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I am desperately worried for 20 yr old Qesser Zuhrah who is dangerously ill at HMP Bronzefield. It remains very unclear how soon she will be transferred to hospital.
Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’
Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I am desperately worried for 20 yr old Qesser Zuhrah who is dangerously ill at HMP Bronzefield. It remains very unclear how soon she will be transferred to hospital.
Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Just a reminder...
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Just a reminder...
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Taoiseach decries slump in #climate action…abroad, of course.
Meanwhile, back home, Taoiseach opposes solar farms & 100% supports Ireland’s climate-destroying and water-polluting livestock sector.
Go figure.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Meanwhile, back home, Taoiseach opposes solar farms & 100% supports Ireland’s climate-destroying and water-polluting livestock sector.
Go figure.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Taoiseach warns of danger that action on climate crisis is ‘weakening’
Micheál Martin addresses world leaders ahead of Cop30 in Brazil, speaking of impact Storm Éowyn left on State
www.irishtimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Taoiseach decries slump in #climate action…abroad, of course.
Meanwhile, back home, Taoiseach opposes solar farms & 100% supports Ireland’s climate-destroying and water-polluting livestock sector.
Go figure.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Meanwhile, back home, Taoiseach opposes solar farms & 100% supports Ireland’s climate-destroying and water-polluting livestock sector.
Go figure.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres.
People see data centre growth as threat to Ireland’s energy and water supplies, and ecosystems, and want Big Tech to be regulated
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/new-pol...
People see data centre growth as threat to Ireland’s energy and water supplies, and ecosystems, and want Big Tech to be regulated
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/new-pol...
New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres | Friends of the Earth
New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres People see data centre growth as threat to Ireland’s energy and water supplies, and …
www.friendsoftheearth.ie
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres.
People see data centre growth as threat to Ireland’s energy and water supplies, and ecosystems, and want Big Tech to be regulated
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/new-pol...
People see data centre growth as threat to Ireland’s energy and water supplies, and ecosystems, and want Big Tech to be regulated
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/new-pol...
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A good article of Heather Humphreys's poor environmental record as Minister for Heritage
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Heather Humphreys was ‘unsympathetic’ to fears over change to wildlife law, say activists
Campaigners had ‘no access for discussion’ on ‘damaging’ Bill extending hedgerow-cutting season
www.irishtimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A good article of Heather Humphreys's poor environmental record as Minister for Heritage
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Avec de nouveaux arbres, de la nature et plus de place pour les piétons, Paris change !
La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !
La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !
October 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Avec de nouveaux arbres, de la nature et plus de place pour les piétons, Paris change !
La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !
La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !
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This new residential tower in Lyon is made from wood.
In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:
In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:
October 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This new residential tower in Lyon is made from wood.
In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:
In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:
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This is horrendous. One of my favourite book shops. Buy some books from them in support.
‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack
‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack
Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday
www.irishtimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This is horrendous. One of my favourite book shops. Buy some books from them in support.
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An important perspective from @ciarancannon.bsky.social!
The contrast between active transport and car infrastructure becomes even starker once you factor in the broader financial and health costs of cars, whether it's inactivity, air pollution, or noise pollution (to name but a few negatives...).
The contrast between active transport and car infrastructure becomes even starker once you factor in the broader financial and health costs of cars, whether it's inactivity, air pollution, or noise pollution (to name but a few negatives...).
Opinion: Those outraged by a €100k bike shed should look at the annual cost of renting out car park spaces
We have completely normalised investment in congestion, pollution and the continuation of car-first planning, writes Ciarán Cannon.
www.thejournal.ie
October 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
An important perspective from @ciarancannon.bsky.social!
The contrast between active transport and car infrastructure becomes even starker once you factor in the broader financial and health costs of cars, whether it's inactivity, air pollution, or noise pollution (to name but a few negatives...).
The contrast between active transport and car infrastructure becomes even starker once you factor in the broader financial and health costs of cars, whether it's inactivity, air pollution, or noise pollution (to name but a few negatives...).
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@amnesty.org has released a report on the "global political economy” enabling genocide against Palestinians.
The report names Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, Hyundai and Palantir, among others.
The report names Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, Hyundai and Palantir, among others.
Amnesty Int’l: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Palantir Enable & Profit from Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
We speak with the secretary general of Amnesty International about the human rights group’s new report on the “global political economy enabling Israel’s genocide, occupation and apartheid” against Pa...
www.democracynow.org
September 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
@amnesty.org has released a report on the "global political economy” enabling genocide against Palestinians.
The report names Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, Hyundai and Palantir, among others.
The report names Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, Hyundai and Palantir, among others.
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I interviewed the brilliant Brenda Fricker about her harrowing new memoir. Very glad to have met her www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Brenda Fricker: ‘It was real violence, and I needed protection. Where was my father? There was blood all over me’
Parental abuse, sexual violence and mental health struggles: the Oscar-winner has endured more than most. She explains why she decided to write a memoir
www.irishtimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I interviewed the brilliant Brenda Fricker about her harrowing new memoir. Very glad to have met her www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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"This is the first book I have read in 27 years that kept me awake at night..."
"In his dystopian THE LIE OF THE LAND... John Gibbons has indeed done the State and generations as yet unborn some service."
Review in @irishexaminer.bsky.social by Jack Power.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
"In his dystopian THE LIE OF THE LAND... John Gibbons has indeed done the State and generations as yet unborn some service."
Review in @irishexaminer.bsky.social by Jack Power.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Book review: Greed and duplicity pollutes our politics and environment
The Irish farm and food lobby enjoys an incredible, anti-democratic influence, that has had a disastrous and escalating impact on our countryside, our waterways, and our mountains
www.irishexaminer.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"This is the first book I have read in 27 years that kept me awake at night..."
"In his dystopian THE LIE OF THE LAND... John Gibbons has indeed done the State and generations as yet unborn some service."
Review in @irishexaminer.bsky.social by Jack Power.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
"In his dystopian THE LIE OF THE LAND... John Gibbons has indeed done the State and generations as yet unborn some service."
Review in @irishexaminer.bsky.social by Jack Power.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
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Beyond chuffed to see THE LIE OF THE LAND debut at No.9 in Ireland’s Non-Fiction bestseller list this week!
September 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Beyond chuffed to see THE LIE OF THE LAND debut at No.9 in Ireland’s Non-Fiction bestseller list this week!
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At the doctor’s surgery for a check up. People sitting on the vinyl sofas leave behind bottom prints that strongly resemble the earthworks of Neolithic Henge embankments.
Makes you think.
Makes you think.
August 15, 2024 at 3:51 PM
At the doctor’s surgery for a check up. People sitting on the vinyl sofas leave behind bottom prints that strongly resemble the earthworks of Neolithic Henge embankments.
Makes you think.
Makes you think.
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Nice FT citing Ireland, where data centre power demand has massively outpaced clean power growth - meaning increased burning of fossil fuels
You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism.
www.ft.com/content/0f61...
You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism.
www.ft.com/content/0f61...
August 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Nice FT citing Ireland, where data centre power demand has massively outpaced clean power growth - meaning increased burning of fossil fuels
You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism.
www.ft.com/content/0f61...
You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism.
www.ft.com/content/0f61...
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EXCLUSIVE 🗞️
BDP has launched legal action against insulation manufacturer Kingspan.
BDP has launched legal action against insulation manufacturer Kingspan.
BDP launches legal action over Kingspan insulation guidance
BDP launches legal action over Kingspan insulation guidance
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
July 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
EXCLUSIVE 🗞️
BDP has launched legal action against insulation manufacturer Kingspan.
BDP has launched legal action against insulation manufacturer Kingspan.
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This is Amnesty International, the most reputable human rights group in the world. No one can say they didn’t know.
July 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is Amnesty International, the most reputable human rights group in the world. No one can say they didn’t know.
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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At the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain: “stop the genocide, free Palestine”
www.instagram.com/reel/DLxZ2pD...
www.instagram.com/reel/DLxZ2pD...
July 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
At the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain: “stop the genocide, free Palestine”
www.instagram.com/reel/DLxZ2pD...
www.instagram.com/reel/DLxZ2pD...
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Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.
Genocide in Gaza is.
June 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.
Genocide in Gaza is.
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“What Israel and the United States are doing to the people of Palestine is nothing but a technologically sophisticated barbarism.”
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
☕️
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
☕️
May 31, 2025 at 7:42 AM
“What Israel and the United States are doing to the people of Palestine is nothing but a technologically sophisticated barbarism.”
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
☕️
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
☕️
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Incredible. A hospital complex bombed, scores of medics & civilians massacred, yet the image chosen to accompany this massacre isn’t the broken bodies of victims but rather, random militants waving AK-47s.
Media complicity costs lives.
Media complicity costs lives.
Middle East crisis live: More than 60 killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza
Middle East crisis live: More than 60 killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza
Dead include those killed in a strike on the European hospital complex near Khan Younis
* Israel hits hospitals in deadly strikes
Associated Press, citing local hospitals, reports that at least 22 children were killed in Gaza overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday by Israeli airstrikes.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met online with US president Donald Trump, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa, Reuters reports, citing Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu news agency. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Incredible. A hospital complex bombed, scores of medics & civilians massacred, yet the image chosen to accompany this massacre isn’t the broken bodies of victims but rather, random militants waving AK-47s.
Media complicity costs lives.
Media complicity costs lives.
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“Seldom have I heard the leader of a state so clearly outline a plan that fits legal definition of genocide”
- Josep Borrell on Israel’s Holocaust.
1 in 2 bombs dropped on #Gaza is sourced in Europe.
Von der Leyen & many others have blood on their hands.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
- Josep Borrell on Israel’s Holocaust.
1 in 2 bombs dropped on #Gaza is sourced in Europe.
Von der Leyen & many others have blood on their hands.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat
Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war
www.theguardian.com
May 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“Seldom have I heard the leader of a state so clearly outline a plan that fits legal definition of genocide”
- Josep Borrell on Israel’s Holocaust.
1 in 2 bombs dropped on #Gaza is sourced in Europe.
Von der Leyen & many others have blood on their hands.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
- Josep Borrell on Israel’s Holocaust.
1 in 2 bombs dropped on #Gaza is sourced in Europe.
Von der Leyen & many others have blood on their hands.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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When the Prime Minister of Israel states in public that they’re going to ethnically cleanse Gaza, can we admit that Israel is ethnically cleansing Gaza? Or is that still a step too far?
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Middle East crisis live: Gaza population to be moved as part of ‘intensive’ offensive, Netanyahu says
Israeli PM says people will be moved for their ‘own protection’ but does not give details about how much territory will be seized
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
When the Prime Minister of Israel states in public that they’re going to ethnically cleanse Gaza, can we admit that Israel is ethnically cleansing Gaza? Or is that still a step too far?
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...