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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

"We saved Shelly Bay!" -- Fran and PJ, (when their property company bought shelly bay)

"It wasn't us!" -- Fran and PJ (when their property company evicted the cafe)

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Maria Ni Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 1d

They sent the army after my friend to detain her in international waters.

They did this because she had needed baby formula, paracetamol and gauze.

mikedolanvevo.bsky.social @mikedolanvevo.bsky.social · 3d

My sister @naoisedolan.bsky.social , alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.

Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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mikedolanvevo.bsky.social @mikedolanvevo.bsky.social · 3d

My sister @naoisedolan.bsky.social , alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.

Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 1d

Happy World Mental Health Day - may you be free from stress, stigma or fear.

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Maria Ni Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry but do you have a permit for that haka?

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 2d

if one of our brave correspondents would like to ask Heather Humphreys why she refused to meet with disability activists during the Scrap the Green Paper campaign, it might take a little edge off the appearance of rank bias in their conduct during this election

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 3d

Israeli military intercepts another flotilla heading to Gaza

The ministry said the 145 activists, who were in good health, were being brought to shore in Israel for processing and were expected to be deported soon

dlvr.it

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 3d

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Maria Ni Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 3d

Dozens more peace activists carrying aid detained in international waters.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Israel intercepts another Gaza aid flotilla amid criticism over treatment of activists

Israeli foreign ministry confirms interception and says those on board will be deported A new Gaza-bound aid flotilla has been intercepted by the Israeli army, days after the detention of activists on board vessels bound for the war-torn territory caused international outrage and widespread protests. The Israeli military was jamming signals with at least two boats being boarded, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said on Instagram. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 4d

If one of the lads from Kíla said that the election should be cancelled until there was a debate in Irish, there would not be an Irish Times article. There would not be a long line of photographers outside Leinster House.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 25d

Here is Jamal from Gaza whose family lost everything and he is trying with all his might to rebuild their lives and help them with the crazy costs in Gaza and travel outside Gaza when the crossings open. I hope you support us. Your little support, even if it is $5

chuffed.org/project/1389...

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...

chuffed.org

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Maria Ni Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 4d

That would involve anyone in any international press paying attention to NZ post 2023 so I feel pretty safe

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 9d

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

When Adoption Promises Are Broken

Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

www.theatlantic.com

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Maria Ni Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 5d

It would be nice as an emigrant to be able to vote in the #Aras25 election, it would be nicer again to vote for the head of state here in New Zealand.

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 5d

When the PSNI were over arresting peaceful protesters in London, loyalist terror groups with 12,500+ members threatened terror attacks for using this island's native tongue. No COBRA meetings, no British reporting, nothing.

Irish language group calls for all parties to condemn UDA and UVF threats to burn Belfast council facilities over language proposals

A leading Irish language organisation has called for all parties to condemn threats from the UVF and UDA saying they would carry out an arson campaign against Belfast City Council property displaying ...

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Maria Ni Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 6d

The IRISH Gavin (lastname) with the personality of a soup spoon not the American Gavin (Firstname) with the personality of a soup spoon.

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 6d

The second flotilla continues to sail. No matter what we hear about prison conditions for the first wave of participants, our solidarity with Palestine is unconditional. We’re on track to reach Gaza in just a few days www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Naoise Dolan: As we get closer to Gaza, Israel’s abduction of our fellow flotilla members will only spur us on

Friday, October 4, 12.25am local time. I should sleep before my night watch shift begins in two hours, but my boat’s violent tilting makes it impossible. There is a loud, interminable drilling noise; ...

www.independent.ie

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Maria Ni Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 7d

The world feels really grim but my missus brought me home the best of Ireland (CMAT's record, Jess Murphy's book and 100 packets of tayto cheese and onion)

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Maria Ni Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 7d

There is a man spraying pro Palestine protesters with a powerhose off a second story balcony on Tory Street.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 8d

A good article on Kavanaugh Stops

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8d

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you

That is not, in fact, what ICE does

He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day

Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 9d

Not this shit again. What's the offence? Point me to the Act or the case. There isn't one. Just pitching a tent isn't a crime. It really, really isn't. No matter how often the Guards say it is.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

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Cian Ó Concubhair @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social · 10d

Having a flashback to when a senior Garda contacted my college in Oxford to try to get me expelled because of my conviction

Then head of the college former DPP Ken McDonald told me about it in a slightly embarrassed tone

Funnily enough, he also had a conviction for drug dealing

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 10d

Counter-terrorism gardaí intervened to stop Catherine Connolly from hiring a woman convicted of a gun crime to work in Leinster House, The Journal has learned.
http://jrnl.ie/6830299t

Gardaí blocked Catherine Connolly from hiring woman convicted of gun crime

The presidential candidate sought to hire Ursula Ní Shionnáin, a former Éirigí member who was sentenced to six years in jail by the Special Criminal Court.

jrnl.ie

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RNZ News (Unofficial) @radionz.nzcow.com · 12d

📢 A jury found Tim Jago guilty of sexually abusing two teenage boys in the 1990s.

Former Act Party president Tim Jago loses appeal against sexual abuse conviction

www.rnz.co.nz

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Maria Ni Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 12d

Censoring something in the subtitles when it isn't censored in the audio is such discriminatory nonsense.

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