In the depths of a housing crisis, Dublin needs homes, not AirBnBs.
Managed to get an application for a full-time AirBnB in the Liberties rejected so that it'll be a home instead.
If you know of an illegal AirBnB in your area, drop me a message and we'll get on it.
Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”
How to save nature and cut turf at the same time.
This will annoy the purists but it is also what Just Transition looks like. #RTECountrywide
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
This isn't an oversight.
Someone looked at the settings, and deliberately and intentionally flipped a switch.
FFG, the party of landlords and developers.
www.dublininquirer.com/rtb-still-ca...
“Considering how force can be used against children”.
Hey, UK?
Vote Green.
Mullin next to the words "the only true native american in the senate"
Markwayne Mullin will undoubtedly be dubbed "the first Native American to lead the Department of Homeland Security." As a friend wrote to me, "Wow, there's the Overseer Class and then there's putting a Cherokee citizen in charge of forced removal"
Today's evacuation orders in Beirut displace 100,000s - including elderly people, children, people with disabilities, etc. etc., all having to leave in a hurry with no idea what will happen to their homes. This kind of mass forced displacement is illegal under international law.
It makes me sick when I hear media ppl cry indignation about FDI & "Is it worth the risk to Ireland!?" etc.
Wake tf up.
Trump is a fascist dictator intent on burning the world, via bombs in the short term & climate denial in the long term.
Complicity in that is the risk!
#IrishPol
As the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran drags into its fourth day, and the devastating death toll for Iranians rises to more than 700, Israel is hoping the world is no longer watching Gaza.
They’re using Iran as an excuse to starve even more Palestinians.
After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.
But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?
Potentially fatal blow to the Govt's plan to cap fees in environmental Judicial Reviews.
Proof that it's motivated by desire to reduce JRs, rather than the lie that it's just to make fees "predictable." Wait until the Aarhus Committee & CJEU get a hold of this.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Darragh O’Brien drafts in state agencies to find solutions to traffic congestion in the capital Transport Minister ‘not writing anything off’ in bid to ease problem in urban areas
Has he considered not shelving rail projects? Not cutting funding for expansion of public transport could be worth looking at too.
All Europeans will pay the price for their leaders' reaction to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran this weekend.
European leaders (all except Pedro Sanchez) have now accepted the end of international law.
The consequences of this will be felt not for weeks, not for years, but for decades
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/tu... @uplift.ie
So, the president of European Commission, supposedly speaking on behalf of EU, hasn’t a single word of criticism for illegal US/Israeli attack on Iran, instead blaming Iran for trying to defend itself.
The same VDL cowardice we saw in #Gaza.
Small wonder the US treats Europe like a bad joke.
As a tiny country, international law is all we've got. It's not a lot but at least it's something.
Ireland fails to defend it at its peril.
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’
Could we get this for Ireland too, please
It's more obvious when they use bombs, but it really should be stressed that this administration had already killed well over 400,000 children and 200,000 adults before they even started using their military.
The scale of death here is difficult to wrap your head around.
Two cities in Israel, bomb shelter comparison
By the way when you see reports about how Israelis are going to bomb shelters, you should keep in mind that the vast majority of Palestinian *citizens* of Israel (in the 1948 territories, not the oPT) do not have a single bomb shelter nearby due to the apartheid system Israel has implemented.
Picture of the Hind Rajab centre in Gaza that was made possible by D4P and SpiceBag (and less so by me)
Wanted to say that Adam SpiceBag Doyle (the eviction mural guy) has done incredible work to absolutely no acclaim in the background relating to Gaza.
The young fella is an under appreciated hero.
Conclusions We do believe that the presence of supervisory presiding officers also helped staff in these situations and praise their efforts to stop these breaches of the secret ballot.
Analysing Claims of Electoral Interference During the Irish Local and European Elections
Sunburst chart of election interfence claims by category during the Irish local elections, "family voting" does not appear.
For context, I have worked on counter-disinformation and election integrity investigations during the last three Irish national elections, and the threat, or even the term, "family voting" wasn't in my vocabulary before polls closed in Gorton and Denton. This is fabricated.
Behind the scenes, “Meta was divided on whether protecting kids should take precedence over user growth and engagement. For years, the company only incrementally rolled out restrictive safety features, even as its own staff detailed the risks its platforms posed to children.”
This is why they took away the kids’ papers & colored pencils.
“Despite the siege and the hardship, we lived and felt we had our own little world. I raised Hind believing she had rights: the right to life and the right to safety. She had many dreams, she wanted to become a doctor. Then the war came and took all her dreams.” Mother of five-year-old Hind Rajab speaks to @SkyYaldaHakim . ⬇️
Sky News @SkyNews "The war came and took all her dreams." @SkyYaldaHakim talks to Wissam Rajab, the mother of five-year-old Hind Rajab, who was killed in an Israeli tank attack in Gaza. More highlights from The World ➡️ https://trib.al/hlWi6Al 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
“Despite the siege and the hardship, we lived and felt we had our own little world. I raised Hind believing she had rights: the right to life and the right to safety. She had many dreams, she wanted to become a doctor. Then the war came and took all her dreams.”
Mother of 5-year-old Hind Rajab...
Dear God
Jeffrey Epstein described Anglo-Irish banking heiress Sabrina Guinness as one of his "old buddies" in January 2017.
Her father was chairman of Guinness Mahon Holdings – the bank that compromised hundreds of Irish elites with illegal Ansbacher accounts.
www.ontheditch.com/jeffrey-epst...
This 30-year-old transgender man, who can’t swim, jumped into Lake Michigan after a wind gust blew a baby in a stroller into the freezing water.
He’s being called a hero. But now he has medical expenses, and people are donating to a fundraiser to support him.
www.advocate.com/news/lio-cun...
