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Derek Murphy retweeted
Patrick Stewart's self-eulogy is perfect. #patrickstewart
Derek Murphy retweeted
News: The French are rioting over high cost of living and under-resourced high schools.
The rioters: Yes, that's what we are rioting over.
The French government: Yupp, they're rioting over that.
Everyone: Yepp, that's whats happening.
The far right: Da Blacks! Da Muzlims!
Derek Murphy retweeted
🚨FT: Ireland U-21 3-1 England U-21
Ireland have beaten England for the first time ever at U-21 level to finish second, with a play-off safely secured!
Conor McManus' goal and Tommy Lonergan's double sees 🇮🇪 upset Lee Carsely's side
Ireland are in the hat for Friday's draw
Derek Murphy retweeted
What an extraordinary historical own goal.
Yes, Ireland played Nazi Germany. So did numerous European countries before the Second World War. And yes, the Irish team gave the Nazi salute in Bremen in 1939, an episode that looks appalling today and shouldn’t be whitewashed.
But here’s the part you conveniently forgot.
In 1936 it was the German team giving the Nazi salute at Dalymount Park, not the Irish team. Ireland then beat them 5–2.
And one of the Irishmen who gave that salute in Germany in 1939 was Johnny Carey. Do you know what he subsequently did?
He joined the British Army and fought against Nazi Germany.
Nor was Ireland unique in this respect.
England and other national teams also gave the Nazi salute or performed similar gestures at matches and official occasions in the 1930s, when sporting exchanges with Nazi Germany were still taking place. That context does not excuse the gesture, but it does make it absurd to present Ireland’s 1939 match as uniquely revealing of some supposed national sympathy for Nazism.
So dragging up an 87-year-old football match to smear today’s Irish players is not the devastating historical argument you apparently think it is.
More importantly, there’s a breathtaking irony in invoking the Nazis to silence criticism of the actions of a modern government.
The lesson of the 1930s isn’t that governments should be immune from criticism because of their national or religious identity.
It’s precisely the opposite, states, governments and armies must be judged by what they actually do.
Ireland’s players lowering their heads harms nobody. You can dislike it. You can call it disrespectful.
But reaching back to 1939 because you can’t cope with Irish footballers expressing disapproval of Israel’s conduct in 2026 isn’t an argument.
It’s a diversion.
And if your best defence of what Israel is doing today is “but look what some Irish footballers did before the Second World War”, you’ve rather spectacularly conceded the present-day argument.
Disgraceful
Derek Murphy retweeted
Israel FA Head of Communications Shlomi Barzel speaking to Globes last September:
“I’m surprised we’re still part of international tournaments. In many ways, it’s a miracle.
“You can explain the miracle through the actions we have taken and through a great deal of tolerance from FIFA and UEFA but, historically countries have been suspended for much less.
“If there had been a free vote, we wouldn’t have survived it.”
And this was him writing in Haaretz October 2007, during the controversy over German-Iranian player Ashkan Dejagah refusing to play against Israel:
“Sports and politics have always gone hand-in-hand.”
He cited Yugoslavia and South Africa as examples of countries excluded from international sport until they “changed their ways.”
A far cry from his statement yesterday:
“What pleases us today, is that football has won. The separation between football and politics must be maintained.”
Derek Murphy retweeted
There's going to be a lot of 'keep politics out of football' comments this weekend. Meanwhile players in England will be wearing poppies next month and scrutinised if they don't, after a World Cup where the US President stood with the winners on the podium. The horse has bolted.
Derek Murphy retweeted
What this shows is that the real power doesn't sit with CEOs, Presidents of Associations or Robert Krafts.
It sits with Gavin Bazunu's, Arron Rowe's and Liam Og's.
It sits with people who walk onto stages, football pitches and into factories and onto the streets.
Solidarity 🇵🇸
Derek Murphy retweeted
My 2 cents on the Macklemore cancelling ... going after Ed Sheeran draws massive attention away from the real culprit here i.e. the pro-Israel billionaire, Robert Kraft. It is Kraft that cancelled Macklemore.
The focus should be on Kraft and the use of his power to silence voices who are critical of the slaughter and ethnic cleansing that Israel is carrying out in Gaza. When it's Sheeran drawing the headlines, Kraft is winning.
Derek Murphy retweeted
Spiteful bigot - “The Irish have contributed nOtHiNg to Civilisation”?
Reality:
- The space between written words
- The modern submarine
- The Boycott
- Halloween
- Inspiration for the breakup of the British Empire
- Boyles Law, modern chemistry
- Traditional Irish music & dance
- Irish monastic European network ⬇️
- Polar exploration, Shackleton & Crean
- The worlds most beautiful book ⬇️
- Extraordinary craft & metalwork ⬇️
- Hamiltonian mechanics, fundamental to modern physics
- Europes oldest humanitarian law protecting women & children, ‘law of the innocents’, 698AD
- Hollow hypodermic needle
- Pulsar discovery
- An incalculable diaspora contribution to America, Britain, Australia and others
- One of Europe’s earliest extensive Law traditions, Brehon Laws
- The parole system
- UNESCO recognised National Folklore Collection
- Europe’s largest and most important concentration of prehistoric megalithic art
- Newgrange, 1000 years older than pyramids and Stonehenge
- Roy Keane
- Kelvin absolute temperature scale
- Duty free
- Insular manuscript illumination
- Beaufort wind scale
- Irish whiskey
- Worlds oldest continuously played field sport, hurling
- Three point tractor
- First Western country to impose a total ban on apartheid South African goods/imports
- Tayto
- Four Nobel Prizes in Literature: Yeats, Shaw, Beckett & Heaney
- Modern satire, Gullivers travels
- Swift, Goldsmith, Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Seán O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan, Frank O’Connor, Seamus Heaney, John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Marian Keyes, Claire Keegan, Sally Rooney, Paul Lynch, Donal Ryan…
- Ulysses, Gulliver’s Travels, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, Dracula, The Playboy of the Western World, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake, Dancing at Lughnasa, Angela’s ashes, Brooklyn, Room, Milkman, Small Things Like These, Foster, Normal People, Prophet Song…
Jack B. Yeats, Paul Henry, Mainie Jellett, Louis le Brocquy, William Orpen, John Lavery…
Don’t get me started on modern contribution to the arts & culture with great actors, singers, bands and sportspersons ⬇️
Not bad for an island beaten and staved, restricted in education and opportunity - and we are only getting started
☘️🟢🌀🇮🇪
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Derek Murphy retweeted
Wasn't it great craic in Doonbeg?
Breaking news: The Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, the largest single sale of the controversial munitions in recent years, a U.S. official told The Post. wapo.st/4Ae8VTH
Derek Murphy retweeted
She's using her child as a human shield to protect herself from the backlash and it's probably one of the most Israeli things she's ever done.
Pink's son stole the show with his bright pink hair as they arrive at the US Open. 🎾🔥
🎥 Instagram / @jpasc24
Derek Murphy retweeted
WHAT A FINALE! 🤩
Eddie Dunbar passes Santiago Buitrago in the final moments to take a historic first Grand Tour stage win for Pinarello Q36.5! 🇮🇪🏆
Derek Murphy retweeted
🚨 HOPE not hate can conclusively prove that Stephen Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson’s business empire has been built on fraudulent means, tax evasion, and perjury.
This is a long one. Here’s what we found. 🧵
hopenothate.org.uk/the-grift…
