Theresa O'Keefe 🍉
@treesaw.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology. I write on feminism and conflict, state violence, gender and social movements, and academic precarity. Cork by way of Dublin, Belfast and Newfoundland. She/her. 🍉
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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉
@treesaw.bsky.social
· Oct 24
New Collection in DRI – Women of the Borderlands: Gender, Conflict and Cross-Border Mobilities Along the UK/Irish Border - Digital Repository of Ireland
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that a new collection – Women of the Borderlands: Gender, Conflict and Cross-Border Mobilities Along the UK/Irish Border – has been pub...
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Excited to share that our Women of the Borderlands archive is now available. It's the 1st to preserve the voices of women and the gendered complexities of life in and around the UK/Irish borderlands. We are so grateful to our research participants and the IQDA for making this happen.
February 10, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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‘We're seeing eviction rates not seen in Ireland since the 1850s'
- a headline out government should be ashamed off, but do they even care? A reminder - the 1850s was the period during and after the devastation of the Great Famine #spéirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
- a headline out government should be ashamed off, but do they even care? A reminder - the 1850s was the period during and after the devastation of the Great Famine #spéirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
'We're seeing eviction rates not seen in Ireland since the 1850s'
The issuing of 5,000 eviction notices in three months last year is quite revealing when viewed against Ireland's historical record
www.rte.ie
February 9, 2026 at 11:04 AM
‘We're seeing eviction rates not seen in Ireland since the 1850s'
- a headline out government should be ashamed off, but do they even care? A reminder - the 1850s was the period during and after the devastation of the Great Famine #spéirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
- a headline out government should be ashamed off, but do they even care? A reminder - the 1850s was the period during and after the devastation of the Great Famine #spéirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Delighted to get this one across the line and into #DIFF2026. It's been a mad scramble over the past month! This is the story of a city fighting for itself as a broken property market ruthlessly chews up its citizens for profit, treats homes as assets and people as obstacles to be moved out.
Filmed over four years, Displace: The Battle For Dublin is a documentary about the trauma of developer-led change and the community resistance that follows.
It's made the official selection at #DIFF2026. Screening Sun Feb 22, 13:30 at the Lighthouse Cinema.
www.diff.ie/programme/di...
It's made the official selection at #DIFF2026. Screening Sun Feb 22, 13:30 at the Lighthouse Cinema.
www.diff.ie/programme/di...
February 6, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Delighted to get this one across the line and into #DIFF2026. It's been a mad scramble over the past month! This is the story of a city fighting for itself as a broken property market ruthlessly chews up its citizens for profit, treats homes as assets and people as obstacles to be moved out.
At the risk of constantly repeating myself, academia is cesspit.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Nine More Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files
Through coffees, phone calls and private flights, at least nine more academics are linked to Jeffrey Epstein in the latest disclosure of documents from the Justice Department.
www.insidehighered.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:42 PM
At the risk of constantly repeating myself, academia is cesspit.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone.
He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein
We have published it in full.
www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein
We have published it in full.
www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full
LATE on Friday evening, this notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news…
www.thenational.scot
February 6, 2026 at 7:06 PM
BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone.
He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein
We have published it in full.
www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein
We have published it in full.
www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
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TW Suicide trans children
Every year about 200 children die due to suicide in the UK
% of trans kids in population is 0.7%
Expected trans suicide rate = 1.4
In 2021 a devastating 22 children took their own lives. 15.7 times the expected rate!
In 2021 the UK ended de facto trans healthcare.
Every year about 200 children die due to suicide in the UK
% of trans kids in population is 0.7%
Expected trans suicide rate = 1.4
In 2021 a devastating 22 children took their own lives. 15.7 times the expected rate!
In 2021 the UK ended de facto trans healthcare.
The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth.
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
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New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlawproject.org
February 7, 2026 at 2:48 PM
TW Suicide trans children
Every year about 200 children die due to suicide in the UK
% of trans kids in population is 0.7%
Expected trans suicide rate = 1.4
In 2021 a devastating 22 children took their own lives. 15.7 times the expected rate!
In 2021 the UK ended de facto trans healthcare.
Every year about 200 children die due to suicide in the UK
% of trans kids in population is 0.7%
Expected trans suicide rate = 1.4
In 2021 a devastating 22 children took their own lives. 15.7 times the expected rate!
In 2021 the UK ended de facto trans healthcare.
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“It is absolutely reprehensible that any ICE deportation flights would be allowed stop & refuel in #Shannon. The taoiseach & minister for transport must intervene & ensure this ends.” He added: “Ireland cannot in any way be complicit in these #ICE flights.”
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Palestine
“It is absolutely reprehensible that any ICE deportation flights would be allowed stop & refuel in #Shannon. The taoiseach & minister for transport must intervene & ensure this ends.” He added: “Ireland cannot in any way be complicit in these #ICE flights.”
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Palestine
Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’
Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’
Irish politicians condemn use of Shannon airport by ICE-chartered private jet owned by Trump donor
Politicians in Ireland have said the use of an airport in County Clare by planes deporting Palestinians from the United States is to Israel “reprehensible”.
A private jet owned by the Donald Trump donor Gil Dezer was chartered by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for two separate flights that took detainees to Israel, a Guardian investigation revealed this week. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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“It is absolutely reprehensible that any ICE deportation flights would be allowed stop & refuel in #Shannon. The taoiseach & minister for transport must intervene & ensure this ends.” He added: “Ireland cannot in any way be complicit in these #ICE flights.”
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Palestine
“It is absolutely reprehensible that any ICE deportation flights would be allowed stop & refuel in #Shannon. The taoiseach & minister for transport must intervene & ensure this ends.” He added: “Ireland cannot in any way be complicit in these #ICE flights.”
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Palestine
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Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
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Remember - the UK Home Office and its contractors, Mitie, were found routinely detaining pregnant women in N. Ireland's immigration detention centre. There have been zero consequences. We FOI'ed UK Home Office and found 8 pregnant women had been detained in Larne House between 2016 and 2022. [1/2]
Imagine this were your daughter, sister or wife!
Cecil Elvir-Quinonez has no criminal record.
She had charges that were dropped for marijuana possession.
But the charges were dropped! But because of that, she's in a living hell.
Tell her story.
Don't let anyone claimed ignorance!
#ICELawlessness
Cecil Elvir-Quinonez has no criminal record.
She had charges that were dropped for marijuana possession.
But the charges were dropped! But because of that, she's in a living hell.
Tell her story.
Don't let anyone claimed ignorance!
#ICELawlessness
January 31, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Remember - the UK Home Office and its contractors, Mitie, were found routinely detaining pregnant women in N. Ireland's immigration detention centre. There have been zero consequences. We FOI'ed UK Home Office and found 8 pregnant women had been detained in Larne House between 2016 and 2022. [1/2]
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“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
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Government just voted against a €400 emergency payment to disabled people who are €1400 worse off since the budget.
This isn't the end. We keep fighting.
Next step- Local papers. Put a local face on this national failure.
Tomorrow I'll post a guide and we can do it together. Please join #spéirgorm
This isn't the end. We keep fighting.
Next step- Local papers. Put a local face on this national failure.
Tomorrow I'll post a guide and we can do it together. Please join #spéirgorm
January 28, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Government just voted against a €400 emergency payment to disabled people who are €1400 worse off since the budget.
This isn't the end. We keep fighting.
Next step- Local papers. Put a local face on this national failure.
Tomorrow I'll post a guide and we can do it together. Please join #spéirgorm
This isn't the end. We keep fighting.
Next step- Local papers. Put a local face on this national failure.
Tomorrow I'll post a guide and we can do it together. Please join #spéirgorm
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A Dublin defence company allegedly targeted by Palestine Action Éire has again shipped parts to the Israel Defense Forces’ largest weapons supplier
The Acra Control components were sent on a Lufthansa passenger flight out of Dublin Airport last Friday
www.ontheditch.com/dublin-compa...
The Acra Control components were sent on a Lufthansa passenger flight out of Dublin Airport last Friday
www.ontheditch.com/dublin-compa...
Dublin firm supplying missile parts to IDF supplier
Acra Control sent components to improve missile performance to Elbit Systems on 5 December.
www.ontheditch.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A Dublin defence company allegedly targeted by Palestine Action Éire has again shipped parts to the Israel Defense Forces’ largest weapons supplier
The Acra Control components were sent on a Lufthansa passenger flight out of Dublin Airport last Friday
www.ontheditch.com/dublin-compa...
The Acra Control components were sent on a Lufthansa passenger flight out of Dublin Airport last Friday
www.ontheditch.com/dublin-compa...
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Even if you don’t care about sex workers losing one of the few voices in public life that spoke for instead of over them, you should 100% care that they were refused funding for not toeing the line of the parties in government.
Imagine if IFPA were unfunded until FFG changed their minds on abortion
Imagine if IFPA were unfunded until FFG changed their minds on abortion
SWAI Statement on Closing
We are heartbroken to announce that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is closing our doors after over 16 years, due to a lack of funding.
Since our foundation in 2009, we have brought an alternative voice to the dominant narrative about sex work in Ireland.
We are heartbroken to announce that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is closing our doors after over 16 years, due to a lack of funding.
Since our foundation in 2009, we have brought an alternative voice to the dominant narrative about sex work in Ireland.
SWAI Statement on Closing
We are heartbroken to announce that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is closing our doors after over 16 years, due to a lack of funding. Since our foundation in 2009, we have brought an…
sexworkersallianceireland.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Even if you don’t care about sex workers losing one of the few voices in public life that spoke for instead of over them, you should 100% care that they were refused funding for not toeing the line of the parties in government.
Imagine if IFPA were unfunded until FFG changed their minds on abortion
Imagine if IFPA were unfunded until FFG changed their minds on abortion
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Irish Council for Civil Liberties has asked the country’s Data Commissioner to urgently investigate Microsoft Ireland's data processing, which it said has enabled Israel’s killing of civilians and continues to enable human rights violations. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
ICCL files complaint against Microsoft over Israeli data
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has filed a complaint against Microsoft Ireland to the Data Protection Commission.
www.rte.ie
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Irish Council for Civil Liberties has asked the country’s Data Commissioner to urgently investigate Microsoft Ireland's data processing, which it said has enabled Israel’s killing of civilians and continues to enable human rights violations. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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When tributes roll in for Margaretta D'Arcy, remember she was an incredible ally to sex workers. Rest in Peace Margaretta
Last night, we attended the Women's 24-hour Vigil outside the Dáil. We joined Galway legend Margaretta D'Arcy, Raging Grannies, Red Umbrella Éireann, Street Workers Collective of Ireland, and Global Women's Strike.
Ireland needs to invest in care, not in military spending!
Ireland needs to invest in care, not in military spending!
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
When tributes roll in for Margaretta D'Arcy, remember she was an incredible ally to sex workers. Rest in Peace Margaretta
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RIP Margaretta D'Arcy, pictured outside the Dáil, June 2025, aged 91. [pic: Rose Comiskey]
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
RIP Margaretta D'Arcy, pictured outside the Dáil, June 2025, aged 91. [pic: Rose Comiskey]
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The UK Labour Govt has an anti-LGBTQ agenda, 2 aircraft carriers & 225 nuclear warheads [bombs].
Labour, putting the socialist in national.
Labour, putting the socialist in national.
"We thought that era when people died waiting for justice was over.” Read 👉 buff.ly/hSiHF1D #GCNnews
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The UK Labour Govt has an anti-LGBTQ agenda, 2 aircraft carriers & 225 nuclear warheads [bombs].
Labour, putting the socialist in national.
Labour, putting the socialist in national.
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Sudan’s civil war has displaced more than 9.5 million people and left millions at risk of starvation.
Despite the country’s vast natural resources, ongoing fighting and shifting control of resources make feeding its population impossible.
🔗: aje.io/cmn21f | #Infograph
Despite the country’s vast natural resources, ongoing fighting and shifting control of resources make feeding its population impossible.
🔗: aje.io/cmn21f | #Infograph
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Sudan’s civil war has displaced more than 9.5 million people and left millions at risk of starvation.
Despite the country’s vast natural resources, ongoing fighting and shifting control of resources make feeding its population impossible.
🔗: aje.io/cmn21f | #Infograph
Despite the country’s vast natural resources, ongoing fighting and shifting control of resources make feeding its population impossible.
🔗: aje.io/cmn21f | #Infograph
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Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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Fundraisers warn of ‘catastrophic’ drop in donations to Gaza since ceasefire
Fundraisers warn of ‘catastrophic’ drop in donations to Gaza since ceasefire
‘The world thinks Palestinians don’t need help any more,’ aid organiser says, despite desperate need as winter nears
Fundraisers collecting for Palestinian civilians in Gaza are seeing a “catastrophic” drop-off in donations since the ceasefire was announced in October.
Donations collected by volunteers and funnelled to needy families living in temporary shelters and struggling with illness, hunger and malnutrition have been harder to raise since then, according to organisers, many of whom have been running volunteer initiatives for Palestinians in Gaza on third-party crowdfunding platforms over the past two years. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Fundraisers warn of ‘catastrophic’ drop in donations to Gaza since ceasefire
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This is the rage of the far right-in a spoiled ballot paper. Complaining about rape while nominating a man found liable for rape.So it’s not about rape at all, it’s about racism and misogyny-& homo/trans phobia in support of she of the holy handbag who is conveniently anti LGBTI - #aras25 #speirgorm
October 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is the rage of the far right-in a spoiled ballot paper. Complaining about rape while nominating a man found liable for rape.So it’s not about rape at all, it’s about racism and misogyny-& homo/trans phobia in support of she of the holy handbag who is conveniently anti LGBTI - #aras25 #speirgorm