Cathy
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"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin
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The purpose of a system is what it does.
There has been a 35% increase in termination notices issued by landlords to tenants in the third quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2024
35% increase in termination notices issued by landlords
There has been 35% increase in termination notices issued by landlords to tenants in the third quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2024.
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving the country, was 345,000 in 2024 according to revised figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Reform.
The "Not Like That" party.
The "Not Like That" party.
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Reform.
The "Not Like That" party.
The "Not Like That" party.
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Double in Dublin
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Double in Dublin
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The situation with school places for kids with additional needs in Ireland is a moral calamity. Parents who already have so much going on forced to do tons of assessments & applications, then insufficient home tutoring & suing HSE in high court when they can't get places. Shame on us
#spéirgorm
#spéirgorm
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The situation with school places for kids with additional needs in Ireland is a moral calamity. Parents who already have so much going on forced to do tons of assessments & applications, then insufficient home tutoring & suing HSE in high court when they can't get places. Shame on us
#spéirgorm
#spéirgorm
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Sometimes think 'immigration' in GB politics these days is the equivalent of 'popery' in the 18th and 19th centuries. We must curb this existential threat, we must sharply distinguish the status of those who truly belong here from those who are merely tolerated, but we have no truck with bigotry!
PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Net migration drop ‘step in the right direction’ – Starmer
Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023 but has fallen sharply since then.
www.standard.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Sometimes think 'immigration' in GB politics these days is the equivalent of 'popery' in the 18th and 19th centuries. We must curb this existential threat, we must sharply distinguish the status of those who truly belong here from those who are merely tolerated, but we have no truck with bigotry!
Ole, ole.
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Ole, ole.
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Fox-hunting opposition isn't urban dwellers v farmers. Lots of culchies oppose it too. My farmer neighbour didn't allow the hunt on her lands, for yrs she'd a visiting vixen she fed every morning. One hard winter a fox killed my ducks. Sad, but natural order.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Fox-hunting — conflicting attitudes between urban dwellers and farmers
Foxes breed prolifically and a vixen can have five cubs per year, which reach adulthood in about eight months. In ideal conditions, a fox can live for 10 years, but most only last for two, or three
www.irishexaminer.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Fox-hunting opposition isn't urban dwellers v farmers. Lots of culchies oppose it too. My farmer neighbour didn't allow the hunt on her lands, for yrs she'd a visiting vixen she fed every morning. One hard winter a fox killed my ducks. Sad, but natural order.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
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It's not asylum.seekers they can't deal with. It's their own failure.
Applications for Asylum are down some 40% on last year too. That the government cant deal with a misery 3000 applications shows how useless they are.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It's not asylum.seekers they can't deal with. It's their own failure.
"Earlier this month, the government of Iceland formally designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc) as an existential threat to the nation". Amoc keeps us warm.
The strength of the current has already dropped.
The strength of the current has already dropped.
An Amoc shutdown later this century could see millions of Irish people become #climate migrants; this is something our politicians talking tough on cracking down on migration to Ireland should keep in mind, as I discuss in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: A big freeze could turn the Irish into climate refugees
We should reflect on 'get-tough' proposals on immigration: If the Amoc currents that moderate Ireland’s climate fail, temperatures will plunge, making grass-based agriculture impossible
www.irishexaminer.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Earlier this month, the government of Iceland formally designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc) as an existential threat to the nation". Amoc keeps us warm.
The strength of the current has already dropped.
The strength of the current has already dropped.
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My fave aspect of this scenario was them pre-emptively blocking any and every Irish Twitter account they could find (presumably to avoid attention from Actual Irish People™️), which only led to us all searching the account to see if we’d been blocked
November 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
My fave aspect of this scenario was them pre-emptively blocking any and every Irish Twitter account they could find (presumably to avoid attention from Actual Irish People™️), which only led to us all searching the account to see if we’d been blocked
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Just days before our epic autumn road trip to Glencoe & Skye in Scotland, we squeezed in one final trek in the Mourne Mountains. The wind was howling like a beast, but oh, those forest colours were really starting to become much more vibrant! #landscapephotography #northernireland #autumn
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Just days before our epic autumn road trip to Glencoe & Skye in Scotland, we squeezed in one final trek in the Mourne Mountains. The wind was howling like a beast, but oh, those forest colours were really starting to become much more vibrant! #landscapephotography #northernireland #autumn
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My wife went through this process. It’s horrific that it’s being turned into a game of Russian roulette by ICE.
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My wife went through this process. It’s horrific that it’s being turned into a game of Russian roulette by ICE.
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Good morning my Bluesky friends. Sunrise Ireland. Hope you all have a great day today 😊 #Sunrise #Scape #Landscape #Ireland #Nature #Photography
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Good morning my Bluesky friends. Sunrise Ireland. Hope you all have a great day today 😊 #Sunrise #Scape #Landscape #Ireland #Nature #Photography
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What Kallas tells us was already in @globsec.bsky.social’s brilliant Julia Osmolovska’s dissection of Russia’s “peace” plan.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
What Kallas tells us was already in @globsec.bsky.social’s brilliant Julia Osmolovska’s dissection of Russia’s “peace” plan.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
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My best guess regarding the Ukraine/Russia negotiations is that both sides fully realize there is simply no overlap in the Venn Diagram of what each could accept in terms of conditions and assurances.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My best guess regarding the Ukraine/Russia negotiations is that both sides fully realize there is simply no overlap in the Venn Diagram of what each could accept in terms of conditions and assurances.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
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Ukraine and the UK have signed a deal to produce the Ukrainian interceptor drone "Octopus" on British soil. Defense Minister Shmyhal said the agreement will enable large-scale manufacturing, potentially thousands per month, with all units destined for Ukraine’s air defense.
November 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Ukraine and the UK have signed a deal to produce the Ukrainian interceptor drone "Octopus" on British soil. Defense Minister Shmyhal said the agreement will enable large-scale manufacturing, potentially thousands per month, with all units destined for Ukraine’s air defense.
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Why JD Vance is fighting the GOP establishment over Russia
->Salon | #russia ukraine war | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
->Salon | #russia ukraine war | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
Why JD Vance is fighting the GOP establishment over Russia
JD Vance hasn’t exactly hidden his hostility to Ukraine. After spending much of the year positioning himself as Trumpworld’s foreign policy philosopher, the vice president is now on the defensive following fierce backlash from within his own party to a...
www.salon.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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The 4th Thursday in November - Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrating.
A holiday originally to thank for the harvest, it may be worth the selfish & child-like leadership in the White House reflecting that Russia steals much of Ukraine's harvest.
Here's the🧵on Day 1373 of the war.
A holiday originally to thank for the harvest, it may be worth the selfish & child-like leadership in the White House reflecting that Russia steals much of Ukraine's harvest.
Here's the🧵on Day 1373 of the war.
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The 4th Thursday in November - Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrating.
A holiday originally to thank for the harvest, it may be worth the selfish & child-like leadership in the White House reflecting that Russia steals much of Ukraine's harvest.
Here's the🧵on Day 1373 of the war.
A holiday originally to thank for the harvest, it may be worth the selfish & child-like leadership in the White House reflecting that Russia steals much of Ukraine's harvest.
Here's the🧵on Day 1373 of the war.
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Happy Thanksgiving...?
JD Vance: "How many of you really like turkey?"
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Happy Thanksgiving...?
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Taxi drivers are set to escalate their campaign against Uber’s new fixed-fare model after their union said no stakeholder responded to their ultimatum to engage in talks by yesterday evening.
Drivers will stage another major protest in Dublin this Thursday from 4.30pm.
jrnl.ie/6884888
Drivers will stage another major protest in Dublin this Thursday from 4.30pm.
jrnl.ie/6884888
Taxi drivers to hold new protest later this week as dispute over Uber’s fixed fares escalates
A protest will be held in Dublin on Thursday evening.
jrnl.ie
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Taxi drivers are set to escalate their campaign against Uber’s new fixed-fare model after their union said no stakeholder responded to their ultimatum to engage in talks by yesterday evening.
Drivers will stage another major protest in Dublin this Thursday from 4.30pm.
jrnl.ie/6884888
Drivers will stage another major protest in Dublin this Thursday from 4.30pm.
jrnl.ie/6884888
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Fierce mild! Ireland is one of the warmest spots in Europe this morning, up to 15c at 7am on the 27th of November. It will turn much cooler later after band of rain clears East.
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Fierce mild! Ireland is one of the warmest spots in Europe this morning, up to 15c at 7am on the 27th of November. It will turn much cooler later after band of rain clears East.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM