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@JacquiDeevoy1 I know that feeling. Sealed coffins during covid. Heart breaking.

My first morbid question of the day: how do we know for certain that the bodies of our deceased loved ones are actually cremated? Even with burials, can we be sure the bodies are in the coffins? Several people in my support group have said they don’t believe their loved one was in the coffin, especially during ‘Covid’ when families weren’t allowed to see the bodies prior to the funeral and coffins were invariably sealed. One woman told me she’s pretty sure it wasn’t her deceased son in the coffin as it was too big and weighed too much. When she asked the funeral director why the coffin was so big, he said something along the lines of “well, he was a big lad, wasn’t he?” He was 5ft 4 and a very slim build. His story is published in full in my new book. (Link in comments.) A horrible thought, I know, but one that is nagging at many people. My own father died during that time and I didn’t ever see him dead so I’ve always wondered.

@HHillespie @ElmaRyder The lame slurs just aren't working any more. What have you ever done?

@ElmaRyder I remember when Waters had consensual sex with Sinead O'Connor, and then complained about the natural consequences of that. His misogynistic tirades (but he mostly never DARED to be racist) showed exactly why he was an unfit father.

I remember Waters when he was parading about in a Iong coat pretending to be an intellectual, when he married the very silly Sinead O' Connor and when he made a show of himself with a mortifying Eurovision entry. He was always a self-important, ridiculous individual.

@Dublinmarti I'd like to see evidence of any of this. This is the media now. It was a peaceful protest with 56% support.

People cannot say they were not warned.

@RaymondRowan7 They’re right. Open your eyes.

Three ppl who took money from the mainstream media that they now berate. Three ppl completely unqualified to speak on anything past fashion, whinging and VAT. Two conspiracy theorists and one so self important he put himself forward as dictator.

@mullallyelaine Just watching James Conway now. He should be there too.

The Irish farmers, construction workers and hauliers are not afraid to stand up and speak out about what’s happening in ireland

@robggill @independent_ire 15000 homeless. Full.

And today we have @independent_ire saying "Ireland is f*ll". Btw look at the type of accounts that have shared that hashtag over the last number of years. Obvious where that party is pitching itself now - not 'common sense' but pandering to dark populism.

@vortexEire @thejournal_ie No evidence at all.

@thejournal_ie The far right thugs targeting Gardai now, that won't end well for them. Time to make the country safe again by locking up every far right criminal. They've invaded the country.

Gardaí feel unsafe in their homes as numerous online threats are identifying their children in posts in a campaign of intimidation linked to the fuel protests, a garda has said. jrnl.ie/7018634t

@JackPosobiec @realTanyaTay So do we. We want to keep it that way. Thanks for your work, Jack.

We love Ireland! ☘️🇮🇪

@IrishTimes “Threatens”. We see you. Stopped my sub 6 yrs ago.

Fuel protest group threatens further action next month irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/0…

@KeithMillsD7 Keith, there were a few isolated incidents of Protestant land owners being targeted. It was not widespread. Land was not confiscated. Many Republicans were indeed protestants. The War of Independence was not a sectarian war.

2/2 Rural Protestants were targeted during the Anglo-Irish and civil wars. Those who held lands that were not surrounded by a wall had their land confiscated. It was only in Dublin and other cities that Protestants were safe. My dad's family moved from Clare to Limerick city.

1/2 Losing 1/3 of Protestants from 1911 to 1926 helped create the totalitarian Catholic regime in the south. The removal of the army accounted for some of it but the ban on divorce (1925) and compulsory Irish in schools (1922) also played a part. bbc.com/news/articles/…

@Geri1325 Educating the diaspora. Our country has changed. A lot. And not with our consent.

Elaine Mullally more than happy to chat & give platform to a guy who, along with his brother, spent well over a week telling millions of Americans what a dump Ireland is and why they shouldn't visit ! 🙄 #dipshit

@rtetwip @BarryHeneghan2 @RTEOne Not news. That’s what happens in confidence votes. Jog on.

Independent TD @BarryHeneghan2 says he has been targeted online and in person from political parties who wanted him to withdraw his support in the government. #RTETWIP rebroadcasts at 23:05 tonight on @RTEOne

@LewisJonathanE We didn’t really have minorities. Not in nationality anyway. A large number of protestants were employed by the British system and returned when that system fell. I would think all struggles for independence are ethnonational, wherever they are. Nothing to sneer at there.

The Free State emerged as an ethnonational project, one that didn't have much room for minorities In this sense, the creation of an independent Irish polity is more similar than not to the emergence of nation states in the Balkans and Eastern Europe in the wake of empires

@Dublinmarti That says nothing. There is no far right.

@FearghailEamon You know! Never try to kid a kidder.

Scary. Protests involved elements of the far right and saw gardai and fuel tanks drivers – and their families – threatened and intimidated. The opposition then dismissed the enormous financial package as nowhere near enough. What amount would suffice? A billion euro? Two billion?

@Ben0fHowth @F1naticSam @thejournal_ie Source? Govt were asked to cut taxes and excise on petrol and diesel, which we all use. They were moved off the streets by masked men in black at 4am in the morning.

@FearghailEamon @F1naticSam @thejournal_ie Here's the demands. Government wasn't asked to "cut taxes". They weren't moved off the streets, they went home. AFTER they got what they wanted. For their balance sheets.

President Connolly’s first trip overseas has offered a signal of how she plans to use the presidency on the world stage. Her appearance at a left-leaning summit in Barcelona places Ireland among more outspoken global voices on war and international law jrnl.ie/7017225

@Dublinmarti What’s wrong with Irish flags? My family fought for it. Did yours? ‘Ireland is full’? Was that on a placard or something? Did somebody say it? One person or lots? Some evidence please.

@FearghailEamon Irish flags and Ireland is full. There's two examples seen at the recent protests.

@eeekkk You really don’t know what a fascist is. Now a word weaponised to silence. Doesn’t work.

Fascists, creeps, lunatics, crims

@HangBlaa It’s not what the President is supposed to do. Not her job to represent us in that way. The President is supposed to be apolitical, representing all citizens.

Is it leftwing now to speak in support of democracy, International law and the UN, and against war and aggression?

Important meeting on Tuesday night with representatives of the fuel protests. Please share far and wide. facebook.com/events/1248503…