" @primeministeruk.bsky.social I'm appealing to you to do the right thing. Open a public inquiry. Let the truth be exposed."
Says Darren Neilly, whose dad Maurice, was killed on ZD 576. #chinookjustice
IRA members ‘astonished’ at Gerry Adams’s ‘brazen’ denial of role in organisation, court hears
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
Is it appropriate for military aircraft involved in a war to use neutral Ireland’s airspace?
Got into it with the Taoiseach about overflights ahead of his White House meeting with Donald Trump.
@virginmedianews.bsky.social
'The US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey...US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased.' www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
I think it's every public servants job to be empathic, I'd say it's a necessity.
👋 Former State Department War Powers lawyer here.
This statement by Rubio is false.
As @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and I wrote in January:
www.justsecurity.org/128517/war-p...
Today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social front page includes a story about the Air Corps being warned about - among other things - potentially toxic dust in the workplace.
I once (very briefly) studied Greek mythology as part of my secondary school Latin classes . . . www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
I'm totally pinching myself announcing this, but a film about my life journey rewilding a West Cork farm, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, will get its first screening at the Dublin International Film Festival on Saturday the 28th of this month.
Tickets are available here:
www.diff.ie/programme/an...
. . . not the sort of photo I expected to take when I turned up for work today.
Murdered farmer Michael Gaine’s remains being taken from his cattle shed by a friend of his and a relative.
New from me 🚨
“Disinformation and Algorithms: Amplification, Reception and Correction”
I contribute to the theory around disinformation and misinformation studies and then carry out a corpus-based analysis of the use of tokens like ‘disinformation’ on Twitter.
www.cambridge.org/universitypr...
Orlando City Commissioner Tony Ortiz just switched from Republican to Democratic.
“The Republican Party is not the party I signed up with... The marginalization of Latinos and immigrants—many of whom have helped build this country—is not leadership. It’s fear-based politics.”
A personal statement apologising for provoking Deputy Lowry by filming him last week.
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Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
The narrative is - in effect: there really is not anything to be seen here. Everything is grand. Talk to mothers and fathers of babies that continue to die needlessly in Irish maternity units, and it's very far from grand. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim—
Oh wait.
High resolution image of #StormÉowyn yesterday as center moved away. I’ve had reports that all are safe on Aran Islands but no power of connectivity there at present.
Heavy rain and sleet moving into the West with thunderstorms in Southwest and lightning strikes in Kerry. Wind will increase as band of showers cross the country too.
A milder morning with a lot of cloud but some sunny spells developing today, feeling fresh in breeze.
I'll be on RTE Countrywide with @philipb-h.bsky.social from about 8:15 to talk about this week's Draft Programme for Government.
Get the coffee on and join us! ☕️
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
BREAKING: Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has announced that the Gaza ceasefire will start on Sunday at 8:30 am [06:30 GMT].
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dcziju
"You can't have trees and bikes replace the cars on this street. The Dutch just love their cars too much and it rains sometimes."
- Dutch automobile lobbyist, 1988
Gavin Newsom made a website to fight the misinformation about the fires. Give it a read.
REPOST
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Wow!
A screen shot of this morning’s Irish Examiner, which carries - as its main picture - a photo of a mother and her two children standing in the snow blocking the driveway to her house.
This morning’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social
