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Anyone travelling from Cork to to Dublin Airport this afternoon Have a passenger who forgot something Rts appreciated

Melika Azizi is 18 years old. The regime wants her dead because she isn't afraid of them. ​While the world slept, they raided her home. While they beat her in Lakan Prison, she held her head high. When the judge handed down a death sentence, she didn't beg for her life—she demanded justice for the fallen. ​"How can I stay silent?" she asked. ​We cannot be the ones who stay silent while they try to hang a teenager for her bravery. Silence is a death sentence. Noise is a lifeline. ​ACT NOW: Save this post. Share it. Tag three friends who will help spread her name. We have to make the cost of executing her higher than the cost of letting her go. ​#MelikaAzizi #SaveMelika #StopExecutionsInIran #HumanRights

Students from St Paul’s High School Bessbrook County Armagh entertaining all on the London Underground today #StPatricksParade #London @MayorofLondon

Would you imagine what a world without wars would be like? #PrayTogether

Ukrainian journalist Yana Suvorova was abducted in occupied Melitopol when she was just 18 years old. After a closed, staged trial, she was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of terrorism and treason. Her case has been classified. She has disappeared from the prisoner exchange lists. Yana about her imprisonment: “The cell is cold. Rats are running around. The lights are never turned off.” Her boyfriend says that after being transferred to Donetsk, Yana’s condition sharply deteriorated — she was held together with girls who had attempted suicide. The psychological pressure was constant. Russian courts are reclassifying Ukrainian journalists as terrorists in order to prevent them from being included in prisoner exchanges. Russia is blocking their exchange, hiding them from public view, and sentencing them to decades in prison. By 2025, russian courts had fabricated terrorism cases against journalists from RIA-Pivden. Sentences range from 14 to 16 years. One exception — Mark Kalyush — was released and confirmed systematic torture in detention. Yevhen Ilchenko, a citizen journalist, documented life under occupation. He was abducted in July 2022, tortured with mock executions, filmed in a staged “confession” of terrorism, and then forced into hard labor — digging trenches near the front line. Ilchenko’s case is the first in nearly 40 years in which a journalist was abducted, tortured, and subjected to forced labor amounting to slavery. He is currently being held in the Taganrog pre-trial detention center under constant light and in inhumane conditions. Vladyslav Hershon — 15 years. Heorhii Levchenko — 16 years. Charges: participation in a terrorist organization. Evidence: activity on Telegram. Journalist Anastasiia Hlukhivska is being held incommunicado. Russia refuses to confirm her detention. In the Kizel pre-trial detention center, Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was tortured to death. Russia is currently holding 50 journalists in prison — 29 of them Ukrainians. Russian “anti-terrorism laws” strip civilians of legal protection and block exchanges. Without a mechanism for the return of civilians, these sentences may effectively become life imprisonment. Source: This text was translated and adapted from Tymofiy Milovanov.

Quietly, the Trump administration is now ending even the life-saving aid that they had promised would be preserved theatlantic.com/health/2026/02…

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week. It investigates the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary. With English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?si…

Cancelled a whole host of Amazon related services and memberships today. The only way to send a message is the market. HT @profgalloway

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The haunting murder and grave vandalism of Raonaid Murray is still unsolved today. On the night of Friday 3rd of September 1999, she did what most 17 year old girls in south Dublin were doing at the turn of the millennium, hanging out with her mates. They started in Scott’s pub in Dún Laoghaire. Just after 11.20pm, she left to walk the short route home to Glenageary to change clothes before heading out again. She never made it. About 500 yards from her home, in a narrow laneway known locally as The Cut, or The Gap, Raonaid encountered her killer. What happened there was fast and vicious. She was stabbed frantically four times with a small kitchen knife, the blade barely an inch and a half wide. People nearby heard it. That is one of the most chilling aspects of the case. Witnesses reported a female voice shouting, “leave me alone,” “go away,” “fuck off.” Then a scream. No one intervened. Perhaps they assumed it was a drunken lovers’ row, something none of your business that might get you in to bother for interfering. Despite her injuries, Raonaid did not die in The Cut. She staggered on for almost two hundred feet, bleeding and disoriented. She collapsed on Silchester Crescent. At 12.33am, her sister Sarah found her there. The fear and desperation Raonaid must've experienced and the shock and heartbreak her poor sister felt on the discovery are impossible to imagine. The vicious frenzied murder appeared motiveless. There was no sexual assault or robbery. The knife vanished and has never been recovered. Gardaí took over 4,500 statements and interviewed countless people, yet the case stalled almost immediately. For years, the working assumption was a lone male predator, socially isolated, stalking the streets at night. But it didn't really fit. As the case was later reviewed by the Garda Serious Crime Review Team, kind of a "cold case" unit, the focus shifted to considering Raonaid was killed not by a male, but a woman. The weapon of choice was a small knife. The attack was frenzied rather than surgically lethal. The wounds were described by some investigators as disfiguring suggestive of rage rather than dominance. Raonaid fought back, and under her fingernails, forensic testing reportedly identified female DNA. Then there were the voices. Witnesses were adamant that the shouts they heard were female. Some spoke of a man “hassling” Raonaid earlier, but others recalled only a woman’s voice in the laneway. Gardaí began to ask uncomfortable questions. Had witnesses mistaken a woman of slight build for a man, especially in an era of baggy clothes and short haircuts. Or had Raonaid encountered more than one person in those final minutes. The absence of sexual motive pushed investigators toward mates falling out or a jealous grudge. One theory suggested Raonaid had recently broken contact with an older acquaintance, a woman known for volatility and violence toward other women. This individual, in her thirties at the time, left Ireland about a year after the murder. She has never been charged. Gardaí have never had enough to extradite or prosecute. But she remains a person of interest. Another bizarre element involved Farah Swaleh Noor, later murdered and dismembered by the “Scissor Sisters”. While drunk, Noor reportedly claimed he had killed Raonaid, allegedly as a threat to the sisters’ mother. Gardaí investigated and ruled him out. In 2009, a tribute website created by friends and family was vandalised by online trolls. Over the years, there have also been sporadic despicable disturbances and vandalism near her grave. Only in 2024 was a formal inquest finally completed, returning a verdict of unlawful killing. The investigation remains open at Dún Laoghaire Garda Station. Gardaí continue to appeal for information, particularly to those who may now doubt the truth of an alibi given in 1999. That phrasing is deliberate. Contact the Serious Crime Review Team NBCI.SCRT@garda.ie Garda Confidential Line: 1800 666 111

A valuable flute went missing yesterday from the owner's bike on the way to a lunchtime session in Cassidy's in Camden St. It has huge sentimental value and a reward has been offered. If anyone sees it, please send a DM. RTs appreciated.

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Videos captured by a French news broadcaster showed a rare glimpse of a levelled Gaza from the air. trib.al/1DLNKrI

Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced, June 28, 2022. "Twenty-two years ago, in the summer of 2000, you spotted me at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, and you made a choice: You chose to follow me and procure me for Epstein. Just hours later, you and he abused me together for the first time. Together you damaged me physically, mentally, sexually and emotionally. Together you did unthinkable things that still have a corrosive impact on me to this day. I want to be clear about one thing: Without question, Jeffrey Epstein was a terrible pedophile, but I never would have met Jeffrey Epstein if not for you. “For me, and for so many others, you opened the door to hell, and then, Ghislaine, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, you used your femininity to betray us and you led us all through it. When you did that, you changed the course of our lives forever. “You joked that you were like a new mother to us. As a woman, I think you understood the damage that you were causing, the price you were making us victims pay. You could have put an end to the rapes, the molestation, the sickening manipulation that you arranged, witnessed, and even took part in. You could have called the authorities and reported that you were part of something awful. “I was young and naïve when we met, but you knew that. In fact, you were counting on it. My life as a young person was just beginning. You robbed me of that by exploiting my hopes and ambitions. “Ghislaine, the pain you have caused me is almost indescribable. Because of your choices and the world you brought me into, I don’t sleep. Nightmares wake me at all hours. In those dreams, I relive the awful things that you and others did to me and the things that you forced me to do. Those memories will never go away. I have trouble meeting new people without questioning if somehow they’re going to hurt me, too. There is not a day that doesn’t go by that I don’t ask why. Why did you enjoy hurting us so much? “I worry every single day and night that you will get away with it and evade being punished. I will worry about that until you’re brought to justice. And what should that justice look like? Ghislaine, you deserve to spend the rest of your life in prison in a jail cell.” She added, “You deserve to be trapped in a cage forever just like you trapped your victims.”

A new statement from the family of Virginia Giuffre and several of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s accusers:   “It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received. Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency. Yet, without any notification to the Maxwell victims, the government overnight has moved Maxwell to a minimum security luxury prison in Texas. This is the justice system failing victims right before our eyes.  The American public should be enraged by the preferential treatment being given to a pedophile and a criminally charged child sex offender. The Trump administration should not credit a word Maxwell says, as the government itself sought charges against Maxwell for being a serial liar. This move smacks of a cover up. The victims deserve better.”   Annie Farmer Maria Farmer Sky and Amanda Roberts (family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre) Lanette and Danny Wilson (family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre)

Democrats: wake the hell up. Texas dropped a new redistricting map, and it's clear the GOP intends to rig the system in their favor. Rick Wilson breaks down what that means and what needs to be done: youtu.be/619skIzagaM

AFP warning its Gaza reporters are at risk of literally starving to death - having risked their lives for so long to tell the story that Israel prevents the international media from reaching.