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Data centre operator successfully challenges decision to refuse it planning permission for two new centres | BreakingNews.ie EdgeConneX Ireland said that it was not within the remit of South Dublin County Council to determine whether there was sufficient capacity on the national grid.

New data centre secures planning permission in Dublin, absurdly arguing that being powered mainly by on-site gas turbines means it will “play a part in Ireland’s decarbonisation strategy” - it’s the most deceitful yet common argument thrown out there.

www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/data...

Sign the petition - stop genocide now!

Over 54,000 people in Gaza killed. The EU still rewards Israel with a 16B€/year trade deal. We can help suspend it — sign the petition now! share.myvoice-mychoice.org/s/mz99X6Cw

Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warn that proscribing group would conflate protest and terrorism The home secretary is coming under increasing pressure to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action, as UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warned that proscribing the group would conflate protest and terrorism. In two separate letters to Yvette Cooper, the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) lawyers’ group and the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers said that proscribing the group would set a dangerous precedent. Continue reading...

Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action

'Body parts flying everywhere': Israeli forces killed at least 67 people across Gaza today One strike on a café in Gaza City, which was crowded with women and children, killed at least 30 people. Image caption: A man carries the body of a child who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.

Day after day - scores murdered by these war criminals.

Today a cafe bombed with over 30 dead mostly women and children.

Yet still Western media and governments rush to give them cover.

No rioting in Donaghadee tonight? Interesting.

Do they want him shot dead in Kilmainham while tied to his chair?

JFC.

Profoundly depressing account of attitudes underlying the riots in Ballymena.

Looking forward to the 40th annual conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, which is taking place next week at the @tlrhub.bsky.social on the 5-6 June 2025. Brilliant keynote speakers and an excellent programme, for tickets see the link below.

www.eventbrite.ie/e/eighteenth...

The west’s shameful silence on Gaza The US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu

"... the US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity"

www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

I’m glad to see this article but it’s after 24 hours of unchallenged corporate guff dominating the news cycle. Tony Blair is a tech lobbyist who is literally writing naive, venal & dangerous policy for Starmer’s government. Call it out.

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

An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

Springtime for Hitler It's not Bake Off. It's a global far-right insurgency.

It's not Bake Off. It's a global far-right insurgency.

To normalise Nigel Farage, is to normalise Donald Trump.

We, the media, have to wise up fast.

broligarchy.substack.com/p/springtime...

The Israeli vote to annex Gaza and expel Palestinians makes undeniably obvious that—whether they like it or not, and whether they accept this truth or not—all those who defended Israel over the last 19 months functioned as advocates for a colonial genocide. It's that simple.

Vittorio Bufacchi: Kneecap should be commended rather than condemned Belfast rappers' choice of word may have been crass but at least they were using their artform to create a space for politics

Vittorio Bufacchi: Kneecap should be commended rather than condemned www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

Now emancipated from its paywall.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

PhD scholarship at the Department of English, German and Romance Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

Please share! Fully funded PhD studentship in Digital Humanities and 19C travel writing at U of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

This looks fantastic!

‘Yes, we burned up the world’s resources and destroyed civilization, but for a wonderful time, so we were able to make Studio Ghibli memes, we had help writing emails and we had web searches that just made stuff up.’

How two Irish protesters are facing deportation from Germany over pro-Palestine demonstrations Bert Murray (31) and Shane O’Brien (29) are fighting efforts to remove them. But why have Berlin authorities gone so far?

How two Irish protesters are facing deportation from Germany over pro-Palestine demonstrations

“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration”

My NEH grant has been terminated

Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars

You can’t say history isn’t relevant

Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 34 MILLION! 👏

LETS DO THIS!

This piece isn't only relevant to the UK, but everywhere, including Ireland.

If the only political choices people see are just varying brands of establishment neo-liberalism that benefit purely the wealthy, the door is opened wide to first deep cynicism, then conspiracy theories, & finally fascism.

Séamas O'Reilly: I think anti-racists are right to be on high alert I’m less concerned with why Garron Noone said what he said, than with whether it’s true or not

This week I wrote about vigilance, and how I'm less interested in litigating whether Garron Noone is a racist, than in whether what he said was true or not. It wasn't. And people are right to be alarmed that he said it, and to wonder why he did.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

The brilliant @sarahmaintains.bsky.social reading her beautiful socially engaged poetry. A fitting end to what has been an incredibly rich conference. And a vital reminder that everything we are doing now is against the backdrop of a genocide, wars of aggression, violent repression and social crises

This is an advert for a runaway slave that James Hoban placed in a Charleston newspaper (1789). "Peter" must have been captured for he appears in the list of Hoban's slaves that worked on building the White House in 1792.

Remarks by Taoiseach Micheál Martin at White House Shamrock Ceremony: "Irish labourers came to help build the new Republic, the beacon on the hill. They even built this beautiful White House."

Runaway slave advert placed by slave-owning Irish immigrant and architect of the White House, James Hoban:

Excellent letter in the Irish Times reminding us that Irish builders did not build the White House as indicated by the Taoiseach this week. It was build by slaves including those owned by the Irish architect James Hoban.