#ireland government

[idontevenknow7878]

This is an official cry for help.

My immediate family are all undecided voters in the upcoming Irish general election, and my extended family are all voting for Aontu or national alliance. I am a queer, biological female that frequently goes to dangerous areas for school, so sadly, the odds of something bad happening to me are higher.

(for those unaware, Aontu and National Alliance are both right-wing pro-life conservative parties)

If I were to be raped and impregnated, I would have nowhere to safely get an abortion if Aontu or National Alliance were to be elected.

If anyone can hear me, please, don’t waste your vote on Aontu or National Alliance, please, for the safety of all the women in Ireland.

I don’t care who you vote for, as long as it’s not the parties mentioned, please.

Realistically, I know they won’t be elected, but even some emotional and mental support would be greatly appreciated.

[nando161mando]

Pro-Israel Twitter is calling for Ireland to be conquered to 'solve the issue of living space' and so they will 'no longer make fun of Israel'.

https://x.com/metaltxt/status/1843746509348843817

[violet-yimlat]

Sign before you reblog. You might think that two reminders is redundant but seriously the notes to signature ratio is ridiculous.

The Irish government is proposing an overhaul to the country’s disability welfare system that will lead to disabled persons being forced into employment.

There is a plan for a three tier system, with the lowest level being forced to take up “places in training and employment programmes, and take up employment opportunities that are appropriate to their capacity and circumstances.” and receiving €220 a week,

the middle “being expected to make reasonable efforts both to engage with Intreo and to take part in training and other programmes appropriate to their circumstances”, and receiving €242.65 a week, and the highest not being required to work, but only receiving €265.30 a week.

With our country’s outrageous cost of living, not even the highest tier of welfare is enough to live off of.

This motion must not be allowed to pass.

https://ilmi.ie/government-publishes-green-paper-on-reform-of-disability-payments-need-to-create-strong-ilmi-response/

This is the full text about the motion

And this is an excellent Summary from TicToc https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJvqtsP6/

I have created a petition against this

Just remember to actually sign it as well as reblogging it please. It takes about two minutes and could help make a big difference. No seriously, if you reblog without signing it doesn’t help at all it literally has 57 signatures.

[tanadrin]

irish politics is ridiculously grandiose when you translate the names of everything

"the Warriors of Destiny have gone into coalition with the Tribe of the Irish again, meaning the Chieftain will retain his position, alongside his Successor," etc. could also do a good who's-on-first style bit with the translation of Sinn Fein ("ourselves")

like god forbid you have a príomh-aire and a leas-príomh-aire like everybody else

[mikkeneko]

If we're all pretty much on board by now with "media consumption is not activism," are we ready to move on yet to the necessary corollary of "failure to consume media is not failure of activism?"

[relaxedstyles]

If only all interviews were in this style ...

[just-ray]

Okay there's this secret hidden left wing party lore in Irish politics in which labour begs social democrats to go into coalition/form an alliance/go to party talks with them and every time socdems outright rejects them and labour is like "😁no worries😁its fine💞love you!💞"

[bluizu]

A list of countries that are against Russian war crimes, that are also against Israeli war crimes!

Ireland

Norway

Thank you for coming!

Edit, 8-11-23: It is with great honor i may add Norway to this list! I would like to thank our brothers to the west for not being idiots.

[ceilidhtransing]

Election masterpost for UK people!

Scottish friends! English friends! Welsh friends! Northern Irish friends! Friends who don't identify as any of those but who are still eligible to vote in a UK general election!

You have until 11.59pm on 18 June to make sure you're registered to vote in the upcoming election on 4 July. Tap here to go to the voter registration website.

You have until 5pm on 19 June to apply for a postal vote. If you live in Scotland, England, or Wales, tap here to apply for a postal vote. If you live in Northern Ireland, tap here.

You have until 5pm on 26 June to apply for a proxy vote. If you live in Scotland, England, or Wales, tap here to apply for a proxy vote. If you live in Northern Ireland, tap here.

You need to bring photo ID to the polling station in order to vote. Find out here which forms of ID are eligible.

Tap here to find the location of your polling station. Polling stations will be open from 7am until 10pm.

Here is one site which will advise you on voting tactically against the Conservatives. That website uses data from the four most recent general elections as well as recent by-elections, polling and local election results, plus historical and local information. Here is a different tactical voting site, which focuses on only the most recent general election results. If your constituency is currently held by a progressive party, that website recommends voting for it; if your constituency is currently Conservative, it recommends voting for the party that came second in the last election.

Be aware that constituency boundaries have changed since 2019 and that the political landscape of the UK has also changed. To make the best of your vote, bear in mind that the most recent general election result may not accurately reflect how your constituency will vote this year. (For example, Labour is predicted to overtake the Liberal Democrats as the main opposition to the Conservatives in many English seats, and is also forecast to take a lot of seats from the SNP in Scotland.) It may be worth comparing information from a variety of sites, as well as recent polling data, to figure out how best to vote. You can use the above sites to find the exact name of your constituency and then visit its Wikipedia page, where there will be detailed results for the 2019 election as well as information on who is standing this year. Wikipedia also has a treasure trove of polling data for the upcoming election, which may give a more accurate and up-to-date snapshot than results from half a decade ago.

And then remember to vote! Set a reminder on your phone, arrange to go to the polling station with friends or family, do whatever it is you need to do to make sure that you don't lose your vote by falling at the final hurdle.

[nando161mando]

[weedle-testaburger]

tbh it's extremely humanising to know someone from a Bad Country (tm) and be reminded that yes there are actually normal people who live there

[dullahandyke]

I try and keep my nose out of American politics bcos I don't know shit about shit but I did just want to shoutout a post abt project 25 that ended on the stinger 'they want me dead', which I couldn't help reading as 'they want me dead' in coy reference to American liberalism's apathy towards its country's homicidal foreign policy which was kind of beautiful in my eyes like wow I'm seeing these fucking takes in the wild not even satire. Taking a picture like I'm on a safari

[georgefairbrother]

This month (April) in 1969, the BBC reported on a surprising by-election result;

“…A 21-year-old woman, Bernadette Devlin, has become Britain’s youngest ever female MP and the third youngest MP ever…Standing as an independent Unity candidate, Miss Devlin wrested the seat of Mid-Ulster in Northern Ireland from the Ulster Unionists…”

She had grown up in a working class family of six children, and both parents had died by the time she was a teenager, forcing her to balance furthering her education while taking care of her younger siblings.

Bogside 1969 (image BBC News)

Having been arrested and subsequently imprisoned for her role in the Battle of the Bogside, violent sectarian protests in Derry in August of that year, she was re-elected at the UK general election in 1970 and served one full term.

Following Bloody Sunday, she (literally) smacked Conservative Home Secretary Reginald Maudling in the face for asserting in the House of Commons that the behaviour of members of the the British Parachute Regiment, (which had killed 14 civilians and wounded at least a further 15 during street protests in Derry), had been justified on the grounds of acting in self-defence. Devlin had personally witness these events.

Having not sought re-election in 1974, she remained active politically, supporting the cause of the hunger strikers in 1981 and standing unsuccessfully for seats in the European Parliament and the Dail Eirreann (Parliament of the Irish Republic).

On January 16th, 1981, the BBC reported:

“…The Northern Ireland civil rights campaigner and former Westminster MP, Bernadette McAliskey (formerly Devlin) has been shot by gunmen who burst into her home…The three men shot Mrs McAliskey, in the chest, arm and thigh as she went to wake up one of her three children. Her husband, Michael, was also shot twice at point blank range…Three men are now being questioned by police. They were arrested by members of the Parachute Regiment, who were on patrol nearby when they heard the shots…The McAliskeys were flown by army helicopter to hospital in Belfast, where their condition is said to be serious, but not life-threatening…”

(Irish news sources claim that the British soldiers were 'watching the home' but did not intervene).

The BBC also reported that Loyalist paramilitaries were going after those who were campaigning for H Block prison reform, in the heightened tensions surrounding hunger strikes over demands for ‘prisoner of war’ status by Republicans in custody. Four campaign activists had been killed to that point.

Bernadette McAliskey continued to advocate for civil rights in Northern Ireland, and for inmates and former inmates of the Maze Prison. She later founded the South Tyrone Empowerment Programme, a community welfare organisation, now listed as a resource on the UK government family support webpage for Northern Ireland, researching and campaigning in areas such as housing, family support, civil rights, and the welfare of migrant workers.

Top image and additional material from the website of herstory.ie