What's happening with asylum claims in Ireland? 🇮🇪

Is there evidence of a spillover from the UK's Rwanda scheme?

What does the data suggest?

(Updated) thread 🧵

There has never been a war in history where 80% of a country has been bombed, 90% of the population displaced, and 40% of the total deaths are children.

These images are not from a post-apocalyptic movie, they are from Gaza, recorded by UN workers.

Credit Daniel Mayakovski

On May 13th I'll be 15 years renting in Tathony House. Always paid rent on time. Yet still facing eviction.

We need to pile the pressure on FF FG with feet on the street on housing!

Bizarre and possibly defamatory email from TCD provost Linda Doyle to the entire student cohort. Clearly designed to produce a chilling effect - hopefully it leads to backlash instead. Students and staff must speak up and ensure TCD does not bring Columbia’s tactics to Ireland.

'A returns agreement'. How have we come to a place where it's perfectly ok to talk about people as though they are packages to be sent back. We cannot allow our humanity to be replaced with this dystopian government speak.

Embarrassing for Trinity College Dublin that they are treating their students and those they've elected to represent him with such disdain.

The students are our universities. Listen to them.

JK Rowling seems unconcerned that, in subordinating everything to the issue of trans exclusion, she risks facilitating reactionary forces that seek to curtail women's rights. Yet two weeks after anti-abortionist Matt Walsh tweeted his joy at the end of Roe v Wade, Rowling 1/2

The nerve of you saying LGBTQ+ when you banned two trans women players from playing the sport they love.
Shame on Irish Rugby for their transphobic policy and shame on Sporting Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ for supporting them. You stand with all of us, or none of us!

wow ... incendiary nonsense from the heart of government, then,

A claim by Minister for Justice Helen McEntee that 80% of asylum seekers are coming into Ireland from Northern Ireland is not based on data, evidence or statistics, Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said rte.ie/news/politics/…

So even the government admit that Helen McEntee TD lied about international protection applicants having come from the UK.

Fine Gael are always happy to blame the problems they create on those who have it the hardest, whether it's the working class or those coming here for protection.

#SocialMovements #research #Ireland :

A day event in MU Sociology for activists and academics researching with and for movements, based around our new Handbook.

Low-key, convivial and comradely!

Deadline for paper proposals is WEDNESDAY:

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Israeli airstrikes over Beit-Hanoun, in Beit-Lahia, Northern Gaza and the residential area in the al-Barazili neighborhood of Rafah 🇵🇸

66 Palestinians have been murdered in the last 24hrs and Israel 🇮🇱 threatens slaughter in Rafah.

Where is The Hague?

What happened here is that RTE Arena told award winning touring Palestinian Poet Rafeef Ziadah, here to perform at literary festivals and in our national theatre, that instead of being featured on their arts show she should try Clare Byrne who would be able to provide 'balance'.

Ah yes, that 'well resourced team of experts' in the Cass Review... someone who presented at a conference in Bhutan calling trans youth 'disturbed' and talking about how to prevent them, someone who met with DeSantis Catholic Med picks, and someone pushing conversion therapy.

BREAKING: Israel is heavily bombing Rafah right now, deliberately targeting civilian homes.

Many dead and injured, and people buried under the rubble.

But we’re supposed to be concerned about students peacefully protesting against genocide rather than the genocide itself?!

Looks like they figured it all out at TERFcon yesterday!

In the midst of all the hullabaloo about how asylum seekers are arriving in Ireland, its important to remember that they ALL have a right to seek international protection here if they choose to do so. 1/4

did you know that Hamas offered to return hostages on October 9th, the Israeli government refused them, and then Biden sent billions in weapons with which they killed over 15,000 Palestinian children?

also the cops he's funding are beating up Jewish students right now. so.