@irishexaminer Why is the Irish state building actual homes for a specific nationality when there are thousands of Irish families without homes of their own?
It doesn’t make any sense
What fascinates me about the hate speech law is this: How do you prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that somebody incited hatred *without* a single witness or person in the court willing to say that the statement being prosecuted made them hate somebody?
Last month Micheál Martin criticised Sinn Féin and said the way they behave is like something out of George Orwell’s 1984. Today in the Dáil his Gov moved to impose the most far reaching clamp down on free speech in our history and not one mainstream publication opposes him. Nuts
I'll say it
The country is broken.
It's broken:
-we have the highest level of homelessness since the foundation of the state
-renters living in fear
-A generation who can't get the most basic need of a home of their own
-Youth emigrating as they see no future
A Republic?
RTE likes nothing better than to repeatedly air documentaries and movies that demonise the nuns. (It did so again last night). Has it commissioned anything major lately about IRA terrorism?
@Independent_ie It’s time for your paper to stop telling lies. It is predominantly women and children who pray - usually on Saturdays when clinics are closed. Stop lying!
1/2 A man who claims Lord Mountbatten abused him at a notorious Belfast children's home has formally launched legal action against state institutions in Northern Ireland. Arthur Smyth, a former resident of the Kincora home, waived anonymity to make the allegations @rtenews
Why is the taxpayer continuing to give €4m a year to a charity founded and chaired by the person, Denis O'Brien who paid for all this illegal hacking of journalists records? A charity that says it protects journalists? We're just laundering his sleazy [or worse!] reputation.
2/2 compo for the illegal hacking of his records while he worked at Ireland's biggest press group. The hacking was paid for by Denis O'Brien.
Sam Smyth had covered a Tribunal which concluded Denis O'Brien gave a FG minister €1m when the minister was selling a mobile licence.
Tue, we learned Simon Coveney's Irish Aid gave €540,000 in 2021 to the "charity" founded & chaired by Denis O'Brien to protect journalists [part of €4m overall given by govt to the charity]
Today we learn journalist Sam Smyth has received a "large 6-figure sum" in compo for 1/2
There's a "pandemic" of sexual abuse of u-18s by other children in #Donegal.Five 15 year-old girls were referred to the Donegal Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre in the past week.99% of the abuse is by boys. It's a countrywide problem and needs to be treated as the crisis it is
As she says: "The material reality of my serious illness is being totally disregarded by Princess Grace Hospital in order to protect the feelings of a male member of staff who committed a breach of patient dignity". Read the story here: https://t.co/87fGmPUa8Y 12/12
Why is this happening now? They've resisted this for years. Pearse Doherty last year even told me SF have no interest changing the rules? Just as prices are finally stabilising will this not inevitably push them higher?
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