NEW: CNN also confirms my reporting — and furthers the story — that the DOJ withheld at least 3 FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/u...

Three books I read/reviewed recently & recommend, all about the Middle East: 'The True True Story of Raja the Gullible' (and His Mother) - Rabih Alameddine (Novel. Lebanon) 'Fire in Every Direction - Tareq Baconi' (Memoir. Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) 'Defiance' - Loubna Mrie (Memoir. Syria)

Another poisonous legacy.

Patting us on the head, tutting with sympathy at our situations and rattling buckets to provide us with charity won’t make us go away, decades of locking us up away and ignoring us didn’t work either and now we are too many, too visible, too needy and have unrealistic expectations.

There’s more bad news for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in the Epstein files: Previously unreported documents show he hasn’t been accurate—or, perhaps, honest—about the extent of his business ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

If you voted for FF or FG since the crash, you own this, and every man, woman and child you made homeless. And you'll do the same again next time because you're too selfish to care.

Are they getting bored not using the ones we already have?

US lobby group Airlines for America tells Irish govt it must move faster to lift Dublin Airport passenger cap.

Back to Kyrls quay This historic warehouse is from 1856 Look at the beautiful limestone Rotting for decades We really hate our architectural heritage in Cork city #speirgorm

The above is posted because this morning’s feed was dominated by media-types’ navel-gazing about the merits of this site. None of that navel-gazing mentioned, eg, how many stories on Mandelson etc are broken on here, not X. And how informative many commenters here can be.

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#spéirgorm ⚠️

Israel has already been accused of stealing Palestinian organs. They also happen to have the largest skin bank in the world. So are they also stealing people's skin?

Pat Brodie, Rory Rowan and myself make the argument here (and in a longer research paper if anyone is interested). www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

“The gaslighting from Rubio was a sight to behold: the son of Cuban immigrants, whose grandfather was once deported from the United States, pushing far-right, white-nationalist talking points about “civilizational erasure” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ireland No. 1 in Europe - yet again. GHGs rose faster (+3.2%) in Ireland in Q3 2025 than ANYWHERE else in Europe. #Climate action, my eye.

What stage the priority schemes are at and the (tentative) target completion dates www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Prosecutors prepared Epstein ‘death’ announcement — a day before it happened...

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

The government’s own economic advisers are giving it perfect political cover to reject Jim O’Callaghan’s increasingly brutal immigration policies but it won’t because our government ministers are amoral spoofers who don’t care about anything beyond the next poll www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Ireland: A stunning 71 per cent of respondents favour putting a guarantee about neutrality in the Constitution. Latest Irish Times poll.

irishcycle.com/2026/02/04/h... How Green is the Irish Times??

Infuriating! Make cycling safer by preventing vehicles from crashing into them, not by policing what they wear.

Why is this useless FF/FG government so determined to do the wrong thing when it comes to anything to do with the simplest action for the environment?

I do not have an official count, but it seems almost all of my colleagues from my time at the Post were fired. Some while they are on assignments in hostile countries or on the frontline. And the financial reasoning behind this makes no sense. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

🚨Powerful polluting industries and reckless lawmakers are tearing down our main EU water law. ☠️ For the past 25 years, the law has driven the cleanup of our rivers and lakes. 💙💧 We need to stop them. 🛑 Sign our petition to say #HandsOffNature ✋👇 https://f.mtr.cool/idwqdgltoj

Ireland’s questionable relationship with social media giants and scam ads jrnl.ie/6941938

I'll be on a panel following a screening of Koyaanisqatsi at the Bohemian Environmental Justice Film Festival on Friday next in Phibsboro, tickets €10 beff.ie

What gives you hope in these awful times? I’ll tell you my answer: the people of Minneapolis.

It takes a massive ego to be still playing high-class professional tennis at 38yrs old 🥱 #Djokovic #AO

The UN Charter outlaws armed aggression against another country. The Constitution of Ireland commits our country to abide by this rule. That's why we have a law saying members of our DF can only be ordered into a foreign battlefield if the UN okays it. Govt wants to change that to please .. someone.

the absolute disgrace of this...

Whenever flooding hits, we hear in detail all about the wrecked homes, livelihoods, property, and related misery. But NEVER the major cause: that Ireland has been totally stripped of the native ecosystems like forest & bogs that would naturally have absorbed the water. share.google/aNF6Fg26wdmB...

Claire Nicolet from MSF on the enormous numbers of people in Gaza who are in desperate need of medical treatment that can't be provided in the strip.

Craig Murray's @CraigMurrayOrg report from Venezuela offers a counter-point to the propaganda about what is really going on on the ground. Worth a read www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...

Highly recommend the audiobook version of this excellent memoir (read most enjoyably by the author)

We were only ones in room not being paid Only ones spending our time & money trying to end scourge of vacancy & dereliction Only ones who've spent best part of last 6 yrs working on this for free Yet we still get attacked every single day Me & @judesherry.bsky.social fight on with Dóchas🙏 #speirgorm

#Speirghorm Let's stay in touch with Palestine!

A must read

🧵 1/4 Here's the first frame-by-frame analysis of the shooting in MN today x.com/adamscochran.... It shows that the victim was filming with his camera before being tackled and roughed up by police.

Two multi-billion-euro weapons manufacturers are sponsoring a speaking event with EU commissioner for democracy, justice and rule of law Michael McGrath. McGrath will speak at the 5 February Forum Europa event sponsored by Indra Group and Airbus. www.ontheditch.com/two-weapons-...

Will you join Brian Eno, Jeremy Corbyn, Zack Polanski, Francesca Albanese, Grace Blakeley, Laura Pidcock, Srećko Horvat, Erik Edman, Francesca Martinez, Shappi Khorsandi, Inua Ellams and me in London's TROXY on 24/3? What for? To declare that RESISTANCE IS EXISTENCE! diem25.org/resistance-i...

Le Jeune’s group launched a petition to recall the mayor of Port Washington, a Wisconsin town on Lake Michigan where construction began last month on a $15 billion data center to service OpenAI and Oracle through the Stargate project backed by Donald Trump. www.notus.org/wisconsin/da...

In just one year, Donald Trump has used the clemency power to wipe out restitution, fines, and forfeitures totaling over $1.5 billion. This includes sums owed to fraud victims and taxpayers. Read more in my latest Substack post. www.lawyeroyer.com/p/trumps-yea...