If anyone ever tells you that asylum seekers coming to Ireland differ from Irish immigrants because “we went to work”, remind them that many of those who left on the coffin ships were starved, diseased, and had no applicable skills to be able to work. They also often arrived to a hostile welcome…

🇮🇪🇵🇸 Irish healthcare workers hold a silent march for Palestine through Dublin’s Wicklow Street.

I also found my deeply buried Leaving Cert memories on sale. 😬

There's a TGJones (fka WHSmith) in Liverpool that is closing down and I found some contraband in their sale!

Final point: Irish agriculture has three options on climate action. Implement the MACC with profits from agri-business. Or Don’t and get taxpayers to pay the fines Or Shrink farming to within ever reducing emissions limits. It can’t be none of the above. It will be one of them.

I was on the radio yesterday making the point that we shouldn’t just allow Dublin Airport to grow endlessly based on consumer demand without taking other factors into account. Media and government in this country are complicit in deflecting attention from inconvenient truths.

"it's easy to oppose racism when it belongs to somebody else, the real test is what we do when it enters our own circle" This video is an example of backing up what you are saying in real time.

I had a few in my younger days when I had more money & less sense 😂

You know when you come across something that combines many subjects where it shouldn't work but does, and the result feels more than the sum of its parts? The Marty Party appears to be just that in Patrick's great piece here.

Yes! Any Alfa Romeo for me.

Outstanding

The thing about human rights is that they're universal. This shit has been settled for 70+ years. Anyone who insists that certain groups can be left behind for political expediency, either doesn't understand the universality of those rights, or is an extremist. Either way they don't deserve votes.

I had a dream that someone introduced me to Micheál Martin all of a sudden, and I got so angry at him that it woke me up 😂

And unlike the greyhound and horse racing industries, there isn't a long ugly tail of cruel health and welfare issues that cost millions to clean up after, much coming from small animal welfare groups (for those not euthanised or w/ horses, sent to slaughterhouses)

I think a lot of the yammering around Patrick O'Donovan's health is very close to ableism and I find it kind of nasty.