Maighréad

Reporter: A video appears to show a tomahawk missile likely destroyed that Iranian girls school. Will the US accept any responsibility? Trump: I will say that the tomahawk is sold and used by other countries. And whether it's Iran who also has some tomahawks, they wish they had more, but whether it's Iran or somebody else, a tomahawk is very generic. That’s being investigated.

Now it’s NINE hospitals, Plus a girls school, Plus a women’s basketball gymnasium, Plus the Red Crescent building, Plus the main TV station, Plus residential blocks…

An unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States. Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before the president as a gesture of cooperation. Then, at the last moment, the United States abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to turn around and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside. What followed was even more grotesque. After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had thrown into the sea, abandoning them to drown. The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy. This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying. It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea. And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization. The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option. When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear.

Referring to fellow Gaels as "illegally occupying" Croke Park wouldn't have been my choice of words now. It was illegally occupied on Nov 21st, 1920 when Michael Hogan paid the ultimate price - it was the scene of a peaceful protest by Gaels today. Words matter.

BREAKING: 51 Iranian children killed, 60 students wounded after joint US-Israel strikes hit girls' school in Iran.