Thursday, October 09, 2025

Salute to Che Guevara


Che Guevara

Once again... October 9 2025 marks the anniversary of the fall in combat of Ernesto Che Guevara, freedom fighter and legendary guerilla born: June 14, 1928, Rosario, Argentina.

His father Ernest Guevara Lynch said "The first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed the blood of the Irish rebels", he said in a 1969 interview. He went on: "Che inherited some of the features of our restless ancestors. There was something in his nature which drew him to distant wandering, dangerous adventures and new ideas".



As an Irishman I must again reiterate my immense pride in the fact that Che Guevara has family connections with Ireland.

a toast to Che... y hasta siempre

Saturday, May 25, 2024

Domains For Sale / Rent

Due to retirement these domains are no longer required. Please do not bid in tens of Euros, dollars or pounds for any of these domains. Any serious offer for any domain will be given serious consideration.

To make an offer for any of these domains please contact me, Des Donnelly, via https://www.dd.ie/p/contact.html

Coffee related domains:

  • RCoffee.ie
  • revolutionary.coffee
  • revolutionarycoffee.com
  • revolutionarycoffee.org
  • revolutionarycoffee.net
  • revolutionarycoffee.co.uk

Rexco.com is also for sale

Rexco.com may be for sale (subject to a sensible offer). Although Whois https://who.is/whois/rexco.com - shows registration as 1999 in reality it was registered in 1995. I have the original Network Solutions documentation. Unfortunately in moving from Netsol to Tucows it dropped over a weekend due to ‘pilot’ error.

https://web.archive.org/web/19961220200401/http://www.rexco.com


Thursday, March 16, 2023

Palestine - Join an Active Boycott

 



As per the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign page
https://www.ipsc.ie/campaigns/consumer-boycott

Ireland imports circa €3 billion plus from Israel - this is simply not good enough, writing to a supermarket or company is a waste of time, what is needed is in-company protest or at their point of sale, noise is not condusive to harmonious retail. 

It just takes one person to do a little and therein we could each create a ripple.

  • ask for the Manager 
  • complain to the checkout people
  • complain to any single person working for the entity
  • load as much as possible into a trolley, leave it in a corner - after you noticed you did not bring your wallet / purse / credit card

Supermarket products

The Israeli agricultural companies Mehadrin (Jaffa) and Carmel-Agrexco export fruit and vegetables for sale to Europe. Much of this produce is grown on confiscated Palestinian land in the Jordan Valley. Apart from oranges, other examples of fruit exported by these, and other, companies are grapefruits, peppers, avocados, grapes, figs, and passion and sharon fruits.

Dates from Israel
new potatoes
Carrots 
Herbs, such as basil, dill, tarragon, parsley, sage, rosemary, mint, chives and others are commonly sold.

Tivall is an Israeli company that produces vegetarian foods.
Sabra is an Israeli company that sells hummus and other dips.
Its parent company is the Strauss Group
Sodastream

Most Stanley/Black&Decker Toolboxes and plastic organisers are made in Israel. Plastic saw horses are also often available.

Keter exports a wide range of large plastic products from Israel. These include shelf storage bins, garden sheds, outdoor storage boxes, dog kennels and composting bins.

Palram is an Israel-based manufacturer of Polycarbonate and PVC products such as greenhouses, roofing, gazebos and sheds.

Lees Carpets are made by the Israeli company Carmel Carpets in the illegal industrial settlement zone of Barkan in the West Bank.

Dead Sea beauty products come in many brands including, Ahava, Dead Sea Magik, GADI21, -417, VivO, Nevo and Sea Spa Skincare.

MoroccanOil is an Israeli company that manufactures argan oil-based hair care products. Arganicare is another Israeli company that produces argan oil-based hair products.

Ronen Chen is an Israeli women’s fashion label 

Puma is the main sponsor of the Israel Football Association (IFA), which includes football teams in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land

The Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva, which specialises in generic drugs, is the “leading supplier of prescription drugs in the Irish market”. Thier Sudocrem is now made in Bulgaria.

The Israeli brand AMAV market a range of “activities” type craft boxes (plastic) and Art Easels for children.

Tiny Love is an Israeli toy manufacturer that make baby toys.

Lidl’s own brand Lupilu Babywipes are made in Israel.

The ‘DIY-website’ company Wix is headquartered in Israel, and Wix is the parent ogansiation of the online artistic platform DeviantArt which it acquired in 2017.

The audio plugin development company Waves is a joint US-Israeli venture.

The ancestry research and DNA testing website MyHeritage.com is headquartered in Tel Aviv.

Although officially headquatered in New York, Connecteam is an employee management app based in Israel.

The controversial online marketplace Fiverr is headquartered in Tel Aviv, while its Corporate Office is based in the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC.

Complicit Companies

HP Hewlett-Packard, although not an Israeli company, is boycottable due to the company’s deep role in helping entrench the occupation of Palestine and associated human rights abuses.

Similarly, while also not an Israeli company, Motorola Solutions (not Motorola Mobility, which is a separate company) is boycottable as it provides surveillance in Israeli illegal colonial settlements, profiting from this violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Siemens is another complicit multinational company that is building the EuroAsia Interconnector, a subsea cable that will link Israel’s electricity grid with Europe’s, allowing illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land to benefit from Israel-EU trade of electricity.



Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Death & Palestine

 Speak out, so you can face your children with integrity when they ask about events in Palestine.


Or join the cowards and bought politicians on the island of Ireland if you want - but death will come to your door one way or another.


Tuesday, April 13, 2021

What You Can Do for Palestine

 IPSC “Irish Artists’ Pledge to Boycott Israel”

In August 2010 the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) launched the following pledge, initially signed by over 140 (now over 1,200) Irish creative and performing artists, whereby they undertake to boycott the Israeli state under present circumstances:

“In response to the call from Palestinian civil society for a cultural boycott of Israel, we pledge not to avail of any invitation to perform or exhibit in Israel, nor to accept any funding from any institution linked to the government of Israel, until such time as Israel complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.” – See the full list of signatories here.
http://www.ipsc.ie/cultural-boycott/ipsc-irish-artists-pledge-to-boycott-israel#1

I call on all Irish artists to stand up and be counted!

Furthermore if you could find the time to visit https://www.ipsc.ie/
one particular area of concern is collaboration of An Garda Síochána and PSNI with the notorious Israeli Ministry of Public Security.

I'd ask everyone to follow the process outlined on IPSC to declare their opposition to any engagement with the notorious Israeli Ministry of Public Security. The letter is prepared so it is two clicks.

https://www.ipsc.ie/action-item/stop-gardai-psni-collaboration-with-israels-ministry-of-death-torture-and-racism


 'If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.'
Albert Einstein

...and for those of you who say it is nothing to do with me have a look at the images of the dead children in Gaza and everywhere else in Palestine where children and mothers and fathers are being killed indiscriminately.

Go go look in the mirror and tell yourself you are doing the right thing by doing nothing.,
go look at your children sleeping peacefully in their beds not spread around different houses to avoid the entire family being wiped out. 

You tell yourself whatever you think is right and proper and correct and I hope you have a good sleep on it....


I saw a man 

carrying his child 

out of the shop

here in Aughnacloy

it was alive..

:-(

Sunday, June 03, 2018

Remember her name: Razan al-Najjar, murdered by an Israeli sniper. #Gaza

We as a nation, the Irish, must remove the israeli from our land... we must...




Razan's mother, Sabreen Najjar:

"She was deliberately and directly killed by an explosive bullet..."I wish I could have seen her in her white wedding dress, not her shroud."





Friday, December 15, 2017

Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh RIP


shot by the israelis today :-(


viva Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh








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