I guess "soft touch policing" goes out the window when the target of the alleged arson attack got his tan on a sunbed.

Naturally, the lightly resprayed RUC would have to take the lead of the Metropolitan Police. Oddly enough, they remain entirely uninterested in the festooning of Northern Ireland in loyalist terror iconography, symbols, effigies and similar primitive totems.

Only following 56 people? A discerning person no doubt!

If my wife was Halle Berry she wouldn’t know what cooking and cleaning was, she would think they are things that just happen

'Trot Parrot' username going there for one of ye

"(modern right-wing thing) only happened because (ethnic group, sexual minority or women) went too far with (minor inconvenience) in the 2010s" living in a moment of apparent reactionary hegemony is already pretty grim but do they have to be so fucking whiny about it

far too much airtime for guys walking around in their Big Boy pants trying to argue that the Occupied Territories Bill is purely symbolic and won’t achieve anything, but also such a threat to Israel and the US that our “greatest ally” would destroy the Irish economy in response

Somewhat bemused that someone who called for the NWCI to be defunded because they shared a platform with SF about homelessness and housing, is giving out about Kneecap signing a petition to cancel a far right festival.

It's kind of wild that Bono thinks he can have an epiphany about something that billions of people have already worked out a long time ago, but still present his words as something worth reading.

Unbelievably disingenuous for people like Dan O'Brien to claim they're making an economic argument somehow independent of morality - he's clearly suggesting we should shelve the OTB because of the implications for FDI, which is very much a moral position

One of the sadder things about LLM psychosis is how hollow and rudimentary the messages are. Reveals a desperation for the simulated thing (“love”, validation, guiding purpose) but no real concept of what those mean in real practice, presumably from lack of experience.

They didn’t though! They all moved to South Africa, the US or the Home Counties and never ever ever stopped complaining

There has been a genuinely grim litany of attacks on journalists in Belfast at the hands of police & loyalism in recent years, all without any hint of a whimper from their colleagues in Dublin. Its a big ask to think what happens Al Jezeera will stir any sort of protest

Sounds great I wonder what else they....... Oh.

Perhaps it's time to stop treating this guy, who only gets rolled out onto the Irish airwaves as a wise yank-whisperer by virtue of his happy matrimony with an RTÉ journalist of note, as a sage and disinterested party in matters politic.

I love how in the 1920s the one Indian store in Dublin only took out adverts in the Irish Republican newspaper An Phoblacht Based

It would be welcome if everyone paused for half a second to take stock of the monumental and undeniable fact that life has been severely and monstrously cheapened to a degree that none of us have ever witnessed before.