Ken McDonagh
@kenmcdonagh.bsky.social
Associate Prof in IR, DCU, research EU security & defence, occasional runner, dad of triplets, mo thuairim fèin
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Amazing how different Sean Bean looks in real life to the movies
(A joke that I accept will baffle many)
(A joke that I accept will baffle many)
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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A missile battery in west Dublin, a French warship in Dublin bay and gardai equipped with anti drone guns are among the security measures planned or under consideration during the upcoming EU presidency
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Ireland may seek aid of French warship to boost security during EU presidency
State already investing in drone defences ahead of visits from ministers and heads of state next year
www.irishtimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A missile battery in west Dublin, a French warship in Dublin bay and gardai equipped with anti drone guns are among the security measures planned or under consideration during the upcoming EU presidency
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
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news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
This study focused exclusively on Britain, but he is doing the same in a number of countries, including Ireland.
#SpeirGorm
This study focused exclusively on Britain, but he is doing the same in a number of countries, including Ireland.
#SpeirGorm
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
This study focused exclusively on Britain, but he is doing the same in a number of countries, including Ireland.
#SpeirGorm
This study focused exclusively on Britain, but he is doing the same in a number of countries, including Ireland.
#SpeirGorm
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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In this incisive interview, Dr Madalitso Zililo Phiri dismantles the epistemic hegemony of Eurocentric International Relations theory and maps an emergent African IR scholarship.
#AfricanIR #IRtheory
youtu.be/SUi1oBH2hVE
#AfricanIR #IRtheory
youtu.be/SUi1oBH2hVE
Does African IR Theory Exist? - Madalitso Zililo Phiri | 2025 Episode 25
YouTube video by IR thinker
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
In this incisive interview, Dr Madalitso Zililo Phiri dismantles the epistemic hegemony of Eurocentric International Relations theory and maps an emergent African IR scholarship.
#AfricanIR #IRtheory
youtu.be/SUi1oBH2hVE
#AfricanIR #IRtheory
youtu.be/SUi1oBH2hVE
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F**k Rogan!
F**k Tate!
Where are all the articles on the PROGRESSIVE FEMALE INFLUENCERS???
F**k Tate!
Where are all the articles on the PROGRESSIVE FEMALE INFLUENCERS???
15 Women's Rights Influencers and Advocates Raising Awareness
Women’s rights influencers and advocates take to social media to fight for everything from equal rights to ending period poverty.
izea.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
F**k Rogan!
F**k Tate!
Where are all the articles on the PROGRESSIVE FEMALE INFLUENCERS???
F**k Tate!
Where are all the articles on the PROGRESSIVE FEMALE INFLUENCERS???
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It is not an exaggeration to say that we should be acting on the climate crisis on the same scale that we would a war. It will cause that kind of damage. Instead, we’re treating it as if it’s a Tidy Towns competition.
#SpéirGorm #ClimateChange
#SpéirGorm #ClimateChange
Finance for climate adaptation projects is below what is required to address the escalating risks posed by climate change, according to a new report.
Climate projects too small to secure funding, says report
Finance for climate adaptation projects is below what is required to address the escalating risks posed by climate change, according to a new report.
www.rte.ie
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
It is not an exaggeration to say that we should be acting on the climate crisis on the same scale that we would a war. It will cause that kind of damage. Instead, we’re treating it as if it’s a Tidy Towns competition.
#SpéirGorm #ClimateChange
#SpéirGorm #ClimateChange
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
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📣 Connecting Europe Fellowship
Young professionals from EU enlargement countries can now apply for a 3-month fellowship in Brussels to advance research on EU enlargement, democracy, climate, digital and foreign policy.
Apply by 4 December 👇
www.epc.eu/vacancies/co...
Young professionals from EU enlargement countries can now apply for a 3-month fellowship in Brussels to advance research on EU enlargement, democracy, climate, digital and foreign policy.
Apply by 4 December 👇
www.epc.eu/vacancies/co...
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
📣 Connecting Europe Fellowship
Young professionals from EU enlargement countries can now apply for a 3-month fellowship in Brussels to advance research on EU enlargement, democracy, climate, digital and foreign policy.
Apply by 4 December 👇
www.epc.eu/vacancies/co...
Young professionals from EU enlargement countries can now apply for a 3-month fellowship in Brussels to advance research on EU enlargement, democracy, climate, digital and foreign policy.
Apply by 4 December 👇
www.epc.eu/vacancies/co...
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Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
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 6:13 AM
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Children should be able to restrict what content their parents see on YouTube
November 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Children should be able to restrict what content their parents see on YouTube
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And all State departments and services. #speirgorm
November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
And all State departments and services. #speirgorm
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Every Irish politician needs to get off this racist’s website *immediately*. There is no excuse.
#speirgorm
#speirgorm
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Every Irish politician needs to get off this racist’s website *immediately*. There is no excuse.
#speirgorm
#speirgorm
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Ged Nash also called on the Tánaiste Simon Harris to issue a statement on the arson attack, saying he is someone who is “never found wanting to comment on anything that might occur in our society” and has yet to comment on what’s happened in the town.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Ged Nash also called on the Tánaiste Simon Harris to issue a statement on the arson attack, saying he is someone who is “never found wanting to comment on anything that might occur in our society” and has yet to comment on what’s happened in the town.
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Given the escalation in tactics by domestic far-right extremists in Ireland, when will the Irish state get serious about the Irish far-right's links with loyalist paramilitaries in the North & British far-right? Or the Irish far-right's international dark money & hostile state actor finances? [1/2]
November 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Given the escalation in tactics by domestic far-right extremists in Ireland, when will the Irish state get serious about the Irish far-right's links with loyalist paramilitaries in the North & British far-right? Or the Irish far-right's international dark money & hostile state actor finances? [1/2]
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When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
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Just a terrific thread by a very sharp civ-mil scholar. Thanks, @carriealee.bsky.social
Hi folks! A few thoughts on this essay, and the questions that we *should* be asking, rather than the ones this Army officer seems inclined to answer. I haven’t done a CMR thread in a while so I’m overdue. 🧵
Hard to imagine a more sinister & dangerous argument, couched in euphemism & high-minded language. "This essay does not argue liberalism will collapse, only that [US] military officers should be intellectually (and spiritually) prepared for alternatives." warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Just a terrific thread by a very sharp civ-mil scholar. Thanks, @carriealee.bsky.social
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We're hiring a Lecturer in Political Science @vuamsterdam.bsky.social (deadline Nov 24): 👉 werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/le...
Vacature — Lecturer in Political Science – Comparative Politics
Do you have a PhD in Political Science and some teaching experience? Are you interested in teaching a diverse and international student community? The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) offers a positi...
werkenbij.vu.nl
October 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We're hiring a Lecturer in Political Science @vuamsterdam.bsky.social (deadline Nov 24): 👉 werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/le...
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European responses to the Russia-Ukraine war - the whole special issue is now available here:
journals.sagepub.com/toc/BPI/curr...
journals.sagepub.com/toc/BPI/curr...
October 31, 2025 at 9:03 AM
European responses to the Russia-Ukraine war - the whole special issue is now available here:
journals.sagepub.com/toc/BPI/curr...
journals.sagepub.com/toc/BPI/curr...
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Transphobia harms all women, part 4,586
Latvian Parliament votes to withdraw from treaty opposing violence against women
Latvian Parliament votes to withdraw from treaty opposing violence against women
Some 32 Latvian lawmakers voted to stay in the pact of the Council of Europe that opposes violence against women, while 56 voted to leave it. Two MPs abstained from voting on the treaty which the same parliament had ratified last year.
www.euronews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Transphobia harms all women, part 4,586
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
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Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
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An old post from late in my Twitter days. I'm going to have to update this in some fashion for the post-generative AI context, but in that context I think something like it remains important -- perhaps is even more so. I do not think these are skills that should be outsourced, even if they could be
Reading advice for young historians
This is a sheet of reading tips I’ve developed over the past few years for my first-year students in history. I posted it on Twitter yesterday, as a png image and a tweet thread, and it got q…
memoriousblog.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
An old post from late in my Twitter days. I'm going to have to update this in some fashion for the post-generative AI context, but in that context I think something like it remains important -- perhaps is even more so. I do not think these are skills that should be outsourced, even if they could be