'Every evening at 7pm.'
'What do you say to them?'
'I listen.'
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I cannot deal with the Nicola Coughlan “can’t believe she’s 37!” discourse. 37 is young! She looks young because she is young! I swear some of Gen Z think a woman’s face starts to rot and attract a family of maggots by their thirtieth birthday.

It's not that the ICJ Gaza hearings aren't important; but a process that's taking months to run its course, when dozens die every single day, doesn't seem very fit for purpose as a means of responding to potential genocide. What will be left of Gaza when a final judgment issues?

A reminder that the adjective ‘nod-crafty’, from the 17th century, describes someone with the knack of nodding their head with an air of great understanding, when in reality they tuned out ages ago.

I know it’s a crash in the tunnel, but if anyone has updates on the dunkettle / N25 I’d be grateful

Had been aiming to get on the M8 this morning from the N25 but seems the dunkettle is in gridlock *again*. Anybody know what’s happening? The whole city and surrounding area shutting down literally once a week at this stage, it’s beyond a joke. #corktraffic

I wanted to travel sustainably to Bruce tonight.

But…

The last bus home is at 23.00 and the Park & Ride closes at 20.00

😂😂

Cork is aiming to be one of Europe’s first climate neutral cities, I’ve gotta say, the aim is off at the moment.

Bus Éireann Cork City Council

& after my denial, now this: “Rwandan immigration authorities denied entry to Clémentine de Montjoye, a senior researcher in the Africa division at Human Rights Watch, upon arrival at Kigali International Airport, on May 13, 2024” hrw.org/news/2024/05/1…

Daniel Levy in Irish Times Thurs: ‘Europe …has collectively abandoned any shame. Germany has led the way in abandoning norms, values, international law and even the fig leaf of decency in its complicity with Israel’s actions’. The EU led by you. Shameful. Ursula von der Leyen

Ehhh… I don’t think so

3/ The Last Disco will be published by Eriu this August. You can pre-order a copy here: linktr.ee/the.last.disco

2/ ... important story from the 1980s right through to the present day. Following on from Stardust, we draw on powerful personal testimonies, and expert evidence from the inquests, to delve deep into these harrowing events that left families fighting for justice for 43 years.

1/ It's been the greatest privilege of my professional life to speak with the families and friends of those who died in the Stardust fire, and a privilege to be in court to witness they day they got justice. Christine Bohan, Nicky Ryan and I have written a book detailing this...

Delighted to win the Irish Red Cross humanitarian journalism award last night for my reporting in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine.

Oh and the argument that the discrepancy between what different groups receiving is “unfair”. The Ukrainians didn’t create that gulf, the government did. So to rectify the unfairness they will now ensure they’re ALL equally destitute. Grand so.

As for talking about deterrents… they’re not here for the craic. There are regular air raids, power cuts, water outages even in the “safe” parts of Ukraine as the war rages in the east. Are they supposed to go back now?

Jim O’Callaghan being totally disingenuous on Claire Byrne.vast majority of Ukrainians here are women with children who can’t work because they are looking after those children, and who have very little English. They are going to be impoverished purely for political points.

US struggles to meet electricity demand continue: 'One major source of disruption is data centers. The facilities are ballooning in size as people spend more hours online and companies digitize everything from factory processes to fast-food rive-throughs.'
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15,000 pairs of shoes, representing the 15,000 children who have died in Gaza (Haarlem, NL today). There's not much else to say 😢