to body autonomy.

I'll never forgive FGFF, Micheál Martin and all those cunts and hawks that want to sell off our children's future, to grind them up in the military grinder. Fuck em all, protected parish pump parasites and profiteering pricks.

#speirgorm - de we know anyone involved in local politics/services who might be able to help a Swedish woman in acute need in the Rosslare area? She moved to Ireland over the weekend but her accommodation turned out to be a bluff, deposit and rent gone, she needs somewhere to stay urgently.

UPDATE: The fines have not stopped him from honoring the girls Israel has killed. www.instagram.com/p/DepGy1CM9q...

I just despair at how this continues and is considered acceptable by DAFM and EPA etc. Farmers as a group, whether as lobbyists or just a powerful voting group they are getting away with destroying so much of this country for realistically very little gain, even for themselves!

Nothing like a government alert to scare the bejaysus out of you when on holiday.

And absolutely no mention on RTE.

TikTok suspended the Musk film account and Meta froze the No Kings account - it's almost like letting fascist-aligned oligarchs own all our means of communication was somehow a bad idea.

Finally

Carley should have binned someone there, but naaaah.

Ugh Carley is catastrophic.

Poll: Which Sally Rooney Book Made You Join Hamas? https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/10/15/poll-which-sally-rooney-book-made-you-join-hamas/

I’m sorry, what?! “Salmon are carnivores and eat other fish in the wild, so feeding them chicken is entirely natural,” said an executive at a major salmon-feed producer.” Feeding them humans would be just as “natural” BTW. www.ft.com/content/8f1e...

"We can't just throw public money at nurses and teachers willy nilly," The Minister for Public Expenditure has said in a statement. "They're not data centres, race tracks, angry people with tractors, Mark Zuckerberg, the NFL..."

Wow - world's oldest shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Turkey, found just 30m under the waves. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

By January the governement will have spent more on giving in to the demands of fuel protestors than they've provided for in pay rises for the whole public sector. ( €1.2 bn )

Hey Jack, we ARE the public!