Morag Friel

Irish acts Hozier, Kneecap and Beoga joined Macklemore for his Free Palestine concert in Dublin on Monday. Hozier used his time on stage at the 3Arena to urge the government to approve visas for students in Gaza who have secured scholarships in Ireland. www.thejournal.ie/macklemore-h...

Throughout the entire Fare Hike saga, Government maintained this was a decision by the NTA We now know it was the Dept of Public Expenditure & it was decided 12 months ago Government lied to to the public, the did it repeatedly, & they did it intentionally

An excellent proposal. If it’s ok for the children then it’s ok for the politicians!

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm

www.thejournal.ie/websites-dow... Thank goodness for AI; helping us to identify the myriad of ways that AI can hack the servers we’re all dependent on. Yay for AI… 🙄 “Security firm Calif found the flaws in August using OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol model, as part of an OpenAI-funded audit of PHP’s code.“

Today is the deadline Help send the message that we can't allow polluters to dictate law. Many EU leaders are bending to pressures to weaken our vital health and environmental protections. Clean air, clean water and healthy ecosystems can't be compromised. www.environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...

3,808 people were homeless when Micheal took over Fianna Fáil. It’s now 17,885, and he has the temerity to talk about public servants delivering value for money.

This month's piece for the Clare Champion on Naomi Klein Astra Taylor, apocalypse lovers and the ginormous 'Art Data Center which has been given the go ahead in Ennis clarechampion.ie/opinion-with...

There is no cease fire

Oof. Buckle up peeps…

OMG my Ma and her sister live again! Legends.

Rejected due to lack of "capacity on the electricity grid, the lack of planned on-site renewable energy generation and the failure to engage with corporate power purchase agreements" www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster... We're just getting started! 💪 👉DEMO: 7 Nov - 12pm - Garden of Remembrance👈

🧵 Driving to the West Bank to protect a Palestinian village from settler violence, updates soon

Good. People like him, spreading their hatemongering lies, are making life a misery for so many people. And someone will be killed just because they don’t look “Irish”, for which the blame is squarely on far right scumbags like him.

The only question to ask about the Garda accounts being hacked is why on earth any self-respecting organisation is still using that platform and what it will take for them to stop #Spéirgorm

They are not “settlers”, they are colonial invaders. Language matters #spéirghorm

This is just disgusting. I've never watched Seinfeld. Now I never will.

We're not a gateway between Europe and the US, we're a back door the US is using to push their own agenda in Europe

"We can't just throw public money at nurses and teachers willy nilly," The Minister for Public Expenditure has said in a statement. "They're not data centres, race tracks, angry people with tractors, Mark Zuckerberg, the NFL..."

The Palestinian Student Visa issue goes to the heart of public accountability & need to remedy a wrong consequent on Minister's unlawful decisions to refuse visas.B4 our courts Minister found to have erred.Time to right that wrong. Get these students to class www.socialdemocrats.ie/gazan-studen...

(I needed to get over the “Labour life peer” label 1st) but how many dire warnings do we need before this is taken as the existential threat it is?? So many decent people I know are using it for banal stuff (event posters, party invites) & not thinking further 🤯 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Deadline today, Monday, at 5.30

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The statement from the NI deputy first minister is depressing. She & others who wd shit all over the feelings & rights of others in the name of tradition are claiming victimhood; the last time they marched down Garavaghy Rd over 20 people were killed in related violence. Fuck the Parades Commission

No extra funding for nature, carbon tax U-turn – the Government is clearly walking away from its climate, nature & energy security commitments in Budget 2027. Great to see coverage of our reaction to Budget 2027

Ireland cannot “credibly take leadership on a fossil fuel phase-out while simultaneously pushing new fossil fuel infrastructure and ever-expanding energy demand driven through the proliferation of data centres” …or while cutting carbon taxes! www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Dr Belal Adnan is a paediatrician in Gaza. He joined us a few moments ago to talk about the children who could be saved or treated, except that Israel won’t allow in the medical supplies needed for him to do his job. Pls watch this clip👇 Full podcast here soon: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Jews from across the globe speak out about the horror that Israel is inflicting on Gaza and the West Bank and its aggression against neighbouring countries #genocide #EthnicCleansing

Some more truths being shared about Jamie Bryson. This time from a Protestant who stands against Bryson and the shite he spouts. It's great to see people on both sides speaking out against the bigots in their community. You can follow them @cabaret_ross on TikTok and Insta

Irish government & the EU failing the ICC; they need to stand up to US pro-Israel bullying. “May 2025 President Akane asked publicly for EU help, and for it to activate its available statutory scheme to protect the Court personnel. As of today the EU has failed to do this, without giving reasons”

An interesting exchange on how to react to Slop-as-evidence at the Oireachtas. Oireachtas committees hear from people with all sorts of views, and by definition, many of them diverge from each other. But they are actually their views. The people who come in expressed them.

😭 “This (UK) Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children. They have step by step dismantled every protection that supported my daughter…At every point when the Labour Government could have made something better, they have turned around and given her another kick.”

She’s bang on - again!

"'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns" 'Our planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim ...' www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Israel's destruction of Gaza is one of the greatest crimes in human history. We demand justice for the Palestinian people.

I want to say “Duh” but that would be immature. I mean, the govt has only known for decades that this was coming and still hasnt prepared properly - while it continues to push climate-damaging fossil fuels (and now bloody data centres).

For anyone in Britain or further afield who wants to know WHY the Drumcree Parade down the Garvaghy Road is unwanted by the local people.

BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.

So disappointed in the players on the Irish soccer team. Yes, they should not have been placed in the position they were by the FAI and UEFA - but they were and they have shown themselves as lacking, except brave Bazunu. “Just following orders” is never a good look www.thejournal.ie/ireland-isra...

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This annoys me no end; “expats” is a term for entitled, white, non-assimilating, immigrants.

He’s a genocidal maniac, with an ICC arrest warrant out on him but representatives of our government are sitting listening to him spew his hate? Once again not carrying out the will of the Irish people nor showing any spine. 🤬 #FreePalestine #spéirgorm #spéirghorm www.thejournal.ie/unga-israel-...

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...