Mel Farrell

At least France's Newspapers are able to report the truth.

Putin's GRU-linked Election Fixers Are Already in Budapest to Help Orbán - VSquare.org Moscow has dispatched a team to Budapest to interfere in Hungary's April 2026 parliamentary elections, VSquare has learned from multiple European national security sources. The operation, overseen by ...

💥Moscow has sent a task team to interfere in Hungary's April 2026 elections, @vsquare.bsky.social has learned from multiple European national security sources. The US has also shared intelligence with allies on the GRU-linked task force overseen by Sergei Kiriyenko. vsquare.org/putins-gru-l...

I look forward to this one Barry

Delighted to sign a book deal with Four Courts Press on Michael Noyk, a solicitor who played a vital role in achieving Irish independence.

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization

Remember, “this isn’t our war.”

I truly despair at the state of our world in 2026.

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Despicable.

U2 - American Obituary (Lyric Video) YouTube video by U2

U2 'American Obituary'

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Donald Trump’s envoys failed to reassure Europe A gathering of world leaders in Munich shows how trust has collapsed

Donald Trump is trying something risky: the half-abandonment of allies. He is willing to do much less for the defence of Europe and NATO, but still expects allies to do as America says. That’s not a stable relationship and trust is crumbling. My column from #MSC2026
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Fergal Keane: veteran Irish foreign correspondent leaves BBC after 37 years Threats to a free press from oligarchs are now greater than ever, warns journalist as he departs reporting role

www.irishtimes.com/media/2026/0...

Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.

Sorry, that link is dead (what is up with Core HR???). This one works: universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.

Throwback to 29 January 2025 with my brother: Aston Villa 4-2 Celtic, in the Champions League. The atmosphere was electric

Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup * Ex-Fifa boss shows support for boycott calls * Security concerns over tournament have risen Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter on Monday suggested he supports fans boycotting World Cup matches in the United States this year due to security concerns. Blatter gave his support to comments from Swiss anti-corruption lawyer Mark Pieth, who worked with Fifa on potential reforms when Blatter was president, saying fans should stay away from the US for the tournament. Continue reading...

Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup

Friendly reminder: "If one side says it's raining and the other says it is dry, it is NOT your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the window and see which is the truth." – 101 Journalism

See through the lies. You're the watchdog. Bark. Bark as loud as you can.

The Vice-President of Germany's Football Association calls for a debate about boycotting this year's World Cup because of Trump

It is profoundly ironic that the whole stated purpose of mass gun ownership in the US - which carries it with the associated cost of frequent mass shootings, including in schools - is to protect against oppressive tyrannical government and yet...

17,000 fans cancel World Cup tickets overnight: FIFA plan emergency meeting Around 16,800 supporters have reportedly “cancelled World Cup tickets overnight”, prompting FIFA to schedule an emergency meeting later this week.

FIFA on alert after 17,000 fans cancel World Cup tickets in one night

I don't think even American liberals and anti-Trump conservatives really understand how much work Trump's successors in Washington will need to do to restore European trust in the United States

I'm old enough to remember when columnists claimed that Scott Bessent is the adult in the room
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🇳🇴❗️🇺🇦 Norway has refused to join Trump's Peace Council, as such an initiative does not comply with UN principles.

"It is quite clear that we cannot be part of a structure that challenges the role of the UN and existing international law."

I'm delighted to say we have set up a Research Centre for Legal History @maynoothlaw.bsky.social It promises to be interesting and a lot of fun.
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/law/research...

the international far right’s embrace of trump, and trump’s attempts to force the rest of the world to adopt miller’s international segregationism, is a reminder that even the “globalist” attack was projection. They want to use american power to remake the whole world into fash ethnostates

De Gaulle would be absolutely insufferable if he could see what was happening today.