Ciarán Maguire

🇮🇪 Irish. Software Developer. Security & Privacy. Sustainability. West Brom. N64 Mario Kart Champion

[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

Government approved 99.8 percent of applications for civilian planes carrying weapons – and usually US soldiers – to land at Shannon over the past seven years

Ministers Eamon Ryan and Darragh O’Brien haven’t refused a single application since January 2024
https://t.co/BCC7iz7JE6

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

My follow up essay: Ireland's Failure Premium. To answer the question a lot of people have asked me: So where the hell does all of our money go, if it's not into creating infrastructure and a high living standard?!

[The short answer is: someone's pockets. Just not yours...]

[The Irish Politics Newsletter @TullMcAdoo]

Here we go again.

[Ciarán Maguire @ciaranmag]

@paulsavage I'm on mobile data and it zoomed into France for me (using a 3 MVNO)

IDEA: it might be more attention-grabbing to fully zoom out (to a globe if possible), spin the globe and when you get the location then zoom down to that area of the map 🤷‍♂️ more work but more wow factor

[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

2024: West Brom named EFL Championship Community Club of the year.

2026: West Brom deducted two points by EFL for accounting treatment of donations to Club community scheme.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

So a club can sell its hotel to itself, sell its women’s team to itself, but West Brom are punished, they believe, for legitimate “in-kind” donations to the Albion Foundation, its charity partner that saves lives. Albion also believe the alleged PSR breach is “less than £2m”

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

The enshittification of Ireland and the hollowing out of our institutions is the single largest threat to Irish civil society and prosperity.

In this damning piece, I'm going into more detail about the graph I posted yesterday: why it's happening in Ireland, why the way we're thinking about the protests is entirely wrong, and what this means for our collective governance. Link to the article is below!

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽‍♀️

Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba

I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film

As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes

It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.

But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

[Ciarán Maguire @ciaranmag]

@chrislepkowski @retrofootballnw Haven't seen these lads mentioned

Conor Gallagher 👍
Okay Yokuslu 👍
Serge Gnabry 🤦‍♂️
Ahmed Hegazy 👍

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

Mark Ruffalo stands on the right side of History.

Mark, Thank you for saying what most of the world are also screaming!
📍Golden Globes.

[Feljin Jose @Feljin_J]

They've done it again, they've cut more rail projects. The most criminal one for me is cancelling the reopening of the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare line. On the left is the All-island Rail Review published by the last government and on the right is the plan published today.

[Brian O'Connor @BriBru91]

Merry Christmas 🎁

[Des Traynor @destraynor]

Ireland is going through a housing crisis

Mostly because we can't build

Our government prioritise the needs of Geese and Bats and eyesores far above progress

I thought it would be fun to share examples.
(reply with more)

First up: The Geese 🪿

[Ciarán Maguire @ciaranmag]

@searchbound GreatNight .com $20k

[Ciarán Maguire @ciaranmag]

@JonnyDrury_Star Cole & Wildsmith.

Is this the first time in a very long time we've had as few as 2 players not good enough for the team?

We've always carried a lot more deadwood than that. Hopefully the 3 or 4 who could come in don't add to it

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

To be clear what happened here.

Israel bombed a hospital.

They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive.

Then they bombed it again.

This is known as the 'double tap'.

You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.

[Ciarán Maguire @ciaranmag]

@DanielLockyer Hyundai Bluelink
Kia Connect

[Ciarán Maguire @ciaranmag]

@AlbionPoddy @JonnyDrury_Star @LewisCox_star @lukew_powell Uploaded file is only 1min long

[Ciarán Maguire @ciaranmag]

@GianPaJ They're testing the credit card (from a breach) to see if it's still active