Department of Education rejects ICCL claim schools are obliged to use trans students’ preferred pronouns No legal obligation on schools to use preferred pronouns as stated in ICCL guide, says Irish Department of Education www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

They knew: Declassified files prove Nothern Ireland government and Civil Service understood Lough Neagh’s pollution decades ago – but then made it worse www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/agr...

Trade INCREASES four-fold between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland since Brexit - ‘We haven’t had one bad experience’: Why cross-Border trade has leapt fourfold since Brexit www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...

US multinational Cantor Fitzgerald pulled plan for 300 jobs in Belfast, due to concerns about Sinn Fein political statements www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

‘We will not accept their erasure’: Irish artist Oliver Sears reclaims his family’s Holocaust story

As great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.

Irish rugby squad announced, 2 new caps

One sided reporting re Syria @irishtimes.com Carl O'Brien? no mention of Turkey as key player in opposing Kurdish sovereignty or self-rule - Syrian president pulls off another stunning advance with Kurdish agreement (by force) Thoughts @fgeerdink.bsky.social? www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Monika, my lion hearted mother died on 5th Dec. A wonderful, generous & courageous mother who gave me & my brothers the gift of unconditional maternal love. Now the duty of remembrance falls on me. Monika & her family will never be forgotten. Obituary: bit.ly/3Nk2R8v

One sided reporting re Syria @irishtimes.com Carl O'Brien? no mention of Turkey as key player in opposing Kurdish sovereignty or self-rule - Syrian president pulls off another stunning advance with Kurdish agreement (by force) Thoughts @fgeerdink.bsky.social? www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

One reason that X remains a ‘core’ news and information app is that vital utilities and public bodies treat it as a central communication tool with the public. Gardai, buses, trains, weather alerts, airports, councils etc. If something urgent happens, they treat X as a primary platform.

Update. Ceasefire in Syria. via @fgeerdink.bsky.social The ultimate purpose is to destroy the SDF. Turkey officially claims to solve the Kurdish issue via democratic means but is in fact aimed at robbing the Kurds of their self-defense forces. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Month of rain to celebrate in the Jacobin Year 234

12 days to GO!

"We renounce war as an instrument for narrow national interests and proclaim that military action must be seen only as a last resort in extreme situations, not a normal instrument of national policy...” www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

Plans to build homes in Castleknock, on former Dunsink dump site share.google/XZd6WwUYSTgL...

Update. Ceasefire in Syria. via @fgeerdink.bsky.social The ultimate purpose is to destroy the SDF. Turkey officially claims to solve the Kurdish issue via democratic means but is in fact aimed at robbing the Kurds of their self-defense forces. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Soc Dems going full out, 'shameful' lack of 'resistance'? What are the options to Mercosur they offer, when Trump imposes tariffs on a whim?

Today is Décadi the 30th of Nivôse in the year 234. Nivôse is the month of snow. Today we celebrate the sieve.#JacobinDay More information on the sieve

In advance of Holocaust Memorial Day, I'm looking forward to moderating this event next Sunday 25th 11am at the Jewish Museum, Dublin. A rare opportunity - it's very unusual for a group of second & third generation Holocaust survivors to converse publicly in Ireland. Free but booking essential.

My view is that there should be scope for one new bridge, not two. Seems mad/odd that two new bridges will be built over Royal Canal within 50Om of each other? #Blanchardstown #fingal

Story of Two Bridges? Second 'cycling' bridge planned for Castleknock's Royal Canal, one for either side of railway station Plans for 8km missing link of Royal Canal Greenway to be submitted 14 years after first proposed www.irishtimes.com/transport/20...

Ceasefire announced. SDF held areas of northern Syria were under attack by Syrian Army and Turkish backed militias SDF bore much of the fighting against ISIS. More info syria.liveuamap.com

My article in The Irish Times @irishtimes.com on Ireland & its Jews. "Many of these voices have coagulated into a baying mob, profoundly ignorant of the Jewish experience. They tell us we are paranoid, as our fears are dismissed by those who do not recognise antisemitism nor feel its effects."

Unholy celebrates 5 years, and Yonit and Jonathan reflect on the phone call that changed everything. Would Jonathan wish he had never accepted that call? This and more surprising findings in the latest Unholy! Streaming on all platforms and YouTube.

Cartoonist Mana Neyestani: #Iranians love you and your work. Do not betray them—stand with them, Mr. #Waters iroon.com/irtn/cartoon... #RogerWaters #Iran #Protests #Cartoon

OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Story of Two Bridges? Second 'cycling' bridge planned for Castleknock's Royal Canal, one for either side of railway station Plans for 8km missing link of Royal Canal Greenway to be submitted 14 years after first proposed www.irishtimes.com/transport/20...

America?

We choose partnership and cooperation. We choose our businesses. We choose our people.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

We can't force the US President to be sane.

25 years in the making. The EU-Mercosur agreement is the achievement of a generation. For the benefit of generations to come. Long live the friendship between our people and our continents. link.europa.eu/R34tr9

Late tries by Leinster, in lead from 74th linute Job done. Munster next, in hope #bayvlei

Damn, no try #Leinster #Bayonne

All-new character posters for #Fallout Season 2 (🍅97%).

Longevity of right‑wing populists varies: Türkiye's Erdoğan has endured, while Brazil's Bolsonaro lost his hold. blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2026/01/...

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

Bat conservation: Simple ways you can help these tiny mammals to thrive in your local area #blanchbatgang #blanchardstown www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Toulouse U23 v Leinster Academy streaming live now > www.youtube.com/live/53fTnJf...

While the police forces & British courts pursue prosecutions relating to Palestine Action, an actual proscribed terror group is operating freely in N. Ireland and the police are covering up and downplaying white supremacist terror, violence and mass forced displacement of racial & ethnic minorities.

Left out largest fractional employment company in Ireland @margareteward.bsky.social ? Agile Networks

This week in #steampunk: The Year in Movies & TV; A steampunk author’s tough year; Brilliant time travel comedy; New Velvet Jeanie video; Jewelry City preview; Steampunk festivals announce 2026 dates. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...

Now that's some stretch from Justine McCarthy - Ireland basks in Hamnet’s success and celebrates Jessie Buckley. It should feel shame, she says, alluding to International Protection Bill 2026. Contjnue to celebrate Hamnet! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Ulster Banner flag debate shows Ireland’s Call was not such a bad idea after all. Division on identity pollutes sport again, this time it is on North’s Commonwealth Games team’s flag www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...

#OTD January 13, 1898 French writer Emile Zola publishes an open letter to French President Felix Faure under the headline “J’Accuse” (“I Accuse”), charging Faure and the French government with antisemitism in the Dreyfus Affair. israeled.org/zola-writes-...

Why we should study History more? 'Cept learn from it,and we can do better, much, much better. "Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it"

Military deployments to Nuuk, Greenland, by units from France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands and the UK, www.bbc.com/news/article...