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The Loneliest Nation in Europe? Ireland as a Case Study, and Implications for Policy
Recently, work conducted by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre demonstrated that Ireland had the highest prevalence of loneliness of all European countries. Given the range of adverse physical and psychological consequences associated with loneliness, it is vital to ask why Ireland is e...
Alliance Party, along with Sinn Féin, will not travel to White House in Washington for St Patrick’s visit
RIP Pat Ingoldsby
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If somebody gets off with someone
at my funeral
and they have a good ride
my living shall not have been in vain
On Gaza, Trump proposing “three blunt war crimes” (ethnic cleansing + annexation + land theft)
How will western Europe benefit by sending more arms?
Kerry businessman jailed for 12 years for importing crystal meth. McDonnell was to be paid €150,000 by the Irish gang to store drugs on his premises and arrange for its export to Australia.
McDonnell was to be paid €150,000 by the Irish gang to store drugs on his premises and arrange for its export to Australia.
Mayo have opted to disband their camogie team, meaning they will not field a senior team in 2025
Man who assaulted Green Party leader Roderic O'Gorman in a homophobic attack avoids jail
The incident on 2 November last happened when the then Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth was canvassing in Blanchardstown.
Sarsfields in mourning after death of former Cork hurler Ray Ryan aged 43. Ray, a member of An Garda Síochana, is a brother of Cork senior hurling manager Pat Ryan.
Ray, a member of An Garda Síochana, is a brother of Cork senior hurling manager Pat Ryan.
you're sunk after that loss to West Ham sorry
I'll give you €7 for it
Mary Lou McDonald’s White House boycott is a sign of a more aggressive Sinn Féin approach
In the North, Sinn Féin has stumbled into a trap; it has been able to hold on to the position of First Minister only by virtue of doing very little with it
Donna Moore is from Belfast, and works as an administrator. It’s a sad fact that Northern Ireland is now being pointed to as a warning on what happens when the wrong legislation is adopted regarding women’s rights. Of course, this presupposes that you regard sex workers as women who deserve to have ...
The Apprentice Boys of Derry are probably the least well known of the Loyalist Orders
TE Lawrence is a Slugger regular from Belfast I have penned a few words regarding the Apprentice Boys of Derry from an Inner City Belfast Loyalist Perspective. They are probably the least well known of the Loyal Orders in the public domain. The full title of the organization is the ‘Associated Club...
Let Ireland go, with God’s blessing and a shake of the hand’, wrote Englishman Jerome K. Jerome in May 1920
Irish Mythology Podcast - Conán's Feast - We continue our series on the Fianna Saga with a series of tales told at a feast by the Fianna’s most surly member: Conán Maol Mac Morna.
Stade Briochin, a fourth-tier club from the Breton town of Saint-Brieuc, pulled off a huge upset in the French Cup on Wednesday by beating top-flight Nice 2-1 in a round that saw two other Ligue 1 clubs…
Recent reports have confirmed that money from Stormont is going to “Israeli” arms. This includes investments in RLC engineering Ltd, Moyola Precision Engineering and Survitec — all of whom have a hand in producing F-35 fighter jets for NATO and the the zionist entity. British Imperialism is a key ba...
The RFA-defenders' only thing is posting mediabiasfactcheck.com over and over again.
Kim Jong Un is a brutal dictator who starves the people of North Korea
Surely they should like him then??
Makes little sense to say he is bad because he "starves the people of North Korea", and therefore throw your support behind the regime that starved 20% of North Koreans in the 1950s and more with ongoing sanctions.
Ó Ramallah go hInis Oírr i gcomhair ceolchoirm ar son na Palaistíne
Life at Home in Ireland's Viking-Age Worlds (lecture, about 1h15m)
Construction work begins at east Belfast Irish language school site. Banners were posted calling for the school to relocate, which police say they are treating as a sectarian hate crime.
It follows the appearance of banners in recent days calling for the school to relocate, which police say they are treating as a sectarian hate crime.
It’s clear Judaism / Muslim conflicts have caused a lot more suffering to Muslims in Palestine for the last 100+ years. But the solution to this conflict will never be violence. Only diplomacy.
The mental model here is "violence and diplomacy are mutually exclusive". In fact, they're very closely connected, almost synonymous.
I’m arguing that such comments can generate hate and divide. You don’t have to agree with me on this, but I at least hope you agree that the solution is not hate, but diplomacy.
Agree here. I grew up in violence and lived through the peace process. It starts out violent, and you win concessions by showing strength, and then negotiate peace. That worked in Ireland in 1998 and almost worked in Palestine in 2000. Violence is the first part of the diplomacy.
When violence is acceptable the weak and marginalized are destroyed.
You're saying that the weak should go to the negotiating table empty-handed, but that won't solve anything for them. They need to stop being weak and start being strong, then diplomacy can start to happen.
The solution to weakness is strength. How can the weak become strong without the Armalite?
The Catholics took up arms in 1968 and came to the negotiating table in 1998. We won some concessions because we showed strength for 31 years, not "empathy". Yasser Arafat understood this: he knew when to use violence and when to negotiate. If you defang yourself as Step One, you make diplomacy impossible.
I only wish the best for Gaza and Israel. And in my opinion the solution is empathy and diplomacy. It’s obviously terribly hard to negotiate and empathize with your abuser. But in my opinion, if this sentiment doesn’t start the conflict will only stop when the weaker side is destroyed. I hope we can respect each other. Bless you.
I admire your values, but you're incorrectly equating "empathy and diplomacy". Diplomacy is more a military matter; empathy has no place in realpolitik.
Emma Groves, a Catholic mother of 11, was blinded in her own home in Belfast by a British soldier on this day in 1971
What's your definition of 'pollute'? I don't really get how the verb 'pollute' can apply to non-biological planets; to me the word means something like 'putting matter in places where is disrupts ecosystems'. I think the book about Gaia has a definition like this too.
Winter has his charms as well.
say the line, bart
100/100 cringe
Donald Trump is philosemitic
