Pirate Badshah

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Rum soaked pirate seen around Dublin and on the high seas.

Interests: Marxism, Linux (Debian), cricket (Guerilla Cricket), football (Shels), photography & rum, natuurlijk.

Occasional mangler of Dutch.

Warning: Terrible puns sporadically!

Several Irish football figures write open letter to FAI urging boycott of Israel fixtures https://jrnl.ie/7032176
Several Irish football figures write open letter to FAI urging boycott of Israel fixtures

‘We can’t ignore the humanitarian catastrophe in Palestine, the sheer loss of life there has to take precedence over any sporting consideration,’ says Roberto Lopes.

TheJournal.ie

Independent Ireland councillor denies relationship with disgraced developer in deleted post

An Independent Ireland councillor insists he didn’t have to declare a donation from a disgraced property developer for whom he helped rezone land. 

https://www.ontheditch.com/independent-ireland-councillor-denies/

Independent Ireland denies relationship with developer

He’s since deleted the Facebook post.

The Ditch
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin Calls for Price Caps and Rent Reductions to Make Dublin a City We Can Live In

Director of Elections Paul Murphy calls on RTÉ to ‘Let Eoghan be heard’ in by-election debates. Richard Boyd Barrett repeats call for ‘Vote Left Transfer Left’ pact.

People Before Profit

An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open

https://keepthingsopen.com/
https://keepthingsopen.com/

An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.

Code paid for with public money should, by default, be open to the public.

New Gist: Sunshine and Lollipops

“We should begin with the best possible piece of good news. When you go out of your house and look at the people you encounter all around Ireland the vast majority of them are sounders.”

https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sunshine-and-lollipops/

The Gist: Sunshine and Lollipops

A report released this week was full of good news about people and bad news about political and media institutions. This is the Gist.

The Gist

There will be many who won't go along with pro-war propaganda and they'll lose out on career opportunities as a result.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/03/nato-meets-tv-and-film-makers-causing-concerns-it-seeks-propaganda

#NATO #AntiMilitarism #WGGB #EUpol #UKpol #IEpol

Nato meetings with TV and film-makers prompt claims it is seeking ‘propaganda’

Exclusive: Two ‘intimate conversations’ held with writers, directors and producers, with a third due in June

The Guardian

Master of all he surveys. The sculpture he's sitting is sphere within sphere by Arnaldo Pomodoro, this one, of many apparently, is in Trinity College Dublin.

Olympus OM-D E-M10 | Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8

#SilentSunday #BirdsOfMastodon #TrinityCollegeDublin #Dublin #ArnaldoPomodoro #VintageLens

On 16 April, Mélina Sharp got wind that an ICE deportation flight sat in Shannon Airport to refuel.

She called Ennis Garda station. “I asked, ‘Are you guys going to search it? It’s likely that there are people on it shackled.’”

The officer got “defensive”, she said. He kept asking her how she could possibly know that there was an ICE flight on the runway.

https://www.dublininquirer.com/do-gardai-have-the-power-to-inspect-ice-deportation-flights-that-stop-in-shannon/

Do Gardaí have the power to inspect ICE deportation flights that stop in Shannon?

People in Ireland have been calling the guards and asking them to search these flights from the US to see if everyone on board is being treated okay.

Dublin InQuirer
Colin Sheridan: How American TV and film subtly shapes how we view the world

‘Hollywood’ has long co-operated to portray America as the good guy, writes Colin Sheridan

Irish Examiner

It's not often snooker mesmerises me...

#Snooker