Brian

[Niamh (Paddystinian) Ní Cheallaigh ☘️♿️🌻🇵🇸🕊 @NiamhbWalshe]

As of Aug 1st, Ireland is the 2nd richest country in the world. Why then do we have a failing health service, a housing crisis, a homelessness crisis. A lack of teachers, GPs, medical professionals, SNAs, guards, and everything else that a properly functioning state needs? - FFG

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

I saw quite a bit of confusion as to why a Commanding Officer in the Defence Forces is cross-examined after a guilty plea in a civil court.

Not surprising so much confusion because most lawyers and judges couldn't tell you why, either.

CW: sexual assault, misogyny. /1

[Klonopin Centaur @facetedcarapace]

This is so fucking funny lmao got her ass good

[Nooruddean @BeardedGenius]

Listen to this guy speak, particularly from the 2.40 point onwards. Eloquent, impassioned and absolutely on the right side of history.

[Constantin Gurdgiev @GTCost]

#Ireland is an interesting country & a very revealing political 'laboratory' for the entire West. Let's have a quick thread on that. Ireland came into this century on foot of being a failed state in the 1980s. As such, its younger generations grew up in an environment of rapid+

[Sam Diss @SamDiss]

in this week's n*wsletter, i got a little more personal than i usually do. this one is about choosing curiosity over fear.

if you'd like to read, like this tweet and i'll DM the link.

[Brian @BrianMcsw]

What does he mean by "I am the Guinness man." I thought @shitlondonguinn was the Guinness man. Unless?

[Madrid Xtra @MadridXtra]

🗣 Carvajal and Joselu's father-in-law: "I am the Guinness man. Do you know someone with two sons-in-law at Real Madrid and in the Spanish National Team? If I had more daughters, I would partner with FIFA." @partidazocope

[V @fagnesvarda]

Daniel Day-Lewis writing about his visit to Gaza in 2005:

[Naila Kauser @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[Balls.ie @ballsdotie]

The perfect goal seen from the perfect angle

📹 @102megan

[Taísto @TaistoFCB]

One BILLION Euro of government money for one year of Mbappé when 15%-20% of the country live in poverty.

Really puts things into perspective

[Jaleel Shaw @jaleelshaw]

The actors & writers are protesting/striking now… Should we, the musicians be doing the same?

[Ali Plumb @AliPlumb]

So I think I made Harrison Ford cry 🥲 (a bit)

He certainly made me cry, I'll be honest with you

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

What a player

[Brian @BrianMcsw]

Give it frankie til the end of the season

[Matt Law @Matt_Law_DT]

Full story #cfc https://t.co/E7WTvzvAID

[Andy Ha @AndyHa_]

Wayne Rooney is one of the greatest comedic talents this country has ever produced.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

🚨Culture Wars Latest: Censoring UK’s most trusted voice on nature is shocking dereliction of BBC’s duty to public service broadcasting. It CANNOT allow truth on nature depletion to be victim in cynical culture wars stoked by populist Ministers #WildIsles https://t.co/uOXT3r4mnl