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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 1h
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 4h
Muhammad Khalifa Cup Takes Place In Honor Of Gazan Footballer. The event is run by the Love Rovers Hate Racism, a group of Rovers supporters who, since 2021, have been building a strong anti-fascist presence at Rovers and mobilising the Rovers fanbase for many different causes. Link to read in comm
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 7h
Programme for Think Left!! Kicks off 6.15pm on Friday in St Columb's Hall, Derry. See you there! Register here 👇🏼 www.eventbrite.ie/e/think-left...
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 11h
"What an impressive man. How is it that saving a penalty from Cristiano Ronaldo at the age of 19 is only the second best thing you’ve done in sport. The stand for something bigger he decided to take required him to confront the structures and systems that dictate life around us. These structures e
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Comment: Thank you Gavin Bazunu
He turned his character to action, in a decision that was deeply personal but also collective.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 22h
Muhammad Khalifa Cup Takes Place In Honor Of Gazan Footballer. The event is run by the Love Rovers Hate Racism, a group of Rovers supporters who, since 2021, have been building a strong anti-fascist presence at Rovers and mobilising the Rovers fanbase for many different causes. Link to read in comm
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Muhammad Khalifa Cup Takes Place In Honor Of Gazan Footballer
The event is run by the Love Rovers Hate Racism, a group of Rovers supporters who, since 2021, have been building a strong anti-fascist presence at Rovers and mobilising the Rovers fanbase for many different causes.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Muhammad Khalifa Cup Takes Place In Honor Of Gazan Footballer. The event is run by the Love Rovers Hate Racism, a group of Rovers supporters who, since 2021, have been building a strong anti-fascist presence at Rovers and mobilising the Rovers fanbase for many different causes. Link to read in comm
aontachtmedia.ie
Muhammad Khalifa Cup Takes Place In Honor Of Gazan Footballer
The event is run by the Love Rovers Hate Racism, a group of Rovers supporters who, since 2021, have been building a strong anti-fascist presence at Rovers and mobilising the Rovers fanbase for many different causes.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The campaign against data centres is growing in communities around the country. Please share and come along to our public meeting in Tallaght. Data centres are putting huge demands on our electricity system and infrastructure while households face rising costs and pressure on public services. The q
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mount Melleray: How a Right-Wing Catholic University Has Taken Over. Link in comments. Supporters of the Ave Maria Univerisity founded by religious billionaire Tom Monaghan were welcomed by Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Alphonsus Cullinan. The institution will have no educational status, no plan
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Mount Melleray: How a Right-Wing Catholic University Has Taken Over
Supporters of the Ave Maria Univerisity founded by religious billionaire Tom Monaghan were welcomed by Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Alphonsus Cullinan. The institution will have no educational status, no planning for education and avail of tax free status to create a MAGA beachhead in Ireland.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Public meeting Tuesday! A new report from Maynooth has just determined that 50,000 homes could have been built instead of data centres over the past 5 years. We need to pull the plug on these energy leeches and build a state construction to prioritise tackling the biggest crisis facing millions acr
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Public meeting 🕙 7 pm 📅 Tuesday, 29 Sept 📍at the Plaza Hotel in Tallaght To discuss the social & environmental impacts of data centres, how they are driving up everyone's electricity bills, and why we urgently need a moratorium.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great response to our stall against any more data centres. More and more people are waking up to the cost they impose on all of us - higher electricity bills, unbuilt housing, missed climate targets. Come to our meeting Tuesday night 7pm in the Plaza Hotel.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong."
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shamrock Rovers 💚☘️ Gavin Bazunu. Incredible statement from Gavin Bazunu. "My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong." Sometimes it's just that simple. A hero.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The government has given you their answer, they do think that data centres should be treated better than hard working Irish households, that our motion to make them pay the same rate for energy as the Irish public are expected to pay was a bridge too far. Ireland has a reckoning coming that the gove
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new report from Maynooth has just determined that 50,000 homes could have been built instead of data centres over the past 5 years. We need to pull the plug on these energy leeches and build a state construction to prioritise tackling the biggest crisis facing millions across this country, the hou
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s in the hands of the players to do the right thing, to shame this Government and to show the whole world where the Irish people and our support lies.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Data centres are putting huge demands on our electricity system and infrastructure while households face rising costs and pressure on public services. The question of who pays for this expansion is also a question about what kind of economy we want, and who it is being run for. The campaign against
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our housing system is empowering corporate landlords organised in an apartheid state and not ordinary working people struggling to get by in Ireland and put a roof over their heads. Ireland needs a fundamental break with the rot of landlordism and a shift towards a genuinely socialised housing sys
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Baltic boycotts expose holes in FAI case for playing Israel. Between 2024 and May of this year, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia opted out of competitive fixtures when drawn against Belarus in qualifiers. Their punishments were 3-0 defeats and, in one case, a small fine of €5,000. That seems a small pr
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An Al report falsely claimed that a Chinese tanker passing through waters near the U.S. military’s illegal blockade of Iran was secretly transporting nuclear weapons components. “It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operat
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Think Left in Derry October 2-5. The Think Left Conference 2025 will take place on the weekend of October 2-4 in the historic St. Columb's Hall. Held annually on the anniversary of the Derry October 5th 1968 Civil Rights march, Think Left has become one of Ireland's best-attended left-wing confere
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
March for Choice Sat 26th September 2pm, Department of Health, Baggot St, Dublin. Join the march to call for Free, Safe, Legal, Local abortion access for all! Eight years after we Repealed the 8th, there are still barriers to care. The unnecessary three-day waiting period, the unworkable 12-week cu
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cllr Kay Keane highlighted the impact of emergency accommodation on children. More than 5,000 children are living in emergency accommodation, according to the latest figures. “There have been numerous reports, studies done, which show the detriment that these children are facing,” she said. 🗞️SDCC
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In Dublin to demand an Ireland that people can actually afford to live in. We need to fight back against a government that is making life harder for workers, renters, families, students and pensioners while ordinary people struggle with the cost of food, energy, housing and transport. We need pric
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Data Centred are a robbery of the working class and the infrastructure behind some of the most grotesque warmongering, surveillance and authoritarianism on the globe today. Join our meeting this Monday to talk with activist from across the country about how we can fight back and what you can do to g
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great news for data centres: the government plans to amend all but three words of our motion to make them pay the same energy rates as Irish households, use the extra money to fund a €500 energy credit for everyone, with an additional €500 for people living with a disability or illness and for carer
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
€92,000 more for the ESB boss. Electricity bills soaring. One in seven households behind on their energy bills. Energy Minister Darragh O’Brien says Paddy Hayes deserves a pay package that could reach €480,000 by 2028. People deserve affordable energy, not massive pay rises at the top. The ESB sh
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Your electricity bill isn't high by accident — it's privatised, and data centres are eating the grid while you foot the bill. Enough. Join the national protest for affordable energy: Sat 19 Sept, 1pm, Garden of Remembrance, Dublin. 🔗rebelnews.ie/2026/09/17/w...
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How the Nazi AfD won Saxony-Anhalt. For the first time since WW2, a Nazi party looks like governing a German state. Here Christine Buchholz looks at why they have grown. rebelnews.ie/2026/09/10/h...
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How the Nazi AfD won Saxony-Anhalt - REBEL
At the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) achieved…
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
O’Callaghan’s Fake Citizenship Rules. What lies behind O’Callaghan's proposals for a new Nationality and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2026. REBEL thinks it is all about scapegoating and pandering to the far right. rebelnews.ie/2026/09/12/c...
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O’Callaghan's Fake Citizenship Rules - REBEL
Jim O’Callaghan wants to sound tough on immigration. So, he is proposing…
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
50,000 people took to the streets from Dublin to Doonbeg to say: Trump is not welcome in Ireland. From the cost-of-living crisis facing working people, to Trump’s support for war and Israel’s assault on Gaza, people are paying the price while billionaires get richer. No to war! No to billionaires a
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The only special relationship Ireland has to America is to its working class. Not Trump, not his billionaire friends or their allies in the democrats and the republicans. As Connolly said in 1908 to the working class of America and the many millions of Irish forced as migrants to find a new life the
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
50,000 people took to the streets from Dublin to Doonbeg to say: Trump is not welcome in Ireland. From the cost-of-living crisis facing working people, to Trump’s support for war and Israel’s assault on Gaza, people are paying the price while billionaires get richer. No to war! No to billionaires a
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
50,000 loud and clear messages for Trump. Ireland delivered its message loud and clear from Dublin, to Doonbeg. Ireland is no welcome place for warmongers, for imperialists and for those who attack the working class in all countries to make American billionaires richer and richer.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Big Tech is guzzling our energy, draining our water, and gutting our grid — all while ordinary people foot the bill. It's time to organise and fight back. Join us to hear from: Brid Smith — activist & former TD Mark Walsh — mathematician & activist Shaam — former tech worker 📅 Friday 18 September
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
League of Ireland partner has received more than $4 million in US Department of War contracts. One of the League of Ireland’s commercial partners is a US military contractor that helps “optimise the performance” of soldiers – and has also provided performance analysis to Israeli sports teams.
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LOI partner: $4 million+ in US war department contracts
“Facilitating an optimal route to warfighter optimisation.”
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
MAKE THE DATA CENTRES PAY - Join us online at 6pm on September 21st for an online public meeting on the upcoming Dáil motion on taxing data centres at the same rate as ordinary consumers. The motion will be voted on in the Dáil on September 23rd, and we want to use it as a springboard for building
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Close to a million people are employed in car factories in Germany. In Ireland about 2,000 people are employed in data centres (not the 20,000 that Darragh O'Brien falsely claims in the interview but they won't stand over in PQ answers). We need a ban on data centres.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
HISTORIC STRIKE MANDATE: 96.6% OF FÓRSA MEMBERS VOTE YES! In the largest-ever strike ballot by an Irish trade union, 62,276 Fórsa members (96.6%) voted overwhelmingly for industrial action! Over the last five years, public sector pay has fallen at least 5% behind runaway inflation. While workers a
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Over 75,000 public service workers in SIPTU have voted overwhelmingly (97%) for strike action! While inflation erodes wages and corporate profits soar, the government has dragged its feet on pay talks and privatization threats. Public sector workers keep our health, transport, and councils running—
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OVER 99% OF NURSES VOTE TO STRIKE! 🏥✊ Over 99% of INMO members have voted for industrial action over lagging pay and extreme cost-of-living pressures. Fórsa health workers begin work-to-rule on 30 September. Nurses and midwives are battling understaffing and overcrowding while facing skyrocketing
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
UNIONS PREPARE STRIKE ACTION OVER PAY & LIVING COSTS ✊🪧 Over 96% of members in the INMO, Fórsa, and SIPTU have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action! Nurses in Dublin report spending 70% of their take-home pay on rent, while basic costs like fuel and energy continue to skyrocket. Public secto
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BORD GÁIS HIKES PRICES RIGHT BEFORE WINTER 🥶⚡ Bord Gáis is hitting customers with 8.8% electricity and 9.3% gas price hikes starting 9 October—just as the cold weather sets in. Gas prices are already 90% higher than four years ago. Asking struggling households to pay hundreds more every year while
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
EIGHTH ENERGY COMPANY RAISES PRICES ⚡🚨 Energia is the eighth energy supplier to hike prices, adding another €229 a year to typical dual-fuel bills starting October 12th. Ireland already has the highest electricity prices in Europe. How many more hikes can households take while the government sits
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
6 more reasons to get out today and confront the warmonger who has driven the cost of living crisis and brutalised millions across the globe.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Pinergy is hiking energy rates again—adding €169/year to customer bills on top of last year's €200 increase. Between surging utility costs and inflation, working families are taking the hit from every side. Temporary government tweaks aren't enough. We need real price caps, energy credits, and pay
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1 IN 7 HOUSEHOLDS IN ELECTRICITY ARREARS 📉⚡ Over 323,000 homes are now behind on electricity bills, with average arrears hitting €509. Gas arrears have also hit over 187,000 customers, while energy giants stack up more price hikes! Ireland has the highest electricity costs in Europe. Corporate pro
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
ANOTHER ENERGY HIKE! 📉⚡ Bord Gáis is putting prices up AGAIN, squeezing dual-fuel households for an extra €317 a year. Energy bills are already up to 90% higher than five years ago. Corporate profits keep rising while the government sits on its hands. We need price caps on energy NOW. Stand up ag
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