Eilís they/them
@eilymay.bsky.social
Early career researcher. Neurodiversity and criminal justice. Yapping into the void. Sharing passing thoughts on books (mostly fantasy, mostly queer), Formula 1, and, from time to time, law. 🌈
related: ‘UN housing expert warns Irish Government that foreign investors are ‘making housing unaffordable’ here’ www.independent.ie/irish-news/u...
UN housing expert warns Irish Government that foreign investors are ‘making housing unaffordable’ here
Data shows Ireland has 17,482 people in emergency accommodation
independent.ie
I would urge people to recall, as we hear the government justify their choices in the coming budget, that long before the fuel protests, this govermment gave a massive and economically unjustifiable VAT cut to hospitality, which cost more than half of what an additional child benefit payment would
70,000 people dead. Gaza has been razed to the ground. And, Government expects people to be able to access documents. Why are they making the visa process so impossible when colleges have their arms open to welcome these students?
Hon the gays was legit the reaction in the Uí Dhuibhir/Chaoimh household when Diego turned his chalkboard around 🌈
Eilís they/them@eilymay.bsky.social · 2w agoDiego having a secret game plan and winning the prize money is the only hope I have. #TraitorsIRL
Diego having a secret game plan and winning the prize money is the only hope I have. #TraitorsIRL
A choice is before you; who do you believe? Option A: Two women, one a traitor who knows who the other traitor is, the other a faithful who has just been murdered in plain sight. Option B: The guy speculating wildly, but he's one of the lads. .... #TraitorsIRL
Frankie [they/them]@frankiegolucky.bsky.social · 3w agoThey ignored Aoife saying it’s Carla, and now they’re definitely gonna fuck up Janet telling them it’s Pauric and Carla #TraitorsIRL
Losing based on misogyny would fit with the terrible dynamics that have been on display. Janet: He murdered me. Response: But he's a great lad. #TraitorsIRL
Frankie [they/them]@frankiegolucky.bsky.social · 3w agoWatch the lads only listen to the lad, who’s lying, over the woman who’s telling a truth. #TraitorsIRL
Siobhan looks like a stateswoman in a sci fi series. #traitorsirl That headpiece is amazing.
If they don't vote out Pauric O or Carla, they don't deserve to win. #TraitorsIRL
Aideen Blackwood@aideen.bsky.social · 3w agoThey were all slating DJ for being thick yesterday but he’s actually the only one with a clue #traitorsirl
"if there are circumstances where it is considered unsafe for gardaí to remain in a country, how is that assessment reconciled with the decision to return people there?" www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Safety of gardaí abroad part of reason for State chartering return deportation flights
Public Accounts Committee is told more than €3m spent so far under a contract to transport people from Ireland
irishtimes.com
This active state targeting of LGBTQ+ people in Turkey in recent days should be getting a lot more attention: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... There is a petition campaign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.
bbc.co.uk
Janet's voice will haunt me. That's what you get for being nice, eh? #TraitorsIRL
Like, lads, how many signs have to point to Carla before ye will vote her off. #TraitorsIRL
Dónal, I felt for you previously. But, lad, you have completely made up what happened with Kayleigh. This show is a lesson in the fallibility of memory, particularly under pressure. #TraitorsIRL
Even Siobhán looks bored of the kumbaya shite #TraitorsIrl
Lionel Hutz's World Peace Daydream
ALT: Lionel Hutz's World Peace Daydream
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Janet to Diego: 'Your husband won't want to meet me now'. Diego: *awkward laugh #TraitorsIRL
says the guy who championed the change to our constitution taking away the right for people born in ireland to have irish citizenship making a lie of the promise written in our actual passports
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3w agoMichael McDowell: It is not racist to have concerns about economic migrants abusing asylum laws
the transphobic witch hunt against the ALCI is an attack on academic freedom, and the lack of pushback on the politicians and publications driving it is emboldening the Irish right to target other conferences for the heinous crime of treating trans people as human beings
Look, there's a lot to unpack here. But as @frankiegolucky.bsky.social just said to me, the equity over equality slogan misunderstands the word equity. An equitable solution might provide more funding to women's teams to make up for years of underfunding. www.rte.ie/sport/footba...
Minister for Sport wants 'realistic' integration deadline
Minister for Sport Patrick O'Donovan said he wants to see "realistic" and "achievable" deadlines in place for the amalgamation of the GAA, LGFA and Camogie Association.
rte.ie
I don't want to be more in line with the rest of the EU on citizenship. I want us to repeal the fucking 27th Amendement and return to our own tradition of birthright citizenship instead of the jus sanguinis shite that tells people born and reared here they aren't Irish if they have immigrant parents
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 4w agoPlanned changes to Irish citizenship requirements will ensure that new citizens have an “understanding” of the country and its values, the Taoiseach has said. jrnl.ie/7154915
not to be melodramatic, but do people remember what freedom is? liberty? autonomy? I seem to recall a lot of people howling those words about five or six years ago, now we've got Obergruppenführer O'Callaghan saying "I should get to decide how many people there are" and hardly anyone bats an eyelid
The clashes over Drumcree are one of the first political moments I remember. That and the clashes around Holy Cross.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · last mo.The Orange Order has again applied for permission for its controversial Drumcree parade, 28 years after it was banned from doing so
there has been remarkably little interest from the Irish press in the takeover of Mount Melleray by a private American university owned by a billionaire with close ties to Opus Dei that recently experienced a major outbreak of measles and has a statue of Charlie Kirk being embraced by Jesus
The kind of racist pseudoscience advocated for by Cofnas has no more place in the social sciences than flat Eartherism has in geology and the only reason anybody imagines a difference is because of white supremacy tbh.
‘What we are asking the minister for is not complicated. Waive the documentation requirements that cannot realistically meet, and use the discretion his department already has to assess these cases against the exceptional circumstances people are coming from’ www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Why is department acting against Government policy and public wishes on Gaza students?
Last year, 80 Palestinian scholarship students were granted visas. This year, at least half have been refused. What has changed? asks Angie Gough
irishexaminer.com
As someone who got hit by one of these trucks while legally crossing the street in the US, I concur. I still have the visceral memory of being on the road and the gigantic wheel still moving towards me.
Rob@robosullivan.bsky.social · last mo.We need an all-out "war" on these bloody things. Legislate them out of existence. They're killing people, polluting more, and making driving infrastructure more difficult to use. They take up too much space in parking spaces, lanes, petrol station forecourt etc. that were not designed for them.
