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@declanganley People are sick of him and his mates 👍

@declanganley Terrible take, he is negotiating Irans 10 point plan. At best he has just TACO’d again and gained literally nothing.

@declanganley It is a war crime to threaten people with civilisation destruction under the Geneva Conventions. Stop making excuses for this behaviour, its not acceptable.

@declanganley Vile and sinful is what it is.

It is wrong to threaten to do something which is intrinsically immoral, even if the threatened evil action never happens.

Yesterday, for Easter Sunday, I attended (unusual for me) a Traditional Latin Mass close to Times Square, at one of the only Roman Catholic churches where it is currently permitted to be offered in New York City. It was beautiful, orderly, and unpretentious -- certainly less "performance"-like than many a Novus Ordo liturgy I have attended. And its attendees -- far too many to fit in the packed pews -- were racially and culturally diverse, very diverse in age, and quite diverse in dress. E.g. on the women's side, some were veiled or wore hats while some did not cover their hair, and there were also many pairs of slacks amid the many skirts of various lengths. Among the many young families there, a large number were Hispanic. I came away from this not only feeling joyful it was Easter and that I had experienced such a beautiful High Mass in celebration of the Church's highest holy day, but also wishing that far more of the men who govern the Church would -- as Pope Leo XIV requested of them recently -- become more generous in spirit toward those who love the traditional form of the Mass. I.e. I wish and pray that the men who govern the Church would make this form of the Mass more accessible to the growing number women and men who love it devotedly -- or who at least would like to experience it once in a while. And I wish, too, that among those men who govern the Church who are most fearful of the traditional Mass -- or who are otherwise opposed to it -- would at least stop stereotyping and caricaturing the diverse women and men who are devoted to it.

I can’t believe how hard Tucker just went at Trump and he is legitimately a modern American hero for doing it.

Man, he's being charged with 5 counts of war crime murder, i.e. the killing of unarmed, detained civilians/prisoners. He's alleged to have shot an unarmed teenager in the head. 21 of his own soldiers, from the elite Special Air Service regiment, have come forward against him.

Alphie Lonergan is 84 years old and the primary carer for two of his adult children. He's worried about how he'll cope after a health trust said it was withdrawing a care package. The Southern Health Trust apologised but said the decision was due to a lack of social care staff.

Turkey builds the largest hospital in Gaza. IDF soldiers film themselves laughing with the medical equipment before destroying the entire hospital. Jerusalem Post opinion writer: “Who can trust Turkey?”

🚨 REPORTER: Are Jews oppressed in Iran? IRANIAN JEW: We have rights, schools, a seat in parliament. We don’t feel like a minority. REPORTER: And Israel? IRANIAN JEW: What they’re doing in Gaza… we oppose it. WORLD FED A FALSE NARRATIVE 💥

@ColmanOfGuaire One keeps one’s head down.

First time I ever saw anyone in Ireland refer to anti-Catholic discrimination in Irish employment etc was lefty novelist/columnist Dermot Bolger - in the Evening Herald. Fair play to him, but why weren't Catholics themselves engaging in this salutary form of what-aboutery?

In condemning deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure, Pope Leo simply reiterates longstanding Catholic just war teaching, just as Catholics who defend Trump manifestly dissent from it. This is not remotely complicated for Catholics who put their religion ahead of politics.

The strait of Hormuz was notably open before Trump attacked

Israel was not updated until the ceasefire was on the verge of being signed. They were not part of the agreement process. It shows a serious, and justified, lack of trust that Israel would try to sabotage the talks.

A literate person would of course say "beneath" not "below"

7/4/2026 In a large Govt survey with binary choices, 60% of parents with children in Catholic and other single denomination schools want them to remain Catholic. Just look at Emma O'Kelly's @rtenews headline, repeated just now on @morningireland. Unbelievable level of bias.

Whenever @rtenews⁩, especially Emma O’Kelly, report on RC schools I reach for 2 photos to remind me of her lie when she claimed that only in RoI are state funded teachers paid by State to prepare for Sacraments. In my last London school…