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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 2h

Heather Humphreys is spreading misinformation that Oireachtas political staff need so-called garda clearance – they don’t, according to documents obtained by The Ditch

Alan Shatter joined in – posting a fake document on X purporting to be official policy

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Humphreys spreading misinformation about Oireachtas vetting

Humphreys’s former party colleague and ex-justice minister Alan Shatter has also joined in.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 4h

Details here: theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...

The World Transformed 2025 // NATO and the EU; The Drive for War and Ireland's Place Within it

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 4h

🎵Eoghan's at the wheel🎵

Manchester: The Ditch's Eoghan McNeill speaks at the World Transformed festival about Ireland’s complicity and role in imperialism today

Saturday, 11 October, 10am

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 20h

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Ce soir partiront de Suisse des équipements high-tech pour un fabricant de drones israéliens - Heidi.news

La société vaudoise Swissto12 annonce renoncer à fournir Elbit, premier fabricant de drones israéliens, très utilisés à Gaza

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 20h

🚨Breaking🚨

Swiss company Swissto12 says it’s ended a contract to supply antennae to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems after The Ditch x
@Heidi_news
reported that one of its shipments is heading for Tel Aviv today.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 2d

Story here: www.ontheditch.com/nazi-linked-...

Tonnes of ammunition en route to Israel

A Nazi regime-linked company is among the suppliers of 563 tonnes of bomb shells and ammunition headed to Israel on a ship moored at a US port.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 2d

The people of Wilmington, North Carolina protest a Nazi regime-linked company being among the suppliers of 563 tonnes of bomb shells and ammunition to Israel from the US – as reported by The Ditch Thursday

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 4d

Governments around the world are not taking responsibility – that’s why we’re doing this: Irish doctor on Gaza flotilla

'The Irish government knows how dear this is to Irish people. So they appease us. But they're not actually doing anything.'

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Governments won't take responsibility – someone had to

Veronica O'Keane expects to be intercepted by Israeli forces soon – a near certainty she says she’s ready for.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 4d

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?

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 5d

The Ditch x @DropSiteNews

A Nazi regime-linked company is among the suppliers of 563 tonnes of bomb shells and ammunition headed to Israel on a ship moored at a US port.

It’s the largest ever shipment of munitions to Israel identified by The Ditch.

www.ontheditch.com/nazi-linked-...

Tonnes of ammunition en route to Israel

A Nazi regime-linked company is among the suppliers of 563 tonnes of bomb shells and ammunition headed to Israel on a ship moored at a US port.

www.ontheditch.com

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 6d

🚨Breaking🚨

Last month The Ditch reported that Basque company AMC was supplying parts to Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.

Protesters showed up to its office.

Now it says it has “decided to stop selling to Israel”.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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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.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 8d

Another win for The Ditch and BDS.

After The Ditch uncovered evidence the Marianne Danica was transporting 18 containers of artillery projectiles to Israel, the people of Cabo Verde said: No.

Cabo Verde has refused the ship harbour.

We will continue.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 13d

Dan O'Brien's Institute of International and European Affairs is holding a briefing on how the US might react to the Occupied Territories Bill.

One of his two 'experts' is a Zionist settler who has a home on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank.

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Comment: Dan O'Brien considers a West Bank settler's view of the Occupied Territories Bill

Make a one-time donation to The Ditch By Fintan Drury Dan O’Brien has consistently questioned the value of the Occupied Territories Bill, long overdue legislation with political support across the s...

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 13d

Places limited. RSVP to [email protected]

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 13d

🚨Joining us this afternoon: 2.30pm, 30 Anne Street South🚨

Senator Alice Mary Higgins, one of the original sponsors of the Occupied Territories Bill, in conversation with rapper and activist Lowkey and The Ditch

A live chat about the left, Palestine and the west

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 13d

A statement of fact – that Hamas exists and is embedded in Palestinian society – and a straightforward condemnation of western intervention angered a class that’s never served Irish sovereignty, let alone Palestinian humanity

Catherine Connolly was right

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Fine, here’s unequivocal – Catherine Connolly is right

There’s an intellectual insecurity to the Irish ruling class, its political parties, its media, its blind followers.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 14d

🚨Tomorrow at 2.30pm – 30 Anne Street South, Dublin 2 🚨

The Ditch in conversation with
@Lowkey0nline

More to follow. Places limited

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 15d

The Irish Aviation Authority didn’t follow proper procedures when it hired Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Jim Gavin as chief operating officer, according to a confidential letter from a whistleblower to then taoiseach Leo Varadkar.

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Whistleblower warned Varadkar Gavin's hiring broke rules

The Irish Aviation Authority didn’t follow proper procedures when it hired Jim Gavin, said a whistleblower.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 18d

Comment: Any day we speak about anything other than housing, healthcare and education is a good one for Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. With fury among us directed sideways, those on top laugh or sigh with relief.

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Comment: Culture wars – great for ruling classes

With fury among us directed sideways, those on top laugh or sigh with relief.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 19d

A Basque company last week sent almost half a tonne of vehicle components to the Israel Defense Forces’ largest weapons supplier.

It went less than a week after Spain said it would ban the export of military goods to Israel.

www.ontheditch.com/basque-compa...

Basque company sent vehicle parts to Israeli arms firm

It sent them to the Israel Defense Forces’ largest weapons supplier.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 20d

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.

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Airline's illegal flight months after call with state

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

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 21d

An independent UN commission today concluded Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

The government still allows illegal munitions flights through Irish airspace to Israel and the export of military goods from Ireland to Israel

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 27d

German national airline Lufthansa has been illegally transporting missile components through Dublin Airport to the Thales arms factory in Belfast for the past year.

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Missile parts shipped through Dublin Airport

German national airline Lufthansa has been illegally transporting missile components.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 28d

The Department of Transport contacted Israel's national airline about flights illegally carrying weapons through Irish airspace – but officials tolerated El Al stalling the investigation for almost eight months after the company hired lawyers.

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Talk to our lawyers: El to Department of Transport

The airline was repeatedly conducting illegal munitions flights through Irish territory.

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