Reposted by Kate O'DwyerJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026What Israel is doing to Southern Lebanon is *clearly* aimed at ethnic cleansing and colonization, using the same tactics as in the Gaza genocide. Nearly 1 million people forcibly displaced. We have to reject this evil with all our might, and support those who are resisting it. 5403157
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Let me tell you something about Cuba. US officials are constantly saying "socialism in Cuba is a failure". But in fact Cuba's achievements with socialism are extremely impressive: 7356161
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Ireland No. 1 in Europe - yet again. GHGs rose faster (+3.2%) in Ireland in Q3 2025 than ANYWHERE else in Europe. #Climate action, my eye. 1213183
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerHelen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 28/01/2026We need to get real. Met Éireann is not to blame for flooding damage - poor planning, building on flood plains, not implementing over 20 years of remedial action are. We were warned decades ago winter rain would increase, but continued doing nothing and built on space needed for water #spéirghorm 515756
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025The Govnt wants to remove the Triple Lock, change legislation so Irish companies can compete for EU defence contracts, and deepen cooperation with NATO to the point where 'formal' membership is moot. And those objecting are 'squeamish'. The arrogance. www.thejournal.ie/martin-defen...thejournal.ie'Squeamish debate' misses the point of working with NATO and EU states on defence, Martin saysIreland should not be afraid of mutually beneficial co-operation with other nations amid the heightened Russian threat, the Taoiseach said. 1139
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comFamilies of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with LammyJustice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks 681059483
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comTwo Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospitalMPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention 19555261
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025The Irish commentariat has gone into overdrive, not just misinforming but outright lying about threats to our security. What makes it worse is that this small handful of people with paid column inches, media appearances & think tanks dismiss the majority as 'lecturing' others. 1115
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism? Odd that. 1202768755
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025RTÉ news referring to planning law as 'red tape' is not good. The Government is weaponising the housing crisis to weaken existing legal protections and democratic process (not the other way around as Minster Chambers tried to claim). www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...rte.ieGovt to introduce legislation to fast-track key projectsThe Government is set to introduce emergency legislation to fast-track key projects through the planning process under a plan Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers will outline to the Cabinet. 12611
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerAlistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 02/12/2025Funny how @zackpolanski.bsky.social suggesting a raft of policies to try and improve the lives of the vast majority is ‘fantasy economics’, but when Brexiteers were allowed to indulge their lunatic fantasies about leaving the EU it somehow became ‘The Will of the People’. 🦄🤔 721835490
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerElaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I'm just gonna say it: you wouldn't need to ban the kids if you just made the platforms responsible for moderation in the first fucking place. Good luck papering over that chasm and calling it protection. ✌🏻 49235
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025'The Price of Prosperity: How US FDI is Enabling Genocide in Gaza and Eroding our Neutrality'. Full report written with Paulie Doyle and Pat Brodie is now available here: www.uplift.ie/neutrality-f... 045
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 22/11/2025This was published in the Irish Times a week ago but re-sharing because it might be a while before there is another article supporting neutrality in the broadsheets. 75515
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025'If a bridge can't carry a 60 tonne tank, we have a problem'. The speed with which planning and finance are mobilised for the militarisation of EU transport infrastructure, versus planning and finance for public, decarbonised, climate resilient infrastructure is startling. 0113
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Government TDs have been eager to praise the EU as the greatest peace project in history. Worth remembering that besides arming and enabling genocide in Gaza, the EU is engaged in neocolonial 'peace-enforcement missions' in Africa. www.rundale.org/2025/07/31/t...rundale.orgThe Triple Lock and the Case of Ireland in Mali - RundaleThe EU-led neo-colonial war in Mali and the Sahel is a stark example of why the Triple Lock should be strengthened if we are to preserve meaningful neutrality heading into an uncertain future. 074
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/11/2025What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be. It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...theguardian.comNHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warnsPublic accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investment 30879260
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Active neutrality is not about being passive, it is about actively working to stop war and genocide and to uphold international law. The Government's inaction on the OTB is closely linked with its far more urgent action on removing the Triple Lock. www.rte.ie/news/politic...rte.ieCalls for Government to enact Occupied Territories BillOpposition party leaders and Senator Frances Black have called on the Government to enact the Occupied Territories Bill before the end of the year. 084
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Is this what Labour politicians came into politics for? To get cheered on by Tommy Robinson as they kick some of the most vulnerable people on earth? How are they not all dying of shame 59805217
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Hard to understand how the UK Labour party has even a single member left, seeing as it it has now become everything that you imagine someone once drawn to joining a Labour party is vehemently against. No one joins a Labour party hoping to punch down on the weakest and advance far right arguments 312223
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/11/2025"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comDark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George MonbiotThe fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 462550985
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Article with @dondeniamh.bsky.social & Rory Rowan in today's Irish Times - a response to the relentless media commentary deriding Ireland's neutrality. As Catherine Connolly, and the movement behind her, has shown, neutrality remains popular. Something to build on, not abandon. 0279
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough. 511392364
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...novaramedia.comBBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals | Novara MediaAn analysis of over 35,000 broadcast segments and articles found that the BBC referenced the 7 October attacks in at least 40% of its coverage - but only 0.5% of articles referenced Israel’s decades o... 13903259
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerUniverse @wholethings.bsky.social · 13/12/2024The Spider Nebula | NASA 839453712
Reposted by Kate O'DwyerJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Most unusual way to spell “Israeli genocide in Gaza” on @news.rte.ie just now. International Criminal Court calls it a genocide, why is RTÉ, 14 months into a rolling massacre, still calling it a “War”? 48325
Kate O'Dwyer @katedreamsof.bsky.social · 13/12/2024aje.io/bk4ix8 A brilliant article by @audreykissane.bsky.socialaje.ioIreland hears the call of Palestine, but is it free to answer?Ireland’s economic dependency on the US appears to limit its ability to support Palestinians on the global stage. 063