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After today's performance on Morning Ireland, you have to wonder if Robert Troy will be sent to the back benches and left to languish there for the rest of his career as a renewed warning to TDs not to be deliberately stupid in public – to become his generation’s Willie O’Dea.
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If I had that many houses I'd probably get confused too
I am writing more about this in a paper but.... you can see the difference in the pay gap reports published before he returned as CEO and those after on PayGap.ie. Not only has the gap not moved at all but it's fair to say they put a lot less effort into the reports now. paygap.ie/company/inte...
Yes. He bought his first house at the age of 20.
"The US president teasing an answer to autism during a Nazi-coded pyrotechnical funeral to a white nationalist" is a thing that just happened.
They don't sell sandwiches on trains anymore because they aren't considered "woke." As president I will restore YOUR right to pay seven euros for a sliver of ham on white bread while approaching Portarlington. *applause*
it was also stupid for libs to have spent the last decade allowing transphobia to run wild we now have a justice system full of these ppl. a columnist class full of these ppl. our institutions, even of equality, full of these ppl terfs are not just transphobic. they are far right conspiracy cranks
Certainly no great loss!
"Mr Troy had to resign as a junior minister in 2022 over errors he made in declaring 11 properties he either owned or part owned."
"Berkeley-based AI CEO calls for ‘rapid, public executions’ after refugee is slain on train In an X post, Intercom chief Eoghan McCabe also attacked commenters over their alleged low testosterone test scores.'" sfstandard.com/2025/09/09/b...
"A 2019 article in The Information revealed that at least half a dozen Intercom employees had left the company over allegations that McCabe made unwanted advances toward female staffers."
Surprised the Dublin born and Trinity Educated McCabe hasn’t tried to run for President here
The first proper mobalisation against the new wave of far-right was February 2015 with the anti-Pegida demo at the GPO. It wasn't until politicians began to be targeted over the last few years that the State began to take the threat seriously. They had multiple opportunities to stop them
I'll note lots of people said having Gardai escort drivelling lunatics into libraries in order to perform book inspections to make sure they weren't too gay would not placate them but radicalize them even more. And here we are.
9) In essence, the OLC press release raises more questions than answers & despite issuing a PR, the order remains as opaque as ever about its activities, which is of no assistance to families seeking truth & justice.
8) Additionally, I note that the 1993 exhumations are conspicuous in their absence from OLC’s press release. Furthermore, the order does not specify whether their ‘review’ has examined the State mandated eye-witness record of the exhumations, or whether they’ve accounted for all 155 women.
7) For a start, while OLC say they’ve identified ‘three more gravesites’, we’re aware of at least 9 further unmarked plots at Glasnevin where women from High Park & Sean McDermott St are buried.
6) It will take time to examine the new inscriptions/headstones & compare them to the data in the Magdalene Names Project databases (jfmresearch.com/home/magdale...) But on the face of it, I’m not hopeful that this is the end of the matter.
5) Using publicly available data we uncovered significant errors in JP’s research. Who carried out the OLC ‘review’ & will the order now acknowledge the flaws in JP’s work? More importantly, will the State now establish an independent investigation into the HP exhumations?
4) Our analysis is impeded by the fact that the order refuses to open its records. An exception is Jacinta Prunty, whose flawed research on HP’s records was used by the McAleese Ctte to wrongly conclude that all 155 women exhumed in 1993 are accounted for. See Ch8 of: jfmresearch.com/books/irelan...
3) 🚨Whether the rectifications are accurate/adequate remains to be seen. It will take time to establish to what extent the issues we’ve been highlighting over the past 2 decades are resolved. This is slow, careful work. Accuracy & ethical considerations take priority over speed.
2) Has OLC contacted relatives of women buried at Glasnevin, including @consumerfrank.bsky.social who has been seeking answers for years? Has the State been informed, since previous research commissioned by the Order was used to shut down questions about HP? [See (4-5)👇]
1) We founded JFM in 2003 when we learned about anomalies at the High Park graves, exposed by Mary Raftery. 22 yrs later, the Srs of Our Lady of Charity (OLC) say they’ve rectified errors & omissions at their Glasnevin graves. A few initial observations: goodshepherdsisters.ie/news-events/...?
That's a fair point.
Listen to me, fellow Americans. You MUST stop thinking of us as a “special” continent w/our own problems just caused by one waddling, addled sociopath. If we hope to survive as a democracy, we MUST pay attention & TAKE ACTION to the same threats (paid for by same players) all over the world.
www.advocate.com/politics/her...
The oval office is dripping in "gold" and prices are now so high that #MAGA can't afford to own the Libs anymore they can only rent..... #USA #Trump
I love Sailing By.
Same.
*Wittered, not withered. I hate you, autocorrect...
Anyone agreeing to this is no longer a journalist.
The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.
Out with the @mams4transrights.bsky.social for a fabulous day at Quare Clare & I look forward every year to marching with my gorgeous friends from Intersex Ireland Love and friendship always win 🏳️⚧️❤️🏳️🌈 #Pride2025 #Ennis @TransLimerick @limerickpride
you really can tell pretty much everything about a person’s politics just by knowing how they view trans people (and by how they view Palestine, but obviously that’s another topic for another thread)
If transgenders were "violent extremists", then why is Iceland still one of the most peaceful countries in the world with some of the best legislation promoting gender equality (including transgenders). Other countries that have decent gender equality don't have the problem either. Interesting that.
Yes, in all of its applications, one of the most disturbing features of AI is its propensity to tell the user what they want to hear. It has instructed & assisted people to suicide - why not murder?
There goes the First Amendment.
It was either that or end up chucking a mid-century Roberts Radio, the size of a concrete block, through the window.
Maybe so, but I have seen instances that look very like addiction.
I would be very surprised if that hasn't happened already.
It’s hard not to believe people’s vulnerabilities are being preyed upon deliberately. How long before someone is driven to kill?
I was a lifelong BBC radio 4 listener. It withered poshly in the background of my (Irish & not-remotely-posh) home for many years. I quit years ago because of the (quite sudden but relentless) transphobia.
Fuck's sake, another fight over pronouns.
This is one of the most dystopian things I have ever read. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
#bbcqt
the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare
The caption is funny because I don't think Melania has ever laughed tbh
Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.
"Queer optimism is not a mood. It’s a method. It lets us imagine policy change not just as an institutional process but as a rewilding of the public imagination, reclaiming it from shame and silence."
It is a sad fact that trans people (and leftists), as part of an exhausting culture war, have become yet another in a long line of media boogeymen, following immigrants, gays and fidget spinners.
RTE editorial policy in a nutshell
Happy birthday, Lilith!
Welcome to the United Kingdom! 🇬🇧 Never before in U.S. History has a President been acknowledged by another country in this unique way! 🇺🇸 At Windsor Castle, in London & all across the land, people are United! ✊ They all want to see the #EPSTEIN_PedoFiles, ASAP! 👀
The UK is really returning to form.
He is not saying “they’re not allowed to criticize the president” because that’s all Fox News did for 8 years under Obama and 4 under Biden He is saying that they’re not allowed to criticize HIM. Because in his eyes there is a special set of rules that only applies to him. Because he is a dictator
Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.
Amazing!
Congratulations, all the same!
As a gay guy in Ireland, I’m contacted by US & UK LGBTQ ppl for advice on moving. We are going to see more US dual, & UK, citizens moving here to escape far right policies in their former homes. It’s amazing to see Queer ppl seek refuge in Ireland, when it was vice versa, not so long ago!
Source:
Hiding the truth.
Christ. Steen has just been endorsed by Gemma O'Doherty. If she gets the nomination, vote carefully folks. #SpeirGhorm
They're not even on the same library shelf!
More than 100 HAP tenants in Dublin lost their homes after poor conditions flagged share.google/ZKPgBaO8mjwU...
And the low bar for "evidence" deemed to be conclusive about sexual orientation & gender identity, as well as the false belief that everybody gay or trans is on the radical left.
I still don't think the relationship is particularly well-evidenced. I'm also bemused by the right wing assumption that gay or trans automatically means leftist. My comments are not about whether or not the person is trans. It's about the eagerness to find *somebody* trans to pin the blame to...
Yes, I hear you. "Repeal" is absolutely the wrong word. They *could* introduce new legislation that would render the judgement moot (but of course they won't.)
BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.
The article in the original quoted post concerns objections from businesses to the EHRC guidance, not the SC judgement. These concerns can be addressed right now by scrapping the guidance.
Not sure who you think I'm echoing. I suggest you cough it up! You seem to be echoing a Republican Governor who (a) admits he hasn't seen all the evidence & (b) has been brief by the recently-gutted investigation agencies of a far right administration with a very tenuous relationship with the truth!
It was 100% true 2 days ago, when I posted, this was the only "evidence" being offered at that time. The "evidence" offered since is pretty sketchy also & none of it verifies that those alleged posts about transitioning were even made by the same person or confirms a romantic relationship with TR.
They *can* throw out the guidance tho, given that it's cobbled-together mumbo-jumbo about "single-sex spaces" - a subject literally not mentioned in the judgement!
I hear this whale has a trans travel agent
![Tourists fear for lives as killer whales attack and sink yacht [Telegraph]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyefpiziml7b24sxpd74axq7/bafkreib52on5totxpr2soqmv3trtmmothpexqz5ktluswljlvf6ktgbfoa@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome
As with the Graham Linehan story recently, *acres* of articles and hours of airtime without quotes. Because the quotes would make them look bad!
Remember when the Epstein birthday book was published six days ago.
The Department of Social Protection's *illegal* facial recognition technology built into the Public Services Card is so poor it required a human to confirm or contradict its matching 95% of the time! ... and as well as being illegal, it cost us €100m.
"Every country was put on notice by the ICJ that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.. every country became obliged under the law.. not to speak fine words, to take action to prevent genocide.. that obligation was activated on 24th Jan 2024" Chris Sidoti spells it out
There are exceptions. I lived in a house in Sandymount that was Edwardian, or possibly a little later, that had what I would call a cellar (no windows, invisible from outside) but many people would call a basement.
It really, really isn't. Finland solved the problem almost entirely through Housing First years ago, and they told the Irish government how to do it - the Irish govt just ... didn't bother. This is from 2019: www.broadsheet.ie/2019/05/01/a...
They believe this because they know what they’ve done, and how they behave.
Good of the telegraph to remind us that as well as racist coked up men with prior convictions for dv, the racist march led by a racist that descended into racist violence also included some racists who shop at oliver bonas & think running the church fete tombola makes them nice people
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business. Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
The story about Trump ordering the removal of references to slavery from national Parks is being censored on here by the moderation service because it wrongly labeled the photo of an enslaved person with scars from being whipped on their back as "self harm."
The Washington Post has removed a black woman for quoting a white man accurately
Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.
What's next? Lezbollah?
I can’t believe I have been victim of a smear campaign, says person working for a smear campaign
It's honestly funny that parts of the US right are attacking Oxford Uni because "the Oxford Union are radical leftists", when it's a) not part of the University, and b) the Union's been getting protested for inviting fascist speakers for literally decades
Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com
"I'm witdrawing from the #aras25 Presidential race to focus on my campaign to be *checks biro marks on back of hand* King of England"
Cartoon by @macltoons.bsky.social.
You can tell that trans women are women because we get blamed when random white men do crimes