Martina Devlin

A clearly hungry 6am visitor today. Tried him on cat food. He made short work of it. #urbanfoxes

EU won't stand up for the Palestinians, but Mary Robinson is our voice of reason Mary Robinson is a headline act. In a landmark address at the United Nations delivered with passion and precision, she spoke truth to power - her call to action over Gaza flagged the need to suspend t...

Ireland has benefited hugely from #EU membership but the bloc’s inability to take meaningful sanctions against Israel over #Gaza shows the drawbacks of its unanimity principle. My Irish Independent column

Nothing says summer like sunflowers

Full house for Edna O’Brien at the National Library of Ireland today

Edna O’Brien died this day last year but her stories live on. #Irishwriters

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Just walked past this - a wedding car. Made me think of hope and happiness and I wished this couple well, whoever they are.

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Watching the Apple documentary shorturl.at/KyXU0 "1971 The year that music changed everything" made me think ... we haven't reached anything like those levels of protest or cultural activism about Gaza. Why not? @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social @irishpen.bsky.social @fightingwords2025.bsky.social

EU's shameful failure to intervene while Israel starves Gazans must change now Gaza is the first democratically approved genocide - two power blocs, the EU and US, consent to it. Their representatives may not have sat in a war cabinet where a genocide policy was discussed, but t...

#EU must impose full sanctions at once against #Israel over deliberate #famine in #Gaza. My Irish Independent column

A Giant at my Shoulder Sunday 20 July 2025 Eimear McBride on Edna O'Brien

‘Edna O'Brien took Mother Ireland and shook her by the scruff’ - Eimear McBride tells why Edna O’Brien is her literary hero in this new series from RTÉ radio produced by Cliodhna Ní Anluain #writers #readers www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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Waiting for my Dart just got a bit more interesting. Especially like the story about the 1837 gold rush sparked by Etty Scott’s dream (spoiler: none found). #Dublin #Dalkey

Servicing the buoys at the Forty Foot in Dublin

Corbyn is right - more guns and bombs will never make the world a safer place What to do in Bradford with a free afternoon? It coincided with an annual literary festival, so various alternatives existed, but curiosity sent me to hear Jeremy Corbyn speak. The former UK Labour le...

How my impromptu decision to go and hear Jeremy Corbyn speak reveals much about free speech in the U and tensions over its support for #Israel. My Irish Independent column on #disarmament #Gaza #Ukraine www.e-pages.dk/irishindepen...

Sure where else would you want to be on a sun-drenched weekend? With Carlo Gébler and ⁦‪Anne O’Neill‬⁩ #ANAM #Tralee arts festival #Kerry

Traffic management #Tralee style #Kerry #ANAM

Lisa Harding talks about the pivot from acting to writing at ANAM Arts Festival Tralee with Anne O’Neill. My takeaway: you need a thick skin in both fields! #arts #books #writing #Kerry

Bonfire bigotry has been allowed to fan flames of hatred for far too long in North Excuse me while I check the calendar. Yes, just as I thought: it's 2025, not 1925. But every year, at the approach to the Twelfth of July, a time warp sets in and bonfire culture is given free rein to...

The Parades Commission in #NorthernIreland has been a success. Why not set up a Bonfires Commission? My Irish Independent column

Honeybee in our garden today. Makes your heart sing.

Someone was teasing me then 😊

Whirling Dervishes from Turkey at Bradford Literary Festival- utterly mesmerising

Hurrah for your mum

I’m in Bradford for the lit fest. Yes they really do say yes mush for hallo here! Love it! #CityofCulture2025 #Bradford2025

Yep I’m sold on that too

I never tire of #London in hail, rain or bluest of blue skies like today

Kneecap are doing what governments are afraid to do - calling out genocide Moral panic is evident, but aimed at the wrong target in Kneecap, whose members are the object of knee-jerk alarm and hypocrisy. The Belfast trio, known for their political hip-hop lyrics in both Iris...

Funny old world when the powers-that-be decline to use their might to halt the Gaza killing fields, but drag a 27-year-old rapper before a judge on daft terrorism charges. My Irish Independent column on #Kneecap #Gaza Kneecap are doing what governments are afraid to do - calling out genocide

Ouch! Spectre raised of McDonalds or other fast food outlets in Ireland’s historic monument #GPO #oconnellstreet on @MrJustinMac.bsky.social radio show. Shops+cafés proposed. The mind boggles at what Irish gov is opening the door to. Yes Dublin’s main thoroughfare needs revitalised but not like this

Best @hinterlandkells ever this year and there’s more tomorrow Sunday. Me going phew after my event. With me is programmer (and more besides) mylesdungan@bsky.social #books #writers #bookfestival

Loved meeting ⁦‪@tcddublin‬⁩.bluesky.social #alumni #bookclub this evening. They ask searching questions! #Brontes ⁦‪@LilliputPress‬⁩.bluesky.social