@RachelMoiselle @Baddiel @BoyGeorge Many Irish people don’t think the actions of the Israeli state towards Palestine or Lebanon are in anyone’s interest, including Israel’s.
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@IpCollins
Dilettante in politics, photography, wine, music, TV, arts and film, mostly around south-west Ireland. Hardline Centrist.
Limerick, Ireland Katılım Ocak 2012
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Thank you @BoyGeorge. To have someone speak up for the Jewish people on Irish television is a rarity. You cannot imagine how much it will mean to the Jewish community here who have been consistently ignored, gaslit, and disrespected by Irish media.
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This video is less than two minutes long and I implore everyone to watch it. It is indeed rather extraordinary.
As Holocaust Awareness Ireland says, Patrick Kielty exhibits utter callousness with respect to the attacks on the Jewish community, astonishingly saying ‘the backdrop of that is obviously the horrors in Gaza, this is a complex thing.’
Boy George remains calm and says ‘if you don’t know any Jewish people maybe that’s the problem.’ He then asks the audience ‘do you know any Jewish people?’
Boy George is visibly taken aback by the ensuing silence, and vocalises his shock twice, remarking that it is ‘weird’ and ‘surprising me a little bit.’ Patrick looks uncomfortable and ends puts an end to the topic with a dismissive ‘mmm’.
Extraordinary viewing. Just extraordinary.
Holocaust Awareness Ireland@Holocaust_Irl
Quite an extraordinary interview on @RTELateLateShow last night. @BoyGeorge lived in Golders Green and speaks about his life long relationship Jewish people, explaining how his support for Jews has resulted in him receiving much abuse. Two defining moments come when he asked the audience if they know any Jewish people and is met by stone cold silence. The silence represents a combination of fear that admitting such relationships publicly might cause difficulty and the reality that most Irish people don't know any Jews. As he said himself, the silence is deafening. The second incredulous aspect of the interview is @PatricKielty's singular lack of empathy when speaking about Jews. Here is a public figure who has been rightly applauded for his brave public confrontation with the tragic sectarian murder of his father and the manner in which he has engaged with the loyalist community in the North. How is it that a man capable of extraordinary courage is blind to the persecution of another minority in the city of London where he calls home? Has he been corrupted by the RTE hive mind where the narrative around the issue of Israel and Jews is disturbingly unbalanced? So disappointed. Segment begins at 10.30. H/T @ElmaRyder rte.ie/player/series/…
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I know a guy who prosecutes terrorists in the UK. And he says the one common denominator, no matter whether it’s a neo-Nazi, a white supremacist, a racist, an Islamist, or a weird cult member is that they are REALLY stupid.
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@karldeeter It isn’t ‘virtue signaling’ to defend a Democratic Nation against a Totalitarian one.
Russia has been involved in sabotage, disinformation and terror across the globe and we should take sides against it.
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@IpCollins Your still illogical. Firstly we are neutral, so at best allow people to come here and that's the 'help' (costly too may I add) we can/should offer. The rest is fiscal force of finances for the sake of self gratifying virtue signalling.
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We can't really have 'international responsibilities' if we can't even properly manage our national ones. That is simply illogical.
TonightVMTV@TonightVMTV
"We've a Government here that's giving away millions and millions...we should look after our own people first - then help other countries," says John Dallon, a farmer and agriculture contractor. #VMNews
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There are almost no “young beautiful women” at Reform/Nazi rallies because
a) the men there are the most terrifying incels you’ll ever meet
b) they don’t like a movement that demands they shut up and have babies
c) they know firsthand who the biggest threat to them really is
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All the more reason to switch away from fossil fuels and towards renewables.
TonightVMTV@TonightVMTV
🗣️ "You’re looking at the worst energy crisis since the Second World War." – Professor John Fitzgerald, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin #TonightVMTV
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@fartnipple23 He was a talentless pussy. Freddie mercury battered him when he tried to act tough in Queens studio. Imagine if he tried that with Keith Richard’s? He’d have died even sooner
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@simon_schama For a nation obsessed with the Devil, it’s rather odd they can’t see one in their midst.
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It seems to be Jon Stewart he's raising from the dead...
John Simpson@JohnSimpsonNews
President Trump has posted this picture on social media of himself as Christ healing the sick. I’ve long given up saying how hard it is to think of any previous US president who behaved like Donald Trump, but comparing himself to Jesus puts him on another level altogether.
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@declanganley Your bid to become the Irish Orban failed.
Give it a rest will you?
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As AGS riot squad move into Galway port vs the entirely peaceful #FuelProtest. This is a large group of farmers, people from across the scope of ordinary Irish working people and small business owners, trades etc. This is not a ‘riot’ type of crowd. There is deep and fast flowing sea water all around here, and it’s dark, especially under the bridge and along the dock walls. Anything that starts to kettle or push people here could end up in a bad situation. Has anyone thought to deploy and have the lifeboat or Garda ribs on the water in case? Putting the riot squad into that space was pretty irresponsible.
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Hungarians chose liberal democracy and to be heart of Europe again where they always belonged. Cheers in Kyiv and Brussels🍾. Tears in the Kremlin and White House 😭🇭🇺🇪🇺 Some takeaways (1) Massive turnout and super-majority gives new PM Magyar a mandate to change the constitution and unwind Orban's deep state (2) This is not yet the high water mark for right-wing populism or christian nationalism but once again it shows they can defeated even after spending years undermining the media, universities, judiciary and civil society (3) Le Pen, Bardella, Meloni, Farage and others will distance themselves from Trump and Vance even more as they are toxic to voters in Europe (4) There comes a tipping point when gerrymanders backfire (5) The EU loan to Ukraine can now be unlocked (6) I don't expect Hungary adopt marriage equality any time soon but there will be no more Pride bans or anti-LGBT laws and it was heartening to hear Magyar talk about those who love in a different way in his victory speech (7) Money to right-wing foundation will be cut
Financial Times@FT
Breaking news: With more than 70% of the votes counted, Péter Magyar’s Tisza party is projected to win a two-thirds majority in Hungary's election ft.trib.al/n6YK6nS
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Happy to support this fuel protest if we can crowbar my own unrelated grievances into it.
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There are no fuel protests at Trump Doonbeg, which is just a coincidence.
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See this is why this fuel protest is doomed for failure
They’ve allowed it to be taken over by these racist grifters
They couldn’t give a toss about the price of fuel
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The Irish Times view on the fuel protests: unacceptable disruption irishtimes.com/opinion/editor…
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@declanganley ICE is an entity deploying force to achieve its aims.
Tell us again how you stand for law and order eh?
Doesn’t fit your pro fossil fuel right wing grift agenda…
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Imagine if Trump deployed the U.S. Army against peaceful protestors in America. Just picture the media meltdown. Now the Irish army, that I served in (reserve) for the best part of twenty years is being deployed AGAINST our own people? The government should resign, what an absolute disgrace. How many of the arseholes in government served in the Army, Navy or Air Corps? How dare they deploy our troops for such purpose. #FuelProtest
BBC News (World)@BBCWorld
Irish army deployed to move some vehicles in fuel protest bbc.in/47RLyTD
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@maxbergmann The ‘awesome’ Russian army can’t cope with Ukraine.
It’d be finished already if you guys had any real interest in freedom or liberty beyond flag shagging.
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What's the plan, Europe? NATO has nothing. All the eggs are in the Trump basket. So what do you do when its 2028, 200k Russian troops are moved to the border of Baltic states, and Trump/US isn't going to lift a finger. What do you do?
The White House@WhiteHouse
“NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!” - President Donald J. Trump
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@karldeeter To do otherwise is to turn our backs on aggression meted out by stronger nations against weaker ones.
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@karldeeter Right now if someone attacked us, our non alignment is of no use to us, so I we need to understand the world has changed since those EU treaties were signed.
Ukraine is the victim of Russian Imperialism and we should help out. They have developed expertise in modern warfare too.
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The lefts darling economist went to Russia and is proposing that Ukraine gives up security guarantees, which Russia will reward by not marching forward.
The left can't be this naive going on 5 years into Putin's full-scale campaign to destroy the concept of a Ukranian people.
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@karldeeter Russia is an Imperialist Terrorist state and we have a duty to side with Ukraine against them.
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@DiarmuidWinston @IrishTimesOpEd Some of us have solar panels, battery storage and electric vehicles already.
Must get a Heat Pump next so I can be rid of the gas boiler.
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Eamon Ryan: Ireland’s future energy needs must be met by renewables and nuclear irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…
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