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Kate O'Dwyer

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What 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.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Let 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:
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Ireland 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.
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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We 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
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The 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...
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'Squeamish debate' misses the point of working with NATO and EU states on defence, Martin says
Ireland should not be afraid of mutually beneficial co-operation with other nations amid the heightened Russian threat, the Taoiseach said.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Is 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...
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Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy
Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Their 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...
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Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital
MPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The 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.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism? Odd that.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
RTÉ 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...
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Govt to introduce legislation to fast-track key projects
The 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.
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 02/12/2025
Funny 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’. 🦄🤔
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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I'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. ✌🏻
Headline from the Guardian: European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s
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Patrick 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...
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This 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.
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Patrick 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.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Government 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...
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The Triple Lock and the Case of Ireland in Mali - Rundale
The 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.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
What 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...
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NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns
Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investment
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Active 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...
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Calls for Government to enact Occupied Territories Bill
Opposition party leaders and Senator Frances Black have called on the Government to enact the Occupied Territories Bill before the end of the year.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Is 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
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Hard 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
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George 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...
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Article 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.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Let'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.
BBC Newsnight mock-up of Jeremy Corbyn as a Bolshevik revolutionary, in the style of a Soviet propaganda poster.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Yes, 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...
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BBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals | Novara Media
An 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...
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Universe @wholethings.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The Spider Nebula | NASA
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Most 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”?
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Kate O'Dwyer @katedreamsof.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
aje.io/bk4ix8 A brilliant article by @audreykissane.bsky.social
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Ireland 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.
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