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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tribute in Berlin for the victims of the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. There isn’t a wall big enough for all the names of the people whose lives Israel has taken in response. #Berlin #Israel #Gaza #Oct7

Wall painted blue with names written in white from top to bottom and all across with a yellow ribbon in the middle under the date 07.10.2023

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Posters in Dublin calling on the FAI not to go ahead with Ireland’s Nations League games against Israel on Sept. 27 and Oct. 4. #Ireland #Israel #FAI #genocide

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

“All goats are beautiful” in Dublin. (Cops are called Gardaí in Ireland.) 🐐

A wall over a river with “AGAB” written on it.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Rheinmetall, proud sponsor of Borussia Dortmund. Heja BVB. #BVB #Rheinmetall #sportswashing

Text in German saying “Rheinmetall, progress through genocide.”

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Photos from the "Wedding ohne Waffen" demo against Rheinmetall's weapons factory in Wedding, Berlin on Saturday, July 11. More here: www.instagram.com/p/Dasa6jEghIg/ #Rheinmetall #WeddingohneWaffen #Berlin #Germany

A guy in a wheelchair in Palestinian colors goes past a banner that says "Rheinmetall? Rausmetall, neighborhood against weapons production," while a Palestinian flag flies in the foreground.

Sign on a building that says "No weapons factory in red Wedding! War against war."

Berlin police at the demonstration put their helmets on and prepare themselves for violent action against protestetors at the demo against a weapons factory.

Protestors dressed like angels at the demo against a weapons factory in Wedding.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Demo against the Rheinmetall weapons factory in Wedding, Berlin.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Fußball-fever has struck in Germany 🇩🇪 #WorldCup #WM #Deutschland

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Germany, where trains are delayed by more time than the journey itself, and where the final destination is simply scrapped. #Germany #DeutscheBahn #scheisse

A Deutsche Bahn sign for the delayed train to Gesundbrunnen with Gesundbrunnen crossed out because it ain’t going there anymore.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

German Cup final. Bayern fans 🔥

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Berlin pushing for the Olympics like it’s 1936. “Exactly our thing.” #Berlin #OlympicGames #1936Olympics

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

There are always memorials for the men, heroes all them, who die in their wars. There are never memorials for the schoolgirls. #Iran #men #schoolgirls

Memorial In Schönholzer Heide, Berlin, to the Soviet soldiers who died “for your freedom” in World War 2. There’s no mention of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Journalists waiting at the gate to be let in to the Africa Cup of Nations final. Some have been waiting more than an hour to get in because CAF, the organizer, won’t open the gate before 4pm local time. It doesn’t occur to them people have work to do. #AfricaCup #AFCON #CAF

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Here’s me interviewing the most famous fan at the Africa Cup of Nations. And here’s the story for @apnews.com: apnews.com/article/cong... (AP) #AfricaCup #AFCON #Congo #Lumumba 🇨🇩🐆

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Aer Lingus’ Irish breakfasts are much smaller now than they used to be. One sausage, one lump of pudding. And the hot drink is no longer included. #AerLingus #inflation #breakfast ☘️

An Aer Lingus plane under a cloudy sky at Dublin airport.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Triple Trabi trouble at the Berlin Wall today. #Trabi #Berlin #DDR

Three Trabis parked beside the sidewalk where the Berlin Wall used to be with one man outside one of them looking at the front of it as if he wanted to fix it but hasn’t a clue what he’s looking at.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

AP's photos of the month for September, including this by Niranjan Shrestha of a protestor in Kathmandu, Nepal. (AP) #photography apimagesblog.com/blog/2025/10...

A demonstrator in Kathmandu, Nepal, wearing a flak jacket and carrying a shield taken from a police officer during a protest against a social media ban and corruption.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Thomas Melchior is risking fans' wrath by wearing their rivals' shirts to their games to highlight the dangers of sports betting. Now in video! (AP) #sportsbetting #addiction #personaldemons apnews.com/article/spor...

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Union Berlin fans vs Hamburger SV. There’s a hold up in play now because of the smoke. #eisern #fcunion 🔥

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Memorial for the murdered Antifa, Prenzlauer Berg.

A large stone memorial with four triangles in memory of the resistance fighters murdered by fascism.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I first encountered this memorial on my first visit to Berlin in 2001, when I was struck by the enormity of Germany’s crimes and respect for its remorse and regret. That’s what I thought at the time. Now I know how naïve I was. #Germany #NeverAgain #NieWieder

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Ovations for 20-year-old Ilyas Ansah after he scored two goals on his Bundesliga debut for Union Berlin to beat Stuttgart today. Also, Leverkusen lost, Dortmund drew, and Frankfurt looking good. (AP) #Eisern #FCUnion #Bundesliga apnews.com/article/bund...

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Union Berlin’s fans’ enthusiasm for the new season has led to a delay just after kickoff against Stuttgart started while stewards try and clear some of the confetti off the pitch. #Eisern #FCUnion #Bundesliga

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

“Peace for Gaza!” – Hermannplatz, Berlin. 🇵🇸

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Someone spray-painted this black because it said something about children in Gaza. Tells you all you need to know about Germany’s response. #Gaza #Germany #ParkamNordbahnhof #Berlin

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

They cut down all the swings in Mauerpark because they were just too much fun. #Mauerpark #Berlin #GoneToTheDogs 🐕

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Seeing as this person blocked me and I cannot reply, I would like to point out if 1,000 people were murdered at an Irish music festival, I would be horrified. But I would not murder any one person in response, let alone 50 or 100 times more people. Killing is wrong, full stop. There are no excuses.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Holocaust survivor and longtime Hertha Berlin fan Walter Frankenstein has died at the age of 100, the club says. 💙

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

“Our society’s structures are based on colonial beliefs. So, in order for us to fight the climate crisis or provide equity for all, we have to question those structures that were set up with racist ideologies or racist beliefs” – Justice Mvemba, founder of Decolonial Tours.

Justice Mvemba, founder of Decolonial Tours.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Justice Mvemba, the founder of Decolonial Tours, says Germany’s colonial past is often romanticized. Her tours – highly recommended! – strive for "a more critical lens on the colonial era and to also break those glorified narratives.”

Sign for a garden colony (why are they called that?) in Berlin's "African Quarter" showing its name as "Little Africa."

Justice Mvemba, the founder of Decolonial Tours, with a map of Africa showing how it was carved up among colonial powers.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees Berlin’s museums, is responsible for all the colonial loot, including Benin Bronzes, and a huge collection of human remains. Its president, Hermann Parzinger, says everything has to go back. But it’s not so easy.

A Benin Bronze in memory of a local ruler now on show in Berlin's Humboldt Forum.

A label for a Benin Bronze showing it's from Udo, Nigeria, made of copper alloy, and stolen by "unidentified collectors" around 1897. Germany "acquired" it in 1901 from Stevens Auction Rooms.

Text in Berlin's Humboldt Forum saying "Confronting colonial pasts, envisioning creative futures."

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Mboro moved to Germany in 1978. His grandmother made him promise her that he’d recover the head of Mangi Meli, a local chieftain murdered by the Germans in 1900, and that he would bring it back to Tanzania for a proper burial. “Up to today, still, I am searching for it,” Mboro says.

Mnyaka Sururu Mboro leading the procession as Petersallee in Berlin was renamed to disassociate from Carl Peters, a murderous racist later feted by the Nazis. Peters was the driving force behind the establishment of the colony of German East Africa.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Mnyaka Sururu Mboro was among those pushing to have the name changed. He heard stories about Peters from his grandmother in Tanzania. “He liked to hang people, just only, most of the time, for his joy. Seeing, looking at them hanging there and he’s sipping his beer and smoking his pipe.”

Mnyaka Sururu Mboro unveiling a street sign to rename Petersallee in Berlin.

Mnyaka Sururu Mboro leading the procession as Petersallee in Berlin was renamed.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Last August, Petersallee In Berlin’s “African Quarter” was renamed to disassociate it from Carl Peters, a tyrant who led the establishment of the colony of German East Africa. Peters was murderous racist, a hero for the Nazis. The campaign to rename Petersallee started in 1984. It took that long.

Street signs, one reading Petersallee, the other saying Manga-Bell-Platz.

Street signs showing the name Maji-Maji-Alee over another sign which has the word Petersallee with a line over it. The photo was taken at the street's renaming last August.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Sky over Berlin. Just missing the circle.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Germany preparing for the joint Soviet-American invasion.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Poster in Berlin against (or maybe for) the AfD, Alptraum für Deutschland, or Nightmare for Germany. #Berlin #AfD #Bundestagswahl #Germany

A monster with lots of sharp teeth wearing a helmet with a swastika on it, with blood on his hands, under a slogan for the AfD saying in German, Nightmare for Germany.

A poster for the AfD, showing a monster with lots of sharp teeth wearing a helmet with a swastika on it, with blood on his hands, under a slogan saying in German, Nightmare for Germany.

Underneath you have three people with leech-monster-things sucking their faces with the world “truth” spelled out on the monsters, beside the slogan “Fear for Future,” a reference to the Fridays for Future protests being ignored and vilified.

Three people with leech-monster-things sucking their faces with the world “truth” spelled out on the monsters, beside the slogan “Fear for Future,” a reference to the Fridays for Future protests being ignored and vilified.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Finally, someone’s not afraid to say it. #cementeatersunite

A window with a handwritten sign saying “I eat cement” in the middle.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Crazy cherry blossoms think it’s spring already. Jan 15. Maybe it is. Climate change, baby. Tomorrow it will be winter again. #spring #frühling #cherryblossoms #berlin 🌸

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy new year to those who celebrate it. For today is like yesterday, and tomorrow will be like today. The only thing that changes is what you decide to do with it.

Street art of a chicken painted in green (though this may have been added later) on a wall which was one of the ancillary walls for the Berlin Wall at the Bornholmer crossing.

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Berlin’s cycling infrastructure plans for 2025. #Berlin #Fahrrad #CDU

Bits of a wrecked bicycle thrown in among reeds with danger tape strewn haphazardly across it, or something else, who knows?

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you want to learn more, this is about to kick off now in Berlin. It’s full, but it’s being streamed at the following link: www.youtube.com/live/bHdhBIv...

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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Lots of Paralympians leaving Paris this morning… Greek swimmer Alexandra Stamatopoulou had her luggage checked at Charles de Gaulle airport and they pulled a gold medal out of her bag. She won it on her birthday Saturday in women’s 50m backstroke 🙌🥇 #Paralympics

Greek swimmer Alexandra Stamatopoulou with her gold medal from the women’s 50m backstroke at the Paralympics.

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