Journalist 📺📻🎙️📚freelance @OireachtasTV, ex @RTÉNews, podcasts, author @PresLetters + arts, human rights, history @RTENewsPaulC our kids, the sea..

Dun Laoghaire & Baltimore #WestCork
Joined January 2010
Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
It's time for a ban on Ireland's cruel hare coursing. Join us in urging @MichealMartinTD @SimonHarrisTD to #BanCoursingNOW
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
Witkoff called Putin a humanitarian today. Here is some of his humanitarian work:
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
“And today my favourite fascist is…”
Trump on Marine Le Pen: "I think she was badly treated. It looked like weaponization to me ... she's the conservative voice"
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
Imagine being president of the United States and your biggest intellectual flex is knowing what a giraffe looks like.
Trump: "The first one is they show you a lion, a bear, a snake, and a giraffe. And they say, 'Which one is the giraffe?' I got a perfect score."
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
We’re not talking nearly enough about the sitting president of the United States sending our troops to die in a war while aligning our country with the dictator helping to kill them.
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
There have, of course, been times in human history that were even darker and more terrible. But never, it seems, have there been times so despicable and, above all, so stupid.
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
Do something.
German Chancellor Merz: My biggest concern is Russia's underestimated impact on European societies. Russia is on the way to destabilise the entire political order of Europe. Many people in Germany underestimate this threat, and the war in Ukraine is only part of it. 1/
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He’s clearly losing it. Then again, did he ever have it? Are US voters finally going to see through the grifter-in-chief?
Trump just threatened a reporter in the Oval Office moments ago: “Listen to you. Hey, I'm not pointing. You better, you better, I don't know who the hell you are, but you better be careful." This man is unhinged. Vote for the people who will hold him in check.
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
What horrifyingly diabolic symbolism: today, Russia killed a one-year-old child and a 100-year-old woman in Ukraine. Absolute, pure, all-consuming evil.
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
The worst part of this war is never feeling safe. Schools, hospitals, parks, gas stations, bridges — nowhere is safe. Every ordinary moment could be your last.
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
"JD Vance, are you seriously suggesting immigrants brought a culture of 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 to ... France ?🤡 Do you know why Versailles is a museum ? It used to be someone's house, people - with heads ! Do you wanna know how 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ these demos were ? They 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆 ! Other than adultery, it's the most French thing you can do !"🤡 The Daily Show @jonstewart 👏absolutely on fire against certain analysis of French riots from abroad👇
Is JD Vance seriously suggesting that immigrants have brought a culture of revolution and protest TO FRANCE? @jonstewart
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
Vance is morally repulsive.
“I can excuse bombing Ukrainian cities, but I draw the line at damaging russian oil refineries.”
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
This is how you dismantle hate: When an Islamophobe bigot targeted his faith and questioned his loyalty, Abdul El-Sayed delivered a masterful response — invoking John F. Kennedy's historic legacy to firmly declare where his true allegiance lies.
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
Kremlin couldn’t write a better script
Ukraine has “already lost” the war against Russia, says @Alice_Weidel, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany party, which is leading German opinion polls. She told @zannymb, that Germany should pull the plug on support for Ukraine against Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Watch the full interview at 6pm London time (1pm in New York): bit.ly/4yrcX9s
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
“I think it is a bit unusual that we have a leader with such power, which the president of the United States has, who happens to be such an inadequate leader for the world.” Former Irish President Mary Robinson reflects on the importance of rule of law and her view of the Trump administration's conduct.
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
russia is not able to win in Ukraine, but was able to take US with zero resistance
From Russia, with Love…
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
‼️ Russia hit Kyiv with 6 ballistic missiles. There was no warning of the launches, no air raid alert. People had no time to reach shelter. The attack is still ongoing.
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
Kharkiv is under heavy Russian attack tonight. An entire entrance of an apartment building is gone. People are trapped under the rubble. When Russia is desperate, it kills.
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
Bankrolling a Fascist War Machine and the Murder of Children: America's Ultimate Moral Collapse Just when you thought this country couldn't sink any lower under a spineless, power-mad tyrant, we hit absolute rock bottom with this sickening display of idiocy. By groveling before Vladimir Putin and trading our morality for Russian diesel, Trump has committed an unforgivable act of treason — he is a literal TRAITOR who belongs nowhere near the Oval Office. The calls for his immediate removal are a moral necessity. But the shame doesn't stop with him. Every single voter who still enables, defends, or blindly ignores this monster is completely complicit. As President Zelenskyy rightly called out this pathetic display of "obvious weakness," the ugly truth stares us in the face: our dollars are now actively filling the Kremlin’s war chest. Because of Trump's corruption and the public's spineless silence, the United States is officially bankrolling a fascist war machine and directly financing the slaughter, torture, and murder of innocent Ukrainian men, women, and children.
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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
Trump hopes his deal with Putin will get him through the mid-terms but this is about much more than fuel prices Rather than ending Russia’s war, the US is financing it, buying cheaper fuel with Ukrainian blood My @NewstalkFM interview with Pat Kenny... newstalk.com/podcasts/highli…
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