"Entries are now open for the Unheard Voices: the Joe Drennan Memorial Prize for a piece of journalism offering a voice to those who so often go unheard." www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
There’s an Indian journalist in Israel right now reporting in Hindi about how bomb shelters in Israel will allow even the pets of Jews in but will not open its doors to the Indian workers our shithole government sent in droves to make up for genocided Palestinian labor. Apartheid regime.
My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
If there’s any justice in this world.
In Gaza, Israel and Biden normalized war crimes beyond anything we have seen before.
And now, Israel and Trump are using that model against Iranian civilians.
At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The Transphobia to fascist pipeline strikes again
“When I look at the list of titles that we are looking forward to in 2026, it is remarkable how almost all are Irish,” @kennysbookshop.bsky.social says “...how remarkable it is that an island as small as ours can generate so much talent over so many diverse genres"
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
The IWD rally makes its way towards city hall with women holding the purple and green Reclaim the Agenda banner. The march stretches behind them with hundreds in attendance.
Former Irish President, Mary Robinson, addresses the crowd from the stage.
A woman and young girl march together. The woman holds a sign reading "No Shame for Survivors - No Shamrocks for Abusers" and raises her clenched fist in the air. The young girl beside her holds up a placard reading "Rebel Girls make history".
Azadeh Sobout addresses the crowd from the stage.
Photos from today's IWD rally are up on the website nai.
brendanjharkin.myportfolio.com/internationa...
“Irish citizens and residents are having their biometric data processed without them having done anything to raise suspicion ... simply for getting on a ferry.” - @olgacronin.bsky.social on live facial recognition scanning of thousands of travellers at Holyhead.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
A French media network has been sanctioned 26 times & fined €630k over the last 6 years "for its chronic inability to moderate the racist and Islamophobic remarks of its guests."
If we did this in the US, we'd easily wipe out the federal deficit. (And rarely hear from members of the Trump regime.)
In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different.
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
It's worth noting that this was also a pretext to open up new services designed and run by people who push an unproven pseudoscientific "Gender Exploratory Therapy" model that has been likened to conversion therapy by international experts.
pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
Reminder who Alden really is, and how they’ve been violently 86ing our papers:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
In a full-page ad in Sunday's Tribune, Alden Global Capital said it could pay 30% more than others for employee-owned Paddock Publications and offer employees better terms. Crystal Lake-based Shaw Media could be another bidder.
I see all the old men are triggered over Imbolc so here’s a reminder of who are celebrating today #speirghorm
feministire.com/2018/02/01/h...
A company was planning to inject chicken shit deep into a Virginia aquifer. Why? Because that way the carbon emissions stay underground, and the company can sell the carbon credits to Microsoft who can claim it toward their net-zero goals.
Carbon credits are a scam.
Ann Lovett’s story was in many ways the story of a generation of young women. We all knew girls like Ann, who had concealed their pregnancies or been sent away mysteriously. And many brave girls who were single mothers against all the odds.
#NeverForget
Get your tickets to Everybody to Kenmure Street, a documentary about a community resisting the deportation of their neighbours in Glasgow. This will sell out. I got mine. Feb Sat 28 DIFF.
It’s the film we all need to see right now.
www.diff.ie/programme/ev...
Get your tickets to Everybody to Kenmure Street, a documentary about a community resisting the deportation of their neighbours in Glasgow. This will sell out. I got mine. Feb Sat 28 DIFF.
It’s the film we all need to see right now.
www.diff.ie/programme/ev...
But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.
What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one
I don't want to paint a rosy picture, because it's a city under siege. People are being abducted all the time. One person told me about watching 1-2 abductions a day, just in her own work following ICE.
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
In 1921 there was concern in English newspapers about the calibre of person employed by the Black & Tans in Ireland.
From the Leicester Catholic News.
Mussolini was captured by Anti-Fascists, shot and his body was brought back to be hung from his feet in the public square.
Sunday Business Post headline: Overwhelming majority want Elon Musk’s X banned in Ireland
Someone tell our government that banning X is now the populist position #speirghorm
