Brendan Barry

Sinn Fein Local Election Candidate in Ballinamore LEA Co Leitrim. Married to Nicola living in Drumshanbo.

[Brendan Barry @BDeBarra]

https://t.co/nTAODjL9wS

[Mary Lou McDonald @MaryLouMcDonald]

Top of the agenda for FF-FG?
Housing? Health? Costing of living?
No.
❗️More super Junior Ministers
❗️More money for Junior Ministers
❗️Facilitating Michael Lowry’s group to sit in opposition having just entered into an agreement to support the government for next 5 years.

Wouldn’t be allowed anywhere else in the world. Breathtaking arrogance!

[Martin Kenny @Martin_Kenny]

If you didn’t get the necessary assurances, you should have voted against it @ciaranmullooly

Mercosur will destroy our farmers and well you know it.

[Sinn Féin @sinnfeinireland]

Lend us your vote: Only Sinn Féin can keep Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael out of government – @PearseDoherty

“Give Sinn Féin the chance to show that we can deliver for you, for your family and for your community.”

https://t.co/L4FJrimTJ1

[Seán MacBrádaigh @SMacB]

Huge €5 billion 'black hole' uncovered in Fine Gael's manifesto spending plan (via @thejournal_ie) https://t.co/41HPz3Y19m

[Sinn Féin @sinnfeinireland]

Fine Gael have spent the past five years attacking Rural Ireland – @Martin_Kenny

“In government, Sinn Féin will develop the critical infrastructure, services and supports for farmers, businesses, and workers that is badly needed.”

https://t.co/UEnjuZHlpI

[David Cullinane T.D. @davidcullinane]

The attempt by Simon Harris to deny his responsibility for the National Children’s Hospital is a disgrace. He is running away from accountability while telling bare face lies about Sinn Féin’s manifesto. We are the only party that can provide an alternative Government to FF & FG.

[Seán MacBrádaigh @SMacB]

If this involved Sinn Féin it would be front page news, on Six One for days & be the subject of endless columns, editorial and radio & TV panel discussions. The hypocrisy & double standards of the Irish media commentariat is puke-inducing!

[Eoin Ó Broin @EOBroin]

Only a Sinn Féin government will deliver tens of thousands of affordable homes for working people

🏡 Homes to buy from €250,000
🏡 Home to rent at or below €1000

To change housing you have to change the Government

🗳To change the Government vote Sinn Féin

[Tommy Meskill @TommyMeskill]

Sinn Féin leader @MaryLouMcDonald hits out at Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary who made comments about teachers at a Fine Gael event last night.

He said that while he loved teachers “I wouldn’t generally employ a lot of teachers to go out and get things done” @rtenews

[Martin Kenny @Martin_Kenny]

📣 The election will be called tomorrow and on November 29th you have the chance to vote for a change after 100 years of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

Register to vote or make sure you are registered now at https://t.co/YX1jF8OfLt 🗳️

[Martin Kenny @Martin_Kenny]

🚨 The election's just been called for the 29th of November 🚨

The only way to get a change of Government is to vote for @sinnfeinireland

Vote to change the government.

Vote Martin Kenny 1 and @MacManusChris 2 across Sligo, Leitrim and south Donegal! 🗳️

#GE24

[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

🚨Breaking🚨

The Ditch informed @SimonHarrisTD in the past few minutes that another FedEx Memphis to Cologne flight – that will enter Irish sovereign airspace this afternoon – is carrying at least two munitions of war packages to Israel ⬇️

[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

Fine Gael local election candidate Marian Agrios withdrew a planning appeal after signing an agreement for more than €100,000 worth of work to her house

Agrios got a €30,000 package from a different developer for withdrawing another planning objection

https://t.co/OUx2L5GpXo

[Martin Kenny @Martin_Kenny]

When I raised the issue of enforcement of aforestation licences in Leitrim with the Taoiseach today, he seemed a little perplexed!

[Eoin Ó Broin @EOBroin]

Shameful! The Government has just voted to allow Vulture Funds to continue to snap up homes from under the noses of workers and families.

This practice cannot continue - enough is enough.

It's time for change!

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary interviews of a former senior US government official on Gaza.

This is Chas Freeman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Key points in the video:

- He agrees that many of the victims of Oct 7th were killed by the Israeli army in the form of "undisciplined fire by helicopters with hellfire missiles or by tanks with incendiary rounds directed at buildings". In the case of the victims of the music festival he even says they "were largely killed, it appears, by hellfire missiles and by other undisciplined fire by Israeli forces". To him this "disgrace in military terms" stems from a "lack of discipline and training necessary to respond" but also from the IDF's "Hannibal directive", which "says that rather than get into bargaining over hostage exchange you should just kill the Israeli hostages along with their captors."

- He says that with Oct 7th "Hamas had 2 objectives": 1) "Put the Palestinian self-determination issue back on the global agenda", something he says they've "succeeded" in doing since they're is "widespread recognition outside Israel that only self-determination for Palestine in the form of a 2-state solution can provide security to Israel". He says that even in "the US, which has a larger Jewish population than Israel, many Jews have come to realize that this is the case. Younger Jews in particular in the U.S. are very disillusioned with Zionism and don't want to suffer contagion from it in the form of antisemitism, which is actually growing now as a result of Israeli actions".
2) "Give Hamas enormous popularity among Palestinians because they are seen as having stood up, as having been willing to accept death rather than captivity". He refers to Norman Finkelstein's "analogy of slave revolts in the U.S." and particularly the "1831 revolt by Nat Turner, a well-educated very intelligent enslaved African who led a slave revolt in Southern Virginia which had as its objective the murder of every white person they encountered." He says it "raises a moral question: 'Is the violence of the slave-owner morally the same as the violence of the slave trying to end that violence?'. The same moral question arises with Israeli oppression of Palestinians versus Palestinian resistance to oppression."

- All in all he concludes that much like the violence against African-Americans that followed slave revolts in the 19th century, the Israeli vengeance against Palestinians "won't be remembered fondly by anyone in the future". In fact he goes as far as saying that "when people think of Israel in the past they thought of it as a refuge for the victims of the Holocaust... now they will think of it as the home of perpetrators of genocide. When they think of Israel, they will think of burned buildings and dead babies. This is an image problem of a fundamental nature and from the point of view of Israel it strips Israel of its protection by charges of antisemitism against anyone who is critical of Israel because to be critical of people who are carrying out genocide cannot be antisemitism, it cannot be considered immoral. Antisemitism is a despicable attitude but to oppose genocide by Israel is not."

[Brendan Barry @BDeBarra]

Murdered by Israel in a targeted air strike https://t.co/CaZxLPZN8z

[Joe Brolly @JoeBrolly1993]

Israeli snipers now shooting at people in the intensive care unit at Al Quds hospital