Dean Buckley
@deanbuckley.bsky.social
bad news from the zone, tumbleweeds. writer & critic. catholic socialist. smalltown journalist. pop punk kid. podcaster. all opinions mine.
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Irish man Jordan Devlin is among a group of pro-Palestinian activists reporting degrading and inhumane prison conditions in Britain.
The Irish government hasn’t intervened.
www.ontheditch.com/irishman-amo...
The Irish government hasn’t intervened.
www.ontheditch.com/irishman-amo...
Irishman facing ‘inhumane’ trial and conditions in Britain
Though Jordan Devlin is an Irish citizen the Irish government hasn’t intervened.
www.ontheditch.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Irish man Jordan Devlin is among a group of pro-Palestinian activists reporting degrading and inhumane prison conditions in Britain.
The Irish government hasn’t intervened.
www.ontheditch.com/irishman-amo...
The Irish government hasn’t intervened.
www.ontheditch.com/irishman-amo...
if Peadar Tóibín can understand that a high rate of successful appeals on refused disability payments means that lots of eligible people are being refused in the first instance, why can he not understand the same is true for asylum seekers
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
Disability allowance appeals surge as thousands of rejected applications later approved
New figures show disability allowance refusals have climbed to unprecedented levels, with thousands later approved after lengthy appeals
www.irishexaminer.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
if Peadar Tóibín can understand that a high rate of successful appeals on refused disability payments means that lots of eligible people are being refused in the first instance, why can he not understand the same is true for asylum seekers
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
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I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
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The entire migration debate is just three racist bitches telling eachother "exactlyyyy" (Jim O'Callaghan, Matt Carthy and Peadar Tóibín)
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The entire migration debate is just three racist bitches telling eachother "exactlyyyy" (Jim O'Callaghan, Matt Carthy and Peadar Tóibín)
THAT'S RIGHT
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
THAT'S RIGHT
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Indo editor wearing a hot dog costume while printing this story
Genuinely mental story. The obvious intersection of trans panic and deranged sports parents: adults gleefully bullying the shit out of a kid
Looking for answers to ‘case closed’ following troubling events at a girls’ football match in Cavan
On a Friday in August, a WhatsApp message describing troubling events at a girls’ football match began to spread in Cavan GAA circles. It read:
m.independent.ie
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Indo editor wearing a hot dog costume while printing this story
the eternal struggle of figuring out whether people are referring to Littler, the darts player, or Littler, the short Irish fascist
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
the eternal struggle of figuring out whether people are referring to Littler, the darts player, or Littler, the short Irish fascist
Micheál Martin demanding journalists burn sources by telling him who in Fianna Fáil is "whispering" against him. the man is extraordinarily gotten to and should not be allowed to cling on through the EU presidency
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Micheál Martin demanding journalists burn sources by telling him who in Fianna Fáil is "whispering" against him. the man is extraordinarily gotten to and should not be allowed to cling on through the EU presidency
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Callaghan’s new “tough on immigration” rules will only affect a tiny proportion of immigrants—who also happen to be among the most vulnerable. The gov know that drastically reducing inward migration would be an act of self harm so they’ll pick on these asylum seekers as an act of performance. Sick
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Callaghan’s new “tough on immigration” rules will only affect a tiny proportion of immigrants—who also happen to be among the most vulnerable. The gov know that drastically reducing inward migration would be an act of self harm so they’ll pick on these asylum seekers as an act of performance. Sick
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Genuinely mental story. The obvious intersection of trans panic and deranged sports parents: adults gleefully bullying the shit out of a kid
Looking for answers to ‘case closed’ following troubling events at a girls’ football match in Cavan
On a Friday in August, a WhatsApp message describing troubling events at a girls’ football match began to spread in Cavan GAA circles. It read:
m.independent.ie
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Genuinely mental story. The obvious intersection of trans panic and deranged sports parents: adults gleefully bullying the shit out of a kid
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i do not need to seek out movies to celebrate udo, i just need to watch the kind of movies i like and udo will appear in them. his presence is etched into the world forever
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i do not need to seek out movies to celebrate udo, i just need to watch the kind of movies i like and udo will appear in them. his presence is etched into the world forever
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Is it really too much to ask of journalists to do a little fact checking before uncritically printing what their government sources tell them
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Is it really too much to ask of journalists to do a little fact checking before uncritically printing what their government sources tell them
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“The rules on family reunification – where members of a successful asylum seeker’s family can be granted permission to join them in Ireland – would be tightened and limited to immediate family members only” Again, this is already the law, FG/Lab government ended FR for extended family in 2015!
Concern over ‘pull’ factors prompts Government to tighten asylum rules
Concern over ‘pull’ factors prompts Government to tighten asylum rules
Further changes likely in response to UK’s strict new regime, sources say
www.irishtimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“The rules on family reunification – where members of a successful asylum seeker’s family can be granted permission to join them in Ireland – would be tightened and limited to immediate family members only” Again, this is already the law, FG/Lab government ended FR for extended family in 2015!
Nick Delehanty looked through the integration fund to try to find something to criticise and he picked "rape counselling for refugees who live in rural IPAS centres where it's difficult to access services" because he can use ambiguous wording to insinuate it's something else
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Nick Delehanty looked through the integration fund to try to find something to criticise and he picked "rape counselling for refugees who live in rural IPAS centres where it's difficult to access services" because he can use ambiguous wording to insinuate it's something else
if I were someone earnestly interested in improving Ireland's security without eroding our neutrality, I'd make giving the intelligence services a legislative basis – and effective oversight – my number one priority, not abolishing the Triple Lock
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
No strategy, ad hoc structures, mutual distrust: welcome to Ireland’s intelligence service
Ireland lacks single dedicated intelligence agency and Cabinet-level committee responsible for national security
www.irishtimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
if I were someone earnestly interested in improving Ireland's security without eroding our neutrality, I'd make giving the intelligence services a legislative basis – and effective oversight – my number one priority, not abolishing the Triple Lock
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
tolerance of bigotry is a threat to the safety of children
A deeply depressing read. The poor child at the heart of all this, and her family. This is where the panic merchants are bringing us.
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m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic...
Looking for answers to ‘case closed’ following troubling events at a girls’ football match in Cavan
On a Friday in August, a WhatsApp message describing troubling events at a girls’ football match began to spread in Cavan GAA circles. It read:
m.independent.ie
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
tolerance of bigotry is a threat to the safety of children
after all these years, John Darnielle has finally found a way to make me not want to listen to his music (put Lin-Manuel Miranda on backing vocals)
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
after all these years, John Darnielle has finally found a way to make me not want to listen to his music (put Lin-Manuel Miranda on backing vocals)
moreover, if you are pushing this framing because you think Nigerian Christians should be accepted as refugees, but not any other Nigerians, could I additionally submit that you are a scumbag
if the only way you can convince yourself to give a shit about political violence in Nigeria is by pretending it's all committed by Islamists against Christians, I would humbly submit that you go fuck yourself
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
moreover, if you are pushing this framing because you think Nigerian Christians should be accepted as refugees, but not any other Nigerians, could I additionally submit that you are a scumbag
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Also, none of this is going to make a blind bit of difference to the number of refugees who come here, it’ll just make their lives harder and remember these are people who have already been recognised as needing Ireland to protect them due to persecution in their country of origin. Shameful.
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Also, none of this is going to make a blind bit of difference to the number of refugees who come here, it’ll just make their lives harder and remember these are people who have already been recognised as needing Ireland to protect them due to persecution in their country of origin. Shameful.
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1. Family reunification is ALREADY limited to "close family"
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
New: major overhaul of immigration laws to see citizenship denied to those who got welfare, or are in debt. Family reunification only for close family, tighter rules around self sufficiency. Changes to revoke residency for those who commit serious crimes
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
No Irish citizenship for refugees on welfare benefits
Ministers to crack down on migration after UK review of asylum-seeking rules
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
1. Family reunification is ALREADY limited to "close family"
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
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bolsanaro reportedly upset about going to prison because it’s taking him away from his true passion, going to the hospital
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
bolsanaro reportedly upset about going to prison because it’s taking him away from his true passion, going to the hospital
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The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
the Irish political and media class need to seriously reflect on how Progress Ireland could have such a crude and insulting assessment of how easy it is to just flash some cash and get your agenda on the agenda in Irish politics, and how objectively correct that assessment was
John Collison was talking utter garbage and it says so much that so many politicians fell over themselves to fellate him for writing a pack of lies
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
the Irish political and media class need to seriously reflect on how Progress Ireland could have such a crude and insulting assessment of how easy it is to just flash some cash and get your agenda on the agenda in Irish politics, and how objectively correct that assessment was
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Of course, the government aren't fools, this is not a case of naivety but one of alignment of interests - wealthy investors benefit from gutting oversight and protections, and for the government it's a convenient scapegoat for their own decades long failings
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Of course, the government aren't fools, this is not a case of naivety but one of alignment of interests - wealthy investors benefit from gutting oversight and protections, and for the government it's a convenient scapegoat for their own decades long failings
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