• Record 133 athletes

• Why no women's hockey? We're usually good at that.

• Rowing: Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy (lightweight double sculls) are back after gold in Tokyo: https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/tokyo-2020/results/rowing/lightweight-men-s-double-sculls

• In women's boxing: Kellie Harrington has every chance of another gold. She is 34 now. Aoife O’Rourke is absolutely a gold-prospect too and has four European golds on her matelpiece.

• Men's boxing: Aidan Walsh got bronze four years ago.

• Swimming: Daniel Wiffen has world records, is 22, would be disappointed not to be on a podium or two. He is in three events.

• Women's 400m: Rhasidat Adeleke may be the most famous athlete in Ireland now

• Men's gymnastics: Rhys McClenaghan has all sorts of laurels, underperformed in Tokyo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhys_McClenaghan

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18310182

https://invidious.materialio.us/watch?v=0WY3tuOZsGc&listen=1 / https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=0WY3tuOZsGc&listen=1 / https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=0WY3tuOZsGc&listen=1

https://telefis.bandcamp.com/

http://www.telefis.ie/

Sinn Féin would require an official audit of the existing capacity of local services before an accommodation centre for asylum seekers is opened.

Sinn Féin will also recommend that a “two-tier system”, in which Ukrainians enjoy better conditions than asylum seekers from other countries, should end.

Local residents would be entitled to take part in a formal process of consultations.... nobody would have a veto on the location of facilities for asylum seekers.

Clare versus Cork in a rerun of the 2013 final

Throw-in is at 3:30, so about 80 minutes after this thread

I had an RTÉ2 link, but it's gone down now 😔, maybe someone good at finding these things can find it. rte.ie/player might work with a VPN - or watch reddit /r/teilifis for a download later

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/946773

It is the misfortune of the Irish that they rose prematurely, before the European revolt of the proletariat had had time to mature. Capitalism is not so harmoniously built that the various sources of rebellion can immediately merge of their own accord, without reverses and defeats. On the other hand, the very fact that revolts do break out at different times, in different places, and are of different kinds, guarantees wide scope and depth to the general movement; but it is only in premature, individual, sporadic and therefore unsuccessful, revolutionary movements that the masses gain experience, acquire knowledge, gather strength, and get to know their real leaders, the socialist proletarians, and in this way prepare for the general onslaught, just as certain strikes, demonstrations, local and national, mutinies in the army, outbreaks among the peasantry, etc., prepared the way for the general onslaught in 1905.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jul/x01.htm

A spokesman for the Chinese ambassador said in a statement: “The Irish Government has made it clear that Ireland adheres to, and will continue to adhere to, the one-China policy. Visiting Taiwan as a member of the Irish parliament, claiming Taiwan as a ‘country’, meeting with Taiwan political figures and separatists seeking ‘Taiwan independence’ are in clear violation of the Irish Government’s One China Policy.”

FF Senator Gerry Horkan said “we want to have good relations with both mainland China and Taiwan. We understand the one-China policy and are happy to comply with it.”

Independent Senator Sharon Keogan said “we’re delighted to promote Ireland as a gateway to Europe for Taiwan”.

In 2018, Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl wrote to Oireachtas members to “remind members of the current position with regard to Taiwan”.

In his letter, he said that “active engagement between members of the Oireachtas and Taiwan can damage the relations between Ireland and China and is in conflict to the long-standing one-China policy.

“As Ceann Comhairle, I have no intention of telling Oireachtas members who they, as elected public representatives, can meet or what functions they can attend. That would never be my wish.

“However, I am aware that there continues to be engagement between some Oireachtas members and the Taiwanese authorities. This can cause serious offence and grave concern to our Chinese friends and has the potential to cause serious damage to Ireland’s developing relationship with China as well as being a danger to Ireland’s national interest.

“I write to members merely to remind them of the one-China policy long in place, and to highlight the implications that a parliamentary engagement with the Taiwanese authorities can have on the excellent relations [ this before the Richard O'Halloran thing] currently enjoyed by Ireland with China.”

New immigration policy document due to be published on Monday (22 July)

Will lay out SF's immigration policy. They've been criticised for being vague on this.

Mary Lou McDonald admitted her party had “lost the trust” of its regular supporters and claimed the party had diverged from “where most people are” on immigration. “We are a party of the working class and the left,” the party leader said on social media this week, but the question was posed to Doherty today that due to their positioning on immigration, their grassroots working-class voters are migrating from the party.

“There are small minorities that are trying to exploit the frustration and fears that many communities face and it’s important that we actually get in there and listen to them and have proper dialogue and consultation with them,” Pearse Doherty said.

The grave of Mary Dempsey in Aheny, County Tipperary. This is the last known vernacular use of Ogham in Ireland, in 1802. The grave bears a script in Irish, English and Ogham.

"Fa an lig so na lu ata Mari ni Dhimusa / o mballi na gCranibh” ("Beneath this stone lieth Mári Ní Dhíomasaigh from Ballycrann")

There was a north Waterford scribe: Peter O'Morrisey who was still writing his poems in Latin & Ogham scripts until his death circa 1800. It appears that the grave is either inspired by him or perhaps composed by one of his students.

Tuilleadh eolas: https://www.megalithicmonumentsofireland.com/ARCHIVES/MOFM_2010/H1_AUGUST_2011.html

Women's under-19s Euros

https://www.uefa.com/womensunder19/match/2040626--spain-vs-republic-of-ireland/statistics/

Spain had 28 attempts, Ireland 0. Fair fucks to our 'keeper Katie Keane.

Our group has Spain, Germany and the Netherlands 😬

Dé Sathairn an 13ú Iúil, 17:30: Ard Macha v Ciarraí

Dé Domhnach an 14ú Iúil, 16:00: Dún na nGall v Gaillimh (tá an ceann seo ar an 📺teilifís📺, ar RTÉ2)