This is a poster advertising a fee book club event on Dec 4th at 6.15 pm in Ennis Library. It will be a discussion between me and Cecilia Brizuela about her chosen book The Adventures of China Iron, by Gabriela Cabezon Camara.
Clare People, it's Beyond Borders Book Club time again- myself and Cecilia Brizuela from Argentina will be chatting about her book choice 'The Adventures of China Iron, by Gabriela Cabezon Camara in Ennis library this thursday at 6.15pm all welcome and it's free and friendly.
01.12.2025 17:36 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This image is of the results of a poll carried out for Uplift by Ireland thinks. It shows that the majority of voters across all parties want our current policy on neutrality maintained. If you have a screen reader or other you can read the results and analysis of the whole poll at this link: https://www.uplift.ie/neutrality-files/ basically these results show that FG voters are 62 per cent in favour of retaining our neutrality ranging up to 99 per cent of PBP voters
Uplift and Ireland Thinks did the research on it recently so there's actually not any excuse for them not knowing this is the case:
29.10.2025 07:32 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
#รras25
The Irish Times Oct 29. 2025
Election
commentary
Sir. - Much of the commentary on
the presidential election has focused
on trving to interpret the meaning be-
hind spoiled votes, and what they sug-
gest about the gap between parts of
the electorate and our political class.
Catherine Connolly's victory, how-
ever, points to an overlooked gap-the
one between voters and much of the
prevailing media consensus. More
than 900,000 people - the largest
number ever to support a presidential
candidate - voted for her despite
weeks of coverage often portraying
her views on neutrality, Nato, Pales-
tine, and prisoner rehabilitation as na-
ive. riskv or dangerous
Taken together. these results sug-
gest a public that feels misread from
the political and media spheres. Un-
less those gaps are honestly examined
as a whole, politicians and iournalists
may risk continuing to speak to each
other in circles. - Yours, etc.
LORCAN MYLES,
Drogheda,
Co Louth.
The Overlooked Gap
29.10.2025 03:21 โ ๐ 150 ๐ 62 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 5
'Jock Stirrup' :-)
29.10.2025 07:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251026-cat...
27.10.2025 12:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Absolutely delighted for our @uniofgalwaylaw.bsky.social alumna, Catherine Connolly, on her likely election as President of Ireland! Gach rath ort, Catherine! #รras25
(Photo by Aengus McMahon, taken at our conference on Replacing the Offences Against the State Acts in 2024)
25.10.2025 09:38 โ ๐ 47 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
C'mon Catherine
22.10.2025 22:33 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
New Red C poll for Biz Post
C 44
H 25
G 10
Und. 21
#รras25
22.10.2025 19:26 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
'Peace deal' or not, Gaza remains the holocaust of our time
Two years into Israel's war of extermination, there can be no peace without accountability for the industrial-scale killing or justice for Palestinians who continue to count their dead
'For as long as Palestinians get up each morning and face the unimaginable each day in Gaza, we have a duty to ensure that this story does not end with their erasure, but with their liberation.'
@dondeniamh.bsky.social - there is no peace without justice.
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/peac...
14.10.2025 07:55 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This murdering shower of fuckers. And they wonder why people distrust politicians. Because they are lying gaslighting racist genocide apologists. That's my reason anyway.
14.10.2025 16:04 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
You should be in the Hauge answering charges of aiding a genocide against Palestinians you can't even bring yourself to mention them even now as they count the human cost and losses from a genocidal onslaught by Israel.
14.10.2025 16:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I'm from Galway and will be voting for Catherine Connolly in #รกras25 I campaigned with her *against* the Lisbon treaty & for Marriage Equality & Repeal, I was there the day she lost a dail seat by 17 votes after which she brought us all out for breakfast and apologised for letting us down!
13.10.2025 07:38 โ ๐ 72 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
of course. Let me reword that !
13.10.2025 07:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Not remotely, Ray, I call that democracy, anyone can contest any seat. It's a bit of a weird question isn't it? However it is one of the factors of supporting an independent TD, there may be no obvious successor or party candidate ready to slot into the vacancy.
13.10.2025 07:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
When #รกras25 is over and certain parties are doing postmortems, the fact that Catherine Connolly did so many one-on-one podcast interviews and the other candidates didn't must be part of the conversation.
People don't get to know candidates in debates.
05.10.2025 08:28 โ ๐ 92 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 4
Aside from anything else I think this election will show us how badly legacy media's influence has deteriorated. The IT, Indo and now Newstalk are throwing everything at Connolly but nothing has gotten the same traction as a short-form video of her playing ball with some kids. #SpeirGorm #รกras25
09.10.2025 15:22 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
The wonderful @sarahmaintains.bsky.social #speirgorm
11.10.2025 09:00 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
My sincere thanks to everyone who has supported the Global Sumud Flotilla. I'm home safe & will be followed by the other Irish people today. I'm just catching up and have much more to share but for now I am so so grateful for everyone's attempts to free us. Remember that Gaza is the story not us.
07.10.2025 08:06 โ ๐ 336 ๐ 66 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 2
Home safe Joe! Thanks for watching out
07.10.2025 02:30 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
25.09.2025 18:49 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Our friend, poet and activist Sarah Clancy, is on the Spectre, one of the boats on the Flotilla which was attacked last night. Contact the Taoiseach and Tรกnaiste to demand protection, there must be safe passage for all trying to break apartheid Israel's illegal siege of Gaza. #LiftTheSiege
24.09.2025 19:09 โ ๐ 104 ๐ 63 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 5
Never underestimate local media, here are two articles from the Clare Champion this week where they gave us all the space we needed. One from me and one from Leigh Brosnan on the legal boat. #GlobalSumudFlotilla
11.09.2025 10:08 โ ๐ 36 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Interdisciplinary Research Centre Addressing Group-Based Hate and Hostility. Values-driven impact-focused research. Advancing Europe's values of human dignity, equality and the rule of law from its Western edge.
www.ul.ie/ecsh
Irish; cat lover; retired Senior Lecturer Dublin City University; PhD in European Education Policy; concerned about injustice in the world. Longing for peace & equality
Artist, Lecturer, Writer (she/they)
Visualising Interpersonal & Developmental Trauma, Dissociative States, Sensory Processing
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ...
Slava Ukraina, Heroyam Slava!
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland
www.tulca.ie
Irish, sport, music, politics, environment, coffee.
Zen priest, Belfast dweller, she/รญ. Bmzcbelfast.org
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Novelist ๐ต๐ธ
linktr.ee/naoisedolan
unlearn everything you thought you knew about the world around you. weekly episodes anywhere you get your podcasts ๐ง join us on Patreon patreon.com/upstreampodcast
Pen name of author and journalist Andrew Scott.
Represented by Pew Literary
Books include Fake History, Fake Heroes and NOTORIOUS ! Links here:
https://linktr.ee/OttoEnglish
Veteran film/TV/media maker; NYT bestselling author; storyteller; dog mom. Direct descendant John Alden & Priscilla Mullins 1620. My American ancestors were defending democracy since 1776. ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ช & #Ally ๐บ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Escaped from the rubble of Twitter. Feminist, recovering medievalist, LGBT+activist, loves her family, animals and art. She/her
Economic/business commentator & historian, PhD in financial history. Author of: Irish Nation Building- Government, Business and Power, 1922โ1958. (Once Bloomberg UK, Irish Times, INM, IDA Ireland)
Corcaรญoch โค๏ธ๐ค Foghlaimeoir na Gaolainne โ๏ธ Pleanรกlaรญ Baile ๐ก Suim sa chรบrsaรญ pleanรกla sa Ghaeltacht.
EUROPEAN ๐ช๐บ Citizen ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Stop Palestinian Genocide ๐ต๐ธ๐ต๐ธ๐ต๐ธ
ืืื ืฉืื ืืืืืืื
Boycott Israel.
๐บ๐ฆ ะััะธะฝ ะะะะะะฆ ๐บ๐ฆ
Slow Living,
Cat Slave,๐โโฌ๏ธ ๐ ๐ป
Woke, Lefty,
Meditator๐งโโ๏ธโธ๏ธ
and Human.
Graduate student at Cardiff University - researching the role of science and scientists in the climate movement. PhD in Ecology. Activism. Climate communications.
Learning, growing and trying to do better
๐ฑvegan fta ๐ stop the slaughter
I pick litter in Epping Forest and find my peace on Discworld ๐งโโ๏ธ
Climate breakdown is happening now
Green ๐
Refugees welcome ๐