Irish Debate

youtu.be/Dx7osj5gCmo Where is the Peace?

İtalya'nın 75'ten fazla kentinde, İsrail'in tamamen boykot edilmesi ve tüm bağların koparılması talebiyle ülke çapında genel grev düzenlendi. ▪️İtalya, Başbakanı Meloni'nin Filistin Devleti'ni tanımayı reddetmesinin ardından Filistin destekçisi kalabalıklar sokaklara indi. ▪️Milano, Napoli, Floransa ve Torino gibi büyük şehirlerin sokakları milyonlarca protestocuyla doldu. ▪️Ülkede ulaşım, eğitim, lojistik ve diğer sektörleri etkileyen ve çok sayıda işçi sendikasının katıldığı genel grev nedeniyle 24 saat boyunca felç oldu. ▪️Filistin yanlısı liman işçileri, İsrail'e silah gönderilmesini engellemek için önemli limanlara erişimi engelleyerek birçok bölgede lojistiğin durmasına yol açtı. ▪️Milano'da ise polisin merkez istasyon yakınlarında göstericilerle çatışması ve kalabalığı kontrol altına almak için göz yaşartıcı gaz kullanması sonucu sokaklarda kaos yaşandı. Protestocular şunları talep etti: 1) Filistin Devleti'nin tanınması. 2) İsrail'e silah satışlarının durdurulması. 3) Netanyahu hükümetine yaptırımlar. 4) Gazze'deki soykırımın sona ermesi.

Nearly 170 Irish companies operate in Canada and our trade has nearly doubled over the last decade. My message to Irish business leaders in Ottawa today: we have shared ambitions and values, and together, we can unlock new opportunities on both sides of the Atlantic.

Onward and upward, Presidente Sánchez, toward a decolonised multilateralism. I trust millions of Europeans today are behind you and your government today.

This should be compulsory reading for every member of @fiannafailparty and @FineGael

Matching the treatment of loyal customers of Ulster Bank - North & South of the Irish border. A slaughterhouse. Covered up by the whitewash Irish Banking Inquiry. @Wftproof @TransparencyTF @BankConfidenti1 @stevemiddi1 @SimonHarrisTD @MichealMartinTD @JMcGuinnessTD @johnmcdonnellMP @labourlewis @peterkyle @premnsikka

Why are councils buying empty homes & letting them rot? These homes in Chapelizod were bought by Dublin City Council in 2017 & are still empty @judesherry joins @lstwrd @cooper_m at 4.30ish tonight discussing what we need to do to ensure this never happens again #DerelictIreland

Portugal had announced that Netanyahu would be arrested if he entered the country. It also decided to join the international court where Netanyahu is being tried.

DETAILS OF THE RAPE & SEXUAL ASSAULT ENDURED BY BOTH FEMALE & MALE PALESTINIANS, AT THE HANDS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL UNSPEAKABLE EVIL @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @10DowningStreet @EU_Commission @Europarl_EN @vonderleyen #USA #MAGA #Christian #Midterms2026 ISRAELI TERRORISM

🇺🇳🇪🇸The government and people of Spain must also be thanked for standing principled: upholding int'l law, denouncing the genocide in Palestine and protecting multilateralism, including UN and ICC, from pressure and unlawful sanctions. Mil gracias, Gobierno y Pueblos de España.

I join Amnesty International in condemning #Eurovision and call everyone with a conscience not to watch it. BIG THANK YOU to the 5 countries who withdrew from the competition: Iceland! Ireland! Netherlands! Slovenia! Spain! Put Apartheid out of our lives.

In my opinion, this entire Echelon / Ulster Bank / Four Courts / Barristers / Law Firms not to mention - Wicklow County Council & An Garda Siochana saga ….stinks to the highest of heavens. Worthy of a limited series on @Netflix to rival Dirty Money. independent.ie/business/irish…

The state of affairs... youtu.be/RWTvTzWYG0o

⭕️ NEW: Microsoft Israel Chief Ousted, Branch Placed Under French Management After Investigation Into Defense Ministry Ties Microsoft abruptly ousted its Israel country manager Alon Haimovich last week and transferred the Israeli branch to operate under Microsoft France pending a permanent replacement — after an internal global investigation found conduct that was “not transparent towards global management” and violated the company’s terms of service, Israeli outlets Globes and Ynet report. The crisis stems from The Guardian’s revelation that Israeli intelligence Unit 8200 secretly built a mass surveillance system storing recordings of millions of Palestinian phone calls daily on Microsoft’s Azure servers in Europe — allegedly arranged in a 2021 personal meeting between CEO Satya Nadella and Unit 8200’s commander. Microsoft terminated Unit 8200’s usage agreement in September 2025, but the investigation revealed Unit 8200 was only the “tip of the iceberg,” with additional IDF units found to have been using Microsoft systems, Globes reported. Global management reportedly fears further undisclosed violations that could expose the company to major lawsuits and regulatory fines in Europe.

IP, Patents, seeds and our agriculture... instagram.com/reel/DYG-iPkoJ…

#GDPR Meta Installing Software on Employee Computers to Track Everything They Do, Feed the Data to AI futurism.com/artificial-int…

This is a fascinating window into what Limerick City and the surrounding area were like in 1975. This detailed image was captured by a KH-7 GAMBIT reconnaissance satellite operated by the CIA as it passed over Limerick on 1975-06-25. The KH-7’s primary purpose was Cold War espionage against Soviet and Chinese nuclear and missile installations. Refer to the link below. soaratlas.com/maps/europe-li… #Limerick #Ireland #Maps #GIS #Imagery #History #Declassified #Satellite #KH9 #HEXAGON

Studies show farmers who plant strips of wildflowers through their crops need less pesticide, and often get better yields. A Swiss study on winter wheat found that fields with wildflower strips had 40 to 53% fewer leaf beetle pests than fields without. Crop damage dropped 61%. The mechanism is simple. Wildflowers feed hoverflies, lacewings, parasitic wasps, ladybugs, and ground beetles. Those insects eat the aphids, beetle larvae, and caterpillars that farmers would otherwise spray for. A few meters of wildflowers hosts an unpaid pest control crew. In apple orchards where no insecticides had been used for five years, plots with wildflower alleyways had 9.2% damaged fruit. Control plots without flowers had 32.5%. The UK is now running a five-year trial across 15 farms placing 6-meter flower strips through the middle of fields, not just at the edges, because the beneficial insects can't reach the center of a large field otherwise. This works the same way in a backyard vegetable garden as it does on a commercial farm. Plant native flowering species near your tomatoes, beans, and squash. The pests still show up. The predators show up too, and they get there for free. Our fields were never supposed to be monoculture.

9,000 Microsoft employees got an email at lunch today. Take the money. Go home. The safest job in tech. Gone in an afternoon. Nobody called it a firing. They called it a retirement gift. This is 2026.

Earth’s atmosphere has crossed a historic threshold unseen for more than 3 million years. Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels have now surpassed 430 parts per million (ppm): a concentration last experienced during the Pliocene epoch, long before modern humans existed. This milestone was recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the world’s longest continuously operating CO₂ monitoring station. In early March, daily averages peaked at 430.60 ppm: a figure climate scientists have tracked with growing concern for decades. But what does crossing this threshold actually mean? Prior to the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric CO₂ levels remained stable around 280 ppm. Today, they stand more than 50% higher, largely due to the burning of fossil fuels, large-scale deforestation, and other industrial activities. This is far more than just a number: it’s a clear warning signal for the planet. Approximately 25% of the CO₂ we emit is absorbed by the oceans. As it dissolves, it forms carbonic acid, driving ocean acidification. This process is already weakening shell-forming marine organisms such as corals, plankton, and mollusks — the foundational species of ocean food webs. Researchers note that the current rate of ocean acidification is likely the fastest seen in at least 300 million years. Many climate models had projected that CO₂ concentrations would only approach this level under aggressive global mitigation efforts. Instead, we’ve reached it while emissions continue to rise. If current trends persist, atmospheric CO₂ could exceed 500 ppm by the end of the century, ushering in climate conditions not seen on Earth for tens of millions of years. ["Record-breaking CO2 Levels Recorded for Earth’s Polar Regions." PML]