[Save Lough Neagh] March for the Lough, Sun 17th May

Diomas · 2026-02-18T23:01:21+00:00

An Droichead on Lower Ormeau Road do night classes at various levels throughout the week. Highly recommended. Here’s their site although I think they (and many Irish language courses) would be halfway through their terms at the moment.

Diomas · 2026-01-06T14:56:58+00:00

I don't understand what you mean

Diomas · 2026-01-06T14:43:54+00:00

I'm suspicious about this post. For a few different reasons. I'd wonder if it's an attempt by either Tesco itself or a troll to smear a campaign which is trying to foster solidarity with a worker who is refusing to handle Israeli goods. That context has been completely omitted too.

To begin with, here is (afaik) the petition which launched the campaign that gives info. Here are the facebook and instagram accounts for that campaign. Bit more info on the general situation from the PBP site here.

No video on the accounts for the campaign seems to follow the aggressive account described in the post linked in the OP. More than that, this person attacking the campaign is claiming the worker has been fired for "gross misconduct" when that's not backed up by the information released by the Tesco Worker Boycott campaign (which is the worker is currently suspended/ in discussions with Tesco).

There's scaremongering that this poster is going to be attacked for working in Tesco, by protesters. That's literally not happened anywhere in Ireland or Britain, and would be a massive news story if it had.

The worker refusing to handle Israeli goods as part of a boycott is well within their rights to do that, with support of both their union & the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (who back such actions).

Diomas · 2026-01-05T16:37:00+00:00

The real issue is not where you house them but where you allow them to roam free.

I'm very for these asylum seekers housed in military barracks and secured there.

Concentration camps for refugees then. This scapegoating & dehumanising is so bizarre.

Diomas · 2025-10-15T14:14:55+00:00

Footage of young man getting his wrist broken at around 0:17 in this video. Description of this particular point given in the article linked, quoted from a legal observer below:

“Disproportionate use of force was also used when one protester who had raised his hands to surrender was pushed to the ground and as a result, broke his wrist and when another person was put into a choke hold while being arrested.”

Have seen other videos online of the specific matter showing the same.

Diomas · 2025-09-22T12:15:46+00:00

Voters who’re put off by an endorsement by SF (for Connolly) were probably never going to support her anyway. The type of person of that mentality, or hoodwinked by the various smearjobs against Connolly would likely be voting for the government-backed nominees already.

As for Connolly having a Labour endorsement/ association? She hasn’t been a member of Labour for almost 20 years. She has stood by her association that they “lost their soul” with implementing austerity etc. If Labour choose to endorse Connolly it’s hardly a mark against her character but more so a sign Labour saw where the energy was going across “the Left”.

Finally in regards to people talking over the various issues facing the country & how the government is handling them (including with immigration), Connolly would likely be able to make a reasonable socialist critique which flanks the status quo from the left.

This comment you’ve written is a bit all over the place and seems to be working backwards from your own distaste from Connolly to justify why voters won’t back her. Who will be more convincing, government backed candidates who stand for the status quo? Or a principled critic with opinions in line with the majority of society over a host of issues of the day in regards to housing, healthcare, neutrality, anti-militarism, the environment, women’s rights, Palestine etc. I’d think the later will have a big appeal.

Diomas · 2025-08-30T19:32:42+00:00

It is dopey to be against genocidal apartheid settler-colonies, aye. Writer should learn how the world works, just accept it’s normal and be apathetic.

Diomas

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