This information, uncovered by campaign group Save Leitrim, about the Sitka industry propaganda booklet sent to all primary schools in the state, is truly shocking. Why is the Dept of Agriculture colluding with a nature-killing industry to produce outright disinformation to force on our children???

Having spent years of my life as a Sinn Féin activist, it's abundantly clear the party needs a frank and open debate about who and what it is in the 21st century (🧵some thoughts from a frustrated republican socialist).

Since 2019, Spain doubled solar + wind capacity. Now electricity prices are some of lowest in EU. Ireland has increased RE capacity but all of it has been absorbed by DC growth. You can't talk about energy transition (including nuclear) in Ireland without talking about DCs.

“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable. Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours. Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.

Speaking at this with Rory Rowan tomorrow (Saturday). The question of Ireland's neutrality is a question of Irish sovereignty and that cannot be understood outside of our deep dependency on the US.

We wrote this report with the OTB in mind, but it equally helps explain the Govnt's refusal to condemn the illegal US-Israel bombing of Iran. 'Ireland’s economic dependency on the US ensures that the US holds a de facto veto over Irish foreign policy.' www.uplift.ie/neutrality-f...

Statement by President Connolly following strikes on Iran president.ie/en/media-lib...

She won on a socialist, anti-racist and working class platform. Irish Greens have a long way to go. 'Green Party leader Roderic O'Gorman said the Green tide was rising again, pointing to the recent by-election win for Hannah Spencer in Manchester.' www.rte.ie/news/politic...

'The UK and its European neighbours have a long history of standing up to bullies' ... What sort of gormless, bonkers shite is this. Was this before, during or after endless, and ongoing, colonial criminality?

That feels like one of the best league performances since COVID. City have been shocking but spirited, organised, and bold in attack from #MUFC.

Best performance of season, Dorgu, Amad, Licha and Mbeumo all exceptional #MUFC

We’re leaving X. Not for clicks. Not for politics. For safety, democracy and basic responsibility. We won’t stay on a platform that fails children, enables deepfake abuse and fuels disinformation. But this is not an exit from the conversation. It’s a move to better spaces. Come with us. 1/2

Venezuela isn't just about oil. It's the opening gambit in Trump's plan to untangle the US economy from China ahead of a future confrontation. The goal: a compliant South America to replace Chinese manufacturing and give US corporates unfettered access to resources 🧵

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

The people on hunger strike in England in protest at the British state's complicity in apartheid Israel's genocide of Palestinians and at their own grossly unfair treatment in prison are in danger. None of them has been convicted of a crime, they should be released. #FreeThemAll

Lived in England for just over a year. Was impossible to stomach the river of hate-filled, caps-locked cancer adorning shops and newsagents thanks to the gutter British press.

A sideshow, basket case, and, increasingly, a feckless vanity project.

Moral duty ‘to act now’ on climate change for future generations, says President Catherine Connolly “Transformative action is required, action that places environmental responsibility and climate justice at the heart of everything we do” www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Hundreds of thousands of Irish people in the north of Ireland, EU citizens, are exposed by this fascist posturing. 1/4 of our island is chained to the consequences of this rapid degeneration in British politics.

I love this guy man, and how I yearn for such a full-throated, angry, and yet unapologetically compassionate response to the cancer of hatred that's spreading in Ireland too.

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New CCAC #climate report covered on multiple RTÉ news bulletins just now, incl. Morning Ireland interview with chair, Marie Donnelly. Total mentions of agriculture, Ireland’s largest source of emissions: zero.

I really hope so. 'The book is a key tool in the struggle for environmental justice framed by a vision of a better, fairer Ireland in a better, fairer world.’ Robbie McVeigh www.connollybooks.org/product/from...

I never understood this line of attack - if Labour are already delivering absolutely nothing to meaningfully change society or motivate political passions, why would people care about being let down elsewhere?

I see it's time for me to make the point again that the poppy is a fundraising campaign for the Royal British Legion, a specific, mundane entity that is not exempt from scrutiny and does not own the concept of remembrance. You can read its 2024 accounts here: storage.rblcdn.co.uk/sitefinity/d...

“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social

Is there a single mainstream party in Ireland a) with an ounce of moral fortitude to oppose blaming immigrants for failures of government policy, and b) paying attention to evidence across Europe that this strategy is a road to ruin?

Strike and demo in Barcelona - solidarity with global Sumud Flotilla.

Pat Brodie and I have a book launch event for 'From the Bog to the Cloud' in London on October 22nd. Please come along if you're interested in bogs, data centres, monopoly tech, postcolonial development, eco-imperialism, green capitalism, Ireland.... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aa-book-la...

Politicos, hacks, news organisations and buffoons like Stephen King still clinging on to pretending it’s alright to *PAY* Elon Musk to use his platform - or be on it for a start. You’re funding a man calling on hundreds of thousands of people to carry out acts of violence.

📚 The latest CUSP Newsletter is out! Alongside a round-up of news from across our network, CUSP co-director @timjackson.org.uk reflects on the Centre’s 10th anniversary—and warns of a troubling shift in research funding away from #postgrowth inquiry. ➡️ share.sender.net/campaigns/bI... cc #degrowth

How will we use our time in a #postgrowth future of sustainable wellbeing?—New study by @seanfearon.bsky.social et al models how lifestyle choices to 2050 could shape wellbeing and emissions in Finland, France & UK. ➡️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/sf... cc #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy #PlanetaryBoundaries

Check out the preprint of our new paper, exploring the time use requirements for a life of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. The bottom line? Lifestyle changes can lower emissions & improve wellbeing, but are insufficient to live well within ecological limits. We need radical system change.

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition. Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.

On Thursday I’ll travel as an independent observer of the latest Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. Alongside human rights lawyers and international law experts, our role is to monitor and record any breaches of international law by Israel. These flotillas act where the international community has failed 🇵🇸

two in three Keir Starmer tweets are dog whistling about migration. A government out of ideas, adopting far right messages for no political gain, while imprisoning grannies for denouncing genocide.

The fact that we instantly ended homelessness during the pandemic, and then let it return as some intractable problem straight after, is something we really don’t talk about enough.

Next time someone says data centres are necessary. Microsoft data centres in Ireland & Netherlands were used to store terrabytes of Israeli military data used for mass surveillance in the West Bank and identification of strike targets in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

2. Absurdity is a hallmark of authoritarianism. It's not just that those who believe absurdities commit atrocities. It's also that those who endorse atrocities become absurd. This is where Keir Starmer's government now finds itself.

This is the Moygashel 12th July bonfire. Many bonfires receive huge funding and backing from loyalist paramilitary groups. The PSNI facilitate this and councils clean up after them. This paramilitary backed hate is being justified live on BBC Radio Ulster. The state is rotten to the core.

Things you love to see. The Gaza walk from Lurgan to Newry earlier tonight. Well done to all involved 🇮🇪 ✊🇵🇸

🚨 New: 'Shocking' scale of Labour’s Big Tech ties In its first 6 months, Labour ministers and top officials met with tech giants an average of *six times a week.* We’ve got the documents. 🧵 New on Democracy for Sale with @lucasamin.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-s...