Nice argument, but it’s too late. I’ve already depicted myself as the calm under pressure, cheerful, and suave Pico Lopes while you are the shocked and fearful Lionel Messi

When an immigrant stabbed a man in Belfast a few weeks ago, the image of that attack was on the front page of most of the UK papers. Jeffrey Donaldson is not on the front page of the Times, Telegraph, Express, Mirror, Star, Metro, Morning Star, i paper, Guardian, Herald, Journal, or National

Tonight's the night. Jane Deasy's The Warm Up opens tonight at Cork School of Music. You can listen back to the radio show below to get you warmed up :) www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigita...

We used to call them ‘race riots’ now we call them ‘anti-immigration protests’.

The incident is racist neo-Nazis wandering around in a pack and attacking anyone they decide looks like an immigrant.

All week, I’ve seen the best of Belfast at the Book Festival- welcoming, inclusive, creative, joyful- tonight we’re making sure all our lovely guest writers can get home safely through riots and burnt out vehicles and outpouring of hatred. It is such a shame. We are much better than this.

There is an urgent conversation which needs to be had. And it's not about immigration. It's about fascism and its enablers.

Glasgow city centre had an edge tonight that felt scarier than the Dublin riots a few years back. Police everywhere and the aftermath of random attacks on non white folks and delivery cyclists on Glasgow Bridge.

And he's back.

"Four performers prepare to go on stage. The same routine. Night after night after night." Put together a mix with Jane Deasy and the cast of The Warm Up for Éist tonight at 6pm. It's a sonic sketchbook of music and influences that have inspired the show. www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/the...

If you're in Cork this weekend don't miss this show! www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/the...

Slowly coming back to after Open Ear. Hearing Legion of One's dubby sludge on the beach was probably this year's highlight. Sunday was one hit after another. frontendsynthetics.bandcamp.com/album/of-dub

Well done Revolutionary Housing League lreland Longterm empty buildings are vandalism Time for "use it or lose it"

INAR statement, including some description of the video referenced in the report. I have seen the video and the description is accurate. it was in the street, in broad daylight, and there were loads of people standing around watching, filming, talking, etc.

Anois, Os Ard is back, just in time for yr long weekend. Wrote about dreamestate indie-pop, folk-horror soundscapes, notes on becoming and the apocalypse, ‘90s internet star ambience, a breakthrough rap masterclass, some drone stuff, some club stuff, all sorts! open.substack.com/pub/anoisosa...

I'll be in Trinity next Weds giving a guest lecture, a mere 46 years after leaving midway through second year of my degree to pursue something or other. Talk about the long way around. Do come along if you're in Dublin. bit.ly/4dYIHMf

Wtf this is horrifying.

"He seemed to believe... that to abandon his work meant giving in to what fascism wanted for him: an existence so devoid of value + meaning that it would be indistinguishable from death. He held on to his briefcase not until it was too late but because it was too late."

BBC Verify confirms that the United States killed 110 young children, in their school, on just the first day of this war. www.bbc.com/news/article...

R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

The second, final installment of my interview w/ historian Peter Linebaugh on @thedigradio.bsky.social: Luddites' machine-breaking revolt, the centrality of capital punishment in consolidation of capitalist state, remaking struggle against enclosure for 21st century. thedigradio.com/podcast/brea...

Big day out for the parish. Unfortunately I won't be in the parish. To find out why you'll need to watch this film 😉🍿

All out this Tuesday, 6pm against #ThePoxtonHotel injunction! A British hotel group seeking to silence a neighbouring club. Izakaya isn’t noise pollution. It’s part of Dublin’s cultural fabric. Hotels rise. Rents climb. Venues close. The city dies. Image from Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin's Instagram.

Filmed over four years across kitchen tables, protests and public meetings, this documentary follows a city fighting for itself as a broken property market chews up its citizens for profit. Rooted in Dublin, it reveals global forces reshaping cities, where homes are assets and people are obstacles.

I know everyone means well with their 'scoop this reporter up immediately' endorsement posts but christ — who's doing the scooping? What's left? Thinking about our industry this way, like this is a momentary setback and there are ample open roles, obscures the truth about the rot at its core.

An analogy for this is research chemicals and synthetic drugs. Labs are well able to keep ahead of legislation. Yet politicians like this go all out in their condemnation and efforts to ban them. When it's X enabling CSAM? Ara shur look, each to their own -shur isn't technology mad lad...

These people are being held on remand as punishment. Bail is routinely offered for more serious offences. The Home Secretary is refusing to meet their representatives. Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns | Prison News | Al Jazeera share.google/rXo7ju6GqlM2...

Really sad to hear this, Asad was a total genius! Remembering this Black Panther movie which turns into both a meditation on Huey Newton's political thought and an appreciation of Detroit Techno act Drexciya.... One of a kind. RIP viewpointmag.com/2018/03/05/b...

This is shite. The Complex serves so many artist tribes in Ireland. All artists need is a space, they'll do the rest because they've had to. It's so frustrating that €10m can be given to the NFL but Dublin CC can't open a basic event space for artists without trying to commercialise everything.

I wrote about The Complex’s first experience of eviction in this paper. In the years since they have clearly embedded themselves in this area of the city and contributed to its vibrancy. We need to protect cultural institutions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Rest in Power to a real one. pirate.ie/archive/inte...

"Can places like KXLU survive, when the tech pull [is] squarely in the opposite direction? 'One administrator can kill a college 📻station,” @katejewell.bsky.social said, while adding that she feels the health of such stations is strong [bc] DIY camaraderie + community feel so urgent..."

My opening remarks danmcquillan.org/irish_parlia... were described by committee members as 'blunt' and 'sceptical about AI, to say the least'

Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.

The Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music round-up is back ☁️ Harps and bodhráns reimagined as ambient instruments, surrealist avant-folk, fairy forts, some Prefab Sprout-style sweetness, uilleann pipes, motorik psych, Pavement covers and a tribute to Manchán Magan anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

When the dust settles, I hope we remember that on the precise evening Trump (a) pulled his cultural critics off TV and (b) designated his political enemies as terrorists, the UK was giving him every honour imaginable, and glorying in its "special relationship" with his regime.

Why has Gazans’ hunger attained the status of ‘moral crisis’ when Israel’s genocidal slaughter did not? Another great piece by Mark O’Connell.

"[Microsoft Azure] has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... Microsoft continues to aid genocide

Louise Fitzgerald & I are hiring an 18 month postdoc and 18 month research assistant (no PhD required) for a project on the political ecology of land ownership in Ireland. 2 weeks to apply. DM for any questions. 🧵 Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs

Please sign and share this petition calling on the government to overturn its disgraceful refusal and to issue visas to the children from GAA Palestine for their trip to Ireland. #FreeGAAPalestine my.uplift.ie/petitions/le...

New show tonight! We're back with another drone and ambient webinar at 9pm. with usic from @k8carr.bsky.social and @dvddnh.bsky.social, @colonialskyway.bsky.social, @isolatedcommunity.bsky.social, @dunksunk.bsky.social + releases from @quietdetails.bsky.social, @auralcanyon.bsky.social and more!

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work: zeteo.com/p/israels-te...

You'd be pressed to name a more crucial individual in this silly music thing, both in the foreground and background. Such a warm and generous man, absolutely fucking brutal news today

'Understanding Ireland’s dependency as a defining feature of Irish economic development allows us to see how the State’s undemocratic actions to support global extractive industries, erode our neutrality, and fail on Palestine are part of the same political economic matrix.'