Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Please please get to this. Stop the genocide, the slaughter, the war crimes of Israel 151
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Getting readying for the 12th here in Belfast 220
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 25/06/2025‘I sleep easier here’: The makeshift homeless community under the M50 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...irishtimes.com‘I sleep easier here’: The makeshift homeless community under the M50Rats and rubbish surround the camp at Finglas Road, but to some residents it’s better than other options 152
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Children at west Dublin asylum seeker accommodation witnessed friends being ‘put in the back of a black van’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...irishtimes.comChildren at west Dublin asylum seeker accommodation witnessed friends being ‘put in the back of a black van’Three siblings were among 35 people deported on a flight to Nigeria on Wednesday 011
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Boy (16) ‘at real risk of death’ after targeting by drug dealers brought to secure care www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...irishtimes.comBoy (16) ‘at real risk of death’ after targeting by drug dealers brought to secure careJudge found boy’s ‘chaotic lifestyle’ and risk profile met requirements for the order 021
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Dublin tenants shocked to be evicted due to ‘little-known legal loophole’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...irishtimes.comDublin tenants shocked to be evicted due to ‘little-known legal loophole’For a group of people in Applewood village, Swords, the landlord doesn’t need a reason to remove them 111
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 24/05/2025What a self-serving bore. He hasnt changed since Self Aid. 031
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Oh. My. God..Bono on RTE now saying people don't understand the "complex affairs" of US selling arms to Israel 231
Reposted by Kitty Holland Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025‘Judge John Jordan, presiding over the weekly “no beds” list on Thursday, heard updates on three children in respect of whom secure care orders have been made but who cannot get a bed due to staff shortages.’ - @kittyholland.bsky.social @irishtimes.com 141
Reposted by Kitty Holland Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025An affront to the rule of law. Report: @kittyholland.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co... 183
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Israeli military fires shots near delegation that included Irish diplomats www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... Bastardsirishtimes.comIsraeli military fires shots near delegation that included Irish diplomatsTánaiste ‘shocked and appalled’ at reports of incident in West Bank city of Jenin 046
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 06/04/2025‘He was kept locked in a room with a leg-shackle until the 1980s’: Stories from Ireland’s state-run asylums www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci... It was an honour to be trusted with the stories of those 'incarcerated' in our old mental asylums, as they were calledirishtimes.com‘He was kept locked in a room with a leg-shackle until the 1980s’: Stories from Ireland’s state-run asylumsState-run asylums were Ireland’s ‘largest form of institutional confinement’ but they have never been subjected to a statutory inquiry into the treatment of their patients 141
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 09/02/2025I'm researching mass incarceration in Irish psychiatric institutions up to late 1990s. Would welcome contact from survivors/ their family members. Email in confidence Kitty.Holland@irishtimes.com 223
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...irishtimes.comIreland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politiciansProminent Irish politicians - including President Michael D Higgins and Simon Harris - have been accused of anti-Semitism drawing on the logic of the IHRA definition 022
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 15/01/2025This promise in the Programme for Government is so dangerous, conflating legitimate criticism of apartheid Israel with antisemitism 040
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Attitudes to Traveller and Roma people more negative among middle class than working class - study www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...irishtimes.comAttitudes to Traveller and Roma people more negative among middle class than working class - studyResidents of affluent areas less comfortable with having Travellers as neighbours, ESRI reports finds 050
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 20/12/2024‘I have never really had sex not for money’: Woman hopes new injecting facility can allow some dignity www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...irishtimes.com‘I have never really had sex not for money’: Woman hopes new injecting facility can allow some dignity‘Amber’ believes the new medically supervised injecting facility at Merchants Quay will ‘change her life’ 030
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Capuchin vouchers: ‘I have four kids and two grandkids - this is for St Stephen’s Day dinner’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...irishtimes.comCapuchin vouchers: ‘I have four kids and two grandkids - this is for St Stephen’s Day dinner’Queue for €50 grocery vouchers began before 4am with over 2,500 distributed by 8.30am 031
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Scenes of desperation this morning in Dublin: ‘We have never run out this early’: People ‘distraught’ after missing out on Capuchin Christmas food parcel tickets www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...irishtimes.com‘We have never run out this early’: People ‘distraught’ after missing out on Capuchin Christmas food parcel ticketsPeople ‘distraught’ on missing out after all 3,000 parcels are distributed by shortly after 9.30am 040
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 30/11/2024With votes sorted in Dublin Mid West the storage boxes are being readied to hold the bundles of first preferences, counting of which will start shortly #herewego 010
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 30/11/2024With just over half the boxes tallied in 5-seat Dublin MW Sinn Fein's Eoin O Broin and Mark Ward are powering ahead.. Emer Higgins (FG) on track for a seat along with Shane Moynihan (FF). Gino Kenny (PBP) in for a rollercoaster battle for last seat with Soc Dems, Labour, FG and independents. 042
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Election 2024 exit poll: Photo finish with Sinn Féin on 21.1%, Fine Gael 21%, Fianna Fáil 19.5% www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... If this isn't the incentive rhe left need to form a strong alliance, I don't know what is.irishtimes.comElection 2024 exit poll: Photo finish with Sinn Féin on 21.1%, Fine Gael 21%, Fianna Fáil 19.5%The election 2024 exit poll was conducted among 5,000-plus voters at more than 200 locations nationwid 030
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Asylum centre failed to protect four children who went missing, Hiqa inspection finds www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci... 031
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Homelessness figures are out tomorrow. When you go out to vote, please think of the almost 5,000 beautiful children whose lives are being devastated by having no home. 030
Reposted by Kitty Holland Sean AKA HistoryofCricket @historyofcricket.bsky.social · 23/11/2024@kittyholland.bsky.social gave a brilliant analysis on the far right and why we can't ignore the phenomenon in the @irishtimes.bsky.social election daily podcast yesterday 011
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 18/11/2024So Kate O'Connell respects the electorate, but not Sinn Fein's voters... 000
Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Is this the place to be, now X is too toxic to take? 1100