Skellys Bar

The Oldest Pub in Ballymahon,Skellys has that old world character with a large selection of beers,wine's, whiskey and gins. We also serve food Monday to Sunday.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

3 judges with the International Criminal Court filed a lawsuit in a US federal court against Trump and his administration, challenging the sanctions against them and calling it a "financial death penalty."

The judges bringing the lawsuit are:
- Kimberly Prost (Canada)
- Solomy Balungi Bossa (Uganda)
- Reine Adelaide Sophie Alapini-Gansou (Benin)

Trump placed sanctions on the judges over their judicial decisions regarding investigations into war crimes by Israel and the US.

The judges argue that the sanctions are extrajudicial measures meant to punish and coerce them. They say the restrictions cut them off from banking, online platforms, travel booking, and sometimes health insurance.

This should be much bigger news.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy sh*t, this dude @JonathanPieNews thoroughly OBLITERATED trump, and it is glorious.

Definitely worth a watch.🔥🔥

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed by the language you used at the rally last week, calling AIPAC monsters who move dark money.

Mamdani: I want to be very clear. We’re talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire.

Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region.

And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept. And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now in New York 13.

Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money, by funneling money that would have previously come directly from AIPAC through other organizations whose contributors’ identities are only made clear after an election.

And I think it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place.

[gript @griptmedia]

“What do you attribute that to?”: @Ben_Scallan asks Energy Minister Darragh O’Brien how he explains the fact that Ireland has the highest energy prices in the EU after over a decade of investing in renewables.

[Mid Shannon Wilderness Park - Awareness Group @MidShannon]

@griptmedia @Ben_Scallan It's a shame @Ben_Scallan that you didn't ask the Minister why he continues to ignore community concerns relating to the proposed construction of a wind farm on bogs here by a semi-state, with removal of nesting red listed species of conservation habitats, amongst others.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Report from Zefta

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

The israeli genocide is in 4K on your telly, so you can’t say you didn’t know, you can only say you didn’t care | Irish actor Liam Cunningham

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

WHY are we letting Israeli soldiers destroy every inch of Palestine? Is it ''a war''? Would you accept others do this to you and your home?

Let's stop this genocide together.
Diplomats
Politicians
Judges
Police officers
Journalists
Citizens
Anyone can and must take action.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly, has declared that Israel is a terrorist state. You won’t find this kind of courage anywhere in the Zionist-ruled US and UK governments.

[Kyrylo Shevchenko @KShevchenkoReal]

⚡⚡⚡BREAKING: Ireland’s dirty secret exposed: Data reveals Ireland’s Aughinish Alumina factory — owned by Russian giant Rusal — shipped a staggering 83% of its exports (200,619 tons) to Russia in Q1 2026 alone. While PM Micheál Martin claims sanctioning it would “hurt the EU more than Russia,” the truth is this Irish plant is fueling Putin’s war machine: alumina → Russian aluminum → weapons killing Ukrainians. Official statistics crush the factory’s own lies (they claimed only 45% to Russia). As Ireland prepares to lead the EU Council, will Dublin keep blocking sanctions on its Russian-owned cash cow? Share if you want real sanctions.

[Skellys Bar @SkellysBar]

https://t.co/op5UzBuDNt

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

Claims that the Baltic States allow Ukraine to use their airspace are utter nonsense - and Russia knows it.

Moscow’s threats against the Baltic States are not a sign of strength, but of weakness.

Russia is failing on the battlefield in Ukraine and is trying to intimidate us into reducing our support for Ukraine.

The right response is to do the opposite: increase our support to Ukraine and boost Europe’s defences even further.

[inna shevchenko @femeninna]

When They Let Russia Back In

(few thoughts post-action in Venice by Pussy Riot x FEMEN)

1. There is no such thing as “apolitical” culture. Every biennale, every festival, every museum, every stage is political territory, shaped by power, financed by institutions, protected by governments.

When those institutions welcome Russia back during its war against Ukraine, they are not defending art. They are making a political choice. They are choosing Russia.

2. And this is not some simplistic “punishing identity” debate, as people nervously try to frame it. This is about refusing to let an aggressor state continue its war against you through the side door - through culture, prestige, sport, glamour, visibility, normalization.

Empires have always understood culture better than liberals do. Culture is never decoration. It is atmosphere. Legitimacy. Seduction. The production of normality itself.

Russia understands this perfectly. That is why the Kremlin invests in culture so heavily during wartime.

3. Russian culture today does not exist separately from Russian violence. It travels with it. It advances with it.

Russian culture is built today on the attempted erasure of another culture.

While Russian pavilions reopen in Europe, Ukrainian libraries are burned. Ukrainian museums are looted. Ukrainian books are removed from occupied territories. People are interrogated, tortured, sometimes killed for speaking Ukrainian, teaching Ukrainian, existing as Ukrainian.

4. A Russian pavilion is not an innocent room full of art. It is the Russian state laundering itself through aesthetics while its army destroys Ukrainian cities.

5. And no, “free speech” is not the issue either.

Free speech protects individuals from censorship. It does not oblige democratic societies to provide prestige platforms to a fascist state waging a colonial war.

Speech is a right.
Legitimacy is a privilege.

As long as Russia wages war against Ukraine, there should be no Russian normality anywhere.

No red carpets.
No festivals.
No rehabilitation through culture or sport.
You do not get to destroy one culture while celebrating another.

This is how normalization works.

Not suddenly.
Gradually.
Elegantly.

With wine glasses in Venice while Ukrainian blood is still wet.

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

Ireland is pushing for EU sanctions against violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, with Helen McEntee saying the bloc “cannot continue to be bystanders”.

The move comes amid escalating settler violence and growing pressure on the EU to act.
https://t.co/12TnlMxNs4

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I join Amnesty International in condemning #Eurovision and call everyone with a conscience not to watch it.
BIG THANK YOU to the 5 countries who withdrew from the competition:
Iceland!
Ireland!
Netherlands!
Slovenia!
Spain!

Put Apartheid out of our lives.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

This is what it is like to be a paramedic in Lebanon. Watch until the end to hear this man screaming as he is injured in an Israeli attack while carrying out his humanitarian duty to rescue other injured people.

105 medical professionals have been killed by Israel since March 2nd. Almost 250 have been injured.

Israel systematically targets paramedics and medical facilities. Each individual act of targeting is a war crime. When will the world hold the Israelis, the United States and the billionaire class accountable?

[Ella McSweeney @ellamcsweeney]

Ireland already knows how to deliver an ambitious plan, and it comes down to this: you fund it. A nature restoration plan without money is like a human without a heart. It will never work.

https://t.co/jt4jmU78T5

[PalMedia @PalMediaOrg]

Cowardly BBC remove parts of the BAFTA acceptance speech delivered by the team behind "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack", after the filmmakers publicly criticized the broadcaster for refusing to air the documentary.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

The @BBC just parroted the Israeli army’s narrative about yesterday’s killings in Lebanon. They said that they were striking Hezbollah targets and even mentioned that the ‘IDF said they killed 10 Hezbollah operatives.’ They failed to mention the Syrian laborer and his 12 year old daughter who were hunted and executed by an Israeli drone and also conveniently forgot to mention international law, which dictates that legitimate targets are only on the battlefield during active hostilities. There is no battlefield right now. We are in a ceasefire. Every person they kill, Hezbollah member or not, has civilian status.

Israel is being allowed by the world to carry on a killing spree. What makes you think they will stop here?