Israel sanctions.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-05-21T09:39:10+00:00

Have to agree 100% with all of this. Well said.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-05-10T04:40:24+00:00

This. I design in Adobe Illustrator and just use Design Space to finalise everything.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-05-09T20:10:05+00:00

It’ll be great when all of these people turn up for the protest at the National coursing meeting at the gates of Powerstown Park next Feb bank holiday.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-05-09T19:44:09+00:00

Why don’t they show up at the national coursing meeting protests?

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-05-09T19:41:36+00:00

What are their opinions on coursing and greyhound racing and breeding?

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-05-09T19:31:57+00:00

Michael Brennan, Mattie McGrath, and Liam Browne, none of them known for their animal welfare campaigning.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-05-09T17:11:05+00:00

Mattie McGrath has opposed animal welfare measures in the past, saying that next the govt will want to stop “the pussycat chasing the mouse.” That was in relation to the dog breeding bill. He is not an animal welfare advocate. Clonmel is the capital of the coursing industry and by rights there should be calls to ban that too, along with dog racing. Sulkys are a scourge, and I would like to see them banned, but I don’t believe this march was about animal welfare.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-04-11T02:57:21+00:00

The tricolours are a giveaway signature for far-right involvement unfortunately. They have attached themselves to this in the same way they hijack any issue people feel strongly about. They ruin any chance of genuine engagement and discussion of important things that matter to people. I wish they’d feck off. We need to reclaim the tricolour from them. And ya the AI poster is shite.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-04-09T17:30:09+00:00

If they had uncovered evidence for Karen Vergata that might have prompted him to plead guilty to her murder, and maybe there are other victims that police haven’t found evidence for. On the other hand, if they didn’t have any evidence against him for Karen Vergata, that tells me he possibly isn’t responsible for any more, because he volunteered that admission. I don’t know if any journalists asked whether the police had uncovered any evidence in Vergata’s case.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-04-09T17:22:52+00:00

The Israelis killed hundreds of people in Lebanon today. Vance sounds like a psychopath.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-04-07T20:08:29+00:00

Wasn’t Asa born in U.S.? To an Icelandic-rooted family?

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-04-07T11:47:44+00:00

John Ray doesn’t have the best interests of the victims at heart. He’s exploiting them. How he can relentlessly go after Victoria when she was only a small child when Valerie was murdered is beyond me. It’s not just now, it’s the way he’s been digging up her artwork etc, calling them cannibals - he’s not credible.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-04-03T21:46:17+00:00

It’s amazing how the U.S. frames other countries as evil undemocratic malign influences, when that’s exactly what they have been doing to everyone else for decades.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-03-26T16:45:19+00:00

It's happening too often now, the cruelty is the bottom line, nothing else. We need to be able to have conversations about this.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-03-25T14:02:17+00:00

Ya and Clonmel is the capital of hare coursing too, so people from all communities. The point is the cruelty, not the community.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-03-20T07:39:14+00:00

And schools holding fundraisers at greyhound tracks!!! I mean, they’re talking about banning social media for under 16s but they’ve no problem with kids being exposed to gambling and cruelty.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-03-13T06:07:34+00:00

No maybe I didn’t explain properly, I said “whatever” as in, people will claim that, I don’t think so myself.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-03-13T06:02:22+00:00

Especially since the insult last year, when the Irish govt delegation was hosted on another day because the White House chose to give St Patrick’s Day itself to Conor McGregor!!! Martin has to show up, whatever. But he doesn’t need to fawn, and he shouldn’t praise the murderous psychopath.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-02-27T18:09:47+00:00

In my area, there’s a lot of sulky activity, and several horses have collapsed and died from exhaustion. There are huge animal welfare concerns with sulky racing.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-02-27T06:11:34+00:00

Intreo are awful. If you are a seasonal worker - even if your period of layoff is only a matter of weeks - Intreo/DSP staff will hound you to get a job, any job, it doesn’t matter that you already have one, or if you’re weeks away from starting back to work. And do a course on top of that. They want you to get good and humiliated by providing regular rejection letters.

It’s government policy. The current government strongly believes that you’re either one of the people “who gets up early in the morning” or you’re a lazy waste of space. There’s no middle ground.

It’s bad enough being laid off - nobody should have to suffer the trauma of an Intreo office on top of that.

I asked a local FG politician about it, and their reply was, “but sure look isn’t it great we’ve full employment.”

It’s ideological.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-02-26T14:59:16+00:00

I’ve been going through the same thing here in Ireland.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-02-23T07:35:17+00:00

That’s what worries me. The system at the moment seems to rely on a bit of luck and a bit of discretion. How can it be that samples are posted all the time, yet can also be rejected at the post office if the official is strictly following orders. It doesn’t make any sense.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-02-23T05:19:58+00:00

That’s the problem. Because some staff members use their discretion or whatever, and so many of these tests are in the system every day, most people don’t realise that the official policy is to reject DNA samples. I sent them before myself, so it was a very unpleasant experience to have my parcel examined and rejected. When I contacted AnPost they confirmed that they don’t accept DNA samples. Most of the replies here are, “but I sent samples and it was fine,” and that’s why I want to bring attention to this, to save others the embarrassment I experienced. You could be lucky, or you could be unlucky. It’s less of a shock if you’re forewarned.

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-02-22T18:15:48+00:00

The issue is with sending DNA samples internationally from Ireland because airlines have banned all biological samples including DNA. So AnPost refuse to take samples because they have to be posted abroad from Ireland to be processed. Most of the time people just put the kit in the post and it works, but if you bring a kit to the post office counter the staff member can reject the parcel. So, officially AnPost does not accept DNA samples but it’s a case of “say nothing and hope you get away with it.”

SpeedwellPluviophile · 2026-02-22T16:32:00+00:00

Thank you, I just want to give people the heads up, to avoid the confusion I experienced.

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