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1/ THREAD Over the course of the past 48 hours many of us have witnessed individuals and groups of the far right try to exploit the brutal murder of #AislingMurphy to further their own political goals.
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A Weddell seal vocalizing while sleeping in Antarctica 💭 Weddells have a wide vocal repertoire, typically making such vocalizations underwater in social interactions.
Rare occasion captured by @johnbozinov
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Only in Ireland. Getting bus from Cork to Dublin and driver pulls into the side of the road. Wonder whats going on. Driver tells us hes stopping to feed a horse, and that the owner has been neglecting for several months.
Pure sound!
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As the ICJ case is today brought by South Africa against Israel for its genocide in Gaza, it feels kinda personally and politically relevant to the small part of Ireland I grew up in.
Two names.
Majella O'Hare and
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh
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Letting nazis take part in your 'pro life' rally makes it a pro nazi rally. Pass it on.
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🧵of some photos of Sinead O'Connor shared in a Whatsapp group with pals. Most I've never seen before.
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Dorel Giurca 53, died of Covid19 on May 8th. He had been earning €10.80 an hour as a cleaner in St James’s Hospital in Dublin.
His wife Mirela who has Covid-19 said from her hospital bed "I don't know how I will live without him"
Dorel died keeping people safe for €10.80ph
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Majella O'Hare was 12 years old, when she was shot in the back and murdered by a British paratrooper as she walked to confession in the church next to St Malachy's primary school.
The paras tried to blame the IRA, and threatened and intimidate those who went to aid Majella
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Then, as in Israel now, the British had a well-oiled propaganda machine ready to roll out chaos-making introduce confusion & establish cover-up.
To date, Majella’s family and community have never got justice. Yet the truth of what happened was known and documented as we’ll see
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How you show up and hijack a vigil for three murdered children in Southport versus how you leave.
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Lots of German universities are now banning Palestinian students from registering their nationality as 'Palestinian' and demanding they instead register as 'stateless.'
This isn't 'German guilt.' It's the German state being complicit in genocide.
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And that truth-telling has played a part in the trajectory of someone playing a key role in the case against Israel.
Irish-Palestinian solidarity isn't just about the long arc of occupation and domination.
It's about recognising injustice through living with injustice.
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It evokes some unfamiliar sensations to know that the life of Majella O'Hare played a specific part in the life choices of a barrister now working to halt the Israeli genocide in Gaza on a significant global stage. ♥️♥️♥️
#FreePalestine
#NoJusticeNoPeace
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#CoolockSaysNo standing with loyalist bigots in Belfast at an Islamophobic hate fest, intent on intimidating an entire community on the basis of religion in the north of Ireland.
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These are pages from a pamphlet written on witness testimonies from witnesses on the day Majella was murdered.
Including family and neighbours, some visiting the graves of relatives also murdered by state backed militia.
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MASSIVE TURNOUT IN DUBLIN. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸
Big respect for @ipsc48 for pulling this national demonstration together today.
#FreePalestine #GazaGenocide
#SolidarityIsAVerb
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Musk amplifying one of Ireland's prominent white supremacists, ahead of the election today
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But this really hit home.
“I often think about my mother’s response. Her words struck a very profound chord. And I’ve hung on to that pamphlet over all these years. It’s now framed above my work desk as a reminder of what brought me here.”
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Walked through town. Every pub I passed had a crowd. Not too many 9 euro dinners on the go either.
When the shit show returns, remember IBEC and the alcohol lobby pushed for this.
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Ms Ní Ghrálaigh went to her mother in tears. Her mother’s response... “Do something about it”.
What a mum!
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You don't even have to like Kneecap to know that the British state investigating a band - whilst working overtime to suppress the search for justice for so many families in the north - is the least surprising thing about the British state.
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David Quinn has been writing the same 'i'm definitely not racist but...' article for the Sunday Times for over 5 years now.
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The rest of the pamphlet is here 👇👇
It will be worth you while reading these today I assure you.
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There's Paddy 'dressed up' as a slave, whilst his mates 'dress up' as 'Ethiopians'. For a laugh cos casual racism is funny as f**k.
#suemepaddy Streisand Effect much? #IBelieveHer
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A @newstalk journalist tweeting racist stereotypes, hours after Sunak was anointed British PM.
Miles of columns on Irish women's team for singing a song when they clearly not being intentionally offensive. Murphy deliberately downloaded and tweeted this.
Will there be silence?
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These photos are from Raymond Murray's 'State Violence' which is based upon a collection of numerous pamphlets of testimony after British army shootings very often involving the murder of innocent young kids, women and men. It's hard to overstate the value of that work.
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But we both had spotted, like many, that Irish human rights lawyer Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh was working on advising the South African case underway in the ICJ.
It was through our conversation they sent me this article.
It that mentioned Majella O'Hare
irishlegal.com/articles/lawy…
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A few paragraphs stuck out
"I was 12 years old myself when I found a pamphlet about Majella O’Hare in one of my mother’s bookcases. I read it from cover to cover. I read about how she died in the arms of her father after he heard the shot and went running to her."
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It's really great Conor McGregor is getting taken off Irish shelves.
Do Israeli goods next.
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There's something quite specific about growing up in a place where you know in your inner being that the state can kill you and for the most part - and despite the endless campaigning that comes later - that that's just the way of the world.
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The British state continues to cover up its role in murdering Irish people in Ireland, refusing justice to hundreds like the family of Sean Brown.
Keep in mind that is this carnival of distraction.
Equating Kneecap with terrorism while the state itself covers up terrorism
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With the mass sacking of workers across all of the tech/Comms sector amid record wealth hoarding by tech owners and investors, it's almost like yoga and beanbags and bottomless coffee aren't much of a replacement for active trade unionism after all.
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Raymond, and people like him who carried out similar work bearing witness, listening to people, deciding not to look away from what was being inflicted in small communities in the face of propaganda is no small thing.
Telling the truth matters. These pamphlets matter
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Israel is obviously using Irish soldiers as human shields, why not call it as it is?
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Twitter seems to have dropped the rest of the entire thread, I'll come back to it later
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I was about 9 or 10 when I came across an original copy in our wee coal house shed. I read it cover to cover, at first in childish awe that it mentioned my school, my village, and the graveyard I visited my grandparent's grave. Then confusion, rage, sadness and fear. I cried.
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Israeli flags out with the far right mobilisation today.
'Paytriots' increasingly taking on the appearance and tone of an Orange Order event circa Drumcree.
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Majella's family and many others in our community, thinking also of the Reavey family, have never got justice.
And yet through the bravery and humanity of people like Raymond Murray, a witness bearer and testimony collector, the truth of Majella's death is known.
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After many many times quizzing my dad about what happened that day, and nearly a decade after he died himself, I found out I was a toddler in the car at the time. I have no memory of that. In fairness to my dad, he never told me that while he was alive. He was a good man.
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Lot of 'free speech' bio bros awful loud about the hurty words put up on the big sign by kneecap
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Reading the description of someone close enough to my age being shot by soldiers at my school on a road I walked on passing Majella's memorial was utterly jarring. While it filled in details of something you knew happened, it was also other worldly.
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As I was reading the pamphlet, a printed name stopped me. It was my dad's name. This was telling me my dad drove onto the scene within minutes of the shooting, andthe car was stopped by the paras and words were exchanged, before he and my mum were ordered to drive away.
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I'm not sure I can tap the sign any harder, but this is where Irish anti immigrant organising's real home actually is. Under the butchers apron with absolute fuckwits like this pond life who internalise colonialism and think they found friends.
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A clear and (relatively) immediate victory for students in Trinity in terms of divestment.
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Seemed a fairly conscious message from GAA President Jarlath Burns in his speech about the diaspora and remembering that countries that took in emigrating Irish people through our history.
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That is incidental to the thread though. How I came to be talking about the pamphlet in the last week was with my sibling who is active in Palestinian solidarity in Berlin. (a whole other thread needed for that context)
But we both has spotted
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Anti-migrant mobilisation at Garda HQ in Phoenix Park right now descends into mayhem when people with a 'Coolock Says No' show up.
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Sunday papers are full of people endlessly talking about things they wilfully misinterpret and misdiagnose.
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A group of vigilante men demanding entry to a bus so that they can determine who can travel or live in area should resonate with anyone with ounce of history abt this island.
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A woman who is taking a personal damages claim against mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor was subjected to a terrifying burglary when masked men broke into her home in recent days.
Anyone surprised?
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extra.ie/2024/06/16/news/iri…
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A minister pushing out responses like this on Twitter, first giving the impression of insight, then correcting that they don't know, and then just deleting the tweets without any comment, is not good practice.
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An anti-immigrant activist was really disappointed today at the turn out.
So he's going to become an immigrant.
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Ireland First founder Philip Dwyer removed from the RDS count centre just now for alleged aggressive behaviour
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Anti mask protestors on the Luas just now.
Hassling passengers who ask them to put on a mask, abusing women and shouting homophobic slurs
Led by Graham Casey and Alan Sweeney, regulars at far right hate feats.
Police monitored them from their demo, allowed free reign on Luas
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Solidarity message. "Happy St Patricks Day to the undocumented in the US from the undocumented in Ireland" #undocIRL
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Elon Musk
Tristan Tate
Tommy Robinson
Nigel Farage
Your boys took one hell of a beating.
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Sherlock: Debate me
Harris: *silence
Sherlock: Debate me
Harris: *silence*
Sherlock: Debate me
Harris: *silence*
Sherlock: Debate me
Harris: alright
Sherlock: *runs for the hills*
#rtept #8thref #Together4Yes
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No surprise that at least one of those in a gang of men charged wot torturing a woman has shared xenophobic posts on social media.
Thugs.
The accused are Sean Conroy (20) from Silloge Road, Ballymun, Braxton Rice (20), Mark McMahon (54) and Mark Keogh (33) all with addresses at Henrietta House, and Kian Walsh (19) and Jayven Talbot (20) with addresses in Constitution Hill, Dublin 7.
independent.ie/irish-news/cr…
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"We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined to never witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace. The spoils just never seemed to reach us"
Incredibly sad and deepest condolences to friends, family and peers.
RIP Lrya McKee
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Look, racist organisers need militant community responses.
Fuck them out of your pub
Fuck them out if your fitness clubs
Fuck them out if your GAA club
Fuck them out of mass
Fuck them out of the TV studios and radio panels.
Full solidarity with Martin Kenny.
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Evil bigot who lured Catholic mum to her death is behind anti-migrant campaign
Michelle Thompson is the same woman who “laughed’’ after watching tragic Anne Marie Smyth being beaten and strangled to death
m.sundayworld.com/crime/iris…
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"No surrender to the IRA. Fuck the IRA. English to my dying day"
I could be wrong in this but hear me out.
Maybe Brexit wasn't just about fishing rights and GDPR....
#BrexitCelebration
#BrexitParty
#LateLate
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People will get tested for social welfare at the airports so Covid 19 payments can be cut.
But there is no testing of Covid19 at the airports.
Says it all
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All Irish bands have pulled out of SXSW.
It's a no brainer that an Irish minister for arts should not break an Irish artists boycott.
It's akin to breaking a national artist's picket line.
Update: ALL Irish bands have now cancelled their official SXSW performances this week.
That makes 12 Irish & Northern Irish acts to cancel.
nialler9.com/all-irish-bands…
In lieu of the planned Irish showcases, the artists will make a joint statement at the Velveeta Room at 8pm on Thursday 14th and again at the Flamingo Canteena on Friday 15th at 1pm.
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