Imagine being told you, your friends, loved ones and neighbours had to leave your home forever because of the increasing risk of extreme flooding. That's what's happened in Western Rwanda where deadly floods have hit hard and are likely to return. Our latest on the country's climate crisis.

Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

Once more: Omar El Akkad: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." Bono: Have you heard my new EP

Rest in power, Virginia Giuffre. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jesse Jackson RIP. "keep hope alive". Cant help recalling a certain drive from Killarney to Waterville! @marklittle.bsky.social @georgelawlor.bsky.social @fearghalob.bsky.social

Was it for this?....

Vogue Williams folks! Was it for this? #spéirghorm

Not a cinema goer, but went to Hamnet last night. Absolutely fabulous film. #spéirghorm

Study shows that Elon Musk posted "textbook examples” of white supremacist conspiracy theories on his right-wing X platform on 26 out of 31 days last month alone. An unhealthy obsession. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You know that English, Corkman? Well can we leave him where he is please? #spèirghorm

Like Dominic Cummings, Morgan McSweeney helped deliver electoral victory but, in doing so, debased and subverted everything his party claimed to stand for.

Im afraid this Doctor is a charlatan. #tommytiernanshow

It is difficult to put into words how harmful such a move would be. Instead of slower speeds, enforcement of existing laws, and real, safe active-travel infrastructure, we are left with more deflection, distraction, and victim-blaming.

This is cycling in Copenhagen. No hi-vis. No helmet mandates. People cycle because it’s safe — by design. This is what cycling should look like. Ireland is moving in the opposite direction. Instead of designing safe places to cycle, we're blaming the people cycling...

Kristi Noem and DHS don’t want us to see this video. 📌 Alex was disarmed BEFORE he was shot. This was murder.

"Within minutes of Alex Pretti being shot and killed by a federal immigration officer, the Trump administration, backed by right-wing influencers, launched a smear campaign against the victim, labeling him a “terrorist” and a “lunatic.” www.wired.com/story/the-in...

"immigration crisis" "federal accounts challenged" The IT has no idea how to meet the moment

ANOTHER ANGLE: the original video was deleted but I screen capped it. Here it is.

ANOTHER ANGLE. This man was NOT brandishing a firearm. He was holding his phone. He then put his body between ICE thugs and woman. He was then sprayed with a chemical agent, tackled, disarmed, and executed. Plain as day. DO NOT let them tell you otherwise.

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

And a third one!

MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

I could get very cross if it doesnt stop raining and this damn month doesnt end #spéirghorm

Why do I suspect that Newsom would sell out every principle if he became President of the USA. A heir Starmer type betrayal.

Report two on the real-life impacts of deepfake image abuse coming up on @virginmedianews.bsky.social. Today we hear from Lucy - whose harrowing story should serve as a wake-up call on the handling of this massive societal issue.

This IS the result of the Supreme Court of the United States of America giving the most amoral person in America immunity from his crimes. Crimes that stack up daily. Including 115 counts of 1st-degree murder of unarmed civilians suspected of crimes not punishable by the death penalty.

For the record: as of right now, the Grok app is still doing all the things they’ve said it is stopping, for users with free/unpaid accounts.

The world is doomed due to moral cowardice, is my mid- longest January ever-news.

JUST IN: The heads of the central banks in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, the Eurozone, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom have issued a rare statement of support for the Federal Reserve and Chair Jerome Powell!

Judge’s comments on Dublin cyclists criticised as “importance of impartiality” highlighted In fresh criticism of a Circuit Court judge's generalistic comments about cyclists in Dublin, Cycling Ireland -- Ireland's cycling sporting body -- said that poorly phrased statements can "unintentionally…

@johncreedon.bsky.social fair play Fiachra, i have been waiting to hear Jesse Welles!

We’re sleepwalking our way into the same chaos we’re seeing in our neighbours. The complacency of “the Centre” to all of this is incredible www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Billionaires and Aipac maybe?

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

I retained a presence on twitter/x simply so that i could get live reports of gaa matches, locally and nationally. I have now deactivated that account. Is there anyone with influence here that would pressure the GAA at all levels to leave that platform in the interests of child safety. #gaa

The idea that journalists, politicians, groups or - you know, women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people - should "stay on the pitch" doesn't really hold up. Foreign Minister's account has 60k followers - 40 likes, 13k views? Blue ticks straight to the top of the queue with misogyny, bile.

📺 Today’s report: X didn’t respond to the Government or the EU - so we went to try to have a word. Meanwhile, AI Minister urges EU to immediately suspend Grok and says she’ll speak to the Taoiseach about the Government off X. 🗣️ @conorom.bsky.social @virginmedianews.bsky.social

I write in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social about the laws that are broken when online AI platforms facilitate the production of child sex abuse material. No new laws are needed. Companies (and their executives) are accountable as well as users. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Woman shot in cold blood by ICE in Minneapolis and RTÉ Primetime interview a demonstrably biased ICE apologist who justifies the killing. What a ridiculous editorial call. @rteprimetime.bsky.social

🗣️ “6,700 images were being generated in this way every single hour.” The Group Chat examines the scale of the Grok deepfake crisis, the numbers behind it, and what the Irish Government can do. 📺 Tonight at 10PM | Virgin Media Play & Virgin Media One

Whenever I see ice in action, I think of the black and tans. #spéirghorm

NEW: MAYOR FREY: “ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Breaking: Women's Aid Ireland will no longer maintain a presence on X from tomorrow. @womensaidireland.bsky.social

Its the non reaction of the rest of the western world that is the most frightening.