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Time for B2B Companies to Rethink Growth? Triple Fit Strategy reviewed by @BillyLinehan: TRIPLE FIT STRATEGY: How to Build Lasting Customer Relationships and Boost Growth by Christoph Senn and Mehak Gandhi. @Irish_TechNews irishtechnews.ie/?p=171302

It is about time. #EUCO

Advertising zero alcohol drinks ‘flagrant breach’ of laws. Restrictions should apply to alcohol free drinks at sports events & near schools, Alcohol Action Ireland says. It's a racket just like gambling as a 'leisure sport" @GambRegIRL @ExternProbGam irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/0…

First step for @Fingalcoco in National Tree Week? Stop destruction of healthy trees and hedgerows? And cut back invasive plants like Cherry Laurel @Tree_Folklore @EasyTreesIE @3CounciI @BatConservIre @AnTaisce @BirdWatchIE #dubw #clonsilla #royalcanal #tolkavalley

National Tree Week will take place from 9-16th March 2025 and Fingal County Council has a number of initiatives planned to celebrate this including plans to distribute 10,000 trees to residents for planting across the county. Tree Giveaways will take place from 10am to 1pm on Wednesday 12th and/or Saturday 15th of March at the following venues: St Catherine’s Park, Millennium Park, Argillan Demesne, Malahide Demesne, Velvet strand beach, Portmarnock, Newbridge Demesne and Ward River Valley. For full details see: fingal.ie/national-tree-…

Hey #ElbowsUp

Hamas militias attacked a Palestinian female activist, Majida Shehada, in her home in Khan Younis. They assaulted her husband, threatened to burn down their house with their children inside, and warned her husband, Abed Shahin, they would break his limbs—all because his wife, a human rights activist who works for the Palestinian Center of Human rights, shared a post on Facebook. It is appalling that human rights organizations remain silent on Hamas’s crimes against Palestinians in Gaza, partly because they fear such threats from Hamas, while others officially cooperate with Hamas. There is an urgent need for a genuine organization that fearlessly and impartially defends the rights of all Palestinians, free from political bias or intimidation. This is why human rights violations in Gaza remain hidden—those who attempt to expose them are threatened, attacked, and even killed by Hamas, while human rights organizations, like @EuroMedHR, act as Hamas shills, aiding in whitewashing its crimes.

Hamas continues to abuse, torture, and threaten anyone who criticizes it in Gaza, all while the world remains silent. Some are intimidated by Hamas, while others are complicit, and I’m ashamed for ever thinking some of the latter were sincere people. Stay tuned for the launch of a new project @IhabHassane and I with other Palestinians are working on to rigorously document Hamas’ crimes and to expose organizations that cover up these crimes. When the genocidal war was ongoing in Gaza, we were told it was not the time to speak about Hamas’ abuses. Since the ceasefire began, Hamas did not miss a day in violently suppressing any dissent, and shamefully, none of these voices even uttered a word.

In pic. Carol Lopez from @daintygreens Microherbs and with me, Lisa Flanagan of Moss Melts, Irish sea moss. Also group of food producers with Mayor of @Fingalcoco and Oisin Geoghegan of @LEOFingal #supportsmallbusiness #microgreens #LEW2025

As @Celtar_Advisers attending event in @Cknock_Hotel, many small Dublin food producers here, incl @daintygreens and Moss Melts Irish Sea Moss hosted by @LEOFingal @Aldi_Ireland @mandsireland #SupportSmallBusiness #LEW2025 #EnterpriseWeek #Dublinfood #microherbs #seamoss #celtar

Time for B2B Companies to Rethink Growth? Triple Fit Strategy reviewed by @BillyLinehan: TRIPLE FIT STRATEGY: How to Build Lasting Customer Relationships and Boost Growth by Christoph Senn and Mehak Gandhi. @Irish_TechNews irishtechnews.ie/?p=171302

Sorid and full of lies, Trump's approach to Ukraine #AmericaCoup

Here's our latest video. 5 minutes on Trump's history with Ukraine - and how it helps us understand the Trump administration's approach to Ukraine now.

Taking my Trump derangement syndrome to new heights. (Stay for the finale.) 🧹🫧💚🇺🇸 #NewVideo #DefyDemocracy #Parody

@HSECHODNCC @HSEDubNorthEast Move to @bluesky too?

In the coming weeks, we'll be moving this account over to @HSEDubNorthEast. Make sure you follow us there to stay up to date on all things HSE in North Dublin

Bringing tree home on @dublinbusnews Thanks to @LEODublinCity and @EasyTreesIE for the Hazel tree! Great way to celebrate launch of a Green Enterprise Week in @Workday Dublin. Speakers Minister @Alan_Dillon, MC @SusanHayes_ @louiseoconor @NuttyDelights @LilliputStores and more

Wonder what kind of shield bug this is @BioDataCentre ? Enjoying cabbage plants in polytunnel #insects #insect #shieldbug

Dysfunction like no other for No Other Land! Predictably, the Oscar award for the documentary film “No Other Land” generated reactions among the classic fault lines of the Israel and Palestine conflict. Some believed it was a courageous work that highlighted the value of non-violent activism and cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis to challenge unjust forms of a military occupation regime that continuously pushes Palestinians out of lands they have lived on for generations and seeks to erase their connection to that land permanently. Others thought that the timing of the movie was tone deaf and that affording it this major platform was a political message by Hollywood’s elites who wanted to virtue signal their support for Palestinians at a time when many Israelis are still reeling from the consequences of October 7, the pain of the Bibas family tragedy and the continued suffering of hostages still in Hamas’s captivity. Notably and despite winning an Oscar, the film does not have a distributor in the United States except for a few independent theaters that will be showing it – something that casts doubt on the notion of a concerted effort by Hollywood to elevate a film about Palestinians while also failing to allow it to be seen by the masses in the United States. For many who support the Palestinian people, there is genuine excitement that finally, the days of marginalizing the Palestinian story, experience, and voices are gone – that this film is part of a broader trajectory of a shift in global public opinion to acknowledge the plight of Palestinians and push for their cause to be front and center in the western world which is seen as the ultimate enabler of Israel’s sustained military occupation of the Palestinian people. Art and film have emerged as powerful tools for telling the Palestinian story and engaging in a form of perseverance and non-violent activism in the face of power imbalances and injustice. In the absence of effective diplomacy and given the futility of armed resistance, these efforts might just be what gets desperately lacking attention to the experience of the thousands of Palestinians who are constantly facing the risk of expulsion and displacement. What has been intriguing and at times disturbing to observe among some “pro-Israel” detractors of the film is that any mention of Palestinian suffering or recognition of Palestinians on a major platform such as the Oscars triggers such a visceral response that can be broken into several categories. There is a fair amount of bigotry whereby a reference to the Palestinians is reflexively met with prejudiced reactions that deny the very existence of Palestinians as a people. For some it feels impossible to talk about Palestinians without immediately engaging in whataboutism and bringing up Hamas, the hostages, terrorism and other issues. A few seemed to think that no amount of films, activism, or international solidarity will change the fact that Palestinians’ freedom and independence can only come by directly working with Israelis to overcome the various issues that have prevented a resolution to the conflict. Others were willing to accept Palestinians being acknowledged at the Oscars but felt that there was no space afforded to Israelis and their suffering following October 7 and that the conversation and discourse have been unfairly skewed in favor of one side. Separately, it has been frustrating to observe “anti-normalization” cultists and freaks who are against the film because they believe it only won a platform as a result of it being jointly produced by a Palestinian and an Israeli. There is a fervent attitude that anything Israeli automatically means colonizer and oppressor even when it entails expressions of allyship and solidarity and even when Israeli partners help elevate otherwise neglected and overlooked Palestinian stories. Unfortunately, this film is another painful demonstration of the dysfunctional dynamics prevalent in this conflict. Despite the imbalance of power dynamics between Palestinians and Israelis, there is and should be space for the suffering of both peoples to include the realities of military occupation in parts of the West Bank and the horrendous consequences of Hamas’s terrorism on October 7. The insistence on adopting reductionist black and white, oppressed and oppressor dynamics and frameworks will never help break the vicious cycle and disrupt the entrenched narratives, even if there is some truth to parts of these claims. Most importantly, the cultist insistence that Jewish-Israelis by default are occupying colonizers even if they are steadfast allies to the Palestinian people is wrong, unhelpful, ridiculously ineffective, and shows a prejudiced unwillingness to acknowledge any form of partnership with Israelis simply because of their mere existence and who they are. If you haven’t seen the movie but are upset by its message, you should watch it and judge for yourself. If you don’t believe in any form of cooperation between the two people because you are “anti-normalization,” then be a bit more explicit in saying that you will never tolerate the existence of Israeli Jews and stop pretending that you simply are pursuing peace and justice when in fact, you want the erasure of an entire people – making you no less detrimental than the violence of occupation and the settlement enterprise.

It’s been 515 days since Hamas perpetrated the deadliest attack on Jews in a single day since the Holocaust. It’s been 515 days of mourning for the 1,200 lives stolen from us. It’s been 515 days since 59 Israeli civilians have been held captive by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. It’s been 515 days of rampant antisemitism on the streets of Europe. It’s been 515 days since the Jewish world was forever changed.

@1rorycowan Ukraine falls, what next Rory?

And yet we don’t seem to have enough money to deal with huge issues of everyday concern to Irish people, like education (especially for children with special needs), cost of living getting out of control, energy costs, health (if appointments are available), safety in our cities and towns, long term care for an older population, etc etc