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I love this map of places where sycamore gap tree saplings will be planted. They include the Rob Burrow Centre for MND and a plot in memory of a 15 year old girl killed by her ex-boyfriend. They stretch from the Orkneys to Cornwall. By @nationaltrust.bsky.social
Hundreds of thousands of Koreans outside the National Assembly broke out in cheers after the vote passed. People crying, singing, hugging out here, balloons flying, absolute celebration.
Things coming to a head in European Georgia today. The Putin-backed Georgian Dream party will vote to elect a new President. The current President Salome Zurabishvili refuses to leave office until new, fair elections are called.
Here’s my piece on her being Person of the Year for The New European
app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/10/26/v...
🏡 The housing rates cap is to be lifted from £400,000 to £485,000 under proposals by Stormont finance minister Caoimhe Archibald.
🏘️ She also proposes cutting the early payment discount from 4% to 2%.
🗣️ A 10-week public consultation will be launched in January.
Business owners in Moira have been urged to check their properties as the search continues for missing man Philip Porter
www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
“Conor McGregor has been ordered to pay the entire legal costs, estimated around €1.5 million, of Nikita Hand who was awarded almost €250,000 damages after a High Court jury upheld her civil claim”.
BREAKING: The Scottish government is scrapping the two-child benefit cap, setting it apart from Keir Starmer's policy in England
But they say it'll be 2026 before they can start making payments, and it'll need Westminster to go along with it
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
America is *still* counting votes, nearly a month after the election. Trump’s popular vote lead has halved since two days after the vote - it now stands at just 1.47% according to Cook Political Report.
Exit poll 2nd preferences
FF 20
SF 17
FG 20
GP 3
Lab 6
SD 5
PBP 4
AON 3
Ind IRL 3
IND 14
Oth 2
20% of second preference vote goes to FF and FG, with SF at 17%, Exit Poll suggests | Follow #Election24 live updates here rte.ie/b/1483674
Exit poll from the Irish election #GE24
Looks like a government of Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael, with independents and/or some small parties on the center left (Greens, Soc Docs, or Labour). Sinn Féin well up on their local election results earlier this year, but way off the polling heights of last year
However #exitpoll from what I heard was first three preferences only, the dail maths will come down to transfers and that’s what will be the key #ge24
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#GE24
Exit Poll: Irish Times/RTE/Ipsos/TG4/TCD
(MoE ~1.4%)
Sinn Féin 21.1%
Fine Gael 21%
Fianna Fáil 19.5%
Soc Dems 5.8%
Greens 4%
Labour 5%
PBP 3.1%
Aontú 3.6%
Ind Ireland 2.2%
Independents 12.7%
Others 1.9%
Take out shop sign: Wok-a-Moley Noodle and Burrito Bar
I ask you, dear follower: What city can compete with Belfast?
NEW: The percentage of asylum seekers granted leave to remain has dropped from 75% to 52%, government statistics released this morning show
Stats also show a huge spike in decisions at the end of 2023 - coinciding with huge numbers of refugees being made homeless after their claims are decided
Here's how likely asylum seekers are to be granted leave to remain, based on which country they come from
99% approval for cases from Sudan and Syria - but 3% for India and 4% for Albania
From this morning's new immigration stats
📊 RED C POLL 📊
Fianna Fáil - 21% (-)
Sinn Féin - 20% (+2)
Fine Gael - 20% (-2)
Independents - 14% (-1)
Social Democrats - 6% (-)
Labour - 4% (+1)
Ind Ireland - 4% (+1)
Greens - 4% (-)
Aontú – 4% (-1)
PBP - 2% (-)
Read more here - https://buff.ly/4i8N0nR
Figures from @seamusleheny.bsky.social
Ireland Population: 5.38m
Social Housing waiting list = 58,000
NI Population: 1.9m
Social Housing waiting list = 47,000
Tomorrow marks 21 years of Sinn Fein, and the DUP are the largest parties in Northern politics.
2003 Assembly Election saw both overtake the SDLP and UUP, respectively.
Post of Keir saying he will make spiking illegal
Spiking will be made a criminal offence.
The Labour government was elected to take back our streets, central to this mission is making sure women and girls can feel safe at night.
Perpetrators of spiking will feel the full force of the law.
Conor McGregor sexually assaulted woman, jury finds www.bbc.com/news/article...
Putin threatens the West and fires a new hypersonic ballistic missile at Ukraine. Our latest BBC News report from Moscow. Producer @bentavener.bsky.social
NEW: Arrest warrants have been issued for the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence minsiter Yoav Gallant by the International Criminal Court. The warrants are for alleged war crimes.
Another warrant has been issued for the arrest of Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al Masri.
Politics really doesn’t make them like this anymore youtu.be/_nJioyq3We8?...
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Lots of over-the-top coverage right now about the £1m cap on inheritance tax agricultural property relief (APR).
Quick thread:
We simply must change the stigma for men reporting domestic abuse.
More than half of men in NI who suffer domestic abuse from a partner do not disclose it.
More than 70% of the men interviewed by researchers said they had considered suicide and the majority had experienced depression or anxiety.
