I wish I was the man my dogs thought I was

Dublin City, Ireland
Joined May 2011
Books 2024 1: a book id had for ages and hadn’t read. Once I started I flew thru it. Humanised people who’s surnames are everywhere and introduced people who I’d never heard of, including the British agents officers and rulers
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I think the guy flipping burgers at McDonald’s should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That’s kind of the whole point of having a job and I can’t believe this is considered a radical position for me to take.
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The Man City scandal explained 💰⚽️
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A lot of you from outside Ireland are probably hearing about the Garvaghy Road and wondering what all the fuss is about. 1998 - After the parade was banned from marching on the Garvaghy Rd, ten Catholic churches were set on fire across Ulster in one night. In the following days, loyalists attacked Catholic homes, schools and businesses. Multiple houses were petrol-bombed, resulting in the murder of 3 young boys, the Quinn brothers. Their home was targeted because their mother was Catholic. She mother woke to the sound of her children screaming in fear and the house full of smoke. Sadly the boys, Jason, Mark and Richard, did not make it out. Garfield Gilmour was sentenced to life in prison after he admitted to driving three members of a UVF unit to the house, but later that was reduced to manslaughter. Johnny McKay and brothers Raymond and Ivan Parke were named by Gilmour as the killers, but were never charged because of a lack of evidence. In the days following the murders, loyalist bands defied orders not to play music while marching passed the home of the Quinn boys grandmother. Tonight, a court overturned an earlier ruling banning the parade from marching on the Garvaghy Road, crowds have gathered and confrontation now seems inevitable with that march set to go ahead early Sunday morning. The courts allowing this march to go ahead is absolute madness!
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This is exactly where all this started
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"The board of the FAI, the president of the FAI, the chair of the board...should resign!" Brian Kerr pulling no punches on Virgin Media, while also suggesting Gavin Bazunu was cynically omitted from today's 14:8 player vote. #COYBIG xitter.cf/VMSportIE/status/21039…
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“This court was not intended for us. This court was intended for the ‘barbarians.’” As @4noura explains, the International Criminal Court spent over two decades indicting African and Arab leaders. Now that the ICC is coming for Israel, the US wants to destroy it.
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Ireland has a pulse. At its autumn peak on 13 Nov 2025 the whole island put about 3,300 m³/s into the sea; on the quietest day of the year, just 370. Nine times more water in the wet months than the dry. #Ireland #rivers
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A billionaire who lives in another country (Monaco) to pay less tax is complaining about immigration. You genuinely can’t make this shit up 😭😭😭
Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in the UK, describing the country as "on the slide". "Nobody's tough enough to deal with the immigration problem. Nobody's tough enough to deal with the benefits problem. But somebody needs to do it." [BBC]
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I have not forgotten, and I will never forget, what Israel did to us when it bombed civilians who went to search for food from the trucks at a time when the famine had reached its absolute peak. This happened two years ago.
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Souvenez vous de cette femme palestinienne. Des soldats israéliens avaient posé avec elle pour montrer leur empathie. Puis ils l'ont ligotée, lui ont bandé les yeux et l'ont placé à leurs côtés dans un véhicule militaire. L'un des officiers a alors reçu un appel et l'a abattu d'une balle dans la tête. L'histoire a été révélée hier par un media israélien sur la base des témoignages de soldats. En France, le silence est total.
An investigation by the Israeli outlet HaMakom (המקום הכי חם בגיהנום) reports that soldiers from the Nahal Brigade’s 50th Battalion found an elderly Palestinian woman in a combat zone in Gaza and decided to evacuate her. She was bound and blindfolded and placed in a military vehicle with three soldiers. According to testimony collected by HaMakom, the officer accompanying her received a phone call, stopped the vehicle, took the elderly woman out, and shot her dead. One soldier described it as “the execution of an elderly woman who was supposed to be evacuated.”
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The complicity is undeniable. "Germany and the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel... They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons killing Palestinians." - UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Ben Saul
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You see how pushing back against power is done @edsheeran?
In the 1950s, Ella Fitzgerald was not allowed to play Hollywood's most popular nightclub, Mocambo, because of her race. Marilyn Monroe, who was a big fan, called the owner & told him that if he booked Ella, Marilyn would be there every night - which guaranteed huge press coverage. He booked Ella and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. Ella said, "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it."
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“This is an opinion column. It usually runs to 1,000 words. Eight hundred of them have been spent naming ordinary things Israel has illegally denied the people of Gaza. I could fill another column and still not exhaust the list.” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner
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NEW: Patriots Owner Robert Kraft said he has spent years “building bridges.” So we counted every dollar Kraft’s foundation has donated to the Friends of the IDF (+ other Israeli military groups) over the past 20 years, as well as to several pro-Israel groups known for espousing Islamophobia and denial of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. ✍️@theintercept theintercept.com/2026/09/18/…
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“Us versus Them” in political language: We board ships; they commit piracy.
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Amidst Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank, Palestinian human rights defenders like Eid al-Hathaleen refuse to be silenced, fighting peacefully to protect their communities against erasure and uprooting. As we mark two years since the UN General Assembly's Resolution demanding an end to Israel's unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory, join Eid and his community to demand an end to Israel's system of apartheid, occupation and state-backed settler violence.
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CNN documented israeli settlers kidnapping and blindfolding a Palestinian farmer for refusing to leave his own land, while IDF soldiers stood guard. He was later shot dead, as the IDF blocked roads and prevented life-saving aid from reaching him. This is the reality of the occupation. “moral army”
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“The most dramatic…the most wonderful of finishes” 🔥💙 It’s 15 years today since Stephen Cluxton put it over the bar 🤩🏆 #UpTheDubs
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