10,000 people and 3,000 kids homeless didn’t cross the line.
Rents standing at over 2 grand a month didn’t cross the line.
A billion euro of state money a year to private landlords didn’t cross the line.
But Michael D speaking some truth…
If you're asking what you can do, you can learn to understand that violence is a spectrum, and the jokes, victim blaming, and dismissals uphold more extreme forms of violence. Educate yourself, your friends, and put words into action
Ireland sure is beautiful.
But just imagine a landscape once again part covered in native forest, and a tapestry of other wild nature-rich habitats, instead of the barren monocultures so dominant everywhere now.
Wouldn't it all be SO much more beautiful, in every way?
Sad to see this stunning home wasted & decaying
Imagine an Ireland where there was no dereliction & this was someones family home
It is possible
We can end #DerelictIreland
And provide homes, places to play & create for everyone
Do we want it 🤔
The reach of yesterday’s tweet about FFG’s favourite Pfizer GraphMan is just extraordinary in my view. There’s clearly a vast silent audience on Twitter…
In the months since the revelation that @SEIreland has committed itself to fossil fuel money for the foreseeable future their response has been shocking. Thread:
Unfortunately the QAnon cult has very much spread to Ireland. This is the profile pic of a woman who is very active on Irish Covid conspiracy pages on FB. A year ago her profile pics included support for #StayHomeSaveLives and Sinn Fein but she has become radicalised since then.
Walking around it always strikes me that the best way to start a real recovery of native woodlands is to allow the pockets which remain to expand naturally.
Presently these are often actively suppressed whilst we pay for woodland creation elsewhere
I made a short video about it
This story here is the most Irish shit imaginable and confirms that the people who you think are capable of having power and responsibility are simply winging it
So Norma Foley was one hour late to her scheduled meeting with teacher's unions and discourteouly left after only 5 minutes. Presumably so she can then state in interviews she 'met with stakeholders'.
Appallingly inept behaviour from a government minister
If RTÉ replaced the Angelus with a minute dedicated to someone who died in the M&BH, one day dedicated per each individual, that would be 25 years for the babies alone
Direct Provision is a cruel Irish institution where the state works with private, profit-driven entities. The institution is shrouded in secrecy. It's been called a "A Severe Violation of Human Rights" by the UN. It's happening right now in Ireland
To anyone complaining about a private media company kicking Trump off their platform:
Think of Twitter as a Christian bakery and Trump as a gay wedding cake.
#BanTrumpFromTwitter