Shivers K

Shit Stirrer, loves the craic

[gript @griptmedia]

People Before Profit refuse to answer a Gript question about the Triple Lock, refusing to speak to @Ben_Scallan and dismissing the question through their press officer.

An Irish Times journalist then repeats Gript's question, which Paul Murphy immediately answers.

[Shivers K @Shiverssk]

Hi! Dr Abu Safiya ran a hospital under bombs in Gaza. yet he is now detained and reportedly tortured in an Israeli prison without charges. I just signed a global call for the release of him and his colleagues -- will you join me? https://t.co/Z1CHB1qhil

[Shivers K @Shiverssk]

@BrainLogicOnly @Cristiano @selecaoportugal As of today he's 41 years and 139 days old actually, he won't be 42 until February 5th 2027

[Shivers K @Shiverssk]

As of today he's 41 years and 139 days old actually, he won't be 42 until February 5th 2027 😁

[Living The Dream @BrainLogicOnly]

@Cristiano @selecaoportugal 42 years old

[snoopy @sophie09n]

Congratulations to Portugal
#portugal

[Shivers K @Shiverssk]

JK Rowling deserves to be given the ultimate British honour https://t.co/zQLU3UC0Cd

[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

South Dublin County Council reluctantly caved to legal pressure and will hold a meeting about proposed council rent hikes – but its unelected chief executive has said, even if councillors vote against the increases, rents will rise regardless. 

https://t.co/8MfP23rkVw

[Shivers K @Shiverssk]

@McindewarTam @HowardRBeckett Two cheeks of the same arse.

[Ellie @artymesia]

@HowardRBeckett Thought you might be interested in this roadside protest in Bath yesterday Howard.

[Seán Murray @sean_murray1]

Winner at Docs Ireland Film Festival 📽️🏆

Ross McDonnell Award for Best Cinematography in an Irish Documentary (in honour of the Irish cinematographer Ross McDonnell)

'This compelling feature confronts one of the most devastating realities of our time, bearing witness to the systematic targeting of civilians, among them those who risk daily their life to tell a different story than the narrative propagandas of the perpetrators.

Through a camera that is attentive to the smallest human details yet unflinching in the face of violence, this film observes with rare commitment and courage the profound consequences the targeting of journalists has for truth, accountability, and our collective understanding of war, creating a powerful visual testimony whose patience, engagement, and relentless gaze becomes an act of resistance in itself.'

The Ross McDonnell Award for Best Cinematography in an Irish Documentary goes to Journacide: The War on Truth, directed by Sean Murray.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Gary Lineker called for Israel to be banned from International Football.

Do you stand with Gary Lineker?

Like if you do.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Russian FM Lavrov: "We all have to be ashamed for not resolving Palestinian issue."

[neyi kaybettiğini hatırla @neyikaybettik]

Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesi'nde Netanyahu hakkında tutuklama emri çıkaran Fransız yargıç Nicolas Gouyou:

• Visa ve Mastercard tüm kartlarımı bloke etti.
• Hiçbir satın alma işlemi yapamıyorum.
• Ben bir hakimim, ama bana bir suçlu gibi davranılıyor.
• Hakimler, avukatlar ve politikacılar sindiriliyor.
• Bir meslektaşım, ismimin Trump'ın görev süresi sona erene kadar kara listeden çıkarılmayacağını söyledi.
• Fransa Cumhurbaşkanı'nın müdahalesine rağmen, ABD yetkilileri henüz bir yanıt vermedi.

[Turkish Archives @TurkishArc]

His kids will spend this Father’s Day without him.

John Chapman, British special forces veteran, left combat behind to feed starving children in Gaza.

An IDF soldiers killed him anyway.

Remember his name.

[Popüler Gazete @populergazeteTR]

ABD'li bir kadın:

-İsrail, babasından bilgi almak için 10 aylık bebeğe işkence yaptı.

-Tahliye ettikleri hastanede ölü bebekler bulundu.

-Bütün orduları, toplumları hasta. Sonra bize İran'dan korkmamız gerektiğini söylüyorlar.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Starmer batted off questions when 167 Iranian 🇮🇷 school girls were murdered by 🇮🇱 & 🇺🇸

He batted off questions about 20,00 🇵🇸 children murdered in Gaza 🇵🇸

He batted off questions about 🇮🇱 starving children in Gaza 🇵🇸

But when it comes to losing his job

He is moved to tears.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

The Irish establishment media has written a neat script about "Heroic" Helen Ogbu, the new Black mayor of Galway. The Nigerian born asylum seeker, direct provision survivor, foster carer, now mayor, its a perfect happy ending "immigrant success story". They're all celebrating it, all from exactly the same script.

But here’s what they've convieniently left out.

Back In 2001, at the peak of Ireland’s "anchor baby" scandal  thousands of heavily pregnant Nigerian women were flooding into the country to take advantage of the "Citizenship by birth" rule, In 2003 alone, 4,625 babies were born to "non-national" women in Dublin’s three main maternity hospitals aline, and 1,528 of those were born to Nigerian mothers. Politicians like then minister for justice Michael McDowell and  leader Bertie Ahern publicly condemned it. The issue became so inflammatory the Irish Government held a referendum in 2004 to amend the constitution and end the practice. The result? almost 80% of Ireland's people voted to close the loophole forever.

One of the Nigerian women who timed her trip perfectly was one Helen Ogbu. In 2001 she flew from Nigeria, which is over 5,200 kilometres from Dublin while heavily pregnant. There were no direct flights between the two states and she would have needed a visa,  she then had to  endure at least 11 to 13 hours of flying, with connections through Europe (usually London, Paris or Amsterdam)

This is a very long, expensive, and physically tough journey for anyone, never mind a woman in the late stages of an apparently complicated pregnancy, all supposedly just to "visit friends?"

Helen Ogbu subsequently gave birth to her daughter in Dublin, securing Irish citizenship for her child, and then promptly returned to Nigeria.

Despite this early "interaction" with the Irish state, her own website (and Labour Party material) completely and convieniently ignores this reality, they state -

“In 2006, my family and I moved to Ireland, seeking safety and a fresh start after the tragic loss of my husband.”

Despite this obviously intentional omission regarding her travel to Dublin while in the late stages of pregnancy,  there’s one other glaring problem, her husband, Sunny Orji Ogbu, wasn’t assassinated until October 2010. Four years later in Nigeria.

As the inconsistencies and selective narrative parroted by the idolising Irish media unravels, there are more questions which nobody in the Irish Times or RTE seems to want to ask.

Her husband was a successful businessman and politician in Nigeria, he had property holdings, several business and came from a large well know elite Nigerian family, Where did all his money go? In Nigeria it is exceptionally unusual that a wife would not inherit the deceased husbands estate, but Helen Ogbu says she arrived in Ireland "with nothing" and survived on "Direct Provision" from the Irish state?

Three big questions. Zero answers from the Irish client media. Just lectures about racism for anyone questioning the rise of a Nigerian immigrant to become the darling of pro migration elites?

Race shouldn't be a shield from enquiry and accountability.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed.

“There are many human situations like this, and I believe we must have the ability to think in this way.

“And as a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.

“I would like to encourage everyone to make efforts to seek answers that come from a culture of peace, not of hatred or division.” — Pope Leo XIV

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Almost one year ago I was detained on arrival in London immediately after landing on a flight from Beirut. I was held for hours, interrogated, had my DNA taken and my electronic devices seized.

I was told that I was under investigation for potential terror-related activities, linked to my work as a journalist in countries deemed unpalatable to the British state.

Others including @georgegalloway and @richimedhurst have been subjected to similar treatment. One year on and I’m still living in exile from my own country and in reality I am never likely to be able to return with the threat of a prison sentence looming over me.

Full solidarity with @loffredojeremy the latest victim of the increasingly authoritarian British state which allows IDF soldiers and those that have fought against Russia in Ukraine to enter freely, while targeting those who stand against imperialist wars and genocide.