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Billy Linehan retweeted
Can you believe this ?
This Sikh restaurant owner does not serve hallal meat, which is produced by a process of torturing live animals
These 'protesters' are so intent of making him serve meat produced by torturing live animals, that they gather to threaten his wife and his livelihood
But he's not there because the police have just arrested him. For making a joke...
I am being quite serious.
But now, having arrested the joker, the police can't be bothered to send anyone to protect the restaurant from a growing and threatening crowd
Luckily, a private citizen has paid for security, which helps to deter the protesters from doing actual damage. They have to be satisfied with merely
frightening people
Eventually the police do manage to turn up in small numbers. They stand next to the security team for safety
Because, by then, the security team has quietened things down
In other words, they've done the police's job
This is Britain in 2026, under a Labour government
Billy Linehan retweeted
He says this from a position of grotesquely privileged ignorance - he should be silent until he's read Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago and Ai-wei Wei's 10,000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Very revealing interview of Hasan Piker by Ezra Klein. Revealing about both of them. Very long, and at the end when asked to recommend books, one about Mao is praised for not demonizing him, the other is sympathetic to USSR & communist governance. Ugh. nytimes.com/2026/11/13/opini…
Billy Linehan retweeted
Misinformation is from the Triple Lockers - will Russia, China and US continue to decide on deployment of our Defence Forces?
Billy Linehan retweeted
Now do you understand why I stood in the German Parliament and said the United Nations is becoming a club for dictators?
Then 144 countries vote to put the Islamic Republic on a committee reviewing those very programs.
A regime that brutalizes women, executes dissidents, and sponsors terrorism.
What’s next? The Taliban overseeing girls’ education?
At this point, the UN isn’t just failing to expose hypocrisy. It’s institutionalizing it.
Billy Linehan retweeted
After #EPC, I went back to my beloved Roscrea, County Tipperary, to see my Irish 🇮🇪 family, the Deanes.
I first came here some 30 years ago as a Chornobyl kid. Henry and Marian welcomed me as one of their own.
Those summers shaped who I am and my European identity.
Billy Linehan retweeted
The informal European summit in Dublin has concluded.
Under the decision adopted unanimously, the leaders of the EU institutions and five countries (Poland, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany and France) will represent Europe at the Ukrainian-Russian peace talks.
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@PearseDoherty disgraces himself here. All @sinnfeinireland parroting about peace & self determination is just hypocritical. Ukraine has no right to defend its sovereignty according to the sovereignty maestros. Not only disgraceful but deeply ignorant. Not fit for office
At a time when people are being crushed by the cost of living, and after a budget that left ordinary workers behind, this government wants Ireland and the EU to commit billions to Ukraine to weapons of war.
That money would be far better invested in public services and improving people’s lives - not in escalating war or undermining Irish neutrality.
Billy Linehan retweeted
Highlights from today’s Informal Meeting of EU Heads of State or Government, hosted by Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD in Dublin
Buaicphointí ó Chruinniú Neamhfhoirmiúil an lae inniu de Chinn Stáit nó Rialtais an Aontais, arna óstáil ag an Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD
Billy Linehan retweeted
If I were you, I would draw attention to my crass ignorance...first, there was no letter. Second, before the war, Devalera was clear that he would not force the North into a united Ireland without consent. (P.S. It wasn't Churchill's to give)
Billy Linehan retweeted
We count on a truly large-scale prisoner exchange, and we take very seriously the wording our American partners are using: that this should be the largest exchange of this war. More than a thousand people from each side. This is extremely sensitive for many Ukrainian families. And right now, the teams, the special services, the intelligence agencies – the Coordination Headquarters – all are working to make the exchange happen. I expect a report on the details of the preparations shortly.
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Remembering Sergey Magnitsky, killed by the Putin regime in Russia, at the 2026 Magnitsky Awards organised by @Billbrowder with activists and journalists fighting regimes and corruption across the world
Billy Linehan retweeted
For a yr, these ceasefire violations have been daily. But in days since 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 elections, this is 2nd
@BoardOfPeace statement pushing back. That aligns w/most US midterm voters.
Per new @allmep GroundView poll... 1/2
Billy Linehan retweeted
Daphne Caruana Galizia and her three sons have been featured on the cover of prestigious French publication M Le magazine du Monde, nine years after the journalist’s assassination.
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#LovinMalta #Malta
Billy Linehan retweeted
"We as Europe have to grow some bigger balls."
Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs has called for a tougher European stance against Russia while speaking at the European Political Community summit in Dublin this morning.
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Billy Linehan retweeted
Wild that it also consumes nearly 15% of Irelands entire daily gas usage
There's been great work done to get this news out but we realistically need alumina on the EU sanctions list for anything material to happen
Like it's too important for that local economy for the Irish government to act on its own tbh
Really shameful stuff from the Irish government.
A Russian-owned plant in southern Ireland is Europe’s biggest alumina refinery and regularly sends shiploads of the substance directly to St. Petersburg and other Russian ports.
There's evidence that its being used for weapons deployed against Ukraine.
European leaders are pressing Ireland to make it stop.
Meanwhile, the Irish government refuses to even acknowledge it, with Irish Government Minister Niall Collins saying "there’s absolutely no evidence" the material is ending up in military supply chains. The Irish government has declined to make public the findings of its investigation into the alumina shipments.
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I held a coordination call on the situation in the regions. There were detailed reports on the consequences of the strikes on the Sumy region and recovery efforts in Shostka and Konotop. There were also reports on the Kyiv region – Bila Tserkva, Brovary, and other cities. The pace of recovery work is far too slow, and, unfortunately, inaccurate information was reported from several cities. We determined how to address this. The Ministry of Energy, together with the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Ministry for Communities, must prepare additional mechanisms for cooperation with cities and communities to speed up recovery. We separately discussed with the Prime Minister of Ukraine the restoration of the buildings of the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics in Kyiv, which were damaged by a Russian “shahed.” The Minister of Energy reported on the protection of transformers and other equipment in the energy system.
Ukraine’s Minister of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces reported on communication with the American side regarding Starshield speed issues. Unfortunately, the speed limit of 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour) for our forces remains in place along the entire front line and in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories. This makes it impossible, in particular, to use interceptors against jet-powered “shaheds.” We still have no clear explanations. I instructed Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense to step up contacts with the U.S. Department of State, the Pentagon, and SpaceX to obtain clarification and resolve the situation.
Instructions were also given to the Commander of the Air Force, the Prime Minister, and the Minister of Agrarian Policy regarding the provision of air defense assets and the reorganization of mobile fire group operations to protect designated agricultural industry facilities. We are now preparing new defense packages for Ukraine. Thank you to everyone who is helping! Thank you to everyone who is working truly swiftly.
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