Abiding memory of Prof Louise Richardson is her publicly telling Martin McGuinness - a man from Derry’s Bogside - that the British Army was sent in to defend his community. Took Martin to patiently explain that the Army was sent to defend the State & that he actually lived there.

Irish newspaper columnists who live in leafy South Dublin suburbs: "We need to grow up as a nation and send poor people's children to war"

I was wondering why so many britons were forced to leave the EU and return to the UK post-brexit. So many cheap properties for sale in ES, PO and FR. Turns out their pension doesn't satisfy the 3rd-country nationals minimum earnings threshold! ftadviser.com/pensions/2018/…

Austerity didn’t work during the Great Depression or Great Recession and it’s certainly not working during the Great Inflation!

Jez, they’ve all the big guns!: 67 Pro-NATO attendees, 17 unknown, and only 1 person representing a Pro-Neutrality position..at least 6 attendees having public connections to British spy organisations, and many more..with connections to NATO itself theburkean.ie/articles/2023/…

Al Jazeera's Labour Files has blown a hole in the UK media's Jeremy Corbyn narrative Shocking allegations in the documentary series have been largely ignored by the mainstream UK media middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-lab…

. NATO started as a Nazi enterprise. Nazi Gen Reinhard Gehlen put fellow Nazis into key positions in NATO, and formed NATO as an anti-Russia war machine. Hitler's Chief of Staff was NATO's Chief of Staff. WW2 Nazi Gen Hans Speidel was Supreme Commander of NATO’s ground forces

When you hear about climate-related #heatwaves, #floods or #droughts, remember: In 2022 alone, five oil companies ⁠— ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, and TotalEnergies ⁠— more than doubled their profits to an all-time historic record of $200 billion. visualcapitalist.com/cp/big-oil-pro…

Brigid Laffan I’m assuming that such a post was advertised or at least put out to tender, and given sensitivities involved, that the highest standards of impartiality and probity were adhered to at all times? (As opposed to hand-picking someone to steer things in the desired direction?)

Martin has absolutely brought this upon himself. Would a genuinely representative Citizens' Assembly have been disrupted like this? No.

The interest rate rise to 5 per cent after yesterday’s inflation numbers was inevitable. So, now, is a recession. The root of our dismal inflation performance is stagnant productivity caused by stagnant investment - the collapse of confidence in post -Brexit UK with no strategy.

Prefer not to give oxygen to talent-less loud-mouths but Simon has the measure of empty vessel Bragg…Vive la révolution de Corbyn!

The varying price for some lives at sea…

Jayz now I've seen everything: Right now on @RTEnews we have O'Bribes brutish #IrishWater enforcer, #AlanKelly, condemning RTE, Tubridy and Dee Forbes, when he put the boot into anyprotesters who objected to the attempted handover of all our water rights to their corrupt crony.

Mother of God! Joe Duffy another of RTE’s prime over-paid afternoon circus acts not knowing diddly squat about James Connelly, Irish rebel.

Seven years ago, after the results of the Brexit referendum came through, this young woman was asked to put her thoughts about it on camera. Her eloquent words spoke for so many of us – and her worst fears have tragically come true. #BrexitDay

Of course high interest rates fuel price rises as the bank costs have to be absorbed in price hikes. All at a time when big oil and gas and it’s messy distribution network are allowed to delay passing on lower costs to consumers for months, accelerating inflation.

Hero of the week: Thomas Sankara African socialist leader executed by imperialist France because in 4 years he totally transformed Burkina Faso in a real revolution…