Conor Gallagher
Irish Times Crime and Security Correspondent
Author: Is Ireland Neutral? (Gill)
Email: conor.gallagher@irishtimes.com
Signal: signal.me
- Reposted by Conor GallagherExclusive: Google breached its own policies that barred use of artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in 2024 by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage.
- As Dean notes, a bizarre sovereign citizen style organisation claiming to be a continuation of the historical IRB could well become an issue during the upcoming by-election
- I miss films were marketed with trailers and posters instead of whatever this shit is
- A grand total of zero seats booked for tomorrow evening's screening of the Melania Trump documentary in Cineworld. You'd think the US ambassador would at least head along
- "Kitchens across Ireland" my hole
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- Reposted by Conor GallagherAn insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
- We need to set up a perimeter around Blackrock College asap
- Defence Forces retires ‘disastrous’ armoured fleet as it looks to French replacements www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
- Zena Stenvik, superintendent of Columbia Heights Public Schools, said the child was removed from the still-running car and directed by an ICE agent to knock on the door of his home to see if anyone else was inside. www.thejournal.ie/minnesota-fi...
- Reposted by Conor GallagherIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the signing of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” in Davos after Switzerland confirmed it would enforce the ICC arrest warrant over war crimes in Gaza.
- 'Windmills are losers' - Don Quixote
- The Irish man unmasking ICE agents: “This morning, I had someone who works at a Starbucks where ICE agents were getting coffee. They told me the names that were written on the cups.” www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
- Who were the Dublin rioters? What 82 prosecutions tell us about the unrest www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
- Irish man risks US retaliation for unmasking thousands of ICE officers online www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
- ‘This is what failure looks like’: Why Ireland is missing its military staffing targets www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
- "warn" is a very strange verb choice
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- Four DF members are being awarded the distinguished service medal in relation to the 2023 stabbing attack on Army chaplain Fr Paul Murphy in Galway. Cpl Daniel Padden, DSM, with Distinction Pte Dylan Geraghty, DSM, with Honour Pte Ciara Shanahan, DSM with merit And Fr Murphy, DSM with merit
- Groks creation of "nudified" images of children is disgusting and dangerous but, as it stands, it's probably not an offence 1998 Child Pornography Act, says Moran, who has spent decades investigating child abuse. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
- However, It may still be an offence under a recent law criminaling the sharing of non consensual intimate images with the intent to cause harm Grok images of children probably not prosecutable, says child protection expert www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
- Reposted by Conor GallagherAnything that inconveniences a right wing populist is censorship, part 1000. This depraved prick uses that term bc it puts his enemies on the defensive. They cower. Fact-checking is censorship. Labeling is censorship. TRANSPARENCY is censorship. Now, “no nonconsensual nudes” is censorship.
- Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Off to see Hamnet. Heard great things
- I would have thought condemning an company producing child abuse material on an industrial scale for profit would be an easy one. But here were are.
- Reposted by Conor GallagherMy word. (Again.) Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
- Minister Burke says he's waiting on the results of ongoing investigation before deciding whether to leave X...
- Huge amount of naval and aircraft activity around the ship today (which is now in Icelandic EEZ). Unconfirmed video shows US special forces helicopter approaching the vessel from a Coastguard cutter. The ship has also abrutly changed course in the last hour. It may already have been seized.
- Two more US naval aircraft flew over Irish airspace on surveillance missions in the Atlantic. One just off the tip of Donegal. Another over the centre of the country (taking in Doonbeg along the way). Simon Harris says he "imagines" rules were followed www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Conor GallagherThanks @richardholmes.bsky.social for pointing out that MARINERA has now entered the Icelandic EEZ, and with it European waters, for the first time.
- Two more US naval aircraft flew over Irish airspace on surveillance missions in the Atlantic. One just off the tip of Donegal. Another over the centre of the country (taking in Doonbeg along the way). Simon Harris says he "imagines" rules were followed www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- US naval aircraft flew over Ireland during pursuit of sanctioned oil tanker www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
- @trbrtc.bsky.social hi Christiaan, would you be able to follow back for a DM?
- Latest on the odessey of the Bella 1/Marinera. The Defence Forces has deployed an aircraft to monitor the passage of the oil tanker off the west coast that was being pursued by the US military. It joins US and French military aircraft. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
- US military monitors oil tanker off Irish coast as it sails towards Russia www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
- For a "militarily but not politically neutral" country which depends on a rules based international order, this is incredibly weak stuff
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- He's making a mockery of the Fifa world peace prize
- Satellite data from Starboard Maritime Intelligence showing the ship's passage yesterday. And up to date AIS data showing its current location this morning
- A ship under active pursuit by the United States military as part of the Trump administration’s targeting of Venezuela appears set to enter Irish-controlled waters in the coming days. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
- Reposted by Conor GallagherThis is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters
- guys chill, the hitler chatbot says it's sorry about the child pornography stuff
