This is not normal. No other former colony would do this. Not in Latin America for a Spanish monarch, not in the Congo for the Belgians or anywhere else.
Diplomatic messages and respect are one thing, this is another. A true republic would not prostrate itself for empire.
๐ธ Members of the โฆ
@defenceforces
โฉ military police lower the Irish flag to half mast at Government Buildings (โฆ
@merrionstreet
โฉ) in Dublin, marking the death of the UKโs Queen Elizabeth.
We won. Students, staff and the public united have pushed Trinity towards
#BDS
principles.
Commitment to full divestment. Ending procurement relationships. A full review of academic ties, with students and staff represented and an intent to cut them.
This must now spread! ๐ต๐ธ๐ต๐ธ
Eamon Ryan may have slept through the debate on introducing a living wage but Catherine Martin was wide awake for it.
She still voted against it.
The whole party is compromised, if you're a green with a shred of principle get off this sinking ship now.
#Greens
#EamonRyan
Coward.
Gaza is effectively a concentration camp, populated by refugees who were ethnically cleansed, forced out of their homes and off their land to make way for "israel". Conditions in Gaza are hell.
Resistance is legitimate. You don't speak for us.
I strongly condemn the firing of rockets into Israel by Hamas and attacks against Israel from Gaza. I deeply regret the loss of life and the impact on civilians. I call for an immediate cessation of all hostilities.
Do not stay at Leonardo hotels (formerly Jurys in Ireland). They are owned by David Fattal, an Israeli billionaire.
Boycott all israeli goods and services. Every coin is a bullet or bomb. Shut them down.
I'm a PhD researcher in Immunology and my full time research nets me โฌ18,500pa
PhDs like me do essential work, critical to medical, scientific, technological & social progress
Meanwhile, bankers who destroyed the economy complain that โฌ500k pa isnt enough for them
From Free Trinity earlier today.
The encampment continues to grow.
Support from outside has been immense.All of us in the camp deeply appreciate it.
Let's keep the pressure on
@tcddublin
up - boycott, divest, sanction!
On the 11th Jan 2010, a 30 year old mother of two boys was found dead in her flat in Ballymun. Her death, due to hypothermia, was more than a tragedy, it was a result of a system that has failed and neglected working class people and their needs. Her name was Rachel Peavoy. 1/n
Remember, Leo opposed Equal Marriage and abortion until mass movements showed him it was politically expedient to support them.
He was a self-obsessed, self-serving mรฉ fรฉiner. There is no progressive legacy, nothing to be proud of.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
If you see someone shamefully using the horrific situation in Parnell Sq to stoke fear or hate, report their post.
Shut down their misinformation machine. Dont let the far right use tragedy to spread their bile.
I'm 25 + live with my folks, I can't see myself having a place of my own in Ireland in the next 10 yrs
Low pay, astronomical rents + ridiculous living costs mean saving is practically impossible for most young ppl
Seeing investment funds buy up estates in their entireity is ๐คฌ
Catriona,teacher, paying โฌ1k pm rent, landlord tries to hike rent by โฌ200, she goes to RTB, he serves her notice after 5yrs paying him rent
Now she's struggling to find a place where she works. She might have to leave her job
But yeah, demonisation of landlords...
#UpfrontRTE
Members of AIA and Saoirse don Phalaistรญn are currently on the gang plank of a British warship docked in Dublin Port in protest of transport to weapons and support for "Israeli" genocide
College Green shut down, Dublin City Council hanging out flags and banners, warplanes flying over the stadium, the US Navy docking on a "courtesy" visit, paddy-whackery dialled up to 11, all for a college level sporting event.
So deeply embarassing, all of it!
โIsrael has an inherent right to safeguard its citizens and territory against violent assaults that result in profound suffering, division and distraction.โ -
@EPP
Our thoughts are Israel and itโs citizens ๐ฎ๐ฑ
In brighter news, Ballymun joined Finglas, Cabra, Phibsboro, North Strand, Dolphins Barn, Balbriggan and other Dublin communities standing with Palestine this evening!
Constant beeps, plenty of local support. This is the real Dublin โ๐ฝ๐ต๐ธ
Gavin Pepper is a landlord candidate in Ballymun-Finglas in
#LE24
, which has one of the longest housing lists in ๐ฎ๐ช
Over 25% of Dublin's homeless are from Ballymun. Our community has been devastated by those who profit off๐
He wants us to blame migrants instead of ppl like him
GP administering vaccines: โฌ120ph
Pharmacist administering vaccines: โฌ70ph
Nurse administering vaccines: โฌ25ph
Student nurse on placement in a vaccination centre administering vaccine: โฌ0 (+ loss of important learning experience)
Equal pay for equal work!
It looks like they hate Irish solidarity with ๐ต๐ธ
They see the danger in a European country isolating them & how that could trigger a domino effect.
Solidarity is working. Let's kick it up a gear. Expel the ambassador, cut all trade, diplomatic & cultural ties.
#CeasefireNow
Some positive news from Ballymun today
Community orgs, schools, political parties, along with other local leaders united to discuss next steps in how we counter the lies of the far right + make everyone who lives in Ballymun feel at home + part of our community
#BallymunForAll
Morning one at Camp and spirits are high ๐ต๐ธ
@TrinityBDS
are going nowhere. Join the solidarity march from the Spire today at 12pm.
Trinity must divest and cut all ties with zionist universities
Huge numbers again in Dublin standing with Palestine and the people of Gaza - against genocide and for palestinian liberation ๐ต๐ธ
#GazaUnderAttack
#FreePalestine
Private schools should be defunded permanently.
It's a farce that the state pays millions every yr to maintain an elitist system when DEIS schools like the one I went to struggle to cover basic costs.
It's shameful that an Irish
university is honouring war-monger and genocide-backer Nancy Pelosi today.
UCD students and their Student Union are clear that this honour does not speak for them. Irish students stand overwhelmingly with Palestine
I was thrown out with excessive force from Nancy Pelosi's honorary doctorate of law
@ucddublin
earlier today for representing the views of students as
@UCDSU
President. Why does UCD continue to platform Zionist warmongers whilst silencing students?
You can tell
@FineGael
are kicking themselves for introducing a โฌ350
#covid19
payment.
They've made an awful mess for themselves and essentially acknowledged that โฌ350 is the absolute minimum required to live a dignified existence.
#TonightVMTV
Diplomacy makes peace.
Expelling the Israeli ambassador would be a retrograde step that could put Irish lives at risk and greatly weaken our influence in advancing peace.
The Green Party opposes the call to
#ExpelIsraeliAmbassador
#CeasefireInGazaNow
It's always, without fail, the "Hamas-run health ministry" or "Iranian backed militias" on RTร and in Irish media.
Never the "American-armed" Israel, "US supported" airstrikes or the "Western-backed" war on Gaza, even though it'd be a much more accurate account of reality
Huge crowd still building at the Dรกil calling on TDs to
#ExpelTheIsraeliAmbassador
sanction israel and refer the criminal zionist regime to the International Criminal Court
Join! Email or call your TDs, keep tweeting on the hashtag!
Rents up 7% - the highest in 2yrs
We don't need a rent freeze, like some are suggesting. We need rents slashed, linked to ppl's ability to pay + the size of dwellings!
We won't vote our way out of this, we need to build a movement like the Berliners + fight like hell ourselves!
Bolivia ๐ง๐ด cut all ties with the Zionist entity.
Chile ๐จ๐ฑ announced intention to withdrawal its ambassador from the Zionist entity.
Colombia ๐จ๐ด has withdrawn its ambassador from the Zionist entity.
All in the span of a day.
The tide is turning.
The world is with Palestine.
"Our stance is to remain neutral" say
@tcddublin
There was no such neutrality when Trinity and
@LindaDoyle
(rightly) decided to
#StandWithUkraine
A shameful double standard in the face of a horrific genocide, carried out by a settler colonial, apartheid state. Not in our name.
This is the same Leo and the same Fine Gael that ran down our health service, refused to lift a recruitment embargo for frontline health workers and battled the nurses when they went on strike for decency at work.
#coronavirus
As a PhD on a stipend, free public transport would make a big difference financially each month (~โฌ100 saved).
Same would apply to a lot of low paid workers struggling with the cost of living.
It'd be quick, relatively easy to implement + slash emissions from car travel too.
Rent controls needed to force rents down, not just freeze them. They're the norm in many European cities.
If there's a constitutional issue, let's change the constitution.
#rtept
There is a very real possibility of violence by the far-right. Last night's "men only" march in Finglas should serve as a wake up call for those not already concerned. This needs to be taken extremely seriously +pushed back
They're a minority but they're a very dangerous one
BREAKING: Activists are blocking the entrance of the Port of Tacoma where a U.S. ship believed to be carrying weapons to Israel is docked. Days ago it was blocked in Oakland.
The ship is currently unable to depart.
Congratulations to Robbie Keane on his Maccabi Tel Aviv side winning their Europa Conference League group
Robbie has only lost one of his 20 matches in charge, heโs doing well, just a real shame where heโs doing well
Free Palestine ๐ต๐ธ๐ต๐ธ๐ต๐ธ
Gardaรญ from Finglas did this. GSOC are investigating but what faith could you have when 42% of GSOC investigations carried out last yr were carried out by the Guards themselves?
Shocking, brutal, totally unjustifiable. Well done to those who protested in Finglas yesterday.
Bye Leo, you won't be missed.
Housing, health, public services are all worse for your presence.
Your callous Tory attitude made lives needlessly miserable and Ireland a crueler place.
Hopefully, we never see your like again.
Tommy Robinson, loyalist and british Nazi heaping praise on violent racists threatening people in our community.
The vast majority of people in Finglas reject these disgusting threats to burn down homes and the people making them. Not in our name.
Behold the $85M superyacht, Scout, docked in Dublin. Owned by James Berwind, heir to a coal empire, it's a floating monument to the excesses of the ultra-rich. Our planet won't be saved by individual change, but by tearing down a system that lets such wealth create such waste
The
@greenparty_ie
leader
@EamonRyan
whizzing past the
#Debenhams
workers who wanted a brief chat about their quest to save their jobs. Poor form. A man in a rush for government
Garda Ronan "Robocop" Corcoran, who was charged with assault for battering three ppl over the head with his baton on May Day 2002.
Now a member of an Expert Advisory Board on ethics within the guards...
Students in Galway are deferring courses and paying crazy money for week-only accommodation.
The city seems to be one of the worst for student accomm at the minute, yet there are 300+ AirBnB listings active.
Absolute madness!
Amazed that this is only happening now.
Why wasn't he arrested when threats were directed at the Village Inn, the Galaxy or other places he alleged would be used to house asylum seekers? Why only when the incitement was directed at the Guards?
Healy Rae and all the gombeen independents like him should be held to the fire for spreading this hateful hysteria.
No quarter for this in Irish politics. A line has to be drawn. We will not follow Europe. The far right + danger they pose needs to be stamped out.
During this afternoon's debate on Irish foreign policy, neutrality and the Triple Lock, Danny Healy-Rae expressed concerned about unvetted immigration.
Donegal's Thomas Pringle was... unimpressed.
F bombs ahoy:
77% of people would tolerate 3 more months of lockdown if it meant this was the last lockdown.
This is huge. Government must listen and change course now.
It may not even take 3mths to achieve
#ZeroCovid
- let's hammer this home! ๐ช
#CBLive
Ireland's hero is a queer, working class woman from the North Inner City, dont forget it! ๐
In a state dominated for almost a century by a conservative catholic elite, this is HUGE! Onwards! ๐ฅ
Donโt forget one of the unsung heroes - Natually delighted for Christy, Yvonne, Kellieโs brothers and her community. But lots of credit and love for Kellieโs partner, Mandy, who has played a huge supporting role in
#kellieharrington
Olympics success. Well done, Mandy! โค๏ธ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ช
Sharing from a friend - 9 people evicted today without notice. Personal belongings smashed by private security thugs & tenants assaulted. Gardaรญ facilitated it all.
Neither landlord nor bank notified the tenants about repossession.
All tenants now homeless.
Israel has just assasinated 4 western aid workers, one of whom a UK citizen in Gaza. Will the spineless Sunak or the souless Starmer open their mouthes
Thousands take to the streets in Istanbul, Turkiye, in support of the
#Palestinian
people and their legitimate right to resistance of the Israeli occupation.
If I was to run for politics, I would try my level best to
โช๏ธRoll back on the current hate speech law
โช๏ธRemove this new mandatory sex education in schools for children
โช๏ธBan drag story time telling to children
โช๏ธBring the death penalty in for paedophiles
โช๏ธTemporary ban on
Best part of leafleting tonight was being shouted at by a local who found us later in the night to apologise.
They'd thought we were the far-right and only realised when they read our leaflet.
Nice to see there are plenty in Ballymun willing to stand up to hate and fear ๐ช
Mad watching an SU working with a college to do a "deal" with a hotel chain to put students up for 300 quid 5 days a week
Student unions should be raising hell about this, shutting things down and protesting nationally. Not just wrangling with the Dept or college bureaucracies
BREAKING: Israel is heavily bombing Rafah, where 1.7 million Palestinians are trapped, in the middle of the night, targeting and killing civilians, including children.
The genocide continues.
Morning three at
#FreeTrinity
Camp
A wet start but big day ahead. Plenty of events for Trinity students, staff and alumni planned (sadly no public access)
This is YOUR campus, come visit us. Check out
@TrinityBDS
here and on IG for more ๐ต๐ธ
#DivestNow
#AcademicBoycott
Ballyfermot had one of the highest marriage equality votes in 2015 + comfortably passed repeal
Ballyfermot has had "non-traditional" families for decades, lone parent led + non-marriage based. As a working class area, it also knows all about the state's failing on care too
๐ณ๏ธ |
#Referendum2024
Tallies
Some (very) early tallies in Dublinโฆ
Ballyfermot in Dublin South Central:
Family: No 87%, Yes 13%
Care: No 88%, Yes 12%
Ringsend in Dublin Bay South:
Family is running 50/50
See live blog and results centre below ๐
Appalled by the deaths of humanitarian workers in an Israeli strike, killed providing lifesaving aid to the people of Gaza.
Full accountability is needed.
This again underlines the need for an immediate ceasefire to protect civilians and allow full humanitarian access.
Landlord Pepper sent someone to our meeting to "confront" me
My response? Stick with the broader campaign on Special Edu, regardless of your feelings about me or PBP. I had no idea I was being recorded.
Pepper has nothing to offer. No campaigns, no answers, only hate
1/n
Her name is Razan Al-Najar - She was only 21 when they murdered her.
Cowards, at a safe distance, shot her as she tended to Gaza's wounded.
A nurse, a volunteer paramedic, a hero.
One of many reasons we should boycott Israel.
#LateLateShow
#BoycottEurovision2019
#Eurovision
A few weeks ago, when Covid was a lot less prevalent, govt insisted they couldn't sit safely in the Dรกil
They insisted on forking out 25k a day for the convention ctr
Expecting 30+ kids to sit in class rooms despite this, was hypocritical enough
Then
#golfgate
happened.
BREAKING ๐จ๐ซ๐ท | The French government has fully nationalised the energy company EDF.
This comes after they forced shareholders to keep prices down this spring.
Imagine your first thoughts on hearing news of a horrific attack on children being "how can i exploit this" rather than thinking of the victims.
This is the issue - to all of you QT'ing and replying to me.
Paul McAuliffe, my local FF TD paid a visit to the
#Debenhams
picket in town recently, claiming to support the workers.
Yesterday he voted against a
@pb4p
motion calling on the state to ensure Debenhams workers are paid the redundancies they were promised.
Have they no shame?