The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history

This is a genuinely mindblowing combination. 1) Deliberately false information, 2) promoted in schools, 3) using public money, 4) in the service of private profits, 5) at the cost of our collapsing ecosystem.

Only recently discovered Queen of Oz with Catherine Tate.

Gutted it wasn’t given another series - I thought it was brilliant - silly, hilarious fun.

Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either:

a. Incompetent
b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't
c. a & b

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

Ffs. 🤦🏻‍♂️

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Half a billion euro for 10c off each litre of petrol and diesel for drivers and all the rest on private business. No grants to make evs or hybrid cars affordable for people, no increase in grants for home insulation to save on heating oil, no reduction in the price of home heating oil.

The Guardian is reporting that it’s all over in Hungary!

Tisza is coming close to a 2/3 majority.

Orbán has conceded.

This is very, very good news.

#Hungary

👏👏👏🙏

We now go live to Government Buildings

There is not a snowball’s chance in hell of any of these payments actually helping ordinary people with the cost of living, but they will embolden the company owners to demand even further concessions to line their own pockets.
Slow clap to everyone who scolded the left for not supporting them

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.

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What if we called it a “tractor eviction”

Right, lads... Truckers for Palestine convoy next week & they might finally enact the Occupied Territories Bill?

Can the government cut carbon tax, and what would happen if it did? Carbon tax is back on the agenda. Here’s what any changes would mean in the short and long term.

Yes this Government needs to do more to help in the cost of living crisis, but abolishing the Carbon Tax, the one tax that is ring fenced to help the most vulnerable, would be the wrong thing to do.

Can the government cut carbon tax, and what would happen if it did? jrnl.ie/7007865

Rosslare Europort says a blockade of freight will mean the port’s shipping capacity will be full by tomorrow night/Monday morning, with further deliveries having to be turned away thereafter

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

So what exactly are the Guards going to do in response to this ‘exceptional event’?

And when can we have our country back?

So many aspects of this debacle are just wild.

For example, many of the same lads who railed against Covid lockdowns are now locking down the country with unabashed glee.

💯

Tomorrow morning we'll have a deep dive about how a militant group of outsiders managed to take control of a national movement and bring the country to a standstill. There's a lot of swearing in it.

have there been zero arrests after four days of road blockages?

asking for that teenager who was arrested at Shannon Airport for sitting on an empty road in an industrial estate

What is happening here?? lol

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥

Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

And he representing the plain people of Ireland! But obviously not the tax paying people of Ireland.

Of the 70 protests attended by the network in 2025, only one was considered non-compliant with human rights-based policing guidelines – a Palestinian solidarity event in Dublin on October 4th. On the day, Wall says, a smaller group of about 150 people broke away from a large demonstration in the city centre and rerouted to Dublin Port. There, they were stopped by a line of gardaí. Wall says the group linked arms and tried to push through Garda lines, and that officers responded by using pepper spray and drawing batons. Protesters withdrew and gardaí followed them, Wall says, continuing to use pepper spray. A standoff ensued and, according to the claims, the protesters marched back around the block attempting to get to Dublin Port from a different direction. This time they were greeted by members of the Garda National Public Order Unit (GNPOU), who used pepper spray and batons “from the outset” as protesters again attempted to break through the lines. “They beat a number of people [and] pepper-sprayed a number of people,” Wall says. In a statement issued on October 4th An Garda Síochána said its members “attempted to engage with the protest group over the course of the afternoon to disperse the protest in a voluntary manner”. “Despite this engagement there was a co-ordinated and concerted effort to physically breach the Garda cordon. In accordance with procedures An Garda Síochána deployed an escalation of response.” The statement said members of the GNPOU and frontline uniformed gardaí “intervened to prevent a breach of the Garda cordon, which included the use of incapacitant spray on protesters”. Wall says the network’s findings on October 4th were that “gardaí, in the first instance, had not given any direction to the protesters not to keep coming. The protesters were pushing and shoving, and the guards, in response to that, pepper-sprayed them and beat them”. “There is perhaps a discussion about whether or not that initial interaction was legitimate,” he s…

An interesting report today on the Garda response to an attept by a pro-Palestinian group to march to Dublin Port. Just by way of a compare and contrast.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Sorry, what now?

You want the carbon tax abolished and VAT and excise cut, but it transpires that you don’t actually pay your taxes.

Right so.

Down having a look at the blockade on O'Connell street and what strikes me most is that this is in reality a very small protest that looks big because of the size of the vehicles involved.

There's a few dozen people standing around at most.