Darragh

We're delighted to join @saoltaed.bsky.social's Making Space for Justice workshops!

Our workshop -Demilitarising Finance- will illuminate the financial system's links to militarisation, inequality and explore strategies for alternatives rooted in solidarity.

www.eventbrite.ie/e/saolta-mak...

Each time I click an Irish Times article and I get the paywall I feel a small wave of relief

If Putin kidnapped Frances Fitzgerald there'd be flares let off on the rooftops from Tara St to Montrose

Remarkable lack of concern so far from the commentariat about parliamentarians seized by an apparent rogue state

Our popular walking tour returns!

For @culturenightdub.bsky.social, we'll be tackling the twin issues of militarisation and finance by bringing people on a trip through the IFSC.

Our tour will bring a cheerful spirit of resistance to illuminate the difficult conditions of our times!

#spéirgorm

Great to see IPSC are going ahead with this demo!

It's important to mark our victories, clarify why we fought, and celebrate together.

This morale boost is essential; we can use the energy to push the OTB over the line.

When we mobilise together, we can win big victories!

Councils earn estimated €62m each year from data centres The Journal Investigates reveals the scale of income local authorities make from data centre commercial rates.

Ireland is so dependent on US capital, in particular big tech. From the 'necessity' of data centres to Ireland's energy transition to the economic reliance of local councils on DC commercial rates. This is not natural or inevitable and it needs to change.

www.thejournal.ie/investigates...

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

early days, but I am already delighted by his efforts

Please dm me if you can help.

A Tiger's Leap | Darragh | Substack Photo diary and occasional comments on Irish visual culture. Click to read A Tiger's Leap, by Darragh, a Substack publication. Launched 3 hours ago.

I am in Substack form now. Maybe you read, maybe not

darraghdg.substack.com

Submission on the Occupied Territories Bill July 2025 | Financial Justice Ireland Submission for Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 From: Financial Justice &...

Last week, Financial Justice Ireland wrote to Members of the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee, urging substantive and immediate action on the OTB.

Our submission emphasised the urgent need to retain services as part of the OTB.

#spéirgorm

www.financialjustice.ie/news/submiss...

‘Calls for Loyalists to remove effigies of migrants from bonfires prove we’re not ready for a united Ireland’
My latest in tomorrow’s Irish Times

Full Video - Webinar: Israeli bonds and the Central Bank | Financial Justice Ireland On Monday, 26th of May, Financial Justice Ireland hosted a panel discussion on the Central Bank of Ireland’s continued regulation of Israel’s government bonds. The webinar was facilitated …

ICYMI - full video of our webinar covering Israeli bonds and the Central Bank is now online.

Excellent contributions from @aliceeire.bsky.social @ipsc.bsky.social and prof. John Reynolds - help explain Ireland's role in powering Israel's war economy!

www.financialjustice.ie/news/full-vi...

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FJI is endorsing the CATU All-Island Housing Demo - July 5th, Dublin

As workers and tenants, we are increasingly hit with rocketing rents and state failures in the provision of public housing.

We need to stand up and bring the fight to landlords who profit from our declining living standards.

"The data shows that the S&P 500 outshone private markets funds for the last three months of 2024, as well as on a one, three, five and 10-year basis."

Private equity – quite likely the biggest wealth transfer from asset owners to asset managers in financial history.
www.ft.com/content/c21a...

Ireland is Israel's second biggest trading partner — we need to look at why Despite strong public support for sanctions, Ireland’s trade with Israel is booming — and multinationals are driving the growth

About as good an article as you could hope to find in an Irish paper

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

My essay from the first print issue of The BREAK–DOWN, on Elon Musk, tech and the climate, is out from behind the paywall

Ho Chi Minh was born on this day in 1890.

"Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability."

Webinar: Israeli bonds and the Central Bank | Financial Justice Ireland Join Financial Justice Ireland for this webinar, where we will host a panel discussion on the Central Bank of Ireland’s continued trading of Israel’s government bonds. Israeli ‘war bonds’ …

This day next week!

We'll host a panel discussing the Central Bank's trading of Israel’s 'war bonds'

Featuring: Senator @aliceeire.bsky.social , Helen Mahony @ipsc.bsky.social, Faten Sourani (Trócaire), John Reynolds (Maynooth Law)

📣Spread the word!

www.financialjustice.ie/get-involved...

We're proud to be hosting this webinar that calls attention to the Central Bank's ongoing facilitation of Israel's 'war bonds'

Spread the word and click below to learn more about our speakers, all of whom are engaged in the fight for Palestinian Justice!

www.financialjustice.ie/get-involved...

Really important work done lately on researching and resisting the financing of genocide.

I'm organising this event and it'd be a great help if people could share it around

Really important work done lately on researching and resisting the financing of genocide.

I'm organising this event and it'd be a great help if people could share it around

Underscored by India's use of 'precision strikes', a discursive export traceable from Washington's aggression against Iraq

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 🔥

listen.dublindigitalradio.com/alternating-...

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=os-z...

We joined the recent @ipsc.bsky.social protest outside the Central Bank.

Our director, Thomas McDonagh, offered a financial justice perspective on the Central Bank's continued trading of Israel's war bonds.

#StopFundingGenocide

Good essay on Curzio Malaparte's Casa Come Me.

We were honoured to join @ipsc.bsky.social for its demo at the Central Bank this week.

More civil society organisations must mobilise to stand up to the Central Bank's trading of Israel's war bonds.

Together, we can ensure our state institutions #StopFundingGenocide