Cathal Malone
@cathalmalone
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Corkonian-in-exile. Lawyer. Liúdramán. He/him. -He died doing what he loved: surprising tigers.-
Dublin City, Ireland
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Demonstrably false lie. I'm a European immigration lawyer. Deportations happen, daily. Farage is a shuddering cockwomble.
Anybody that comes across the Mediterranean & puts a foot on European soil is allowed to stay. The terroist problem will only get worse.
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I'm a pretty experienced immigration lawyer, but sometimes I still read things and feel like I've been punched. Patel is burning cash to try and send a little girl back to certain FGM. This isn't just inhumane - it's inhuman.
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Hercules went mad, due to the gaslighting of his stepmother, Hera. He murdered his own children, but before he could murder his mortal father, Athena knocked him out, limiting the damage. That's some classical dig by Leo. And Johnson just nodding like a dog.
Irish Taoiseach
@LeoVaradkar
telling Boris Johnson some hard truths about Brexit, to his discomfort.
If only our own government were honest enough also to communicate this clear & blunt reality to the UK public.
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Flew from Milan to Dublin last night - not only was there no medical assessment or temperature checks in Dublin when we landed, but the immigration officers weren't even wearing gloves when checking passports. Business as usual. We're playing with fire. "Couldn't happen here".
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Overheard in a bar in Cork, just one line of a story: "...now remember lads, this is the early nineties, so there he is, freaked out as fuck, furiously thumbing the Yellow Pages for a taxidermist..."
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While the coolest thing about this is obviously the science, the story of how the skull was found and hidden by a man in the 1930s and then revealed to his family on his deathbed in 2018 is also amazing.
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Sunset coming into Dublin Port tonight. Some welcome home!
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Petronella Wyatt must be a more common name then I thought, because this can't be the same person who had a four-year affair with Boris Johnson, about which he lied to both his wife and party leader?
May God forgive Harry and Meghan for causing the Queen so much pain, for I never shall.
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@KateHoeyMP
Not even slightly true. The Irish Government is a co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement. He has a legal duty to protect rights under it.
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The source for this story about how Irish business is "furious" and "bewildered" at Leo over the backstop is... Lord Marland, Tory peer. Couldn't make it up (albeit that they did).
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@WoweeZowee20
@TransTommie
@GalbinusCaeli
@compangus
@jperelli
@sterophonick
No, some Belgian election: They figured it out because the number of votes recorded electronically was higher than the number of votes actually cast, and the difference between paper and electronic was exactly 4096 which is a power of 2 (so one binary bit)
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I said (jokingly) last night that I’d be live-tweeting the factual/historical inaccuracies in the UK Govt’s Brexit Paper on Ireland. (1/n)
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I once got pretty drunk and emailed the Department of Agriculture asking what would happen if I smuggled a mole into Ireland. (There are no moles in Ireland and they were pretty clear that they'd like to keep it that way.)
Please stop dming the government at 1am.
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@TransTommie
@GalbinusCaeli
@compangus
@jperelli
@sterophonick
It flipped an election that one time and everyone thought that the "winner" had somehow hacked the voting system.
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Lads, I read Mort. It just keeps getting better, doesn't it?
I may have made a mistake. Picked up my first Discworld book at the weekend. Read it in a sitting. Got another today; same. This is my life for the next month, isn't it?
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What a stupid, stupid Op-Ed. Can we all please stop tweeting the funny quote and note that apparently Brexit was caused by (1) too many French people in the UK and (2) faceless bureaucrats making regulations in Brussels.
"Conservative and Labour members of Parliament keep voting down one plan after another, looking for the perfect fix, the pain-free exit from the E.U. But there is none, because you can’t fix stupid."
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The Titanic hits the iceberg, and Eamon Ryan is worried that someone's left a tap on in the jacks.
ℹ️ Eamon Ryan mentions the possibility of reducing the exercise limit from 5km to 2km, if the Level 5 restrictions do not sufficiently lower the number of new cases.
#OnTheRecordNT
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I don't know if the Government fully appreciates how flamingly, bitingly angry the entire country is about that fucking golf dinner. We know when we're being had.
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There are only two possible ways that this "story," if accurate, could have hit the papers. One is if Ellie briefed against herself. The other is a deliberate and criminal leak by the Department of Justice. The guards should be working on this come Monday
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The Honourable Ms Justice O'Regan has just made an Order for the attachment (i.e. arrest) of Enoch Burke, who was not in court but is at the school. He's to be brought before the Court at 2pm today.
I understand the case has been listed today before Ms Justice Stack for the purposes of asking that Mr Burke be brought before the High Court to answer for his alleged contempt of court.
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I may have made a mistake. Picked up my first Discworld book at the weekend. Read it in a sitting. Got another today; same. This is my life for the next month, isn't it?
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This is a bit of craic - there's a prize going from the Irish Embassy in Oslo to the Irish person who is the furthest north on the planet and who gets in touch with them on Twitter before Paddy's Day.
We're still looking for our
#NorthStar
- could it be you? Tag yourself
#ArcticIrish
if you think you might be the northernmost Irish person in the world!
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If I were a Green TD who had spoken out against PUP being stopped for people travelling, then been whipped YESTERDAY to defeat a motion to put things right... I'd be pretty pissed to see the Government do a 180° turn on it today. It's not a car crash, it's a pile up on the M50.
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Why does it sound like the East Belfast UVF have hired Deloitte?!
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Am I right in saying that, right now, the old Covid Regulations have expired, and there... are just... no new ones, yet?!
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@wokeotter
@oceanclub
On Capel Street you could, within half an hour and 100 yards, buy a pint, a violin, a massive dildo, a chainsaw, some bimimbap, and a small Mongolian gerbil. It is a truly excellent street.
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Sorry, UK followers. This is the day of the year where Irish Twitter collectively takes the night off and we send tweets that make no sense (possibly objectively). Also, when I say "sorry," I mean "not in the least."
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It's wearily funny that suddenly everyone in England is worrying that the SAS might have had a shoot-to-kill policy in Afghanistan. I mean, we've been trying to tell you about them for a while. Do the Paras next...
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I just got drunk and spent 100 quid on Irish books and I regret nothing. That
#Peig
documentary has a lot to answer for
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If the Greens don't bring down the Government over this, they will have given up their last cent of moral worth.
Front page story of the Irish Mail on Sunday today is... pretty enormous.
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I understand the case has been listed today before Ms Justice Stack for the purposes of asking that Mr Burke be brought before the High Court to answer for his alleged contempt of court.
@d_ruddenwrites
@cozyprincematty
Dave this is my secondary school, yesterday he showed up once again and had to be removed from premises by Gardai
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Apparently an atheist Pakistani client of mine doesn't qualify for asylum because he can exercise "sensible precautions" in the Islamic Republic, such as not telling people he doesn't believe in Allah. This job is exhausting.
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Getting something that foundational wrong is deeply troubling for negotiations ahead. This isn’t mere pedantry. It's the basis of peace(8/n)
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I hate to (again) ask a silly question here but... Without a reasonable belief that an individual person is going to commit a breach of the peace, and with no organised event taking place, what possible power to the guards have to close off a street?!
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*stares in Irish*
Shocking that the United Kingdom, once thought a leader amongst nations, should in a single week signal a desire to flout both international law and to fail to adhere to basic human rights protections. What have we become?
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Honestly, if someone doesn't turn this into a short story
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Look, in fairness to Ruth, say what you like about the 1920s in Ireland, but at least we avoided a Civil War.
What would have been a better solution? An island-wide civil war? Suggestions on a postcard, please. "Partition of Ireland was ‘a terrible mistake’, says Simon Coveney" via
@IrishTimes
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There is so much wrong with this, but the question of how the Departnent of Social Protection are lawfully "getting information from the airports" about where people are flying to is what I want to see answered. And presumably it has to be info on *everyone*? Or a random sample?
Speaking on
#rtetwip
Tánaiste
@LeoVaradkar
says "the Department of Social Protection gets information from the airports and if somebody is not genuinely seeking work or is not living in the country anymore their welfare payments can be stopped".
#rtenews
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Simon Harris saying he'll refuse to appoint the number of judges needed to do justice unless existing judges change work practices is a dangerous game. The judiciary are not civil servants. Management of court lists is part of the administration of justice. Independence required.
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@Calmeilles
@simon_brooke
@igwigg
@marksugruek
@MegaSlippers
@BorderIrish
There are more crossing points at the EU-Northern Ireland border than at the entire Eastern border of the EU.
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@Frondophilus
@shonfaye
AFAIK, most trans people are second generation male and female, too.
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This is *quite* the thread.
Why we are referring a series of transactions involving the Prime Minister's advisor Munira Mirza, Priti Patel and Matt Hancock to the Serious Fraud Office. THREAD.
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The fact that the Brexiteers couldn't make it more than 6 paragraphs into the "Ireland" paper before a mistake that huge is depressing. 10/n
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@katewillett
I'm representing one of those (genuine) polio workers this Friday at an asylum hearing. It's still having very real consequences.
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More crossing points on Northern Irish Border than entire eastern frontier of the EU.
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Utter madness.
So I have obtained a copy of Suella Braverman's guidance on legal risk which you can read here.
Some of the key points that leap out at me.🧵
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He thinks this is a joke.
If I was a lawyer I think all my anxiety dreams would be about supplemental authorities bundles.
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The GFA actually says it’s for “the people of the island of Ireland alone” to determine Northern Ireland’s status. That includes ROI. (4/n)
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"As from today, management have agreed to confine residents to the hotel and grounds" - Sorry, on what *possible* basis? So these people won't be allowed the exercise within 2km that the rest of us are? You can't just "agree" to detain a few hundred people.
Covid-19 outbreak confirmed at the Skellig Star hotel in Kerry used to house asylum seekers | The
@DeptJusticeIRL
hurriedly opened this centre where over 100 asylum seekers share intimate living spaces with no way to observe social distancing.
#COVID19
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And you'd have to wonder what input the Northern Ireland Office had into the document if there's a clanger like that in final draft. (11/11)
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I'm still laughing at this. Evangelical church rents a room above a doctor's surgery and the battle of the signs begins.
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@KateHoeyMP
Under GFA, every person born in Northern Ireland is entitled to Irish passport even if they never step foot in Republic. They're our people.
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@quiatimet
"Peace" appears to be viewed in London as a static destination, rather than a dynamic and volatile process that's ongoing.
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Uh, I know a *small * bit about the judicial review "business model" and, hate to tell ye, but it's caused by bad decisions being made by civil servants. We can't judicially review the sweet summer air.
Very interesting speech by An Bord Pleanála chair Oonagh Buckley today
She said planning law changes will make life “very lucrative” for solicitors who target judicial review cases to make money from the state. She specifically singled out
@FredPLogue
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Of course, we will all think "why can we not do this for refugees from non-white countries" - but it's still heartwarming to see man's humanity to man, for once.
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And Official Sinn Féin merged into Democratic Left which merged into the Labour Party.
Let's not forget - the IRA deliberately placed bombs in bins in shopping areas frequented by children, murdered medics and bombed hospitals, disappeared bodies: all war crimes under the Geneva Convention on war crimes
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The local just delivered a fresh pint of Guinness to the door. We'll weather this storm, yet.
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All they had to do was look at Wikipedia, for the love of God. A first-year politics student would do that much 9/n
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So, they're cutting legal aid for international protection cases again. What's the pay increase of a TD been over the last, say, five years?
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It was on that foundation that the IRA stood down, decommissioned weapons, and turned towards peace. All b/c of “principle of consent”.(7/n)
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When Good Friday Agreement was agreed, it was put to referendum on *both* sides of the Border. Needed approval of both to pass. (5/n)
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The acceptance that the people of the Republic of Ireland had a legitimate interest in NI’s constitutional status was a quantum leap. (6/n)
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Hard to read this without thinking of Seán Binder and co., on trial in Greece this week for the crime of saving people from drowning.
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Cork South Central "cogar" is that Simon loses the seat. Sure that may seem mad. All the same, that's what I'm hearing is even the internal FG view.
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It appears I may have to actually do so. Apparently HMG does not even understand the “principle of consent” in the Good Friday Agm't. (2/n)
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As headlines go, tbf.
A self-styled sex coach who claims to have insider knowledge of Moscow's attempts to meddle in the US election has been charged with prostitution in Thailand
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Oh dear. Somebody at the Guardian thinks that the ECJ sits in Strasbourg.
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3.The UK Paper says the POC means “NI’s constitutional status is a matter for the people of NI alone”. That couldn’t be more wrong. (3/n)
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I presume we're all eyeing the bottle of whiskey with CNN on, and God help 9am tomorrow?
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Hello, and welcome to today's edition of "we're going to create new crimes that are already crimes because we need a headline"
📝Min
@HMcEntee
to make stalking and non-fatal strangulation standalone offences.
◽ Changes aim to create more awareness & reporting of stalking offences
◽ Court orders restraining stalking behaviours without a criminal prosecution to be introduced
👉
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Beethoven, the newest (temporary) addition to the menagerie of madness.
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I am going to scream. The reason they asylum seekers can now apply for a driving licence is because the High Court ruled that they could. The State FOUGHT that case. Now, Roderick is pretending it was his idea all along.
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I cannot wait until a single white male who has been privately educated and lives in Blackrock is left to decide whether a particular phrase would be defamatory in the eyes of ordinary people. Perfect system. Can't go wrong.
“Harris told the Business Post that it was necessary to abolish the use of juries in such cases because unlike a judge, they did not have to outline the rationale for their decision.” If this is the reason surely there’s an alternative to abolishing them?
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(Didn't I tell ye there was further craic. I did, and all.)
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Lads, can we please (even in the context of an election) stop with the "anyone who takes a personal injury case is a fraudster" takes? It's playing right into the hands of the insurance industry, and them alone. Not your friends.
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Patrick Costello TD has won his case against the State regarding CETA ratification - a split Supreme Court has said it would be unconstitutional to ratify without referendum as things stand.
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For any on Irish Twitter looking at the new UK anti-protest Bill and thinking "wtf," bear in mind that: (1) It also includes some really horribly anti-Mincéir and anti-Roma provisions; and (2) those provisions are actually based on an *Irish law that we already have here*.
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We're preparing for a minimum of 80,000. Senior civil servants met with Irish immigration lawyers tonight. I've never seen anything quite like it.
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I cannot stop laughing.
This is one of the funniest pieces of live radio you’ll ever hear. And the animation adds an extra layer.
#Radio
#GerryAnderson
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Your regular reminder that the general insurance companies in Ireland made a 1,318% (one thousand three hundred and eighteen percent) increase in profits in 2017.
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My brother arrived back, drunk and unannounced, from Prague to cast a vote for
@LornaBogue
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I honestly wish I were creative enough to have come up with this myself.
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SORRY but I'm actually going to boil over with rage. They knocked The Sextant for apartments... That they've now decided not to build? So the site is just going to sit there, vacant?
We can turn our city around but we need to start taking back control
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Mr Burke will be in court tomorrow where a decision will be made on whether to commit him to prison for contempt.
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I am begging everyone, PLEASE, to stop trying to fix every social problem by making up new crimes (and then, satisfied, sitting back and deciding the original problem is now "fixed" and can be forgotten about for a while.)
Regrettably, none of the quotes cited from the evidence to the Oireachtas covered by this report are how words work.
>>Online trolling of public figures 'should be considered a hate crime'
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Interesting how this story appears to be getting precisely no coverage in the British press. The House Ways & Means Committee and Pelosi will actively block any US-UK trade deal if Brexit hurts Ireland and the Peace Process. They're literally saying that.
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@gavreilly
@daraobriain
They call it the Garden County due to its rolling jalapeño fields, stretching out as far as the eye can see.
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A single magpie just came up the window and stared straight at me.
@wendylyon
thinks this is funny. Anyway, family flowers only, please.
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@BillyBright55
@SeamasBelfast
What in the actual?! Two million left during the Famine, 1/4 of the population!
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