The world will remember how the EU and its member states respond to this catastrophic tragedy. Silence and neutrality in the face of genocide constitutes complicity. Inaction emboldens perpetrators and betrays every principle the Union and its states claim to uphold www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Former EU ambassadors warn: Europe’s silence on Gaza is complicity

In an open letter, 58 former EU envoys urge the bloc to end arms exports, sanction Israel, and stop atrocity crimes.

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Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · last yr.

The refusal to act against evil, as required by law and morality, is bad enough, but Irish people in high office continuing to praise the EU is beyond my understanding. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

#BREAKING International Court of Justice issues a ground-breaking judgement affirming legal obligations on States to take action on climate. #ICJ #ClimateJustice Live stream here: go.icj-cij.org/4f3KGgM

Request for Tenders: EU Presidency Advocacy Support. The Environmental Pillar has planned a specific workstream in relation to the Irish EU Presidency and is seeking additional capacity to support in the development and implementation of our workplan environmentalpillar.ie/request-for-...

#History #SkyStorians Giving our Research Bursary scheme another plug! Deadline 15 August.

History: The Journal of the Historical Association@hisjournalha.bsky.social · last yr.

#History #SkyStorians 2025 @hisjournalha.bsky.social Research Bursary scheme is now open! Available: 1 ECR award & 1 mid-career researcher award, each worth up to £1,500. Deadline *15 August*. For further particulars & downloadable application form, see www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

Gaza is being starved by Israel. Aid is available but the Israelis are refusing to allow access to those who need it. Time is running out fast. If you’re based in Ireland, please email your TD now to demand the government takes action to ensure the aid gets in. action.uplift.ie/campaigns/ga...

Gaza needs food - not words

I just emailed my local TDs demanding the government does all it can to let food into Gaza. Will you do the same?

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"Do we really believe that this is going to be limited to Palestine and the Middle East?" ― UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

The new National Development Plan proposals released today represent yet another retreat from real #ClimateAction by the government greenparty.ie/news/governm... #NDP @hazelchu.bsky.social @rodericogorman.bsky.social @pidgeon.ie

Government's abandonment of climate ambition can be seen in revised NDP allocations | Green Party

A huge bait-and-switch: Government's abandonment of climate ambition can be seen in revised NDP allocations

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€22bn allocated for transport in the NDP of which €2bn we know is for MetroLink. There's zero reference to where the other €20bn will go.

Feljin Jose@feljin.ie · last yr.

This sums up the level of detail in the government's new National Development Plan. No mention of DART+, Luas extensions, Cork Commuter Rail or any kind of public transport projects beyond what was already committed for MetroLink.

25 foreign ministries have made a joint statement calling for "the war in Gaza to end now", including the UK, much of the EU [not Hungary], Canada, Japan, Norway, Switzerland www.gov.uk/government/n...

Occupied Palestinian Territories: joint statement, 21 July 2025

The UK and 28 international partners gave a joint statement on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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Gaza is now officially in IPC Phase 5, the final stage of hunger. Designated as 'catastrophe'. A further 67 of the starving were killed by IDF soldiers yesterday trying to access food. Witnesses say the victims had their hands held in the air. One day, everyone will have always been against this.

In Lebanon, over 200,000 Palestine Refugees depend on UNRWA for essential services including education, healthcare, and humanitarian assistance. Amid the crises and increasing needs, #UNRWAworks to uphold dignity, and critical access to services. 📄 Learn more: www.unrwa.org/resources/fa...

Loved this special - #bogs #peatlands @npwsireland.bsky.social and looking forward to hearing @janeclarke.bsky.social read in @nlireland.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social event on Saturday - we've a few late release tickets - message us if you want to put your name on one #IntBogDay

Jane Clarke@janeclarke.bsky.social · last yr.

A terrific Countrywide Bogs Special @rteradio1.bsky.social Saturday 19th July. Delighted to read a poem inspired by bog restoration in Wicklow Mountains National Park @npwsireland.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues. Food prices have increased 40 fold. UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza. Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.

Fears of a Russian invasion are palpable in the Baltic states. My views at #MacGill25 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

‘Almost impossible’ for Irish people to understand Baltic fear of Russian invasion, says ex-MEP

Ciarán Cuffe says Germany and Austria find it very difficult to recognise magnitude of human slaughter in Palestine

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If you read one thing today - make it this by @andrimagnason.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o... gift share #climate change is everything change

Opinion | The Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us

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Oh God that’s all we need.

Shin Megami Tension Headache@chakacant.bsky.social · last yr.

Just a parade of weird fash losers who don't have a hope of getting the nominations they need (and one actually credible candidate so far in Catherine Connolly)

Today in Glasgow a man is arrested for holding a sign reading "Genocide in Palestine. Time to take action" Meanwhile the head of the Israeli air force who has overseen the killing of thousands of Palestinians is welcomed to an RAF conference www.thenational.scot/news/2532523...

UK welcome for Israeli military chief responsible for Gaza slaughter

AN Israeli military chief who has overseen the slaughter of thousands of Palestinians is visiting the UK.

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“Only god”, terror and fear in ICE detention www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

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Voice4Justice@voices4justice.bsky.social · last yr.

Israel is ethnically cleansing the West Bank, too www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025... Article in 🧵👇

That's the question of our time.

UNRWA@unrwa.org · last yr.

“How can we justify this level of indifference, this level of passivity, this level of hypocrisy?,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini tells TRT about the situation in #Gaza. An unbearable tragedy is unfolding before our eyes. #CeasefireNow

We have now published the programme for the 2025 Tudor & Stuart Ireland conference at UCD on 21-22 August. All details can be found here: tudorstuartireland.com/2025-confere...

2025 Conference (TSIXIII)

The 13th Annual Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference (TSIXIII) takes place in University College Dublin from 21-22 August 2025. Please register for the conference via Eventbrite here. Our confe…

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An interesting development:

Euromaidan Press@euromaidanpress.bsky.social · last yr.

Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania agreed to establish a Historians’ Forum to deprive Moscow of the opportunity to manipulate history The forum is a response to Russia’s attempts to fuel tensions between the countries amid its war against Ukraine euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/17/u...

Defending decency.

Looks like a full house in Kilkenny this evening for my talk titled #Climate and the Everything Emergency. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

Two-year-old Laila Khatib was shot in the head by Israeli forces while inside her home in the occupied #WestBank. According to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Israeli forces have repeatedly used unnecessary, disproportionate, and often lethal force against Palestinians.

Oireachtas committee hears the anti-semitism card played in support of Israel as Alan Shatter brazenly misrepresents the bill on trade with Israeli-backed settlements in the Occupied Territories as a ‘boycott Jews bill’. A charge that’s both unfair and false. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Sharp exchanges follow Alan Shatter’s comparison of occupied territories trade ban with 1930s Germany

Committee chair said it was ‘hurtful’ and ‘slanderous’ to claim bill was motivated by antisemitism

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So much looking forward to not voting for Mairead McGuinness for president.

Thosnaigh sraith nua de 'Aistí ón Aer' ar Raidió na Gaeltachta Dé hAoine. Le clos sa gclár sin bhí píosaí le Ailbhe Nic Giolla Chomhaill, Billy Lynch, Úna Nic Cárthaigh, Aisling Nic an Bhaird, agus Aindriú de Paor. Is féidir éisteacht siar leis an gclár ag an nasc seo: www.rte.ie/radio/rnag/c...

Aistí ón Aer Dé hAoine 11 Iúil 2025

Sraith ina gcloisfear aistí nua-scríofa ag réimse leathan scríbhneoirí ar iliomad ábhar.

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