Apartheid, genocide and colonial occupation showed themselves out of the World Sailing Conference in Dún Laoghaire today due to the actions of ordinary people. We can win when we stop waiting for our useless government to stop supporting Israel and simply do it ourselves

Mí ó shin d’fhuadaigh Iosrael ó bhád mé, anois tá fáilte á cur roimhe go hÉirinn ag an gComhdháil Seoltóireachta Dhomhanda atá ar siúl i nDún Laoghaire. Scríobh mé faoi in Tuairisc tuairisc.ie/mi-o-shin-df...

Bíonn na daoine seo ag caint faoin nGaeilge mar a bheadh comhartha stádais inti. An fhírinne ná gur mionteanga í, agus nach bhfuil muid ag iarraidh ach na caighdeáin chéanna agus an meas céanna a thugtar d’aon teanga eile

Lots of flotilla people at today’s blocking of Dublin port. We sailed not as a once-off gesture, but to build on it with direct action at home. Israel does not care what we think; the only way to impact the situation is by directly challenging the blockade and disrupting the flow of money and arms

Pandering to the far-right is both dangerous and ineffective. We already know from Germany, France and the UK that it only legitimises fascists. We need a positive alternative vision instead m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

At some point someone is going to get killed, and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’s response will be to bicker over who’s faster at deporting people (who were forced to leave their country by EU imperialism in the first place)

Amárach!

Maithigí dom é, le bhur dtoil, agus mise ag tabhairt unsa seratonin dom féin

🚨Joining us in Doyle's, Dublin 2 on Monday, 3 November at 6pm🚨 Eman Mohammed in conversation with The Ditch, Naoise Dolan and Liam Cunningham The evening before the trial of the Shannon Three in Ennis

I’ll be in conversation with Liam Cunningham this Monday 6pm in Doyle’s off College Green, Dublin in support of Palestine and the Shannon Three

Mass descent to block Dublin Port this Sunday. The genocide will continue for as long as it’s profitable, we need to shut down trade to see any change

For context we were seeing death tolls like this on the worse days in September, when anyone with any sense was up in arms about it

It’s almost like colonial occupation is inherently violent and the word ‘ceasefire’ is meaningless as long as it’s in place

Bomaite rights sa foclóir nua 😍

Yes she did

Catherine Connolly’s victory won’t fix our many woes, but it is a sign the tide is turning m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

In RnaG interview, the principal of a Gaelscoil a 10-minute walk from Citywest talks about how students there reflect the diversity of the local community. It’s almost like the people claiming Irish is elitist are talking out their dtóineanna www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Is éacht thar barr é gur ceist shuntasach toghcháin í an Ghaeilge anois. 3% a cheap gurbh í an cheist ba thábhachtaí, i bpobalbhreith a chuimsigh gach ábhar. Ní hamháin Kneecap, ach An Dream Dearg, an Mórshiúl Gaeilge, agus roimhe sin an GCSG a chas an taoide. Ar aghaidh linn

Catherine Connolly committed to learning fluent Irish in 2004, well into adulthood, after regretting not being able to do a live interview with RnaG. Then she actually followed through. How is it ‘elitist’ to expect the same thing of a literal Minister of the Gaeltacht

Will this be enough to get the ‘think of the poor dogs in Gaza’ crowd to care that the ceasefire is not a ceasefire

Irish-speakers didn’t get a proper presidential debate because Humphreys chose (again) to run for an office she’s not qualified for. Nobody cares ‘how Irish’ anyone else is, stop projecting! The issue is language rights

Daily reminder that what they did to us on the flotilla was the red carpet, VIP lounge version of what they do to Palestinians

'Protective presence' of international observers isn't working anymore in the West Bank. Between this and the flotilla, Israel is responding to the near-total clarity from Western governments that they will protect empire and capital above human lives www.vashtimedia.com/protective-p...

This averages out at a violation roughly every four hours, around the clock, continuously since 10 October. At what point do we stop calling it a ceasefire when Israel has just literally not ceased firing

This week’s Sunday Independent column on that time Israel falsely imprisoned me, and why the ‘ceasefire’ is not the same thing as Palestinian liberation m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

I was out of Israeli prison in five days. They’ve been holding Dr Hussam Abu Safiya for nearly a year without charge, along with thousands more Palestinians. A ceasefire without an end to occupation and accountability for Israel will just be a slower continuation of the genocide

“‘To deliver humanitarian aid,” I said when asked why I’d joined the flotilla. The officer slammed his fist on the desk: “I don’t understand it.”’ @naoisedolan.bsky.social on the imprisonment of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

‘Just after 5 a.m. on Wednesday, 8 October, Israeli forces had illegally boarded us in international waters, at roughly the same longitude as Port Said, Egypt.’ @naoisedolan.bsky.social on sailing with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

If you’re wondering what exactly flotilla detainees mean when we say how much worse Israeli prison is for Palestinians, search ‘Ketzi’ot’ here for first-hand accounts from a jail we were in. Believe these testimonies like you believe ours www.btselem.org/publications...

Israel kidnapped me on Wednesday morning. I’m out now. We will keep at it for not only a ceasefire, but full justice and self-determination for Palestine. Here’s an article I wrote that was published shortly after I had to throw my phone into the water www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The second flotilla is now in the ‘red zone’ where Israel has previously abducted flotillas and trafficked them onwards to false imprisonment. We’ll do all we can to reach Gaza, but if they stop us it will likely be within 24 hours. Track us here: thousandmadleens.fr/tracker

The second flotilla is very close to Gaza now, undeterred by anything we’ve heard about what the first went through. 11,000 Palestinians are still trapped in such prisons, including over 400 children, so turning back is not an option. Track us here: thousandmadleens.fr/tracker/

The first flotilla’s Irish participants have just been released from Israeli prison; they’re on their way home now. Meanwhile, we on the second flotilla are nearing Gaza. Keep speaking up for Palestine. We’re sailing not only for aid but for self-determination & we won’t stop until Palestine is free

The second flotilla continues to sail. No matter what we hear about prison conditions for the first wave of participants, our solidarity with Palestine is unconditional. We’re on track to reach Gaza in just a few days www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

“This time next week, I might not be able to advocate for myself. So I’ll say this now: speak up not only for the flotilla, but against Israel’s illegal occupation and genocide.” - @naoisedolan.bsky.social www.independent.ie/opinion/comm... #Sumud #Spéirghorm

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The Mikeno boat at the front of Sumud flotilla has now reached Gaza’s territorial waters. It’s so close. I’m praying to every deity and secular source of hope that a single one of our boats gets through

Yahia Barzaq is the latest Palestinian journalist Israel has murdered in Gaza. Whatever propaganda moments they try to capture of the flotilla with cameras on — a jacket, a sandwich — remember that they kill reporters specifically to control the narrative

Sumud boats currently being intercepted by Israel, likely to illegally abduct and imprison those inside. I’m on one of the Thousand Madleens boats just behind. We need escalation from home to end the impunity with which this rogue state commits genocide and stifles opposition

I’m on a boat bound for Gaza – sailing, scrubbing and warding off sea sickness – all so we can break Israel’s blockade | Naoise Dolan

Wrote for the Guardian about boat life, and why we need not only to deliver short-term aid but to politically challenge Israel’s illegal occupation and siege www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our Thousand Madleens boats continue just behind Sumud. The next few days will be a test of whether the world will finally end the same impunity that has let Israel butcher Palestinians for decades

After a month of setbacks and delays, I finally set sail for Gaza today with Thousand Madleens to break Israel’s illegal blockade, protest Western governments’ participation in the genocide and stand with Palestinians. I’m on the Milad, track us here: thousandmadleens.fr/tracker/

I say this as a flotilla participant: we cannot let drone attacks distract from the genocide. Israel has murdered at least 84 people in Gaza so far today, with the real number likely far higher. Governments need to sanction this rogue state, not just protect their own citizens

My boat in Tunisia got cancelled but I’m still sailing to Gaza from Italy next week. Viva Palestina 🇵🇸

They droned a second boat. We’re still going to Gaza. Pressure the Irish government any way you can to support the flotilla and sanction the country attacking us

Our lead ship on the Global Sumud Flotilla was droned and caught fire. The six who were onboard are safe, and our mission will continue. They know international opinion is turning inexorably against them. Bombing peaceful humanitarians won’t exactly help that, but it’s the only response they’ve got.

Naoise Dolan, écrivaine irlandaise, explique pourquoi elle se rend sur la flottille, pour faire face à l'inaction de nos gouvernements. Interview par @paulmurphy.pbp.ie

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan is among hundreds of activists to have joined an aid flotilla sailing to Gaza this week 👇 #BookSky