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Equality, human rights, ex-catholic.

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Mary Robinson condemns US ‘attacks on truth’ during women’s day rally Addressing an International Women’s Day rally in Belfast, she claimed the current United States administration is “flooding the atmosphere with lies”
08.03.2026 13:35 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Middle East conflict is 'assault on international law' President Catherine Connolly has described the situation in the Middle East as a "deliberate assault on international law".

President Catherine Connolly has described the situation in the Middle East as a "deliberate assault on international law".

08.03.2026 13:38 👍 160 🔁 73 💬 6 📌 8
Kids in the Hind Rajab Centre playing football

Kids in the Hind Rajab Centre playing football

Children playing in the Hind Rajab Centre

Children playing in the Hind Rajab Centre

Kids in classes

Kids in classes

Kids playing

Kids playing

The Hind Rajab Centre is a collaboration between Dignity for Palestine, Adam SpiceBag Doyle and the tortoise shack. We are up and running. Nearly 100 kids in Gaza are getting back to school, receiving trauma therapy and having fun. Help us: www.patreon.com/posts/ionad-...

06.03.2026 11:28 👍 28 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
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Government's planned LNG terminal slammed as 'fundamentally incompatible' with climate policy Last year, the government approved the Floating Storage and Regassification Unit.

Irish government policy is to make us more reliant on foreign energy like LNG, while paying out tens of billions of euros in fines for failure to meet climate targets.

Moving to renewables is the only way for Ireland to develop its own sustainable, sovereign energy source. #speirgorm

02.03.2026 14:58 👍 67 🔁 31 💬 3 📌 0

Spineless and shameless.

02.03.2026 07:57 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I have woken up to excellent news.

Now can certain Irish parties PLEASE stop thinking the way to win elections is to pander to the right?

27.02.2026 06:22 👍 122 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 0

This is a chance for the team to show their values in action and stand with the people of Palestine.

26.02.2026 08:50 👍 46 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
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Reverend Jesse Jackson, the US Civil rights campaigner and two-time presidential candidate, has died aged 84.

In a statement today the Jackson family said Reverend Jackson died peacefully Tuesday surrounded by his family.

jrnl.ie/6959323

17.02.2026 09:49 👍 24 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1

Early!
Again!
A new habit?
We’ll see...🙄

Leaves me time to ask again though:
We need your help.
If you appreciate the work we do and the content we bring and want to ensure an honest brave voice for #bees please check out our fundraiser:

gofund.me/e65ad9615

Thanks folks…here’s your landscape bee:

16.02.2026 15:02 👍 50 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 2
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Shannon Airport used for refuelling Ice deportation flights 10 times in past year The controversial agency chartered small private aircraft for the removal operations

Irish Times: US aircraft carrying out secretive deportations to Africa and the Middle East have landed in Shannon Airport on 10 occasions in the last year. Deportees are kept in chains on the aircraft.
Our Govt does not want to know.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026... @gbrockell.bsky.social

09.02.2026 06:16 👍 118 🔁 99 💬 7 📌 10
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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

09.02.2026 07:59 👍 3460 🔁 1767 💬 204 📌 194

Ireland's leader is going to the White House to present a bowl of shamrock to a racist and fascist adjudicated by a civil court to be a rapist.
He and his ilk do not represent me and people like me, they never did, and they never will.

06.02.2026 21:20 👍 61 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 0
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Israeli air strikes in Gaza kill 21 people, including three children At least 556 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October.

Israeli air strikes today in Gaza have killed 21 people, including three children.

Despite a US-brokered truce entering its second phase last month, violence has continued in the Gaza Strip - at least 556 people have been killed since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October.
jrnl.ie/6946687

04.02.2026 14:57 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
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Come on Ireland, sign! For these ECIs to work and be considered by the European Commission, 7 EU member states must meet their threshold, for Ireland that's 10,080. We are now at 8,951, 88 8%. No more EU-Israel Agreement for the apartheid state.
#SanctionsNow
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

03.02.2026 12:40 👍 48 🔁 43 💬 0 📌 7
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The EU is pushing for significant deregulation, under the guise of "simplification". They are planning to chip away at one vital environmental law at a time. Once lost, these protections rarely return.

Take Action: iwt.ie/what-we-do/hands-off-nature/
More info: handsoffnature.eu/

02.02.2026 18:54 👍 28 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
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"Children are among at least 30 Palestinians killed in a fresh barrage of Israeli air strikes on Gaza.. helicopter gunships firing upon displaced people seeking shelter"

A report from an Australian news channel on Israels latest attack in Gaza.

02.02.2026 09:23 👍 73 🔁 54 💬 2 📌 5
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FS006108 Arramara Teoranta Harvesting of Seaweed Seaweed Harvesting

This massive Canadian agtech company has put in an application to harvest seaweed from basically the entire west coast. The maps are actually shocking www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

28.01.2026 22:27 👍 56 🔁 40 💬 9 📌 8
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I was asked to share this video of a 84 year old grandmothers house in Graiguenamanagh co Kilkenny which flooded today. More flood relief is badly needed in Graiguenamanagh and many other areas. Over years Ministers have visited and made promises but not delivered.

27.01.2026 13:46 👍 46 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 3

This is very useful!

23.01.2026 18:15 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

bsky.app/profile/patr...

21.01.2026 13:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 3
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In Drumcondra, a man puts off needed surgery as he faces into homelessness He fears not having a place to stay while he’s recovering, so he’s searching, hoping, and waiting.

In Drumcondra, a man has been putting off needed surgery as he faces into homelessness. He fears not having a place to stay while he’s recovering, so he’s searching, hoping, and waiting.

21.01.2026 08:20 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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President Connolly has written to His Majesty King Felipe VI to express her condolences, on behalf of the Irish people, to all those killed and impacted by the devastating train accident in Spain.

19.01.2026 19:19 👍 59 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
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Teléfonos para atender a los afectados por el descarrilamiento en Adamuz (Córdoba) 👇🏻

📌 Renfe: 900 101 020
📌 Iryo: 900 001 402
social.elpais.com/lcb…

19.01.2026 01:09 👍 64 🔁 94 💬 0 📌 0
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A ceasefire in name only: Israel's torment of Palestinians has not stopped Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne says Israel’s banning of 37 humanitarian organisations exposes the grim reality behind claims of a Gaza ceasefire.

Israel's torment continues: "Apparently, there's a ceasefire in Gaza; tell that to the Palestinians"

Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne says Israel's banning of 37 humanitarian organisations exposes the grim reality behind claims of a Gaza ceasefire.

jrnl.ie/6927711

18.01.2026 08:45 👍 23 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 2

"There is one political problem from which all others follow, [including] the devastation of the living world.

It is simply stated: the extreme wealth of a small number of people."

If you truly care about nature, it's madness to ignore the root cause of its destruction.

17.01.2026 08:10 👍 203 🔁 69 💬 5 📌 2

Handing over your Nobel Peace Prize to Trump is a pathetic act of appeasement, but so is visiting him in the White House with a little bowl of shamrocks & hoping he won't say anything mean. So is refusing to condemn him for kidnapping a president. It's all appeasement, Trump won't differentiate

16.01.2026 09:44 👍 185 🔁 45 💬 6 📌 3
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'Huge relief': Irish man Sean Binder found not guilty of people smuggling in Greece Binder faced a total of 23 charges, including money laundering and smuggling.

Irish man and humanitarian volunteer Sean Binder has been acquitted of all charges, including membership of a criminal organisation, fraud, money laundering, and smuggling, at a court in Greece this evening
jrnl.ie/6928251

15.01.2026 19:12 👍 87 🔁 29 💬 3 📌 7
Holly Cairns (Cork South-West, Social Democrats)
Link to this: Individually. | In context
I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I am aware that the Minister of State, Deputy
Smyth, had said she would arrange a meeting with X.
That did not exactly fill me with confidence in the first instance. On "Morning Ireland", we heard the UCD law professor and chair of Digital Rights Ireland, T.J.
Mcintyre, say that an immediate criminal investigation was warranted. He said that if somebody set up a child abuse image producing factory on, for example, Fenian Street, and their name was not Elon Musk, they would have been raided by the gardai long ago. It is safe to say that in that scenario, there would not be any kind of meeting with the Minister.
I am glad the Taoiseach acknowledged that we have existing laws in relation to this for companies. Not distributing child sexual abuse images is one that very clearly should be abided by.
It is welcome that the Taoiseach has spoken to the Attorney General. I wonder when that happened and when he plans to convene the meeting of the relevant Ministers. Is the Taoiseach aware of any kind of investigation already taking place?
Michel Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Minister of State, Deputy Niamh Smyth, has spoken very frankly and robustly to me in
respect of this issue.
She clearly has very strong views on it and how we engage both with the platforms and how we should legally respond. Because there are a number of different Departments …
.
In terms of the investigations, that is a matter for the investigating authorities and it always has been in respect of any illegality or breach of the law. I am not aware of a specific investigation yet by An Garda Siochána but it does not alert us to every investigation that takes place. It has to observe due process. I presume that is how this issue will be dealt with also.

Holly Cairns (Cork South-West, Social Democrats) Link to this: Individually. | In context I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I am aware that the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, had said she would arrange a meeting with X. That did not exactly fill me with confidence in the first instance. On "Morning Ireland", we heard the UCD law professor and chair of Digital Rights Ireland, T.J. Mcintyre, say that an immediate criminal investigation was warranted. He said that if somebody set up a child abuse image producing factory on, for example, Fenian Street, and their name was not Elon Musk, they would have been raided by the gardai long ago. It is safe to say that in that scenario, there would not be any kind of meeting with the Minister. I am glad the Taoiseach acknowledged that we have existing laws in relation to this for companies. Not distributing child sexual abuse images is one that very clearly should be abided by. It is welcome that the Taoiseach has spoken to the Attorney General. I wonder when that happened and when he plans to convene the meeting of the relevant Ministers. Is the Taoiseach aware of any kind of investigation already taking place? Michel Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail) Link to this: Individually | In context The Minister of State, Deputy Niamh Smyth, has spoken very frankly and robustly to me in respect of this issue. She clearly has very strong views on it and how we engage both with the platforms and how we should legally respond. Because there are a number of different Departments … . In terms of the investigations, that is a matter for the investigating authorities and it always has been in respect of any illegality or breach of the law. I am not aware of a specific investigation yet by An Garda Siochána but it does not alert us to every investigation that takes place. It has to observe due process. I presume that is how this issue will be dealt with also.

Yesterday, Holly Cairns directly raised the existence of an abuse image factory being set up in Fenian street with the Taoiseach. He responded by saying he didn’t know if there was any investigation into it by the polic

14.01.2026 07:32 👍 65 🔁 32 💬 7 📌 8
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Watch: Video shows dramatic rescue of 14 off stricken trawler on Kerry coast Large fishing vessel had been driven onto rocks in very bad conditions

Great work by the Coastguard and RNLI - 14 crewmen winched to safety in terrible conditions

14.12.2025 15:03 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Brian Eno urges support to get Together for Palestine song to Christmas No 1 Lullaby features Palestinian singer, lyrics written by Peter Gabriel and artists including Eno and Celeste

Brian Eno urges support to get Together for Palestine song to Christmas No 1

Lullaby features Palestinian singer, lyrics written by Peter Gabriel and artists including Eno and Celeste

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