HH choking trying to avoid answering whether the US enabled genocide in Gaza. Can’t bring herself to say anything other than US bringing peace. For that alone, vote @catherinegalway.bsky.social #Aras25 #SpeirGorm

🏮Once more for evening voters in Cork North Central who normally vote in Trinity Presbyterian Church polling station 🏮

In the last few minutes of #Aras25 election I just want to say a huge GRMA to #TeamConnolly U all know who u are - ordinary folk but there's also a tiny core fab 😇 All inspired by #CatherineConnolly who's worked so hard not just in this campaign but 4 decades 4 #fairness #justice #respect 🥰

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Who's the greenest Connolly or Humphreys? Doh! It seems only Brian Leddin doesn't know. I'm in no doubt: Connolly rocks on #Aarhus; #ClimateChange; #Nature; on fairness & in listening. Great Letter to the Editor in the @IrishTimes.com by @sineadmercier.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2db5kr7m #Aras25

Today is Super Saturday, say the volunteers at catherineconnollyforpresident.ie. Turnout is everything, and nothing improves turnout more than the personal request.

#Speirgorm #ConnollyForPresident #MakeYourPlanToVote #VoteConnolly1only

Happy #Caturday lovely phone family. How's everyone doing? An important reminder for those in the UK. Our little hoggy friends are already struggling and need all the help they can get 🦔🦔🦔 Have a beautiful day 🌷 #HaveCourageAndBeKind ♥️

When hope and history rhyme, Catherine Connolly a woman for our time "Calm can be radical, listening can be revolutionary" A voice who will be a moral compass for Ireland - and on a world stage #CatherineConnollyNo1 mar Uachtarán na hÉireann Laura nails it www.hotpress.com/opinion/when...

We waited 20 years for John Bolton to be punished for telling lies about Iraq. Instead, he gets punished for telling the truth about Trump.

On Gaza: "We have lost account of how many are dead, men women and children… We have a duty to ask questions. How is this happening under our watch? If we accept genocide, what are the consequences for humanity?" #TonightVMTV

Connolly is winning this easily going by a totally random poll on Gav Reilly’s page #Aras25 #TonightVMTV #Áras25

“If we accept genocide as it’s unfolding in Palestine where does it go next?” @catherinegalway.bsky.social #TonightVMTV #Áras25

The Gardai have no complaint of an assault but that’s not stopping stories and asbos and curfews getting a run out …. #TonightVMTV

His posters make him look even more like Putin.

🗣️ "We are a neutral country and we should be using our voice, as small as we are." – Catherine Connolly #TonightVMTV

FF candidate defends self-proclaimed Irish Nationalist xenophobes putting flag of our country wherever they want. Wow. FG candidate says “we should speak to them.” No. #Tonightvmtv #Áras25

It will be interesting to see if there are any arrests for Malicious communications this time🤔

Musicians call on Keir Starmer to accept that genocide is taking place in Gaza in a video projected onto the entrance of the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool

Never let details get in the way of a good story.

My FOI of Government memo confirms more data centres means higher electricity bills for all. "The expansion of data centres has raised security of supply concerns and leads to associated costs to taxpayers and electricity bill payers," the memo stated. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

On Thursday I’ll travel as an independent observer of the latest Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. Alongside human rights lawyers and international law experts, our role is to monitor and record any breaches of international law by Israel. These flotillas act where the international community has failed 🇵🇸

It's commitment & leadership to: Human Rights; international law; rule of law, the values of the EU Treaties; to humanity, compassion & action for justice that makes me proud to have voted for @lnbdublin.bsky.social as an MEP and now on the Legal Observer Contingent for the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza

A positive move on environmental protection from Ireland (For a change) www.thejournal.ie/sprat-fishin...

Reported with @dropsitenews.com Palestinian scholarship students with places at Irish universities and processed visas remain trapped in Gaza as the Irish government refuses to evacuate Palestinians who aren’t on 'official government scholarships'. www.ontheditch.com/government-w...

Voting age for UK general elections to be lowered to 16. 👏 Hopefully this will strengthen the power of younger voters. Also, getting people to vote when they are school age increases the probability of voting in their first election, which sets a “voting habit” early. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Jamie Lee Curtis on The Late Show cancellation. “They’re trying to silence us. That won’t work…we’ll just get louder”

i’m at the druid riders to the sea i’m at the druid macbeth i’m at the combination druid riders to the sea macbeth

Today's the day ! It's launch day for the #BigButterflyCount . . . Get out between now and 10th August for 15 minutes and count the butterflies you see & help the great citizen science of @savebutterflies.bsky.social ! Get involved at bigbutterflycount.org

I’ve mentioned this before, but outspoken US Catholics like Colbert are particularly inconvenient for a regime like Trump’s. Somewhat related, I wrote this a few months ago www.hauntologies.net/p/ordo-amoris

NOTE: I am watching this developing story, which would seem to provide definitive evidence that the Trump administration has been lying to courts — I can think of, specifically, at least D. D.C., D. Maryland, and Second Circuit — about its authority over people sent to CECOT.

His health is failing. He’s caught in an accelerating scandal that he can’t control. When his end comes it will be Shakespearian. Perhaps even Caesarian. “There is a tide in the affairs of men.”

Remember Live Aid? That was woke af. We should have another to feed the starving kids in Gaza.

Come on Sinn Fein. It's time to get behind Catherine Connolly for president. www.thejournal.ie/catherine-co...

How to understand the Green leadership race, and why I’m voting for @zackpolanski.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... < by me

Farage has said there was "zero" due diligence for the 2024 parliamentary selection. The party says its checks are much better now, though controversies continue. In East Thanet, Kent party now thinks it is too stringent & wants rejected candidates to reapply with lower bar bsky.app/profile/josi...

The more we discover, the worse it gets. Now we learn the water companies wrote the guidance ensuring sewage sludge is not tested for the vast majority of contaminants before being spread on farmland. They gave themselves a free licence to dump hazardous waste. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales Restrictions on shot and bullets containing toxic metal to be phased in over three years from 2026 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great article from Padraig Fogarty pointing out that the government doesn't care about the marine. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Great investigation by @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we sued the government over this and lost over a frankly bizarre set of legal distinctions. But we will keep coming at this issue until the mass contamination of farmland ends. Watch this space: fightingdirty.org

The older I get, the more every day feels like this. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Sometimes it's difficult to tell if it's satire or not

"On the brink" is putting it mildly. We need concerted action to stop this happening. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

This is a big #environmental move. I hope more countries bring it in. splash247.com/finland-bans...

EU: Selective solidarity does not come any more blatant.

The game is being rigged.

Who benefits from damaging the integrity of judicial review?

Cutting out the Judges: The State controls who may hold it to account, under the new Planning Act. - Attracta uí Bhroin @ UCC Law and the Environment