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An Amoc shutdown later this century could see millions of Irish people become #climate migrants; this is something our politicians talking tough on cracking down on migration to Ireland should keep in mind, as I discuss in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: A big freeze could turn the Irish into climate refugees
We should reflect on 'get-tough' proposals on immigration: If the Amoc currents that moderate Ireland’s climate fail, temperatures will plunge, making grass-based agriculture impossible
www.irishexaminer.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Administrative court: The prohibition and dissolution of the Berlin Palestine Congress in April 2024 was unlawful.
The measures taken by the police were disproportionate.

This ruling will have no consequences, there is no accountability and it will happen again

www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...
Berlin: Verwaltungsgericht: Verbot des Berliner Palästina-Kongresses war rechtswidrig
Verwaltungsgericht: Verbot des Berliner Palästina-Kongresses war rechtswidrig
www.tagesschau.de
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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🏗️“David McWilliams’s characterisation of lawyers as “talkers” rather than “doers”
He decries legal process & points to Chinese projects. Four bridges collapsed in China in 2024 killing 42.. In 2024 Ireland recorded its lowest-ever number of workplace fatalities”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Media decrying judicial review of #MetroLink.. & not asking *who* authorised construction of a new metro station without planning permission in 2021/22..& *who* authorised €12.5m+ public funds for an illegal development..& *who* decided to by-pass the law, & risk delay to the MetroLink project?
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Abdullah Al-Yazouri narrated the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Genocide. BBC pulled it because of his familial links to the Hamas govt. He joined us from Gaza to discuss. He’s not your average 15yr old.

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November 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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What would a non-violent collapse of Zionism and a non-violent decolonization of the state of Israel require? Ilan Pappé has a hopeful outlook on the prospects. #FreePalestine @zeteo.com
Why Israel is 'DISINTEGRATING': Ilan Pappé on the End of Zionism
“Israel is disintegrating from within,” Ilan Pappé says. In conversation with Mehdi Hasan and an audience of paid Zeteo subscribers on Zoom, acclaimed Israeli-British historian Ilan Pappé explains…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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🧵 Refreshing thread
Would they marginally prefer Ireland were not neutral? I don't doubt it at all. But if this is some massive strategic vulnerability, it's super weird that it's never discussed as such by the people in charge of worrying about massive strategic vulnerabilities
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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#BREAKING | New research reveals that 90,000 Israelis left in two years, including 481 doctors - and the economy lost 1.5 billion shekels
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Bravo to Olwen Fouéré and Margo Harkin, who turned down honorary doctorates from the University of Galway over its ties to Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology which works closely with the apartheid state's "defense industries", key to its genocide of the Palestinian people.
#BDS
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Four months after it was promised, we finally have the government's transport investment plan between now and 2030. It's bad. Roads are in, public transport is out. A lot of public transport projects being put on the long-finger to make funding available for new roads.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Major public transport projects at risk as Govt priority shifts to roads; funding committed to Galway’s second ring road with “€1bn+” cost

Under pressure from rural TDs supporting it, the Government is shifting its transport spending priorities from sustainable transport to road building -- the…
Major public transport projects at risk as Govt priority shifts to roads; funding committed to Galway’s second ring road with “€1bn+” cost
Under pressure from rural TDs supporting it, the Government is shifting its transport spending priorities from sustainable transport to road building -- the funding ratio between public transport and roads is set to change from 2:1 to close to 1:1. Between 2026 and 2030, public transport is expected to get €10.1 billion, while roads is to get €9.7 billion, while active travel and greenways are expected to get €1.8 billion.
irishcycle.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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In June, the Supreme Court reversed an injunction challenging third-country deportations, allowing the Department of Homeland Security to deport people to countries not listed on their removal orders without giving them any notice. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YfaEdH
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The idea that Ireland's "vulnerability" is a major headache for EU/NATO strategic planners is simply not factually accurate. I spend a lot of time reading the work of, speaking to, and listening at conferences to these people, and I have literally never heard this mentioned! It's not on their minds!
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones
This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones
Three ICC judges have been put on a sanctions list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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“construction took place “without ever notifying the public” and no site notice or advertisement related to metro works was ever displayed and no drawings were submitted as part of any application” (2022)
www.irishtimes.com/news/environ...
Work on Charlemont metro station begins before planning application for line lodged
Construction work costing €12.5m has already gone ahead
www.irishtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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New day. New un-evidenced & easily disproved claim about #Planning & #housing
This is every day #9

“allowing MetroLink to be held up by serial objections & procedural games is unacceptable”

..this Metrolink station was built in 2021/22 without Planning Permission www.independent.ie/irish-news/d...
Dublin being ‘held hostage by outdated planning system’ that is delaying MetroLink, business group says
Dublin is being “held hostage by an outdated planning system” that will delay MetroLink construction, according to a business group.
www.independent.ie
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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🚨Action 🚨
We’ve a new Minister, but the same problem – a government dragging its heels.
Help ensure Helen McEntee gets a clear and urgent message: pass the Occupied Territories Bill, including services, before the end of the year!
#OccupiedTerritoriesBill
www.trocaire.org/petitions/mi...
Minister McEntee, Pass the Occupied Territories Bill! - Trócaire
www.trocaire.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Analog Devices International is sending parts from its Limerick factory to the Israel Defense Forces' largest weapons supplier

The IDA gave it €85 million last year

Its microchips were recently found in Russian weapons used to attack Ukraine

www.ontheditch.com/state-backed...
State-backed company supplying parts to Israeli arms firm
It got an €85 million grant from the IDA last year.
www.ontheditch.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Who will offer early-stage legal help to people seeking asylum in future, speedier process? It might not be lawyers
The new EU Migration and Asylum Pact allows for “legal counselling”. Those who give it won’t have to be “qualified lawyers. More here www.dublininquirer.com/who-will-off...
Who will offer early-stage legal help to people seeking asylum in future, speedier process? It might not be lawyers
The new EU Migration and Asylum Pact allows for “legal counselling”. Those who give it won’t have to be “qualified lawyers”, says the Department of Justice.
www.dublininquirer.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Protesters gathered outside BBC to denounce the MSM blackout surrounding the hunger strike

London Irish Brigade organised a protest, backed by Holocaust survivors & Jewish anti-Zionists, supporting 6 activists currently on hunger strike in prison to demand an end to British complicity in genocide
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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"Legal Counselors" can be empowered by the knowledge that the Dept of Justice has provided comprehensive AI legal advice on immigration.

Utterly incorrect advice as it happens.
Which a cynic might think was the plan. If there was any evidence of an Irish Govt being able to formulate a plan.
Who will offer early-stage legal help to people seeking asylum in future, speedier process? It might not be lawyers
The new EU Migration and Asylum Pact allows for “legal counselling”. Those who give it won’t have to be “qualified lawyers. More here www.dublininquirer.com/who-will-off...
Who will offer early-stage legal help to people seeking asylum in future, speedier process? It might not be lawyers
The new EU Migration and Asylum Pact allows for “legal counselling”. Those who give it won’t have to be “qualified lawyers”, says the Department of Justice.
www.dublininquirer.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Christmas cards available now and shipping here and abroad, featuring a choice of either a traditional Irish Christmas fireplace, or an Cailleach, the ancient Irish bringer of winter ❄️

Traditional Irish Christmas: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

An Cailleach: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM