Next Thursday marks 50 years since the Birmingham pub bombings. 💔 We are inviting everyone to join our staff and players in helping bring Birmingham to a standstill for one minute. This is to not only remember the 21 people whose lives were lost but also recognise the acts of

💥Law Prof Navot: "Despite Israel's claim that "Israel's robust judicial system [...] has investigated and will continue to rigorously investigate all allegations of improper conduct or offenses. Today's decision shows that the claim did not really convince them." Israel had 6

“Everybody goes mad” - as we hit the third week of Election 2024, it’s important to remember these wise words from former Fianna Fáil minister Noel Dempsey to ⁦Aine Lawlor⁩ on The Week in Politics a few years ago

ECHR raises important issues with assisted dying. This in particular leaps out in the Irish context. Can we really say our care is adequate?

Little boats in Galway (Woodquay)

There is a blindness on the new right w/r/t Russia, which they insist on viewing sympathetically. That is their starting point, and it's divorced from much, if any, knowledge of history or culture. It leads to the most absurd cul de sac, in which victim becomes villain. /1

Before (left) and after (right) of the interior of Notre Dame. Modernists lost this battle, so instead of a glass spire and partially destroyed vaultings everything was reconstructed as it was. Architects, for example, made sure that the former Medieval assymetrics in the

If realized, effectively the destruction of an independent Ukrainian state - exactly what Ukrainians fear and are fighting to prevent.

Great piece on rising US intervention risks towards Latin America under Trump by boz with this as a key point

Here’s some good background to GPSR, a slow burn Irish Sea border issue which appears to have been largely unaddressed. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/po…

#Breaking Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will bring the Israeli cabinet an outline for a ceasefire deal with Lebanon rte.ie/news/2024/1126…

💥"Twenty-One Angry Men" aka Netanyahu, way too late in the day, asking northern mayors "to explain to residents they will not be able to return home anytime soon for fear war will resume with greater intensity."

And the fact that with a straight face, politicians in the North comment about the Southern housing problem.

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Goodbye November. You had your moments. Beautiful moments. . #ireland #stormhour #ThePhotoHour #sunrise #wicklow #dogsoftwitter #greystones #irelandsancienteast #KeepDiscovering

But please... tell me more about how poor and horrible Europe is and how we are lazy and don't have trillion-dollar startups and all that kind of BS

Rolling updates RTÉ News #Syria

🧵Christmas is coming, and tbh I've more fun things to be doing than firefighting all these melters on Twitter. I've posted some aids before, but in addition, I'll add links to websites that show the reality of Irish 'neutrality' during ww2, so here we go irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…

“I’m sorry, the President isn’t taking calls today, he’s on remand. May I take a message?”