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A video of the alleged assault aired by Israeli tv, shows soldiers taking a detainee into an area they cordoned off with shields in an apparent attempt to hide their actions. The indictment said the soldiers assaulted the Palestinian prisoner and sodomized him with a knife causing multiple injuries.
BREAKING: The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee.
Starmer doing great PR work for Kneecap, you just love to see it
these guys are all sick in the head.
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Road closures hit Cork city centre Thursday 4–10pm as UK PM Keir Starmer arrives. Plan ahead if travelling near the airport or quays. Link 🔗 with further details in the comments. csalert.ie/QnWDPj
A good if grim piece on the dystopian and authoritarian realities of Dubai. Not in the least bit surprised to learn fleeing influencers have dumped their pets in the city's pounds. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Other seven-figure contributors to the new group, according to a disclosure obtained by The Times, include a smattering of traditional Silicon Valley donors, including the prominent investors John Doerr and Michael Moritz; the Stripe chief executive Patrick Collison, a longtime advocate on housing issues; the crypto founder Chris Larsen; and Eric Schmidt, who ran Google as C.E.O. with Mr. Brin and his co-founder, Larry Page, for many years. Stewart Resnick, a Californian who owns a farming empire that produces oranges, pistachios and POM Wonderful juice, has also contributed. All of the donations were made over the last 16 days. Building a Better California was incorporated as a nonprofit social welfare organization on Jan. 14, according to records with the Secretary of State's office, and an affiliated political action committee made its first disclosure on Wednesday. The paperwork was handled by a Sacramento-based law firm that has decades of experience advising business groups on ballot measure campaigns in California. The firm, Nielsen Merksamer, also filed five initiative proposals last month that could undermine the billionaire tax in different ways if they were to qualify for the November ballot and receive more votes. The measures range from a prohibition on retroactive taxes, which the wealth tax includes, to a narrower definition of residency in California. It is not clear who is behind those measures, and they are not expected to be ready for signature gathering until next month. Nielsen Merksamer declined to comment on the proposals.
Sergey Brin donated $20m to a new political drive (by billionaires) aimed (they say) at solving CA’s housing crisis. Their efforts may also help ward off a wealth tax www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u... NYT meant to say CA billionaires are funding competing ballot measures to confuse voters & avoid tax.
So important to support horticulture in Ireland. We are importaning most of our food and supply is fragile. Shift dependency on imports and fertiliser, back to crop rotation, healthy soils and a basic income for farmers.
Great news. Justice prevails. Free Palestine!
🗣️ “As an Irishman, he should be absolutely ashamed.”
Kneecap rapper Mo Chara has criticised the Taoiseach’s planned St Patrick’s Day visit to the White House to meet Donald Trump.
It comes after judges ruled Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh will not face a new terror trial.
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Trump reiterates threat to cut off trade with Spain:
"No they're not cooperating [with the US] at all - I think Spain has been very bad, very bad. Not good at all. We may cut off trade with Spain... "
reland’s neutrality has been steadily chipped away.
Removing the Triple Lock would weaken a key safeguard that keeps Ireland out of unlawful wars.
In an increasingly dangerous world, we should strengthen our commitment to peace and not dismantle it.
In cased you missed it, here is our opinion piece on the deadly violence across the Middle East in today's Irish Examiner: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
‘Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has condemned the attack..
Tánaiste Simon Harris.. struck a far less forceful tone when asked about the massacre..
preliminary assessment.. has indicated the school was mistakenly targeted due to outdated information.’
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Not these cold echoes.
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Any similar messages from other Western leaders?
Mikaeil leaves his mother for the last time, heading for school at Minab, and to the explosion of a Cruise missile warhead, directed for a country thousands of miles distant, that ends his life.
“You wanted to take things without permission, so you did. It’s wrong. It’s so enragingly wrong. I hope everyone in the world stops using your service. Because a business built on theft is not a business, it’s a scam. “
This is going to be such a great programme, but we really need people to sign up!
Please take a look and consider it or send it on to anyone you think it might be a good fit for.
Let's see why clean energy technologies are so much more energy secure than oil.
A single solar panel (450W) costs about €100, same as a tank of petrol.
How many EV kilometres can the solar panel power compared to the tank of diesel?
Take a guess while I work it out on the back of an envelope.
It came after Iranian media reported staff at a bank in Tehran had been killed in Israeli-American airstrikes.
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — #Iran's joint military command says that banks and financial institutions are now a target in the Middle East.
🚨Backtrack from von der Leyen just now after blowback to her rules-based order speech
"Our unwavering commitment to pursuit of peace, principles of the UN Charter and to international law are as central today as they were at our creation. We will always uphold these principles"
“we were legally obliged to come up with a plan in 2024 for the EU. Rather than bite the bullet on tackling the impediment to developing renewable energy assets we cobbled together some magical thinking about retrofitting and electric vehicles.”
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Lads! I want input on this. I've only recently discovered this is going on. Why is this exempt from Russian sanctions? Who lobbied for this, what members of our political parties are involved? The locals fear the dust is carcinogenic and rising illnesses suggest that is true. WTAF? #SpeirGorm
Interrail Sale now on. Remember it's not just for young people !
#Speirgorm
