Padraig G

Tendency to extract the urine. Slow internet - the curse of rural Ireland

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell. Former CIA Officer Joe Kent confirms Israel is intentionally sabotaging every single ceasefire. He demands the Trump administration cut off military aid to Tel Aviv to stop the Zionist regime from dragging America into a disastrous war.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel just committed a horrific massacre in South Lebanon.

They dropped bombs on a civilian home in the village of Tayr Debba.

A mother and her child were pulled from under the rubble.

Other children are still missing.

Another innocent family wiped out during a “ceasefire.”

[TheManWhoFellToEarth @ReturnofColin2]

😅

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING

Israel is blowing up entire civilian homes in Aadshit al-Qusayr, South Lebanon right now — during a ceasefire.

Civilian homes.

No justification.

Just deliberate terror and destruction to ensure civilians have nothing left to return to.

A war crime in broad daylight.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Trump would allow a Comedian at this year’s Press Correspondents Dinner so Jimmy Kimmel decided to do a take of his own talking jabs at Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth and it was Brilliant. Did you like it?

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed every single person in this photo in Lebanon.

Every. Single. One.

All journalists.

Targeted and assassinated intentionally.

For reporting the truth from the frontlines.

[Andy Creed @cyberistia]

It’s funny how many Spurs fans are tying themselves in knots over what relegation might mean financially. I honestly couldn’t care less. It’s not my money, and it never has been. If Spurs go down, they’re still my club. My first game was back when we were in the old Second Division, so this idea that everything begins and ends with the Premier League just doesn’t land with me.

I’ve always watched football, always played it, and always loved it for what it was supposed to be. The beautiful game. That’s what drew me in. That’s what kept me there. What it’s become now feels a long way from that. It’s turned into a rich man’s plaything, fuelled by asinine media noise and endlessly badged as “the best league in the world” when it quite clearly isn’t.

In fact, part of me thinks stepping away from the Premier League circus wouldn’t be the worst thing. The football at that level has become strangely sterile. Everything is over coached, over structured, and risk averse. Players are drilled into systems so tightly that individuality gets squeezed out. The mavericks either disappear or get reshaped into something far more predictable. You end up watching patterns rather than moments.

And then there’s VAR, still clinging on to the illusion that you can turn subjective decisions into objective ones if you just draw enough lines and slow things down enough. It’s taken something instinctive and immediate and turned it into a courtroom exercise. I won’t miss that for a second.

Maybe a reset wouldn’t be the disaster it’s made out to be. It might even remind people what supporting a club actually means.

#COYS

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

On this day in 1916, a true man of peace was executed in cold blood. Francis Sheehy-Skeffington was many things other 1916 heroes were not. A pacifist, a feminist, and an atheist. He was also, unlike most of them, entirely innocent of any act of rebellion. The British shot him anyway.

He actually question both the religious zeal and fatalism of his contemporaries. These concerns about the Irish Volunteers were expressed in the Irish Citizen newspaper in 1915, in an open letter to Thomas MacDonagh.

'I was on the point of joining you… I am glad now I did not. For, as your infant movement grows towards the stature of a full-grown militarism, its essence preparation to kill, grows more repellent to me.' He wrote those words twelve months before a British officer put a bullet in him.

Imagine the scene. A war you've long dreaded erupts in the city you love. You are torn between the cause of the rebels and your terror at the bloodshed it requires. Waving your white flag, you go about the city putting up posters, trying to stop the looting and lawlessness breaking out beneath the smoke and shelling. Dublin has descended into Hell.

On your way home, on Portobello Bridge, you are arrested by soldiers of the 11th East Surrey Regiment. Your desperate explanations of pacifism fall on deaf ears as you are brutally assaulted and taken into custody. Another bloody Paddy, who will never see his beloved wife or family again.

The soldier's captain, John Bowen-Colthurst, was equally uncaring of his pleas of innocence. He signed the death warrant. The next morning, Sheehy-Skeffington and two other innocent journalists were taken out and shot by firing squad. One of the bullets remained lodged in the brick wall of Portobello Barracks. It is still there.

The injustice of his murder transformed his widow, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, from suffragist into revolutionary. At her trial for IRA activities in Armagh in 1933, she said:

'I recognise it as no crime to be in my own country. I would be ashamed of my own name and my murdered husband's name if I did.'

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[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🇬🇧 British blogger drops truth:
"Israel killed 93 journalism workers, bombarded 109 ambulances, and forced 6 hospitals to close down completely in #Lebanon.
You can't convince me that all of this is because of Hezbollah this is a war crime committed by Israel."
The world is watching. Share this clip. 👀

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Jimmy Kimmel obliterated Trump and his administration…

Fucking nailed it.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel destroyed the statue of Jesus Christ in the Christian village of Debel, South Lebanon.

Now they’re bulldozing the solar panels that provide electricity and water.

Not military targets.

Critical infrastructure.

This is the deliberate targeting of civilian life.

[Swanlinbar GAA Club @SwanlinbarGAA]

FULL TIME

Gerry Ellis & Sons Fresh Today ACFL League Div 4 Rd 4
2nd Half 61:51

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Shannon Gaels 1-14 (17)

Swanlinbar lead by 5

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[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Remember this shocking detail : ‘Throughout the ordeal, the journalists made repeated calls for help. But Israel prevented the Lebanese Army and the Lebanese Red Cross from reaching them, informed sources told us’ - @MaucourantNada

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

I urge everyone to watch this report by Channel 4 News about Israel’s killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil.

“Under international humanitarian law, journalists are afforded the same protection as civilians… If that journalist has a particular sympathy with a particular cause, that doesn’t mean that protection is removed…

… the IDF said the incident is under review. Don’t hold your breath…”

Providing the necessary context and not taking Israel’s claims at face value.

This is how every journalist should be reporting.

[Swanlinbar GAA Club @SwanlinbarGAA]

Swanlinbar v Shannon Gaels
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[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

There are almost a million people of Irish descent in Argentina. We're not entirely sure, because the Irish who arrived in the 19th century were routinely classified as "Ingleses" in official records, filed away under British.

Most wouldn't correct this either, as being English got you further in Buenos Aires than being Irish. Argentina is, by some distance, the largest Irish community in any non-English speaking country on earth, and the fifth largest Irish diaspora population in the world.

From 1803 to 1815, Irish farm labourers had been feeding British soldiers through the Napoleonic Wars. When peace came, grain prices collapsed and landlords switched to cattle, which required far fewer hands. Then the Famine came.

And across the water, Argentina was advertising for lads who could handle livestock. Argentine government agents arrived in the Irish Midlands selling the pampas as "the finest region under the southern cross."

The greatest wave of emigration ran from 1850 to 1870, pulling predominantly from the coastline of County Wexford and the townlands around the Westmeath-Longford border. Most were single Catholic men in their twenties, non-inheriting sons who knew they would never see a deed in their own name if they stayed.

They arrived as shepherds and rural labourers, working the "halves" or "thirds" system. You received a portion of the wool clip and the new lambs in lieu of wages. Do it long enough without dying, and you could rent land. Do that long enough, and you could buy it. The sheep-farming boom of 1840 to 1890 gave the Irish social mobility on the pampas. Men who had arrived with nothing ended up owning estancias.

Father Anthony Dominic Fahy, a Galway-born Dominican, became the central figure. The Pallotine and Passionist orders followed, and the Sisters of Mercy established schools across the province. In remote areas where there was no state infrastructure worth mentioning, the Irish clergy were often the only institution that functioned.

In 1875, a Galway priest called Patrick Joseph Dillon founded a newspaper in Buenos Aires called The Southern Cross, and it's still going today. Under the editorship of Father Federico Richards in the 1970s and 1980s, it was one of the few publications in Argentina willing to report on the junta's human rights abuses.

One of the more interesting figures to pass through it was William Bulfin from Birr, County Offaly. He arrived in Argentina in the early 1880s, worked as a gaucho, married on a ranch owned by an Irish landowner, then ended up writing for the paper under the pen name "Che Buono" before buying it outright.

A committed Irish nationalist, he established a branch of An Conradh na Gaeilge in Argentina before returning to Ireland. His son Eamonn, born in Buenos Aires, enrolled at Patrick Pearse's St. Enda's School and later fought in the 1916 Rising. One of Che Guevara's forebears, Patrick Lynch, was born in Galway in 1715.

Three universities now have Irish Studies chairs: del Salvador, La Plata, and La Pampa. The Fahy Club runs Irish language classes for descendants. GAA clubs operate across the country, with two leagues playing Gaelic football and hurling.

This community largely came to think of itself as Argentine through assimilation, particularly after the Falklands War of 1982, which drew a sharp line between British identity and Argentine identity and forced a choice. But the names remained. Duggan, Lobos, San Antonio de Areco. There are whole towns named for Irish families on the Buenos Aires pampas.

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[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Israel’s murder of journalists continues. The details of what happened to Amal Khalil are horrific. The Red Cross tried to rescue her but were themselves fired on.

How is Israel allowed such total impunity? Why is the international press not in uproar?

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Read this detailed account from @ZeinakhodrAljaz of the sequence of events leading to the killing of Leb journalist Amal Khalil. Her editors; Leb Pres; Red Cross, were all informed and appealed for help. The Israeli military bombed her shelter anyway then prevented her rescue for hours, attacking the ambulance crews. Targeting journalists and first responders is a heinous breach of int law - no matter their affiliation, no matter it was inside Israeli-occupied land. Leb PM is demanding accountability and calls her killing a ‘blatant war crime’

[Padraig G @GilPasCharged]

Told ya 🤣🤣 @JJGilheany

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

I'm very proud to be Irish...

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

Do you remember the first time you listened to Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits?

The song was written by Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler and inspired by his broken romance with Holly Vincent, leader of the band Holly And The Italians.

Some of the lyrics indicate that Knopfler felt she used him to boost her career: "How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals."

The line, "Now you just say, oh Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene withhim," came from an interview where Holly Vincent was quoted as saying:

"What happened was that I had a scene with Mark Knopfler and it got to the point where he couldn't handle it and we split up."

The lyrics of the song describe the experience of the two lovers of the title, hinting at a situation that saw the "Juliet" figure abandon her "Romeo" after finding fame and moving on from the rough neighborhood where they first encountered each other.

In addition to the reference to William Shakespeare's play of the same title, the song makes playful allusion to otherworks involving young love, includin the songs 'Somewhere' -from West Side Story, which is itself based on the Shakespeare play-and 'My Boyfriend's Back'.

Here's your song, Mark Knopfler performing "Romeo and Juliet" live at A Night In London, recorded in BBC building, on April, 1996.