Recently, work conducted by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre demonstrated that Ireland had the highest prevalence of loneliness of all European countries. Given the range of adverse physical and psychological consequences associated with loneliness, it is vital to ask why Ireland is e...
Alliance Party, along with Sinn Féin, will not travel to White House in Washington for St Patrick’s visit
More Than I'll Be Doing Anyway
If somebody gets off with someone at my funeral and they have a good ride my living shall not have been in vain
McDonnell was to be paid €150,000 by the Irish gang to store drugs on his premises and arrange for its export to Australia.
Parthiban is a mild-mannered cafe owner who fends off a gang of murderous thugs and gains attention from a drug cartel claiming he was once a part of them.
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The incident on 2 November last happened when the then Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth was canvassing in Blanchardstown.
Ray, a member of An Garda Síochana, is a brother of Cork senior hurling manager Pat Ryan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Still_Turns_the_Pages
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In the North, Sinn Féin has stumbled into a trap; it has been able to hold on to the position of First Minister only by virtue of doing very little with it
TE Lawrence is a Slugger regular from Belfast I have penned a few words regarding the Apprentice Boys of Derry from an Inner City Belfast Loyalist Perspective. They are probably the least well known of the Loyal Orders in the public domain. The full title of the organization is the ‘Associated Club...
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https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=RcVU7DWQmbg
Stade Briochin, a fourth-tier club from the Breton town of Saint-Brieuc, pulled off a huge upset in the French Cup on Wednesday by beating top-flight Nice 2-1 in a round that saw two other Ligue 1 clubs…
The RFA-defenders' only thing is posting mediabiasfactcheck.com over and over again.
Kim Jong Un is a brutal dictator who starves the people of North Korea
Surely they should like him then??
Makes little sense to say he is bad because he "starves the people of North Korea", and therefore throw your support behind the regime that starved 20% of North Koreans in the 1950s and more with ongoing sanctions.
It’s clear Judaism / Muslim conflicts have caused a lot more suffering to Muslims in Palestine for the last 100+ years. But the solution to this conflict will never be violence. Only diplomacy.
The mental model here is "violence and diplomacy are mutually exclusive". In fact, they're very closely connected, almost synonymous.
I’m arguing that such comments can generate hate and divide. You don’t have to agree with me on this, but I at least hope you agree that the solution is not hate, but diplomacy.
Agree here. I grew up in violence and lived through the peace process. It starts out violent, and you win concessions by showing strength, and then negotiate peace. That worked in Ireland in 1998 and almost worked in Palestine in 2000. Violence is the first part of the diplomacy.
When violence is acceptable the weak and marginalized are destroyed.
You're saying that the weak should go to the negotiating table empty-handed, but that won't solve anything for them. They need to stop being weak and start being strong, then diplomacy can start to happen.
The solution to weakness is strength. How can the weak become strong without the Armalite?
The Catholics took up arms in 1968 and came to the negotiating table in 1998. We won some concessions because we showed strength for 31 years, not "empathy". Yasser Arafat understood this: he knew when to use violence and when to negotiate. If you defang yourself as Step One, you make diplomacy impossible.
I only wish the best for Gaza and Israel. And in my opinion the solution is empathy and diplomacy. It’s obviously terribly hard to negotiate and empathize with your abuser. But in my opinion, if this sentiment doesn’t start the conflict will only stop when the weaker side is destroyed. I hope we can respect each other. Bless you.
I admire your values, but you're incorrectly equating "empathy and diplomacy". Diplomacy is more a military matter; empathy has no place in realpolitik.
Slam it to the left If you're having a good time
Shake it to the right If you know that you feel fine
Chicas to the front Ha ha go round
didn't know that was still running
This is good for Ireland in the long run, because it distances us from Atlanticism
one of them wants to deport every immigrant
They both deport the same amounts of immigrants: https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2019/table39 Obama deported more than Trump
a threat to democracy
You just admitted that you don't have democracy two seconds ago. You can't say "I have no choice but to let my rulers commit genocide in my name" and two seconds later say "We have a democracy worth defending"
Is English culture allowed?
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a fun watch. Not a horrifying horror but it fits the theme of spooky season.