Derek Mooney 🇺🇦🇮🇪🇪🇺

My more considered take on the #GE24 #GE2024 result (in terms of first preference vote) and how this has truly been a bad election for @sinnfeinireland despite their intense spin and hype

This is a significant ruling in its own right… but it also confirms growing concerns about the leadership of @vonderleyen …or to be more specific… the lack of it. euractiv.com/section/politi…

Over the weekend in Gaza, we saw yet more mass shootings & killings of people seeking @UN aid – an atrocious & inhumane act which I utterly condemn. We need an immediate ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages & unimpeded humanitarian access.

Nope. Third C295 is not a surveillance aircraft, but a transport aircraft. Refit of most Mowags has been carried out by now. Old news.

These criticisms may well be true, but they are immeasurably truer of the Government Mary Lou's party leads in the north. Northerners are expected to live with abysmal levels of governance and be grateful for it. Would never wash down the road.

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You’re going to “rewrite the Good Friday Agreement” are you? No you are not.

Everyone knows Concorde, but did you know it wasn’t the only supersonic passenger jet ever built? Let’s explore some lesser-known supersonic or unique aircraft that never quite made it big. 🧵✈️

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

Here is the #MooneyOnPolitics #podcast to accompany my 2025 Summer #PoliticalReadingList. I have added one more book: @donnachaDCU's excellent "Unfinished Empire" open.spotify.com/episode/1aVBWP…

STRATEGY IS STRANGLING ADVERTISING. davetrott.co.uk/2025/07/strate…

Hmm… peak English exceptionalism… thinks it can unilaterally rewrite an international treaty between two sovereign governments, just to suit partisan political needs. #ThinkAgain

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We are delighted to welcome journalist & author @PaulGosling1 to The BikeShed for a chat about his recent book 'A New Ireland, A New Union: A Five Year Review'. Please join us Tue 22/07 20.30gmt colmcillepress.com/product-page/a…

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Dramatic increase in number of Russian ‘shadow ships’ in Irish-controlled waters ‘The Air Corps & Naval Service have stepped up their monitoring of these vessels, despite limited resources. Last week a C295 was deployed twice to track sanctioned vessels’ irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/0…

💥Viktor Orbán says spending 5% of GDP on defense is “impossible,” that it “would kill us”—and hints at trying to make some deal with Russia instead. This comes just after Hungary pledged more defense spending at the NATO summit. Here’s my analysis of CEE military budgets.🧵👇

Surely nailing someone on to their oversized bag just makes that bag even more over sized… @Ryanair

Pat Rabbitte has confirmed he will NOT be seeking a nomination to run for President - the ex-Labour minister told Newstalk yesterday he was ‘open’ to a run but now says today it was an ironic comment and not to be taken seriously

I just backed Joke: The Film on @Kickstarter #BarryCryer @bobbicee kickstarter.com/projects/jokef…