The State will protect itself from any protests, it will protect fencing along the canals, it just says silent on protecting asylum seekers.

And yet, at lightening speed, the criminal justice system managed to arrest, charge and put on trial an Asian woman who held up a satirical placard with coconuts on it. #DianeAbbott #MarieahHussain #CoconutTrial #TwoTierJustice #FrankHester

Obviously there are many different genres of asymmetrical racist coverage but the tonal shift from handwringing, moralism and solemnity when Israelis/Americans are killed to slick, techno savvy “war strategist” when Arabs are killed is something to watch. It’s all just a game now

Swear to god, this will be me.

Ireland has two bands for income tax and ninety-two bands for means testing disability benefit, and I don't know if I can sum up how insulting it is to be a poor person in this country better than that

This is what Chappell Roan has been talking about

Imagine if the exploitation of workers got as much media coverage as the VAT rate

At this stage, we may need to have a special Burke supplement for each paper every week.

The poor turn out at the anti migrant demo earlier would have looked even worse if this guy's inheritance didn't keep him in Temu flegs. Multiple live streamers voicing disappointment with the numbers. Aimless and lackluster.

They know that's not where the Dáil is, right?

One group covered in detail, the other not so much.

It'll turn out that €300k of that bike shelter was to stop any inconvenience to politicians, which will be the end of that matter.

OPW not shy in getting this out once it wasn't their fault.

I keep thinking about Naomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine. Particularly the second to last chapter, where she shows how Israeli elites profit off of constant war and insecurity through weapons and surveillance tech that they test on Palestinian and Lebanese people.

Irish Rail social media team lately.

Sorry but "we are being harassed by Garda in tight jeans" is funnier than any of RTE's comedy outputs in the past decade.

Something really frustrating about the Garda PR offensive around the protest in Dublin and the shrugs from them otherwise.