Anita Byrne 🇮🇪

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2026-07-10 14:49:13 GMT

Visited the beautiful #Frigiliana outside #Nerja near #Malaga in #Spain recently.
It was so pretty. Picture postcard pretty around every corner. Here’s just one of the gorgeous windows.
#FensterFreitag
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2026-04-14 20:33:10 GMT

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Fascists will jump at ANY opportunity to share their hate. To create chaos. To divide and conquer. To scaremonger. To recruit.
I’ve been really concerned seeing how quickly news of the protests went global and how they were used as propaganda by the WORST people.
Musk, Robinson, Hopkins, MAGA, all of the most influential hate mongers weaponising these protests and using them to stoke up hatred.
We should all be v worried about that.
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2026-04-14 20:24:47 GMT

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It just shows me once again how lacking in intersectionality the Irish left is. And how privileged many who shout the loudest are.
I’ve seen straight white men go on about the working man and how hard they have it whilst protesting with people who literally want minorities dead.
I’ve seen them share content from the worst fascists in Ireland. When you call them out the response is “well they have a point 🤷‍♂️”.
Like, stop platforming Nazis!
It’s not hard to do!
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2026-04-14 20:16:52 GMT

I think the reason I’m so annoyed about the fuel protests and the support by many on the left is the ease at which they stood with literal fascists.
Only very recently we had Anti-Fascist counter protests on the streets of Dublin. The left stood together to show we had zero tolerance for far right rhetoric.
In the last week many of those same people stood shoulder to shoulder with bigots, racists, homophobes, misogynists. That shows your privilege.
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2026-04-08 19:22:38 GMT

I’ve been out of the country on holidays for a few days. Back tomorrow.
Can someone tell me who organised the protests in Dublin and what are they actually protesting about?
#Mastodaoine #Dublin

2026-02-05 17:04:20 GMT

Remembering the time on Twitter when I exposed a predatory creep who contacted women directly online, groomed them and coerced them into sending intimate images.
When I publicly posted about it apparently “everyone knew” but no one said anything. When I contacted his superiors and peers about his inappropriate behaviour I was mostly ignored.
He then made a formal complaint to the Gardaí about me and I was cautioned “for harassment” because I spoke out about him.
He is still platformed.

2025-09-10 20:52:41 GMT

*coughs*
https://www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some-etsy-witches-to-curse-charlie-kirk

2025-09-07 22:06:39 GMT

It’s really interesting & heartening to see the number of older people in the UK coming out to support #PalestineAction
It shouldn’t be surprising though.
People who are now in their late 70s and 80s were protesting in the 1960s. They were part of CND, they protested against the Vietnam war, fought against racism and started the civil rights movement in the UK & Northern Ireland.
They’re veteran activists and see what people power can achieve.
Fair play to them 🙌
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

2025-08-08 16:03:36 GMT

View from the #CasaBatlló in #Barcelona on a recent trip there.
Designed by #AntoniGaudi between 1904 and 1906 it’s a perfect blend of #ArtNoveau #Modernism and #Surrealism
#FensterFreitag
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2024-08-05 12:00:41 GMT

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I’d also add, the people instigating fascist violence at the moment are “ordinary people”.
They are from all walks of life.
Members of local communities, work colleagues, members of clubs you’re in. They’re in political parties and none. They’re “the elite” and they’re nobodies. They’re privileged and they’re poor.
They’re neighbours and friends and members of your family.
Othering them as monsters or not mentally well or even socially deprived excuses their behaviour.
They’re us.

2024-08-05 11:15:10 GMT

Blaming poverty and social inequalities for the recent increase in racism and fascism is a cop out tbh.
Historically racism starts at the top and filters down. It’s systemic. It’s in every aspect of our society but always starts with money and power.
Do fascists harness social unrest for their own agenda? Absolutely.
But don’t forget, even in the ranks of the wealthiest people on the planet racism exists.
It’s not a “working class issue”.
It’s a white person’s issue.