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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 11h

Simon Harris’s department discussed procurement policy with Lockheed Martin lobbyists just months before government announced a record €1.49 billion defence budget.

The Department of Defence is regularly briefing international arms lobbyists.

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Department of Defence regularly briefing l arms lobbyists

Government just announced a record €1.49 billion defence budget.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 1d

A company under garda investigation was incorporated just a month before Heather Humphreys was the star attraction at its February “charity” event.

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Humphreys was star attraction at event under investigation

The company was incorporated just a year before.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 1d

Heather Humphreys refuses to confirm she failed to tell the land agency she’s not entitled to a tax exemption on one of her properties – a criminal offence

Media refuses to question her – TD Thomas Gould has called on Humphreys to explain her tax issues

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Humphreys stays silent on property affairs

Media indulges her silence.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Harris authorised a US military plane to refuel at Shannon Airport on Sunday on its way from a Department of War airbase to the Nevatim Israel Defense Forces base.

It was transporting soldiers or military cargo.

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Harris authorised Shannon stop for US war plane

It was transporting soldiers or military cargo.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 3d

The Ditch live with Ghais Guevara

Thursday, 6pm, Connolly Books, Dublin

‘There’s no other rapper doing geopolitical communist rap.’ - Vice

Before his gig in the Sound House, Philadelphia’s Ghais Guevara chats with The Ditch about class, culture and Black Bolshevism.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 3d

The public can distinguish between someone who has opposed power – from its attempted hate speech legislation to its degradation of Irish sovereignty – and someone who used it to inflict austerity.

Ivan Yates just acknowledged what everyone already knew.

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You don’t need to be left to see the lies about Connolly

Ivan Yates was at least honest about the tactics he would need to use.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 6d

The Ditch reported yesterday that Humphreys avoided paying business rates on her old constituency office after failing to declare she’s no longer entitled to an exemption.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 6d

Heather Humphreys won’t say if she paid an anti-vacancy tax on her unused residential property.

Humphreys has left the property unoccupied for the last 14 years, during which time the vacant homes tax was introduced.

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Humpheys won’t say if she paid vacant homes tax

She’s left the property unoccupied for more than a decade.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 7d

Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys has avoided a property tax on her old constituency office after failing to declare she’s no longer entitled to an exemption.

For failing to make this declaration Humphreys could face criminal prosecution.

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Humphreys has avoided a property tax on old office

She could face criminal prosecution under laws introduced when she was a government minister.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 8d

Heather Humphreys is spreading misinformation that Oireachtas political staff need so-called garda clearance – they don’t, according to documents obtained by The Ditch

Alan Shatter joined in – posting a fake document on X purporting to be official policy

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Humphreys spreading misinformation about Oireachtas vetting

Humphreys’s former party colleague and ex-justice minister Alan Shatter has also joined in.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 8d

Details here: theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...

The World Transformed 2025 // NATO and the EU; The Drive for War and Ireland's Place Within it

theworldtransformed.org

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 8d

🎵Eoghan's at the wheel🎵

Manchester: The Ditch's Eoghan McNeill speaks at the World Transformed festival about Ireland’s complicity and role in imperialism today

Saturday, 11 October, 10am

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 9d

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Ce soir partiront de Suisse des équipements high-tech pour un fabricant de drones israéliens - Heidi.news

La société vaudoise Swissto12 annonce renoncer à fournir Elbit, premier fabricant de drones israéliens, très utilisés à Gaza

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 9d

🚨Breaking🚨

Swiss company Swissto12 says it’s ended a contract to supply antennae to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems after The Ditch x
@Heidi_news
reported that one of its shipments is heading for Tel Aviv today.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 11d

Story here: www.ontheditch.com/nazi-linked-...

Tonnes of ammunition en route to Israel

A Nazi regime-linked company is among the suppliers of 563 tonnes of bomb shells and ammunition headed to Israel on a ship moored at a US port.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 11d

The people of Wilmington, North Carolina protest a Nazi regime-linked company being among the suppliers of 563 tonnes of bomb shells and ammunition to Israel from the US – as reported by The Ditch Thursday

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 12d

Governments around the world are not taking responsibility – that’s why we’re doing this: Irish doctor on Gaza flotilla

'The Irish government knows how dear this is to Irish people. So they appease us. But they're not actually doing anything.'

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Governments won't take responsibility – someone had to

Veronica O'Keane expects to be intercepted by Israeli forces soon – a near certainty she says she’s ready for.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 13d

The ballot paper for Ireland’s presidential election is unlawful – and gives an unfair advantage to Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s candidates.

The legislation is clear.

The Ditch is challenging – in the High Court if necessary.
Our letter in full: www.ontheditch.com/presidential...

Unlawful election ballot gives FG, FF undue advantage

Why weren't small, legally required efforts made with the presidential election ballot?

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 14d

The Ditch x @DropSiteNews

A Nazi regime-linked company is among the suppliers of 563 tonnes of bomb shells and ammunition headed to Israel on a ship moored at a US port.

It’s the largest ever shipment of munitions to Israel identified by The Ditch.

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Tonnes of ammunition en route to Israel

A Nazi regime-linked company is among the suppliers of 563 tonnes of bomb shells and ammunition headed to Israel on a ship moored at a US port.

www.ontheditch.com

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 14d

🚨Breaking🚨

Last month The Ditch reported that Basque company AMC was supplying parts to Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.

Protesters showed up to its office.

Now it says it has “decided to stop selling to Israel”.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 15d

Comment: The British state these men, which is to say colonialism killed them. Their GAA membership was their commitment to republican ideals. It also marked them as targets of the same structural forces our flag sided with in Croke Park on Sunday.

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Comment: Sunday's game in Croke Park betrayed

I don’t know why this stayed with me. Three years ago and it’s halftime of Newcastle United against Manchester City at St James’s Park. I’m in the East Stand, cigarette smoked, queuing for burgers.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 17d

Another win for The Ditch and BDS.

After The Ditch uncovered evidence the Marianne Danica was transporting 18 containers of artillery projectiles to Israel, the people of Cabo Verde said: No.

Cabo Verde has refused the ship harbour.

We will continue.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 21d

Dan O'Brien's Institute of International and European Affairs is holding a briefing on how the US might react to the Occupied Territories Bill.

One of his two 'experts' is a Zionist settler who has a home on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank.

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Comment: Dan O'Brien considers a West Bank settler's view of the Occupied Territories Bill

Make a one-time donation to The Ditch By Fintan Drury Dan O’Brien has consistently questioned the value of the Occupied Territories Bill, long overdue legislation with political support across the s...

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 21d

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 21d

🚨Joining us this afternoon: 2.30pm, 30 Anne Street South🚨

Senator Alice Mary Higgins, one of the original sponsors of the Occupied Territories Bill, in conversation with rapper and activist Lowkey and The Ditch

A live chat about the left, Palestine and the west

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