The Occupied Territories Bill was first proposed in 2018 - to ban trade with illegal settlements in occupied territories. Still not passed. Enough with your statements and condemnations.

Support the Sameer project as best you can. More rain to come in next few days in Gaza. Can't imagine how hard it is for those living there. RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1491...

'A conversation about From the Bog to the Cloud is a conversation about imperialism, environment, Irish neutrality, and sovereignty—and what traditions of resistance we must build upon. This is not just an academic text; it is a handbook for liberation.' socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/book...

Hard to know if Eamon Ryan is that naive but this reads like Silicon Valley accelerationism filtered through Ireland Inc. 'We need the data centres because the cloud computing they provide is vital for our daily needs.' www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

The Govnt wants to remove the Triple Lock, change legislation so Irish companies can compete for EU defence contracts, and deepen cooperation with NATO to the point where 'formal' membership is moot. And those objecting are 'squeamish'. The arrogance. www.thejournal.ie/martin-defen...

The idea that only those with qualifications in IR/Security Studies can comment on Ireland's foreign policy is as ridiculous as the idea that only those with economics degrees can comment on the economy.

Beggars belief that a senior officer in the Irish Military Intelligence Service said this in an interview. “It can be hugely detrimental to the West if you empower them [China] by educating them simply because they come to a university with funds." www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Despite the headline, this article includes the line: "However, it is understood no evidence, to date, has been uncovered to prove this suspicion." We are fully in a situation where reason and evidence aren't required on matters of defence and security. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Five weeks now. 'We rarely see neutrality framed in the media as a construct – anchored in democratic will, international law and decades of diplomatic practice – that provides a pathway to promote peace at a time of deepening global instability and the normalisation of genocide.'

'Peace through strength is a myth. Its time EU leaders heeded warnings that if you prepare for war, that’s exactly what you get.' @dondeniamh.bsky.social euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

1/ New policy enabling private electricity lines risks entrenching fossil fuel use and increasing electricity costs, primarily to benefit data centres.

7: @pbresnihan.bsky.social, Patrick Brodie and Rory Rowan's timely piece argues that southern Ireland's "twin transition" of digitalization and decarbonization is predicated on the militarization of Irish society and its deeper integration into the imperialist order. brill.com/view/journal...

Article w/ Rory Rowan & Pat Brodie now online in the excellent SI of the Journal of Labor and Society edited by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @alejopedregal.bsky.social & Nemanja Lukić. 'Militarising FDI: Geopolitical Ecology, Dependency, and Ireland’s Twin Transition.' brill.com/view/journal...

Record homelessness figures, contaminated drinking water, increasing energy bills, hospital overcrowding, schools unable to pay for basic materials like toilet paper. Welcome to Ireland, the best small country in the world to do business. www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...

Good article on Ireland's function as a test-bed for monopoly tech expansion. “The Irish case shows what happens when digital expansion outruns energy planning, and when political dependency on a small group of firms overrides climate commitments.” www.techpolicy.press/what-ireland...

It should be obvious to anyone that weapons of war and destruction cannot be 'sustainable', but the EU Commission (and financiers and arms industry) repeat the mantra: 'there is no sustainability without security.' voxeurop.eu/en/europe-ar...

I had to re-read this a few times because it is hard to believe. Demand from proposed new data centres might be as high as 5.8GW, equivalent to *peak electricity demand for the entire country*. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Fair play to @brosef-stalin.bsky.social (even for just keeping calm). It takes an enormous, coordinated effort of active, systematic unlearning and ignorance to maintain this level of empire-washing and colonial denial.

US General Lee Butler discussing the 1960s arms race & the obsession with deterrence which saw 'planning increasingly disconnected from any scientific or military reality.' Resonates so much with what we are witnessing today across the EU, including Ireland.

The triple Lock was a promise to the Irish people that we would not become part of an EU-NATO military structure made in 2002 so we would vote for Nice #2. Removing it is not about 'taking back sovereignty', it is a betrayal of Ireland's sovereignty. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Stopping short of describing this as 'hybrid warfare' of course. "Just in the last week, Elon Musk has made clear he wishes to destroy the European Union and is using his own platform to do so," Mr Andrews said. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

The Whistleblower bookshop/venue/community media infrastructure on South Anne's St. What an important addition this will be for growing independent media and political education work in Ireland and beyond - and located in the centre of Dublin.

Published four weeks ago - will keep posting here until there is another article supporting Irish neutrality published in a national paper. Seems particularly important this week given the volume of fearmongering in the media & calls on Govt to prioritise military spending.

I'm counting the hours to tell you all about this Special Issue that I had the privilege of co-editing with comrades @kaiheron.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić for JLSO. Meanwhile, you can already find many of its articles on the journal's site, some open access, including our intro.

The IT reaching new levels of absurdity today. Genuinely thought this was parody when someone shared it around. Hopefully, it will encourage more people to question this unprecedented attempt to manufacture consent for massive increases in military spending.

Rory Rowan has good post up on IG about the response to our co-authored article (with @dondeniamh.bsky.social) in the IT three weeks ago. This is only part of it but touches on just how difficult it is now to have any kind of reasonable, objective discussion about Irish foreign policy at the moment.

The Irish commentariat has gone into overdrive, not just misinforming but outright lying about threats to our security. What makes it worse is that this small handful of people with paid column inches, media appearances & think tanks dismiss the majority as 'lecturing' others.

Across Europe, we need to mobilise behind the words of 18 year old Tess Datzer. “There is no investment in our pensions, not in our future, not in the climate. I don’t see any good reasons why our generation should have to go to war.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

How is OK for @thejournal.ie to publish this kind of wild speculation? 'As revealed by The Journal yesterday, there are now suspicions that other operators – somewhere close by – most likely had designs on disrupting and embarrassing the Irish State.' www.thejournal.ie/drones-analy...

Many things off about this article but our 'mostly non-colonial past'? 'We have valuable connections to parts of the global south where our mostly non-colonial past, and our history of missionary activity, has some currency.' www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Remember when Catherine Connolly was attacked for asking critical questions of the EU. “The general attitude of the higher-ups is that anyone raising their voice is a troublemaker and that by speaking up, we are actually doing a disservice to the institutions.” www.thejournal.ie/eu-staff-gaz...

“I don't think it's right to send children or anyone against their will into the military.” - Sara (17) Old men may say otherwise. news.sky.com/story/young-... #Conscription

Published three weeks ago - will keep posting here until there is another article supporting Irish neutrality published in a national paper. I wouldn't be able to count the number of articles published in that time stressing our 'defencelessness' & the inevitability of war.

In the context of media frenzy about the drones in Dublin, this analysis by the Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl of over 60 drone incidents across Europe 'reveals much confusion, frequent false alarms, and hardly any solid evidence of Russian involvement.' www.trouw.nl/binnenland/a...

op news story in Ireland today is about five drones over Howth that likely posed no security threat. Meanwhile, Germany has effectively reintroduced military conscription amidst school student strikes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Formal complaint brought to Irish authorities by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties about the Microsoft's Irish based cloud services “facilitating war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide by Israeli military”. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Not only does NATO's demand for $1bn a month spending on US arms for EU militarisation sink our social wealth into commercial technologies of destruction, it also drains much needed resources away from civilian decarbonisation initiatives.

Survey results from the MU Just Housing project, in collaboration with CATU, highlight serious issues facing renters in Sallynoggin - including cold homes caused by poor insulation, old windows and inefficient heating systems. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

It wasn't an absence of 'red tape' that built Ardnacrusha. The Free state set up the ESB as the first national energy utility to build the largest hydro-electric project in the world because it wasn't profitable to electrify the country. www.rundale.org/2025/12/01/a...

@bfcdublin.bsky.social hiring a community coordinator - great club, great people. bohemians.ie/come-work-at...

I wrote about The Complex’s first experience of eviction in this paper. In the years since they have clearly embedded themselves in this area of the city and contributed to its vibrancy. We need to protect cultural institutions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We shouldn't have to sign petitions every day but this is where we are - takes two minutes and sends a signal. 'Each time a space disappears, so does a community. Dublin doesn’t just have a housing crisis it also has a culture crisis.' my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa...

On deepening links btwn militarisation of Eastern Europe & Israeli arms industry. 'At a time of rising living costs & collapsing public services, diverting billions into the coffers of companies arming an ongoing genocide is neither defensible nor sustainable.' peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/02/a...

The Irish Defence and Security Association (IDSA) was co-founded by Prof Ben Tonra (UCD), a regular commentator on Ireland's defence and security. The IDSA also meet regularly with the Dept of Defence for 'briefings'. This should be widely reported on and known but it isn't.

More research from JustHousing project & Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) documenting the terrible conditions in council housing at a time when the councils are looking to increase rents. This is about public health, housing equality and climate justice. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

'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)

This is absolutely insane. More than $1bn a month of European social wealth transferred to US defence tech companies, massively intensifying the potential for war. And no political leaders speaking out against it.

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...

Including DCs located in Ireland. 'As revealed by employee activists, journalists & others, Israel’s genocide would be impossible without private Big Tech firms equipping the Israeli military with everything from cloud storage to surveillance technology.' abolitionistlawcenter.org/2025/12/02/m...

'Exporting electricity, and other eco-modern grifts' Pat Brodie and I have an article on Ireland's tech-driven energy transition in this month's excellent issue of Rundale. www.rundale.org/2025/12/01/e...