Killed, while starving and desperate for aid...a new low in Israel's genocidal campaign on Gaza www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Complete and open disregard for international law. No sanctions.

“Imagine trying to move with four children or an elderly parent in the middle of the night, with no transport and nowhere to go. People are so exhausted, many would rather face death than flee again.” - Jim Clarken, Oxfam Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41... @oxfamireland.bsky.social

Today @trocaire.bsky.social is launching a new climate justice campaign with a powerful report: ‘Fuelling Injustice: Ireland’s fossil fuel problem’ exposes how we’re enabling climate harm & calls on @micheal-martin.bsky.social’s Gov to do its fair share to drive a fast, funded, fossil-fuel phase out

Just another Friday in the West Bank as the West utters mild criticism but keeps the weapons and money flowing.

Powerful letter. Long past time for the government to act.

Counter-terrorism legislation, a most flexible friend of a state that fails miserably to counter or even acknowledge impunity on the part of another state whose genocide and war crimes it has enabled:

🔴Listen back to our CEO @karolbalfe.bsky.social speaking on @todayfm.bsky.social about the devastating reality the people of #Gaza are enduring. 📻https://link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGXggjtG0Hzh

This says it all www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

"Dystopia is the living reality in #Gaza today. For its beleaguered #population, it feels like the world is ending, over and over again." In the @independent.ie, our CEO @karolbalfe.bsky.social, sheds light on the ongoing struggle faced by Gaza’s population. www.independent.ie/opinion/karo...

A stain on humanity's conscience jrnl.ie/6702653

I have never seen a situation so dismal that Tony Blair couldn't make it worse.

If you wonder why men *obsessed* with the United States having more children are kidnapping children and sending them to other countries, those children were the incorrect color.

Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism. Wrote about the Gender Brexiteers.

Kneecap Manager asks the question no one ever answers: “At what point do we stop amplifying messages that are inaccurate?”

"How can #humanity co-exist with this much #suffering and #trauma? Why can’t the #EuropeanUnion do anything?" - Our CEO, @karolbalfe.bsky.social, for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social 🗞️https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41608582.html

“The Irish have resisted colonialism for centuries under enormously difficult hardships and they’ve never given up hope. Palestinians for 100 years, we’ve been resisting oppression and doing everything we can to live in peace, justice, dignity, equality and self-determination. We cannot give up."

"The moment we are now living in demands #courage . We have a voice, and that #voice needs to be heard" - @karolbalfe.bsky.social for @irishtimes.com 🗞️ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett... #StPatricksDay #StPaddysDay

ActionAid joins over 360 organisations in calling for @europarl.europa.eu members to block the #Omnibus proposal. Its passage would be a betrayal to the values of the EU & the wellbeing of its citizens. 📢 No to weakening #CSDD 📢 No to corporate impunity 📢 #NoToOmnibus For more: bit.ly/4ieGGuF

This is such a tragic development … Concern Worldwide lays off almost 400 staff citing ‘aid funding cuts’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

"During #conflict it is #women who make up the majority of long-term displaced and #refugees, leaving them vulnerable to #exploitation, #trafficking, and #poverty" - @karolbalfe.bsky.social for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social 🗞️https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41587471.html

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

Time for a Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation treaty, @fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social keep em in the ground, fund renewables and save our planet. High level panel in Dublin, Lidy Nacpil from the Philippines outlines the importance of loss and damage and moving from fossil fuels @actionaidie.bsky.social

Really excited about this

Read our CEO @karolbalfe.bsky.social's article about the positive impact of #IrishAid funding on women’s empowerment programs in #Nepal🗞️

"Through #Ireland’s development cooperation programme, #IrishAid, we are supporting those who have been left behind, with a clear commitment to ending #poverty, and supporting #humanrights and #genderequality." - @karolbalfe.bsky.social for @independent.ie 🗞️ www.independent.ie/irish-news/a...

Our CEO, @karolbalfe.bsky.social, is visiting our Women's Rights work funded by #IrishAid this week. 👉Irish Aid supports our partners in #Nepal, who work with women facing poverty to claim their rights—especially to reduce #genderbasedviolence and empower #women economically.

For Palestinians, Trump’s Gaza Riviera plan is a fate worse than bombs. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

2/6 @karolbalfe.bsky.social, ActionAid Ireland CEO said: “President Trump’s abhorrent comments suggesting the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza are not only damaging

It is an absurdity to think humanitarian aid into Gaza could be banned so soon into the ceasefire, my colleague from ActionAid Palestine www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

As the ceasefire in #Gaza comes into effect, our CEO @karolbalfe.bsky.social highlights the urgent need to address the staggering humanitarian crisis. The Government must also move forward with the Occupied Territories Bill. @irishtimes.com irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

Cowardice.

We wait with great anxiety for tomorrow, meanwhile Israel is killing civilians apace over this interim period. Aid desperately needed in, and we're a long way from justice. My letter in today @irishindosport.bsky.social

🔴“As the truce comes into effect, all efforts must turn to addressing the staggering #humanitarian need in #Gaza, where people are starving, and #children are freezing to death." - @karolbalfe.bsky.social, ActionAid Ireland CEO Read more: actionaid.ie/ceasefire-ag...

So many journalists and politicians are jumping over each other to talk about the risk of Ireland passing the OTB, great to see @irishexaminer.bskwww.irish's Mick Clifford not do this and call for action based on the right thing to do www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Stories are appearing in the press and on RTÉ from people opposed to Ireland taking measures like the Occupied Territories Bill. It feels like organised pushback. Context matters. Here is some.

The unfinished business of realising women's rights. Despite these structural obstacles, women and girls are driving change. Today's Mail on Sunday features some extraordinary women ActionAidworks with @actionaidie.bsky.social

Let’s get real: Ireland’s data centre boom is driving up fossil fuel dependence www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

The Taliban threatens to shut down NGOs that employ women in Afghanistan jrnl.ie/6582952

Nobody within the EU can say they were unaware of the scale of Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Their own *internal* investigations reveal a pattern of indiscriminate attacks on civilians. Q: Might EU political figures potentially be indicted for complicity? theintercept.com/2024/12/23/e...

The brutality, violence and hate by Israel is mind blowing and chilling. With the defeaning inaction of world leaders

The last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, detained after refusing to abandon his colleagues and patients. In just one image, we see both the power of Palestinian humanity and the moral weakness of all those complicit in genocide. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

My op ed - The world in 2025: Six actions global leaders can take to build a fairer and better planet jrnl.ie/6577321

Every-single-person-in-the-world-should-be-appalled-by-the destruction of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza! The fact that WHO’s comments are loud in a sea of silence is appalling in itself. Speak up for Palestinians. It is the only moral thing you can do.

The Occupied Territories Bill must be a priority for the new government and not be watered down www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...