In 2015 I was an 18 yr old gay boy during the Marriage equality referendum. The "Vote No" side portrayed me as a paedophile that shouldn't be allowed near kids and I had no right to raise them. An argument that criminalised me and avoided the question of the actual referendum(1)
Today Keir Starmer has announced his intention to step down as British Prime Minister.
His departure underscores the chaos of Westminster and how our future is better served by breaking our links with Britain.
Successive British governments have cut our public services and weakened our economy, leaving ordinary people struggling to make ends meet while a small elite grows ever wealthier.
I stand ready to work constructively with the incoming British Prime Minister, but I will be clear that a hugely different approach is needed.
People here are not second-class citizens.
They deserve proper and fair investment in our public services, real support through the cost of living crisis, and respect for our democratic right to decide our own future.
The President of the Palestine Football Association and the Palestine Olympic Committee was refused visas by both Canada and the US to attend the World Cup. Did any Irish reporters ask Mark Carney about this disgraceful decision during his visit here at the weekend?
This is not a protest. It’s a Far Right Pogrom in Working Class East Belfast against innocent people who work in our schools and hospitals. The animals responsible for this are just as bad as that evil bastard who attacked the man with a Knife last night. Scumbags, all.
This should be the last time that America ever hosts a major international tournament - in any sport. The International Olympic committee should be watching very carefully for LA 2028
So @FIFAcom’s position is that a referee they selected for the World Cup can be excluded because of one host country’s racism, and FIFA bears no responsibility whatsoever.
Then why wasn’t he assigned to Canada or Mexico?
The tournament has three host countries. The obstacle is one country, not the entire World Cup. So why isn't FIFA finding a solution?
What FIFA is really saying is that when officials from the Global South are discriminated against, accommodation is impossible and exclusion is acceptable.
A World Cup that only works for holders of the right passports is not a global tournament. It’s a privilege masquerading as one.
Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
An Irish insurer that covered a ship carrying 440 tonnes of munitions to Israel – which Amnesty International said could contribute to genocide – had the “honour” of having Fianna Fáil’s Robert Troy attend the opening of its new Dublin office.
https://t.co/uQRAmUqAoq
The Ditch has learnt that a civil servant at Jim O’Callaghan’s Department of Justice has admitted to passing confidential staff data to a foreign intelligence agency.
https://t.co/WFv3VWJU4z