Val Cosgrave

Appeal for facts: For the period 1923-68 the (say) 4 most important contributions, statements, appeals, resolutions, communiques, initiatives, speeches or articles by Southern Irish politicians to highlight, to address or to alleviate the democratic deficit in Northern Ireland

So we now know: - Israel was behind Iran "riots" - Israel started an illegal war no credible US expert supported - US "negotiators" were 2 Zionist property developers - US first action was murder 185 school kids Yet turn on BBC/RTE and they'll tell you Iran is the aggressor

Operation Rolling Thunder. From 1965 to 1968, the United States conducted a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. The goal was to break the will of the North Vietnamese government and people. To make the cost of continuing the war too high to bear. They dropped 864,000 tons of bombs. The will was not broken. So they escalated. Operation Linebacker. Operation Linebacker II, the Christmas Bombings of 1972: twelve days of around-the-clock bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, described by some U.S. generals as trying to "bomb them back to the Stone Age." Hospitals were hit. Residential areas were hit. Bạch Mai Hospital, the largest hospital in North Vietnam, was hit repeatedly. After the Christmas Bombings, the North Vietnamese negotiating position at the Paris Peace talks did not weaken. It strengthened. They bombed us into refusing to surrender. Every bomb that fell on a hospital, every family killed in their home, every village erased from the map created ten more people who would die before they accepted foreign domination. This is what American strategists, with all their degrees and all their think tanks and all their war games, failed to understand about the people they were trying to break. You cannot bomb dignity out of people who have decided they would rather die than give it up.

@bobbyd67 @gra_dEirinn Well now they also had no less than the ‘the dogs in the street’.

@gra_dEirinn 1) Hearsay of former disgruntled comrades who had fallen out with SF. 2) Hearsay of British Agent. 3) Guilt by association due to family links. Even with the low bar for civil courts (balance of probability), it's hardly best evidence.

So let’s review the situation. Multiple former IRA members including Brendan Hughes, Dolours Price, Ivor Bell, Seán Mac Stíofáin and Sean O’Callaghan all said that Gerry Adams held a leadership role in the Provisional IRA. Meanwhile, his father had been an IRA member. His grandfather was involved in the Irish Republican Brotherhood. And his great-grandfather was also linked to the IRB. But obviously all of that is just unreliable hearsay and Adams spent the entire conflict as Ireland’s most unlucky bystander.

Can someone - like a UK Government Minister - explain THIS? How is it that the West insists on passage through the Strait of Hormuz while AT THE SAME TIME it is stopping ships & blockading Cuba in an attempt to STARVE the Cubans? MAYBE @BBCNews could ask this, FFS?!?

Paul Gavan, well said.

Some history lessons for Michéal Martin, on what exactly Churchill did 1. The 1943 Bengal Famine 2. Advocacy of Chemical Weapons 3. Bombing of Civilian Areas (Dresden) 4. Suppression of Insurgencies (Iraq and Ireland) Iraq (1920) Ireland (1920s) Black & Tan deployment 1/2

The US is the world's biggest exporter of weapons of war with 42% of all arms transfers originating in the US - meanwhile Cuba is the biggest exporter of doctors and healthcare workers in the world, with nearly 30,000 doctors helping to save lives in over 50 countries. Basically, the country that exports death wants to destroy the country that exports life. This tracks.

The US - and I cannot stress this enough - is the bad guy in virtually every situation. No empire in world history has ever held this much power.

@sopjap @Katya_Compass Exactly; on par with the self-congratulatory ‘we abolished slavery’ backslappers.

And after brutally killing Lumumba, 65 years later, one decrepit 93-year-old Belgian who’s lived his whole life free finally faces trial for his death. And this is presented as the most justice you’ll get in Europe — a POSITIVE story, a victorious story of ‘holding Belgians accountable.’ This is what stands for justice. This shit.

It's now unarguable that the war on Iran is one of the most blatant crimes of aggression in history. You now have not 1 but 2 external participants of the US-Iran talks (Oman’s foreign minister and the UK's National Security Advisor) who confirm that the US and Israel attacked despite Iran effectively meeting US conditions for a deal - ensuring it could never build a nuclear weapon, permanently. As per The Guardian article (theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…), Jonathan Powell "believed the path remained open to a negotiated solution to the long-running issue of how Iran could reassure the US that it was not seeking a nuclear weapon," and "UK officials [...] were impressed that Iran was prepared for the deal to be permanent." Concretely, this means the war wasn't a failure of diplomacy but a deliberate destruction of it. And it also means that the US and Israel have irresponsibly plunged the entire world in an unprecedented energy crisis, affecting the livelihoods of billions of people worldwide, when it was completely avoidable. It's beyond me how you can look at this and not conclude that the real threat all along wasn't Iran but the US-Israeli axis - they're the only parties at the table who wanted war and are making every person on the planet pay the price for it. Extraordinarily, even the UK National Security Advisor is now basically saying this.

From Haaretz in Israel. A description of an IDF commander murdering a 4 year old. For fun. It's beyond demonic. haaretz.com/opinion/2024-1…

Micheál Martin rails against deaths decades ago in our Troubles so surely he’ll call out Trump on the Minab Massacre 2 weeks ago? Fawning & flattering the President debases St Patrick's Day. It's time for the Taoiseach to show a spine &speak truth to power belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/opinio…

They may be doing everything to keep her quiet but Catherine Connolly @PresidentIRL remains a rare light in the darkness.

Its illegal in France for supermarkets to throw away edible food. They have to donate unsold goods to charities. Why cant we have that here when our disasterous government means a "wealthy" country like Ireland still has roughly 9% of the population affected by food poverty? Its not enough to have a voluntary system like @FoodCloud that connects retailers like @TescoIrl, @lidl_ireland and @Aldi_Ireland with community groups. Theres still tonnes of safe to eat food left to rot or destroyed daily whilst Irish kids and our elderly are going to bed hungry. Without legitslation like the French businesses are afraid of liability if donated food causes illness, and charities lack the refrigerated vans and storage to cope with nightly supermarket surpluses. Because in backwards Ireland, donating certain items can actually trigger VAT liabilities and administrative costs for the business. If a "rich" country like Ireland can watch perfectly edible food being diverted to compost or bio-energy while food banks multiply, why cant our well fed politicians get their act together learn from France? Its shameful that any Irish person go hungry on this island, and uneccesary and immoral. With respect, do any of you care about this? Have any of you the power or political will to enact something like the French Loi Garot legistlation? @MichealMartinTD @SimonHarrisTD @MaryLouMcDonald @rodericogorman @ivanabacik

Get in!!!!!! Kneecap: 3 Brit Govt: 0 The worlds biggest terrorists are the leaders of the British state. Free Palestine Free the 6 counties

@BigPaulieDoyle Now?? This is not recent by any means. The 'Irish' Times unequivocally reaffirmed their British loyalty in 1969 and frankly they haven't really changed.

Irish Times now cutting out the middleman and just giving British generals a byline

Your media outlets have received their talking points. Evolutionary biology ensures that human beings adjust to the group: If there seems to be a consensus, then group psychology overrides the considerations of the rational individual (also known as propaganda)

I was in Tehran in May 2025 and was surprised by what Iran looks like, after being indoctrinated with anti-Iranian propaganda over the decades (this was not recorded by me; I think it was Max Blumenthal) - US/Israeli bombing and mass murder are not the path to social reform.

While utterly despicable, care to mention why you name the state responsible for this action, but when over 150 school children are murdered at the hands of the Israeli and US governments in Iran, you are silent!! If you want to act “neutral”, it has to work both ways!!