Wendy Lyon 🔴⚫️ @wendylyon Twitter profile

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@wendylyon

5 years

This is child trafficking

Rewire News Group

@RewireNewsGroup

5 years

Some asylum seekers who have given birth in custody were forced to hand over their newborns to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. We were unable to verify what happens to the children of women who do not have access to legal help.

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Spoke to a sex worker yesterday who was visited by Gardaí and had condoms confiscated. Great public health policy Ireland 👍

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Very proud of one of my clients, an asylum seeker in direct provision, who has just received a scholarship to study law at UCD! 🎉🎉🎉

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@wendylyon

3 months

Brits outraged to be treated like non-EU citizens are the gift that keeps on giving

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

3 months

Passport rules: 'Escorted through the airport like a criminal'

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So to recap, the student in question is not in any of Enoch Burke's classes. He is not personally required to address or refer to them in any way. There is no "compelled speech" in his case. He simply objects to the school adopting a trans-inclusive policy. 1/

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The “far left” have been marching in the city centre just about every weekend for the past month or so and there hasn’t been a hint of what’s happening tonight so the next D4 clown who tries to “both sides” us can go and shove it.

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1 year

Former student of Enoch Burke. The kids are so fucking alright

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6 years

Ireland has a president who says "everyone must be free to express their sexuality, gender, or relationship" in his inaugural speech. 👏👏👏

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@wendylyon

2 years

The Robert Troy issue isn't just about him, it's about a housing crisis being overseen by people like him who profiteer from the basic need for shelter while they sit in charge of the policies that decide who gets to have a home. Renters deserve to be furious. This won't go away.

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7 years

Bob Geldof is handing back his Freedom of Dublin because he doesn't want to hold an honour associated with Aung San Suu Kyi. Bob I've got bad news for you about your British knighthood

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3 years

How the fuck does something get built in 2021 and look like this.

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@wendylyon

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Winner, Irish Twitter edition

wangleberry

@Wangleberry

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What are the load-bearing posts of our time? Obviously 'facing god and walking backwards into hell' and 'miette' are up there. Does Ed Balls still count? PS if you can parse this you should probably log off

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@wendylyon

2 years

Can someone explain to these people that Enoch Burke could release Enoch Burke

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@wendylyon

7 months

So the suspect is a naturalised Irish citizen (so extremely vetted) who has been here for 20 years, while the man who disarmed him is a recent immigrant who was able to come here without a visa

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@wendylyon

3 years

Strange phrase for a co-founder of the "LGB Alliance Ireland" to use

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4 years

A great way to honour John Hume would be to paint over that maniac in the lower left corner

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7 months

Solidarity with the migrant people working on Parnell Street tonight. They must be terrified.

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@wendylyon

4 years

As a lawyer who acts for a lot of traumatised people, the single most emotionally affecting experience of my professional life was attending the mother and baby homes commission with a survivor whose baby had died. I feel like Ireland has just told her it doesn't care, again.

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2 years

It will never not be astonishing to me that some people who consider themselves feminists will happily do lunch with people who are anti-abortion, anti-maternity rights, and anti-marriage equality as long as they are also anti-trans.

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JKR’s worst nightmare

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@wendylyon

2 months

“If I wasn’t personally benefitting I would also be boycotting” get in the fucking sea

Éirevision Podcast 🇮🇪

@EirevisionPod

2 months

💬 🇮🇪 Bambie Thug on the @RTELateLateShow when asked about Israel’s participation in Eurovision: “I stand with anyone doing the boycott. I think if I wasn’t in the competition, I would also be boycotting. There a lot of moving parts and at the end of the day, without the group

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6 years

Kinda ironic seeing the Irish media laud the suffragettes for breaking windows at Dublin Castle when they've spent the past year telling women if we want repeal we need to ask nicely

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8 years

France: We must allow offensive, provocative cartoons because free speech Also France: We must ban burqini because offensive and provocative

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@wendylyon

5 years

(Thread) So the news that two young sex workers were jailed for "brothel keeping" in Ireland has exposed the reality that the Nordic Model doesn't actually decriminalise them. But it's exposed something else we need to talk about...

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3 years

Got the good news today that my last remaining client fighting for inclusion in the Magdalene laundries redress scheme has finally had her claim accepted ✊

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@wendylyon

2 years

This is lovely but people in direct provision have to go to the social welfare office for bus fare to attend their legal appointments I have had social welfare offices phone me to check whether the appointment letter I gave my client was authentic

Bus Éireann

@Buseireann

2 years

People arriving in Ireland having fled the war in Ukraine can now travel to their final destination for free on Expressway and Bus Éireann services. See for information @immigrationIRL

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4 years

Very pleased (and relieved!) to announce that Estefany has obtained her passport stamp. Her nightmare is over.

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Got to do my favourite part of this job today. Phone someone to tell them their application for refugee status had succeeded. 🥰🥰🥰

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@wendylyon

3 years

"Why didn't she go to the guards?"

The Times Ireland

@thetimesIE

3 years

Hundreds of frontline gardaí are thought to be implicated in the cancellation of 999 calls as a way to avoid follow-up inquiries and lessen their workloads An internal investigation has confirmed that about 10,000 emergency calls were terminated

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@wendylyon

2 years

TERFs are a parody of themselves at this stage

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@wendylyon

4 years

As if Glinner finally being suspended from Twitter wasn't enough to make your day, look what happened when he ran to Mumsnet for sympathy

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@wendylyon

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Enoch Burke’s mam wishes she’d thought of that

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

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Luis Rubiales: Spanish FA president's mother on hunger strike over kiss row

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Absolutely nobody in this country should be homeless. Not one person.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

2 months

Irish government runs €8.3bn budget surplus

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Hup the grandfathers

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This picture of a crow is so interesting because it's a cat

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@wendylyon

6 years

Heard several stories of abusive behaviour by #savethe8th supporters on O'Connell Street today. A 16yo leafleting for Yes was bullied to tears. Make no mistake their campaign is about dominance and control - NOT love.

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@1ncognito___ Mosque in Debra Zayit, Ethiopia

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Important Popbitch update

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3 years

It says so much about Labour that despite Bacik becoming late favourite, Fine Gael continued to run mainly against Sinn Féin. They know a Labour TD is a potential coalition partner so no threat to their continued dominance. Cannot believe Labour supporters still don't get this.

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@wendylyon

2 years

Wondering why a guy who it seems had nothing whatsoever to do with Ashling Murphy's death was arrested and so many details about him released to media

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What the fuck am I reading

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The far right has now succeeded in getting a public library in one of Ireland’s largest cities to close its doors. This is something we should all be very, very concerned about.

Cork City Council

@corkcitycouncil

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📣 Public Notice 📣 In light of planned demonstrations on Grand Parade, Cork City Library will close to the public at 12.30pm on Saturday 29th July. This decision is taken in the interests of the safety & well-being of the public and library staff.

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@wendylyon

3 years

Happily. Through my taxes, the same way all services should be provided.

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Fellas is it woke to save people from cardiac arrest

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Move along. Nothing to see here.

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And here is Glinner posing with his arm around Ferg Power, a nasty far-right extremist and organiser of anti-immigrant demos. This is who they are.

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@wendylyon

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Hi Neale, I act for an eight-year-old Irish citizen who was deported from Turkey to Belarus last year after @simoncoveney refused to intervene to bring him back to Ireland. Can I count on your support?

Neale Richmond

@nealerichmond

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Ireland should follow the lead of Czechia on this too #Belarus

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@wendylyon

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THERE 👏IS 👏 NO 👏 2km 👏 TRAVEL 👏 BAN 👏 It's a ban on going more than 2km from your home for the purpose of *exercise*. If you are travelling for ANY OTHER PURPOSE allowed in the Regulations, you can go as far as necessary.

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OMG. The Supreme Court has just held Ireland's indefinite ban on employment for asylum seekers to be UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

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@wendylyon

4 years

People saying we need hate crime laws do know it’s already illegal to push someone into a canal, right?

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@wendylyon

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Was in the hairdressers today and confirm that “level 5 now or we will regret it later” is the view of the ordinary Irish person

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@wendylyon

3 years

Alan Kelly is renting out his holiday home on AirBnB and hasn't registered as a landlord. Tsk tsk

Holiday home owned by Labour leader Alan Kelly is being rented out on Airbnb

A holiday home owned by Labour leader Alan Kelly is being rented out on the short-term letting site Airbnb.

www.independent.ie

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@wendylyon

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I guess my efforts to keep her off the kitchen counter are gonna need a little extra work

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@wendylyon

9 months

Are there any actual women at #LetWomenSpeakDublin ?

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@wendylyon

1 month

Irish government take note

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Hear me out. If you say "we have a $9b surplus" but you have people living in tents and cars, you don't actually have a surplus. You're just really fucking bad at your job.

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I really feel for not only the poor kid at the centre of this, but everyone at the school. No matter what happens next week I don't think they'll see the end of this for a while. Sin é.

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Solidarity with any trans people who purchased tickets for @ATNfestival and were expecting a nice weekend only to find out about the TERFs speaking at it

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Visa for spouse refused on the basis there was "no evidence" client had ever met his spouse in person Their child's birth certificate was submitted

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Currently the Irish government is considering allowing the same Laundry orders to run direct provision centres for women

This Day in Irish History

@ThisDayIrish

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This day 25 years ago – 25 October 1996 – the last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland closed. It is estimated that 30,000 women passed through these institutions. For more information, pick up a copy of This Day in Irish History, available online and in all good bookshops now.

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Angela Nagle, the Irish academic who gets a job in the US and then writes an article about how the left should oppose immigration especially because of brain drain. Get. In. The. Fucking. Sea.

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There are LGBT teachers even now that could lose their job because of these policies. They have to pretend to be something they're not. All this snowflake has to do is avoid interacting with someone he has no reason to interact with anyway. 3/

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@wendylyon

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This, from a study of sex workers in Vietnam, is the best thing I've read all week

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@wendylyon

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Now I’ve had my problems with @British_Airways over the past couple days but with this from their inflight magazine they have really gone too far!

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@wendylyon

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Once you understand that Ireland's laws are not about protecting sex workers but about making it more difficult for them to work, you will understand why condom confiscation is 100% consistent with government policy.

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@wendylyon

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@DanKaszeta You'd be amazed what people in Britain don't know about Ireland.

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@wendylyon

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Also. This is an actual quote from the Garda superintendent quoted in the article. We all know the Gardaí are institutionally racist but rarely is the quiet part said this loud.

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@wendylyon

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How many people over the years have had to teach in an Irish school that adopted policies they didn't agree with. Or in many cases, policies that DID directly affect them, that FORCED them to remain silent or risk losing their job. 2/

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FAO the guy who tweeted a couple months ago that he didn’t understand why anyone would pay for a gym membership when they could just run outdoors for free

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@wendylyon

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@antoabs @gardainfo @AGSI_Ireland @gardarep @SimonHarrisTD @LeoVaradkar If Gardaí are offended by being portrayed as facilitating evictions then maybe they should consider not facilitating evictions?

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The fucking neck of Peadar Toibín, who literally started his own party just to oppose the right to safe and legal abortion, to say “Any ministers that refuse to put women’s safety first should resign”. THE FUCKING NECK.

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@wendylyon

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@thoughtsofshaz @admiralbooth @edgar_a_bitch @EddieRobson Have you seen him with his cats

Cats and Kittens

@catsnkittys

3 years

Freddie Mercury and His Love for the Cats He Treated Like Children If you're a big fan of Freddie Mercury then you'll know about his love of #cats . He loved them so much he even wrote a song for his cat Delilah and dedicated albums to them! CLICK to view >

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@wendylyon

3 years

White feminism is looking at a police car with a rainbow painted on it and thinking the rainbow is the part that represents violence

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@wendylyon

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@normcos These are not the people marching for Palestine.

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@wendylyon

3 years

Just say white people, Dominic

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

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🇦🇫Almost all single-nationality UK citizens who want to leave Afghanistan have been brought home, Dominic Raab has confirmed

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3 years

Imagine actually saying this in public

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1 year

It’s kinda hilarious how @FineGael reps are ensuring that every Irish person on Twitter is getting reminded about Gardaí taking part in evictions

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I’m not sure there’s been enough focus on the apparent fact that someone from the Gardaí leaked the suspect’s national origin to Gr*pt.

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@wendylyon

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There are journalists I respect at @IrishTimes and I have sometimes spoken to them about cases I work on/my field of law generally. That ends today. Until the IT apologises for printing that hate-filled screed, accepts the harm it's caused, and undertakes to do better, I'm done.

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@wendylyon

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I suspect @Independent_ie really won't want people to remember this sympathetic piece it wrote about Jonathan Dowdall after he left Sinn Féin. So definitely don't retweet it

'I quit over Sinn Fein bullying' - former councillor

Former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall has claimed he quit the party because he was bullied by figures in the organisation.

www.independent.ie

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@wendylyon

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BTW, releasing just enough information to allow local people identify and spread further details of a person you’ve arrested is still Garda leaking

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@wendylyon

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"...you don’t actually have to like prostitution, or believe it has any redeeming social value, to grant sex workers rights, resources, and safety. You just have to trust them to be the experts on how to improve their own living conditions."

Our Bodies, Our Business | Los Angeles Review of Books

Sascha Cohen reviews “Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight For Sex Workers’ Rights.”...

lareviewofbooks.org

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Something you won't read in the #LyraMcKee obits: she was a close friend of @GlasgaeLauraLee and one of the very few journos I've ever 100% vouched for to interview sex workers.

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Your reminder that murder is already illegal and carries a mandatory life sentence. We need other solutions. #tullamore

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@wendylyon

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Found out today that my Dad’s cousin has died of COVID. She had Down Syndrome and was in a care home. I don’t know how long it had been since she’d seen anyone in the family. I hope it was a nice home where they looked after her as best they could. RIP Jackie.

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Ireland, a country that sends military jets to rescue posh women’s surrogate babies from Ukraine but allows a 7 year old Irish child of immigrants to be deported to Belarus 👍

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Kind of crazy that an Irish citizen getting shot in the US in an anti-Palestinian hate crime hasn’t got more attention in Ireland

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Notice how we only ever hear the term "radicalised" used about people drawn to jihadism and not other types of fascism. Nobody ever asks how were Gemma O and John Waters radicalised.

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First Chinese-born barrister called to the Bar of Ireland

Fei Liang moved to Ireland in 2008 after completing her law degree in China

www.irishtimes.com

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People shouldn't be surprised at this btw. Under the Nordic Model the police see it as their job to "disrupt the sex industry" (quoting Gda Supt Declan Daly). They will use whatever means are at their disposal.

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What's happening in Ballymun tonight really needs to be *strongly* condemned by political leaders from across the spectrum, as well as by the MSM which has repeatedly failed to recognise the growing threat of the far right in Ireland.

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My question is: if he thinks he has a God-given right to be at the school despite his suspension, and despite a court order... what happens if the outcome of the disciplinary process is that he loses the job completely? Will he accept that? 4/

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Absolutely losing it at this bit from Aoife Moore’s book

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3 years

The Phoenix not pulling any punches on Katherine Zappone's appointment

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If you don't think a woman giving up her baby unwillingly, because her parents insisted and told her she'd be left homeless and disowned otherwise, is a "forced" adoption, try imagining she'd had an abortion instead.

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Clip from the video I was just sent by Hugo’s new mam. He ran over to her for scritches. Remember this is the cat that was feral for five years until he lost a leg and had to be taken inside. Miracles do happen 🥰 #AdoptDontShop

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Enoch Burke is a German teacher 🤔

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Boom. (via @fornicatrix and @pastachips )

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3 years

Today in Totally Pointless Mansplaining On Twitter

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Everyone I know is so upset. The collective grief in Ireland is indescribable.

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3 years

You allowed an eight year old Irish citizen to be deported to Belarus just last year.

Simon Coveney

@simoncoveney

3 years

Coveney says Lukashenko has no democratic legitimacy ⁦ @dfatirl ⁩

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Wendy Lyon 🔴⚫️

@wendylyon

3 years

Y'know how France is fast-tracking citizenship for healthcare workers? Have just seen a case where a doctor working in an Irish hospital, who applied under the Irish associations provision (Irish citizen child), was REFUSED. "No exceptional/compelling reasons" Well done Ireland🙄

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