A real pleasure to speak about resisting Big Tech and AI at the ecosocialist summer camp organised by RISE. This was our biggest camp yet, with over 100 attending. People are looking for an alternative to a world dominated by crises and attacks on our living standards.

A real pleasure to speak about resisting Big Tech and AI at the ecosocialist summer camp organised by RISE. This was our biggest camp yet, with over 100 attending. People are looking for an alternative to a world dominated by crises and attacks on our living standards.

A real pleasure to speak about resisting Big Tech and AI at the ecosocialist summer camp organised by RISE. This was our biggest camp yet, with over 100 attending. People are looking for an alternative to a world dominated by crises and attacks on our living standards.

A real pleasure to speak about resisting Big Tech and AI at the ecosocialist summer camp organised by RISE. This was our biggest camp yet, with over 100 attending. People are looking for an alternative to a world dominated by crises and attacks on our living standards.

Out in Kiltalown this morning about the outrageous attempt of the Council to hike Council, HAP, Homeless HAP and AHB rents. How can people afford a 25%+ increase in rent during a cost of living crisis? A people power movement can stop this.

Out in Allenton last night on a lovely evening talking about the Council's attempted rent increases. One couple I spoke to had their rent hiked by more than 30%. People simply cannot afford that during a cost of living crisis. We must stop them, join the campaign.

Are you or anyone you know affected by these rent hikes in SDCC? If so, please contact us at paul.murphy@oir.ie so we can help you get organised and fight against this! They are due to increase on a rolling basis, so we need to fight this every way we can. #StopTheRentHikes #NoRentHikes

Really begs the question how much he has donated to 'Progress Ireland' to push his deregulation agenda doesn't it? Calls for wealth taxes on the super-rich are growing across the world and People Before Profit will renew our call for a tax on multi-millionaires in Budget 2027.

Irish entrepreneur Patrick Collison donated $7m to group opposing California wealth tax

Building a Better California opposes proposal that would require California’s billionaire residents to pay a one-off tax on their assets

irishtimes.com

What an indictment of our whole housing model. We need a state construction company to build social housing. That's the answer.

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

Their capitalist system is going to burn our planet unless we stop them. The climate crisis is here and yet the government is rolling back inadequate environmental protections at home and abroad. www.thejournal.ie/readme/wildf...

Wildfires at home and abroad: The climate crisis is here, and Ireland is far from prepared

With wildfires raging across Europe and here at home in Tipperary, Kerry and Wicklow, the warning signs couldn’t be clearer, yet the government drags its feet on climate action.

thejournal.ie

What is with all the confusing talk on the TV Licence? We're clear - the TV licence should be scrapped. It's an unjust regressive tax. It should be replaced by a Big Tech Tax to fund proper public service broadcasting. #ScrapTheTVLicence #BigTechTax

Witnesses of Ulm 5 trial in Germany speak out. Irish citizen Daniel Tatlow-Devally is subject to a show trial for taking action for Palestine. He is locked up 23 hours a day and only allowed to talk to family for an hour a month. Irish government must send observers.

"All the evidence suggests that an Irish citizen Daniel Tatlow-Devally along with 4 others is being denied a fair trial by another European state." This show trial of #TheUlm5 is ongoing currently. The Irish Government MUST send permanent observers to the trial to defend the rights of its citizens

The fightback against AI must start now. These tech billionaires pushing AI on us are fundamentally anti-humanist, they think they can replace our art with AI-generated content. They just don't get it - they see art as another realm for them to add to their profit portfolio.

If you didn't know better, you'd assume this headline meant the government is adopting a Melenchon style proposal for a 100% inheritance tax for anything over €12 million. Unsurprisingly they're actually doing the opposite and cutting tax for a tiny wealthy minority...

"It is an epidemic. The courts are full of women seeking barring and harassment orders. Thousands of children are growing up in violent homes." Laws like Jennie's Law are welcome, but we must fight the problem at it's root - sexism, misogyny, and the way that capitalism profits off of both of them.

A cruel joke that school books are being made free, while schools are encouraged to use them less and less in favour of "Ed-Tech" at the expense of parents. We need a serious examination of what technology is useful and when in the classroom, especially with others going back to basics.

Time is ticking for children with rare diseases in Ireland. We know for example that Skyclarys is the only drug that has been shown to slow Friedreich's ataxia, and it's available in other European countries.

Nobody wants a future where the majority of the internet and 'creative content' is AI slop. That's the future unless we collectively pull the brake on generative AI. This isn't a runaway train. The narrative of inevitability is propagated by Big Tech to try and profit off pushing AI at us.

It's disgraceful that so many parents and children are still being let down by this government. Cara shouldn't have to be protesting outside the Dáil like this, but she says she will be back in September if things remain the same.. #AON #FightForYourRights #EqualityInEducation

The hypocrisy of all of Big Tech and our governments pushing generative AI is unreal. Big tech has pirated the entire creative output of humanity. One rule for them, one rule for us. Reject this pure corporate propoganda about AI. Support artists.

A Ditch investigation into how Dublin investment firm Elkstone and its chief executive Alan Merriman coordinated a $500,000 investment in a deal involving Jeffrey Epstein was removed from Google search worldwide after a bogus copyright complaint.  www.ontheditch.com/dublin-inves...

Ditch story on Elkstone Epstein deal deleted from Google

It was subject of a bogus copyright complaint.

ontheditch.com

Fianna Fáil’s Norma Foley opened the new office of a business illegally renting out properties in her constituency for more than €300 a night. "I support any business which showcases the beauty and attractiveness of Kerry," said Foley. www.ontheditch.com/norma-foley-...

Foley backs company behind illegal short-term lets

"I support any business which showcases the beauty and attractiveness of Kerry."

ontheditch.com

Attending press conference of the campaign to save Carlow College. It's crazy how this college is being closed down, with 87 jobs being lost and the removal of humanities education from the South East of the country.

No more data centres! Serious investigations need to happen by Uisce Éireann into water usage in data centres. Nobody knows or even seems to want to know how much water is being used by these energy-guzzling data centres. #BanDataCentres #HosepipeBan

We need answers from Uisce Éireann (Irish Water) about water usage in data centres. Nobody knows or even seems to want to know how much water is being used by these energy-guzzling data centres. We need a ban on any more data centres. #BanDataCentres #HosepipeBan

We know that out of control data centre development has led to 23% of electricity being consumed by data centres. A recent report found that data centres consume 80% of electricity in Dublin, yet Uisce Éireann can’t or won’t tell us the effect of data centres on water consumption.

Discussing with people tonight in Tallaght about An Post's plans to move our sorting office to Lucan. This will be a disaster for workers and our community. It will mean having to travel to Lucan to collect missed parcels. Pressure to get An Post to drop this plan is growing.

For anyone who needs to collect a parcel or missed delivery, this move to Lucan mean a long trip across the city. For the workers, it means upending their life. In Rathfarnham, a public meeting and local protest helped get An Post to defer the closure of the Edmondstown sorting office til next year

An Post are planning to shut the Tallaght delivery office and shift operations to a hub near Lucan. For anyone misses a delivery, that could means hours of travel just to pick up a parcel. Many people don't drive and the public transport links to Grangecastle are not good enough.