the blockade has begun and contact with some vessels has been lost

The flotilla has been “intercepted” by the terrorist state of Israel.

This is fantastic: "Joyce shows that the British Empire's demand for binary selves has colonised the mind of the self-defined Irish nationalist and points to a radical and freeing alternative"🏳️‍⚧️💛🤍💜🖤

Irish Writers Centre and Poetry Ireland have joined forces to celebrate Black History Month! Chaired by poet + editor of Poetry Ireland’s Trumpet, Nandi Jola, the lineup features: Zainab Boladale Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi Jade Jordan Ola Majekodunmi Samuel Yakura 📍Irish Writers Centre 🎟️€5 eventbrite

We are so incredibly grateful ❤️. Read 👉 buff.ly/sSCClcS #GCNnews

#ConnollyForPresident #Áras25

Everybody participating in this festival is a piece of shit. Yes, including Mo Amer

A reminder that today is Michaelmas, on which day in parts of Ireland rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.

Another win for The Ditch and BDS. After The Ditch uncovered evidence the Marianne Danica was transporting 18 containers of artillery projectiles to Israel, the people of Cabo Verde said: No. Cabo Verde has refused the ship harbour. We will continue.

I dunno, are golf courses really where the craic is at?

Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth in Ireland! 📅 Sat, Oct 4, 2025 Theme: Rooted in Resilience Venue: Priory Market, Tallaght, Dublin 24 I am encouraging everyone to join us in Dublin next Saturday! Register here: tinyurl.com/2aarvyv4

Nature in Ireland is in a “very poor” state with the country’s economic growth achieved at the expense of the environment, EU analysis has found. - @codohertynews.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

I agree with Simon, don’t be expecting any for profit company to serve the people, we need to build publicly owned internet or this stuff will just keep happening.

If Dublin City can generate a spectacle for an American football game for tourists, then why not for All-Ireland Final weekends? I wrote about how Irish sport (and its fans) deserves the same celebratory treatment in and by the capital.

If you haven't switched search engines yet, Ecosia plants trees and doesn't foist AI slop on you

mine too! my best queer advice is to build yourself a lovely bubble and leave it as little as possible.

Yuval Noah Harari: “The truth is that Ukraine has managed to fight Russia to a standstill”.

North Korea walked out on Netanyahu’s speech but France, UK, Canada, Germany? Nope.

Wondering where the nominees stand? Find out here 👉 buff.ly/uufTkn7 #GCNnews

Incidentally, that website has lots of great reading

"All the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our brains—were manufactured in red giant stars thousands of light-years away in space and billions of years ago in time. We are, as I like to say, starstuff." -Carl Sagan,The Demon-Haunted World

"There is something very powerful about the connection the Spanish feel with the Irish. It is a very special relationship that goes back a long way. It carries a sense of brotherhood.”

Blackpast.org is such a great website

How do the 'second-gen' make sense of who they are? How do discourses of 'Irishness' influence how they talk about belonging. The stories I have heard so far have been incredible, full of humour, candid vulnerability, and agency. I am really excited about where this research project is going.

And anyone who’s family is from any part of the Derry West Bank of the Foyle and a good few on East Bank too. Ejits.

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is maybe the funniest thing we've ever done. We're now almost certainly going to lose money on it, but that's not the point. We just want it out there. We've also learned something: Make good art right now, and people will bust their ass to help you on short notice.

Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair. ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

And before you go see this new DiCaprio movie, remember he's building a luxury hotel in Israel right now

🚢 In Taranto, dockworkers & activists blocked the tanker Seasalvia from loading 30,000 tons of crude reportedly bound for Israel’s air force. After protests, ENI revoked docking permission. source: www.corrieremarittimo.it

"The far right is filled with violent groups of varying stripes and ideologies, pointing them at our tiny demographic with a permission structure to do violence upon us is a circumstance I'm afraid many trans people will not survive."

A statement of fact – that Hamas exists and is embedded in Palestinian society – and a straightforward condemnation of western intervention angered a class that’s never served Irish sovereignty, let alone Palestinian humanity Catherine Connolly was right www.ontheditch.com/catherine-co...

10 years on: reflecting on art & marriage equality at the National Gallery of Ireland with @immaireland.bsky.social and co-organised by IMMA Chief Curator Seán Kissane who will present his PhD research at TU Dublin www.nationalgallery.ie/whats-on/10-...

Eh, I can personally attest to the fact that you can’t actually say “whatever the fuck your want” on RTE 🤷🏼‍♀️

One of Ireland’s most respected filmmakers to introduce her critically acclaimed movie in Co Derry

The drug is administered just twice a year and has shown exceptional effectiveness in clinical trials. #GCNnews

For pity’s sake, for all our sakes www.agriland.ie/farming-news...

Looking for Irish artists who sell work as prints or reproductions. Suggestions? #speirgorm

Delighted to have a chapter in this new book about Dr Kathleen Lynn and the other great, innovative female doctors during the first decades of St Ultan’s hospital for sick infants. #speirgorm #irishhistory #history

If your entire political movement goes from dehumanising a group, to moving through removing their civil rights, to eventual calls for their eradication.... well. Some people are going to believe what you say and might decide to defend themselves. You don't get to complain when they do that.

I vouch for this new group and the people involved and would encourage everyone to supprt them in any way you can

“What also gets lost is the role of queer optimism. Not the Hallmark-card kind of rainbow inclusion, but the radical, stubborn hope that survives repression, that laughs in the margins, that believes in better even when the evidence says otherwise.” Beautifully put. Apply to any kind of optimism.

“‘I wish that I could be with you this evening to accept the honour in person, but because of my support for non-violent anti-war protest, I’m advised that I can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest." - Sally Rooney.

"Queer optimism is not a mood. It’s a method. It lets us imagine policy change not just as an institutional process but as a rewilding of the public imagination, reclaiming it from shame and silence."

Opinion: Radical hope and joy forged human rights movements, and we need them again now jrnl.ie/6818548

It really, really isn't. Finland solved the problem almost entirely through Housing First years ago, and they told the Irish government how to do it - the Irish govt just ... didn't bother. This is from 2019: www.broadsheet.ie/2019/05/01/a...

this is a great read

TW: Suicide. Police raids are violent events that leave lasting trauma. This is why we want police to stop raiding sex workers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...