@amonsterd.bsky.social Andrew Fitzpatrick he/him

Film and TV producer, animation and music TV distributor. Human rights, #BLM, #Antifa, No TERFS and SWERFs, @DalkeyF Follows back

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@fosandair @HearnsOfficial Ní thuigim

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@TomOConWex What can you expect from a thicko? @MartyCooke72 can't spell a 3-letter word, "its"

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@_sachaaaaaaaa @toomanyhorus @MeathGuerilla Well, there's working out what would be a fair tip and the division and this all after a lot of alcohol.

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@_sachaaaaaaaa @toomanyhorus @MeathGuerilla In Ireland, it's pretty anti-social to quibble over small monies. The difference wouldn't have been great

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@toomanyhorus @MeathGuerilla Was at a big dinner and a friend kindly did the hard work of working out how much everyone should pay inc tip. Dutch friend, now ex-friend "My aunt, uncle and I should not pay the same as everyone else, we only had beer, not wine"

[tomás 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @HearnsOfficial]

i wish there was a real word for Hello in Irish

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Nice

[🦢 @damnidc__]

If any of you pro lifers get tape worms you better suck it up and be a good host, because tape worms have a heartbeat and feel pain. It deserves a choice and it chose you to be its mother.

[Irish Communist Party @IrishCommunists]

At the root of violent knife crime and drugs gang culture in Dublin is the drugs trade. Until the state change policy and treat it is a health epidemic - violence will continue to unravel with all of the subsidiary effects that come from drugs gangs and their grooming of men.

[Bernie Linnane 🏳️‍⚧️ @Berlinnaeus]

For anyone who would like to join me in lodging a complaint with the Law Society about the behaviour of Laoise de Brún aka Laise Aodha de Brún aka Laoise Hayes. Encouraging a pile-on against a child is not a good look for an officer of the court.

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@philipnolan1 @FinnegansDalkey @DeeNeeson1 @GGDesignDalkey loves their fish pie so much, she often gets 2, one to take away. Hope you enjoyed!

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@Mark_J_Henry @CSOIreland Yes and abortion too, and that's ok

[Wolfhound Fellá 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 #TeamYuri @Justinhead1982]

Ok I want to chime in here and clarify a few things.

1. Aughinish Alumina was originally developed by the Canadian company Alcan. It was later acquired by the commodities trader Glencore in 1999. In 2007, Glencore sold Aughinish to Rusal, the Russian aluminium giant founded and controlled by Oleg Deripaska. The sale was a commercial deal between private companies. Ireland did not yet have the foreign direct investment screening mechanisms that many European countries use today to scrutinize strategic acquisitions. Ireland was operating under EU single-market and foreign-investment rules, there was no special Irish government approval process for a transaction like this at the time.

2. Ireland cannot unilaterally ban most exports to Russia. Foreign trade (including sanctions against Russia) is an EU competence, not a purely national one. That means, Ireland cannot independently impose a general ban on exporting alumina to Russia if the EU has not sanctioned it. Companies in Ireland must comply primarily with EU sanctions regulations, which are directly binding law across all member states. So if alumina is not on the EU sanctions list, the Irish government cannot simply decide “stop exporting this to Russia” without an EU-wide measure.

3. To stop exports to Russia in a legally robust way, one of these would be required:
EU-wide sanctions explicitly covering alumina or related aluminium inputs!
Or a specific EU decision restricting trade with entities like Rusal-linked supply chains!
Or evidence-based designation of end-use for military purposes triggering tighter export controls!

4. Apply pressure to the EU, not to Ireland. Slagging off the Irish won't work even if it is entertaining to watch. We're thick skinned and slag the living fuck out of each other for fun. Insults are a form of flattery here. So thank you all for that!

5. This is the last I will have to say on the matter. I wish the #Alumina21 the best of luck but I gave up activism a long time ago so I could direct all my energies at fundraising for groups involved in deleting orcs, their equipment or otherwise supporting the Ukrainian military. I hope you will join me in this endeavour. As always I recommend @Y_Chornomorets for sniper groups that get results, @wilendhornets for Sting interceptors for air defence, @69thSB for trucks for Ukrainian military units and Irish lad @Hannuska2109 does great work supporting Rugby Team drone unit (part of Phoenix Group) with whatever they need!

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@RFOIsrael With friends like you gammon fuckers.....

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@Default69202648 It's ridiculous, there's no risk to these State bodies or the State in doing this. One of the worst examples is where I used to work on Parkgate St/Conyngham Rd, where Dublin Bus has left a lot of the street decay since the 1990s

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@ChiuauaTeardrop What would that fucker know about souls?

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Marginalised loonies with almost zero support go on a jolly to Portugal - https://t.co/69Ry5eJTTD

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I've always loved this

[𝙺𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝙶𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚜𝚘𝚗 @KateGleeson1]

You don’t get to be racist and Irish.
You don’t get to be proud of your heritage,
Plights and fights for freedom,
While kneeling on the neck of another.

You’re not entitled to sing songs
Of heroes and martyrs,
Mothers and fathers who cried
As they starved in a famine.

Or of brave-hearted,
Soft-spoken
Poets and artists,
Lined up in a yard,
Blindfolded and bound,
Waiting for Godot,
And point-blank to sound.

We emigrated.
We immigrated.
We took refuge,
So cannot refuse
When it’s our time
To return the favour.

Land stolen,
Spirits broken,
Bodies crushed and swollen,
Unholy tokens of Christ,
Nailed to a tree,
That you hang around your neck
Like a noose of the free.

Our colour pasty,
Our accents thick,
Hands like shovels
From mortar and brick,
Laying foundations of cities
You now stand upon.

Our suffering seeps from every stone
Your opportunities arise from,
Outstanding on the shoulders
Of our forefathers and foremothers
Who bore your mother’s mother.

Our music is for the righteous.
Our joys have been earned,
Well deserved and serve
To remind us to remember:

More Blacks.
More Dogs.
More Irish.

Still labelled leprechauns, Micks, Paddies, louts
We’re shouting to tell you:

Our land, our laws
Are progressively out there.
We’re in a chrysalis,
State of emerging
Into a new and more beautiful Éire.

40 Shades Better.
Unanimous in our rainbow vote,
We’ve found our stereotypical pot of gold,
And my God, it’s good.

So join us…
’Cause you don’t get to be racist and Irish.

A poem by Imelda May ❤️

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@CLoingsigh @story__horse Crap that's even worse as that could have made her vulnerable. Terrible that we have to think about these things

[@amonsterd.bsky.social Andrew Fitzpatrick he/him @amonsterd]

@story__horse @CLoingsigh Unlikely unless you drink way too much and take a wrong turn trying to go to your hotel bathroom