Ruadhán

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[Ruadhán @rodono]

Always nice to finish a big project. Available for pre-order now: "AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages", by me! https://t.co/sq47Kf6eOn #amphtml #amp #packtpub

[Ruadhán @rodono]

Vote Clare Daly #1 #EUelections2024 #Daly4Dublin

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Dublin, please do the world the solid of re electing @ClareDalyMEP .
She has been a powerful, fierce , unrelenting voice for justice. We desperately need leaders with moral vision and clarity who will speak and live the truth .

Please help me beat the cowards at twiiter and their shadow bans -
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[Dave Gibney @davegibney]

🧵 So, the polls and bookies have it looking like the Left seat in Dublin could be going to Niall Boylan, the right-wing, anti-immigrant shock jock who defends Jimmy Saville.

It seems it’s a straight race for the 4th seat between Boylan & @ClareDalyMEP

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#Euelections2024

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

I'm fighting to keep my seat. Every single vote matters. If you are in Dublin and follow and support me it won't count if you don't show up tomorrow.

Get out and vote! I need your No. 1 or highest possible preference. Contact everyone you know in Dublin who shares your views and make sure they're voting tomorrow too!

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

I and @ClareDalyMEP are Independents for Change. We have highest EU Parliament Scoreboard score of ALL Irish parties in EU Parliament based on votes on climate + biodiversity 2019-2024 according leading climate orgs. Vote for us on June 7 if u care about climate and biodiversity

[Dave Gibney @davegibney]

On climate change, @ClareDalyMEP and @wallacemick top the table in the EU according to the @WWF, in collaboration with BirdLife Europe, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, European Environmental Bureau, and Transport & Environment #RTEPrimeTime #Daly4Dublin

[The Phoenix Magazine @ThePhoenixMag]

CLARE DALY’S ENEMIES

IF Clare Daly manages to claim victory in the EU Dublin election it will be a remarkable feat given the serried rows of opponents on the right, the centre right and even the far left that have combined against this implacable enemy of militarism in Ireland, the EU and even globally.

Far better, of course to describe her and close collaborator, Mick Wallace MEP, as agents of Russia, China and other enemies of the western civilisation. The Irish Times did at least have the decency to admit that it had spent nearly a year trying to dig the dirt on Daly and Wallace. As The Phoenix reported as far back as May 6, 2022, the newspaper boasted, “A 10-month investigation by the Irish Times to track the international footprint of the two MEPs has revealed their outsized profile in the state-controlled media operations of various authoritarian regimes”. Deary me.

The 10-month research produced a number of statements from the couple denouncing western militarism and their contacts with apparently unsavoury people and entities that oppose the west. And in a faintly ridiculous passage the self-styled ‘paper of reference’ came up with the killer punch that Wallace had received nearly twice the number of mentions (81) in Chinese language news than MMA fighter Conor McGregor (44). Double deary me!

The media assault on Daly was not confined to the IT but that newspaper led the charge and many other media followed by describing her and Wallace as supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. When Daly several times outlined in crystal clear terms that both of them had voted to condemn the invasion the message in much of the media —­ including RTE — was changed to the Jesuitical statement that ‘many people believe you support Russia against Ukraine’.

The Sunday Times, though, Whitehall’s favourite newspaper, which regularly lectures the Aawrish about not defending western (i.e. British) interests went on full frontal assault against Daly recently with a scare story about her links to a dissident IRA prisoner and a Russian ‘spy’.

Daly told the RTE EU Dublin election debate this week that her prison work with dissident Republican prisoners was done in tandem with a cross party Oireachtas group. Nothing subversive after all — how disappointing.

The IT has been the principal attack dog against Daly because that newspaper is in thrall to all things EU and if that means abandoning neutrality then so be it. But sometimes ignoring a politician can be as damaging as repetitive denunciation — as during an election.

When former Greek finance minister (and left-wing celebrity in his own right) Yanis Varoufakis came to town recently, the IT interviewed the economist – and spun a tale placing him “in Dublin this week for an event hosted by Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, or DiEM25, the pan-European political movement he co-founded”.

But there was no such event. Varoufakis’s office demanded and got an edit in the online version of the story to reflect the reality. He was speaking at an event hosted by Daly, his close ally. (Daly followed up with a visit to Athens to return the favour.)

When Bernadette McAliskey – one of Daly’s ‘alternates’, if she relinquishes her seat – launched the Dubliner’s campaign, calling her the “aspiration and hope of a generation”, RTÉ and the Press Association (PA) wire picked it up, but the IT was silent.

When an official parliament scoreboard showed that Daly and Wallace had the best environmental voting record of any Irish EU grouping over the last five years, higher even than the Greens, the IT was silent.

In April, Francesca Albanese, the UN human-right rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, finally broke the EU’s omertà on the Gaza genocide – by speaking to a massive Brussels meeting organised by Daly and Wallace. The Irish Times was silent.

By contrast, Fianna Fail MEP Barry Andrews hosted a small ‘legal discussion’ on Gaza – and the IT duly published a 700-word report from PA, with a friendly headline highlighting Andrews’ criticism of Ursula von der Leyen.

Could this sniffy silence relate to Daly and Wallace’s consistent attacks on NATO and an EU army now in gestation along with their defence of Irish neutrality? The climactic assault on the couple during this period indicates that certain political forces in Brussels, London and Dublin are determined to rid Ireland of these most effective MEPs.

Quite how People before Profit and Brid Smith found themselves involved in a pincer operation that saw them eroding Daly’s large left-wing vote in Dublin is harder to explain.

However, Daly’s campaign team, slender though it is compared to other parties, even on the left, has fought back and according to the polls increased her support by two-thirds within a fortnight to within striking distance of retaining her seat. She will likely reclaim her seat if her support comes out in fo

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

Who am I to disagree? Incredible to receive the support of the legendary Annie Lennox. #EUelections2024 #Daly4Dublin #Daly4Europe

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

Humbled that the platform we've developed in Europe against militarism has been heard and is supported around the world.

It shows the importance of keeping this seat and redoubling our efforts. Many thanks to the great Susan Sarandon.

#DalyForDublin #EUelections2024

[Ruadhán @rodono]

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[Ruadhán @rodono]

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[Ruadhán @rodono]

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[Ruadhán @rodono]

@gavreilly @ZaraKing @GeorgeLeeRTE The testing is patchy here, the number of deaths gives a more accurate picture. Measure against Germany where testing is good (approx 10x deaths to here) gives approx 12k cases here

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

This week's @xkcdcomic is one of the best commentaries I've seen on coronavirus so far.

https://t.co/K0dT5qbsg1

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[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

The Trump campaign just released a cease and desist letter demanding that TV stations immediately pull this @prioritiesUSA ad. So obv share it everywhere!

[Ruadhán @rodono]

@VirginMediaIE @Declan1984 Also down for me in D8 for approx 1 hour. Have already tried rebooting modem

[Ruadhán @rodono]

@CarolineGreer Hey Caroline, long time, how you keeping? Could I DM you a question or two about Brussels?

[Ruadhán @rodono]

@karldeeter Heh thanks dude, for most that definitely would not be a compliment, but for me it's definitely not not a compliment!

[Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 @LNBDublin]

When the DUP are calling out your anti SF strategy, you know it's a busted flush! #GE2020

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

If you want real change you have to support candidates who are prepared to put their neck on the line. Of all the candidates in all the constituencies @JoanCollinsTD
is one of a handful who has got to be returned. Here's why. In #GE2020 give her your #1 vote.

[Gone to Bluesky @IrishCycle]

@davidmcw One think needed to kickstart cycling in Dublin is to trial https://t.co/5Qk7LGoWXm Route in 2020 and let that be the start of a “quick-build” network of routes: