Happy St Patrick's Day! ☘️

Hard to believe it's six years since my 🇮🇪 citizenship ceremony in Killarney. Sadly, the British government has today offered up more performative cruelty and punching down - this time targeting people who’ve been granted sanctuary. So I wrote this #NewBlogPost www.paulsceeny.com/post/perform...

Drawing together the bin fire that is Greater Lincolnshire’s defunding of #ESOL with a few wider reflections on the weaponisation of #LanguageEducation by the British government and others. #NewBlogPost #AdultEducation #LanguageIsPolitical #LoveESOL💚💛 www.paulsceeny.com/post/the-wea...

Would that be the same Jim Ratcliffe who’s busy ‘colonising’ Monaco when he’s not spouting ballix like this?

Tomorrow's Headlines The Telegraph: Starmer Next! The Guardian: Morgan McSweeney's Gone, Thank God! The Irish Times: Irishman forced out of UK Labour Role The Irish (Cork) Examiner: Having Completed Michael Collins' Work, and brought low the British Government, Macroom Calls it's Son Home

I share this video at each opportunity for a number of reasons, primary among them: 1.It reminds us of the deep emotion connected to British colonial violence in our country 2.The human dignity exhibited by Mark Durkan MP overwhelming 3.The names of our fellow citizens, slain youtu.be/MKVGO2eZKvE

The Boss is singing about ICE on the Streets of Minneapolis. You won't hear this played at the Kennedy Center or on Fox News. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Important to stand firm against this pernicious attempt to frame #ESOL vs #AdultLiteracy as a zero-sum game, and to play one group of #AdultLearners off against the other. Glad to have sent this letter on behalf of #NATECLA💚💛 to the Mayor of #GreaterLincolnshire www.natecla.org.uk/news/natecla...

Plot thickens… 😮 Tl;dr they’re both toast (with only their bonuses to keep the wolves from the door!).

Appalling and unforgivable as it was that WM Police cited a fictional event as *part* of its case, let’s not fall into the trap of thinking Maccabi fans should have been allowed to go rampaging around Birmingham. There’s more than enough real evidence as to why the ban was justified.

Doubting survivors and tightening evidence does not strengthen protections for people trapped in modern slavery. It weakens them. Data shows many refusals are overturned on review. Our laws should amplify justice not silence the vulnerable. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Just to say I’ve called time on the other place…

I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie

I've signed this petition calling for the government to act against X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie

“It’s raining” “No it’s not” Try looking out the window… 😔

Aye, that rules-based world order… 😔 www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

In 2025, 41,472 people had to arrive by small boat to the UK. Zero small boats came to NI. That's 64 people per parliamentary constituency across the UK per year. In NI, 32,000 people died on hospital waiting lists in 3 years, that's 10,666 per year or 562 per parliamentary constituency. [1/2]

Anti-Palestinian racism silences, excludes, erases, stereotypes, dehumanizes, or defames Palestinians, those who are perceived as Palestinian, or anyone who expresses support for Palestinian freedom. • Visualizing Palestine

Grifters gonna grift with their “tHeY’rE cAnCeLlInG cHrIsTmAs” shite.🥱💩

It's that time to send out the festive greeting/graphic and put on the out-of-office, but as I do here's a few hastily gathered thoughts and reflections on the year just gone: www.paulsceeny.com/post/end-of-... #NewBlogPost #FestivePost ##ESOL #AdultLiteracies #AdultEducation #AntiRacism

Thank you to the team behind Ban Conversion Therapy (UK) for going to #DowningStreet today to hand a letter to the #PrimeMinister. It's about time that this harmful practice was fully banned in the UK. #BanConversionTherapy #LGBTQIA www.banconversionpractices.com/news

Israeli artillery has been shelling areas east of Gaza City for the past two hours.

We support @learnworkuk.bsky.social's #GetTheNationLearning campaign, sponsoring the Excellence in Teaching Award won by Nerissa Roberts, Curriculum Lead for Adult ESOL at @oldhamcollege.bsky.social. ETF CEO Dr Katerina Kolyva spoke at the awards, highlighting our commitment to adult learning.

Reflecting on running the Lanzarote Half Marathon (slowly!) 🌍🏃‍♂️ last weekend, amidst some thoughts about the state of #AdultEducation across these islands and need to keep running up the down escalator. #NewBlogPost #EmancipatoryEducation #ESOL #AdultLiteracies www.paulsceeny.com/post/running...

At least @rte.ie has enough moral fibre to stand firm on this. Shame on @ebu.ch. #GenocideWashing and #ApartheidWashing ain’t entertainment. I certainly won’t be watching. #BoycottEurovision RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

From the people that brought you: - Let's arrest pensioners for 'terrorism' if they hold up signs. - Let's leave people seeking sanctuary in limbo for decades. The British government now presents: - Let's make looking up dinghies on the Argos website an offence... 🥺

NEW. Another 5% drop in adults doing English & maths. Numbers ⬇️60% since 2011. Matters as 9m adults have low literacy or numeracy, limiting work & life chances. Current trends = 20+ years to fix. DfE attribute latest fall to removing English & maths reqs from apprenticeships, a backward step IMV

Celebrating 15 years 🎈🎉 of @forumadultlearning.bsky.social Building the case for #AdultEducation across the north of Ireland. When adults learn, the whole of society benefits. #ESOL #AdultLiteracies #LifelongLearning #NATECLA #NICVA

The PSNI is facing fresh questions about consistency in policing, as Belfast and Derry prepare for Palestine Action protests on Saturday. Since Palestine Action was banned, the PSNI has made three arrests and sent six files to the Public Prosecution Service. www.thedetail.tv/articles/pal...

Day 2 at @aontas.com #AdultEducationSummit2025. I’ll never tire of that view! 😃 #AONTASSummit #NEAAL

Looking forward to this…

Tomorrow is the day. The AONTAS Adult Education Summit is finally here! Attending the summit? Get prepared! Check out the workshops schedule in our official brochure and have a think about which ones you'll join. See the full details here: shorturl.at/dhkEm #NEAAL #AdultEducationSummit2025

Some thoughts on travelling to Edinburgh and Glasgow last week with the #HolywellTrust #ForwardThinking programme. www.paulsceeny.com/post/thinkin...

To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.

Ready for the off! 😀 #NATECLAScotland conference getting underway at @uniwestscotland.bsky.social in Paisley. Delighted Orsi Dunn is providing the keynote. #NATECLAScot25 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ESOL #NATECLA #ConnectShareNetwork #ESOLCPD 💚💛

Go raibh míle maith agat a Mhícheál D. Ó hUiginn 👏👏

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Comhghairdeas lenár nUachtarán seo chugainn! 🎉🇮🇪 Congratulations to our next President! 🎉🇮🇪

Just disgusting. It’s rightly being widely condemned, but appalling we live in a climate where a gulpin like this can feel so empowered.

Finally managed to pull my initial thoughts on the British govt's Post-16 Education and Skills White paper into a blog. I'm not the first to vent about adults being just an afterthought and the continued framing of adult learning as solely about 'skills'. www.paulsceeny.com/post/educati...

It’s so tiresome- being gaslit by the D4 establishment about ‘reconciliation’ being a prerequisite for reunification. Miriam O’C parroting the nonsense talking point about the Irish language being ‘weaponised’ is a case in point.

A bitterly disappointing day for our city. Justice denied, again. It’s small comfort that ****** at least got to see the inside of a courtroom (albeit behind a coward’s curtain) - unlike those who sent him here. There is no British justice.

Bad day for the rule of law. The state can murder you in front of witness, cameras, frustrate justice for years, oversee destroying evidence and then put it 53 year later before a jury less trial to give themselves the green light about it all. And I have to pay my taxes to fund it

T'was ever thus. Though at least ****** got to see the inside of a courtroom (albeit behind a coward's curtain) - and has had to live with the possibility of being held to account for his actions. Sadly, the same can't be said of those who sent him and his muckers to our city.

The UK media last week spent so much time banging on about a football match. Will they give the same amount of coverage to this ? I very much doubt it

#EndIsraeliWarcrimes #EndIsraeliImpunity

Unforced errors doesn’t even begin to cut it.

I see the pro-genocide grievance factory is in full overdrive about a football match that shouldn’t be happening in the first place.