David Gunning

- A Roman official inspecting an eastern town in the late 2nd century

ChatGPT will confidently tell you inaccurate information. That’s its most human trait.

Always fascinated how people in the middle ages for hundreds of years just lived amongst the ever decrepitating Roman ruins. It was just a part of daily life for them.

this looks like the last picture of Gaddafi

Yet another high pprofile Iranian athlete gets executed for no other reason than he protested against Iran's medieval style theocracy. Where are the protests & parades from the costumed leftists? The statements of outrage from @sinnfeinireland, @SocDems, @pb4p & @PresidentIRL?

Today, in Iran, in the middle of a war, the regime executed a 19-year-old national wrestling champion for the crime of joining January protests. 💔 After signaling to the world, including President @realDonaldTrump, that they would halt executions of protesters, the regime has done the exact opposite. Three young protesters, Saleh Mohammadi, Mehdi Ghasemi, and Saeed Davoudi, were hanged in Qom after a sham trial. Reports indicate torture. Forced confessions. No access to chosen lawyers. Closed-door proceedings. No right to appeal. I call on @GlobalAthleteHQ to stand with Iranian athletes who are being silenced, imprisoned, and executed simply for raising their voices. This is not just about sports. This is about human dignity.

Every time I see this picture of Ali Larijani, I get angry. In the 1980s, when I was a teenager living in Iran, my eyes were very sensitive and my doctor told me to wear sunglasses. But the morality police would stop me in the street, because according to them, my sunglasses were “provoking men.” I had to carry a doctor’s note in my wallet just to justify something as basic as protecting my eyes. That was the reality for us. And now, the same system that policed girls for wearing sunglasses proudly promotes figures like Ali Larijani wearing American Ray-Ban glasses. This is the hypocrisy of the Islamic Republic: control and humiliation for ordinary people, freedom and privilege for those in power. It’s not just hypocrisy. It’s a system built on double standards and contempt for its own people.

Wouldn't you think that one of those adults involved might have stopped just for a second to think: "Hold on here, lots of victims traumatised, family day out, might not be the best idea to simulate a rape and laugh about it?"

On St Patrick's Day. Ladybird books were published in many different languages - including Irish (Artists: Eric Winter and Robert Lumley)

Just found out the old Irish Center in Liverpool had a bar dedicated to JFK

It is recognised that a minimum of 13 Post Masters committed suicide as a result of the Post Office scandal. This man has no shame and should not be in public office

@israel_advocacy She's a propaganda sponge. There are millions and millions of these people walking around among us. They don't actually know things. They cannot explain things. They just parrot what they hear. This has been going on for thousands of years.

The Ottoman train T.E. Lawrence ambushed in 1917 still lying in the Arabian desert 109yrs on.

As an Irishman, he should be absolutely ashamed that he praised an organisation that killed an Irish peacekeeper and have done nothing to bring justice to that young soldiers family

Grok tell me every single thing that is happening everywhere in the entire world exactly right now at this moment

Well done wee man 👏👏👏

Bride Street Dublin. Image by artist Flora Mitchell(1890-1973) #Ireland

Of course, International Women’s Day can’t pass without me mentioning Irish-Israeli Kim Damti, who was murdered at the Nova festival on October 7, 2023. She didn’t receive even half the sympathy she deserved in Ireland, and her family certainly didn’t get the support they should have. I sincerely hope that some of the behaviour coming out of this country hasn’t caused them further trauma. It’s a sad state of affairs when people are willing to throw one of their own under the bus when it doesn’t suit their narrative. May Kims memory always be a blessing, I hope she is at peace, and I’m sending my best wishes to her family in Ireland and Israel. I won’t forget Kim - or how she was treated. Ireland’s shame!

HORRIFIC: After hours of kidnapping him, Hamas militias released Palestinian activist Ashraf Nasser—but only after brutally torturing him and breaking his limbs and jaw. He is now in the hospital receiving treatment. Ashraf’s only “crime” was speaking out against the criminal Hamas militias and demanding accountability for their abuses against Palestinian civilians in Gaza. For that, he was kidnapped, tortured, and nearly killed. Where is the outrage from human rights organizations? Where are the voices that claim to defend Palestinian civilians when those civilians are brutalized by Hamas itself?

It is not inhumane to care that Iranian school girls were killed. It is inhumane to need the missile to be fired by the U.S. or Israel before deciding to care. That protest doesn't come from your heart. It comes from your hate. Trust me, we feel it.