Rory Noone

Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers.

The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.

Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??

Israel is bombing tents again with F35 jets.

They commit genocide with impunity.

There was no ceasefire, they broke it every single day.

They must be held to account.

Speak up. Take action.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Great video by @averyschmitz.bsky.social (with some narration help by me 🤭) taking a look at what the US military has built up in the Caribbean.

A Presidential Show The campaigns testing the limits of our credulity

I enjoyed reading this thought-provoking essay on the #Aras25 campaigns by @benfraser.bsky.social

And the impact may be counterproductive for Fine Gael in the longer term, damaging their prospects in the next general election. Their behavior has been ugly. #aras25 #áras25

Journalists should not be the story: @news.rte.ie SixOne show us the questions asked by its Morning Ireland colleague BUTNOT the answers of the candidates themselves. #Aras25

3 agencies involved but none had the right remit.

EPA - Monitors 31 sites in 3,330km of Blackwater, but it happened elsewhere

Inland Fisheries - doesn’t have the forensic capacity for the testing needed.

Marine Institute - has that capacity, but only investigates disease, not pollution.

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

"We need to look at the cost of genocide to our humanity."

@catherinegalway.bsky.social #twip #aras25

The leading candidate in the Irish presidential election, Catherine Connolly. Here she talks about why the establishment fears women.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

BREAKING: Reports of spontaneous protests erupting in European cities tonight in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was illegally attacked by Israel an hour ago.

Demonstrations have been seen in Berlin🇩🇪 & Rome🇮🇹 - and these are the current scenes in Brussels🇧🇪 👇

Translation: "I arrived in Bogotá. I no longer have a visa to travel to the USA. I don't care," responded the Colombian president. "The seat of the United Nations cannot continue in New York," he added.

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

France recognises Palestine and calls for UN force in Gaza Macron sets out plan for international stabilisation mission as Arab and Muslim leaders prepare to meet Trump in New York Emmanuel Macron has announced France’s official recognition of the State of Palestine, setting out a plan for a UN-mandated international stabilisation force in postwar Gaza that is expected to find support in many countries but not in Israel or the US. “The time has come to end the war in Gaza, the massacres and the death,” Macron said during a speech opening a special summit in the United Nations general assembly hall on Monday evening. “The time has come to do justice for the Palestinian people and thus to recognise the State of Palestine in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem.” Continue reading...

France recognises Palestine and calls for UN force in Gaza

A young boy, maybe 8 or 9, carries his sister, a toddler, on his shoulders on a dirt road. Both with desperate looks on their faces.

Gaza. A young boy carries his sister, both starving, trapped, homeless and fleeing from Israeli genocide.

On the other side of a wall other kids play at swimming pools and eat fast food.

This is what the UK/EU and US support.

Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military The band cited a ‘moral and ethical burden’ placed on artists by revenue from their work ultimately funding lethal technologies Massive Attack have become the latest act – and first major-label one – to pull their catalogue from Spotify in protest at founder Daniel Ek investing €600m (£520m) in the military AI company Helsing. In June, Ek’s venture capital firm Prima Materia led the defence tech firm’s latest funding round. Helsing’s software uses AI technology to analyse sensor and weapons system data from battlefields to inform real-time military decisions. It also makes its own military drone, the HX-2. Ek is also chairman of Helsing. Unconnected to this initiative and in light of the (reported) significant investments by its CEO in a company producing military munition drones and AI technology integrated into fighter aircraft, Massive Attack have made a separate request to our label that our music be removed from the Spotify streaming service in all territories. In our view, the historic precedent of effective artist action during apartheid South Africa and the apartheid, war crimes and genocide now being committed by the state of Israel renders the No Music for Genocide campaign imperative. In 1991 the scourge of apartheid violence fell from South Africa, aided from a distance by public boycotts, protests, and the withdrawal of work by artists, musicians and actors. Complicity with that state was considered unacceptable. In 2025 the same now applies to the genocidal state of Israel. As of today, there’s a musician’s equivalent of the recently announced @filmworkers4palestine campaign (signed by 4,500 filmmakers, actors, industry workers & institutions) – it can be found @nomusicforgenocide & supports the wider asks of the growing @bds.movement . We’d appeal to all musicians to transfer their sadness, anger and artistic contributions into a coherent, reasonable & vital action to end the unspeakable hell being visited upon the Palestinians hour after hour. Continue reading...

Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.

King Charles III (not 111, and not ill), holding a piece of paper.

“So, that's two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Hermann Goering, and four Colditz salads.”

Commission proposes suspension of trade concessions with Israel and sanctions on extremist ministers of the Israeli government and violent settlers Following the announcement of President von der Leyen in her State of the Union address, the European Commission presented today its proposal to the Council to suspend certain trade-related provisions...

🚨 EU Commission proposes to suspend some trade parts of EU/Israel association agreement (needs qualified majority of Member States), sanction violent settlers and extremist ministers, Hamas leaders (needs unanimity of Member States) - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

A United Nations commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A baby is shrouded in plastic wrapping with a white label on it and the stamp of the hospital.

Shrouded infants who have passed away in Gaza lie on a surgical tray. There are six in blue and white wrapping.

The label says:

Date of birth: September 13, 2025

Date of death: September 14, 2025.

Because that’s Gaza.

(📸 Anadolu Agency)

Israel continues to flatten high rise buildings in Gaza City. This is Al Kawthar tower (31.516631, 34.431417). An evacuation notice was issued beforehand.

Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians and their homes in the West Bank, unchecked and with impunity.
These acts of violence are thuggish and inhumane.
The silence of the international community is a disgrace.
Shame on this world.

🚨🚨🚨🚨

This is a photo from a few minutes ago in Tulkarem in the West Bank.
Today, Israel abducted over 1,500 Palestinians in the West Bank, the largest number since 2001.

RTÉ Statement: 2026 Eurovision Song Contest  – About RTÉ RTÉ Statement: 2026 Eurovision Song Contest “At the General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in July, a number of EBU members raised concerns about the participation of Israel in the ...

"It is RTÉ [the Irish national broadcaster]'s position that Ireland will NOT take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if the participation of Israel goes ahead"

Bloody great. Should have happened LONG ago.
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