>This is from the Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill currently going through the Oireachtas. It is ostensibly an anti people-smuggling bill, but includes provisions to allow NGOs to smuggle people into the country legally if it can be deemed "humanitarian assistance".

🔗 JRD0000

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.

🔗 gript

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.

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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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.)

🔗 fitzfromdublin.substack.com
🔗 twitter.com/fitzfromdublin

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."

🔗 twitter.com/IrishTimes

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.

“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://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,

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

>Zinca faced five years behind bars if he breached his ASBO in the UK so moved to Ireland where he continued committing identical crimes.

Just came here looking for a better life #newtotheparish.

>His defence barrister James O’Brien told Trim Circuit Court that Zinca’s family had compensation for his victims.

I bet they've skirts full of cash.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/criminal-dubbed-the-cashpoint-kid-after-europe-wide-crime-spree-jailed-for-atm-theft-in-co-meath-41044629.html

Mountain goat, on the verge of losing it's final fight against an eagle, throws itself down the mountain in a last-ditch attempt to live.

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This video is from an Irish vlogger called Irish Partizan who lives in Belarus. I'm not too familiar with his content but the few clips I viewed left me with the impression that enjoys the absence of globohomogenisation there.

Not wishing to displease his hosts, he is perhaps limited in what he can say about the politics of the nation in general and in particular the current stand-off with migrants amassing at the border of Poland and Lithuania. However, he is perhaps touching on narratives circulating within Belarus and he makes one specific claim I hadn't heard...

You probably remember that in May a Ryanair plane from Greece to Lithuania was diverted so that authorities in Belarus could arrest an activist on board called Roman Protasevich on charges that he had organised mass riots and incited social hatred using the telegram channel @nexta_live which is based in Poland.

In response, the EU placed sanctions on Belarus:

• Belarusian airlines were to be banned from flying in EU airspace and EU airlines were also asked to avoid flying in Belarus airspace.

• The EU Council agreed to target Belarus with unspecified economic sanctions.

So Irish Partizan says the EU had up to this point been paying Belarus "to patrol its borders" in order to prevent migrants crossing into the EU. These payments were cut off as a result of the sanctions.

I've not seen this claim made in any media report so am interested to learn its veracity as the current situation would make more sense.

Irish Partizan takes a 50,000 foot view that ultimately the migrant situation can be blamed on those responsible for the destabilisation of the Middle East (he names the USA and NATO). To some extent that's true, but the migrants are not just coming from the Middle East.

As a journalist for Counter Currents who visited Belarus recently reported, well-dressed Africans smelling of expensive cologne "who look more like soldiers of fortune than refugees" are being allowed to fly into the country on tourist visas too and then shepherded towards the border. This would not be happening without Lukashenko's blessing. You can see footage of them on Poland's border here.

In Lithuania 3,000 new migrants arriving over the Belarussian border were registered in July of this year alone, compared to only 81 in the entire previous year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgLLN1c7WOg

Back up the hill for the winter.

Multiple sources are claiming that a male soldier who is currently serving in Lebanon awoke to discover himself being orally raped by a prominent male member of the Irish Defence Force's LGBT network "Defend With Pride".

The sources indicate that the rapist subsequently had several shades of shite kicked out of him.

There are currently no reports in the media about the incident.

🔗 RichieHayes2