Patrick Brannigan

Ramifications are still relevant.

Ronan McGreevy, An Irish Diary.

#LeaksOrNot
#SpéirGhorm

Lebanon says 13 dead in Israeli strike on Palestinian refugee camp We need your help now

Lebanon said an Israeli strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in the country's south killed at least 13 people today in an updated toll, as Israel said it struck a Hamas compound jrnl.ie/6879001

Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak The international community allowed all of this to happen. We must not look away or move on

"More than 68,000 people were killed, 1/3 of them children & women. This number might be much higher, ..
"Accountability is essential – not for revenge, but because there’s no reckoning without responsibility. Genocide must not be normalized."
Yuli Novak/B’Tselem

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Cabinet reshuffle:A return to 4 women in the 15-person cabinet, with Hildegarde Naughten promoted from junior ranks to Minister for Education. Helen McEntee becomes 1st woman to hold the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Ireland. Of 220 people appointed to Cabinet since 1918, just 24 are women (10.9%)

Sun setting behind the #Mournes.

Looking across Dundrum Outer Bay to where the mountains come down to the Irish Sea.

Taken at Rossglass Beach.

#LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm

For woods are forms of grief grown from the earth. For they creak

with the weight of it.
For each tree is an altar to time.

For the oak, whose every knot
guards a hushed cymbal of water.

Sun setting behind the #Mournes.

Looking across Dundrum Outer Bay to where the mountains come down to the Irish Sea.

Taken at Rossglass Beach.

#LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm

Cone of Light byRobert McColgan.

Central Promenade,
Newcastle.

In the split, one ought to be able to see Slieve Donard though today cloud covering Donard.

The work sits on the Prom, and was commissioned by the then Down District Council.

#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm

Newcastle beach, three jet contrails above the Mournes.

#CountyDown
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Minister's 'war' on vacancy and dereliction is missing timeframe and crucial policy measures The Government's latest housing plan contains all the right soundbites, but no detail or timeframe, write Jude Sherry and Frank O'Connor of #DerelictIreland

“Minister's 'war' on vacancy and dereliction is missing timeframe and crucial policy measures”
#Housing #Planning
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Whole life carbon quantification of the built environment: Case study Ireland The built environment continues to grow rapidly and is currently estimated to account for 30–40% of all Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions globally. Conti…

“Activation, & renovation of, existing & vacant properties could accelerate the number of homes available while offsetting the need for extensive new construction”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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@judesherry.bsky.social @frankoconnor.bsky.social

Solas na maidine agus ar chlé tá Sliabh Phádraig.

#LeathCathail
#CountyDown
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What the Home Sec announced today is not the politics of compromise but of being compromised.

Labour has just increased the salience of an issue they will always be outbid on by the right.

Bold white and tan headline reads “Broken promises deepen care worker poverty” over an image of a person in a knitted jumper being comforted by a supportive hand. The Green Party Northern Ireland logo and website URL appear at the bottom.

1/ Social care in Northern Ireland is in meltdown. Care workers were promised a fair pay increase, but the government’s U-turn has destroyed that hope. Thousands are trapped on wages that can’t even cover basics, while vulnerable people lose vital support.

1/5

Couldn't be plainer.

John Crace in The Guardian.

"Most [Lab MPs] looked genuinely queasy" - what are they going to do about it?

Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish We had always given sanctuary to those who needed it, she said, only now we would kick them out as soon as possible

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Congratulations.

Got my copy in No Alibis, BTW.

Head Swamp Man is cruel and deeply offensive to everyone, including swine.

And so many are complicit.

Despite one of their own commissions finding Israel guilty of genocide literally 2 months ago, the UN takes the keys of Gaza from Netanyahu to hand to Trump. After all the cruelty visited on Palestinians in the last 2 (read: 80) years they still let the oppressors decide the fate of the oppressed

Ben Jennings

One of the oddest UN resolutions in history seeks to solidify shaky Gaza ceasefire into an enduring peace The hazy UN resolution dictates that Trump’s ‘board of peace’ will supervise an International Stabilisation Force, whose membership is as yet undetermined

The Guardian chooses a hazy pic of Gaza City: "Mealy mouthed as it sounds, European diplomats saw a significant victory in getting a Trump administration envoy to say the words “Palestinian self-determination and statehood” out loud, whatever the caveats."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I think the PLP members need to have more than the jitters: they ought to be marching on #10.

Róisín Ní Neachtain - I, bird | Broken Sleep Books Róisín Ní Neachtain's I, bird is a fragmented, lyrical reckoning with grief, trauma, and the porous boundary between body and voice. Structured in poetic prose and verse, the collection moves between ...

I have a book coming out very soon -

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"Her paternal grandparents moved to Nottingham from County Mayo in Ireland in the 1950s"

I agree with all that.

I do see people breaking no matter how dull or bright the oncoming car's lights are.

"Ireland urgently needs a National Eyecare Strategy".
By Frank Doheny, CEO of Veonet Ireland, an ophthalmology provider in Ireland.
I see drivers at night who brake when there are oncoming cars: 1) the overly bright lights or 2) cataract issues..? Don't know the proportion of either.

#SpéirGhorm

Some people can't spell attribution.

I think the PLP members need to have more than the jitters: they ought to be marching on #10.

Slaughtneil (Derry) 1-23 Portaferry (Down) 1-18

Setanta (Donegal) 0-12 Naomh Eoin St John’s (Antrim) 3-20

79 scores across 2 matches

Ulster SHC

‘I was scared’: parents reveal stress of HMRC’s child benefit errors From incorrect repayment demands to mistaken claims about emigration or non-existent holidays, those caught in anti-fraud debacle tell their stories

More parents tell how child benefit stopped by UK due to suspected emigration
- woman asked to pay back 2.6k shortly after giving birth in oxfordshire
- mum never flew- was in hospital including ICU
- Ukrainian woman told she emigrated, before she even had baby

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...