Dom Bryan

MPs back plan to release Mandelson files after Labour anger forces climbdown. Remember our ‘friends’ in the USA knew Mandelson was compromised. If this had happened with Russia the PM would have resigned by now.

In response to the news that @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social has cut ties with Senator George J. Mitchell, following new information that suggests he remained in contact with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, we have released the following statement. 1/5

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Warning: video is hard to watch

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Retiring Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made $27.5M last year, over 930 times the median Walmart worker's salary of just $29,469.

Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by.

It's past time Walmart paid them a living wage.

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

There is a strong political strain in the US that hates the welfare state in Europe. We should defend our people by keeping them healthy not sustaining military bases around the world.

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies Irish Studies Seminar: Dom Bryan 22/09/25

If you missed Dom Bryan's talk this week on 'Authenticity, history and everyday nationalism: comparing Irish pubs to McDonald’s restaurants', it's now online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=50e-...
More QUB Irish Studies events at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... @domsball.bsky.social

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

Netherlands joins Ireland in threatening to boycott Eurovision 2026 if Israel takes part Dutch broadcasting officials said it was taking the stance because of the loss of lives in Gaza.

Netherlands joins Ireland in threatening to boycott Eurovision if Israel takes part

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Kash Patel, Director of the FBI, finishes with a message to Charlie Kirk: ‘see you in Valhalla’.

The United States is so deep in a sort of violent cult, it’s difficult to see if they can get out.

I’ve researched the politics of flags in Northern Ireland for decades – here’s what England needs to understand I’ve contributed to at least six reports assessing the tensions around flags.

theconversation.com/ive-research...

Anti-Islamic biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

Anti-Islamic biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites www.bbc.com/news/article... I read this with utter disbelief. But maybe I should stop being so surprised.

The Gaza discourse has been Vylanised – but that diversionary strategy just doesn’t work any more | Archie Bland Those appalled by Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the kind of media frenzy prompted by Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury appearance, are finding their voice, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edit...

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Glastonbury - KNEECAP The breakthrough Northern Irish rap trio bring their energetic hip-hop to Worthy Farm.

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It’s time to use the f-word. Trumpism is fascism.

The essence of fascism is in place. See the list 👇

All that’s needed to complete the fascist ascent are;
- territorial aggression
- the concentration of power in one individual or tight cabal.

And these are emerging by the day

It seems to me that most world leaders have not got a clue how to build peace. And for those who think we need to learn history so we do not make the mistakes of the past, well, I think that theory is blown to bits.

The USA is getting exactly what it voted for, not a government but a soap opera.

Please pass this along to anyone who might want to be me for a year. hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

It is worrying that there are very few people on the media questioning the idea that war is inevitable. No one seems to think about deescalation.

Best worst season ever.

Oxford English dictionary definition of the word holocaust: 'The complete destruction of something (esp. a large number of people); a mass slaughter, a massacre.'

Very taken by Dan Hicks argument that we should stop using the term ‘post’-colonial since Colonialism clearly is not over.

YouTube video by United Nations Gaza: UN Urges Immediate Action to Save Lives - OCHA Briefing | United Nations

youtu.be/GqP4zwbZxoU?... everyone should listen to this. No one will be able to claim they didn’t know it was happening. It will be our duty to hold the military and politicians of Israel and our own countries to account.

'Children handcuffed and shot' - ex-UK Special Forces break silence on war crime claims Veterans who served with the SAS and SBS give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged executions.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Utterly predictable to anyone who knows the history of British forces in Northern Ireland. In Iraq and Afghanistan the role of Australian and US forces were no better. This is one of the reasons millions of us protested about these wars.