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‘The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.’ A. Solzhenitsyn

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

No irish media would give a fringe far right politician centre stage in any debate. Quite rightly. The far left fringe is routinely given that position, including in matters of national security where it does the bidding of anti democratic regimes. These are serious times. Time to cop on. Treat the extremes equally. They are minority voices.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

All these coverings are evil and all about control. Also fairly new in our world…and this burqa bullshit is the worst one of them all. Dehumanizing and that’s the least of it…

[John McGuirk @john_mcguirk]

The only story in these by elections is that the party that regularly polled 40% at every election when Micheál Martin entered politics is now polling in the single digits.

That's some legacy.

[The Spectator @spectator]

If you heard that a man was thinking about selling his seven-year-old daughter into marriage or domestic servitude, who would you feel sorry for? The dad or the girl? The man treating his own child as property to be traded for cash, or his daughter, the innocent made into chattel for gross creeps to barter over so that they might secure themselves a child bride?

All normal people would say the daughter. Of course we would. Not the BBC, though. Our public broadcaster has told precisely this horror story, only it paints the men selling their daughters as the victims, not the girls who are being sold.

Meet the 'Afghan fathers' who are 'forced to make impossible choices', it blubs, blissfully unaware of how sick it sounds to the rest of us to play a tiny violin for men who sell girls into slavery.

✍️ Brendan O’Neill

Article | https://t.co/bOxvg610Ho

[Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Wommando]

@BBCWorld The BBC in a nutshell.
Ignores the little girls being sold to child rapists.
Sob stories for the men who sell them.

We don't hate you enough.
You have serious, SERIOUS problems.
What a truly disgusting company you are.

[Cllr. Emer Tóibín @UnityakaAontu]

I really appreciate Brenda's ability to say out loud what we're all thinking & feeling. She nails the plight of young girls so well here and what it was like to go through the awkward & challenging stages of growth & development. There is no hyperbole or exploitative emotion.Grma

[Dr Niamh Regan @NiamhLanes]

There are new schools being built all over the country right now — primary and post-primary.

Before the builders leave those sites, correct course on these toilets. Put in sex-based toilets like we always had, even in the most run-down schools @1Hildegarde @Education_Ire

No new build should be signed off until sex based toilets have been installed. @AontuIE @Toibin1 @GovIE

@CatholicBishops @EducateTogether @ETBIreland

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet."

Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution.

Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer.

The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss.

The wool is then:
- Naturally flame-retardant
- Naturally antibacterial
- Moisture-wicking
- Biodegradable
- Renewable, annually
- Carbon-storing while in use

The replacement, in performance fabrics:
- Polyester
- Polyamide
- Acrylic
- Polypropylene
- All petroleum-derived
- All shedding microplastics on every wash
- All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce
- All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years

A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals.

A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years.

The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic.

The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer.

The polymer also has not been asked.

Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made.

Brian is selling it at a loss.

The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical.

Reject plastic. Wear wool.

Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.

[JIM FITZPATRICK @jimfitzpatrick]

Dublin about to see one of its few beautiful modern buildings destroyed for this purile shite.
Brown envelopes rule.
Developers always get their way.
No one gives a fuck about our city.

Revamp of St #StephensGreenShoppingCentre gets green light https://t.co/aSzC1YXxZo

[Rachel Moran @RachelRMoran]

This is the Ireland we're living in now, where a man can smash the bones of a female passer by, knocking her out cold with an elbow to the face, then swan out of court on bail, and not a word out of the @NWCI or the mainstream media.

[Paddy McKenna @paddymacc1]

In 2017, while serving as Minister for Health, Simon Harris pledged that no child in Ireland would wait more than four months for scoliosis treatment.
Nine years later he still hasn't fulfilled that promise, in fact, some children with scoliosis are waiting for seven years

[Majella Beattie @Majellabeattie1]

. @SimonHarrisTD, I can share my journey with cancer, starting from my diagnosis at 13 years old. I can share how I was failed & why I will die prematurely due to a lack of proper care. Do you care? I don’t think so. Trying to raise concern now isn't genuine, it’s shameful

[Eamon Melia @EamonMelia]

Its strange how all of a sudden Martin and his Govt are now concerned about people with medical appointments when they have destroyed the health service with 1 million people on waitinglists and children dying on waiting lists due to their incompetence. I detest these hypocrites.

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

The last few days have shown a lot

This government couldn’t care less about you

This government has squandered billions on those that don’t deserve it

This government is incredibly weak

This government is so far removed from reality it’s frightening

This government are shitting themselves

This government is nowhere near as tough as they try to act

This government has gotten it all wrong

This government has seriously underestimated the anger, the frustration, the worry, the levels of stress and desperation of the great Irish people

But they also seriously underestimated the power of the people when they come together

Oh, and there’s no sign of the fucking Left!!

[Rory Cowan @1rorycowan]

If you are concerned or interested in the vast and staggering sums of taxpayers' money the government is spending on projects abroad (and here), I recommend you follow @IrishGovtWaste. It's a brand new account that catalogues the Irish government's culture of waste and mismanagement of public funds. There is so much waste by this merged government that it’s easy to forget from one day to another how taxpayers' money is being mismanaged, but on this page, Irish Government Waste, they display it all in real time.

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

Morning, @IrishTimes @IrishTimesOpEd article today is on the monumental waste of public money that plagues Ireland. The State is pissing billions away every year. The figures are startling. No one is accountable.
https://t.co/NyvbKIhqIY

[Rory Cowan @1rorycowan]

Only a couple of days ago 👇, while here, farmers, hauliers, truck drivers etc. are desperate for tax relief on fuel. Isn't the Irish government great at trying to play Big Mr Large on the international stage, and leaving many of its own citizens in desperate financial straits

[Angie B 🏴‍☠️🇵🇸🇮🇪 @angiebeeb]

Suddenly the Gov are concerned about people missing hospital appointments.

These are the same people who allowed children to die because their names were covertly taken off waiting lists.

The same Government that let #scoliosis curvatures become inoperable.

Now they care!

[Sean Clancy @seangclancy]

Remember the big storm January 2025 and how the government came to our aid, no, I don't remember it either, however, I do recall farmers coming out clearing our roads with their tractors and chainsaws using their own fuel to help us.