Alex Curran
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Ireland (and many other countries) needs to really look at the increasing consolidation of land in the hands of billionaires. They have unlimited wealth and nothing else to spend it on. It's bad for food security, the environment, access to our heritage, and it's really bad for farmers.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · yesterdayMeta boss Mark Zuckerberg buys castle in Co Waterford
Gardaí routinely question Irish journalists in an effort to identify their confidential sources. That's one of the findings of new research by @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social and Glory Anumudu of @maynoothuniversity.ie which we were proud to partner on. www.iccl.ie/news/an-gard...
An Garda Síochána routinely questions journalists in attempts to identify their confidential sources
The first-ever study of crime and security journalism in Ireland is based on interviews with journalists working in the North and South of Ireland.
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'Multiple rounds of intense supercells and multicells are forecast from eastern Spain across the Balearic Islands, southern France, Switzerland, Austria, north-central Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia. Large hail, severe winds, torrential flooding rain, & tornadoes are possible.' x.com/severeweathe...
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A two-day severe weather outbreak is expected across the western, central, and northern Mediterranean. Multiple rounds of intense supercells and multicells are forecast from eastern Spain across the B...
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We should be begging these people to come to Ireland, but the government is too in thrall to the tech bro fascists to lift a finger to help the targets of a genocide. What a moral failure. What a failure on every level, and we just accept it in our name.
Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · 10h ago“The hope that I had was taken away in one email.” High-achieving students from Gaza, awarded scholarships from Irish universities, have had their visa applications rejected. Here’s their story. @virginmedianews.bsky.social
We literally do not have enough civil servants generally to do the policy analysis that we need to do on files coming in from Europe and domestic policy issues.
Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 16h agoDavid McWilliams on his loser podcast whining about not enough civil servants getting fired and his guest using civil service and NGO interchangeably without him correcting her… probably nothing to worry about, right?
After 18 months of applications, Hanaa received an unconditional offer and full scholarship to join @MaynoothUni MA of Education programme. Like others, her study visa application was rejected on v weak grounds. Govnt needs to grant these student visas. www.instagram.com/p/Db_4f_oCHA...
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The current Irish government is rabidly anti-Palestinian.
Deirdre O'Shaughnessy@deshocks.bsky.social · 9h agoGazan student Mahmoud has a level of mathematics that’s very rare in someone without a university education. He’s got a place to stay and a scholarship. But the department of justice has turned him down, writes Cathal Seoighe www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Horrifying that the BBC would normalize someone as extreme as Gad Saad in this way. He is a white nationalist, someone who calls for expelling Muslims, a vicious transphobe, someone who refers to anti-Zionist Jews as insects. A truly vile man who they described as 'a Canadian professor'.
Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · yesterdayTonight BBC radio 4 ran an hour-long advert for “suicidal empathy” (the idea and book) on the Moral Maze, describing its author simply as a Canadian professor, without mentioning his enthusiasm for Great Replacement ideology nor calls for civil war in the UK. That does not seem ok.
The Oireachtas has been leaning into Microsoft for its comms, even as other European governments abandon US tech. Switching to the US big tech provider, for phone systems and more, comes at a time of fierce debate about tech sovereignty.
The Oireachtas leans into Microsoft for its comms, even as other European governments abandon US tech
Switching to the US big tech provider, for phone systems and more, comes at a time of fierce debate about tech sovereignty.
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Holger Hestermeyer@hhesterm.bsky.social · 22h agoThis incident needs to be thoroughly investigated. If true, no public office in the EU or any member state can continue to run any microsoft products. nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...
More than 700 new PPS numbers and 600 work permits have been granted to Israelis in Ireland since October 2023. For the first time in a decade the Irish state refused more Palestinian visa applications than it granted. www.ontheditch.com/with-the-sta...
State refuses Palestinian visas, Israelis get PPS numbers
From 2024 to 2026, 591 work permits were granted to Israelis, with just 72 issued to Palestinians.
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Farage 🤝 Harborne Harborne 🤝 Lutnick Lutnick 🤝 Trump https://www.desmog.com/2026/08/20/tether-christopher-harborne-reform-uk-howard-lutnick-nigel-farage/
Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has stood to gain financially from the crypto connections linking it to Donald Trump’s administration, DeSmog can report. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been ac...
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Ireland is the EU centre for regulating Microsoft’s use of personal data, and the DPC is the body required under statute to enforce it. The Minister for Enterprise, Peter Burke, was asked about relying on US tech companies for sensitive state info in Feb 26. He said it wasn’t on his radar.
Holger Hestermeyer@hhesterm.bsky.social · 22h agoThis incident needs to be thoroughly investigated. If true, no public office in the EU or any member state can continue to run any microsoft products. nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...
Carers charity sees furious backlash after announcing Jeremy Vine as awards host www.thenational.scot/news/2648233...
Carers charity sees furious backlash after announcing Jeremy Vine as awards host
A CARERS charity has been met with outrage after it announced Jeremy Vine is set to host its awards.
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There is an important lesson here for Ireland too. We face relentless internal and external pressure to join military alliances and increase defence spending, when we should be protecting our neutrality and investing in essential social infrastructures and services.
Patrick Bresnihan@pbresnihan.bsky.social · 20h agoFinland is a sad example of what happens when warfare replaces welfare. Increasing homelessness and unemployment while the government increases NATO-imposed budgets for military spending. www.donotpanic.news/p/how-finlan...
Calls to expel Israel’s ambassador follow a stern condemnation of Israel’s decision to whitewash troops who murdered an Australian aid worker.
UN law expert demands expulsion of Israeli ambassador from Australia
Calls to expel Israel’s ambassador follow a stern condemnation of Israel’s decision to whitewash troops who murdered an Australian aid worker
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Israeli intelligence veterans run Irregular, the Tel Aviv tech firm at the centre of ‘rogue’ AI hacks involving OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic.
Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic 'rogue' AI hacks all sourced to Israeli intelligence operatives
Israeli intelligence veterans are running Irregular, the tech firm at the centre of ‘rogue’ AI hacks involving OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic
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I was on @rteradio1.bsky.social Morning Ireland today to talk about my @researchireland.ie–funded project with the @iccl.bsky.social on the Role of Crime and Security Journalism in Irish Democracy www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Gardaí questioning crime journalists for confidential sources
A new report has found that many crime journalists in the Republic of Ireland have been questioned by Gardaí about their confidential sources, raising concerns about source protection, surveillance an...
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'We need a mature conversation about defence and security', they say. Let's talk about the IDSA, an Irish arms lobby group, partnering with Enterprise Ireland to pitch for defence contracts at the French Embassy. www.ontheditch.com/enterprise-i...
Enterprise Ireland: cocktail networking, the arms industry
The day after media reports of the government relaxing rules on backing arms companies.
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Earlier today Glory Anumudu & I launched our report on the Role of Crime and Security Journalism in Irish Democracy. Among other things, we have findings on surveillance of journalists across Ireland, & the relationship between journalism and policing www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/defaul...
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universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
The dried soil is cracking water pipes amplifying the crisis 👀 Hundreds in Kent still without water after record-breaking summer youtu.be/a7wLAMbhNec?... via @YouTube
Hundreds in Kent still without water after record-breaking summer
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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I love this. The very least they should do here is link the vacant homes grant to the vacant homes tax. Same with dereliction. It's either vacant or it's not
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 20h agoEdinburgh second home owners are set for a 300% council tax rate 🏘️
Here’s a graphic projecting massive and devastating #climate driven drying out of soils right across Europe by mid-century… …oh wait, sorry, that’s an ACTUAL reading from August 10th last. My mistake.
Finland is a sad example of what happens when warfare replaces welfare. Increasing homelessness and unemployment while the government increases NATO-imposed budgets for military spending. www.donotpanic.news/p/how-finlan...
How Finland Destroyed Itself For NATO
Finland, often known as the happiest country in the world, now has the highest unemployment rate in Europe, demand for food aid has exploded by more than 70%, and homelessness, which had been declinin...
donotpanic.news
This incident needs to be thoroughly investigated. If true, no public office in the EU or any member state can continue to run any microsoft products. nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...
Microsoft accused of leaking Dutch civil servants' names to U.S. government
Microsoft has reportedly shared the names of Dutch civil servants working for two regulatory agencies with the U.S. House of Representatives. The agencies involved include the Authority for Consumers ...
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