Lovely people, WE DID IT!
The motion to rename Herzog Park has been withdrawn. This is such a huge win and one that has only come about due to public pressure.
Thank you so very much for all of your help! 🥹🎉
Would Dublin rename Michael Collins Park because someone abroad dislikes the IRA of the 1970s?
Of course not.
So why erase Chaim Herzog, an Irishman who fought the Nazis, because of a modern conflict he never lived to see?
#HandsOffHerzogPark
Why apply a harsher standard to a Jewish-Irish figure like Chaim Herzog than to Irish-American leaders?
Ireland never renamed Kennedy Park over US drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia.
So why erase Herzog Park over Israeli policy?
#HandsOffHerzogPark
@MichealMartinTD You and Simon Harris stoked this hatred for 2 long years, and this is the fruit. Would like to see both of you resign and be replaced by leaders who put Ireland first and do not have opinions on the Middle East.
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This is prejudicial disclosure, breach of child privacy, and access journalism. Responsible reporting sticks to essentials, protects the minor, and interrogates safeguarding failures—not the child’s “profile.” #Citywest
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Irish media are leaking protected details + framing a child as the “problem.”
“Irish Times: “Tusla says girl absconded from its care during visit to city centre.”
This primes blame on the child, not guardians/safeguarding. #Citywest
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Signal of “non-cooperation”: “remained in phone contact… would not identify her precise location.”
Now imagine an adult case: “She was out at 1 a.m. on X Street and walked home.” We’d call that victim-blaming. Same here.
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Process-washing: “absconded from staff while on a planned recreational trip.”
Reads like institutional self-exculpation (“we did everything right”). Classic victim-blaming frame via “context.”
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The Journal pathologises her: “due to significant behavioural issues.”
That’s prejudicial + irrelevant to the alleged assault; it breaches child-privacy norms and shifts focus from duty of care to “her behaviour.”
@ChrisC53331@CormacLaffan Ireland’s fight a century ago was a war of national independence against an empire.
Hamas’ war is a religiously motivated terror campaign that deliberately targets civilians. Comparing them insults both the Irish and Palestinian civilians who suffer because of Hamas