Seán Finnan

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

When the dust settles, I hope we remember that on the precise evening Trump (a) pulled his cultural critics off TV and (b) designated his political enemies as terrorists, the UK was giving him every honour imaginable, and glorying in its "special relationship" with his regime.

Why has Gazans’ hunger attained the status of ‘moral crisis’ when Israel’s genocidal slaughter did not? No one understands the hollowness of its facilitators’ changed rhetoric better than the Israeli government

Why has Gazans’ hunger attained the status of ‘moral crisis’ when Israel’s genocidal slaughter did not?

Another great piece by Mark O’Connell.

‘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

"[Microsoft Azure] has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Microsoft continues to aid genocide

Louise Fitzgerald & I are hiring an 18 month postdoc and 18 month research assistant (no PhD required) for a project on the political ecology of land ownership in Ireland. 2 weeks to apply. DM for any questions. 🧵

Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs

Let Them Play Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine

Please sign and share this petition calling on the government to overturn its disgraceful refusal and to issue visas to the children from GAA Palestine for their trip to Ireland. #FreeGAAPalestine
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New show tonight!
We're back with another drone and ambient webinar at 9pm. with usic from @k8carr.bsky.social and @dvddnh.bsky.social, @colonialskyway.bsky.social, @isolatedcommunity.bsky.social, @dunksunk.bsky.social + releases from @quietdetails.bsky.social, @auralcanyon.bsky.social and more!

Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
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A message from Keith (JD Twitch) A message from Keith (JD Twitch)

You'd be pressed to name a more crucial individual in this silly music thing, both in the foreground and background. Such a warm and generous man, absolutely fucking brutal news today

'Understanding Ireland’s dependency as a defining feature of Irish economic development allows us to see how the State’s undemocratic actions to support global extractive industries, erode our neutrality, and fail on Palestine are part of the same political economic matrix.'

Reading about the bitter scenes in 1958 when qualifying rounds were introduced for the fleadh and Kilfenora Céilí band sensationally fell at the provincial hurdle. Blur and Oasis style shenanigans. In this excellent book...

Once massive illegal dump in Priorswood is cleared away, what should go on the site? The council met local residents Monday to talk about options. Previous ideas have included housing, sports facilities, and a Traveller resource centre.

Once an massive illegal dump in Priorswood is cleared away, what should go on the site? The council met local residents Monday to talk about options. Previous ideas have included housing, sports facilities, and a Traveller resource centre. www.dublininquirer.c...

Delighted to read this. It's over six years since we reported on this @dublininquirer.com and it's a testament to the perseverance of the community that this is finally happening. A major victory against the council's antipathy and I hope they get the facilities they want on the remediated land.

Trying to get my head round how this could make it to print. Many warning signs for all of us

RIP Paul Durcan.

This was the first poem I read by him, and it absolutely broke me.

Bumping this - if you're in Dublin next Weds, and you're interested in contemporary Irish music, politics and culture. I'd love to see you at my book launch. A book that's already a bargain will be available at an even more enticing price!

Opening Night | Cork Midsummer Festival 13–22 June 2025 Step inside the glittering ruins of performance.

I'm in no way biased. This is definitely the show of the summer (even if it is in Cork) ❤️

www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/ope...

A Dublin electronic artist moves on from frogs and Celtic futurism, to DIY bagpipes Mel Keane took the stage Saturday as part of Dublin Digital Radio’s annual festival, Alternating Current, at The Complex.

A Dublin electronic artist moves on from frogs and Celtic futurism, to DIY bagpipes. Mel Keane took the stage Saturday as part of Dublin Digital Radio’s annual festival, Alternating Currents, at The Complex. www.dublininquirer.c...

BREAKING: Israeli Forces Kill 12-Year-Old Eyewitness to Rafah Paramedic Massacre

Mohammed Bardawil, 12, was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the Mawasi area of Gaza this week.

Surrealing in the Years: Kneecap are NOT the story. And yet. It’s easier for powerful people to talk about Kneecap than it is for them to talk about Israel.

"Surely, the same Micheál Martin who was just a few weeks ago japing about Ireland’s housing crisis in the Oval Office with a bona fide fascist should have some empathy for statements made during a performance."

This week's Surrealing in the Years.

NAMA chief charging tourists €10,000 a week for Cabra home McDonagh was set to be appointed government’s new housing tsar.

NAMA chief Brendan McDonagh’s north Dublin home – which The Ditch revealed was registered under the alias PB McDonnacha – is being advertised to rent on a short-term letting site for more than €10,000 a week.

He was to be government’s new housing tsar.

www.ontheditch.com/nama-chief-c...

Dublin Digital Radio Dublin Digital Radio is an online digital radio station dedicated to providing a quality platform for the various communities striving to create a socially and culturally progressive city.

Alternating Current's radio schedule kicking off this morning. Lock in below!

listen.dublindigitalradio.com/home

Very excited that my new album, NEST, will be released on @krimkram.bsky.social in June! Also very excited that NEST’s launch gig will be on June 18th at St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral as part of Cork Midsummer Festival, where I get to play the cathedral's brilliant, loud, and fierce organ!

Dublin Digital Radio is broadcasting a new work of sonic fiction from Jane Deasy and I this Sunday at 1pm as part of Alternating Current.

The line up is stacked. The full programme is below. Get your tickets and come celebrate Bealtaine together 🔥

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Such a great doc from @rasherst.bsky.social and crew. Getting me sceitimíní for Open Ear 2025! So grateful to the Open Ear crew for the opportunity to compose my piece, 'NEST', for the 2024 festival and perform it in the amazing Franciscan Friary on Sherkin.

More news coming on NEST next week! :))

YouTube video by Open Ear Island Rules: A Rewind To Open Ear 2024 On Sherkin.

Dropping at NOON! With just over a month to go until the 2025 edition kicks off, here's a documentary rewind to some of that golden summer magic from last year's Open Ear Festival on Sherkin.

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YouTube video by Open Ear Island Rules: A Rewind To Open Ear 2024 On Sherkin.

Lovely short film from @rasherst.bsky.social on the annual pilgrimage to Sherkin.

Glad to see all this discussion of community education. Just a reminder that I’ve made all of my course material — 40 classes, from methods to maps, knowledge infrastructures to local media, digital ethnography to digital urbanism — freely available for 20+ years :)

Fallow: Ian Maleney on migrating his literary journal from web to print After 10 years in the frictionless space of the browser, it’s honestly kind of fun to be worrying about ink and paper and postage

Ian in the Irish Times 🥰

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