Margaret Ward

Thank you thank you the sun goddess, finally blue sky and almost balmy weather in gorgeous Ballycastle today. The difference in everyone’s spirits 🌞😄

Brilliant Marina Hyde. 👏

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

A richly detailed account but it would also be worth mentioning his daughter Sarah’s memoirs as she details the roles played by herself & her mother in supporting the intelligence operation (included in ‘Rebel Women’).

At long last! So pleased to see my ‘Rebel Women’ given prominence in @waterstones Belfast. Very appropriate as much action took place very close by.

When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk Moms in Minneapolis are donating diapers, food and time to help families who have been ripped apart by ICE.

Moms in Minneapolis have organized an expansive donation network in the city to support families ripped apart by ICE by providing necessities like groceries, diapers, wipes and, now, breastmilk.

Scottish bird?? Surely they have a greater spread - like Rathlin Island, where thousands come to view them and other places in Ireland?

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

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

"Don't worry, I've got you"

‘For Alex’
Alex Jeffrey Pretti
1988 - 2026 rest in peace sir..🕊️

Beautiful tribute by illustrator MJ.Hiblen (@mjhiblenart on Instagram)...😢

The Irish government should follow the lead set by the Spanish government - humane, civilised, realistic.

I am aiming for the look on the right - getting there with the help of a frog and a hedgehog….

Donald Trump’s very own Black and Tans are out of control

My platform piece in today's @irishnews.com

Link: www.irishnews.com/news/world/d...

Board of Peace 'a delusion of power' by Trump - Robinson Former president of Ireland, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and member of the Elders - a group of global leaders working for human rights - Mary Robinson has said that the US' proposed Board of...

Former president of Ireland and member of the Elders - a group of global leaders working for human rights - Mary Robinson has said that the US' proposed Board of Peace is not a board of peace, it is "the board of the power of one person"

Board of Peace - Season 1

Renee Nicole Good was killed for going out in the streets to protect her community.

Thousands more people in Minneapolis are going out in the streets to protect their community.

Rachel from Newry!! So excited!! Well done Rachel! 🥳🥳🥂🥂⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Letting a sleeping dog lie. It’s a cold, very wet and gray Monday. Definitely Blue Monday. But not so bad when you have a Daisy for company in the study 💛

So envious!! 🤢

Minnesotans triggering their car alarms from inside their homes when they see ICE.

And how about including the northern 6 counties of Ireland? @btpbooks.bsky.social and @blackstaffpress.bsky.social for starters.

Grim to see OToole’s (@fotoole.bsky.social)Yeats test featured in today’s Observer (@theobserveruk.bsky.social)

Die Frauen in Iran 🔥

Ha ha!

You really need a Northern Irish accent to deliver that line right. Nice work, Rachel. #TheTraitors

I never thought we needed more Christian missionaries here in the north, but I appreciate the good intentions of the idealistic young people. And of course absolutely condemn the murderous actions of ICE in the killing of a lovely young woman and mother.

Cloths not clothes!

A lovely surprise for the weekend. Delighted to be included in this extraordinary volume, edited by Catherine Harper, ‘The Stained and Bloodied Clothes of Ireland: a material culture view of Irish shame, oppression, morality and repression’.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

Delighted to see this recognition of Catherine Shannon, so supportive of women in academia and particularly of women researching the role of women in the Irish peace process.

#NollaigNamBan to all the fabulous women out there 💚

This week we are featuring some extraordinary Irish women in honour of #NollaignamBan. Mary Ann McCracken campaigned for the abolition of slavery, and argued that the liberty and equality sought by the United Irishmen should be extended to women. www.dib.ie/biography/mc... #DIBLives @ria.ie