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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 21m

Certainly. We do not disagree Aidan.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 43m

By pathetic I mean also dangerous of course.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 46m

Aidan, this is where SM can lead us astray. They put up a couple and hype it online. They are pathetic.

There is this though.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1h

Where exactly Aidan? I am walking through in the city centre. (This is my neighbourhood.) They are not here.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1h

What I know is that the daily distress intentionally caused by them and their malicious abuse of the flag to many people has stopped.

Nothing is forever but that is the Cork city sitrep for now Aidan.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1h

I have seen that argued.

In Cork this was requested by the community.

The Council responded.

Yesterday there was a supposedly major rally in town of fellow travellers of the hatemongers who had abused the flag in this way.

They whinged. All 200 of them.

Maybe Cork is different, maybe not.

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zero @egrettt.bsky.social · Apr 21

"with proceeds from download fees being used to support Masafer Yatta, a group of West Bank villages featured in the documentary, where Palestinians regularly face home demolitions, settler violence and unjust arrests."

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zero @egrettt.bsky.social · Apr 21

www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...
"The creators of last year's Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature, "No Other Land", have temporarily made the film available online in North America,"

'No Other Land' made available for download in North America amid distribution challenges

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www.haaretz.com

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 3h

God love Kew, this is incredible

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1h

Cork City Council has taken down the flags.

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zero @egrettt.bsky.social · 1h

10th Oct, 2025
"Yesterday's announcement of a #Gaza peace deal coincides with news that the young #Palestinian Christian woman, Layan Nasir, has been #sentenced to a further eight months in #prison, without #charge, by an Israeli court"
www.indcatholicnews.com/news/53451

Young Palestinian Christian woman imprisoned again without charge | ICN

Yesterday's announcement of a Gaza peace deal coincides with news that the young Palestinian Christian woman, Layan Nasir, has been sentenced to a further eight months in prison, without charge, by an...

www.indcatholicnews.com

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Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

"Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy

The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be…

digit.site36.net

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Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 1d

Fair play to #CatherineConnolly team who just sent a lovely reply to my request for info and a resource pack of her climate & environment interventions for students in my Climate Policy & Politics module. 🙌

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 12h

Raft of legal changes to back new cycling infrastructure signed into law

A wide range of legal changes relating to cycling and other transport-related changes have been signed into law by the Minister for Transport, Darragh O'Brien. The changes range from giving legislative backing to relatively…

Raft of legal changes to back new cycling infrastructure signed into law

A wide range of legal changes relating to cycling and other transport-related changes have been signed into law by the Minister for Transport, Darragh O'Brien. The changes range from giving legislative backing to relatively minor details, such as square cycle lane markings called "elephant's feet", to more radical changes which will allow for the trialling of a French-style yielding system for people cycling at traffic lights.

irishcycle.com

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2h

True then and now. bsky.app/profile/nisr...

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 2h

Do you know who makes a dictatorship? It’s not the racists. It’s not the criminals. It’s not even the idiots.

It’s the sycophants.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 2h

Do you know who makes a dictatorship? It’s not the racists. It’s not the criminals. It’s not even the idiots.

It’s the sycophants.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 10h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Mick Muldoon @mickmuldoon.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve decided after much equivocation to vote for Catherine Connolly. Why? The very reason FF & FG say we shouldn’t.

There are times recently when it’s been a good thing for the president to say things unofficially the government couldn’t.

We play good cop, bad cop
That’s it.

#Aras25

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3h

#OtD 12 Oct 1919 150 Royal Navy sailors mutinied and broke out of their ships at Port Edgar upon hearing they were being sent to the Baltic to fight against the Russian Revolution. The desertion prevented the First Destroyer Flotilla from departing stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8435...

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2h

bloodshed and sadism, particularly more efficiency.’
He had a clear-eyed but grim understanding of what the Nazi seizure of power meant for the rest of Europe.”

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2h

“When Hitler did seize his chance, becoming chancellor on 30 January 1933, Ebbutt immediately saw it as the beginning of a radical counter-revolution.
Nazi behaviour ‘had quite a lot of fascism [on the Italian model] in it,’ he wrote, ‘but – the Germans being German – it had a lot more deliberate

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2h

“Ebbutt was contemptuous but wary of Hitler, taking him seriously far sooner than other foreign correspondents and diplomats in Berlin. On three occasions in 1930 he attempted to persuade the Times to let him write an article on the rise of the Nazis, but was turned down.”

#journalism #newspaper

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2h

Mustn’t polar-ice society. bsky.app/profile/joen...

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2h

We are where we are. It’s not an accident.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2h

Ebbutt had seen police reports showing that 100 out of 108 of those arrested were Nazi Party members or sympathisers, so he knew Hitler was lying.”

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