Who will call for negotiations tomorrow? The racist tax-dodger convicted of animal abuse? The guy who hoped Greta Thunberg would be raped by the IDF? McGregor's mate who thinks women should be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen?
![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…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zdduilknsuqlql34lkbf5ge5/bafkreifz7h4uqtgcjowovrgdpsyzfz6kdrfhegnctbizaw6avtyh3kfzge)
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...
This fella is one of the nominated representatives of the protest group. Should the government meet with him, do you think?
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
4. As Jevin West and I have been saying for several years now, because a seemingly credible message no longer implies a human sender, LLMs will push us toward more emphasis on reputation and status — and as such serve as an anti-egalitarian force in all aspects of society, science included.
And 'pay' and 'contract' aren't mentioned once!
If you were wondering where the US regime found their internal oppression & lies blueprint, take a read of the Statement from the U.K. Govt after the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry.
Which begs the questions - why is Walz begging people not to defend themselves? Is this not what the Second Amendment is for?
An American citizen reputed to have been in possession of a legally-held firearm was murdered in cold blood and in broad daylight by his government.
What else is needed?
New UCC paper shows how low beef and sheep systems are for net digestible protein per hectare: they produce protein for 2–3 people per ha, versus ~23 for milk and ~40 for legumes. That’s ~15× more digestible protein per hectare from legumes than beef.
That's definitely that problem solved then, nothing to see here
In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
Ah yeah, just blame it on the mental health charity doing their best to help young people navigate your broken-by-design housing policy
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I don't know enough about his work or his relationship with Elselvier to know whether the research in these papers is solid and this is, as he claims, an unfair retaliation. But I do know that I find the whole thing extremely funny.
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I spent the last two years of my PhD campaigning with PWO for workers rights + a living wage. In that time, nobody was more determined to demean and punch down on PhD researchers and our union than this lad.
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
My word.
The Taoiseach, in China, says "platforms can be misused and abused or they can be used for positive reasons as well..." and says that should be considered carefully "before jumping to conclusions" on whether it's appropriate for the Government to be on X.
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Quote from Richard Tice: https://reacpol.net/erosion-democratica-antigenero/
This is where the shameless weaponisation of antisemitism in defence of Israel's war on Gaza has led us
Allegations of extreme forms of antisemitism can be discarded by stressing support for genocidal policies
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
A chara, - In January 1989, the British Minister Douglas Hogg stated that some solicitors were “unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA”. Three weeks later Pat Finucane was murdered by loyalists. It is widely accepted in Ireland that there was a consequential link between these two events. Will there be a similar recognition of the responsibility political leaders bear for inciting violence in the wake of the horrific arson attack on a centre for international protection applicants in Drogheda on Hallowen night, only days after the Tánaiste described migration numbers as “too high”? - Is mise Wendy Lyon
Wow the IT actually printed my letter
#speirghorm
He may have been allowed to walk free by a British court, but the world now knows that David Cleary was part of the unit that murdered 14 and injured 15 in Derry on Bloody Sunday, 1972.
Let history judge them with the same amount of mercy that they showed their victims - that is, none at all.
Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation
☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
I have often said that if people could see how trawlers actually work, maybe they'd stop eating fish - guess it's time to test that?
This is a wild read
Did you know tiny algae can "skate" within Arctic sea ice? ⛸️ Our new study in @pnas.org reveals the secret life of ice diatoms: they are actively gliding to navigate the ice! This adds a new dimension to the sea ice ecosystem, revealing an active, dynamic ecological niche. @prakashlab.bsky.social
Great opportunity! #PlantScience
PLOS Biology hiring full-time Associate Editor.
Requires PhD+2 years postdoc experience
"Expertise in molecular cell biology is required, preferably in context of plant science"
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46...
I know folks who should apply to this!
Remember when various world leaders were saying they would recognise a Palestinian state in September?
This is why.
In a few days or weeks, there won't be a Palestine left to recognise. This was always the end-game.
2025: A fossil fuel lobbyist meeting Ireland's Minister for Climate Action for a friendly chat and posting it on LinkedIn.
#climate #fossilfuels #lobbying
