Green Party Northern Ireland leader Mal O'Hara met up with England and Wales Green Party leader Zack Polanski today in Cardiff ahead of the Welsh Senedd elections next week. 1/3

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

Workers built this world. Hope will save it.💚 Join us tomorrow to stand alongside trade unions & communities across Belfast to demand better pay, better rights, & a better future for everyone. 📍 St. Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast 🕦 11:30am | Saturday 2 May 2026 See you on the steps. ✊

This is today! Come along this afternoon for a chat and to create your own placard for the MARCH FOR LOUGH NEAGH. 😃✊🏻

This is so sad - Loaf was such a lovely community establishment, the only sit-in cafe on Grosvenor Rd, and of obvious benefit not only to staff with learning disabilities, but to staff, patients and visitors at the hospital too! Absolutely huge loss. belfastmedia.com/popular-west...

Our annual Conference is coming up on Saturday 16th May at the Clayton Hotel, Belfast - and it’s going to be a big one. Doors open at 9.30am for a packed day of debate, ideas, and action. This year’s panels include: 🛡️ Facing Down the Far Right 💷 How We Lower Bills 1/3

The BBC News homepage has now COMPLETELY removed its Climate section?! It has now been relegated to a sub-menu via the "More" button in the right-hand corner.

Truly an absolutely fucking thrilling time to be a minority in the UK right now. These are all from just the past few weeks.

What bothers to me to no end is Portugal legalised the sale of heroin decades ago as a public health measure—and it worked. Deaths from ODs dropped, use dropped, it helped people. Legalising heroin works. In a world with legalised heroin, my friend might still be alive. And it’s dismissed as a joke

ludicrous headline from the bbc here

Mary Lou couldn't care less about how the "lads" treated the Muslim Sisters of Eire that week obviously. Directly threatening women doesn't fit into the convenient narrative she wants to create to win votes, so lets just forget about those women's experiences hey @sinn-fein.bsky.social

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Irish media and politics have NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE DOING when it comes to the far right, and they are making exactly the same mistakes as every other country because they are too proud and/or stupid to admit it.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Jewish communities are living in fear amid rising antisemitism, including these appalling arson attacks. We must confront this. At the same time, antisemitism is being weaponised to shut down criticism of the Israeli government. Both are true. Both deeply concerning. Both Antisemitic.

Today at 5.30 Make your voice heard!

Men don't need to pretend to be women to assault women in 'women only' spaces - example #9,756

Sorry but my hot take on this in the current context is it's a bit like talking about Viktor Orbán as if he was still the plucky young liberal challenger of the 90's and not the wannabe despot he ended up. People don't get a pass to be atrocious because they were once not atrocuous.

Irish government: YES THIS IS GOOD WE WANT THIS

7 years today since our great friend Lyra McKee was taken from us. I wonder what she'd think about the world today. I hope she'd be proud of those whose lives she touched. I'll be up to see you this afternoon, honey. Love you as ever.

it's never too late to change pat

the Greens are up for the third poll in a row with @lucidtalk.bsky.social - watch out 2027, here we come!

Greens in Northern Ireland up to record polling now at 5%. Which translates as 10-12% in Belfast. Continual growth over the past 12 months. We keep right at it, offering an unashamedly left wing alternative to the Stormont Shambles. Make Hope Normal Again.

Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.

Bigotry against Travellers is where many Irish racists cut their teeth.

All across the UK, Greens are working to bring hope back to politics. With just 3 weeks until the election, the leader of the Green Party of Northern Ireland Mal O’Hara joined us to campaign on our shared vision for a fairer, greener future. 💚

Wednesday 22 April is Earth Day, a day where people everywhere are called to defend our shared home. To mark Earth Day, the Green Party is bringing a motion to the Dáil on the climate and biodiversity emergency. my.uplift.ie/petitions/no...

No Farmers, No Food? We import most of what we eat in Ireland, and the tillage sector is at the point of collapse. Are we serious about food security, or will we become a country that produces only beef and dairy - and animal feed?

Ulster University has announced plans for 450 redundancies. The university, that just a few weeks ago gave Arnold Schwarzenegger an honorary doctorate, apparently for his remarkable contributions to public service, is being gutted.

Who at C4 thought this graphic was any good lol

The long-term solution to the fossil fuel crisis is *not* more fossil fuels.

One thing that struck me at Budapest Pride last year was the amount of locals who said to us that they were proudly marching for the first time. They were sick of the demonisation of minorities, the grotesque corruption and the gradual chipping away of democracy - and that Orbán needed to go.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Presumably there will be a package of reliefs for people who are out of pocket from booking hotels and transport and other costs to attend these ceremonies right? And the protesters will support this because those are mostly working people right?

What a beautiful post

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

Information for Belfast Protest on April 12th! Comment below if we'll see you there! (Please share far and wide!) #guidersagainsttransexclusion #transgender #girlguiding #protest

So the guards finally got the finger out and the protesters folded like origami at the first sign they might suffer consequences Why did we spend a week letting them run riot? This could have been resolved much earlier

The overlap between racism, nationalism, opposition to environmental protection, and a view of society based on pure, narrow self-interest, is obvious

Yes he may be a racist millionaire gombeen who owns large amounts of land but you have to understand he has to wear wellies to inspect the work of his employees so he's actually Working Class and we must unquestioningly follow him

BOI ORDAH OF DA PEEKY FOOKEN BLOINDAHS

This is a good thread. Another thing I have learned is that the only way to qualify as a working class woman is to agree with everything said by a self-styled representative of the working classes who is a man.

Not the first or the last to make this point, but the protests really lay bare who is considered a “worker” by many people. Lads who run plant hire companies ✅, but Deliveroo drivers and women doing the admin in offices are the liberal elite

The rise in fuel bills is too high. But so is the rise in rents. TDs asking for a cap on the former are the very ones who just voted to remove restrictions on the latter. Renters abandoned to the mercy of the market. Businessmen apparently need protection from it. The Irish caste system at work.

I'll be speaking at this on behalf of Queer Greens, please come along if you can <3

A member of the government comes clean. The idea Starmer has ‘kept Britain out of this illegal war’ has been a lie.

You're not paying more for fuel because of climate action. You're paying more because of inaction against the United States and Israel. You're subsidising Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael's cowardice, as well as the cowardice of every other nation ignoring these violations of international law.