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Mary Áine Connolly
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NIrish 🇮🇪 Graduate Solicitor Trainee, LLM, LLB @unibirmingham.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈 https://www.instagram.com/connolly_cooks 🥗
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After 13 months of race riots and serious hate crimes, the Justice Minister has come to the conclusion that “something must be done”. She’s not sure what. But she thinks it’s all of our jobs. Maybe hers, hard to tell. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
Justice Minister urges everyone to ‘do more’ following racist attacks on NI homes
Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister has urged others to “do more” in the aftermath of a spate of racially motivated attacks on homes.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It’s wedding season 🎉 and yes that’s the euros playing in the back
August 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.

This tragedy must end now.

Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt
July 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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NEW BLOG!!

In this blog, Myriade: Photographing Trans Resistance and Intimacy unfolds as a powerful portrait series that captures the quiet strength, intimacy, and beauty of trans and queer lives.

www.ilfordphoto.com/myriade-phot...

Images - ©Jules Mono
June 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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"It's not really about the girl, it's not really about abuse. It's not really about a sense of what the victims are going through, that is a pretext."

Why anti-migrant riots in Northern Ireland are the result of online radicalisation and racism
Why people are rioting in Northern Ireland: 'It’s odious racism'
Migrants and their property have been targetted across Northern Ireland by rioters following the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in the town of Ballymena.
articles.globalplayer.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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#BBCNews live page: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
Northern Ireland riots latest: Police chief says disorder in Northern Ireland is ‘absolutely race-motivated’
Northern Ireland riots latest: Police chief says disorder in Northern Ireland is ‘absolutely race-motivated’
Police say 41 officers have been injured and 13 people have been arrested after three nights of rioting across several towns.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 13, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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First, Israel cut Gaza’s last internet cable—blacking out 2.3 million people.

Then it bombed Iran with no UN approval, no imminent threat.

As eyes shift to Iran, Israel will escalate its ethnic cleansing in Gaza—and create more regional instability.
June 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM