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Mary Linehan’s friend, husband and partner across five sun-dappled decades. Father to four wonderful children, grandfather to one.

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Ireland will increase its support to @unrwa .
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Flags matter. The absence of the EU flag is no accident. It is a fixture at these press events normally. Ireland is making a statement this morning that goes well beyond the printed text.
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One of the last five Doctors remaining at #AlShifaHospital is Irish-Palestinian Surgeon Ahmed El Mokhallalati. Photo @rtenews
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“It is wrong and misleading to equate the Irish famine, in which a million people died, with what is happening in Gaza.” - a considered statement by Israel's Ambassador to Ireland.
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For anyone asking how do we get a Jacinta Ardern for Ireland, look around you. This country has no shortage of women who know what needs to be done. Most of them are busy doing it. The question is why they are not in political office.
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I admit I'm finding it hard to take in the deliberate cancellation by Gardaí of 22,000 999 calls.
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Why is the price of renewably-generated electricity going up?
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Irish people know what this is about.
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Today is Jerusalem Day, which means that the Old City will be on lockdown for the annual Flag March -- tens of thousands of religious Zionist Israelis will parade through the Muslim Quarter on their way to the Western Wall, inflaming tensions in the city
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Armenians in Jerusalem issue urgent call for help.
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PRESS RELEASE: A joint statement by all the civil institutions and organizations of the Armenian Quarter.
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Norway speaks out for sanity. Joining Ireland and Croatia in this. More will follow.
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Statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt on the situation in Israel and Palestine
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‘I have a fundraiser for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, and it's raised one and a half million...I wanted to raise 10k. That has blown me away — the generosity of people. If I get a few mean comments? I'll live. I'm not the important one here.’
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Why are restaurants getting so much more government attention than schools?
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Congress? Israel is trying to set the Americans on Ireland? Well now.
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Dr Mike Ryan via @ghs @DrMikeRyan
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Ena's journey through the years has ended. Her legacy continues. 1932-2022. RIP Mom.
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Street art on power supply box
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A burned city remembers. #Cork #Gaza #Ceasefire
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The people of Ireland voted to support the ICC by amending the Constitution in 2001. The US is now openly attacking the Court. Nothing could be graver. Ireland now needs to review elements of its relationship with the US. It won’t be easy but it is necessary. Shannon use is one.
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HSE ransomware response detail: The National Cyber Security Centre has had no Director for a year. Budget €5m. Staff of 24.
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Child attacked on Monday: concussion, broken teeth, a shoe print on his forehead. Over 5 million online views of the attackers' video. Did it really take two days to get Garda interested? Surely not.
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"I don't think it is helpful if people representing the Jewish state seek to encourage fear where it doesn't exist by saying to people 'All of us now and anyone of Jewish faith must feel afraid', that is grossly irresponsible.” - Pres. Michael D. Higgins
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"I am a five foot, small, heavily pregnant woman and I waited for her at the cathedral and she was all smiley and nice. But as soon as I said I was the mother of one of the boys in the photo, she didn’t want to talk to me," - Aneta Safiak. #BeingIrish
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Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg’s outgoing foreign minister says for the past decade EU member states “didn’t give a fuck” about Palestinian statehood – with two exceptions. “There were two countries here that tried to put it on the agenda, me and the Irish.”
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Is there a more gobsmacking Irish environmental statistic over the past three decades than this? “Number of pristine Irish rivers falls from 500 to 20” #fail #failagain #failworse
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@OxfordDiplomat The EU should logically move to invoke Art. 82 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, to start the notice period for cancelling the deal that allows Israel favorable access to the EU market. That deal says parties must uphold human rights and abide by UN Charter principles.
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Siobhán McSweeney wins ⁦ @BAFTA ⁩ ⁦- heeds warning: "So I’ve been warned not to do a political statement, so as my mother laid dying in Cork, one of the very last things she said to me was would I not consider retraining as a teacher.
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‘Around 40 people with Irish passports are trapped in Gaza’, says the script in the @rtenews readers hands. They are, simply, Irish citizens. It is an interesting editorial verbal construction. #Gaza #Ireland #News #Media #Words
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Israel's Heritage Minister has a propsal for people in Gaza: “They can go to Ireland or deserts." Four centuries ago England's murderous Cromwell gave Irish people a similar line: To Hell or to Connacht. #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Cromwell #History
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Upcountry
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A Twitter interaction that deserves to be studied for years to come.
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“I can understand why the Taoiseach is denying it, this is the most controversial and, I think, the worst decision the Government has made in its lifetime and they have to present a united front.” -Fr Peter McVerry
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Anyone seeing today's photo of the little Rafah girl's shredded remains will wonder at some of @RT Énews online choices.
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RTÉ News
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the Israeli military will provide "safe passage for the civilian population" ahead of an expected assault on the overcrowded southern Gaza city of Rafah, rejecting fears of a "catastrophe"
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RTÉ has a few questions. These are the five questions put by RTÉ News in last evening's pre-recorded interview with Israel's ambassador. Earlier in the day her boss the Israeli FM Katz had condemned Ireland and threatened us with (unspecified) 'severe consequences', calling us
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Family Sunday
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Elements in Irish media have a disproportionate obsession with platforming this Ambassador.
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Breaking: Ratification of CETA unconstitutional. Supreme Court.
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Officially people coming from this dot in the Pacific pose a bigger danger of bringing Covid to us than people coming from France, Germany, Italy or US Yesterday my beloved daughter married in the US. None of us travelled. There are times you just have to do the right thing.
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Putin and Zelenskyy met their Defence Ministers today. #MindTheGap
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Embassies and their staff are legally protected from physical attack for very good reasons. If we sose sight of that we lose way more than some may realise.
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HSE tells Fergal Bowers RTÉ that they have had no reports of widespread problems affecting Doctors on changing hospital. Gaslighting replaces the expression of sorrow issued yesterday. #NCHD @IMO_IRL
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A 25 yr. old man from India was stabbed in Finglas when he was helping to deliver food for a local takeaway. The man came to Ireland in January to study a master’s degree in digital analytics. This was his second day at work. via @IrishTimes
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Portugal increases funding to UNRWA, as did Spain.
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Portugal faz contribuição especial de um milhão de euros para agência da ONU para palestinianos
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A senior Ireland-based employee of the social media platform X who allegedly liked tweets critical of the company and its owner Elon Musk has secured a temporary High Court injunction restraining the firm from taking any further steps in a disciplinary process against him
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Is Ireland alone at the EU table? "Targeting civilians and cutting off civilian infrastructure is a breach of international humanitarian law. I think it's very important for Ireland to make sure that that voice is brought to the table at European Union level." @LeoVaradkar
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The European Union is not what many of us thought it might be.
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@gavreilly @VirginMediaNews Embassies and their staff are legally protected from physical attack for very good reasons. If we lose sight of that we lose way more than some may realise.
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Travel bans announced this morning by Germany Italy Austria Netherlands Ireland is waiting for EU
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An ‘educational’ tweet on the invisibility of women. The Lord Mayor of Dublin and the Provost of Trinity College simply do not register. Incroyable.
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We all have underlying conditions. We just may not realise that yet.
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“He said he had voiced his opposition to the school's direction, he said the student at the centre of the request was not in any of his classes, nor had he had any direct dealings with that particular student.”
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On left is the recently opened Greenway from Glounthaune to Midleton. Cost €3,000,000 iirc. It's not made for cars. That's what the road is for.
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Bike Commuting Ireland
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Not even greenways are safe from reckless drivers in Cork
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From 2011. The dream evolves. The journey continues. #SUAF #LeivMun @Munsterrugby
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Congrats to Jack Crowley.He dreamt of today for a very long time. Well done. 🇮🇪🇮🇪
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Cork Harbour's much loved stony beach by Ringaskiddy. #GobbyBeach Promoting sound waste management 🏅 #WasteNotWantNot @CHASECorkNews
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Dublin has had more cases detected in the last 24 hours than the total number New Zealand and Taiwan have detected through the entire duration of the pandemic. #Covid9Ireland @ISAGCOVID19
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Dr Hamill nails it - Do you really believe that the likely culprits to destabilise Irish life are Irish women? #doctors4yes #OurDecision #doctorsforyes @IrishTimes
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Framing here is exquisite. You have to admire it. Who killed the power that caused the newborn babies’ deaths?
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The Israeli military has said it would start evacuating newborn babies from Gaza's main hospital tomorrow after two infants died amid power outages at the hospital |
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Good things happen to those who travel by bike. #SosBeag 📸 by family member today.
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@Sineadmcgar That is an implication certainly.
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So we are clear - the Minister for Regulation says he did not understand a regulation. #TroyStory
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Most viewed two minute Dáil speech from a backbench TD ever? Seen this RT’d by accounts using English, Arabic, French, and Hebrew. 3 million+ views on this account alone.
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Irish politician Thomas Gould delivers one of the greatest speeches in modern history… “I hope you burn in hell Netanyahu”…🔥
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Spain:free rail tickets funded by windfall tax on banks and energy companies profiting from rising interest rates and energy prices.  Tax may raise €7 billion in two years. It will also be used to build 12,000 new homes and fund youth scholarships.
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American with extreme anti-gay and anti-Semitic views has become the first person ever banned from Ireland by exclusion powers dating from 1999. via @IrishTimes
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@gavreilly He quotes Blair? In a war crimes context?
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@NiamhbWalshe She was not asked about her assertion. This would have been a question.
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@Raminho @MSF "Our colleagues in #Gaza are fearful that as I speak to you today, they will be punished tomorrow." Chilling.
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South Mall al fresco today.
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Spokesman denies doing what spokesman promised.
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Owen Jones
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The Israeli state has so far killed at least 40 times as many people as Hamas did. Hamas killed 36 kids, or 3.5% of the total. Israel has killed over 15,000 kids, around 37% of the total. Israel has starved an entire population and razed Gaza to the ground. Hamas committed
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Ireland now has more Political Advisers than Public Health Specialists. Politics before Medicine. #Covid19Ireland #Priorities
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Irish Examiner
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Special advisors: Unprecedented level of political hires
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Prof Dr Clíona ní Cheallaigh: I just don't get it. We're making such incredible sacrifices on all levels but we seem reluctant to do those few final things that compared to all the painful things we're doing probably aren't as painful, particularly travel restrictions, quarantine
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@theintercept @AssalRad @jeremyscahill @ryangrim ‘If we don’t use those words, our readers won’t think them.’
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Why are we still trading with barbarians?
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RTÉ News
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Tánaiste Micheál Martin has described the Israeli strikes on a refugee camp in Rafah last night as "barbaric"
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"The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something." - Blinne ní Ghrálaigh KC. #200Days
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44k views and rising fast for this false tweet. Eliyahu said Palestinians. Not Hamas. As the pay walled article records.
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Palestine Community in Munster win Spirit of the Parade Award, Cork.
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Cork St. Patrick's Festival
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Cork St. Patrick's Day Parade Award Winners 2024 Best Overall Entry: UCC Confucius Institute The Spirit of the Parade Award: Cumann Palaistineach na Mumhan Best Sports Group: Cork Renegades Best Youth Group: Joan Denise Moriarty School of Dance Best Performers: Batala
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@donie Local signpost at Dursey Sound near Castletownbere shows the distance to New York and to Moscow.
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The world and its mother knows SARS-CoV-2 is airborne. Ventilation.
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🔵washing hands regularly, 🔵keeping a safe distance from others, 🔵avoiding crowded places 🔵reducing social contacts as much as possible.
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Just do it.
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Ireland sent five lawyers to Strasbourg in a failed effort to defeat the women. It was the only outside country to go to such lengths. Ireland needs to review its position in light of the judgement.
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BBC News (UK)
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European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction
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@IAPonomarenko 🇮🇪🇺🇦 Cork City Hall. Building was destroyed by foreign soldiers of occupation in 1921.
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Banksy.
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HSE: 10 hospitals on Code Red. 12 dedicated hospital beds are available for children across the entire country. Zero children intensive care beds. 23 adult IC beds.
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The lobbyists’ myth linking “planning delays” with the provision of homes is demolished here by Architect Robin Mandal ⁦ @robinmandalarch
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Message just in for Cork people in their 30s from someone who knows: ‘Go get your vaccine! City Hall is empty. In and out in 10.’
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"It's unconscionable what is happening in Gaza, and I think the European Union has damaged itself by not being able to speak strongly, morally and ethically and in accordance with international law.” - Michael D. Higgins @PresidentIRL
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Do you hear an echo?
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Taoiseach's €90m estimate to improve air quality in our classrooms would pay for just 3km of the 18km Galway Ring Road.
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We have some good news and some bad news
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The Independent
3 years
Asteroid heading towards Earth is filled with so much precious metal it’d make everyone on the planet a billionaire
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