#FairChain coffee with @MoyeeCoffeeUKIE . Alum of @UCD_Innovators. Tweets about travel, politics, coffee and social enterprise. Still an #avfc believer!
For comparison, since Jan 2021:
Irish roads: 927 deaths, almost 8,000 serious injuries.
The silence from politicians and the RSA on the bigger crisis caused by cars is deafening.
The irony of Trump calling FIFA to overturn
a red card for Balogun because he knows the U.S. can’t win without Balogun, who only qualifies for the U.S. team because of birthright citizenship, which Trump just tried to overturn.
Dublin is Europe’s most polluted ferry port in 2025, with ferries producing more toxic air pollution than all city cars, new research claims.
https://t.co/iZ4C0oiQ0I
Dr. John Legge, emergency medicine consultant at St. Vincent’s, writing in today’s @IrishTimes about the flawed policy of mandatory hi-vis for vulnerable road users.
“It seems that any measure to improve road safety but which may inconvenience drivers cannot be considered.”
I was dressed exactly like this when I was run over in Moycullen in broad daylight.
The factors that most strongly influence cyclist safety are driver speed, enforcement levels, road layout, and safe cycling infrastructure, not what we are wearing. A 🧵
90+5mins: 🇭🇺 2-3 🇮🇪
Ireland holds its breath, on the last throw of the dice... Hat-trick for Parrott 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
📺 @rte2@rteplayer https://t.co/xaKTb2LBVG
📻 @rteradio1 https://t.co/PEszeaDYyf
📱Updates: https://t.co/TC5xt2IxRd
ITV pulling zero punches in this incredible footage - "This landscape of destruction looks otherworldy, but it's not, it's this world - What is happening may come to define one of its darkest eras, one that casts a stain on humanity, which will endure for generations" #Gaza
The language of manufacturing consent:
🇮🇱: Preemptive strikes
🇮🇷: Escalation
🇮🇱: Warns
🇮🇷: Threatens
🇮🇱: Targets
🇮🇷: Attacks
🇮🇱: Government
🇮🇷: Regime
🇮🇱: Right to self-defense
🇮🇷: Condemnations
🇮🇱: Sophisticated military (has nukes)
🇮🇷: Nuclear threat (has no nukes)
A reminder that:
Israel’s presence in Gaza is unlawful (including its waters).
the flotilla is subject to ICC jurisdiction.
the flotilla is *not* participating in hostilities and has no belligerent nexus, so the applicable rules are human rights, not the law of armed conflict
Washington Post adopts slogan: ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’
-2017
Washington Post will not endorse any candidate in this Presidential election - on orders of billionaire owner
-2024
In the context of 20,000 dead children in Gaza, what’s a few dead peacekeepers to Netanyahu? The only thing those UN peacekeepers are hostage to is the deviancy of the Israeli military and the unwillingness of the international community to stop them. In todays @irishexaminer
Thousands of Belgian refugees arrived in Ireland in the winter of 1914.
I thought it might be interesting to go through newspaper archives, to see where around the country they went and how they were treated on arrival.
A thread on that, for anyone interested. /1
Short cameo on BBC earlier on why Israeli troops firing on UNIFIL posts is absolutely deliberate, and the latest attempt by them to see how much they can get away with (answer: everything)
We are worst in the whole EU for road safety💥🚙
My 2.5 year old son is getting a high vis vest from @RSAIreland today
Is this really their best idea to keep our children safe?
We need enforcement, cameras, penalties - all standard in other countries
RSA is unfit for purpose