Amid delays with permit renewals, an immigrant doctor in Ireland can't travel to visit his seriously ill mother. The fix for the backlogged system? “It has to be more people assigned to it,” says Colm Burke, the Fine Gael TD. More here: www.dublininquirer.com/amid-delays-...

"an audit by Lighthouse Reports of public data on the government’s chosen AI provider shows that its tech misclassified more than a third of 16-year-olds as adults and, in some tests, was shown to give the wrong assessment in 70 per cent of cases" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Head of Irish Prison Service sought an urgent meeting with justice officials after warning overcrowded jails could not cope with large groups of immigration detainees being held before charter deportation flights. Latest set of FOI records: www.thestory.ie/2026/06/12/i...

I thought this was a really interesting discussion on nuclear, small reactors, and hype. youtube.com/watch?v=75ck...

Bring back the whitewater rafting! All is forgiven!! www.thejournal.ie/mixed-views-...

I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries: Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.

Great piece in The Journal recently about licences in shared houses, situations where renters are left with very few rights. I wrote about the growth of licenses in Dublin last year — and about how in the wider debate around protections for tenants, licensees have been largely overlooked.

Crucial - and generally totally overlooked part of this story - is *what* the journalists that Labour Together smeared were reporting on How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise That’s why they were targeted

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

It’s the 9th day of 2026 and ICE has already had its second detention death. open.substack.com/pub/detentio...

🚨🇪🇺 EU cash💰 and taxpayer money in countries such as 🇮🇹Italy and 🇪🇸Spain are flowing to commercial #spyware firms, yet this public funding is not well-known or analysed. 🧵My investigation for @ftm.eu. 👇👇👇 www.ftm.eu/articles/spy...

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

🔴Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s advisor pushed for contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

Footage from the Israeli Occupation Forces assault on #Conscience, shortly before dawn. In international waters, close to Palestinian territorial waters. Another act of state piracy by the rogue, lawless Israeli occupation. www.youtube.com/live/PSQcbIw...

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

As profitable energy companies raise customers’ prices, TD says it’s time to bring back price regulation. “We are approaching the point (if we’re not already there) where we can justifiably claim that competition has failed,” says Labour energy spokesperson Ciarán Ahern.

In Darndale Park, people fish for carp and pike – but an invasive weed threatens the balance. When people see photos of the impressive specimen caught, they can’t believe it was in Darndale pond, says local Alan Kennedy.

Some homeless hostels are operating with just one staff member on duty. “That is madness,” says Louisa Santoro, CEO of the Mendicity Institution. “A single person is not a sufficient level of staff to run any homeless service.”

Developer Ballymore says it had meetings with ministers, council about its vision for Sheriff Street. They're not on the lobbying register. “For nearly a decade, conversations about the possible demolition of people’s homes have gone on in the background.”

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.

BREAKING: Met Police arrest 50 of 600-700 ‘terrorist supporters’ before the 2pm chime. “We will keep going. Our numbers are already growing for the next wave of action in September.” Read here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger joins Lift The Ban “Proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the government, the group is being punished for exposing Israel’s crimes in Gaza and the UK’s role enabling it – we cannot let our opposition be silenced” www.independent.co.uk/voices/bianc...

‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest group At 81, Deborah Hinton, a former British magistrate who was honoured by the late Queen Elizabeth II for services to the community, seems an unlikely terrorist suspect. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

New edition back from the printers today, with a cover image by Pablo Marín García.

“This is my local community. I’m worried about my children.” That’s what a woman told GB News at the anti-migrant protest at the Barbican in London. Problem is, she said the same thing at a protest in Epping days earlier. 🤦 ❌ hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/05/o...

NEW: Baby Pereppadan, a Fine Gael councillor, co-owns a company accused of charging nurses unlawful ‘agency fees’. One nurse paid over €3,000 into another Fine Gael councillor’s account as part of the recruitment process. http://jrnl.ie/6784617

Netherlands. Ireland. You're involved too. "The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland."

Ireland Sunday Independent: Most support Occupied Territories Bill even if it sparks retaliation from pro-Israel forces.

My latest, from the Israel-Gaza border, where I listened in as tour groups came to view the ruins of Gaza: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Whenever public opinion and international pressure becomes unignorable, offer a token concession that will diffuse momentum and act as a fig leaf, while maintaining the mass death and expulsion. It’s a playbook.

😖Department of Housing refusing to release the submissions made by government departments and utilities to the idea of planning exemptions for backyard cabins and so on. It would be against the public interest, don't you know.

Irish immigration officials refuse visas for 47 Palestinians due to come to Ireland for GAA tour jrnl.ie/6757964

One of the twins (5 yrs) and I were digging up weeds in the allotment today. He wanders off for a while, comes back and says: "I was just stroking a dog, and some flowers, and talking to some humans." 😂

Oh great, smaller apartments for less rent, because that always... oh... okay then...

NEW: Tony Blair's staff took part in a BCG project for the redevelopment of Gaza along the lines of the 'Trump Riviera' plan www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

Not sure about this headline.

"Since the attack on Israel on October the 7th 2023 which killed 1,195 people, almost 53 thousand people have been killed in Gaza and 120 thousand have been injured from a population of just over 2 million people." www.channel4.com/news/airstri...

‘Our future is gone’: Refugee camps in West Bank face unprecedented destruction My report from Jenin for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

In hundreds of apartments rented out by the same company, renters are on licences with few rights. What’s going on? dublininquirer.com/2...

It seems ICE had a quota for Venezuelan gang members & filled it by picking up people with tattoos. Rose, hummingbird, soccer, mother, Autism awareness. For that people are taken from their families & sent to spend the rest of their lives in horrifying conditions. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"I wish I was a journalist to carry on your work." The grieving father of Palestinian journalist Mohammad Mansour bids farewell to his son, who was killed by Israeli forces.

For “urgent” questions, the Department of Justice directs asylum seekers to a chatbot. Is it trustworthy? A disclaimer says, “no responsibility is accepted by, or on behalf of the Department of Justice for any errors, omissions or misleading statements”. dublininquirer.com/2...

Should a new dog shelter count as a climate action project? It would be a new-build and so meet nearly zero energy building (NZEB) standards, a council spokesperson says. dublininquirer.com/2...

If anyone can show me how you grow the economy by targeting people who need assistance to wash below their waist, please reply.