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@liamcunningham1 Could be straight out of Nazi Germany. This is Ireland 2026.

Over the past few years, our Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael government did absolutely everything they could to appease these extremists, at immense cost to our international reputation and standing. It was, of course, not enough. Because it’s never enough. Many of us tried to warn them; our advice was not heeded, and now here we are. Further, it should go without saying that if right-wing protestors tried to forcibly break into the Ard Fheis, this would be front page news on every media outlet. But because it’s anti-Israel protestors, I’ve barely seen it covered.

And then the other side - Geez. Crazy leftists and ethnonationalists go hand in hand. All sowing division. Skin colour doesn’t carry values. Values make a country.

@nfergus This ‘decolonize’ mission seems to mean ‘de-educate’ or ‘detach from reality.’ This idea should be removed from all colleges before there is lasting damage.

“By my count, the syllabus assigns roughly 45 pages of canonical Western philosophical writing across the entire quarter, against more than 500 pages of contemporary work organized around identity, oppression and indigenous ways of knowing ... There is no Aristotle, no Augustine, no Aquinas, no Montaigne, no Locke, no Mill, no Newman, no Steiner, no Bloom — none of the writers who built the case for liberal education that the course claims to defend. A course advertised as a defense of liberal education has been built without the thinkers who defined it.” @imarinovic demolishes the disastrous new @Stanford freshman program.

When the Chernobyl disaster happened 40 years ago in 1986, the world was shocked, but no one responded in such a human way as the Irish. Here is the story of that incredible legacy of care and compassion.

@drhingram The Coven Democrats

One of these days, when all the parties on the right have gone soft and they’re squabbling like children while our country burns, I’ll help to build a party with real teeth. It will come out of Birmingham. And it will be vicious.

@FXMC1957 One of the best people for the role. But unfortunately, all those movies were fairly bad, aside from a few standout action scenes.

16 May 1953. Pierce Brosnan was born in Drogheda, Ireland. He’s best known as the 5th actor to play the secret agent 007 James Bond from 1995 to 2002 in 4 films: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. All were a success at the box office.

@ratlpolicy Maybe there wouldn’t have been a revolution or at least not the same kind of revolution, maybe something more like Britain’s.

Hot take: France would've been better off without him.

She’s young enough to be his wife.

@roisinmurphy @MaeveHalligan The crazy thing Is that what should be a standard, normal debate on a topic is such a lightening rod. But good to see the Cambridge Union rediscovering proper discourse.

@MaeveHalligan Brilliant 👏👏👏❤️

"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead." I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here:

@JoFMarshall @SDewherst @MaeveHalligan @BuckAngel @salltweets The whole thing is fab. But here’s another BRILLIANT clip. Being in the room was electric, honestly

@robert91165 @007 @AmazonMGMStudio My thoughts exactly

@007 @AmazonMGMStudio My proposal: Matthew Goode.

Statement from Amazon MGM Studios: “The search for the next James Bond is underway. While we don’t plan to comment on specific details during the casting process, we’re excited to share more news with 007 fans as soon as the time is right.”

@007 @AmazonMGMStudio Matthew Goode would be, good.

"Whatever one’s views on the current conflict, when Israel alone is subjected to exceptional treatment, many Jews understandably experience that not as neutral policy criticism, but as part of a broader atmosphere of hostility and demonisation. "History has made Jewish communities especially alert to moments when political rhetoric moves beyond criticism of a government into a climate of sustained moral vilification. No historical comparison is ever exact, but Europe has seen, on many occasions, where relentless demonisation, exclusion, and the normalisation of hostility toward Jews can lead. That history inevitably informs present anxieties.” Maurice Cohen, Chair, JRCI

@DavQuinn Maybe, but how are they voting?

The media/political/NGO backlash against Bertie will only increase the gap between them and ordinary voters.

@ionainstitute Raising children and students to commit societal suicide.

@ColmanOfGuaire A lot of ordinary Irish people were RIC men. It was a job.

Because of the rise of libtard oriented shinners from the 1980s onwards, it's not sufficiently appreciated how anti-nationalist - and often openly Unionist - so much of Irish liberalism was. Even Noel Browne's father was an RIC man.

@DanMulhall You’re right of course, and we need to push back on such narratives, but people in the West feel that a pressure is being put on their cultures, a pressure that not many others have to deal with. So I suppose it’s a reaction.

A lot of the angry responses to my post appear to be confused about Irishness. They think it’s only available to people whose families on both sides have lived in Ireland for generations. Those people are certainly Irish but so are many people of Irish heritage who were born abroad. If they have one Irish born grandparent, they are entitled to citizenship. Someone born in Ireland without an Irish heritage but who grows up here is, under our laws, entitled to be Irish. What else could they be. They may never have seen their ancestral homeland. They have been educated in Ireland and been part of our society. The only reason for denying them the right to be Irish would be racism pure & simple, and that is not something most Irish people would go along with, although a noisy minority probably holds such un-Irish views.

@timothy_stanley I’m surprised there wasn’t a bigger fuss made about this Lords reform.

We’re not a pure democracy but a constitutional monarchy, with representation for church and nobility. Strip aristocracy out of the system and the Lords become silly and weird, a retirement home for the Commons, dress up for donors.