Many in Ireland hate militarisation and military-industrial complex. Shame they actually have nothing to say about Ireland aiding Russian military-industrial complex.
Nadia Dobrianska
Nadia Dobrianska
Podcast: the Penal Laws Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the anti-Catholic legislation that defined Irish life from the 1600s up to the 1800s. www.theirishstory.com/2026/06/06/p...
Even the slow predicted phasing out of ARP is more humane - people have time to decide what to do next from next March.
Of all the ways to phase out state contracted accomodation for refugees, if that is the political will, they choose the abrupt ruthless way so that many people are pushed into homelessness or self-deportation or urgent applications for asylum.
Could not agree more.
'... this war is unlikely to end at a negotiating table in Geneva or Istanbul. It will end when the cost of imperial ambition becomes unbearable for the Russian elite and the broader society... [The defeat] must be driven by a collapse of the regime’s capacity to function.'
I shouldn't worry about Ireland's EU presidency more than the Irish public or the government. But this stuff about supporting Russian military industry and planned mass evictions of refugees from state-contracted accomodation this autumn will be huge newsmakers of this EU presidency.
If you don't like what people say about Ireland online with regard to Aughinish Alumina exports to Russia, just wait until 16,000 Ukrainian refugees are ejected into the streets from August with nowhere else to go. Happy EU presidency of Ireland.
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The Irish Story
Nadia Dobrianska
Nadia Dobrianska
Nadia Dobrianska
Thousands of Ukrainian refugees in Ireland could be left without free housing this fall as the government prepares a mass cancellation of the program accommodating Ukrainians in hotels and other prope...
New, interesting (we hope!) episode on the anti-catholic legislation that dominated irish political life from the 1600s to the 1800s, known as the Penal Laws. Enjoy! irishhistoryshow.ie/115-the-pena...
Nadia Dobrianska
Late to this, but extraordinary stuff. So Aughinish Alumina is, say its Russian owners, producing material that's definitely not for the Russian war but also somehow important enough to trigger one of the classic Russian coercive instruments: the weaponisation of energy. www.rte.ie/news/munster...
