Spent Saturday morning with Los San Patricios GAA club in Mexico for @irishtimes.com ‘Jesus, there’s some altitude here’: Introducing Mexico City’s first GAA club www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Fifty-two young Palestinians from Gaza are due to arrive in Ireland today and in the coming days to begin a new life as students in Irish universities.

Black parents in Washington, D.C., are on edge after President Trump’s declaration that young people are a threat to public safety and his order that put federal agents and National Guard troops on patrol around the city.

US long-term debt sells off after Trump’s attempted firing of Fed governor

Guatemala and rebirth of a language: Youth in the vanguard of reviving native Xinkan culture Latest for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/americ...

"A Hispanic Texan has one-third the political value of a white Texan under this plan, and a Black Texan has one-fifth."

More than 24,000 Guatemalans have been deported from the US in 2025, with family separations likely to increase under new policies introduced by the Trump administration. I spent some time at the military base in Guatemala where most of these people are arriving. www.irishtimes.com/world/americ...

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MetroLink delivery should be prioritised, US multinationals tell Government

My world report on settler wineries and vineyards in occupied Palestine is up on RTÉ playback now. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Breaking News: Germany said it would suspend any exports to Israel of military equipment that could be used in Gaza, a significant break with its postwar past.

Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman to lead MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence service, and the spy chief widely regarded as the inspiration for the character "M" in the James Bond movies, died Sunday at 90.

Final article in my Dubai series for The Currency After opening her second premium dessert bar in the UAE, Irish entrepreneur Saifa Kajani has just decided to pull the plug on her original Dublin business The Drunken Cookie. thecurrency.news/articles/194...

More detail on Monday's military court hearing on the killing of Pte Seán Rooney in @irishtimes.com Lebanese authorities know where man sentenced to death for killing Pte Seán Rooney is, Irish officials believe www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

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Ben Smith’s book Traffic about the rise and fall of Gawker and Buzzfeed (where he worked for a bit) and internet media and vitality is a really interesting head-spinning read but it’s hard not to come away thinking: “well that decade & a half of media development was a waste of everyone’s time.”

Once again, this is missing a larger point. By all means introduce this for presidential elections, but it’s more important to debate the potential for Dail elections. A constituency for the diaspora. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

Simon Harris tells 4th of July party ‘the bombs have to stop’ in Gaza

In 2024, the International Court of Justice's advisory opinion stated that Israeli settlements were illegal; countries should cease trade + Israel should evacuate settlers from occupied Palestinian territories. @irishtimes.com @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social🖊️

I wrote about the Irish millennials hoping to make their fortunes in Dubai’s booming property market for The Currency thecurrency.news/articles/191...

I wrote about what happened last time AirBnB tried to remove listings in settlements in the occupied West Bank from its website for @irishtimes.com and how laws in the US and Israel restrict boycotts against Israeli settlements, not just Israel. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

During his appearance at the London Magistrate court this morning, Ó hAnnaidh was granted unconditional bail until his next hearing on 20 August.

Crowds outside Westminster Magistrate court this morning for @kneecapceol.bsky.social’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, known as Mo Chara, who was charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly waving a Hezbollah flag at a concert in London last year.

Elon Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to access millions of Americans' personal information, a New York Times investigation has found.

The journalist Dom Phillips, who was killed while covering Indigenous peoples and the Amazon in 2022, left behind an unfinished manuscript. Those who knew him have now brought it to life, with the release of “How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist’s Fatal Quest for Answers.”

Update on D Murphy case: Irish pro-Palestine activist set to be deported from Israel @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

According to @adalahjustice.bsky.social the crew from @freedomflotilla.bsky.social are being held at Ashdod Port. Anyone who refuses to be deported will be transferred to Givon prison in Ramla - the same Israeli immigration detention centre where Irish woman D Murphy is currently detained.

US diplomats met media watchdog as tensions rise in Washington over regulation of tech firms

South Park residents of San Diego, California, confront Trump’s ICE agents after they stormed a local Italian restaurant to detain staff. This is how fascism is resisted. Courageous citizens standing their ground against regime thugs sent to intimidate them. More of this, America!

Irish woman detained by Israel in the West Bank. My report for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

6,500 Bedouin are facing eviction from their homes in southern Israel. I spoke with a Bedouin elder, older than the Israeli state, whose community Ras Jrabah is fighting in Israel’s Supreme Court to stay on their land for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Seen today in Damascus: “thank you President Trump. With your support we can Make Syria Great Again.”

I spoke to Russian activist and journalist @theandreyx.bsky.social about becoming an Israeli citizen after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and his journey to anti-occupation activism and reporting in the West Bank @theirishtimestoday.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

U-turn on Grafton Street toilets as council reverses ‘ludicrous’ closure plan

‘The house has a large red star sprayed on it, marking it for demolition. The displacement reminds Natour of her childhood, when her family lived in tents after fleeing their home in Sindiyana near Haifa in modern-day Israel during the Nakba. “Now we return to the same.”’

‘Our future is gone’: Refugee camps in West Bank face unprecedented destruction My report from Jenin for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Sunday's @nytimes.com carries the photos of 15 medics and rescue workers shot and killed by the IDF in Gaza in March, collected from their families and colleagues. QR links out to video reconstruct, Six Deadly Minutes. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhN...

Thanks to @tobiaslang.bsky.social for his analysis for this piece

Syrian Druze are walking a ‘tightrope’ between Damascus and Israel My report for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

„A British study found that pedestrians and cyclists are 44% more likely to die if they are hit by an SUV or similar-sized vehicle rather than by a traditional car – and that figure rises to 82% [!!] for children.“

The lack of aid at the Sudan-Ethiopia border has pushed many Sudanese refugees into mining gold in the economically poor but gold-rich region of Benishangul-Gumuz. My report for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/africa...

‘If the parent isn’t confident cycling, they’re not going to let their child cycle’: New Dublin training ground for biking opens

The lack of aid at the Sudan-Ethiopia border has pushed many Sudanese refugees into mining gold in the economically poor but gold-rich region of Benishangul-Gumuz. My report for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/africa...

The economic indicator on the World Press Freedom Index now at an unprecedented, critical low ... As a result, the global state of press freedom is now classified as a “difficult situation” for the first time in the history of the Index." rsf.org/en/rsf-world...

Will be speaking about Trump’s first 100 days tonight at 10.15pm on Virgin Media.

"Israel split by song calling for death of Dua Lipa and Bella Hadid Ness and Stilla have topped the Israeli chart with Harbu Darbu, a drill rap with a kill list" Reporting from @thetimes.com last February www.thetimes.com/article/675f...

This time it was a much larger delegation which included also sheikhs from different parts of Syria. Significant also because the shrine is the No 1 symbol for a distinct Israeli-Druze identity.

@eamont.bsky.social: there is a lack of hope in how we report climate @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social: we need to pay more attention to the language we use in reporting Priyanka Borpujari: we could look more at indigenous ways of living on the land #DCUClimate2025

In Lebanon, a guy being interviewed by @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social objected to the term ‘seed bank’, because they hate the banks, which have recently collapsed. They call them ‘seed libraries’. #DCUClimate2025 @dcuclimate.bsky.social