Peter Bofin-Kilusungu
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Ireland and East Africa. Researcher on politics, conflict, and East Africa
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Iâve managed to string together my thoughts through the rage this week, please read & share đâđŒ
#Spéirghorm
#IrishPolitics
#Fascism
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Leo áááááááá áááááá
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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...
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Fuel protest leader James Geoghegan has animal cruelty convictions and Revenue judgments
Geoghegan (57), who has come to prominence in this weekâs protests, claims to have settled tax bills
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/04/10/fuel-protest-leader-james-geoghegan-has-animal-cruelty-convictions-and-revenue-judgments/
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A few seconds on google and thereâs one of the ânegotiatorsâ at the Dublin blockade on the street in Kells protesting an IPAS centre beside a placard saying âPADDY FIRST NOT LASTâ
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Uganda Law Society: âan 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 Atlanticâ.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Uganda receives first US deportation flight under third-country agreement
Dozen people arrive under new deal but legal challenges expected with scheme criticised as âdehumanising processâ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/02/uganda-receives-first-us-deportation-flight-under-third-country-agreement
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fredesque
11 days ago
[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this
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A Dubliner held in Germany for taking action against genocide. Help his family give him the support he needs.
gofund.me/a4f87f367
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Donate to Help Daniel's family attend the âUlm 5â trial in Germany., organized by Lynne Tracey
Support Danielâs family for the costs of attending the trial of⊠Lynne Tracey needs your support for Help Daniel's family attend the âUlm 5â trial in Germany.
https://gofund.me/a4f87f367
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12 days ago
La cĂ©lĂšbre statue vivante congolaise "Lumumba Vea" ne pourra pas assister au match de barrage de la Coupe du monde contre la JamaĂŻque, car il nâa pas pu obtenir son visa Ă temps. âĄïž
https://l.africanews.com/QpQ
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Marcus O'Dubhthaigh
14 days ago
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.
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Mama afikisha wanaye Limerick.....
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Tanzania sends 32 scholars to Ireland for data science and AI studies
Thirty-two Tanzanian students under the Samia Extended Scholarship Programme (DS/AI+) have secured admission to pursue undergraduate studies at the University of Limerick in Ireland
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/tanzania-sends-32-scholars-to-ireland-for-data-science-and-ai-studies-5401526
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Sam Kunti
24 days ago
FIFA's idea of disciplining the Israeli FA.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
26 days ago
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank. Then they beat up the surviving childrenâŠ.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank
Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in the head as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/15/israeli-police-kill-two-young-palestinian-boys-and-their-parents-in-west-bank
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Felicity Jensz
about 1 month ago
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.
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Thematic issue on âAbdulrazak Gurnah and German Colonialismâ; Guest Editors: Lukas Lammers and Kai Wiegandt
Volume 74, issue 1 of the journal Zeitschrift fĂŒr Anglistik und Amerikanistik was published in 2026.
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/zaa/74/1/html
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And today CCMâs Rostam Aziz of Tanzania becomes majority shareholder.
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about 1 month ago
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Kieran Hurley
about 1 month ago
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
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Ciara | CiaraĂoch đš
about 1 month ago
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/...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
about 1 month ago
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...
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impressing dr abbot leads to malpractice suits
about 1 month ago
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
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What a viral speech in Ireland reveals about colonial history and Caribbean English
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
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What a viral speech in Ireland reveals about colonial history and Caribbean English
Linguists say reaction to Irish TDâs remarks reflects shared regional English roots and enduring impact of empire
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/04/viral-speech-ireland-thomas-gould-colonial-history-caribbean-english
about 1 month ago
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Corinna Jentzsch
about 2 months ago
Check out our new project with
@yguichaoua.bsky.social
@emorier.bsky.social
and
@vincentfoucher.bsky.social
! Cc
@polscileiden.bsky.social
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âRow between rival firms over control of Dublin security contract saw gardaĂ called, WRC toldâ
@irishtimes.com
completely misrepresenting a slavery case
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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Row between rival firms over control of Dublin security contract saw gardaĂ called, WRC told
Details disclosed at hearing into multiple employment rights claims against one of the firms, BGS Security Ltd
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/03/03/row-between-rival-firms-over-control-of-dublin-security-contract-saw-gardai-called-wrc-told/
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Well worth listening to on US and Israelâs attacks on Iran, and how it may play out it in Iran, the Gulf, US and Isreal.
www.podbean.com/ei/dir-i9dja...
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IRAN EMERGENCY EPISODE WITH CHARLIE GAMMELL
I spoke to Iran expert Charlie Gammell about the extraordinary events unfolding. If you would like to support this podcast please consider taking out a paid subscription to my Substack arthursnell.sub...
https://www.podbean.com/ei/dir-i9dja-2b91aca1
about 1 month ago
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Scott Horton
about 1 month ago
The NYT style guide
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Toby Vogel đȘđș
about 1 month ago
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.
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Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on developments in the Middle East
The EU issued a statement on developments in Iran and the Middle East.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2026/03/01/statement-by-the-high-representative-on-behalf-of-the-european-union-on-developments-in-the-middle-east/
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The Onion
about 1 month ago
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Timeline cleanser. Some of us need it after today.
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Charles Onyango-Obbo
about 2 months ago
Since the 1970s, Israel and Kenya have forged a strategic intelligence alliance. It became a âfrontlineâ by hardening into a defense against transnational terror after the 1976 Entebbe (Uganda) raid. Today, Kenya acts as a vital hinge for Red Sea security, this article argues.
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The Blogs: Israel-Kenya: Africaâs Intelligence Front Line
From the blog of Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez at The Times of Israel
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-kenya-africas-intelligence-front-line/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=TimesofIsrael/magazine/Blogs
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Kim Kelly
2 months ago
One thing about the enormous pressure journalists are under to make videos and TikToks and do streams that kills me is that, like⊠some of us are meant to be read and not seen. Commenters get SO MAD about the way I look whenever my face breaches containment! Just let me write!
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera
2 months ago
They can fuck off
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Iâll ride less for sure - get the car out. Unless of course my small town gardai turn a blind eye
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Chinese spoons repurposed as souvenirs of Mozambique
2 months ago
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Kevin O'Sullivan
2 months ago
Apropos of the many ahistorical takes on how states on this side of the Atlantic have acted in the past, an extract from David Peace's brilliant novel about the miners' strike, GB 84 (2004). This is the voice of one of the striking miners.
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sarah jeong
2 months ago
me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible
www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
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Best gas masks
âHow did these people go out and get gas masks?â AG Bondi asked.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/868571/best-gas-masks
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"UK chancellor Rachel Reeves said the existing US trade deal stands, and she had been in regular touch on WhatsApp with US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent." WhatsApp?
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
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Davos live: Trump lands in Zurich ahead of speech to world leaders; Merz meeting cancelled due to Air Force One delay
Rolling coverage of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where head of Nato insists Ukraine must be number one issue
https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/jan/21/davos-trump-speech-wef-greenland-bessent-trade-milei-globalisation-business-live-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6970b1a38f08ca24ec41edfb#block-6970b1a38f08ca24ec41edfb
3 months ago
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Ashoka Mukpo
3 months ago
Europe and Canada are going to have to recognize that their future lies either in great power bloc subsumption, or solidarity with middle powers they've traditionally thought of as beneath them. It's vanity to think otherwise.
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Irelandâs police force does what it likes
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3 months ago
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Charlie Thomas
3 months ago
While I always enjoy someone appreciating the Kagera War, I am surprised that
@jkass99.bsky.social
and
@lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social
didn't get into General Marwa who not only was another large lad, but who strutted around with his pipe and a gunbelt stolen from Amin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3pN...
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Brigadia Mwita Marwa (Kamanda Kambale) wa Jeshi la Wananchi wa Tanzania.
YouTube video by Tulipotoka Zamani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3pNtIn85N4
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Claire Mullaly
3 months ago
While the police forces & British courts pursue prosecutions relating to Palestine Action, an actual proscribed terror group is operating freely in N. Ireland and the police are covering up and downplaying white supremacist terror, violence and mass forced displacement of racial & ethnic minorities.
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âWe want to go away from hereâ: Roma family tells of fear after UDA thugs attack Belfast home
The teenage daughter of a Roma family whose home was attacked by paramilitary thugs just days after Christmas has refused to return to school out of fear for her safety.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/we-want-to-go-away-from-here-roma-family-tells-of-fear-after-uda-thugs-attack-belfast-home/a1448968447.html
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Frank McNally
3 months ago
And theyâre off. The annual mass escape from Dublin Castle, commemorating the real jailbreak of 1592 by Red Hugh OâDonnell & the OâNeill Brothers. Competitors will cover 62km through the night, across the mountains to Glenmalure Valley. Thatâs if they make it, unlike Art OâNeill, who died en route.
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Sam Ratner
3 months ago
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digitaldjeli
3 months ago
#PalestineAction
Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, & Lewie C have ended their hunger strikes after Elbit contract blocked.
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Eric Morier-Genoud
3 months ago
** Mozambique ** Important Seminar online this Thursday about the
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, with
@swahilistreet.bsky.social
, Prof Emilio Zeca and Dr Tomas Queface. Register and connect here:
acleddata.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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Adichie accuses Euracare Hospital of negligence over sonâs death
businessday.ng/news/article...
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Adichie accuses Euracare Hospital of negligence over sonâs death - Businessday NG
Renowned Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has accused Euracare Hospital in Lagos of medical negligence in the circumstances...
https://businessday.ng/news/article/adichie-accuses-euracare-hospital-of-negligence-over-sons-death/
3 months ago
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Laura đ«
3 months ago
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Whoâs who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Muskâs big tent
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Philip Boucher-Hayes
3 months ago
Somebody on here quipped earlier that we live in precedented times. It hit home with me. In 2003 I watched US troops roll in to the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk and roll straight out the other side to take up defensive positions around the oil refinery. 1/
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