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The day following Bloody Sunday, Bernadette Devlin slapped Tory Home Secretary Reginald Maudling across the face on the floor of the Commons. Asked if she intended to apologise, Devlin said: “I’m just sorry I didn’t get him by the throat.” Be a Devlin, don’t be a Badenoch.

No 24 hour news coverage about this. Just a few mainstream media headlines. No prime ministerial statements pledging to ban Islamophobic rhetoric. No millions given to the Muslim community to protect themselves. After all, it was just a hijabi deliberately run over by a car. She was Muslim so nothing to see here.

@dramdarcy Very over rated writer.

Local people (aka some of my relatives) were very glad to see the back of him ...

🚨🇵🇸 Kuzey Gaza'daki gazeteciler dünyaya doğrudan hitap ediyor: "İsrail'in Palestinlileri ölüme asma yasası Nazilerden daha kötü." Bu videoyu görürseniz, lütfen farkındalık için yeniden yayınlayın.

@ImReadinHere Have you come across Claude Simon's references to Orwell in Catalonia? Very funny and deflating. They crossed each others paths. He gets great milage out of Orwell's invisible tie.

The Information Research Department (IRD) was set up by Labour in 1948 to 'undermine any left wing opposition' by promoting 'Social Democratic values'. This was the same IRD who received George Orwells list of suspected communists, and who, in turn, disseminated his work globally

The opening salvo is one of the best introductions I've read, and includes a lot of information about the assassination of Che Guevara that I didn't know. All very readable and easy to follow. Bravo @GabrielRockhill

@TheCanaryUK Jewish murderous thieves.

Stop calling them 'settlers'. They're murderous thieves.

@ann123fitz England picks a fight and straight away starts whineing about Ireland. Thats their form.

Propaganda being ramped up to try 'persuade' the Irish public that it's perfectly normal for a British army officer to make inappropriate comments about the security architecture of this country. So much for proponents' claim of taking back our sovereignty by removing Triple lock

Men will watch this video of German riot police stuck in the mud at a coal mine protest and suddenly get the battle of Agincourt.

@PBresnihan England picks a fight with Russia then starts whineing about Ireland.

Shocking that a quote like this from a senior officer in the British army passes without comment by our national broadcaster. "The RAF is here to get used to operating from here, and who knows where that will take us." rte.ie/news/2026/0427…

"I've received rape threats against my daughter, my husband has been fired, and my apartment has been seized, because I said that Israel is committing genocide." ❁ Francesca Albanese.

@KerryBurgess no.

Not if it's controlled by Zionists like von der Leyen and Kallas...

This day, I was among the first to return to my city, Beit Hanoun. I walked for dozens of kilometers on foot until I could no longer feel my feet from exhaustion. But the longing for home overcame the fatigue and extreme weariness. Whenever I felt tired, I would look ahead and see elderly men, bent over, their shoulders nearly touching the ground, They walk with slow steps, so heavy that you would almost be certain they might not survive the way, yet they move forward without hesitation or retreat, the love of home is more precious even than life itself. When I saw them, I forgot my own exhaustion and kept going. After nearly 10 hours of continuous walking, I arrived to find that the homes had been completely destroyed, there wasn’t a single house left standing. It was an unforgettable day, where exhaustion, hope, and pain all intertwined. A day that confirmed how deeply we love this land, so much that we crawl back to it even when it has turned to rubble. This is a day I will tell my children about, so they can tell it to their children, so our story is never forgotten. We are the survivors of a genocide.

@caulmick @TheNewsHughes @irishdailymail And Palestine.

FIANNA Fáil is struggling to find people willing to canvass for the upcoming by-election in Galway with the party's leadership 'in denial' over the ill-feeling among its grassroots @TheNewsHughes The Irish Daily Mail can reveal that John Connolly, the party's sitting TD in Galway West, this week told Taoiseach Micheál Martin that he sent out 30 emails looking for canvassers last week and just four people replied - two of whom were party employees. There is real, real, real anger out there over how the energy protests were handled,' the source said. #FFailed #GalwayBYE

One of the most harrowing sights in human history is seeing a city completely destroyed, as if a nuclear bomb had been dropped on it. Yet the bombing doesn't stop; the relentless gunfire continues. Do you know, dear viewer, that bullets even reach the tents of displaced people, killing and wounding those inside!

@AmirAminiMD The prophet jeremiah considered Cyrus to be the messiah!

A) Cyrus the Great would have strangled this genocide-supporting fascist traitor to death with his own hands if he were alive today. B) This clown’s grandfather was famously the biggest supporter of Hitler in the Middle East, and the reason he had to step down after WWII. His father was later dropped by the US after he openly started to criticize Israeli influence and oppression of the Palestinians. C) Jews have lived in Iran for thousands of years - and so far, the only documented evidence of aggression against them has been by Israeli and US jet fighters.

@RobLooseCannon I remember listening to a programme on RTE radio in the 1970's about Irish roots in Buenos Aires and some of the older people who were interviewed spoke spanish and Irish. No english.

There are almost a million people of Irish descent in Argentina. We're not entirely sure, because the Irish who arrived in the 19th century were routinely classified as "Ingleses" in official records, filed away under British. Most wouldn't correct this either, as being English got you further in Buenos Aires than being Irish. Argentina is, by some distance, the largest Irish community in any non-English speaking country on earth, and the fifth largest Irish diaspora population in the world. From 1803 to 1815, Irish farm labourers had been feeding British soldiers through the Napoleonic Wars. When peace came, grain prices collapsed and landlords switched to cattle, which required far fewer hands. Then the Famine came. And across the water, Argentina was advertising for lads who could handle livestock. Argentine government agents arrived in the Irish Midlands selling the pampas as "the finest region under the southern cross." The greatest wave of emigration ran from 1850 to 1870, pulling predominantly from the coastline of County Wexford and the townlands around the Westmeath-Longford border. Most were single Catholic men in their twenties, non-inheriting sons who knew they would never see a deed in their own name if they stayed. They arrived as shepherds and rural labourers, working the "halves" or "thirds" system. You received a portion of the wool clip and the new lambs in lieu of wages. Do it long enough without dying, and you could rent land. Do that long enough, and you could buy it. The sheep-farming boom of 1840 to 1890 gave the Irish social mobility on the pampas. Men who had arrived with nothing ended up owning estancias. Father Anthony Dominic Fahy, a Galway-born Dominican, became the central figure. The Pallotine and Passionist orders followed, and the Sisters of Mercy established schools across the province. In remote areas where there was no state infrastructure worth mentioning, the Irish clergy were often the only institution that functioned. In 1875, a Galway priest called Patrick Joseph Dillon founded a newspaper in Buenos Aires called The Southern Cross, and it's still going today. Under the editorship of Father Federico Richards in the 1970s and 1980s, it was one of the few publications in Argentina willing to report on the junta's human rights abuses. One of the more interesting figures to pass through it was William Bulfin from Birr, County Offaly. He arrived in Argentina in the early 1880s, worked as a gaucho, married on a ranch owned by an Irish landowner, then ended up writing for the paper under the pen name "Che Buono" before buying it outright. A committed Irish nationalist, he established a branch of An Conradh na Gaeilge in Argentina before returning to Ireland. His son Eamonn, born in Buenos Aires, enrolled at Patrick Pearse's St. Enda's School and later fought in the 1916 Rising. One of Che Guevara's forebears, Patrick Lynch, was born in Galway in 1715. Three universities now have Irish Studies chairs: del Salvador, La Plata, and La Pampa. The Fahy Club runs Irish language classes for descendants. GAA clubs operate across the country, with two leagues playing Gaelic football and hurling. This community largely came to think of itself as Argentine through assimilation, particularly after the Falklands War of 1982, which drew a sharp line between British identity and Argentine identity and forced a choice. But the names remained. Duggan, Lobos, San Antonio de Areco. There are whole towns named for Irish families on the Buenos Aires pampas. Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…

@KerryBurgess Lets give them to Vladimir for his birthday.

At last, EU MPs are starting to object in numbers to the obvious support by the European Union for Israeli war crimes. The damage Kallas and von der Leyen are doing to the European Union is incalculable, and they've got to be removed.

Isn’t this the minister who ritualistically rap-d her own daughter?

I just signed this petition petition.qomon.org/0b54a0b8-deman…

@LNBDublin Give Estonia back to the Russians!

Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, served a cocktail of dishonesty and farce this week. electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cr…