Dónall Geoghegan
@donallgeoghegan.bsky.social
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"MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN". The writing is on the White House wall, as Trump flounders in his "peace keeping" efforts in Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Palestine.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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What exactly does Vladimir Putin hold over the cowardly Donald Trump?
And what has Russian leader said or threatened to prompt US president’s volte-face on Ukraine?
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/10/22/what-exactly-does-vladimir-putin-hold-over-the-cowardly-donald-trump/
about 1 month ago
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Dónall Geoghegan
Green Party / Comhaontas Glas
about 2 months ago
We’re deeply saddened to hear of Manchán’s passing. A candidate for the party in 2016, he was more importantly a passionate and skilled advocate for Irish language and culture, and an appreciation for the beauty and importance of nature. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
add a skeleton here at some point
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There’ll be celebrations in Moscow tonight as Babiš wins Czech vote. The populist right and the far right continue to build throughout Europe.
www.politico.eu/article/babi...
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Babiš triumphs in Czechia, sending ripples through the EU
The right-wing populist vows to slash support for Ukraine, challenge increased military spending and confront Brussels over the Green Deal.
https://www.politico.eu/article/babis-poised-to-triumph-in-czech-election/
about 2 months ago
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“How you die does not redeem how you lived”
2 months ago
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Getting through Donnacha Ó Beacháin’s great book on the history of Russian colonialism of Ukraine, other former Soviet ‘members’ & conquests within Russian borders. Let it be said @DonnachaDCU pulls no punches. It’s what The Donald should have read before meeting Putin
3 months ago
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As an Irish Jew my Star of David is no longer a badge of pride but a mark of shame
I’m aware that by writing these words, I’ll alienate members of my family, friends and wider community
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/08/08/as-an-irish-jew-my-star-of-david-is-no-longer-a-badge-of-pride-but-a-mark-of-shame/
4 months ago
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Trump: China’s BFF
www.ft.com/content/d10e...
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Trump is the gift that keeps giving to China
The US president is upending a quarter of a century of American policy in the Indo-Pacific
https://www.ft.com/content/d10ea991-627d-4c79-8d80-04af180c69dc
4 months ago
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Great win by Dublin, and to see Orlagh Nolan getting Woman of the Match is icing on the cake. Her father Con would be so proud of her today.
#Dublin
#LGF
4 months ago
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What's the plan for our relationship with the EU? @GerardHowlin challenges us to get our act together
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Gerard Howlin: The EU status quo Ireland prospered in for 50 years is over
Being at the centre in Brussels requires new credentials we have yet to acquire.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/08/01/the-eu-status-quo-ireland-prospered-in-for-50-years-is-at-an-end-we-need-to-cop-on-and-catch-up-quickly/
4 months ago
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Margaret Atwood at her funniest and most poignant: “Airborne”, from her collection of stories Old Babes in the Wood.
4 months ago
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“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”
4 months ago
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Margaret Atwood has an uncanny ability to make me laugh out loud. Just brilliant! Two Scorched Men, from the collection Old Babes in the Wood.
5 months ago
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If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the complacency - and demand faster climate action
www.politico.eu/article/leth...
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Lethal heat is Europe’s new climate reality
Some 4,500 people could die in the next three days due to soaring temperatures, an expert said.
https://www.politico.eu/article/lethal-heat-europe-climate-reality-temperature-heatwave-who-pollution-wildfires
5 months ago
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What am I going to do now that I’ve seen the last episode of the Handmaid’s Tale?
5 months ago
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Ehud Olmert provides a glimpse of a viable peace and a future to look forward to for Israel and Palestine. A must listen.
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
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Ehud Olmert on Israel's Catastrophic War in Gaza
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 11/06/2025 · 1h 14m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000712409664
5 months ago
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Democracy is under assault.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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US state politician and husband killed in ‘targeted’ attacks on two Democrats
Authorities are searching for an assailant who officials say was impersonating a police officer and shot at officers
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/06/14/us-state-politician-and-husband-killed-in-targeted-attacks-on-two-democrats/
5 months ago
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Big Beautiful Bust Up
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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Donald Trump accuses ‘crazy’ Elon Musk of being ‘hostile’ to his administration
Tesla chief says Trump would have lost election without him and president has not published files on Jeffrey Epstein as he appears in them
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/06/05/donald-trump-accues-elon-musk-of-being-hostile-to-his-administration/
6 months ago
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I’m with
@jenoconnell.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Jennifer O'Connell: The Macron shove is not a sign of a very French love story, but something more disturbing
A conspiracy of coyness around the troubling origin story of Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte extended to the incident filmed in Vietnam this week
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/05/31/jennifer-oconnell-the-macron-shove-is-not-a-sign-of-a-very-french-love-story-but-something-more-disturbing/
6 months ago
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“The ‘crazy right’ consistently elevates the temperature of political discourse through vicious polemics, fearmongering, the dissemination of fake news, & the manufacturing of outrage. Engaging in a contest with them on these terms is a losing proposition”
www.socialeurope.eu/the-shadow-o...
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The Shadow of Unfreedom: A New Authoritarianism Grips the Globe
A harsh, right-wing authoritarianism is rising, casting a shadow of unfreedom as classic conservatism fades.
https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-shadow-of-unfreedom-a-new-authoritarianism-grips-the-globe
7 months ago
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Today would have been 100 years since Anna Kelly was born in Derry. Grew up in Creeslough, Co Donegal, and spent her adult years in Dublin, where she succumbed to the charms of Noel Geoghegan. Always in our thoughts. Happy birthday, mammy. 🎂
7 months ago
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Time to get real, and get our act together. Another great piece by @BobbyMcDonagh1
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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EU faces moment of truth as it faces threats from Trump’s tariffs and Putin’s war
If Ireland wants its EU partners to have the country’s back on issues related to our national interests, this requires reciprocal empathy
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/04/03/eu-faces-moment-of-truth-as-it-faces-threats-from-trumps-tariffs-and-putins-war/
8 months ago
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Hear, hear.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Kathy Sheridan: Ireland’s parliamentary standards have been trashed in recent weeks
Democracy is fragile - the consequences of politicians breaking with parliamentary norms and standards are not just theoretical
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/04/02/irelands-parliamentary-standards-have-been-trashed-in-recent-weeks/
8 months ago
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Ethnic cleansing and other war crimes are like ducks: if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Mark O’Connell: The little boy lost his entire family. He just sits staring at the wall
Those of us who are willing to see what is under our noses know very well that what is happening now in Gaza is an ongoing project of ethnic cleansing
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/03/30/the-little-boy-in-gaza-lost-his-entire-family-he-does-not-cry-he-just-sits-there-staring-at-the-wall/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Hamas%20agrees%20to%20ceasefire%20proposal%20it%20received%20from%20mediators%2C%20its%20leader%20says&utm_campaign=morning_briefing_digest
8 months ago
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Noel Geoghegan with me and my sister Marian. Died 25 years ago today. RIP.
8 months ago
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reposted by
Dónall Geoghegan
Donnacha Ó Beacháin
8 months ago
Those who doubt Moscow's approach to Ukraine and the rest of Europe should "digest" these words of Kremlin insider and former Russian president.
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Who shot JR?
8 months ago
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Europe’s finest hour, anyone?
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/z...
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America Is Gone – Europe Must Replace It | by Sławomir Sierakowski - Project Syndicate
Sławomir Sierakowski says the Trump administration's Oval Office fight with Ukraine's president is a moment that will live in infamy.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/zelensky-trump-oval-office-europe-final-wake-up-call-by-slawomir-sierakowski-2025-03
9 months ago
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My fondest memory of Pat Ingoldsby was when we invited him as guest of honour at "Ballymun Youth Alive" in 1989, celebrating youth work in the area. Pat spoke, he stole our hearts and inspired everyone in the hall. RIP Pat.
9 months ago
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"Trump is transactional", they say. He wants to transact with you, he gets something, so do you. He wants to do a deal. Not true. Trump is extractional. He wants to extract from you, he gets something, you don't. He wants to do you in.
9 months ago
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The Arse of the Deal The Hillbully Elegy
9 months ago
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The Handmaid’s Tale: “America is dying…”
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9 months ago
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This is it. This is the moment we discover that Europe is goosed. We just can't rely on America any more, and no amount of sucking up will make it better.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Trump attacks Zelenskyy as a ‘dictator without elections’ who duped US
Trump’s remarkable attack came after Zelenskyy said that Trump was “surrounded by misinformation.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/19/trump-attacks-zelenskyy-as-a-dictator-without-elections-who-duped-us-00204881?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=Trump%20attacks%20Zelenskyy%20as%20a%20‘dictator%20without%20elections’%20who%20duped%20US
9 months ago
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Devastating critique of Irish security and defence by John Mooney. Must read.
www.thetimes.com/article/93f7...
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‘Irish failure to contribute to security weakens whole EU’
With America dealing directly with Russia, it is clear that European nations must now handle their own defence
https://www.thetimes.com/article/93f75ed5-a809-453c-944b-3574080f40e9?shareToken=01b8c816aaef39ce69c390ca016f550c
9 months ago
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Read. Learn. Cry.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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‘Will US go to war for Estonia or Latvia?’ Ex-French ambassador on Trump
Worldview: Gérard Araud says the idea of fighting for democracy is completely alien to Trump
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/02/08/will-the-us-go-to-war-for-estonia-or-latvia-former-french-ambassador-on-the-new-world-disorder/
10 months ago
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Democracy, anyone? "Now is not the time to curl up in despair"
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
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Opinion | Now Will We Believe What Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes?
There can be no appeasement. None.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/trump-musk-christian-nationalism.html
10 months ago
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Good trade war explainer:
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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Donald Trump says trade wars are easy to win. Is that true?
How do tariffs actually work? How far will this conflict escalate? Can Europe escape? We answer all your burning questions.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-says-trade-wars-are-easy-to-win-are-they/
10 months ago
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reposted by
Dónall Geoghegan
Randall Munroe
10 months ago
Stromatolites
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Hard man, Lose, man.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
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Trump Favors Blunt Force in Dealing With Foreign Allies and Enemies Alike
With Canada, Mexico, China, Colombia and the Middle East, President Trump has wasted no time threatening to use American might to force recalcitrant countries to back down and do what he wants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/politics/trump-tariffs-migrants-power.html
10 months ago
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The starting gun has been fired. It’s not yet clear who’s going to lose most, but let’s be clear, you’ll lose.
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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Trump vows to launch trade war on EU amid tariffs blitz
“The European Union has treated us so terribly,” U.S. president complains, as Canada and Mexico get nailed.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-trade-war-eu-tariffs-mexico-canada/
10 months ago
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That’s the second power cut I’ve experienced this week. This one involves a cut in electric power supply.
10 months ago
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Humanity v Nature.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Jaws, Piranha, the big, bad wolf ... no wonder there is a serious disconnect with nature
Having othered nature throughout history, we continue to do so in Ireland. Once you demonise something, it is easy to discount it
https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2025/01/23/jaws-piranha-the-big-bad-wolf-no-wonder-there-is-a-serious-disconnect-with-nature/
10 months ago
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10 months ago
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Anyone for a cultural elite?
www.thetimes.com/article/ad83...
11 months ago
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There is something big coming our way, and we're just not ready for it. Europe: be afraid, be very afraid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/w...
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A New Age of American Interference in Europe
Elon Musk and MAGA are already disrupting the status quo, and Europe seems ill-prepared.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/world/europe/maga-musk-europe-interference.html
11 months ago
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Hey
@elonmusk-joinx.bsky.social
, You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.
11 months ago
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Read this and tell me, are you angry or sad?
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...
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The Irish Times view on the climate crisis: political courage to act is missing
The general election took place inside a bubble, when a calamity with fundamental implications for society and the economy was relegated to a side issue by the three largest parties
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorials/2025/01/01/the-irish-times-view-on-the-climate-crisis-political-courage-to-act-is-missing/
11 months ago
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“Unvetted” not a word, “Unvetted” not a thing.
11 months ago
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Happy New World Order
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
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Lara Marlowe: Unstable new world order has frightening echoes of the 1930s and 40s
Trump’s re-election fuels global turmoil in which Putin is the biggest of many autocrats blending kleptocracy and dictatorship. US institutions and international treaties are fading, and Ukraine and P...
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/12/31/lara-marlowe-unstable-new-world-order-has-frightening-echoes-of-the-1930s-and-40s/
11 months ago
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This is great: "All my life I have wanted nothing more than the company of other people, to care for and cook for them and make them laugh and live alongside them, and if the work can help me afford that time, then it has done enough for me, and I for it."
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Megan Nolan: A conversation with a man in his late 30s made clear the realities of this new era in my dating life
Family, career, friends or adventure? Only the truly wealthy can attempt to have a bit of everything
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/12/26/megan-nolan-family-career-friends-or-adventure-only-the-truly-wealthy-can-attempt-to-have-a-bit-of-everything/
11 months ago
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A far-right European Union, anyone?
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/o...
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Opinion | Things Are Terrible in Europe, and They’re Only Going to Get Worse
The continent’s parlous economy and ascendant far right augur a grim future.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/opinion/europe-germany-france-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
11 months ago
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