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Older,greyer,sorer,hopefully wiser,wise enough to know hope is futile. Coppin the difference between knowing and understanding. "We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.” He/Him/Sé. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
The executive editor at the Irish Daily Mail has refused to comment on the paper’s Facebook page being run from Israel – claiming he “wouldn’t be licensed” to do so
John Lee said he couldn’t say anything about the page’s three account managers in Israel
www.ontheditch.com/irish-daily-...
= facebook.com/photo.l : Carmel O'Connor President and Chairperson Zoological Society of Ireland Dublin Zoo Phoenix Park Dublin 8 24 April 2024 Dear President O'Connor and Members of the Board, I write to you formally in relation to Dublin Zoo's recent Mother's Day promotion and the decision to present a drag performance character as the public face of mother's. Dublin Zoo is operated by the Zoological Society of Ireland, a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. The Society koMs a position of national cultural trost as the operator of one of Ireland's most vlatied family institutions. Coverance responsibitility for that institution ultihstify rests EDirectors of Ireland under your chetrchthsit, it ango chairmanship. Since this matter became public, my office has received a significant number of communications from members of the public expressing anger, disupponitment and genuine offence at the Board. 1. What decision-making process within Dublin Zoo or the Zoological Society of Ireland led to the selection of this performer as the public face of a Mother's Day promotion. 2. Whether the Board itself approved or was consulted regarding the promotion. 3. On what basis Dublin Zoo concluded that a drag performance portraying a satirical "mammy" character represents Irish culture in a manner suitable for a national family institution. 4. Whether the Board considered the likelihood that presenting a theatrical parody of motherhood on Mother's Day would cause offence to many mothers and families. 5. Whether the Zoological Society of Ireland accepts that the promotion has caused genuine offence to members of the public. For that reason, I believe the Board should now address the matter directly and consider whether an apology to those who felt offended by this promotion is warranted. I therefore request a detailed response from the Board addressing the matters raised above . Yours sincercly, Ken O'Flynn TD Dail Eireann Leinster House Dublin 2
Ken O’Flynn TD decided to write to Dublin Zoo to complain about his imagined yank culture war.
Oh boy, I hope for his sake this was AI generated.
(Pic courtesy of @paulmurphy.pbp.ie )
Hang on a minute
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
Just as with their "living with mammy vid", FG are gonna do vids about wearing two jumpers cause you can't afford *heating oil or using less appliances cause **you can't afford the leccy.
*FGFF lack of action allowing price gouging by suppliers
** Of FGFF forcing us to subsidise data centres.
The zoo is in trouble for using a fella in drag in a promotion for their Mother's Day offer.
One of the comments: "if it was a promotion for elephants, would you use an elephant or another animal dressed as an elephant?"
Imagine thinking that thought & typing it out like you're the normal one
Calling in sick for International Women's Boxing Day
Anatomy of a X/Twitter social media frenzy. One infulencer posted incessantly about the "Dublin Zoo Scandal" on Friday, it was picked up by other bad faith actors who ran with it. This is manufactured outrage by people who literally do not have anything better to do with their time than promote hate
You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name
We saw a guy driving today with a baby in his lap and the baby was holding up the guy's phone. My guy beat the system. 'Officer, I'm not on the phone, the baby is.' Cops can't touch him.
Government sources anonymously briefing that "Any criticism of the American government's actions makes the Taoiseach's job harder" kind of gives the game away doesn't it
a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
I created one of the merch tshirts for this fantastic event, check it out if you go!
A confederate flag is the same as a Nazi flag. I don't want to hear any feicin argument about it. And like a Nazi flag it should be treated the same.
Some scumbag neighbour has just started flying a confederate fucking flag in their garden in West fucking Clare...
Last wk in the Dáil, MM lectured Holly Cairns about how Ireland supports the international rules based order, when she asked would the state condemn the illegal war.
President Connolly is stating the obvious, yet FFG can't handle anyone, especially any woman, pointing out their slíbhínism
#IrishPol
Ah yes, will Europe ever forget that chilling night, when a handful of brave Soviet engineers went in to reattach the couple of solar panels that been blown over by a gale?
Everything is awful, gimme your top three favourite animal species (birds/fish/insects/other creatures also allowed)
A week ahead of “serious” Irish journalists asking is it appropriate that President Connolly spoke out against the US-Israeli breaches of international law in lieu of reporting fully on said breaches of international law.
I'm sure that @tg4.bsky.social will be only delighted to be described as subversive.
Or easumhal, b'fhéidir?
Gender critters are specifically anti-woman and no amount of cis women championing anti-trans bigotries will change what is undeniably a misogynists movement.
Trump tweet reading "short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for USA and World safety and Peace. ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY. President DJT"
Prices will go up in the short term but down in the long term? Looks like Trump has been paying attention to successive Irish Housing Ministers
'I ain't draft dodaing. I ain't burning nc flag. I ain't running to Canada. I'm staying right here. (you want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I've been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, out I ain't going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I'|| die right here, right now fighting you, if I want to die You my enemy, not no Chinese, no vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer vhen I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice." -Muhammad Ali in 1967
Over the next few weeks we'll see Micheál Martin's White House visit framed as a very difficult task, something he'll need his wits about him to get through, & one that requires no small amount of seriousness & diplomacy.
When really it's a fascist enabling jaunt he should have rejected outright
Morning, folks.
The March meeting of the Metro District of Limerick Council is this morning at 9:45am.
Hold your excitement: I know it's small. Will be watching it on the web, feel free to follow along.🧵
#CouncilMeetingThread
Attacks leave dead vs killed
Dublin Central Ireland First Candidate Paul Christopher Fitzsimons https://www.facebook.com/reel/1530291728298359 is one of the few 2024 general election candidates to not have his expenses declarations published...? #mastodaoine #speirghorm #iepol
“Greater Israel, in which there will never be an accommodation with the Palestinian people, requires the country to be surrounded by states which are compliant, or disunited and at war with themselves”
~Tommy Sheppard
The National
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The Ryan Report really did it (i was 14) but on a smaller scale, it was the priest of my father’s home parish. Two separate incidents:
1. Used my grandfather’s anniversary mass homily for a homophobic tirade
2. Told my uncle his kidney transplant “wouldn’t take” cause he sensed bad energy from it
Urgh, waking up news the Ian Paisley Jnr is setting up a Turning Point in NI and Erika Kirk is coming over for it.
Another woman was murdered by a man this weekend. I doubt they'll have anything to say about that.