#Defence How some countries do it. Lithuanian President boards a C-27j Spartan transport aircraft to Rome. No expensive hiring of a biz jet here! Tiny Lithuania has 3 Spartans. Ireland? Still waiting........ President of Ireland Micheál Martin

Proud to be part of the Belgium hurling team as we competed in Rd1 of the European Hurling Championship in Maastricht on 3rd May 25.Great day for the club to reach both A&B hurling finals & the camogie team to reach the A final with comhghairdeas to our B-team who won the B-final

Bualadh bos to the Belgium camogie team who reached the A-Final in Rd1 of the European Camogie Championship in Maastricht, Netherlands on 3rd May 2025 but were unlucky not to win it. Next up Rd2 in Zurich, Switzerland, in June.

A significant milestone for the 8th Recruit Platoon of the 7th Infantry Battalion. After months of dedication and hard work, the platoon completed their final march as recruits. military.ie/careers #Careers #Military #bemore #HiringNow

An honour to be part of the Brussels hurling team & well done to our Brussels Camogie team who competed with us in Zürich this weekend in the European hurling championship. Next up Copenhagen in Sept 2025!

Meanwhile: Ireland No air defence systems No military grade radar No navy, really No air force really No military intelligence really No cyberwarfare defence, really No dedicated defence minister really Depends on Nato totally for defence in every way but is "neutral"

Above, the film of The Pianist, which recreates the segregation of Jews in the Nazi ghetto of Warsaw, where they were forbidden to pass through the streets, 1943. Below, the Zionist ghetto in the West Bank, where Palestinians are segregated and forbidden to pass through the

Let's have honest debate on security. Lieutenant Colonel Conor King, Raco General Secretary, writing in todays Irish Examiner in response to a letter published last Saturday. Conor King RACO

🚨Macron is the 1st Western leader to acknowledge that Israel is holding Palestinian hostages (about 10,000 alive & over 680 dead bodies). This is drawing heavy backlash from Tel-Aviv, although Israeli officials repeatedly admit they're holding captives as "bargaining chips"

During WW2 The Nazis confined 400k Polish Jews into a small region of Warsaw and forced them to live in brutal, inhuman conditions. Starvation, dehumanisation. Utter evil. Today, the Jewish state of Israel contains 2 million Palestinian Muslims in Gaza. History repeats.

irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/0… There is just one nurse remaining in Defence Forces following a decision to let the service collapse & replace it with private contractors, despite a 2012 report warning that outsourcing the Service would be prohibitively expensive & less effective. 1/4

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention reminds the world that forced expulsion almost always is part of a genocidal process, undertaken with genocidal aims. It is also a crime against humanity and a war crime. Only under very narrow circumstances, when a population is removed for its own safety

❗️🇪🇺 Amid a genocide, Europeans must know: Israel is the second largest per-capita recipient of EU start-up funding via European Innovation Council EU institutions will have to answer for the ‘innovations’ that have aided Israel’s assault on Gaza. But right now, this program must be stopped.

Honoured to be part of the Brussels hurling team in the Copenhagen hurling tournament this weekend. Roll on the final round in Eindhoven next month.

Congrats to the Brussels camogie team who reached the A finals in Copenhagan this weekend also!

Future Brussels hurlers being introduced to the European Gaelic Games championships!

The whole team.

There are zero stories about this in Western media.

JUST IN: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY VOTE TO END THE GAZA GENOCIDE AND RECOGNIZE PALESTINIAN STATE Voted 142-10 ❌ USA 🇺🇸 ❌ Israel 🇮🇱 ❌ Argentina 🇦🇷 ❌ Hugary 🇭🇺 ❌ Micronesia 🇫🇲 ❌ Nauru 🇳🇷 ❌ Palau 🇵🇼 ❌ Tonga 🇹🇴 ❌ Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 ❌ Paraguay 🇵🇾 ❌ Tonga 🇹🇴

𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙄𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙’𝙨 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝘿𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙮 𝘼𝙙𝙙 𝙐𝙥? Ireland's new Department of Defence and Defence Forces Strategy Statement 2025–2028 sets out welcome ambitions: more troops, some increased capabilities, a revitalised Reserve, and long-overdue