It’s the same playbook used throughout the public service. Ignore the conscientious messenger. Isolate the messenger. Discredit the messenger. Gang up on the messenger. Try to break the messenger. Humiliate the messenger. What was the message? This is #HowIrelandWorks

Sorry and I know it’s been 10 hours but I still can’t get my head around why @KayBurley read out the names of these dead Israeli soldiers committing war crimes as if she were reading out the names of British heroes Can anyone help me out?

RT @wyattreed13: This video has now been removed for “violating X rules,” after 500,000 views. Apparently the ruling class really doesn’t…

"Israeli attacks on UN forces in Lebanon must stop, say UK, Italy, France and Germany" What about Israeli massacres of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians? Must they also stop? (My question to the same European criminally complicit governments) theguardian.com/world/live/2…

Spain is striking for Gaza. Will the rest of Europe join them?

Germany reportedly asked Israel to sign a 'genocide clause' On 13 October 2024, German newspaper BILD reported in an exclusive (behind a paywall) that Germany asked the Israeli government to sign a so-called ‘genocide clause’ as a precondition for further arms deliveries. This clause apparently contained a written assurance from the Israeli government that German arms will not be used to commit genocide. The document is said to have arrived in Berlin on 10 October and allowed Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz to declare in parliament the next day that "We have supplied arms, and we will supply arms". This raises several questions: 1) Does this imply that the German Government shares in the suspicion that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip? 2) Can such an assurance absolve Germany from its responsibility under international law not to aid or assist acts of genocide?

#AnimalWelfare Be kind to animals and your fellow human beings. Please desist from using #Fireworks this #Halloween Maybe just stick to organised events. Please watch out for our most vulnerable both animals and humans. Thank You 🐾

With @DropSiteNews Two illegal flights with weapons for the IDF went through Irish territory after the Israeli army pointed a tank at Irish peacekeepers. Ireland has 379 troops in Lebanon. Government hasn’t indicated it will seek to stop these flights. ontheditch.com/idf-points-ta…

After years in this business, I'm pretty hardened. I've seen many horrors. But watching people being burned alive last night, stretching out their hands for help. A man in a hospital bed with an IV attached going up in flames. It felt like a new horror, akin to a vision of hell.

And of course Israel will dismantle its modern day concentration camp in occupied lands. That was easy. 😉

🚨🚨Israelis are bragging that the current IDF invasion of northern Gaza has absolutely NOTHING to do with Hamas, & is all about forcibly depopulating half of the entire Gaza Strip by starving, terrorizing & indiscriminately bombing people there.

𝑂’𝐺𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 10 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑇𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑎 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝐻𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝐽𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 4 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑂’𝐺𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒. 𝐽𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑢𝑙 𝐾𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡, 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑅𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝑂’𝐺𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 “𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡”. Judge Paul Kelly, president of the District Court, wrote to Roderic O’Gorman 19 June warning that the suspension of the Child Law Project that’s been holding the State to account since 2012 by monitoring court cases involving vulnerable children taken into state care by @tusla was a “most unwelcome development”. The project originally headed by @CarolCoulter17 published a tranche of reports quarterly documenting some of the cases involving children taken into state care. @jackpowerIT reports that a letter, seen by @IrishTimes reveals that Judge Kelly expressed his “grave disappointment and concern” at the withdrawal of funding for the project. Judge Kelly said the project had shone a light into a “very dark” corner of the court system, covering child-protection cases that involved shocking and disturbing evidence. The @ChildLawProject had provided “excellent value for money” at a modest cost to the State, he wrote. The reports published by the project were of “immense benefit” to judges in the District Court and elsewhere, as well as lawyers, social workers, academics and policymakers, he said. “Even at this late, stage I ask that you reconsider the matter and provide the necessary resources to enable the project to continue what I feel is essential work,” Judge Kelly said. The current CEO of the project, Dr.@MariaLCorbett wrote to O’Gorman in May asking about the new tender to replace the current tender which expires in a few weeks. A reply from his department on the 30 July said the department was unable to provide a timeline for when the tendering process might begin. Jack Power reports that the process of taking bids for the new contract has not yet started, and when it does it will likely take at least a number of months before funding is awarded. The project is unlikely to resume in the lifetime of this government. Meanwhile, due to funding shortfall, the project has not sent researchers to observe court proceedings since the middle of this year and is due to publish a final report in the coming weeks. There was consternation last year when the Project published a report on Judge Simms’s letter 17 May 2023 sent to a number of State and public institutions, including @rodericogorman in which he expressed the “utmost concern for the immediate predicament and welfare of children who are in care”, drew attention to the placement of children in unsuitable (unapproved) special emergency residential placements (due to a lack of care placements) and called for “immediate and coordinated action” to remedy the current crisis. Last September @AontuIE leader @Toibin1 discovered after he requested the information through a parliamentary question, that O’Gorman’s Department deliberately destroyed three of the four reports sent by Judge Simms to the minister. A statement from O’Gorman’s department when news broke about the destruction of the judge’s reports to the minister said: “Following consideration of the Department’s statutory responsibilities in relation to data protection, the Department formed the view that it did not have a legal basis to process the personal data contained in three of those four reports, and those reports were subsequently deleted from the Department’s records.”

British zunts!

But we both know, Bob, that "democracy" is a fictional idea.

May they Rest in Peace May the guilty - including @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy and most of the British media - be brought to justice

May the dead Rest in Peace May the wounded recover May the guilty - including Western politicians and media - be brought to justice

More than 56 tonnes of weaponry for the IDF – as well as other munitions for F-35 jets – were illegally transported through Irish territory so the airlines concerned could save fuel, Micheál Martin has suggested

Like all the other breaches weren’t ‘clear’ enough??

Other 'forced sales' – check the box to engineer defaults with most likely the bank choosing the required valuation to ensure a breach of the loan to value covenant. It is said that Ulster Bank hired tens of valuers and ordered the required valuations. dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/202…

RT @Care2much18: "Ireland is being colonised by India" and "Our country is disappearing before our eyes" 🤷‍♂️ An assertion, by the way, b…