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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 10h

54 Palestinian bodies previously held by Israeli forces show clear signs of torture.

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Teresa Collins @queen-crafty.bsky.social · 14h

#Áras25

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14h

The Overlooked Gap

#Áras25
The Irish Times Oct 29. 2025

Election
commentary

Sir. - Much of the commentary on
the presidential election has focused
on trving to interpret the meaning be-
hind spoiled votes, and what they sug-
gest about the gap between parts of
the electorate and our political class.
Catherine Connolly's victory, how-
ever, points to an overlooked gap-the
one between voters and much of the
prevailing media consensus. More
than 900,000 people - the largest
number ever to support a presidential
candidate - voted for her despite
weeks of coverage often portraying
her views on neutrality, Nato, Pales-
tine, and prisoner rehabilitation as na-
ive. riskv or dangerous

Taken together. these results sug-
gest a public that feels misread from
the political and media spheres. Un-
less those gaps are honestly examined
as a whole, politicians and iournalists
may risk continuing to speak to each
other in circles. - Yours, etc.

LORCAN MYLES,
Drogheda,
Co Louth.

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 10d

Imagine having voted for every policy that increased child homelessness by 100% in just 4yrs - and let’s not forget the lifting of the no-fault eviction ban that is the main driver of homelessness - and thinking that you have the high moral ground on the housing crisis…

PREMIUM
I've never tried to capitalise on somebody's misfortune':
Humphreys launches blistering attack on Connolly's work for UK banks

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 10d

One thing this election seems to be showing is that the influence of the Indo, Mail etc has declined considerably. Nobody is listening anymore. #aras25

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Katherine Nolan @dochara.com · 9d

There are four barristers in the cabinet, including Jim O'Callaghan. If they had an ounce of gumption they'd speak up about the nonsense FG are sprouting. #aras25

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 9d

Fine Gael have attacked politician barristers for who they have represented in the course of their legal duties before.

Targetting Jim O’Callagahan in 2020:

www.newstalk.com/news/ffs-oca...

FF's O'Callaghan says refusing to represent someone legally over politics would breach barristers' code | Newstalk

Fianna Fáil's Jim O'Callaghan says it would be a breach of his profession's code of conduct if h...

www.newstalk.com

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 9d

Fine Gael know all this, but they think the Irish electorate is too thick to understand the nuance of it, so they attacked CC anyway.
Remember what they think of you when you go to the ballot box.

Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 9d

RTE finally had a barrister on this morning who confirmed that barristers are 1) required to take clients in their area of expertise and 2) have a duty of confidentiality and shouldn't talk about their own cases.

FG is undermining the rule of law with their attacks.

#Aras25 #SpeirGorm

Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 9d

www.lawlibrary.ie/statement-fr...

barristers should not be identified with their clients or their clients’ causes or suffer adverse consequences as a result of being so identified.

Cc Fiacha Gall

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 9d

The Ditch x Village Magazine

Heather Humphreys honoured a disgraced ex-garda after he was accused of extreme domestic violence and found by a tribunal to have corruptly organised planting weapons and fabricated evidence.

An ‘exceptional award’ she said.

www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-ho...

Humphreys honoured disgraced garda

The garda was accused of extreme domestic violence.

www.ontheditch.com

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 13d

Simon Harris says a Catherine Connolly win in the presidential election next week "would not impact Government thinking on changes to the triple lock in any way," reports Irish Times political correspondent @ellenmcoyne.bsky.social

Dissolve the electorate and elect another.

- Brecht

#Áras25

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 13d

If the tiny circle of political journalists that dominate our broadsheets and airwaves left their bubble for a moment, they'd find 14,000 signed up volunteers knocking on doors, holding fundraisers, and talking to people about why
@catherinegalway.bsky.social is the only candidate.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 13d

Both FG and FF had planned to run candidates supporting their moves to integrate Ireland into EU defence arrangements.

One or other would win.

They would then claim to have a popular mandate.

That looks set to backfire spectacularly.

#TripleLock #Áras25 #PlanYourVote

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 14d

A company under garda investigation was incorporated just a month before Heather Humphreys was the star attraction at its February “charity” event.

www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-wa...

Humphreys was star attraction at event under investigation

The company was incorporated just a year before.

www.ontheditch.com

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 26d

The ballot paper for Ireland’s presidential election is unlawful – and gives an unfair advantage to Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s candidates.

The legislation is clear.

The Ditch is challenging – in the High Court if necessary.
Our letter in full: www.ontheditch.com/presidential...

Unlawful election ballot gives FG, FF undue advantage

Why weren't small, legally required efforts made with the presidential election ballot?

www.ontheditch.com

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Cian Ó Concubhair @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social · 27d

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 · 28d

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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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 28d

Comment: The British state these men, which is to say colonialism killed them. Their GAA membership was their commitment to republican ideals. It also marked them as targets of the same structural forces our flag sided with in Croke Park on Sunday.

www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...

Comment: Sunday's game in Croke Park betrayed

I don’t know why this stayed with me. Three years ago and it’s halftime of Newcastle United against Manchester City at St James’s Park. I’m in the East Stand, cigarette smoked, queuing for burgers.

www.ontheditch.com

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · Sep 28

“She is a person of principle. When she speaks you know that it is honest and from the heart. I think that she would make a fantastic president.”

- John MacDonagh, Labour Party, Galway.
#Spéirghorm #IrishNeutrality @catherinegalway.bsky.social

MD Higgins and Catherine Connolly (pushing a baby buggy) on a 2003 anti war march in Galway.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · Sep 28

"The chosen people of God is all humanity."

Megalulu ♡︎ @megalu.bsky.social · Sep 25

The UN Speech that should have been covered wall to wall

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Sep 22

You do *not* resolve conflicts, and the NI conflict wasn't resolved, by outside powers dictating who can and who can't speak for one party.

Especially if those outside powers have been actively assisting ethnic cleansing and mass war crimes in that conflict for 75 years, and now genocide.

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · Sep 22

She's right, for good or bad, as the IRA were part of the fabric of Ireland.
That doesn't equate to Ireland = IRA, same as Palestine ≠ Hamas, but part of the fabric nonetheless, people getting their grundies all shitty need to look at the GFA or learn how to read.
PART of the fabric.
Fuckin hell.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · Sep 22

Catherine Connolly has criticised British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for saying Hamas should be excluded from any future Palestinian government, arguing that the group is "part of the fabric of the Palestinian people"
jrnl.ie/6823626

Connolly claims Hamas is 'part of the fabric' of Palestinian people

Her comments drew criticism from Taoiseach Micheál Martin, who said people should be “clear-eyed in viewing Hamas”.

jrnl.ie

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · Sep 17

An Irish airline illegally transported munitions to Israel – despite just months before taking part in a Microsoft Teams call with Department of Transport officials after reports of its munitions flights to Israel.

www.ontheditch.com/department-o...

Airline's illegal flight months after call with state

The department's Microsoft Teams call hasn't stopped illegal flights.

www.ontheditch.com

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Thomas Pringle @thomaspringle.bsky.social · Sep 13

Canvassed Donegal with Catherine on Thursday and Friday. Hectic few days but a pleasure to see the esteem this woman is held in. We should all be proud to have her as president.

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Thomas Pringle @thomaspringle.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm listening to Clonan refutes Humphreys' portrayal of their meeting on disability payment changes on RTÉ Radio 1. Pretty damning interview, I know who I’d believe

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Thomas Pringle @thomaspringle.bsky.social · Sep 3

What the EU says and does is always the key. We will support human rights when it suits us

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · Aug 29

Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechia and Italy blindly side with Israel.

Others wring their hands.

Defying declared values, the EU is rendered complicit in the daily slaughter of innocents.

Israeli Minister says Anyone who stays in Gaza city can either starve to death or surrender.

Three generations of a family living in the wake of the Shoah call on Israel to stop its genocide.

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Aug 29

🔵 Such a lovely positive story here about three wonderful guys from our Letterkenny group who took silver in last weekend's Donegal Half Marathon relay race!

@annapr.bsky.social @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social @thomaspringle.bsky.social

sanctuaryrunners.ie/2025/08/28/s...

Sanctuary Runner trio take silver medal in Donegal relay race | Sanctuary Runners

sanctuaryrunners.ie

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Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social · Aug 27

Some news from me, thanks to a team of super activists who have been working for months, the biggest flotilla to try and break the siege on Gaza is leaving on Aug 31st. I'm proud to be going on it and obviously nervous. We'd love if you'd follow globalsumudflotilla.org #FromEveryRiverToEverySea

This is a video of me, in a black watermelon sweatshirt leaning on a tree trunk letting people know I'm joining the global sumud flotilla globalsumudflotilla.org please follow and support while keeping the Palestinian people at the centre of everything we do.

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