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.
“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.
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.
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
‘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.’
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.
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.
"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
"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
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.”
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
@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.
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.
‘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
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
“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
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"
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
@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.
“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.”
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
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 |
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.
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.
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
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
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
"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
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
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.
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.
"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