I've heard that the GC event in Belfast encouraged people to join trans supportive groups in order to change 'hearts and minds' from within. Organisations need to take note that this is most certainly a problem and it needs nipped in the bud.
Stephen O'Neill
@oneillsb.bsky.social
Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
There is an Arlene Foster punchline here somewhere
Israeli court halts crocodile transfer to Palestinian prison over animal welfare concerns
LONDON: An Israeli court on Sunday temporarily blocked plans by the national security minister to install crocodile-filled moats around Ketziot Prison, following a legal challenge centered on the rept...
arabnews.com
I am in the know when it comes to Paris. Nobody can deny this.
Dónal Hassett@donalh.bsky.social · 4d agoVery good exhibition on borders and border regimes at the Cité des sciences in Paris. Fascinating to learn about Border Forensics, a group that investigates border violence, and about the sand walls and policing or borders between the Maghreb and the Sahel.
Very good exhibition on borders and border regimes at the Cité des sciences in Paris. Fascinating to learn about Border Forensics, a group that investigates border violence, and about the sand walls and policing or borders between the Maghreb and the Sahel.
After 10 years at the helm of Irish Studies at QUB, with various ups and downs over the last decade, I’m handing over to our new leadership team from Monday. Many thanks to Peter and @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for stepping up to take forward Irish Studies in Belfast! www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
New Irish Studies Leadership
After 10 years as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Prof Peter Gray is handing over to a new leadership team from the start of August 2026.
qub.ac.uk
I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.
Very brave of Uefa to show Ireland that it is actually good to boycott football matches.
really nice for UEFA to take a principled stand against Infantino while still admitting a member association representing a state committing genocide
Statement from Féile on twitter saying they are "delighted at today's outcome at the High Court...a vindication of Féile's position in standing up for those who are marginalised...(the) desicion to withdraw this event from our programme stands."
‘Studying in Ireland was the hope I was holding on to’: Palestinian teacher ‘dying inside’ since visa refused www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
‘Studying in Ireland was the hope I was holding on to’: Palestinian teacher ‘dying inside’ since visa refused
Teacher of English was accepted onto Master’s programme at UCD’s Belfield campus starting in September
irishtimes.com
If any of you think the controversy around the Odyssey was bad, just wait til the film version of North arrives.
Conor@ernekid.bsky.social · last wk.Seamus Heaney Cinematic Universe.
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @uplift.ie
Visa for Gaza students
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?
my.uplift.ie
Another example of how the current model is destined to fail as long as the government remains resolutely committed to letting the market dictate all housing policy. www.independent.ie/irish-news/d...
Deal for 140 Dublin social homes falls through as €4,500 rental ads appear online
A total of 140 social homes slated for Dublin 9 are instead appearing online for rent privately for up to €4,500 a month.
independent.ie
'They include; not supplying original bank statements, a failure to account for gaps in their education & a failure to supply strong evidence that they will return home once their course of study is completed.' When the bank has been bombed & the gap in education is obvious. This is Jim O'Callaghan
polifeed@feed.gavreilly.com · last wk.RTÉ News: Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan students
Paul Murphy used his 'guile' and 'experience'; Sean Cavanagh's foul called 'diabolical in its cynicism'. Maybe other factors are at work when it comes to Tyrone
Stephen O'Neill@oneillsb.bsky.social · last wk.Can only imagine that the same amount of vitriol about Sean Cavanagh in 2013 will be direct Paul Murphy's way there. An absolutely cynical pull down on O'Donoghue that denied a clear goalscoring chance and conned the ref
So Irish Examiner journalist Alison O’Reilly hears a solicitor, Gavin Booth say that the suspect in the car bomb case ‘spent time in Saoradh.’ She, being kind, misheard him and reports it as time in Syria. The misreporting (still up, btw) goes around the world and media shrugs. Bizarre
Mayo 4 Sam AND Grand Theft Auto 6 in the same year. There’s a lad in Crossmolina with a PS5, a genie lamp, and one wish left.
Absolute chaos from start to finish. Mayo playing the GAA version of Gegenpress and should have been well out of sight at the end. Cinematic
Can only imagine that the same amount of vitriol about Sean Cavanagh in 2013 will be direct Paul Murphy's way there. An absolutely cynical pull down on O'Donoghue that denied a clear goalscoring chance and conned the ref
So we have male politicians, demanding inclusion based on ‘women discussing their rights’ - not supposing that the other women participating in the festival already have their reasons for not sharing their priorities. Because we all know the members of the ‘sex class’ all think with the one mind.
Minister threatens to pull Féile funding over event cancellation
During the interview, the minister was also asked directly whether he believed someone born biologically male could become a woman
belfastlive.co.uk
I get it’s a wide bunch of people who have ‘opinions’ on platforming transphobes. Some are genuinely not well informed, others idiots, some abhorrent, and then the gleeful Far Right-opportunists. But just to be clear : trans rights are not a ‘debate’ subject, you don’t debate people’s humanity.
This whole debacle also reinforces to me how unBritish I feel as a person from the North of Ireland. White women colonial ideas of feminism don’t fit with the ideals of a festival like Féile, which was built to proclaim the humanity of West Belfast in the face of British est dehumanizing.
It's called The Humanities and it's being systematically dismantled due to HE cuts. 😡
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w agoUniversities should arm students with AI ‘eval’ powers ft.trib.al/KP8p07e | opinion