Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

14400 Gardaí in Ireland. In the last 9mo of 2025 there were 2704 complaints about members of the Gardaí from the public. 1440 of those were deemed admissable complaints. So for every 10 Gardaí, 1 attracted a serious complaint in a 9 month period last year. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

A milestone. For the first time ever, we have surpassed 2 million books on our website. That is 2 million books available to you through an independent, online bookshop. With competitive shipping prices. Shop local. www.kennys.ie

US State Dept sanctions Tanzanian cop Snr Asst Commissioner Faustine Mafwele www.state.gov/releases/off...

Daniel Tatlow-Devally's family asks why our Government is silent on an Irish citizen’s “unprecedented show trial” in Germany www.irishexaminer.com/business/ari...

⚠️ 🇨🇩 Ebola case confirmed in DR Congo city held by M23 armed group: authorities A case of Ebola has been confirmed in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, says the director of the Congolese National Institute of Biomedical Research, Jean-Jacques Muyembe

Seán O'Casey characters be like "arra don't mind him sure he's only an auld

rude. in my day we called that Italo-disco.

English media analysis of recent seismic changes don’t really grasp the very different forms of nationalism in the other nations. Whereas English is negatively based on Imperial nostalgia the others are formed by their negative experiences of British colonialism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I am so sick of the criticism of the "designer" bicyle storage facility in Kerry Hospital. Lets have a look at these costs, understanding them is about reframing what was actually built, and comparing it fairly against the infrastructure society routinely accepts for cars. 1/

English version of early thoughts about the Mali situation. Might post additional remarks below

Click through for ways to support Daniel Tatlow-Devally, imprisoned for opposing genocide justicefordaniel.carrd.co

Grateful, also, for his monsterpiece of a thesis

Check out his book A People’s History of Idi Amin’s Uganda

Former government TD now lobbyist “happy” to testify to good character of a man guilty of imprisoning and torturing two thirteen year old boys. MacSharry defends intervention in case of developer jailed for assault on three boys. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

🎉 The cops were lying? No… what a surprise! Shocked… SHOCKED! www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Comprehensive story on the show trial in Stuttgart www.972mag.com/palestine-ac...

Time for our embassy in Bonn to sit in on what is clearly a show trial www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

Daniel Tatlow-Devally took direct action to stop a genocide. After seven months in detention - 23 hours a day locked up - his trial begins today, in Stuttgart, Germany. www.thejournal.ie/daniel-tatlo...

25 de abril e antropoceno

Police chief orders trial of officers who allegedly used POS machine to extort motorists https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/872789-police-chief-orders-trial-of-officers-who-allegedly-used-pos-machine-to-extort-motorists.html?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

This is an excellent analysis of the structural issues behind the fuel protests from Conor McCabe www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

I’ve managed to string together my thoughts through the rage this week, please read & share 💭✍🏼 #Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism 🔗 tinyurl.com/wak45j7d

Yes yes we should totally be allowing this chap to make demands and hold the country to ransom. Or you know… we could treat him the way he treats his animals. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

A few seconds on google and there’s one of the ‘negotiators’ at the Dublin blockade on the street in Kells protesting an IPAS centre beside a placard saying “PADDY FIRST NOT LAST”

Uganda Law Society: “an undignified, harrowing and dehumanising process that has reduced [the deported people] to little more than chattel, for the benefit of private interests on both sides of the Atlantic”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

A Dubliner held in Germany for taking action against genocide. Help his family give him the support he needs. gofund.me/a4f87f367

La célèbre statue vivante congolaise "Lumumba Vea" ne pourra pas assister au match de barrage de la Coupe du monde contre la Jamaïque, car il n’a pas pu obtenir son visa à temps. ➡️ https://l.africanews.com/QpQ

If Trump did D Day, he would have taken out Hitler, send a message to Himmler asking for a deal, told him he was going to land in Normandy (Karg Island) with 1% of the necessary troops, and give them a months notice.

Mama afikisha wanaye Limerick..... www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/new...

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FIFA's idea of disciplining the Israeli FA.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank. Then they beat up the surviving children…. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... Thank you to Kai Wiegandt and Lukas Lammers for including me in this open access issue on Abdulrazak Gurnah and for providing me the opportunity to share the stage with the amazing Maaza Mengiste, she's such an inspiration and phenomenal storyteller.

And today CCM’s Rostam Aziz of Tanzania becomes majority shareholder.

Tehran is a modern metropolis the size of London, full of ordinary people just like you and me. It seems stupid to even say it, but still it's worth being deliberate and insistent about it because the whole we consume news functions to make us forget it, even in all its obviousness

Happy International Women's Day - here's a piece celebrating some of Ireland's most interesting women, with a thread about each of them linked below: bsky.app/profile/ciar... Prints are also available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...

i don't get it. you can lift at the gym. being a softhanded scribe is like the pinnacle of civilized life, tens of thousands of generations of your ancestors would have murdered to be a softhanded scribe

What a viral speech in Ireland reveals about colonial history and Caribbean English www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Check out our new project with @yguichaoua.bsky.social @emorier.bsky.social and @vincentfoucher.bsky.social ! Cc @polscileiden.bsky.social

“Row between rival firms over control of Dublin security contract saw gardaí called, WRC told” @irishtimes.com completely misrepresenting a slavery case www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Well worth listening to on US and Israel’s attacks on Iran, and how it may play out it in Iran, the Gulf, US and Isreal. www.podbean.com/ei/dir-i9dja...

The NYT style guide

The EU high representative has managed to put out a 423 word statement at the conclusion of last night's emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers on Iran that manages to mention neither Israel nor the United States and makes it sound like Iran started the war.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started