@RichieHayes2#HateSpeech law will drive the racists underground. If there are people out there spreading hatred, we need to know who they are - and to open a conversation with them, not shut them up.
@Jim_biden_ulaid@cjkgoggins@1888_CelticBhoy@PoliceServiceNI@JudiciaryNI I agree the accused should have the same right to anonymity until (and unless) convicted. Even if he's innocent, his reputation will never recover from this. Also to have a person charged the burden of proof should be on the accuser - no one should be charged without proof.
@john_mcguirk The absolute irony of them criticising anyone for trying to get an acquaintance a contract when the pro-life / conservative movement is rife with nepotism. You're probably the least "well connected" person involved.
@john_mcguirk If there's no objective proof, you should sue. Even if you lose (sadly the #MeToo movement has overturned the presumption of innocence), you will at least have asserted your right to your good name.
@john_mcguirk Unproven allegations aside, you don't fit the cookie-cutter "pro-life" mould which values children (& by proxy parenthood) above all else. The pro-life movement has more in common with a pagan fertility cult than Christianity where every person is intrinsically, equally precious.
@vonderleyen Russia hit Kyiv.
1 killed. 20 injured.
Global outrage.
48 hours earlier:
UKRAINE struck a UKRAINIAN university, 21 dead UKRAINIANS.
One story told.
One story hidden.
@griptmedia Low-paid casual workers are afraid to take shifts because there's a risk they'll go over their hours / income threshold and lose their social welfare payment. Abolish the Means Test and implement Universal Basic Income = no more poverty traps + less admin for employers.
@SylviaGam@chefsevenn I was very skinny too (still slim in my 50s but was skeletal as a kid) and got fed loads because everyone was trying to fatten me up. Oddly the blamed my carb-heavy vegetarian diet.
@james_xond Reading books, riding horses, writing, hanging around the Stephen's Green Centre in Dublin city and chatting on the phone (in the hall at home where I tried to avoid being overheard / in a phone booth - dropping coins in just as the beeps sounded to stop us getting cut off)