Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸

Like to be out & about. Latecomer to discovering the joys of running. Stand with the oppressed not the oppressor.

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

@ciarancannon Thank you for your service Ciaran, and all the best for next chapter.

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

Many fine tributes to @charliebird49 today. I didn't know Charlie, but reached out to him once to share a fundraising post I was doing for Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), an illness with very similar symptoms to MND. Charlie immediately engaged and extended hand of friendship. RIP

[Una Kelly @unajkelly]

It’s a #VoteYesNo from everyone in our house as well!

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

#VoteYesNo Government have made a complete balls of the Care Referendum, absolving themselves from obligation to care for those less able.
I'll be voting #VoteYesNo

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

@Saoirseandmamma Such a beautiful and inspiring child. RIP Saoirse.

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

@U2 When is U2 going to support a Free Palestine and condemn the genoicde that Israel is carrying out on the innocent Palestinian people?

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

@DrUmarAlQadri So sorry to read this. Get well soon @DrUmarAlQadri

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Powerful words by 102 years old philosopher Edgar Morin, one of France's most revered intellectual figures, as well as a Jewish WW2 resistant who fought as a lieutenant in De Gaulle's France combattante.
https://t.co/SJXMywTXb5
Here are his words on Gaza: "I am both astonished and outraged by the fact that those who represent the descendants of a people who were persecuted for centuries for religious or racial reasons... That the descendants of this people who are today the decision-makers of the State of Israel, that they could not only colonize an entire people, partly drive them out of their land and seek to expel them for good... But also, after the massacre of October 7, engaged in a real massive slaughter on the populations of Gaza and continue, incessantly, hitting civilians, women, and children.

And to see the silence of the world, the silence of the United States, protectors of Israel, the silence of the Arab states, the silence of the European states who claim to be defenders of culture, humanity, human rights.

I think we are living through a horrible tragedy because we are also powerless in the face of this thing that is unleashing. At least, I say: bear witness! The only thing that remains if we cannot resist concretely is to testify. Let's resist in our minds, let's not be fooled, let's not forget, let's have the courage to face things head-on."

[Kinvara Palestine Solidarity Group @KinvaraPalestin]

Eugene Lambe plays a lament for Gaza in Kinvara, Brigid's Day.

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

So long Debs. We had some great times on the way.
https://t.co/LQX84hW4DA

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

@TheCormacMoore Bad, Bad Leroy Brown!!

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

@TheCormacMoore Storm Leroy. Nice ring to it 😀

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

@SarahAMcInerney Time to hang up your chess boots Sarah. That's what I did when my 9 year old beat me many years back.
You still have 50/50 chance of beating them at Ludo 😀

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Something needs to also be said about the obvious lie that is Israel's premise' or reason for this genocidal campaign, that is "making sure that October 7th does not happen again".

On a simple military level, if Israel wanted to make sure October 7th does not happen again, it could place 10,000, or 20,000, or 30,000 soldiers on its border with the Gaza strip, and make that kind of attack happening again impossible.

In that case, Israel could take Hamas leaders to an international court and charge them with war crimes. It could plead with the international community and the Arab world to initiate a deep reform in the way the Gaza strip is governed.

Had Israel chosen to do that it would also have to, without question, be willing to discuss Palestinian independence and statehood; but this, too, should have been addressed humanly, and justly, generations ago. And it is inevitable.

If Israel would have chosen to use October 7th as a means to push for reform in Palestinians resistance and governance, it would definitely have a case that may not be fully justified in the eyes of devout Palestinian freedom fighters, but it would make enough sense to gain traction with many people in Palestine, in the Middle East and internationally.

But Israel chose instead a path of vindictiveness and annihilation; to drown blood in much more blood, misery in a hundredfold misery.

Choosing this path, Israel lost the last of the hearts and minds that were still even partially open to hear it. It displays cruelty beyond measure. It makes any discussion on the supposed barbarism of Hamas a joke.

If killing innocent people, children especially, an obscene crime, which it is, then it is an obscene crime in all circumstances, and not just when convenient for US allies, who now will never shake off the image of heartless, moral-free colonizers.

And if Israel had chosen a more humane, pragmatic, wise, way of making sure October 7th never happens again, by now all of its abductees would have been home with their families, and Israeli society, too, would have started healing, instead of losing more young men and risking an utterly devastating regional war.

And it would not be this hated globally, and not charged with genocide, and in no need to use a humongous lobby to censor and silence critics, and destroy its image further.

This was never about "making sure October 7th never happens again". This was, and is, about wounded egos and a pathetic and destructive show of dominance - especially despicable where defenseless, occupied civilians are concerned. Where children and babies die in their thousands.

Israel's choice does not make it safer or better in any way. It is a stupid, sadistic and infantile approach to life based on perceived grandeur, not on actual care for anyone, Arab or Jew, Palestinian or Israeli.

And one last thought: if you love someone, you don't entangle their image in perpetuity in a genocide. This Israeli regime must be hating Jews as well, for doing that.

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

Looks like perfectly good try to me.

[Jim Hamilton @jimhamilton4]

This would have been the best finish we have ever seen on a Rugby field.

[Linda Bauld @LindaBauld]

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[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

@ciarancannon Totally agree Ciaran

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

@Majstar7 Get well soon Wael Al-Dahdouh

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

@tvcritics @sinnfeinireland Last sentence "they're making us look racist". Ummm, just maybe it is because ye are being racist??

[Declan Connolly 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @declankinvara]

Makes me ashamed to be Irish when I see these protesters in Roscrea and other similar protests around the country. I bet each one of these so called protesters has close relatives who had to travel abroad to try and find a better life.

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

Members of the Garda Public Order unit are at the scene of a hotel outside Roscrea in Co Tipperary, where crowds have gathered to protest the arrival of three families seeking asylum.