Patrick Brannigan

Day 2157 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Interior" (1901) Georg Achen. Musée d'Orsay. Achen was a prominent Danish naturalist painter who became one of his country's most popular portraitists by the 1890s. His work was deeply influenced by the subdued palette and atmospheric interiors

De-tethered, indeed.

The Monday Stretch, Bach Before 7, Not the Nine O Clock News features, news bulletins and Barry from Ludlow emailing to say he's enjoying the Eric Satie are not reasons listeners choose #Radio3 in the morning.
It's the music.

Not the time checks, the "Good morning, Welcome..." messages, the adverts.

Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick encouraged more effort to tackle poverty and "focusing on creating cohesion" within communities.

"The minister is seeking to invest millions of pounds in the investigation of fraud, at a time when poverty is increasing and when disabled people are excluded."
#SpéirGhorm

Ah, sure, we all have to do what the big boys tell us.

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council has collected over £1.1 million from controversial Forest Park parking charges in 20 months and now plans to install access barriers in Kilbroney Park ✋ 🛑

Full details and local reaction on our Facebook post, which has received 80k views this weekend.

Bad company-keeping.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE) ACT, 2000
“torture” means an act or omission by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person—"
But there'll be nice shamrocks in the Big House.

Shannon Airport used for refuelling Ice deportation flights 10 times in past year The controversial agency chartered small private aircraft for the removal operations

The US is shipping people across the Atlantic in chains through our country.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

With a non-humane government response “Stops at Irish airports by private aircraft and commercial charters which are technical stops for non-traffic purposes (ie, not picking up or setting down passengers), do not require prior authorisation from the Department of Transport.”

#38000 times

‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.

Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

"She [Seamus' lawyer] said Culleton was picked up on a random sweep for immigrants and continues to be held without charging documents, adding that the US government has acted in an “inept” and “capricious” manner".
#SpéirGhorm

‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September

"Our great country".

RARE have done amazing work in tracking the lies spun by the money-grabbing Newry Mourne & Down District Council.
They are slowly pricing us out of access to the parks we have AND denying Newry the one we've been promised for over 20 years now.

Everyone here from all backgrounds and constitutional outlook, knows he has always been a complete shitehawk

Asked how Fascism starts - First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent. - Bertrand Russell.

First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent.

- Bertrand Russell. Not from Cork.

This video is so interesting in so many ways, in terms of content & how it is presented. A Premonstratensian Friary, then conduit for Anti-Home rule gun-running, to possession by Cross and Passion Sisters - retreat & conference centre used by the whole community.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw9t...

Last night, as the Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony began, one of the world's biggest sporting events, Israel was once again allowed to compete and represent itself on the world stage, despite being an apartheid state that has committed, and continues to commit, genocide. Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 800 athletes in Gaza, and yet the Olympic Committee remains silent.

Well said, Ciara Mageean.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Eilis O’Hanlon - we have this scandal about how late stage capitalism covered and put in charge lots of old rich men who raped and caused the deaths of young girls, but I need to make this about communism.

How many brain worms do you need to get like this?

Drumalis is an exceptional place - just attended a fantastic singing weekend there. All part of the Natural Voice Network whose ethos is that we all have a voice.
#Larne
#Latharna
#CommunitySinging
#Aontroim
#SpéirGhorm

www.drumalis.org

Drumalis is an exceptional place - just attended a fantastic singing weekend there. All part of the Natural Voice Network whose ethos is that we all have a voice.
#Larne
#Latharna
#CommunitySinging
#Aontroim
#SpéirGhorm

www.drumalis.org

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Substack, yep.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

38% is demented - I say as i watch a reform government roll in to govern me imminently 🫠

Searches continue for missing mother of two in Co Armagh Searches are being carried out in Co Armagh for a young mother of two who has been missing for a week. Caitlin Green was last seen in the Lurgan area last Saturday afternoon.

Searches are being carried out in Co Armagh for a young mother of two who has been missing for a week.

#NewDIBLives As a geographer, Dr Anne Buttimer placed human lived experiences at the centre of geographical studies. Amongst many other honours and awards, in 2012 she won the Vautrin Lud prize, widely regarded as the discipline of geography’s equivalent of a Nobel prize. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...

Where once there was a statue