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Dermot Barry

@dermbry.bsky.social
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Technical Officer. Trade Unionist. Activist. Views are my own. He/Him/Sé/É

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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It's beyond shameful that Cork City Council named a bridge after fascist Seamus Murphy 🤮 Never been as ashamed of my city 😢 Of course government councillors from @fiannafailparty.bsky.social and Fine Gael voted for it, as enablers of genocide I would not expect anything less.
A newspaper screenshot with the headline "Cork City Bridge named after sculptor despite concerns over Nazi sympathiser past"A screenshot of website History Ireland that describes the party that Seamus Murphy stood for as Ireland's fascist New Order
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Taoiseach Micheál Martin will tug the forelock to a man accused of war crimes, rape, fascism & paedophilia. Terence McSwiney said “in matters of principle there can be no tactics, there is one straight forward course to follow.” Now is a time that the world needs principled leaders. Not appeasers.
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
😂😂😂 #lgbtqia #adhd #autism #lol #queer #neurodivergent
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Join the Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign demo tomorrow! 1pm on the Grand Parade #freepalestine #saoirsedonphalaistin
A picture of a prison cell. Text reads No Death for Detainees. The o in No is a golden noose pin
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The Washington Post reports that Donald Trump withheld support for María Corina Machado because she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump’s explanation, per the report: “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today.”
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
TikTok says it bans hate – but LGBT+ users are still being harassed daily with “no violation found.” Sign now to demand real action to protect our community. a.allout.org/s/WeMgg/
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TikTok: Protect LGBT+ users from hate
Trans and queer users are facing constant harassment on TikTok – and the platform is failing to act. Sign now to demand stronger protection for LGBT+ people online.
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Workers united are unstoppable. The trade union movement has proved this over and over again. On Palestine their hands are tied by restrictive legislation. Or are they? Join us Saturday, Grand Parade at 1pm. Hear how unionised workers can once again change the world. #gaza #palestine #tradeunions
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
US policy no longer pretends to follow international law, or uphold human rights. All pretences are gone. Along with the EU and the UK it brazenly imposes a brutal imperialist, colonialist, boot on the neck of all those it can profit from. #gaza #palestine #freefreepalestine
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Gaza is starving, Gaza is dying. Men, women and children, our sisters and brothers, are gripped by a horrific famine. Now there is nothing. Nothing to eat, nowhere to hide from Israeli plans of concentration camps and annihilation. Make your voice heard. Grand Parade, 1pm Saturday 26th
A man holds a young child, both are obviously starving. Text reads in Irish Gorta Mór Gaza - Gníomhaigh Anois! And in English "Act Now!"
There are also photos of guest speakers Eman Alhaj Ali and Mick Lynch
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Some of the solidarity that I saw in Dublin in the last week ❤️🖤🤍💚👀
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Going to miss this week as I'll be marching with the Rosa Fight Back bloc at Dublin Pride. It's amazing that after 90 odd weeks the people of Cork still run up in numbers ❤️🖤🤍💚
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Join the Munster Rally for Palestine on June 7th at 1 PM in Cork City. Stand in solidarity and lend your voice to the innocent children of Gaza. (V Palestine)
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Oh wow, it just gets worse and worse 😱 #adhd #eugenics #fascism #autism #audhd
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Next Tuesday, 7.30pm. Poetry Night Fundraiser for Palestine at Aye Bar
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I've just signed this petition calling on the Irish government to protect the Triple Lock and Irish neutrality. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
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Put it to the People
I've just signed this petition calling on the Irish government to protect the Triple Lock and Irish neutrality. Will you sign too?
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Cork really living up to its rebel name with three protest marches happening this Saturday. First a march against Gender Based Violence at 12pm, which will lead into the weekly Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign march 1pm followed by parents demanding school placements for their kids ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
Poster for International Women's Day march against gender based violence for Dublin and Limerick at 1pm, and Cork at 12pm.A white dove is superimposed by the outlines of two hands each in the colours of Clare and Cork counties.
The text reads Banner and Rebels unite for Palestine. A poster with pictures of children with additional needs who are without school places in September, the text advertises the march from the City Hall to the Grand Parade
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
73rd weekly rally at Grand Parade Cork this Saturday to protest the Irish government's moves to abandon our neutrality. We refuse to be caught up in imperialist wars
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Resist @resist.wiki · 26/02/2025
#NoWords #FreePalestine
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Stop David Draiman from playing in Dublin www.change.org/p/stop-zioni...
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Sign the Petition
Stop Zionist David Draiman playing Dublin’s 3arena
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Two marches for humanity in Cork City on Saturday. One for Palestine and another for DR Congo.
Speakers, some dressed in the flag of Democratic Republic of Congo stand above two children holding a banner that Reads Stop Genocide in the East of DRCA view from behind the impromptu stage where the MC speaks to a crowd that's waving Palestinian flags
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
So looking forward to this Sleep Out fundraiser on Sherkin island tomorrow 😍
A stylised drawing of people with musical instruments around a campfire, the flames and fire forming the shape of a woman surrounded by Celtic knotwork
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This Brigid's day Cork is celebrating the women of Palestine ❤️🖤🤍💚 Join us at 1pm at the Grand Parade Lá fhéile Bríde sona do mná na bPalaistíne
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
my.uplift.ie/petitions/ma...
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Make HRT free of charge.
The Department of Health promised that HRT medicine would be free of charge from the start of 2025. This has not happened and people who need HRT are still paying for it - up to €70 per month. This me...
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Much better weather this week and once again a great crowd turned up for the Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign demo and rally. Bono was a good boy for his master
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
So happy that my Proud to be Paddystinian hoodie arrived from @uplift-ireland.bsky.social 😍
Me wearing a burgundy hoodie that has Palestinian and Irish flags and the words Proud to be Paddystinian
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Musicians shouldn't have gigs cancelled for expressing solidarity. Performers shouldn't lose income protesting apartheid and genocide. Illustrators shouldn't lose their lives for painting the truth. Arts venues shouldn't block fundraisers. From Gaza to Cork, artists resist Zionist occupation!
A poster for Saturday's march and rally at the Grand Parade Cork featuring a drawn Israeli soldier pointing a handgun at a kneeling male figure. The head of this person is being rubbed out by a pencil eraser, the colour of the pencil is the Israeli flag.
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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Over 100 years ago vs today.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Today in Dublin ✊️ 💚
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
For the 65th week running yesterday Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign organised speakers, performers and marched through the City. Over 350 people braved atrocious weather to stand in solidarity with Gaza. #FreePalestine #SaoirseDonPhailistín
Maeve Higgins speaks to a crowd mostly hidden by umbrellasA very wet 65th weekly march through Cork city
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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Responding to the ICC warrants, @amnesty: "Today’s arrest warrants represent a historic breakthrough for justice and must signal the beginning of the end of the persistent and pervasive impunity at the heart of the human rights crisis." #Palestine #Israel www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Israel/OPT: Netanyahu, Gallant and Al-Masri must face justice at the ICC for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity
Responding to the news that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel; Yoav Gallant, former Israeli Minister of Defence and...
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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 18/11/2024
UNRWA aid in Gaza is getting hijacked by armed gangs and resold at massively inflated prices. According to Palestinian journalist in Gaza Abubaker Abed, the gangs are armed by Israel. Aid trucks used to have armed guards to prevent this but the IDF killed them, claiming they were “Hamas militants”.
Tweet from UNRWA:
A joint 109-truck @UN convoy carrying food supplies to people in #Gaza was violently looted on 16 November. The vast majority of the trucks, 97 in total, were lost and drivers were forced at gunpoint to unload aid.
Due to critical shortages of flour, all eight UNsupported bakeries in Deir al Balah and Khan Younis have been operating at diminished capacity for weeks. Many have been forced to shut down entirely.
Without immediate intervention, severe food shortages are set to worsen, further endangering the lives of over 2 million people who depend on humanitarian aid to survive.Tweet from UNRWA, continued:
The Israeli authorities continue to disregard their legal obligations under international law to ensure the population's basic needs are met and to facilitate the safe delivery of aid. Such responsibilities continue when trucks enter the #GazaStrip, until people are reached with essential assistance.Tweet from Abubaker Abed:
But say it, UNRWA, who looted the aid?
Isn't it gangs and militias armed by Israel? It's easy, just say it.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17/11/2024
Jewish activists poured red paint on the steps of the Israeli consulate in Toronto, demanding a ceasefire in Israel's war on Gaza.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid:

“Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s.

Over half of those deported were US citizens.”
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Privileged to chat with all of these legends of Cork City who turn up week after week. Marching for 58 weeks straight 🇵🇸🇮🇪 Photos by the awesome Margaret O'Regan
Our dashing hero (me) speaking into a microphone and wearing a keffiyeh A view of me from behind as I address the crowd
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Think Grok is about to have some AI brain surgery soon
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Ask canvassers if their party to legislate for collective bargaining and stop union busting as per the EU Directive on Minimum Living Wages.
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This Saturday, 1pm at the Grand Parade, Cork City. We've asked the Oireachtas Friends of Israel some questions about the level of lobbying by Israel in Irish democracy. Will they answer? Come find out! For the 58th week in a row we will march through Cork City demanding an end to genocide.
Poster depicting silhouettes of a male and female politician holding a Vote For Me sign leaving bomb shaped footprints
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #404,349!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #404,349, Dermot Barry ‪@dermbry.bsky.social‬, joined on Jul 28, 2023"
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
Such a buzz to get to march in the Cork Pride parade with the Social Democrats on Saturday. Inspiring to see so many people state there is no pride in genocide, including headline Bambie Thug 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🕊️
Me with arms spread to reveal progress pride flag, with pride and Palestine badges on my green shirtBambie Thug on big screen with the word CORK in lights behind themBambie Thug holding the Palestinian flagPride is a protest! Protestors wave trans and Palestine flags, placards, and banners
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
41st rally in support of Palestine. Rain, hail, wind, or shine, the rebels march for Palestine!
People sit along a long table at a Palestinian restaurant.Me holding a sign that reads Fermoy Stands With PalestineDr Nick Maynard speaks at the Cork City rallyPalestinian flags flutter in the sky as the march gets ready to set off
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Last Generation @lastgenca.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Louise Harris' climate anthem We Tried is trending in the UK charts and there is a big push to get it to #1 this week. Please give it a listen and if you are in the UK 59p would help move it even further up the charts. distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...
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We Tried by Louise Harris
Stream and Save We Tried - Distributed by DistroKid
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
It really is an excellent song as well.
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Good couple of days in MTU campuses at our Trade Union Awareness Day. A lot of interest from students, some of whom asked what a union was (!) Had quite a few chats about Unite's environmental and EDI activism #JoinAUnion #HigherEducation
Me awkwardly smiling at the camera in front of a banner that reads Unite, by your sideA table packed with Unite paraphernalia and leaflets Me again, smiling awkwardly again in front of the banner againA table of Unite freebies and leaflets
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
Scary! Paris is spraying for Asian tiger mosquitoes (a main vector for dengue and zitka viruses) for 1st time ever. The current yearly average temp in Cork is 10.4 degrees, Paris is 11. So just a matter of time before they can survive here too... rb.gy/j7j3y
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Paris Fumigates for the First Time As Disease-Carrying Asian Tiger Mosquitoes Rapidly Spreads in Eur...
Health authorities in the French capital have fumigated areas of Paris as tiger mosquitoes, originally from Southeast Asia, invades Europe. Continue reading the article to find out more.
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Forget climate anxiety, time to get angry 😡 www.theguardian.com/environment/202…
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Anger is most powerful emotion by far for spurring climate action, study finds
Link to climate activism is seven times stronger for anger than it is for hope, say Norwegian researchers
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
Love this 😍 Mother Jones has been uncelebrated in the city of her birth for way to long. motherjonescork.com/2023/08/11/new-…
A mural of Mary "Mother Jones" Harris marching alongside a man in a bowler hat on a wall on Widderling's Lane in Cork City
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Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
Hello? Where is everyone?
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