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Another day, another FedEx flight due over Irish sovereign airspace with munitions of war for delivery to Nevatim air base in Israel Many of the packages are sent from US military bases – the one below came from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina

Israel’s national airline transported more than 1,300 kilogrammes of guns through Irish territory to Israel last week – despite The Ditch first reporting a month ago that the airline was illegally transporting munitions through the state. ontheditch.com/more-than-a-to…

🚨Breaking🚨 Lawyers acting for campaign group Uplift have given government 14 days “to immediately suspend all military and dual-use trade with Israel along with the use of Irish airspace for the transport of weapons to the IDF”, according to a statement released today

A senior US diplomat warned of ‘consequences’ if the Occupied Territories Bill passed, offering to ‘connect’ the attorney general with DC for 'the best outcome’ Less than 90 minutes later Micheál Martin announced the bill would merely undergo a ‘review’ ontheditch.com/us-ambassador-…

🚨Ex-Fine Gael election candidate Jimmy Cumiskey was jailed today for 18 months over a bogus mortgage scheme The Louth man ran for Fine Gael in the 2009 local elections and was a candidate for cooption to one of its council seats in 2011 and party activist till at least 2014

An open letter from Irish Bloc Berlin to the Irish and German states and European Union condemning Germany’s role in Israel's ongoing onslaught on Gaza. The Ditch has signed this letter. Demands include the enactment of the Occupied Territories Bill. ontheditch.com/authors-activi…

The Ditch condemns yesterday’s arrest and charge of activists at Shannon Airport protesting the unlawful use of Irish sovereign airspace to transport munitions to Israel. The Ditch submitted a complaint to the Garda Ombudsman today.

A general election candidate for Aontú – which criticises government for its failure 'to increase social and affordable housing' – objected to a social housing development near her home because she said it would devalue her property. ontheditch.com/aontu-candidat…

Helen McEntee’s running mate councillor Sharon Tolan proposed a successful motion to rezone land at risk of flooding owned by a friend and former company co-director An Bord Pleanála had ruled the land carried an 'unacceptable risk of flooding'. ontheditch.com/fine-gael-cand…

🚨Minister of state Ossian Smyth confirms US interference with Occupied Bill – and why Fine Gael blocked it 🚨 ‘The Occupied Territories Bill was blocked by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil because the Democratic Party in America asked them to block it.’

🚨Dublin-based ASL has said that both its French and Belgian airlines won't carry munitions to Israel🚨 'Therefore, we can now state "unequivocally and without reservation" that ITAR – (meaning International Traffic in Arms Regulations) – freight is not and will not be carried

The Central Bank of Ireland has claimed it doesn’t have the authority to stop facilitating Israeli bond sales – but failed to consider the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) January ruling that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza. ontheditch.com/we-cant-stop-s…

A senior Housing Agency official suggested engineers downgrade a grant recommendation for a defective Donegal home – after withholding a report that showed severe damage to the home that would have warranted the highest level of redress available. ontheditch.com/withheld-docum…

'There is a very sinister and unethical impulse to what they are doing.’ - Unnamed Fianna Fáil minister 'No one is likely to describe its approach as anything other than aggressively combative.’ - Irish Independent ‘The institutional political contempt for The Ditch.’ -

Comment: 'The ongoing efforts to restrict aid in Dublin stretch back to the Famine and beyond. Then as now authorities respond to poverty first by regulating it, next by moving it indoors and finally by criminalising those who resist.' ontheditch.com/comment-regula…

Fine Gael MEP Regina Doherty claimed in private messages that “Israeli settlements were conducted under international law” and expressed frustration that Hamas had asked the UN to look after Palestinian refugees instead of “their own bloody government”. ontheditch.com/fine-gael-mep-…

The Housing Agency won’t release records to at least 13 homeowners affected by the defective block crisis because the publication of these records, the agency claims, could “endanger the life or safety” of Housing Agency staff. ontheditch.com/housing-agency…

Vault A senior US diplomat warned of ‘consequences’ if the Occupied Territories Bill passed, offering to ‘connect’ the attorney general with DC for ‘best outcome’ Less than 90 minutes later Martin announced the bill would merely undergo a ‘review’ ontheditch.com/us-ambassador-…

The airline the Department of Transport is probing over illegal weapons flights has resumed transporting munitions to Israel through Irish sovereign airspace. The Ditch first reported Challenge Airlines' illegal flights last August – they've recommenced. ontheditch.com/airline-under-…

The Department of Defence has admitted it’s agreed to keep its interactions with lobbyists for international arms manufacturers 'confidential'. Lobby group the Irish Defence and Security Association's members include Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems. ontheditch.com/department-of-…