Each Irish county has been paired with an EU member state for Ireland’s presidency of the European Council

We need many many more leaders of the calibre of Kaspar Veldkamp @ministerbz.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

As I just said on CNN, my father's parents were Nakba survivors. I don't want Israeli children to live in fear and I don't want Palestinian children to starve to death. There is nothing anyone could do to make me put nationalistic talking points above basic human rights.

@paulnews.bsky.social moving #Srebrenica memoria

Day 5 of my country visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, learning from the Izvor Foundation about the work being done to overcome trauma and heal the wounds of the past.

Looks like #edirama is going to win a fourth term with a clear majority www.panorama.com.al/mobile-home/...

My latest piece on @newstalkfm.bsky.social with #PatKenny www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

Ok it’s all gone up several notches Bosnia state police fail in attempted arrest of Serb leader Dodik  - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Luke O’Neill: US science is under attack – the rest of the world will suffer the consequences www.independent.ie/opinion/luke...

Mounting evidence from @barpeleg.bsky.social reporting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helped facilitate the funding Hamas’s military as it was planning the murderous rampage of October 7 #Qatargate Excellent exposition with @allisonksommer.bsky.social www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @marklowen.bsky.social reporter arrested and deported from Turkey after covering protests…

Just leaving this here…

I fear @stephanomics.bsky.social of @bloomberg.com is prescient in suggesting Trump may repeat his Afghanistan’ deal’ in Ukraine leaving the Europeans in lunch. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

NYT: “The White House did not comment on why the group had altered the contracts data or why it’s now harder for the public to scrutinize it.” The *savings* have been changed and altered — and are nowhere near what @MarshaBlackburn claims they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

“Whether the Meta boss and his ex-lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg are truly beyond awful is neither here nor there. I thought he was done with factchecking” 😛😂😳

Blown away by this erudite book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🤯 An exceptional combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical breadth and depth. His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.

Moscow has made clear that it doesn’t plan to negotiate in any meaningful sense. Instead, Russia seeks approval for its occupation and ethnic cleansing. My op-ed in today's @thejournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/ukrai...

Happy #internationalwomensday.

Today, ahead of International Women's Day, the Defence Forces Women's Network together with the Air Corps Women's Network held an event to mark the occasion. Speakers included Maj Gen Maureen O’Brien (Retd), Nuala Moore, Author and Lucy Nugent, CEO of Children’s Health Ireland. #AccelerateAction

They cared more about his attire than Putin perfidy… Great article by @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Two 🇺🇸bullies attacking a man who has tried to save his country 🇺🇦 and greater Europe from Russian aggression. We stand with Zelenskyy💛💙♾️

A member of Russia’s state-owned news agency gained access to the Oval Office for President Trump’s sit-down with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky – even as the AP and Reuters were barred from the high-level meeting.

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

“#Netanyahu didn’t get anything he wanted from #Trump” @alonpinkas.bsky.social fascinating insights talking with @allisonksommer.bsky.social of @haaretzcom.bsky.social #podcast

Let’s be clear: what we’re seeing at USAID and across government is an illegal power grab by the unelected billionaire who funded Trump’s campaign. We won’t sit quietly as Trump hands the keys of government to Musk and his billionaire oligarchs.

American Airlines Flight 5342 💔💔💔. They were both on their way to becoming Olympic athletes

Rebecca Brookes currently CEO of News UK ran a criminal enterprise while editor of The Sun

Idi Amin level graft from the Trump clan; a frightening unpacking of the Trump meme-coin from @scaramucci.bsky.social & @kattybkay.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

I didn’t vote for this. None of us did.

Three lawyers for deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were sentenced today to prison for “being part of an extremist group,” a Russian court ruled.

High Court orders Conor McGregor not to disseminate CCTV footage shown during civil trial www.thejournal.ie/high-court-c...

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All sorts of emotions seeing Obama and Trump sitting next to each other. How does it make you feel?

George W ignores Trump and probably tells Obama thanks for taking one for the team by sitting next to him 🤣

"Brilliant" explanation of how N95 respirators work youtube.com/watch?v=eAda...

In some people’s world - namely teenage offspring - this is BIG news

@news.rte.ie reporting… BREAKING NEWS 🇮🇱 closing their 🇮🇪 Embassy www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Despite leading the world in plastic pollution for 6 years in a row, @cocacolagb.bsky.social just quietly reneged on its promise to deliver 25% of its drinks in reusable bottles by 2030. UNACCEPTABLE! Contact the company's head of sustainability: bit.ly/coca-cola-re... #toxicplastic #planetorplastic

Worth a listen surprisingly philosophical, spiritual even…https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m0025vh3?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Scenes of intense Israeli airstrikes targeting the Mazzeh Military Airport in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

The lawsuit claims UnitedHealth illegally denied "elderly patients care owed to them under Medicare Advantage Plans" by deploying an AI model known by the company to have a 90% error rate, overriding determinations made by the patients' physicians.

UnitedHealth profit in 2023: $22 BILLION Current reward offered for information on shooter: $10K

My latest blog on #GE24 www.rte.ie/news/electio...

This is not the @davidmccullough.bsky.social you are looking for. @mcculld.bsky.social @rte.ie

@irishtimes.bsky.social @news.rte.ie @greenpartyie.bsky.social @rodericogorman.bsky.social The answer lies here…