A Canadian firm is applying for a licence to strip vast quantities of seaweed from the west of Irelands coastline.
As an interesting aside, this is banned in Canada, the country with the world’s largest coastline, for environmental reasons.
Sam. Aged 5. Homeless. Eating his dinner off of cardboard on the ground in Dublin.
Six years ago this week, this photo sparked public outrage. Back then there were 3,826 children homeless. Today, there are 5,145. Those numbers are only going one way - up.
This the result and legacy of Fine Gael’s almost 15 years in government. Say less.
"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.
I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.
It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!
So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.
And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."
5 people, paying 250k to travel in an unsafe vessel to a dangerous place.
500 people, in an unsafe vessel, trying desperately to get to a safe place.
Why do some people feel such a connection with the first group, but not the second?
This is my uncle, Joe Scally. He has been missing since Wednesday morning from his home in Raheny. If anyone has any info, please contact Coolock Garda Station on 01 6664200. Please retweet to get the message out.
Gardaí are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 54-year-old Finbarr O'Doherty, who is missing from the Raheny area of Dublin since Monday.
Finbarr is described as being approximately 6ft 1” in height, of broad build with short white hair and blue eyes.
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We've teamed up with @eclipse_picture & @ModernFilmsEnt to celebrate BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN in cinemas Mar 31.
The bundle includes:
Murakami Book
Note-Book
2x BWSW tickets on Mar 31
Poster signed by director Pierre Földes
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Doing a post Xmas clear out? Us East Wallers have had the opportunity to give 100s of coats/scarves/hats and much more to the direct provision centre but we need more! Especially mens coats and shoes. We are doing a clothes drop off this Monday from 6-7. DM for location
Looking for help.
My son Luca has a severe speech disorder called #apraxia . We are having no luck finding a speech therapist in Dublin who has experience in this area. HSE have him on years long waiting lists and early intervention is key. Any help would be greatly appreciated