Reposted by Rob CurleySaoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Like I get what he's saying but Ireland actually mostly exports high value luxury items like dairy and meat and ingredients like milk powder. We actually import most of what people actually eat 1019445
Reposted by Rob CurleyGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government. 29573182312
Reposted by Rob CurleyMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.” zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...zeteo.comTrump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves. 621765727
Reposted by Rob CurleyOmar Baddar @omarbaddar.bsky.social · 03/01/2026W/out congressional authorization or popular support, Trump bombed Venezuela’s capital & kidnapped its president, just weeks after Trump admitted on TV that this is about taking Venezuela’s oil, & after months of theft & murder on the high seas. To call this admin “lawless” is an understatement. 03510
Reposted by Rob CurleySiobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 03/01/2026EU doing the EU thing of saying whatever the US does is fine as long as EU citizens are safe and they can mumble something about the UN. 513135
Reposted by Rob CurleySaoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Fuck the US, the UK, and the EU. 1519
Reposted by Rob CurleyRichard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 03/01/2026It means absolutely nothing to anyone concerned right now but here's what the United Nations says about kidnapping Heads of State. legal.un.org/ilc/texts/in... 917390
Reposted by Rob CurleyRichard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 03/01/2026A note that just because the President of the United States used the word 'captured' doesn't mean news organisations should just use it without attribution... or maybe at all really? 514742
Reposted by Rob CurleyRichard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children. 368125445475
Reposted by Rob CurleyRob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025We're struggling to house people and media are asking elected reps whether we need to cut EU migrants, Visa holders, or international protection seekers. Why isnt the question whether we need to cut vacancy, dereliction, or short-term lets? Property rights trump human rights in Ireland #spéirgorm 0164
Reposted by Rob CurleyJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Naftali Bennett: "The truth is clear. Israel's standing in the United States is collapsing." The country is increasingly viewed as a "pariah state". Perhaps a small glimmer of hope can be gleaned from that stark admission. - Paul Kearns, in Tel Aviv. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...irishexaminer.comTwo years on from the October 7 Hamas terror attack, Israel is a pariah stateEven an end to the war will not alter the diplomatic trajectory that Israel faces, as it stares down the barrel of imminent and meaningful economic sanctions 075
Reposted by Rob CurleyJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025“As friends of Ireland and strong advocates for a close relationship between Ireland and the United States, we write to express our deep concern over Ireland’s one-sided approach to Israel, a vital ally of the United States,” say 23 members of Congress. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... #otbirishtimes.comUS lawmakers intensify warnings to Taoiseach over Occupied Territories BillPoliticians warn of problems for US firms in Ireland if law conflicts with American antiboycott rules 354
Reposted by Rob CurleyRob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Seeing Irish people simp for Humphreys because she'll keep her head down reminds me of that MLK quote "...the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice" #spéirgorm 211225
Reposted by Rob CurleyAuntie O'Grimacey @bubblenoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Wouldn't you be livid after spending all that money on posters? 1255
Reposted by Rob CurleyTopsie (Urocyon Incarcerargenteus) 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 @topsider.bsky.social · 05/10/2025And a delightful humiliation for Micheál Martin, who I hate the way King Cyrus hated the Athenians 1183
Reposted by Rob CurleyAlan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I hear there's a lock-in in Fagan's tonight... #Aras25 081
Reposted by Rob CurleyConor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 05/10/2025Men will literally drop out of a presidential election instead of going to therapy 39712
Reposted by Rob CurleyRob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Humphreys realising she's gotta get by without her little sidekick nowmedia.tenor.coma man in a tuxedo and bow tie smilesAlt: Jason Bateman smiling while looking nervous 0151
Reposted by Rob CurleyDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Oh, and it would be nice if the people who would tweak with our neutrality would be upfront about the reason this has become urgent: Afghanistan fell and everyone saw, America can't and won't win wars alone anymore, other countries need to pay for western hegemony now. 051
Reposted by Rob CurleyDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 05/10/2025I think we protecting neutrality and anti-war diplomacy is right because it's right. I don't think it helps us in our dealings with other countries or means that anyone sees us as an honest broker. I'm sure lots of them think we're smug and rich. But we should do it, even if it's unpopular. 2114
Reposted by Rob CurleyDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 05/10/2025But some other countries don't take our neutrality seriously. Stalin didn't. Most of our EU neighbours, especially the easterly ones, do not. And we do rely on the military assistance of other states in emergencies, like evacuating Irish citizens from Afghanistan. 192
Reposted by Rob CurleyDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Our history has shown us that borders are three problems in a trenchcoat, pretending to be a solution. And it's nice to think that we can bring that experience to the rest of the world in positive ways. 182
Reposted by Rob CurleyDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Furthermore, we grant passports to descendants of citizens because we don't expect anyone to earn their citizenship on the battlefield. We put animals on coins instead of murderers in uniform. We made a poet our first president, not some general. It's not just neutrality, it's being anti-war. 1142
Reposted by Rob CurleyDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Some thoughts Ireland's neutrality: Irish neutrality and non-violence is important, it's a huge part of our history and identity. An anti-conscription movement led to the birth of the State. Replacing the RIC with an unarmed police force was a policy priority. And who could forget the boycott? 1308
Reposted by Rob CurleySimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Of all Jim Gavin’s gaffes, it turns out it was his spare one that took him down. 1120855
Reposted by Rob CurleyRob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Remember folks Ireland operates under the PRSTV system. Payback Rent or Scupper The Vote. 1144
Reposted by Rob CurleyDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2025I’m still thinking about Gavins response to the question on the #womenofhonour -he saw nothing, he knew nothing-and he wants to be President? Can you imagine him responding as our previous presidents have done to issues as national trauma! He’s the see nothing,do nothing candidate #speirgorm #aras25 2629747
Reposted by Rob CurleyDr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Maria Steen starting her campaign by claiming immigrants do not share "our" social or culture values all the more amazing in the context of her exposing an extreme and doctrinaire version of Christianity that is not even shared by most of her fellow Christians in Ireland. 99318
Reposted by Rob CurleyDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Steen is one of the most insidiously awful people this country has ever produced. An empathy free self-regarding fundamentalist who wants to turn Ireland into a theocracy and who loves a microphone almost as much as she loves herself. I’d rather have the idiot fighter in the Áras 69825
Reposted by Rob CurleyDaryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 06/07/2025"...bringing the proposals to Cabinet this week to make apartments more attractive for developers" The housing crisis distilled into one phrase. I bet the phase "low-hanging fruit" was used when James Browne was coming up with this new incentive. www.thejournal.ie/apartment-ch... #IrishPolthejournal.ieHousing Minister looks to reduce minimum apartment size to cut cost of constructionApartment sizes, communal spaces and other areas are part of the raft of measures. 131
Reposted by Rob CurleyDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 29/06/2025The IDF is an organisation. An organisation that is currently enthusiastically engaged in a genocide of an unarmed and imprisoned civilian population. Calling for the death of that organisation would seem to be both reasonable and morally imperative 123655
Reposted by Rob Curleyonion person @junlper.beer · 13/06/2025i think in a few decades we will view what being online has done to certain peoples brains the way we view the effects of lead poisoning on society 1005735702
Reposted by Rob CurleyThe Onion @theonion.com · 13/06/2025Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started 622247125969
Reposted by Rob CurleyEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Israel is intentionally starving millions of *occupied* civilians, and has now set up an 'aid' organisation at which, when people go to try to get food, are repeatedly massacred in huge numbers. It's pure evil. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...aljazeera.comIsraeli gunfire, strikes kill 120 Palestinians in Gaza, many at aid sitesPalestinian death toll in Israel’s genocidal war surpasses 55,000 amid ongoing bombardment and killings at aid sites. 713949
Reposted by Rob CurleyJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Testimony from US contractor: Snipers fire from what used to be a hospital. Bombs and bullets fly all day long in one direction – toward Palestinians. zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...zeteo.comEXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’I thought I was signing up for an aid mission. But what I've witnessed in Gaza is horrific. 084
Reposted by Rob CurleyDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Brian Wilson. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann. 1283
Reposted by Rob CurleyJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Nine EU member states, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Czechia, Croatia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Greece, and Bulgaria remain opposed to even carrying out a 'review' of the EU Israel trade agreement, which says Israel must respect human rights and international law. - Elaine Loughlin @irishexaminer.bsky.social 388
Reposted by Rob CurleyDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 23/05/2025The United States of America has a secret police force like other authoritarian regimes 36533
Rob Curley @robcurley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Excited to announce @frankmcdonald60.bsky.social will be joining us on the panel at tomorrow’s AAI event on The Social Life of Queer Space in Dublin. Tickets still available via Eventbrite at the link below x www.eventbrite.ie/e/aai-panel-... 032
Reposted by Rob CurleyJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 19/05/2025"Our best friends in the world, Senators I know as strong supporters of Israel, warned they cannot support us if images of mass starvation emerge..". - Netanyahu. Quote of the Year. 42015
Rob Curley @robcurley.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Hey pals. I’m hosting this panel on Thursday evening w the AAI on the evolution & experience of Queer Space in Dublin from the mid C20th to today. Speakers incl architects & event organisers. Also a chance to check out @brianteeling.bsky.social ‘s exhibition w GHN! Bígí linn x Tix: bit.ly/4k0YIl7 095
Reposted by Rob CurleyConor O'Carroll @conorocarroll.bsky.social · 15/05/2025What role do Irish companies have in the US deportation industry? @investigates.thejournal.ie found airlines who run flights for ICE have links to several aircraft leasing companies in Ireland. Coming up just after midnight on thejournal.ie 02411
Reposted by Rob CurleyJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025AP: His bank accounts in his home country of the United Kingdom have been blocked. 12270160
Reposted by Rob CurleyFrank McDonald @frankmcdonald60.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Given the unspeakable genocide still going on in Gaza, it was sickening to see Israel chosen by an online vote as the second to get through to Saturday’s Eurovision final and that a country carrying out this mass murder was allowed to take part in the competition as if all of this was “normal”. 0121
Reposted by Rob CurleySheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 15/05/2025If you bomb a hospital filled with patients it's unambiguously a war crime, but if you say there was a known enemy combatant inside at the time, that's still unambiguously a war crime, like seriously, what are we even doing here 8048291123
Reposted by Rob CurleyJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025This is the other Eurovision www.bbc.com/news/live/c1... Sponsored by the EU, US and UK.bbc.com'Children cry from hunger - their mothers have nothing to feed them': Gazans speak to BBCIsrael says it's blocking aid to put pressure on Hamas to release hostages, but aid agencies accuse it of using starvation as a weapon of war. 12918
Reposted by Rob CurleySimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 17/04/2025So, if you see any Britain-fixated Irish politician or columnist suggest that yesterday’s U.K. Supreme Court’s decision should be followed here, you may point out that Ireland’s legal system recognises the CJEU, not the U.K. SC, as its superior court. 218690
Reposted by Rob CurleyIrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 31/03/2025Since Luas Cross City was finished, Dublin's Parnell St is likely one of the worst cases of redundant space for cars. It's an underused dual carriageway in the heart of the city centre with pinch points at both ends. The vast majority of people are pedestrians but footpaths are cramped. 25611