Financial barriers to environmental litigation are against the law, because protecting the environment is an important public interest. The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment Please read and take action 👇

In the past week, the Trump-Vance admin: –Bombed Nigeria –Bombed Venezuela, abducted its leader –Bombed more ships in the middle of the ocean –Threatened military action in Iran, Colombia, and Cuba –Accepted the “Israel Prize” & hosted Netanyahu in Mar-a-Lago (despite his soldiers killing Americans)

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan have written a weekly column for nearly two decades. This is their final dispatch, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities in people-centered journalism.

Damn, this is good. So, so good. Read it and jumpstart your mind for the new year. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

A must watch - particularly because they tried to censor it. The Trump regime is sending people to be tortured.

Every 2 days a guy that looks exactly like this wakes up and says 'have we tried capitalism as a climate solution??????????????' and then fifteen billion dollars of funding materialises in front of them

If you are Christmas shopping today, consider buying my book. Think about how fun it would be to expose an unsuspecting loved one to me, Carl Kinsella.

Lads what happened to Dublin?

It's just over 3 weeks since Ireland was found in breach by the ECJ for failing to protect waterbodies from physical damage. The government response? Lower the legal bar for these waterbodies, so the damage can continue, with insufficient justification. Our waterways are not in safe hands.

@gareth2025.bsky.social superb article in @irishexaminer.bsky.social last Saturday: 'Religious views are tolerated but contempt of court is not'. In fact, I always look forward to your Saturday article 👏

I've been studying & covering the far right (esp Nordic) for decades, and in that time I've seen them go from being fringe nutters to being in government. I've seen the views expressed by the bigest single mass-murderer in modern Nordic history become mainstream - views now endorsed by Fianna Fáil.

What a criminal disgrace this man is

This implies torture and neglect, under international laws and treaties. I was not convinced that the report of a recent beating by guards was accurate, bc it was identical to one from 13 mos ago. He’s been assaulted, 7 times, in 2 yrs, according to this and is being denied medical treatment, food

'Spot-on' article by @carlkinsella.bsky.social in @thejournal.ie 💥 This is why talented young ppl are leaving Ireland in droves 👇 Surrealing in the Years: 'How To Suffer Indignity' - a documentary by the Department of Housing jrnl.ie/6901435

Everyone should watch this TED talk 👇

@pbresnihan.bsky.social I'm just watching a talk you gave (years ago it seems) on hedge schools with Helena Sheehan (formerly DCU) on tv! Series called '5 Wednesdays'. Very interesting.

Spéirghorm

Hani Mahmoud reports on the killing of Abu Shabab, the head of an armed gang in Gaza that was backed by & collaborated with Israel.

Defence Force Reservists face cruel cut by government! The Tánaiste Micheál Martin says he's "not aware" of it. This government would take the clothes off your back if they thought they could get away with it. All while they've a record surplus cash pile of ~€25billion!

#spéirgjorm You can get Democracy Now news with Amy Goodman 👇@6.00pm on 800 virginmedia tv

Israel never not attacking, killing. #terrorism in middle east

The sun sets on Kilcatherine cemetery, near me. The grave marker on the left is very old, likely early medieval. Many of the later grave markers here are simple uncut field stones from famine times, when the local population was devastated.

'The madness of war confers a seeming authority on the wielders of weapons. Even those who in no way agree with them are silenced, stunned by the sheer awesomeness of what is being done.' John Maguire (2001)

A disgrace and a shambles between #Tusla and DoJ 👇

“We express our grave concern at the continuing imprisonment of Marwan Barghouti, his violent mistreatment+denial of legal rights whilst imprisoned. We call upon the UN and the Governments of the World to actively seek the release of Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison” Full list: FreeMarwan.org

Can I just fucking say, imagine if any of these people ever faced any kind of fucking consequence for just blurting out bullshit like this

Consultation on Gov's plans to tip the #ScalesofJustice in their favour just published 👇 As feared they plan to bury this and stimy public participation by running it over the Christmas/New Year Period closing on Thu 15 Jan #Aarhus #AccessToJustice www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

98% of sludge from #IrishWater’s sewage plants is spread on land. While we have done a lot of research on impacts on #water quality I found very few researchers working on what it does to #soil and #food. Seems like a bit of an oversight now 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you want to do something good, donate to the Sameer project - we hear a lot about 'on the ground' aid work but this is the genuine thing. Solidarity and care in struggle. RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1491...

Much sneering and cries of antisemitism today regarding people voicing concern at Israeli and Zionist involvement in an Irish local government decision. Meanwhile …

“5 year legal odyssey came to end in High Court with a couple vindicated in full in their battle over mobile phone mast In sticking to their guns, they did the State & fellow citizens an enormous service-one likely not appreciated” @ciananbrennan.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Artist, member of Cumann na mBan, revolutionary and an Irish Jewish woman - rename that park after the wonderful Estella Solomons #speirgorm jewishmuseum.ie/jews-of-irel...

You would think that someone with a degree in history would understand that renaming a park cannot and will not erase any history of any community or group, similarly to how the taking down statues of slavers has not erased the history of slavery! #speirgorm

Gaza glaucoma patients face blindness as Israel blocks supplies - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-glaucoma-patients-face-blindness-israel-blocks-supplies

If people are worried that renaming Herzog Park might seem like anti-semitism, how about we rename it after Margaretta D’Arcy #speirghorm

READ: Harriet Malinowitz’s new book, "Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara," reveals how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian oppression and dispossession. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-...

Mohammed Ibrahim is free! Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months “Israel is the only country in the world that systematically prosecutes children in military courts, according to a 2013 Unicef report.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Here's the Department of Justice confirming it has no plans to give certain people already lawfully resident here the right to work, despite (a) a labour shortage and (b) a panic about inward migration levels. Madness #speirghorm www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/q...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Information Commissioner rules RTÉ’s ‘nixer’ payment bands must stay secret as privacy rights outweigh public interest in disclosure. Our latest case update: www.thestory.ie/2025/11/21/i...

What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights

Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.

Over the 19 years Ireland has had a derogation from the nitrates directive we have backed ourselves in to a corner. Which now leaves us having productive and economically viable farms or cleaner rivers and lakes, but not both. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Front page of the IT today is a story about a single jamming incident attributed to Russia that happened in 2022. Other jamming incidents not attributed to Russia are also reported, judged by officials to be “low risk”. How is this reasonable reporting on defence and security?