Gertrude of Nivelles

[Muslim Sisters of Eire @Msoe_Dublin]

We had another incredibly heavy, heartbreaking night on the soup run. This shouldn't be happening, people who have worked hard their whole lives shouldn't have to spend their retirement standing in a queue for a hot meal just because their pension doesn't stretch far enough to cover their bills after a lifetime of hard work.

As we say every week, our numbers are creeping up slightly each time. But what truly breaks our heart week in, week out, is seeing the elderly and vulnerable out there.

Tonight, we saw people who are blind being led to the queue just to get something to eat. We saw elderly folks pushing walking frames and others with withered bodies just trying to get a few bits and pieces to keep them going for the week. The government has a lot to answer for, because seeing people who have given everything to this life end up on a soup run queue is absolutely shattering.

That being said, we simply cannot do this without you and your unwavering support week in, week out.

Tonight, we had exactly 300 hot meals and across our tables we put out all kinds of different foods and every single item went. Every item of food from our large transit van was taken out and laid upon our five, six foot tables, which were absolutely packed with food and every single thing went.

Words fail us this week, but we will continue to show up with your help.

If you would like to support and help us keep showing up for those who have nowhere else to turn, please consider donating: https://t.co/i5SxXXt9SR.

Every bit helps us keep the tables full and the support flowing. Thank you for standing with us.

[Shadows of Control @shadows_control]

An abuser's parenting is all about meeting their own needs, rather than the child's needs.

#coercivecontrol #emotionalabuse

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

"You shouldn't be getting a medal for being robbed by your own government."

Betty Brown 92, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Scam was outraged about being in the New Year Honours List.

We want compensation and prison sentences not worthless medals.

[Himalayan fairy tale @vamika12500]

She is right

[pinkleftygirl @pinkleftygirl]

Female victims who k!ll their abusers in self-defense spend an average of 15 years in prison but Abusive men who murd3r their female partners spend an average of 2 to 6 years in prison.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING: This is Gaza right now.

Israel is dropping bombs on civilian homes in the middle of the night.

This is terrorism.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING: Trump is dropping bombs near a children’s hospital in Ahvaz, Iran.

Read that again.

A children’s hospital.

The Shahid Baghaei Hospital, where children are battling cancer, has been forced to begin an emergency evacuation.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🇺🇳🇮🇱 The UN has officially declared Gaza a genocide zone, noting that Israel is deliberately targeting children and infants.

​It took them three full years to reach this conclusion.

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

The last Irish Independent reporter who used their column constantly to promote Irish Water & metered water charges ended up getting a job with the then Minister, Eoghan Murphy.

Keep that in mind when they oul Water charges propaganda begins in the media

#HowIrelandWorks #Right2Water #not1pipe

[Niamh Ní Cheallaigh 🕊🇵🇸🌻🇮🇪♿️ @CheallaighNiamh]

Now why would the want to that?🤔

"The Journal Investigates reported in April that the tech industry successfully lobbied the European Union to change legislation to hide the environmental impacts of data centres from the public."

https://t.co/ZXn8DuQDdP

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You know how bad you have to be to get dragged like this by Save the Children?

[Dan Davis @DanDavisWrites]

When I was a teenager in the 1990s one of my teachers told me that I would never get a state pension because they would keep raising the pension age and then before I got there it would be scrapped.

Don't worry about having to support yourself though, he said, they will bring in state euthanasia for the elderly instead.

Mr Roberts, you called it.

[😷 Miriam O' Callaghan🕊 @mir_ocall]

In Ireland over 80 per cent of nursing home care is private, for profit. Not Bob&Breda who run the local place, but global wealth funds getting wealthier on Irish people's fragility. Orpea, as it was called, especially bad. A new vision of society needed.

[Shrill by Mouth @Iskesullas]

Golf courses are also very heavy users of pesticides. A blight on the environment in every way ⛳

[Paddy Cosgrave @paddycosgrave]

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are slaves to foreign multinationals. There is little to no chance the Irish government will ever get off its knees and do something like this for Ireland.

[Paddy Cosgrave @paddycosgrave]

The hosepipe ban is a useful window into how Ireland actually works.

Rich shareholders, who own assets like data centres and golf courses, and who pay a vanishingly small percentage of tax, are exempt from the ban.

Meanwhile working people, many of whom pay an effective tax rate of above 50%, can’t use a hose; can be fined €5,000; and are encouraged to turn on their own neighbours.

The selective hosepipe ban suggests Ireland in 2026 exists more so for the unequal benefit of domestic and international elites.

Ireland should, however, exist for the equal benefit of all its citizens.