Ben Sweeney

Producing a talk show: Expectations v Reality 😂

Patrick's Day in Washington: Steve Dempsey argues that media's obsession with viral drama risks undermining the quiet, essential "gardening" of Irish diplomacy in Washington. jrnl.ie/6989372

The moment Irish 🇮🇪 journalist Steve Sweeney take cover from an Israeli 🇮🇱 missile in southern Lebanon 🇱🇧 Israel 🇮🇱 are doing it again Targeting journalists who report on 🇮🇱 war crime.

The state of modern F1. This shouldn’t exist

🚨BREAKING: Formula One set to change its logo

Looking at the onboards is honestly so deflating. Do we really have to make everything about sustainability? Formula 1 is the pinnacle of motorsport in the world. Can we just not let it be so? Proper racing is about engines. Not batteries.

This superbowl is making me excited to watch Thomas Frank’s Tottenham

It's not the Elder Wand, that's not how it works?

@cath2604 @rteliveline @kcuddihy He’s some clown 🙈🙈 gas listening to him cutting himself off to complain about not getting a platform 😂🤡

@rteliveline @kcuddihy don’t let him away with that

The best part of Christmas 🎄

@Historycourses @EYakoby Thoughts on the slaughter of Palestinians? I’m asking as I presume you’re happy to take anything as ‘we’ but won’t condone atrocities committed by ‘we’ Be so good if people stopped using a religion as an excuse for hatred and violence

Yes, "we." Both of my grandfathers served in WWII, my wife's great-grandfather served in WWII and his father served in WWI. And when a major war comes knocking again we will do our duty. This Jew hatred is not only imbecilic, it is also political malpractice.

@LordOfMundane @Alan__Shatter Absolutely agree with you that the October 7th attacks were horrific and those who lost their lives were as equally innocent and unjustly killed as those in Bondi. But it can be both be true that Jewish and Muslim victims of indiscriminate violence are equally sad

@BenSweeneyF1 @Alan__Shatter Hamas raped stabbed shot burned alive and kidnapped Israelis on October 7. They make it clear they want Israel conquered, all the Jews dead and a world Caliphate. 20,000 Hamas are dead out of 70,000 dead total out of 2.2m Gazans who were used as human shields.

As a former Justice & Defence minister I want to be absolutely clear. Like the Australian government, the Irish government’s unbalanced toxic rhetoric and conduct relating to the Israel/Gaza war has contributed to escalating antisemitism in Ireland. Both the Taoiseach & the Tanaiste are directly complicit. Toxic debates in our parliament , protests on our streets, the conduct of political parties, trade unions, university boards, the IPSC & its myriad sub groups have normalised antisemitic rhetoric & antisemitism. Irish social media posts are a cesspool of antisemitism, antisemitic abuse & threats. Irish sport is increasingly contaminated & Jewish children feel intimidated in our schools & are being bullied. Recently the Taoiseach criticised what he depicted as a “perception of antisemitism in Ireland”. While rejecting the campaign to dename Herzog Park, he chose to ignore the antisemitism in which the campaign is firmly rooted & validated RTE’s Eurovision exit, failing to understand the egregious nature of RTE’s action subsequent to the massacre by Hamas of 378 people at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023. Both the Taoiseach & Tanaiste have on multiple occasions been fully briefed on the current reality. The programme for government adopted the IHRA working definition of antisemitism in January 2025. Nothing has been done to implement it. Today’s tragic Bondi Beach massacre is yet another warning of what antisemitic hate speech leads to. My condolences to all families bereaved & I wish a speedy recovery to those injured.

I don’t care if you’re a Jew, a Muslim, a Christian or anything else. You should be able to have a religious celebration on an Aussie beach. This is horrific.

This might just be one of the greatest Australians to ever live Disarming a terrorist while completely unarmed Incredible

@LordOfMundane @Alan__Shatter What happened to those innocent civilians in Bondi today was horrific and disgusting. But where is this bastion of humanity when it comes to the slaughter Israel is committing in Gaza? You’re not so much a lion, more a clown

@Alan__Shatter Look after yourself Alan. Some fucking lunatic is going to have a go at you. I remember your posters were torn down during your election campaign last year

@Alan__Shatter I am shocked, horrified and deeply upset by the slaughter of these people. It is totally wrong and heartbreaking. But how can you simultaneously be so unapologetically ignorant of the slaughter of tens or thousands of civilians by the Israeli war machine? Disgustingly callous.

“ Globalise the Intifada” has been chanted weekly on Irish streets, including by some elected politicians. This is what it looks like on Bondi Beach in Australia where Jewish families gathered to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. Reports of fatalities and multiple casualties & a courageous disarming of a shooter. Where’s next?

@gidonsaar @Israel I’m absolutely sickened by the Bondi attack and the senseless loss of life, but as a skilled purveyor of the slaughter of civilians Israel has no right to comment on this

Words you will not find in the PM statement: Jews. Antisemitism. Terror.

@KillianM2 @Glinner 👏👏👏

@Glinner I thought you were against men hanging around in places they're not supposed to be.

I don’t think I’ve seen a harsher public punishment for refusing preferred pronouns than what Burke is enduring.

It appears the Labour Party doesn’t know where Clare is. The Radisson is in Clare @ConorSheehan93

How sadly ironic that on a day the country is given an opportunity to use its voice democratically, mindless thugs choose to intimidate & vandalise in this way. Solidarity with @ryanomeara_td and his constituency staff. There can be no place for this in Irish politics.

Listening to the same answers to the same questions for the last two weeks #rtept