My last Substack of 2025 naoise.substack.com/p/assorted-m...

Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide

‘There are young people dying in ­British jails again’ — Kneecap say what the world is ignoring m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

‘How do you know someone used to live in Berlin? They’ll tell you — though I would never be so gauche as to bring up that time I got into Berghain on a guestlist without queuing.’ This week’s Sunday Independent column m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

Trí dhán faoi Bhleá Cliath a léigh mé os ard aréir ar ócáid Aerach Aiteach Gaelach naoise2.substack.com/p/tri-dhan-b...

I may not be able to pronounce her name but I could read her all day. @naoisedolan.bsky.social on marriage.

Palestine campaigning in Ireland and the UK has badly needed more union action and collective support of workers. That’s where the most power is, not with celebrity activists; the murder machine relies on labour. Stand with this Tesco worker who refused to handle Israeli goods

Jordan Devlin from Antrim is among the Palestine Action prisoners being horribly mistreated. His comrades’ hunger strike is now entering its fourth week, with dangerous negligence from authorities www.ontheditch.com/irishman-amo...

Palestine Action-linked prisoners have been on hunger strike for three weeks now, with hardly any media attention. We need to stand with them and amplify what’s happening m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

Israel has killed at least 280 people in Gaza since the ‘ceasefire’ took effect. ‘The fragile ceasefire’ is a hand-wringing euphemism. It’s not fragile. It’s broken.

Dlúthpháirtíocht ó Éirinn, is gá idirghabháil a dhéanamh i gcoinne cinedhíothaithe ⁊ ba cheart dúinn uilig a bheith buíoch go bhfuil daoine á dhéanamh

The class interests of billionaires are fundamentally opposed to climate justice. Until they and the politicians who support them are willing to betray those interests, climate conferences are mere theatre m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Palestine Action activists in the UK are coordinating what will soon be the largest rolling prisoners’ hunger strike since the 1981 Irish hunger strike led by Bobby Sands novaramedia.com/2025/11/11/p...

Anailís @naoisedolan.bsky.social , mar chléach: níl an rialtas ar tí aon rud suntasach a dhéanamh ar son na teanga gan a bheith fórsáilte. An rath is mó a bhí ar an ngluaiseacht na Gaeilge, tharla sé nuair a chruthaigh na Gaeil ... gan a bheith ag fanacht le cead open.substack.com/pub/naoise2/...

Aistín nua ar mo Substack Gaeilge naoise2.substack.com/p/caithfimid...

The Irish language is in an all-time underfunding crisis, with Gaeltacht housing ever more unaffordable and record secondary school exemptions. Rather than lowering our expectations, we need to fight for Irish and for everyone’s chance to access it m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

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