Irish basketball team refuse to shake hands with Israeli team or, line-up with them at centre court for the national anthems, in protest at the genocide in Gaza and inflammatory and untrue comments made by Israeli players and staff about the Irish players

Today Israel bombed Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Portugal and Qatar. This is what a real threat to world peace looks like.

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We are on our way! #FreePalestine #globalsumudflottilla

Absolute banger of a Community Note

The Spanish Government strongly rejects the false and slanderous accusations of anti-Semitism made by the Israeli Government against Spain and the Spanish people, as well as the unacceptable ban on two members of the Spanish Government entering Israel. 🔗 https://t.co/j5Fv4B1VOm

Irish missionary Gena Heraty who was kidnapped from the orphanage she oversees in Haiti by an armed gang and held for 27 days tells Midwest Radio they coped by "praying for everybody that was worse than us, the people in Gaza, the people in Haiti, the people who are hungry"

Israel’s own High Court has just ruled that Israel is systematically starving the 10,000 Palestinian men, women and children which it holds as hostages in its concentration camps. Thousands of these hostages are held without any actual charge or trial.

For all the deranged Conor McGregor supporters (who are overwhelmingly not from Ireland): Today’s “Ireland Thinks” poll of a hypothetical Presidential ballot paper shows him at 2% support. The Margin of Error is +/- 2.9% so he actually could be lower.

Could the Sunday Independent have any more leading answers in the poll it’s conducting today?

Bit of a rewriting of the 2011 Presidential Election from @lawlor_aine there suggesting Martin McGuinness’s result was “pretty dismal”. He increased the SF vote by almost 50% on what they got earlier that year in the General Election, came 3rd with more than double the FG vote

Understanding US-Israeli relations 101:

Trump admits he ordered a summary execution — the crime of murder. Drug traffickers are not combatants who can be shot on sight. They are criminal suspects who must be arrested and prosecuted.

We are seeing media reports of GPS interference affecting the plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen to Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Some reports claim that the aircraft was in a holding pattern for 1 hour. This is what we can deduce from our data. * The flight was scheduled to take 1 hour

a fanatical Zionist angrily asks Norman Finkelstein how can possibly supports the "evil terrorist Houthi anti-Semites". Here is his response:

He adds that the lack of a UN mandate would make Irish troops be perceived as a hostile force and place Irish troops in real danger

Prof. Ray Murphy, a former captain in Defence Forces, on RTÉ Radio says he opposes the removal of the Triple Lock and criticises suggestions by Min Thomas Byrne that Irish troops would join a non-UN mission to replace UNIFIL, describing previous non-UN missions there as "abysmal"

Have any of the anti-#TripleLock crowd given us a concrete example of what war-zone they want to deploy Irish troops into that doesn’t have UN Security Council approval?

Their crimes live streamed. After hitting a hospital with a drone (a war crime) you can clearly see medics and journalists at the scene. They then hit them with an air-strike murdering 15. Evil beyond comprehension - israel must be isolated/dismantled

Their evil knows no limits. The state of Israel is paying for adverts to lie to the world that Gaza City is not starving. During a level 5 famine, that they created, they're advertising a "thriving culinary scene". Fuck Israel

If only Ireland was a serious country that took part in NATO so we could send someone to these vital conferences

🇮🇪🇮🇳Great craic down at India Day in Merrion Square. Began with renditions of Amhrán na bhFiann and Jana Gana Mana. Opening speakers from FICI note the similarity between the Irish and Indian freedom struggles. Now for some Samosa Chaat and a Mango Lassi 😋