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Pádraig Ó Meiscill

@omeiscill

Writer on current affairs, past affairs, fiction, friction & fission. Featured in The Ditch, Red Pepper, Frieze, Luncheon & elsewhere.

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The Ditch (@wereontheditch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This report was delivered to Children's Health Ireland in January. Affected families have neither seen the report nor been contacted by CHI. Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has said she hasn’t seen the report. The Ditch is publishing the report in full. ontheditch.com/not-for-disclo…

The Ditch (@wereontheditch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A flight carrying 150kg of replenishments for Israel's bombing of Gaza illegally passed through Irish airspace this morning – hours after Israel killed more than 400 people. Last week government 'distanced itself' from plans to inspect these planes. ontheditch.com/as-idf-resumed…

Pádraig Ó Meiscill (@omeiscill) 's Twitter Profile Photo

State institutions very rarely acknowledge abuses of power until they are forced to do so. People of conscience - whistle-blowers and relatives of affected kids - made this happen. We need more of it

The Ditch (@wereontheditch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨After a joint The Ditch x Declassified UK investigation that revealed Maersk’s transport of munitions to Israel, Moroccan protestors have stopped the shipping giant’s Nexoe vessel from docking🚨 The ship remains at sea.

🚨After a joint The Ditch x <a href="/declassifiedUK/">Declassified UK</a> investigation that revealed Maersk’s transport of munitions to Israel, Moroccan protestors have stopped the shipping giant’s Nexoe vessel from docking🚨 

The ship remains at sea.
The Ditch (@wereontheditch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Four Irish companies are supplying components to the largest supplier of arms to the Israel Defense Forces, according to records uncovered by The Ditch. One is a south Dublin-based defence firm that makes parts for missile-carrying military drones. ontheditch.com/irish-companie…

Nick Lloyd (@civil_war_spain) 's Twitter Profile Photo

School book belonging to a 12-year-old. Village near Tolosa, Basque Country, 1966. "In school I must not speak Basque" 1,000 (one thousand) lines. Via Kike Amonarriz

School book belonging to a 12-year-old. Village near Tolosa, Basque Country, 1966. "In school I must not speak Basque" 1,000 (one thousand) lines. Via <a href="/KikeAmonarriz/">Kike Amonarriz</a>
Ciarán MacGiollaBh (@crogallmorglas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tá ardmheas agam ar KNEECAP de bharr: Seasamh láidir i gcoinne cinedhíothú ✅ Chuir siad an Ghaeilge ar ardán idirnáisiúnta ✅ Tá ceol s’acu ar focan dóigh agus is lads iontacha iad ✅ Is laochra an triúir acu agus seasfaidh pobal na Gaeilge leo go deo

Tá ardmheas agam ar <a href="/KNEECAPCEOL/">KNEECAP</a> de bharr:

Seasamh láidir i gcoinne cinedhíothú ✅
Chuir siad an Ghaeilge ar ardán idirnáisiúnta ✅
Tá ceol s’acu ar focan dóigh agus is lads iontacha iad  ✅

Is laochra an triúir acu agus seasfaidh pobal na Gaeilge leo go deo
Dr. Ezzideen (@ezzingaza) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This morning, the heralds of decay, UNRWA and the World Food Programme, proclaimed what was already written in the bones of the living: the flour is gone, the food is spent, and the age of starvation has officially begun. No more bread for the condemned. No more hollow

Dr. Abusalama (@shahdabusalama) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our survivors in Gaza are hardly living. Even if Israeli bombs and gunfire spared them, they're living like walking dead; heartbroken, starved and thirsty, not guaranteeing if they would survived another hour or another day. The "international community" has been enabling this.

Daniel Lambert (@dllambo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“We are breaking the bodies and the minds of the children of Gaza." A brave group of activists set out with a boat and food to do what they could and Israel drone bombed their boat. It's medieval levels of evil but with fighter jets and drones

The Ditch (@wereontheditch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

With Gaza on the brink of mass starvation in the middle of relentless IDF bombing, Irish state authorities yesterday assisted a FedEx flight carrying 13 shipments of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel as it illegally flew through Irish territory. ontheditch.com/gaza-on-brink-…

Pádraig Ó Meiscill (@omeiscill) 's Twitter Profile Photo

RTÉ managed to mangle a fairly straightforward story yesterday. You'd wonder like. Worth remembering that any public acknowledgement from state to date has happened because whistleblowers spoke, The Ditch published and families applied pressure.

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@franceskalbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’ve seen the silhouettes of so many people—so many children—burning alive, that I can’t look at fire anymore without feeling sick to my stomach. WE MUST STOP THIS MASSACRE. May the Palestinians forgive us.

Rashida Tlaib (@rashidatlaib) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” -- Omar El Akkad

Mohammed El-Kurd (@m7mdkurd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In Gaza, Israelis are burning people alive, starving people to death. In Jerusalem, they are launching pogroms that resemble Nazi Germany. In the West Bank, they're settling trees and cattle on fire. And yet not one Israeli ambassador has been expelled from any Western country.

An Dream Dearg 🅾️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️ (@dreamdearg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"The coloniser, always, in all situations, suppresses the language or the languages of the colonised, and elevates their own language. And this is true in all African countries... but it is also true in Ireland." - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o