Ireland has the 5th lowest number of illegal immigrants in the EU

And the number is significantly lower than in 2010

Sitting in the garden on a lovely night listening to Born to Run in the distance. Not a big fan but it sounds like a really great night is being had. #kilkenny #SpringsteenTour2024

I cannot begin to describe the hellish nightmare the Palestinians in Gaza are going through tonight.

Every journalist, every person on ground, everyone with a voice, are saying they have never seen the likes of this night.

The Gaza Strip is quite literally getting annihilated.

A journalist documents multiple Israeli air strikes in Jabalia north of Gaza.

Israel is raining death on Gaza right this minute and this pathetic loathsome excuse for a man is busily voting for them multiple times. They'll bloody win because of him and others like him won't they? That should be the end of Eurovision. #Eurovision2024

Very disappointed with a certain doctor, from whom I expected more, now banging a drum for Israel.

I went off to read this whole speech by Mattie McGrath. It underpins a whole lot of societal and individual problems we have (there's a thread coming). I want to unpick a number of different things and I'm critical of him 1/n

The speech is here kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=20…

We have always had autistic and dyslexic people. I wonder how many of the kids I went to school with who struggled and were labelled bad or stupid or odd fit these categories. Kids who were savagely beaten on occasion and how many of them were profoundly scarred for life 10/n

Found this yoke growing in my garden this morning. Anyone know what it is?

'The two men, who are both Algerian, have been living as International Protection Applicants in Tullow for about seven months.'
m.independent.ie/regionals/carl…

The UN General Assembly voices almost worldwide support for the rights of Palestinian people in their own place.
The European Union on the other hand supports Israel in its gross attacks on Palestinians throughout their homeland.
Ireland solemnly linked its use of military ...

The stock doves were a bit premature in their attempts to take over the #YewView tawny box and this male nearly paid with his life.......
#NatureDrama BBC Springwatch RSPB

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Today's menu in Porto.

My annual collection of new paintings starts rolling out online tomorrow night (Tues May 7 - Sat May 11, 2024). This is what was postponed last Dec for health reasons. Blog post explaining how to follow along: liamdaly.com/2024/05/06/new…

Ireland should invite him to visit, since we're not part of the Schengen area.

The weather has been crap but seemingly it's been exactly the way clematis likes it.

I see there is a moral panic on twitter about some benches in Trinity college being moved. Meanwhile in Gaza every single University has been systematically demolished, while numerous Deans, professors and countless students have been killed and maimed.

Journalists need to ask the question - what missions do you want to send Irish troops to that you cannot currently because of Triple Lock?

They cannot or will not answer that question because they know the answer is unpalatable - US/NATO led missions.

irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

Honestly I'd expect an american to tell me the state they were from. Before the question was even asked it would already be evident to pretty much everyone in every country in Europe that they were american.