Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 23h

Gonna nil nil the fuck out of these cunts

1 3

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

10

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

Nice to see my fellow Carrick man and Sinn Fein county councillor alongside Catherine

🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 2d

Ah here. Hurling n all??

#Áras25

4

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

There's no point telling the knuckle draggers that

1 1

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

He could be the first president to be pelted with rotten fruit and vegetables everywhere he goes

2 3

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

It takes a certain type of anarchic mindset to go to the polling booth and pointlessly spoil your vote but when that type of person has the opportunity to ruin an election depending on turnout then that's a whole different ballgame

1 8

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

Very anecdotal obviously but if going by the few conversations I've had the Jim Gavin protest vote, for whatever reason, is going to be quite large

2 12

Reposted by Jamie

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Historians argue that Trump indicting his enemies one-by-one rather than having them murdered in a single night proves he’s not a fascist.

36 270 1.8K

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

No one tell Trump about the Tipperary peace prize. We wouldn't survive a cider and potato tariff

1 8

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

Bank of Ireland and AIB all in on Skynet

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d

The Irish Times view on the AI bubble: Ireland at risk if its bursts

Warnings from the IMF and Bank of England draw parallels with the 2000 dotcom boom

www.irishtimes.com

1 7

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

Former minister

4

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

And a minister no less

1 5

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

And a former member of your party

1 7

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to remind Fine Gael politicians that arguably the most corrupt politician in the history of the state, possibly Europe, is currently a member of your coalition government

3 17 43

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 3d

Youghal

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

1 5

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 3d

Not entirely sure the minister for justice has really thought thru putting himself front and center of a leaked Garda vetting story given how few people would have access to that information

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 4d

The Justice Minister has said he believes presidential candidate Catherine Connolly did not follow Leinster House security rules when she signed a woman who was convicted of a gun crime offence into Leinster House on a daily basis.
http://jrnl.ie/6838830t

Justice Minister says Connolly broke rules by signing Ní Shionnáin in daily at Leinster House

Jim O’Callaghan was speaking at a press conference today in which he criticised Connolly for, what he said, was a failure to follow Oireachtas rules.

jrnl.ie

1 10 20

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 3d

They've truly been housetrained by the Blueshirts. If that had happened in the 70's or 80's they'd have genuinely boxed the heads off each other at the next meeting

Mícheál Lehane @fertha.bsky.social · 4d

The opening exchanges of the high stakes Fianna Fáil meeting discussing the presidential election are described as calm and mild so far. TDs voicing the hurt felt by party members across the country.

2 11

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 4d

This is actually 100% what they intend to do

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

1 5

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 4d

Jim Gavin to his former tenant

1 17

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 4d

Wow I didn't have Heather Humphreys has a Reichstag fire moment during her campaign on my bingo card

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 4d

The now deleted video from Heather Humphreys’ team including an image of the Reichstag building in Berlin.

Video focused on how Heather knows the border and the North - and was posted days after she said she doesn’t just go on “day trips”.

5

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 4d

Also flags just how quickly the European political system will be to forget about a genocide if a ceasefire ever happens

2 8

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 4d

Every person on the flotillas is as important as the next but the fact that the entire European political system has hardly had a word to say about the kidnapping of elected reps in international waters and then imprisoned is absolutely shocking

2 13 66

Reposted by Jamie

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 4d

The second flotilla is now in the ‘red zone’ where Israel has previously abducted flotillas and trafficked them onwards to false imprisonment. We’ll do all we can to reach Gaza, but if they stop us it will likely be within 24 hours. Track us here: thousandmadleens.fr/tracker

Flotilla Tracker – Thousand Madleens & Freedom Flotilla Coalition – Thousand Madleens France

thousandmadleens.fr

1 11 17

Reposted by Jamie

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 4d

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

130 190

Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 4d

For everyone in Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim, a McBudget is the same as a SuperMacBudget just with nicer chips

1 4