Una Mullally
@unamullally.bsky.social
Writer
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FAI votes to suspend Israel from all Uefa competitions
FAI votes to suspend Israel from all Uefa competitions
Emergency General Meeting voted 74 in favour, with seven against and two abstaining
www.irishtimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
FAI votes to suspend Israel from all Uefa competitions
Great piece on Dead Centre and Emilie Pine’s Good Sex in the NYT.
Sex With a Stranger: How Actors Do It Onstage
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Great piece on Dead Centre and Emilie Pine’s Good Sex in the NYT.
Was delighted to use some of my speaking time at the Irish Landscape Institute’s conference in Dublin yesterday to screen Louis O’Flynn-Martin’s short film, City In Crisis, and to talk about prosocial urban design.
It’s a great piece of filmmaking that offers a skateboarder’s view of the city.
It’s a great piece of filmmaking that offers a skateboarder’s view of the city.
CITY IN CRISIS | Louis OFlynn
www.louisoflynn.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Was delighted to use some of my speaking time at the Irish Landscape Institute’s conference in Dublin yesterday to screen Louis O’Flynn-Martin’s short film, City In Crisis, and to talk about prosocial urban design.
It’s a great piece of filmmaking that offers a skateboarder’s view of the city.
It’s a great piece of filmmaking that offers a skateboarder’s view of the city.
Reposted by Una Mullally
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Outsourcing / hollowing out of RTÉ continues as bosses close its in-house doc unit.
"Instead of a return to the core values of our public-service remit, we have dramatically increased commercialisation, with whole swathes of the organisation now being primed for outsourcing." - union spokesperson
"Instead of a return to the core values of our public-service remit, we have dramatically increased commercialisation, with whole swathes of the organisation now being primed for outsourcing." - union spokesperson
RTÉ set to close in-house documentary unit
Unions criticise decision to ‘dramatically increase commercialisation’ via outsourcing
www.irishtimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Outsourcing / hollowing out of RTÉ continues as bosses close its in-house doc unit.
"Instead of a return to the core values of our public-service remit, we have dramatically increased commercialisation, with whole swathes of the organisation now being primed for outsourcing." - union spokesperson
"Instead of a return to the core values of our public-service remit, we have dramatically increased commercialisation, with whole swathes of the organisation now being primed for outsourcing." - union spokesperson
How Elon Musk boosts the British right.
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
How Elon Musk boosts the British right.
“All’s Fair makes Sex and the City 2 look like a Mike Leigh film about bag ladies who live in the woods and own ferrets.”
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
“All’s Fair makes Sex and the City 2 look like a Mike Leigh film about bag ladies who live in the woods and own ferrets.”
Regarding the rightward turn FG & FF are taking on all kinds of immigration, here's a piece I wrote Nov 2019 on far-right rhetoric entering mainstream Irish politics.
"This is a pattern: extreme rhetoric is heard, listened to and begins to seep into mainstream politics until it becomes part of it."
"This is a pattern: extreme rhetoric is heard, listened to and begins to seep into mainstream politics until it becomes part of it."
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Regarding the rightward turn FG & FF are taking on all kinds of immigration, here's a piece I wrote Nov 2019 on far-right rhetoric entering mainstream Irish politics.
"This is a pattern: extreme rhetoric is heard, listened to and begins to seep into mainstream politics until it becomes part of it."
"This is a pattern: extreme rhetoric is heard, listened to and begins to seep into mainstream politics until it becomes part of it."
One of the many reasons this is a bad idea.
Plan to make migrants pay for accommodation ‘would cost State millions’, ministers told
A new system of charging migrants to stay in Ipas (International Protection Accommodation Services) centres will cost millions to implement, but will have a “low rate of return” for the State.
m.independent.ie
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
One of the many reasons this is a bad idea.
Reposted by Una Mullally
There’s a huge gulf between levels of fear of Dublin city centre, and levels of crime, a new survey shows. The City Centre Crime Victim Survey was commissioned by Dublin Inquirer and carried out by Amarách Research.
There’s a huge gulf between levels of fear of Dublin city centre, and levels of crime, new survey shows
The City Centre Crime Victim Survey was commissioned by Dublin Inquirer and carried out by Amarách Research.
www.dublininquirer.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
There’s a huge gulf between levels of fear of Dublin city centre, and levels of crime, a new survey shows. The City Centre Crime Victim Survey was commissioned by Dublin Inquirer and carried out by Amarách Research.
Reposted by Una Mullally
There’s an essay here on the role of good design/typography in successful campaigns!
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
There’s an essay here on the role of good design/typography in successful campaigns!
An incredible result, an inspiring campaign that is already having an impact elsewhere, and instructive lessons for progressives everywhere.
Great work New York!
Great work New York!
How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
An incredible result, an inspiring campaign that is already having an impact elsewhere, and instructive lessons for progressives everywhere.
Great work New York!
Great work New York!
Wrote about the Irish presidential election and its general political context for Foreign Policy.
Ireland’s Next President Will Assume the Progressive Mantle
Anti-war candidate Catherine Connolly’s victory is the country’s latest rebuke to the global right-wing populist wave.
foreignpolicy.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Wrote about the Irish presidential election and its general political context for Foreign Policy.
Update on Translations in Dakar - Caitlin Kelly has a piece in the Guardian about it:
November 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Update on Translations in Dakar - Caitlin Kelly has a piece in the Guardian about it:
“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
www.irishtimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social
Loved this piece on Grano, one of the best restaurants in Dublin.
The Italian restaurant in Dublin that takes bookings 90 days in advance
Grano is built on simplicity, strong family bonds, a sense of social solidarity and community
www.irishtimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Loved this piece on Grano, one of the best restaurants in Dublin.
The so-called "red tape" that needs cutting is Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael's chaotic housing policies that created and then compounded the housing crisis.
Zero point trying to blame anything or anyone else, or trying to pretend that the financialisation of housing isn't a core ideological failure.
Zero point trying to blame anything or anyone else, or trying to pretend that the financialisation of housing isn't a core ideological failure.
Micheál Martin says house building in Ireland is hampered by 'gold-plating' of EU rules
Taoiseach says 'going beyond what is required' is slowing down delivery of housing and other big projects in Ireland
www.irishexaminer.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The so-called "red tape" that needs cutting is Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael's chaotic housing policies that created and then compounded the housing crisis.
Zero point trying to blame anything or anyone else, or trying to pretend that the financialisation of housing isn't a core ideological failure.
Zero point trying to blame anything or anyone else, or trying to pretend that the financialisation of housing isn't a core ideological failure.
I wrote about Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s rightwing signalling in the wake of their presidential election failures.
If they persist in pursuing such a strategy, they will not attract disaffected voters, but dig a moat around themselves on increasingly eroding soil, until the sides collapse.
If they persist in pursuing such a strategy, they will not attract disaffected voters, but dig a moat around themselves on increasingly eroding soil, until the sides collapse.
Una Mullally: Simon Harris is walking a risky tightrope on immigration
Tánaiste accuses people ‘particularly on the left’ trying to ‘shut down the debate’ on migration
www.irishtimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I wrote about Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s rightwing signalling in the wake of their presidential election failures.
If they persist in pursuing such a strategy, they will not attract disaffected voters, but dig a moat around themselves on increasingly eroding soil, until the sides collapse.
If they persist in pursuing such a strategy, they will not attract disaffected voters, but dig a moat around themselves on increasingly eroding soil, until the sides collapse.
Reposted by Una Mullally
The Irish Times view on the attack on asylum seekers in Drogheda: premeditated and deeply shocking
The Irish Times view on the attack on asylum seekers in Drogheda: premeditated and deeply shocking
There can be no equivocation in condemning this appalling act which could easily have cost lives
www.irishtimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The Irish Times view on the attack on asylum seekers in Drogheda: premeditated and deeply shocking
New poll in the Sunday Independent:
“43% of voters would prefer a left-wing government potentially including Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats, Labour and People Before Profit-Solidarity. 40% would prefer a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-led government.”
SF +2: 23
FG -2: 19
FF -2: 18
SD +1: 9
Lab +1: 5
“43% of voters would prefer a left-wing government potentially including Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats, Labour and People Before Profit-Solidarity. 40% would prefer a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-led government.”
SF +2: 23
FG -2: 19
FF -2: 18
SD +1: 9
Lab +1: 5
Poll reveals more than half of public feel Micheál Martin should quit as FF leader, and majority want Jim O’Callaghan to take over
The public has handed Taoiseach Micheál Martin a vote of no confidence, with more than half believing he should step down as Fianna Fáil leader as the backlash against the Coalition grows.
m.independent.ie
November 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
New poll in the Sunday Independent:
“43% of voters would prefer a left-wing government potentially including Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats, Labour and People Before Profit-Solidarity. 40% would prefer a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-led government.”
SF +2: 23
FG -2: 19
FF -2: 18
SD +1: 9
Lab +1: 5
“43% of voters would prefer a left-wing government potentially including Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats, Labour and People Before Profit-Solidarity. 40% would prefer a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-led government.”
SF +2: 23
FG -2: 19
FF -2: 18
SD +1: 9
Lab +1: 5
“The investigation into the arson attack on an accommodation centre for refugees in Drogheda has been upgraded after CCTV showed a masked man breaking into the building before setting it ablaze using petrol.”
- John Mooney reporting in the Sunday Times
- John Mooney reporting in the Sunday Times
CCTV catches moment intruder torched asylum centre housing children
Gardai have rebranded attack in Drogheda as a potential attempted murder after camera footage was released
www.thetimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“The investigation into the arson attack on an accommodation centre for refugees in Drogheda has been upgraded after CCTV showed a masked man breaking into the building before setting it ablaze using petrol.”
- John Mooney reporting in the Sunday Times
- John Mooney reporting in the Sunday Times
Reposted by Una Mullally
Residents of Drogheda asylum seeker accommodation evacuated after suspected arson attack
Residents of Drogheda asylum seeker accommodation evacuated after suspected arson attack
Four children and an adult rescued from top floor of the building after fireworks thrown in
www.irishtimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Residents of Drogheda asylum seeker accommodation evacuated after suspected arson attack
Reposted by Una Mullally
Catherine Connolly to make Irish working language of Áras when she takes office
Catherine Connolly to make Irish working language of Áras when she takes office
President-elect plans to ‘bring in Irish from the margins’ amid other priorities including disability
www.irishtimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Catherine Connolly to make Irish working language of Áras when she takes office
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The Dutch radical right maintained its vote share this election. One election pledge was to deport the “children and grandchildren” of migrants.
No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry
My piece
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry
My piece
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Geert Wilders didn’t lose the Dutch election - he had already won
Dutch politics has been transformed by 20 years of hateful speech about foreigners
www.irishtimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The Dutch radical right maintained its vote share this election. One election pledge was to deport the “children and grandchildren” of migrants.
No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry
My piece
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry
My piece
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Selling the left’s message in the digital age is an art – Ireland’s new president mastered it.
I wrote about Catherine Connolly's campaign.
I wrote about Catherine Connolly's campaign.
Selling the left’s message in the digital age is an art – Ireland’s new president mastered it | Una Mullally
From Mamdani-style visual branding to basketball clips, Catherine Connolly found her audience and spoke in a language they understood, says journalist Una Mullally
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Selling the left’s message in the digital age is an art – Ireland’s new president mastered it.
I wrote about Catherine Connolly's campaign.
I wrote about Catherine Connolly's campaign.