Conor O'Mahony

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Israel is storing recordings of Palestinians daily phone calls - millions of them - that they analyse to plan airstrikes / kill people - in Irish data centres

Sweet Jesus

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Data centres; what if we could facilitate genocide, enable surveillance capitalism, and wreak untold environmental havoc globally *all at the same time*?!?

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

New job, new office!

Spot on British military viewpoint: “By condemning one party and granting impunity to the other for the same crimes, we have effectively destroyed the system of international humanitarian law that emerged from the horrors of the Second World War.”

What I’ve learned from my first year at UCC As she reflects on her first year as a student, AMY O’BRIEN, of Mitchelstown, has advice for anyone about to start college

'What I've learned from my first year at UCC'

Law student Amy reflects on her first year as a student.

Read in full on the Echo Live

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'When he heard what The Irish Times saw and heard in Sderot, Prof Bartov said it reminded him “of what the Germans called in World War II ‘execution tourism’, ie touring and photographing (as souvenirs) one’s own atrocities”.'

“Thirst as a weapon”: UN experts condemn Israel’s deliberate dehydration and starvation of the Palestinian people GENEVA  – UN experts* today expressed alarm at Israel’s deliberate withholding of access to safe drinking water from Palestinians in Gaza, calling it a serious violation of international law and a cri...

"Israel is using thirst as a weapon to kill Palestinians. Cutting off water is a silent, lethal bomb that kills mostly children and babies": UN experts say Israel depriving Palestinians of safe drinking water violates international law and is a crime against humanity. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Opinion: ‘I’m angry that my abuse as a child does not count’. State must pay for school sexual abuse Worryingly, the inter-departmental group seem to be completely unaware of the European Court decision on Louise O’Keeffe’s case

Liam Herrick, IHREC: State must pay for school sexual abuse. Worryingly, the inter-departmental group seem to be completely unaware of the European Court decision on Louise O’Keeffe’s case – The Irish Times

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In 1942, the Nazis razed a town in an act of revenge, killing all the men and deporting all the women and children. The ruins of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, were covered with topsoil and fenced off. Like it had never been there.

From a viewing platform in Israel, observers watch Gaza’s destruction through binoculars While children starve, tour groups at a viewing point in Sderot pay to view the smoke-filled ruins of the enclave A man in Sderot, on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip, watches smoke rising following an Israeli airstrike near Beit Hanoun on July 21st. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA A man in Sderot, on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip, watches smoke rising following an Israeli airstrike near Beit Hanoun on July 21st. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA Report: Sally Hayden

View to a kill.

Report: @sallyhayd.bsky.social

A few thoughts of mine in today's Echo about last Sunday and the hurling season just gone.

Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.

"They are criminal... I have never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".

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A few thoughts of mine in today's Echo about last Sunday and the hurling season just gone.

ALEX DE WAAL: So, let me say that I've been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.

Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.

Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 aid-seekers in Gaza since May, the U.N. says More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in Gaza, mostly near food sites run by an American contractor, the U.N. human rights office said.

More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in Gaza, mostly near food sites run by an American contractor, the U.N. human rights office said.

The BBC were celebrating the anniversay of Live Aid only days ago...
meanwhile the exact same kinds of photos, the exact same kind of death by starvation is coming out of Gaza ... and so little is done, no compassion, not calls for it to end...just banning of groups calling attention to it.

Spotted at Croke Park 👏

Rafah is gone. Razed to the ground. It's not the only city decimated by the Israeli army ***

Deep dive by Haaretz on the accelerated, more methodical demolitions of whole towns that are at the core of the IDF’s current Operation Gideon’s Chariots in Gaza.

“After we're done, they won't be able to come back here for years,” the commander of the 7th Armored Brigade says of Khan Younis.

Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.

A very powerful essay by Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov, arguing that:
a) Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and
b) denying this threatens to "undermine everything that Holocaust scholarship and commemoration have stood for."

Do read the whole thing www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

The Supreme Court decision that found this was subsequently found not to be compatible with the ECHR in O'Keeffe v Ireland. Funny how the DPER analysis left that out.

The follow up article for this project funded by AsIAm (Ireland’s Autism Charity) - a systematic review of human rights tensions and conflicts regarding school discipline - is now published in IJEDRO.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ECHR finds State liable for sexual abuse The European Court of Human Rights has found in favour of Cork woman Louise O'Keeffe, who was seeking to have the State held liable for sexual abuse she suffered while a pupil of a primary school.

www.rte.ie/news/2014/01...

Officials resist schools abuse redress scheme Departments want ‘concrete data’ on possible bill, as Government seeks to tap schools’ insurance

Officials resist schools abuse redress scheme

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The Supreme Court decision that found this was subsequently found not to be compatible with the ECHR in O'Keeffe v Ireland. Funny how the DPER analysis left that out.

Forget the illegality. You don't even need one semester of law school to realize that.

Above all, the fact that in 2025 a defense minister of a sovereign state feels comfortable even saying such a thing out loud is a sign of a world utterly and completely broken.

BOOK LAUNCH: Critical Children’s Rights Studies. Routledge Research Companion Valeria Llobet, Didier Reynaert, Afua Twum-Danso Imoh and Wouter Vandenhole (eds)Friday, September 12, 20252.00pm-3.30pm (UK/GMT+1) - OnlineWe would like to invite you to join us at a book launch whic...

On behalf of the Critical Children's Rights Research Network, I'd like to invite you to join us on the book launch for our recently published companion. We have a great line up of speakers, and we are looking forward to discussing the book with you. Any Q's let me know!