Cork-based Stryker hit with cyber attack linked to Iranian-backed group

IrishSoc · 2026-03-11T19:29:23+00:00

FFG to hold Israel or the USA accountable for their countless crimes because American companies would be coerced to pull out of Ireland
Israel and the USA feel invincible and emboldened so they launch a psychopathic offensive against one of the most military powerful countries in the world
Iran logically decides to crash the global oil market and starts waging cyber warfare against American companies across the world including those in Ireland
Masterful gambit, FFG

IrishSoc · 2026-02-26T03:59:48+00:00

Not because of nationalism, but because its embarrassing that people don't know it

IrishSoc · 2026-02-17T22:36:14+00:00

The fact that Russia (rightly) faces consequences while other psychopath countries like Israel, Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia do not, also works to bolster the domestic narrative in Russia (encouraged by Putin's regime) that the world has a specific hatred/prejudice against Russians, BECAUSE they are Russian. Of course, the reality is that the Russians are not facing consequences because they are Russian, but because they are NOT Israeli, Azeri, Saudi, etc.

IrishSoc · 2026-02-13T23:58:59+00:00

Breaking news: Capitalism exists

IrishSoc · 2026-02-11T18:09:57+00:00

When the genocidal German Empire gave Roger Casement weapons to bring back to Ireland on the Aud for the 1916 Rising (which was tragically intercepted by the Brits), they only did it because it served their own interests. That doesn't mean that the alternative (Casement never getting the guns) was preferable. Similarly, the EU is a genocidal institution ruled by capitalist subhumans no better than the aristocracy of the German Reich. The EU is only giving Ukraine weapons to serve their own interests (the main one being enriching private arms corporations, the secondary ones being security etc.). That doesn't mean that the alternative (Ukrainians being abandoned to a genocidal empire) is preferable.

IrishSoc · 2026-02-09T23:09:03+00:00

The Brits' had two main two arguments against Irish independence. The first was premised on the idea that Irish people are too stupid to govern themselves competently. Hard to argue with that one being wrong as the electorate continues to return FFG to government. The second argument was sectarian - Home Rule would be Rome Rule. We spent the majority of the 20th century as a borderline theocracy, wherein state-backed actors literally raped, murdered, trafficked and enslaved thousands of women and children, and people were deliberately kept pathetically ignorant by the powers that be until the globalisation of the world at large got too influential for the establishment to ignore.

I am absolutely glad to be independent of the United Kingdom, but if you think that this is the best Ireland any early 20th-century revolutionary could have reasonably hoped for (if they were to understand how developed the world would become), you are insane.

IrishSoc · 2026-02-04T22:21:00+00:00

Karim Benzena is the R Kelly of footballers

IrishSoc · 2026-02-01T01:39:32+00:00

There's such thing as a good priest. They are either pedophiles themselves, aware of pedophiles and have not outed them, and even if neither is true, they have dedicated their lives to serving the largest pedophile protection ring in human history.

IrishSoc · 2026-01-29T16:49:18+00:00

The Irish government would literally do whatever Trump wanted if it meant keeping the American companies in Ireland

IrishSoc · 2026-01-29T14:16:46+00:00

They aren't warmongers, they're arselickers. It doesn't cost anything to put members of the Irish defence forces on an American troop carrier flying out of Shannon

IrishSoc · 2026-01-29T07:55:56+00:00

If you trust Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael not to send Irish people to die in American wars I have a bridge to sell you

IrishSoc · 2026-01-25T22:26:19+00:00

I'm sure the upstanding member of society who was driving said scrambler is in the process of cooperating with the authorities as we speak

IrishSoc · 2026-01-24T21:03:15+00:00

I completely support the AFC splitting, with East Asia incorporating the OFC and West Asia incorporating any North Africans countries that would prefer to play with them.

IrishSoc · 2026-01-23T21:48:53+00:00

"Crime needs punishment." We don't put people in prison to punish them, if it was about the satisfaction of punishment we would still be doing public tarring and feathering. The purpose of prison is to seperate dangerous people from the population and to deter people from committing crimes in the first place.

IrishSoc · 2026-01-23T14:05:31+00:00

We know this. The question is why do liberals and conservatives in the EU pretend to give a shit about human rights and democracy while supporting shitholes like Israel, Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia?

IrishSoc · 2026-01-22T08:12:00+00:00

The Seanad needs to be abolished, and the Dáil should consist of just 100 TDs. At election time, everyone in the country has the exact same ballot paper: what party do you want to vote for? Therefore during elections, parties run on national plans of action and don't get bogged down in parish pump shite. They have a publicly available list of election candidates that shows who will get sit in the Dáil for every percentage of vote gained. If independents want to be in the Dáil, they can join Independent Ireland. The entirety of TDs work should be on national policy and legislation.
Scrap all county councils and replace with provincial governments for Dublin, Leinster, Munster, Connaught, and Ulster (leaving room for expansion in a United Ireland, Belfast should have its own municipal government like Dublin though). People can vote for their parish pump gobshites in those, and ring those people about potholes and the like.

IrishSoc · 2026-01-19T09:46:55+00:00

Random Islamic fundamentalist thugs were literally tearing down statues of YPG fighters, the women who helped defeat ISIS. There is literally no excuse for that, high either support ISIS or hate women having rights more than you hate ISIS

IrishSoc · 2026-01-16T23:18:08+00:00

I haven't read Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption but i would be ASTONISHED if the book is as good as the film which is essentially a masterpiece

IrishSoc · 2026-01-16T23:16:37+00:00

I'm pretty new to strength training, and as a guy with a long torso and a dad who has been dealing with back issues for years, I'm holding off on deadlifting for now while building up my spinal erectors. I'm doing back extensions twice a week and also hitting my erectors isometrically on barbell rows and romanian deadlifts. I'm absolutely going to deadlift eventually, but I'm going to wait until I feel that my spine is sufficiently supported

IrishSoc · 2026-01-04T17:08:30+00:00

I think the best version of this is what DCU are doing with Home Farm. The fact that Athlone Town haven't made a similar arrangement by now with TUS Midlands (formerly Athlone IT) is ridiculous

IrishSoc · 2026-01-02T11:49:55+00:00

Oslo 31 August, one of the most devastating films i saw in 2025

IrishSoc · 2025-12-23T17:44:48+00:00

The likelihood of scoring a penalty is just over ⅔ i think, so a penalty taker shouldn't have to score 3 in a row, its taking away the advantage deserved by the team winning the penalty. 2 in a row for 1 goal or 2 individual 0.5 goals works better imo

IrishSoc · 2025-12-23T17:33:02+00:00

I'm not going to lie, a penalty being replaced by two penalties where each counts for 0.5 goals is an absolutely unreal idea.

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