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https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2021/11/01/inside-rtes-hate-speech-lobbying
Inside RTÉ’s Hate Speech Lobbying
Inside RTÉ’s Hate Speech Lobbying
The Burkean
Inside RTÉ’s Hate Speech Lobbying | The Burkean
Control over the public airwaves was a key feature in the Troubles and looks set to play a similar role in the fight against populism in years to come, as RTÉ’s recent submission to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) […]
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The brass neck on Sorcha Pollock championing the right for anyone in the world to move to Ireland while decrying the loss of "Dublin's cultural soul" to accommodate them all in the Irish Times today.
🔗 on twitter
🔗 on twitter
A volunteer at a direct provision centre in Galway says that a video being promoted by a campaign group seeking to abolish the direct provision system is a lie.
The video purports to show an asylum seeker being forced to receive food from a hot counter in a plastic bag.
The tweet from the campaign group accompanying the video read:
"Video from asylum seekers of the dinner being served in plastic bags every day by the chef in Salt Hill DP centre in GALWAY. They complained to the management and was threaten that it will affect their case. The owners of this centre operate a hotel in Dublin too. Shameful!!"
The video was watched 179,000 times on twitter and was covered by thejournal.ie.
The volunteer claims the video is staged and that the "ordinary hard working staff there are hurt about this lie being spread online".
He says an asylum seeker handed a kitchen worker a plastic bag and demanded that his food be placed in it as a takeaway. He subsequently shot a video of the food being placed in the bag.
The video purports to show an asylum seeker being forced to receive food from a hot counter in a plastic bag.
The tweet from the campaign group accompanying the video read:
"Video from asylum seekers of the dinner being served in plastic bags every day by the chef in Salt Hill DP centre in GALWAY. They complained to the management and was threaten that it will affect their case. The owners of this centre operate a hotel in Dublin too. Shameful!!"
The video was watched 179,000 times on twitter and was covered by thejournal.ie.
The volunteer claims the video is staged and that the "ordinary hard working staff there are hurt about this lie being spread online".
He says an asylum seeker handed a kitchen worker a plastic bag and demanded that his food be placed in it as a takeaway. He subsequently shot a video of the food being placed in the bag.
The Journal have updated their report on asylum seekers in Galway being served food in plastic bags without notifying their readers it has been changed. They also deleted their tweet about it.
This is the original.
This is the updated report.
EDIT: A sly second edit 20 days later, lol.
In the original version of their report they had made the decision not to include this quote from the International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS).
>They said IPAS is of the view that “food is not regularly served in plastic bags in any accommodation centre”, but added: “On occasion, residents may request that food items be placed in take-away containers.”
You can check the differences here:
diffchecker.com/tYKU5hYc
(the original is on the left)
This is the original.
This is the updated report.
EDIT: A sly second edit 20 days later, lol.
In the original version of their report they had made the decision not to include this quote from the International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS).
>They said IPAS is of the view that “food is not regularly served in plastic bags in any accommodation centre”, but added: “On occasion, residents may request that food items be placed in take-away containers.”
You can check the differences here:
diffchecker.com/tYKU5hYc
(the original is on the left)
Diffchecker
The Journal: Residents in Direct Provision centre say they are 'served food in plastic bags' - Residents in Direct Provision centre say they are 'served food in plastic bags'
Six complaints have
Six complaints have
Forwarded from The Burkean
https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2021/11/05/boston-mayoral-election-has-diversity-broken-the-back-of-irish-america
Has Multiculturalism Lost Boston for the Irish?
Has Multiculturalism Lost Boston for the Irish?
The Burkean
Boston Mayoral Election: Has Diversity Broken the Back of Irish America? | The Burkean
A glass ceiling was left shattered on the other side of the Atlantic this week with the triumph of Michelle Wu in the Boston Mayoral Election. A second generation Taiwanese American, Wu, who sits pretty on the progressive wing of […]
SIPO Pursing Cllr Seamus Treanor for highlighting migrant facts in his election campaign material.
>Indeed, not only are those claims true, but the facts of them would be welcomed by every NGO active on the migrants rights issue in Ireland. The problem, apparently, is mentioning them.
>But the problem here is that if Councillor Treanor’s leaflet turned voters against migrants, and the facts in his leaflet were true, then the real culprit is not the Councillor, but the authors of an unpopular policy. The position adopted by those who would prosecute the Councillor appears to be that public representatives have a duty to stay silent about unpopular policies. This is nonsense.
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>Indeed, not only are those claims true, but the facts of them would be welcomed by every NGO active on the migrants rights issue in Ireland. The problem, apparently, is mentioning them.
>But the problem here is that if Councillor Treanor’s leaflet turned voters against migrants, and the facts in his leaflet were true, then the real culprit is not the Councillor, but the authors of an unpopular policy. The position adopted by those who would prosecute the Councillor appears to be that public representatives have a duty to stay silent about unpopular policies. This is nonsense.
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Forwarded from Gearóid Murphy
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My 35weeks pregnant wife has been extremely stressed since our maternity hospital earlier this week (Rotunda Dublin) unpdated their website to say husbands would be "requested to provide their covid pass". The hospital and alphabet soup of various National health authorities are in my opinion playing a shell game with this "potential" policy to scare women and their Husbands into getting vaccinated. Absolutely evil. Had a fairly unsatisfactory call today but here it is.
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Varadkar admitting to subscribing to Oliver Cromwell's definition of Irishness.
The community in Finglas West wanted a statue of Kevin Barry but got this monstrosity instead.
🔗 PQuinlanNP
>The central form and choice of materials are to acknowledge women’s contribution to family, community and city life; to create a positive landmark for the neighbourhood; and to create a feeling of ownership and pride in an artwork that celebrates local culture and contributes to a sense of shared identity.
>The new sculpture includes visual references to the artistic and sporting life of the locality; from the Uilleann Piper, Séamus Ennis and contemporary rap artist, Temper-Mental Miss Elayneous
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>The central form and choice of materials are to acknowledge women’s contribution to family, community and city life; to create a positive landmark for the neighbourhood; and to create a feeling of ownership and pride in an artwork that celebrates local culture and contributes to a sense of shared identity.
>The new sculpture includes visual references to the artistic and sporting life of the locality; from the Uilleann Piper, Séamus Ennis and contemporary rap artist, Temper-Mental Miss Elayneous
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You can't get to the root of Dublin's decline without discussing demographic and long term cultural change in the country at large
>Dublin’s problem is a subset of a larger Irish one, namely that the things that have defined us in the past (Catholicism, a type of cultural nationalism) are dead or dying and we have nothing equivalent to replace them with.
>This is normally seen as a good thing by the people currently lamenting Dublin’s decline, for whom our historic identity is an embarrassing anti-modern burden that we are trying to escape. But as with most other countries, the dissolution of an old identity doesn’t mean that we move seamlessly into an equally resonant and unique new one. It just means that we are swallowed up by the default habits of our era, i.e. shopping, extravagant self-expression, legal sanctification of aggrieved micro-identities and patting ourselves on the back for not being old-fashioned. (What I previously defined as Metastasized Liberalism.)
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🔗 twitter.com/fitzfromdublin
>Dublin’s problem is a subset of a larger Irish one, namely that the things that have defined us in the past (Catholicism, a type of cultural nationalism) are dead or dying and we have nothing equivalent to replace them with.
>This is normally seen as a good thing by the people currently lamenting Dublin’s decline, for whom our historic identity is an embarrassing anti-modern burden that we are trying to escape. But as with most other countries, the dissolution of an old identity doesn’t mean that we move seamlessly into an equally resonant and unique new one. It just means that we are swallowed up by the default habits of our era, i.e. shopping, extravagant self-expression, legal sanctification of aggrieved micro-identities and patting ourselves on the back for not being old-fashioned. (What I previously defined as Metastasized Liberalism.)
🔗 fitzfromdublin.substack.com
🔗 twitter.com/fitzfromdublin
Substack
Dublin's Cultural Collapse
Can you talk about the capital's problems without discussing long term cultural and demographic change?
The Irish Times asked the "country’s young adult population what challenges are most important to us in Ireland now, and how might science be able to solve them for a better future."
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🔗 twitter.com/IrishTimes
Forwarded from MEON
https://meonjournal.com/read/dublin-deboonked
MEON investigates the ways in which Dublin City tries to mislead and confound its denizens through lazy misnomers, transparent veneers, mispurposed institutions, and thinly veiled money-grubbing.
MEON investigates the ways in which Dublin City tries to mislead and confound its denizens through lazy misnomers, transparent veneers, mispurposed institutions, and thinly veiled money-grubbing.
MEON
Dublin Deboonked: Top 50 Fake Facts about the Fair City — MEON
Meon investigates the ways in which Dublin City tries to mislead and confound its denizens through lazy misnomers, transparent veneers, mispurposed institutions, and thinly veiled money-grubbing.
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“It is comical to see people march the streets to bemoan the destruction of local night spots when large parts of the inner city are majority non-Irish. If demography has no value then bricks and mortar have no value. Since “Irishness” is relative, it is a continuum of nothingness. Community is planetary. The local is global. We live in a society of strangers. Buildings are just investment opportunities for oligarchs. Home, like homeland, is an outmoded form. People from nowhere belong nowhere. The Dublin that so outrages Una Mullally is the Dublin she deserves. A garrison city of multinational headquarters and rental developments for single people.”
https://nationalparty.ie/the-death-of-the-dublin-you-loved-what-exactly-were-you-expecting/
https://nationalparty.ie/the-death-of-the-dublin-you-loved-what-exactly-were-you-expecting/
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The Death of the Dublin You Loved? What Exactly Were You Expecting? - The National Party
Journalistic opinion pieces decrying Dublin's urban decay, decry the surface of change only: the buildings and the nightlife. They do not concede the depths of change. Their contention is that an authentic Dublin is being lost, but lost to whom? To whom does…
Forwarded from The Burkean
https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2021/11/11/knives-out-for-irish-times-with-tcd-trans-boycott-referendum
Knives out for the Irish Times?
Looking at the upcoming referendum to boycott the paper in TCD,
Knives out for the Irish Times?
Looking at the upcoming referendum to boycott the paper in TCD,
The Burkean
Knives Out for Irish Times with TCD Trans-Boycott Referendum | The Burkean
There’s nothing better than being handed an open goal by your political opponents. And yet, TCD Student Union’s upcoming referendum to boycott the Irish Times presents us all just that. The Trans Lobby Comes for Irish Times Ireland’s trans mafia […]
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A fundraiser from the Kevin Barry Memorial Committee Finglas.
Last year former Lord Mayor Hazel Chu launched a Sculpture Dublin initiative to commission six new sculptures for parks and public spaces across Dublin with a budget of €600,000.
One park selected was Kildonan Park in Finglas.
948 out of 1134 households in the surrounding area of Kildonan Park signed a petition to erect a statue to honour Kevin Barry. 184 were not in, and just two refused.
Sculpture Dublin, Dublin City Council and all local Councilors chose to either ignore or reject this proposal despite having stressed that the local community would have a say in what goes into the park.
Instead, they erected this eyesore.
Kevin Barry Memorial Committee Finglas have consequently decided to fund the Kevin Barry statue that the people of Finglas asked for themselves.
you can donate here:
🔗 gofundme.com
🔗 facebook.com/kevinbarryfinglas
Last year former Lord Mayor Hazel Chu launched a Sculpture Dublin initiative to commission six new sculptures for parks and public spaces across Dublin with a budget of €600,000.
One park selected was Kildonan Park in Finglas.
948 out of 1134 households in the surrounding area of Kildonan Park signed a petition to erect a statue to honour Kevin Barry. 184 were not in, and just two refused.
Sculpture Dublin, Dublin City Council and all local Councilors chose to either ignore or reject this proposal despite having stressed that the local community would have a say in what goes into the park.
Instead, they erected this eyesore.
Kevin Barry Memorial Committee Finglas have consequently decided to fund the Kevin Barry statue that the people of Finglas asked for themselves.
you can donate here:
🔗 gofundme.com
🔗 facebook.com/kevinbarryfinglas
Forwarded from The Burkean
The Burkean
Who is Funding Ireland’s Black Queer Art Scene? | The Burkean
As purveyors of cynical right wing clickbait, The Burkean has taken excessive interest in the nation’s burgeoning black (queer) art scene. From a left-wing microgallery sucking up generous amounts of state funding, to BLM inspired art collectives allegedly…