We don't have warships because we don't engage in war. The greatest risk to our security is the continuing slide away from active neutrality that FF/FG are intent on pursuing.

Any Op Ed insisting that Ireland should integrate militarily with the EU, and that avoids confronting EU complicity in genocide in Palestine, can only be seen as propaganda. Look out for it. #neutrality #TripleLock #Áras25

Worth acknowledging the fundamentally anti-democratic posture of so much of the mainstream commentariat in Ireland - far more concerned with what the US, UK and EU political elite think, than with what Irish people value and support.

TALK: From the Bog to the Cloud: A Critical Conversation on Ireland’s Green Transition. Join a thought-provoking evening with the authors. How does Ireland’s green transition intersect with monopoly tech, digital infrastructure, and postcolonial politics? www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...

We actually have quite a few socially owned shops in Ireland already. We just need more of them, better supported by the state.

This short film was produced by NATO's Strategic Warfare Development Command. It offers a chilling vision of the future that NATO is not just preparing for but actively making. 'The human mind will be a battle space in its own right'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUeO...

Now that Mamdani has been elected Mayor in NY, maybe we can have a serious look at introducing socially owned, state supported grocery stores in Ireland.

Department of Agriculture and Teagasc are partners on an EU funded project with Israel to develop digital technologies for agriculture. €34m EU funds. Two years of genocide. Ireland doesn't need EU approval to refuse participation in such projects. electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

The Collison brothers were early investors in 'California Forever', a tech-utopian city project. When the democratic process blocked the development, they threw millions of dollars into subverting it. That's the Ireland James Collison envisages. www.hcn.org/articles/the...

We face the measurable and certain catastrophic effects of climate change and yet funding is not available to invest in early warning or emergency response capacity. This is where investment in defence and security should be prioritised, not fighter jets. www.rte.ie/news/environ...

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The Caiseal Mara Hotel in Donegal was set on fire in 2018 - it was supposed to house asylum seekers. There have been dozens of arson attacks since, and only now a security review? Security review of all IPAS centres after arson attack rte.ie/news/ireland...

Grateful for this woman's emotion and clarity. 'Everyone deserves to have a safe home, no matter what country you come from.' www.rte.ie/video/id/288...

The elephant in the room is the impossibility of mainstream media to fathom the possibility of a movement of hope built on values of neutrality, peace and social justice against the deep alienation from politics that so many feel in this country. www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

'Our poet President, Michael D. Higgins, set the bar high, but Catherine Connolly may well prove to be the finest President Ireland has produced.' Bernadette McAliskey www.impartialreporter.com/news/2557515...

This is another example of bad faith conflation of the issue of neutrality with the issue of what the correct level of funding for the DF is. The people who have set the funding for the DF for the last several decades are not lefties, hippies and peaceniks, they are Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

Stephen Collins actually wrote the exact same piece in February. Aren't we lucky to have such sharp and rigorous journalists.

Irish neutrality is about sovereignty - the ability to stay out of imperialist wars and to advance the sovereign rights of smaller nations in the face of imperialist influence and aggression. The idea of deepening 'security' pacts with the EU or UK is totally at odds with this.

Long read but worth it on intellectual history of the EU - a long tradition of anti-politics. 'Democratic systems have effective oppositions that may one day govern. The European Union is organised in such a way that it does not.' The European Coup www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Another day, another Op-Ed full of lazy tropes admonishing the Irish public for continuing to support our long-standing policy of neutrality. Decades of this patronising cant - it doesn't work. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

'The US offensive against Venezuela combined with the blockade of Cuba, aggression against Iran, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza, forms part of a global strategy to destroy the material basis for sovereignty in the Global South.' @progintl.bsky.social progressive.international/wire/2025-10...

Meta has privately asked the Irish Government to 'lead a pushback against data protection laws' at European Union level, the same week Niamh Sweeney (former senior employee at Meta) is hired as the new Data Protection Commissioner in Dublin. www.irishtimes.com/technology/b...

I count this as the fourth publication in 3 days that has used Catherine Connolly's election as pretext to push for greater Ireland-UK/EU military union (against the 'unreliable natives'). www.politico.eu/article/angl...

To avoid legal obligations in countries where Project Nimbus data services were hosted (e.g. Ireland), Israel instituted a secret code w/ Google and Amazon. Ireland's new Data Protection Commissioner was senior employee of US tech company. Not unrelated. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Since Catherine Connolly's election, the anti-democratic rhetoric from UK and EU commentators concerning Irish foreign policy has spiked. Today the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, think tank for the centre-right European People’s Party. www.politico.eu/article/angl...

Don't accept the premise of this article - that EU and US are radically diverging - nor the conclusion, which Tonra has argued for decades: that Ireland should abandon neutrality and integrate further into EU-NATO alliances. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

We are so far from the Dunnes Stores workers in the 1980s who refused to handle South African produce. Today, Ireland is financial and digital services host to all the major US tech companies that profit from Israeli genocide and apartheid. That is what needs boycotting.

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The UK are discussing what to do in the event that Ireland doesn't further commit to NATO and invest in defence spending. Makes a mockery of FF/FG arguing that the removal of the Triple Lock is about 'reclaiming our sovereignty.' www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

The attacks on @catherinegalway.bsky.social, particularly regarding her positions on EU militarism and neutrality, will not end now she has been elected. If anything, they will ramp up and come from Brussels and UK. All the time discounting that Catherine was elected by popular mandate.

'The central question is therefore: Will the West – especially the NATO states – accept the geopolitical changes and the loss of their once dominant role, or will they try to stop them through military escalation? The latter would bring the world dangerously close to a nuclear-led Third World War.'

By removing the Triple Lock, the Irish Govnt will not only erode our neutrality but also undermine the UN at a time of escalating militarism and conflict. This short book by a former UN diplomat and MEP is good for explaining why this is wrong. ipb.org/new-publicat...

@catherinegalway.bsky.social won the election because she expresses values held by the majority of Irish people which have been ignored by the Government. Neutrality is central to that. Follow this link and email FF TDs telling them this. It takes 2 mins. action.uplift.ie/campaigns/ff...

Two days after @catherinegalway.bsky.social landslide Presidential victory, this article is published by RUSI, a UK defence and security think tank, advising Brussels and UK to 'accelerate planning for a SF-led Government' and then concludes with this chilling line. www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

V useful interactive map showing the extent of Chinese energy projects across Africa - main takeaway being that the vast majority are wind, solar, hydro and biomass. africaenergy.chinaglobalsouth.com

Retired military personnel giving Europe advice on the energy transition. Wait till they hear that China produces 80% of the world's solar panels. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@catherinegalway.bsky.social won the election by a landslide because of her strong commitment to Irish neutrality and peace - against the direction of Govnt policy, and reflecting deeply rooted values in Ireland. Not things that IT journalists like to admit. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Paulie Doyle, Pat Brodie and me have written a report for @uplift.ie for their Neutrality Files project. In it, we explain why there is such a gap between consistent public support for Palestine and the absence of any material actions taken by the Irish Government against Israel? 🧵

Thanks to Colin Sheridan for this piece on a new report written by Paulie Doyle, Pat Brodie and myself for Uplift. 'The Price of Prosperity - How US FDI Is Enabling Genocide in Gaza and Eroding Our Neutrality' is available at www.uplift.ie/neutrality-f... www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

This headline is from The Guardian and it repeats a tired line we've seen in our own broadsheets. If any of these journalists had been at the Ceol for Connolly last night they'd have found a packed Vicar St made up of a young, diverse audience hopeful for a new Republic.

Germany's economy experiencing its longest period of stagnation since the second world war, Government banking on reviving it through debt-fuelled militarisation, and the far-right in the ascendancy. What was it @catherinegalway.bsky.social said? www.ft.com/content/bc18...

The FF/FG campaign against @catherinegalway.bsky.social, supported by the media, has highlighted the authoritarian character of Irish politics - delegitimising critical voices, opposing a diversity of perspectives, and fundamentally scared of the Irish people.

Nothing in this article about the social, political or economic conditions in any of the countries where the protests have been happening, or how they may be connected. Just Manga and Andor inspiring the 'leaderless' youngsters. www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

Micheál Martin's thinly veiled attack on @catherinegalway.bsky.social at the Wolfe Tone Commemoration today is a new low in the FF/FG revisionist appropriation of Irish anti-imperialist, republican figures.

This report published by Amnesty in 2002 already highlighted the role that Ireland played in the arms industry through the export of 'dual use' technology - including through trade w/ Israel. We are much more embedded in this war economy today and the Govnt only wants to advance that.

In 1957, Frank Aiken supported a motion to discuss the inclusion of the People's Republic of China to the UN. He also called for the withdrawal of Russian and United States forces from Europe. He was attacked by Fine Gael, the Church and a conservative media for being a Communist sympathiser.

If you are in London, or know someone who is, Pat Brodie and I are having a book launch event in the AA Bookshop this Wednesday 22nd. Ireland, data centres, bogs, postcolonial development, imperialism, anti-colonial struggles....something for everyone.