Well now isn't that interesting. Tristan Tate, a fine upstanding member of society...

These are the crimes recorded at #Ballaghaderreen garda station since 2003, you can check them out at the CSO data.cso.ie table CJA07. Wonder what the locals make of it, it appears that recorded crime has reduced from a peak in 2007-2013.

Jo Jo Dullard’s family pleaded with a Fine Gael justice minister more than 25 years ago to help sanction a search of a farm gardaí sealed off yesterday after the arrest of its owner – a deceased ex-Fine Gael politician’s son – on suspicion of her murder. ontheditch.com/son-of-ex-seni…

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…

Grateful to Richard Boyd Barrett for pointing out the heartbreaking parallels in the scapegoating of migrants with the way the Irish were vilified in the UK and elsewhere. It is a betrayal of our own history to give it any oxygen. #rteupfront

Apparently not 🤣🤣🤣

Phillip Dwyer has received only one vote in NewtownMountKennedy. Maybe next time he wont campaign outside IPAS centres.

"The arrests happened when Enoch Burke was involved in a legal dispute before the CoA over transgenderism and his sacking by Wilson’s Hospital" — Wrong: the legal case was not about transgenderism. The Irish Times should take more care in legal reports. irishtimes.com/crime-law/cour…

Amnesty International awards Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif the 2024 Human Rights Defender Award in recognition of his coverage of events in Gaza and his live reports on the suffering of civilians.

#OtD 11 Dec 1981 a Reagan-backed death squad massacred around 1000 people in El Mozote, El Salvador. Prior to being killed, many of the victims were tortured and girls as young as 10 were raped by the US-trained troops stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8281/m…

An Irish state-owned investment fund has a €1.3 million shareholding in Israel Defences Forces-linked Palantir Technologies. It also owns €1.1 million of shares in a controversial Israeli tech firm linked to an IDF spy unit. ontheditch.com/state-owned-in…

Independent Ireland councillor Michael Clarke, who hid his ownership of land with planning permission for six houses, claims he sold the plot 'a number of years ago' – even though it’s still registered in his name. ontheditch.com/independent-ir…

Aaron Joyce was earlier arrested for a violent outburst in a Cork hotel. A regular feature in the more conspiracy laden fringe of the Irish far right, Joyce was recently interviewed by failed election candidates Niall Boylan, before Joyce went off as seen in this video.

'The fabricated story made national and international headlines and unnamed relatives of Ms Wall later gave an interview to a right-wing news website [Gript Media] expressing anger that gardai had asked them to take down the Facebook post.' sundayworld.com/crime/courts/w…

RE that video of the Israeli being shouted and spat at in Dublin: He’s a member of Unit 8200, Israel’s cyberwarfare unit. It was allegedly involved in the pager attacks in Lebanon. It actively spies on Palestinians. He was in his army uniform as recently as a few weeks ago.

Which begs the question: What was he doing on business in Dublin less than three weeks after being in uniform, presumably on active duty?

Far-right activists took part in an anti-immigration protest outside a Co Antrim hotel just hours after accompanying loyalist killer Glen Kane to court. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/ne…

Sligo Rovers, a pillar of the community in the area, and led by their brilliant FSR Officer Jamie Murphy continue to do incredible work for everyone in Sligo. Check out some of their invaluable work here.

We were proud to welcome members of the Indian community to last night's UEFA Conference League qualification match as guests of the club. The guests were invited in response to a recent assault in Tallaght on an Indian national. They were joined by local woman Jennifer Murray,

The Ditch can reveal that Collins Aerospace – targeted today by Palestine Action Éire – was one of the companies whose munitions were illegally transported through Irish airspace to Israel last year Its US operation supplied detonating fuzes directly to the Israeli government ⬇️