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

Timeline cleanser. Some of us need it after today.

Since the 1970s, Israel and Kenya have forged a strategic intelligence alliance. It became a “frontline” 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.

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!

They can fuck off

I’ll ride less for sure - get the car out. Unless of course my small town gardai turn a blind eye

Chinese spoons repurposed as souvenirs of Mozambique

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.

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...

"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...

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.

Ireland’s police force does what it likes

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...

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.

And they’re off. The annual mass escape from Dublin Castle, commemorating the real jailbreak of 1592 by Red Hugh O’Donnell & the O’Neill Brothers. Competitors will cover 62km through the night, across the mountains to Glenmalure Valley. That’s if they make it, unlike Art O’Neill, who died en route.

#PalestineAction Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, & Lewie C have ended their hunger strikes after Elbit contract blocked.

** Mozambique ** Important Seminar online this Thursday about the #insurgency in #Mozambique, with @swahilistreet.bsky.social, Prof Emilio Zeca and Dr Tomas Queface. Register and connect here: acleddata.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Adichie accuses Euracare Hospital of negligence over son’s death businessday.ng/news/article...

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/