Who’s going to tell these councillors that the moment they step out of their cars, they’re pedestrians too? By their own logic, they’d need to be in hi-vis at all times.
Rather than tackling dangerous driving or poor road design, the responsibility gets dumped on the most vulnerable people instead.
Collins is trying to make out that international protection applicants are competing with Irish people for housing. This is not just not true, it's disinformation. A shameful racist lie.
I love this woman so much.
We might be well used to statistical partition in maps like this but it's all the more striking given that there was a census conducted in 1926 in the North but it has been "lost". Simultaneous censuses underlines ofc how these were as much about constituting the state as representing its population
I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries:
Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.
This will lead you to Matsuyo Hanakawa, a 22 year old woman from Nagasaki Japan who was living in Malahide. Perhaps the only Buddhist in the Census - but maybe others have found more?
There's always a flood of these articles/posts after each revelation of men's systemic sexual violence. A rape academy was revealed so now we have to be subjected to a bunch of inane "but actually women" reactions, a further indignity in our rape culture that centers the comforts of men.
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
A screengrab from a 1926 census return with the head of household's signature.
I'm sure like most others I am obsessed with digging into the #1926census today. A particular thing I love seeing is the head of household's signature. It makes family members across time feel closer somehow.
"I've never experienced hate like it," Eileen Flynn told The Journal, after a video of remarks she made in the Seanad about the recent fuel protests went viral in certain circles online on Wednesday.
jrnl.ie/7014874
Eileen Ní Fhloinn expressed how far right use of the tricolour has created a sense of fear around what is supposed to be a unifying symbol, in response to which she is now being bombarded with hateful remarks by thousands of people, incited by Gript and various far right social media outfits
An amazing human. Fair feics to her.
Guy who addressed the 'fuel protest' in Cork city - which had a weird amount of anti-vaccine signs for a fuel protest - is currently awaiting a trial date for harassing a Garda.
It's also bad news for researchers.
The fall-out from this sh1te will be ongoing. We'll be paying billions in fines for emissions down the road. Insane that this clusterfuk was allowed to happen.
But of course this is just one of the effects of continually kicking the can, and not tackling the core issues
www.rte.ie/news/2026/04...
"militant action has won concessions" could as easily be said about burning down IPAS Centres. I have a lot of time for Paul but this is hopelessly naive
Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.
Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.
He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.
The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
They couldn’t give people with disabilities a €400 emergency payment.
Had the same thought. I also see that one of them has made past comments about young women "breeding". 🚩🚩
(Not that this surprises me).
As well as @thejournal.ie undertaking some of the best reporting on the protests, it is striking how gendered it all is.
IMHO this is an example of a certain strand of leftism that adheres so rigidly to an abstract principle that it can’t abandon it even when the facts of a situation indicate that a different position should be taken
See also: Brexit, which the Socialist Party/PBP also supported
You may feel powerless to respond to hate but you are not.
One small thing you can do, which will make a real difference, is donate to the Muslim Sisters of Éire.
I just did it, and it only takes a moment.
These incredible women show up day after day to feed unhoused people.
msoe.ie/donate/
Utterly depressing political moment in Ireland as a lot of people obviously do seem to believe their interests are at one with those of haulage companies blocking the country’s only fuel refinery, where the electorally unsuccessful hard right feels empowered by it and even left feels has to pander
Cannot help but feel agrieved at this tbh, the govt refused to give people with disabilities a €400 emergency payment, even prior to attacks on Iran, where disabled persons groups outlined disabled ppl were choosing between heating and eating. #Spéirgorm #speirgorm
We’re just going to bung them some money to subsidise a business profit margin.
Which, were it applied to people personally under pressure also might be defensible.
But that seems not to be the plan.
Disabled ppl have been protesting the Irish govt for €400 to help with the cost of living crisis after cuts last budget that went to hospitality sector tax cuts
A few right wing business owners block traffic because they own heavy machinery, suddenly the govt has hundreds of millions of euro spare
Remember during the initial covid vaccine rollout where people used to compare the specific vaccine they got as if they knew what they were talking about? Strange times.
