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"It's the only capital city airport in Western Europe that has no metro or rail link."
WATCH: RTÉ News reports #OnThisDay in 2005 rte.ie/b/1539745
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Ireland in WW2 - the declassified files
Ireland declared neutrality at the outbreak of WW2
Agendas in Britain and America sought to discredit Ireland, twisting truth
Declassification revealed their secrets
Here are 3 key documents, with links
What do they tell us? (1)
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"Londoners keep dying because Churchill refuses to make peace.
If he stopped asking for aid and stopped insulting Hitler, the bombs would stop falling."
— @elonmusk, 1940 (probably)
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Newsnight analyse why Rishi Sunak left the D-Day commemorations early, and it's not pretty
Nicholas Watt, "D-Day 1984 Margaret Thatcher was there. 1994 John Major was there. 2004 Tony Blair was there. This afternoon Rishi Sunak was there but then he wasn't there"
"We have the world leaders at D-Day with Macron, Scholz and Biden - we don't have Rishi Sunak"
"And who is meeting Zelenskyy? That would be Keir Starmer"
"Why was Rishi Sunak not there? Paul Brand confirmed that Rishi Sunak came back to do an interview with him to say that he wasn't a liar"
Kirsty Wark, "The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came back from the D-Day commemeration to do an interview to try and clear his name"
Tim Montgomerie, "I don't understand it.. If he came back for a political interview, from the D Day commemorations, that is indefensible"
"I rang all of the contacts I could in Downing Street and I got no response. I don't think they know how to defend what happened"
"It's extraordinary that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, it's political malpractice of the highest order"
Kirsty Wark, "It's not Prime Ministerial, is it?"
Tim Montgomerie, "It's not dignified"
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They haven’t fixed it in Northern Ireland after 17 years leading the Govt. What makes you think they’ll fix it in Ireland.
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No, this photo is not Ukraine. This Is Chechnya. In 1999, the capital Grozny was destroyed by the Russians. But 3 years earlier, Russia signed a peace treaty with the Chechens. They had lost the war and needed a pause. Only to go back and kill up to 300,000 Chechens, 25% of the entire small but proud nation that wanted freedom.
This is how peace talks with Russia always end. That is why Ukraine does not want them until they leave our land. That's why we're asking for guns.
By the way, the 1st Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed by a Russian rocket during telephone conversations on April 21, 1996. They calculated his whereabouts and killed him, pretending to negotiate. And in 1995, he said in an interview: "Russia will eventually face Ukraine. Russia will fall when the sun of Ukrainian freedom rises." He knew that 28 years ago.
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Probably the most devastating take down of Sinn Fein tonight came from Deputy @podonovan
The 22 children in the this state that grew up fatherless because of the dead gardai, put in to early graves by yer sister organisation.
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King Charles wears a tie with the Greek flag emblazoned on it as he discusses COP28 with Rishi “They’re Our Marbles” Sunak 👏
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"You cannot build peace on the mass graves of children."
Minister Simon Harris on the the situation in Gaza, in Dáil Éireann today.
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'I don't understand why anybody would try to undermine the lyrics of that song." Tánaiste @MichealMartinTD on the singing of 'Zombie'.
@NTBreakfast
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80,000 people singing The Cranberries, Zombie after Ireland’s spectacular victory over the Springboks. Spine-tingling.
Did you know the song was actually written in protest against the IRA Warrington bombings? On Feb 26 1993 the IRA murdered two innocent children aged 3 and 12 in Cheshire, England.
The Cranberries were on tour in England at the time, not far from where the bombing took place. Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of the Cranberries, began recording the song immediately after the attack in condemnation of the killing and in creation of a “song for peace, peace among England and Ireland."
The lyrics, “another head hangs lowly, child is slowly taken, another mother's breaking, heart is taking over” are references to the murdered children and their suffering family. “It’s not me, it’s not my family,” refers to the killings not being done in her name, her family’s name, or Ireland’s name as she saw it.
Zombie is an Irish, British, and global anthem enjoyed across the world, and rightfully so. Despite its aggressive sound, it is a song of peace, and a much more appropriate encore on the global sporting stage instead the terrorist supporting chants that have made the news in the past.
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There were many builders of the peace and the Good Friday Agreement but there was only one architect.
