Saturday.
Orwell Road, Rathegar, Dublin 6.
Labour Party TD Ivana Bacik addresses protesters from the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement who joined with members of the Ukraine Solidarity to mark the 11th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution with a protest vigil outside the embassy of the Russian Federation in Ireland.
Meanwhile…
Proposals to rename Orwell Road in Dublin as Independent Ukraine Road look set to be dropped, with Dublin city councillors reversing plans to pursue the name change.
Changing the name of the road, where the Russian embassy is located, was unanimously supported by a sub-committee of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council last week.
….The city council’s southeast area committee was expected to consider the renaming proposal on Monday, but the motion has been dropped.
Labour councillor Dermot Lacey who chairs the committee had initially put forward a motion to change the name to Volodymyr Zelenskiy Road, and later amended it to match the Dún Laoghaire motion. However, he said, he would not be tabling either motion.
Proposal to change name of Orwell Road to Independent Ukraine Road to be dropped (Irish Times)
Isn’t an Independent Ukraine the stated objective of the Russians too? Things probably all got a bit queer when the Russians said ‘sure, go for it’.
Of course the real motivation here was juvenile goading and virtue signalling, because changing a road name was not going to make a blind bit of difference to the situation either way.
…oh dear…Bacik addressing the Irish/Syria group…the group who attempted regime change led by the US who formed ISIS and armed Al Queda…have the poor Ukranians not suffered enough…
I’d prefer to see an election poster of Bacik with her megaphone instead of that election poster of her with her bike. “I cycle, I’m a better person”
Ugh. That poster still annoys me.
“protesters from the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement ”
There s bang of “Judean People’s Front vs People’s Front of Judea” off that name
splitters…
Bacik’s megaphone will be firmly back in the cubby under the stairs once Labour get their Government mudflap role back.