The Ditch Live at the Whistleblower: Away from the mainstream, towards an alternative media
‘I was phoned to go on a radio debate and they said, "Oh we've got X," some ex-British general, "he's going to be the for and could you come on and be the against?" And I said, "I'm not the against, the Irish people are the against." Every single poll says that the Irish public do not want to join NATO, we do not want to give up neutrality.
‘And when I went on the show, to every point they made, I was like, the Irish people don't want it, the Irish people don't want it, the Irish people don't want it. And it was like I was being treated like I was the idiot. This British general – first of all, remember the last time we let the Brits decide what they were doing here – the presenter, were talking down to me as if I was the idiot because I was representing what every single poll tells us.’
Live from @30southannest with Oisín Gilmore, Rory Rowan, Aoife Moore and Jenny Maguire
After two patients of a surgeon at Beaumont suffered “devastating neurological outcomes”, a doctor-led committee at the hospital – in a letter obtained by The Ditch – asked a clinical director to consider stopping the surgeon performing certain surgeries.
https://t.co/EcQ6RyLVCK
The Ditch: The Party Line | Episode 13: Why the Empire Loses, with Richard Drayton
On Jack Chambers: ‘He went to the Bilderberg Conference. If you want to form conspiracy theories about there being some sort of a New World Order you would point to the Bilderberg.
‘It’s kind of a do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law vibe. It's invite only, it's a meeting of the global elite. I'm gonna use a slur here but I think it's necessary: the Epstein class. Which is a slur for oligarchs but there are plenty of oligarchs there.
‘It's a conference taking place in the US and it’s by invite only. The private nature of the meeting means that participants are there quote, in an individual, not an official capacity. The topics being discussed: AI, Arctic security, China, digital finance, Middle East, Russia, transatlantic defence, industrial relations, Ukraine, the US, the future of warfare, and the west.’
📕 The Ditch x @30southannest: Book launch with Matt Kennard
Join The Ditch and The Whistleblower at 30 South Anne St on 17 June to launch author and journalist @kennardmatt’s Irregular Army – which investigates how the US’s wars abroad have boomeranged and now fuel MAGA, domestic terror and the global far right.
“One of our finest investigative journalists illuminates the terrifying machinery of our ascendant authoritarian state. Essential,” says Chris Hedges.
Tickets: https://t.co/Y1VIX054zr
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: The Party Line | Episode 13: Why the Empire Loses, with Richard Drayton
‘Tony gets incredibly angry and he starts shouting the house down and he says, "In this house Christopher Columbus is a hero." And that's because Tony's Italian-American identity and the legitimacy of it to him hinges upon Christopher Columbus being regarded as a hero. He can't be regarded as an outsider because we discovered America.
‘Similarly: Herzog Park. If you name a park after somebody who participated in the Nakba you are greenlighting a certain understanding of history, which in turn legitimises certain points of view in the present. There's a reason why during periods of social upheaval the first thing people do is topple statues or rename parks or rename streets. And that's because the way we understand the past colours shapes how we understand the present.
‘I’ll take an aspiration to a genuine alternative, along with an understanding of what’s to be expected of the state, over the attempts at assimilation from the not populist-enough-right. This is what we chose.’
https://t.co/Bf8rJ1fE4V
The Ditch can reveal that 34 containers of weapons and bombs for Israel left a US port yesterday on the ship Ocean Glory.
The same vessel was allowed dock at a Spanish port last month after delivering another shipment of munitions to Israel.
https://t.co/KczpZBsshx
Hasan streamed the Kneecap Coachella gig where factual comments were put on screens and applauded.
A year later the British state threw all they could to falsely label Liam Óg a terrorist and have banned hasan from entering.
All at the behest of US based Zionists.
Remarkable
🚨Breaking: Amnesty International has today joined a criminal complaint against FedEx after The Ditch uncovered evidence the airline unlawfully transported F-35 fighter jet parts for the Israel Defense Forces through Belgium in June 2025
🚨Breaking: Amnesty International has today joined a criminal complaint against FedEx after The Ditch uncovered evidence the airline unlawfully transported F-35 fighter jet parts for the Israel Defense Forces through Belgium in June 2025
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
The Ditch: The Party Line | Episode 12: From Clare to Here, with Clare Daly
‘With someone like Patrick O'Donovan you kind of go – and I can say this as a headbanger from the country myself – you see him as a headbanger from the country who's just kind of bumbling around and all the rest. What he did was actually quite serious.
‘And also – I can say this as someone who worked for state media over in China – this was a real overreach from a government minister. The fuel protests were a real flashpoint where government was under real popular pressure. It was a real moment of weakness for the state and government and this is how they reacted: to go after poor RTÉ.
‘Puts us in an awkward position where we're going to bat for RTÉ!’
The Ditch: The Party Line | Episode 12 From Clare to Here, with Clare Daly
‘Do you think that public sentiment has changed for better or worse when it comes to that blind Europhilia?
‘Obviously Ursula has been a key factor in changing that and Europe's open support for the genocide was an absolute culture shock for loads of people not just in Ireland but actually in the European institutions.
‘It had a devastating psychological impact on loads of the staff who were in there who bought into that Europe was a peace project: that they were for good, that we're out spreading values, we don't have interests.
‘And then they saw Ursula von der Leyen greenlighting a genocide and not just Ursula von der Leyen on her own, but all of them toeing in on that and they just folded.’
The Ditch: The Party Line | Episode 12 From Clare to Here, with Clare Daly
‘Helen McEntee as foreign affairs minister: what is your worldview? What is the actual vision? What is it?’
‘I think their vision is total subservience to the European Union.
They come from that class of people who just love Europe. They’re the same class of people who years ago here loved the Brits. They want to be in with the master and anything that's Irish and different is inherently embarrassing to them. We were an embarrassment and a disgrace because we didn't go along with everyone else – oh my god the embarrassment, we'd be making a show of ourselves with our European friends.
‘We know the citizens of all the other European countries are pretty much like the Irish ones. They prefer to have their money being spent on a roof over their head, a pension, health service – rather than their young fellas being frogmarched into European wars, which is the only future that's being developed for them.’