37 died in a nightclub at Denmark Place, Soho, London on August 16th, 1980.

Sadly nobody cared, as most were immigrants from Colombia, Scotland & Ireland.

You can't even find out nationality or age of victims in newspapers.

I went through civil records to try change that. /1 English media lost interest when it soon became apparent most of the victims were immigrants.

A few of the young women were also sex workers.

The tone in papers shifted at rapid pace; from "tragedy" on the evening of August 16th, to "seedy nightclub blaze" by August 17th.

Councillor Gavin Pepper breached numerous Code of Ethics at the "protest" and also on his social media.

I'll go through the legislative basis that underpins councillors conduct and his specific breaches.

Also how to report a councillors conduct, if anyone wishes to do so. /1 Code of Ethics has legislative footing (predominantly) in the Local Government Act 2001.

Specifically it's issued under Part 15, section 169.

Elements of the code rely on other legislation e.g. Ethics in Public Office Acts 1995 and 2001.

irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2001/act/3…

I'm as ever bound to regret doing this but I'm gonna go through the real figures for you, Aisling.

The figures you're throwing around in this tweet is cloud cuckoo land stuff, completely detached from objective reality.

Who knows maybe I can get through to you 😂

https://twitter.com/AislingOLoughl1/status/1807771010566885720

I'm gonna start by addressing your claim the pandemic was a "hoax".

Should be relatively straightforward, via life expectancy stats.

The scale of death in Europe in 2020 & 2021 was so bad that nobody (thinking clearly) could possibly believe all those people died randomly.

There's currently 7,758 children applying for asylum in Ireland.

Nobody really talks about those children.

I thought it might be an idea to discuss where those children are from, why their parents may have left and why they may have come to Ireland.

CW: distressing images. Before that, a short story.

It's about a few of the 40,000 Irish who emigrated to Argentina in the 1800's.

On April 21st, 1844 a ship 'William Peile' left Liverpool headed for Buenos Aires with 114 Irish passengers on board.

Getting to Liverpool a bit of a mission in itself.

One of the dumbest tweets I've seen this week.

The comments underneath it are somehow even dumber.

I would suggest restaurant guy do some basic research, before talking utter nonsense, but I doubt he would risk talking sense.

A few facts to try counter this shite. /1 No Ukrainians, or anyone else for that matter, were added to the voting register last week.

The deadline to register to vote was May 20th, likewise supplementary register.

Maybe he meant "3 weeks ago" but if he did mean that he should have typed that instead of typing rubbish.

The ignorance of Boylan's tweet and the comments section is off-the-charts.

So many "Irish patriots" completely clueless about the country they claim to live in 😂

Not that I expect those geniuses to read this thread but I'll lay out some electoral law history and facts. /1 This genius, Chris, reckons it's obvious why the government has now allowed asylum seekers to vote.

Comically believes it a new development.

I'll get to how new this development actually is but just for starters it's worth marvelling at the sheer ignorance.

This is a photo of Christobel Laura Boyce (32), mother of 2 young children, and former nanny to Lord Lucan.

Christobel killed by her husband in London on January 13th, 1985.

You'll never guess how long he spent in prison, after reading what he did.

CW: Extremely distressing. Christobel wanted a divorce and him to move out, before her death.

Killed her on January 13th and then proceeded to dismember her body.

Cut her body up and cooked it, arranged it on a plate like Sunday Dinner, then went around London putting pieces into different bins.

In January, when I published my femicide map, a few of my Welsh followers asked could I do it for Wales.

I quickly realised it would be exceptionally difficult but I've worked on it every day since.

This is for 500 women and girls killed in Wales. /1

google.com/maps/d/u/0/edi… It was a lot easier from a research perspective to do the map for the island of Ireland.

Search terms like "Gardaí", "RUC" and "Central Criminal Court" narrow a search down.

For Wales there's multiple police forces and murder trials were being held left, right n' center.

This has to be one of the most ignorant, insidious and offensive conspiracy theories I've ever seen on Irish Twitter.

Absolute bully here alleging Ivana Bacik's grandfather was a Nazi collaborator and (separately) defaming Ivana herself.

A thread on her grandfather. /1 Karla Bačíka (Charles Bacik) was born on June 25th, 1910 in Nová Říša near Telč in southern Czechoslovakia.

In 1933 he married Edith Starch and they 2 girls, Milada, Edith, and 2 boys, Karel and Jindřich.

Although his degree was in science, he got into the glassworks business.

It's sad that CervicalCheck keeps getting dragged through the mud and very lame the far-right pretend to care about screening, when it suits.

O'Keeffe doesn't know the basic timeline of events and I see tweets like his one all the time.

I'll go through that timeline again. /1 Knowing the timeline is useful because it still happens and will keep happening.

For example if Mary Lou (Taoiseach, SF) and Holly (Tánaiste, SD) this will still occur ⬇️

30 women diagnosed with cervical cancer every year in Ireland, despite their most recent test negative.

Seems to be "bash asylum seeker" weekend on here, which I suppose describes every weekend 😔

Very sad to see asylum seekers being confronted by angry racists non-stop.

This is a thread on asylum myths in Ireland, to try counter some of the hateful ignorance being spread. Myth #1: "It's all single males"

In the last 10 years (2014-2023) there were 13,145 asylum seekers granted a positive decision to remain in Ireland.

Male: 7,725 (58.8%)
Female: 5,420 (41.2%)

It's not 50-50 as you might intuitively expect but it's also not far off that.

The term "durable relationship" has been part of EU law for 20 years but was proposed in 1999.

I thought it might be interesting to trace the evolution of language from 1949 - 1999, to see how they eventually reached that term.

By interesting I mean boring, probably 😂 /1 June 8th, 1949 - Migration for Employment Recommendation (Revised), 1949 (No. 86)

It was agreed at General Conference of the UN's International Labour Organisation.

The language in that document to describe a family member of a migrant was objectively sexist and anachronistic.

The "protest" outside Celbridge Manor Hotel last night is a textbook example of how the far-right operates.

It's extremely disconcerting and someone is going to get killed, sooner or later, by racist vigilantes masquerading as 'concerned locals'.

Anatomy of an outrage. /1 A woman, Jessica Browne, took to Facebook to allege a 7-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by "3 Romanian men."

Jessica is an Irish Freedom Party supporter and admin of far-right accounts.

Routinely spreads rumours without any evidence and later retracts them.

Just FYI.

I've written threads on them before but today is a good day to write another.

A story of grieving parents from New Zealand who showed dignity, grace, resilience and courage to save lives.

Thinking of Kevin & Susan Campbell today on the 35th anniversary of their son's death. /1 United Airlines Flight 811 was from Los Angeles, USA to Sydney, Australia on February 24th, 1989.

It had planned intermediate stops in Honolulu and Auckland, NZ.

Plane was a Boeing 747-122 and had 337 passengers and 18 crew on board, including 24-year-old Lee Campbell.

Astonishing for a newspaper to publish defamatory lies so nonchalantly.

It's like people are actively going out of their way to get sued this week, incredible 🤷‍♂️

If it saves anyone getting sued, I'll give it a try to explain the cervical audit again.

clareecho.ie/hses-plans-to-… Underlined is a complete lie.

Chief Medical Officer in Ireland is a civil servant who advises the government.

CMO's don't work in (or for) the HSE.

Nobody in the HSE withheld smear test results; anyone saying they did, doesn't understand the design and purpose of the audit.

This is a blatant lie.

Sadly these lies get far more traction on Twitter than the truth ever does 🤷‍♂️

The problem with these lies is they undermine participation in cancer screening and risk leading to even more cancer.

Anyone spreading these lies should stop doing that. No woman in the audit was wrongly diagnosed.

Screening is not a diagnostic test looking for cancer in a patient with symptoms.

It's a test looking for future risk of cancer in a woman with no symptoms.

Cancer is only diagnosed on biopsy, screening can't diagnose it.

I noticed the "Ireland is Full" crowd sharing this image claiming, quote:

"There has been a 1200% increase in sexual offences in Clare between 2019 and 2022"

Needless to say this is complete nonsense and should be readily ignored as such. /1 CW: Sexual assault

I know that's probably obvious from the first tweet but I'll have to lay out real figures in order to counter bogus ones.

Here's a hug for anyone who would prefer not to read beyond this point.

RED C poll showed 66% think Ireland has taken in too many refugees.

Already people are claiming that poll showed Ireland has taken in too many "asylum seekers" 🤦‍♂️

'Asylum seeker' is not the same as 'refugee.'

I prepared a thread to show how many of both Ireland takes in. /1 There were 7,560,320 applications for asylum in the EU between January 1st, 2013 and December 31st, 2022.

Almost half (49.3%) of those applications were made in just 2 countries:

Germany (2,679,715) and France (1,049,415).

ec.europa.eu/eurostat/datab…

According to a protester, quote:

"Ballymun and surrounding areas no longer safe for women due to unvetted strangers, all single males"

Actually most males who caused women to lose their lives in those areas, as in all areas of Dublin, were neither single nor strangers. /1 I'm unaware of any woman murdered by a stranger in that part of Dublin in the last 25 years.

Antoinette Corbally (47) death in 2017 may count under that category, if anyone ever gets charged for that "botched gangland hit" i.e. murder.

Otherwise 100% killed by people they knew.

Aside from the obvious xenophobia and racism; things I notice among the Irish far-right is warped nationalism and delusions of superiority.

Take asylum applications.

They think Ireland is where asylum seekers wanted to apply in Western Europe but opposite was true. /1 First time asylum applications from January 1st, 2014 to September 30th, 2023 (117 months).

Germany: 2,543,550
France: 990,770
Spain: 624,225
Austria: 398,550
Netherlands: 242,300
Belgium: 207,805
Denmark: 60,225
Ireland: 44,905
Luxembourg: 19,140

ec.europa.eu/eurostat/datab…

An end product of my research on femicide.

I tried to document all violent deaths of women and girls, then mapped the location of their deaths and the sentences given to their killers.

This thread is for 574 women and girls killed in the 1922 - 2022 century in Ireland. A few words about the map.

I didn't have access to the archives I'd need to attempt this project for the whole island, so I couldn't do Northern Ireland.

I'm hoping to eventually do that,

For now I did the best I could with the resources I had available to me.