‘Democratic leadership has failed to engage with the moral anguish felt by many Americans about US complicity in genocide’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today’s (only?) good news… #renewables #solar #wind #batteries www.bbc.com/news/science...

Article can be read for free here: www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/... Thanks to everyone who made themselves available for interview including the two people quoted #mecfs #cfs #pwme

Arrested for reading a poem … threateningly That’s where we are Xander Elliards The National ☕️🥐

42 years ago, Mary Manning — a 21-year-old Dublin cashier — refused to ring up South African grapefruit. She was suspended. Ten colleagues walked out with her, and their strike lasted almost three years, until Ireland became the first Western country to ban apartheid goods.

Today is the 42nd anniversary of the start of the Dunnes Stores strike and boycott. www.rte.ie/archives/201...

'We will never achieve independence by waiting for it as the motor of change. Independence has to be understood as the accelerator of change.' Jim Osborne, via The National archive.is/Jb0yq

A 102-year-old woman has described as a "godsend" the support she receives during the current hot spell, amid calls from charities to support older and vulnerable people amid high temperatures

In case anyone was in any doubt: agri-industry lobbyists (including the IFA) are working hard to accelerate biodiversity collapse & #climate breakdown in pursuit of short term profits. It’s what they do. And Irish politicians know-tow to them at every turn. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Excellent piece by Mick Clifford: Jim O'Callaghan's crusade against legal aid will damage access to justice www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.

Former Irish president Mary Robinson and former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark have warned of the potential disappearance of the Palestinian territories and called for an end to what they called Israeli "impunity"

“The world needs forgiveness. Too many people are caught up in resentment and harbor hatred because they are incapable of forgiving. They ruin their own lives and the lives of others rather than find the joy of peace and serenity.” #PopeFrancis assisiproject.com

BREAKING: Nearly half of House Democrats voted to cut off aid to Israel, a moment of reckoning as the party confronts years of voter outrage over the war in Gaza.

"We can no longer afford to subsidise research for environmentally destructive, socially exploitative or military-linked industries in the name of increasing European competitiveness." Prof Jennie Stephens www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

It’s 2026 and Leo Varadkar is defending immigrants against David McWilliams and Nick Delehanty.

A defence barrister in Australia was setting out the mitigating factors re his clients guilty plea for raping a 14 year old girl, he said it ‘only’ lasted for 5 minutes. Judge Ryan Haddrick interrupted and ordered the court be silent for 5 minutes, to show just how long it is. Powerful & necessary

"Leader of the Liberals calling for punishment of political speech" is a pretty good synopsis of how far English discourse has shifted from sanity.

“Anti immigrant sentiment and Islamophobia have been perpetually weaponised to manufacture consent for foreign wars” ~Coll McCail The National ☕️

Dáil hears thousands of Ukrainians could be ‘turfed onto the streets’ as hosting payments to be cut jrnl.ie/7103042

Analysis: Women experience substance use and addiction differently to men, but their specific needs have been historically neglected www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Does the Irish charity sector suffer from unconscious bias when appointing CEOs, Chairs and Board Members? It's a question worth asking. Right? Is unconscious bias still shaping who gets a seat at the table? #CharitySector #NonProfits #Governance #BoardDiversity #Leadership

In Northern Ireland, lawyers, community workers, & advocates who support migrants are being targeted by far-right groups. Our new report out today, “Locals Only,” details these threats. @cdsherrard.bsky.social @amanda.ie @finucanecentre.bsky.social www.humanrightsfirst.org/library/new-...

Fenian Summer continues!☀️ Mo mhíle buíochas le Jim Carroll and the folks at @RTEBrainstorm for the opportunity to write a bit about the roots of Irish-Cuban solidarity

Call em up and rat out your local data centre

Meta's data centre in Clonee, Co Meath uses approx 571 megalitres a year, with usage increasing in hot periods. This is roughly twice the total water that a nearby town like Dunboyne (8000 ppl) would use in a year.

the International Criminal Court was created to ensure that no one is above the law: no president, no prime minister, no general. It draws from one of the core lessons of the Second World War, as formulated in Nuremberg: Crimes are committed by men, not by abstract entities (states). Think about it

Israel continues to block international journalists from Gaza, despite a "ceasefire". Israel ignores its own Supreme Court's ruling to allow Red Cross visits to prisons – deemed "torture camps" by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. Does Israel have something to hide?

‘At the heart of the discussions will be the search for a new global paradigm capable of combining innovation, responsibility and ethics.’ www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

The U.S. ambassador to the Holy See characterized Pope Leo's criticism of the war in Iran as the intervention of a head of state rather than a pronouncement by the head of the Catholic Church. The Vatican, it seems, disagrees. www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...

Over 1,000 adults under the age of 65 are still living in nursing homes. Why is Government denying disabled people the right to housing? Ireland ratified the UNCRPD years ago but still has not delivered. Disabled people need their fundamental rights to be delivered on now.

The Irish Independent reporting that people can report those that break the 6-week hosepipe ban. Meanwhile, data centres… www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...

We’re getting there- just not fast enough.

Ireland's oldest environmental group, An Taisce, has called on the Government to lead by example on climate during its six months hosting the EU presidency and said it must walk the walk as well as talking the talk

When Reagan was given an honorary degree by UCG in 1984, three holders of honorary doctorates handed back their degrees at a 'deconferring' ceremony presided over by the ‘Acting Chancellor’, Peadar O’Donnell. A strong political tradition that has surfaced again today over Galway's ties to Israel.

FLAC reports record demand for legal information amid legal aid crisis www.irishlegal.com/articles/fla...

"We cannot conceive of a society that races ahead at full speed clinging to the false myths of wellbeing, while at the same time ignoring so many situations of poverty and vulnerability." #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #HealthCareForAll www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...

1 Person died, 2 home destroyed, millions in property damage, firefighters attacked, thousands temporarily forced from their homes, and a hate crime that made international news, but you'd never guess that from the Belfast Newsletter's coverage of the glorious 12th....

“He is one of many Palestinian healthcare workers detained, killed, displaced, starved, exhausted, or forced to work inside the ruins of hospitals that should have been protected under every humanitarian principle we claim to value” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

A survivor of childhood sexual abuse is campaigning to change how the UK justice system deals with elderly sex offenders who are deemed unfit for trial.

Be Like Spain

"Every dollar withdrawn from women's organisations is a dollar withdrawn from survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, displaced mothers, girls forced from school, and communities struggling to survive."

“The U.S. is starving Cuba like Israel is starving Gaza. The U.S. is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel and humanitarian aid, power is out, leaving hospitals without electricity. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die. Food is rotting. Water pumps stopped working.” M. Safa

The world at the moment can often seem dark but read this and rejoice in the goodness of people. www.gaa.ie/article/sabl...

The report finds that CAST is transforming how mental health crises are managed by diverting people away from the criminal justice system and acute hospital services, and recommends this pilot be developed into a permanent national service www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Cupich: “There is a certain irony about our modern life. We have achieved unprecedented digital connectivity, but it has only bred an epidemic of loneliness and social fragmentation…the church offers proximity as the antidote to a ‘culture of indifference.’” www.chicagocatholic.com/cardinal-bla...

There are no votes in ensuring humane conditions in prisons. ‘Its report today highlights the “worsening conditions” that have “triggered national and international concern”.’ Irish Prison Service attempted to 'constrain' its watchdog during inspection jrnl.ie/7097091

À propos recent debate in Dáil Éireann and conversations elsewhere, I thought it timely to remind ourselves of what our Constitution states in relation to Irish Unity: