Seán Finnan
@seanfinnan.bsky.social
PhD candidate & Research Ireland scholar @tudublin seanfinnan.ie
Government shamefully votes to abolish the Triple Lock, which is at the core of our neutrality according to Micheál Martin. This is not the end. It still has to get through multiple stages of the Oireachtas. We need to build pressure to stop them and allow the people to decide.
Don’t pass the picket from your kitchen table 💪🏻
SIPTU@siptu.bsky.social · 2w agoSIPTU has a clear message for public servants scheduled to work from home on Wednesday. Don't do it. Don't open your laptop. Don't check your emails. Don't teach online. Don't answer your phone. A strike only works when the work stops. Remote work is work. #UnionStrike
DDR is 10 years old today. I buried my grandfather the day before the station's launch party and then met someone whose parents were at the funeral and knew from that moment we had stumbled into building a community radio station. Here's to ten more years listen.dublindigitalradio.com/home
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Irish-Palestinian solidarity was built over several decades by the hard work of pro-Palestine advocates, many of whom toiled in obscurity. Delighted to have had this published in @ancloganmag.bsky.social to draw attention to their efforts from 1967 onwards. www.anclogan.ie/from-belfast...
From Belfast to Bethlehem: A Short History of Irish-Palestinian Solidarity, 1967-2023
Irish support for Palestine was neither automatic nor inevitable. Pádraig Mac Oscair traces six decades of patient organising up to our present moment, where historically high solidarity meets histori...
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The FAI repeatedly told us players would be protected. Yet when a 24 year old acted on his conscience, they left him to stand alone & used a vote among his teammates to validate their own cowardice. This isn’t protecting a young player, it’s protecting themselves at his expense. #StopTheGame
Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · last mo.What has emerged at a later part of the FAI press conference: Knowing the circumstances of the upcoming games, the FAI did a trawl of prospective callups and checked with abut 30 of the most likely players to ensure they were comfortable fulfilling those fixtures. Goalkeepers were not among them.
Developments with Ireland: My understanding is that Gavin Bazunu has indicated that he doesn't want to play in the game - a view expressed in meeting last night. And there are other players now deliberating over coming with him. Training delayed. [Daniel McDonnell]
Igor Mortis@munizreplacement.bsky.social · last mo.Sense now that something brewing in Ireland squad. Fifteen minutes before scheduled press conference with Irish and Israeli media sitting in the room, FAI inform us that press conference moved until after training, delayed by more than two hours. [Gavin Cooney]
Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · last mo.The story of Natalie Abudayyeh (21) a journalism student and member of the Palestine Women's Football Team. She played in Dublin against @bfcdublin.bsky.social in 2024. Today, she's in an Israeli jail. Her family and teammates say she was taken at gunpoint from university without charge.
Press release from the family of Irishman Daniel Tatlow-Devally, who has been imprisoned in Germany since a Gaza-related protest at an Elbit Systems site in Ulm. "On 8 September, Daniel will have spent one full year in German pre-trial detention, in 23-hour daily lock up, without a verdict."
The great Jess Kav on the soul-searching (or lack thereof) in the Irish music scene over the last week or so
Angel At The Table
The thicket of un-grooming and the Irish music industry
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Today's sad news brought me back to this Irish Studies Review article by Martin McLoone, which used Kevin Keegan as jumping-off point to discuss Irish surnames, Englishness, assimilation and who gets included in the popular image of the Irish in Britain. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Why didn't Kevin Keegan play for Ireland? Contrasting narratives of the Irish in Britain
This article considers a range of contrasting narratives about the Irish in Britain that are sometimes overlapping and sometimes contradictory. These narratives reflect the complexity of the Irish ...
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Nice argument, but it’s too late. I’ve already depicted myself as the calm under pressure, cheerful, and suave Pico Lopes while you are the shocked and fearful Lionel Messi
When an immigrant stabbed a man in Belfast a few weeks ago, the image of that attack was on the front page of most of the UK papers. Jeffrey Donaldson is not on the front page of the Times, Telegraph, Express, Mirror, Star, Metro, Morning Star, i paper, Guardian, Herald, Journal, or National
Tonight's the night. Jane Deasy's The Warm Up opens tonight at Cork School of Music. You can listen back to the radio show below to get you warmed up :) www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigita...
Time Slip W/Jane Deasy (The Warm Up Special)
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Seán Finnan@seanfinnan.bsky.social · 5mo ago"Four performers prepare to go on stage. The same routine. Night after night after night." Put together a mix with Jane Deasy and the cast of The Warm Up for Éist tonight at 6pm. It's a sonic sketchbook of music and influences that have inspired the show. www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/the...
We used to call them ‘race riots’ now we call them ‘anti-immigration protests’.
The incident is racist neo-Nazis wandering around in a pack and attacking anyone they decide looks like an immigrant.
Glasgow Times@glasgowtimes.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨 BREAKING: Glasgow city centre has been LOCKED DOWN amid a major ongoing incident. Police have sealed off streets, with traffic and pedestrians being diverted away from the area. 🔴 Follow our LIVE updates for everything we know so far, closures and advice for anyone heading into town 👇
All week, I’ve seen the best of Belfast at the Book Festival- welcoming, inclusive, creative, joyful- tonight we’re making sure all our lovely guest writers can get home safely through riots and burnt out vehicles and outpouring of hatred. It is such a shame. We are much better than this.
Glasgow city centre had an edge tonight that felt scarier than the Dublin riots a few years back. Police everywhere and the aftermath of random attacks on non white folks and delivery cyclists on Glasgow Bridge.
"Four performers prepare to go on stage. The same routine. Night after night after night." Put together a mix with Jane Deasy and the cast of The Warm Up for Éist tonight at 6pm. It's a sonic sketchbook of music and influences that have inspired the show. www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/the...
The Warm Up | Cork Midsummer Festival | 12 – 21 June 2026
A music theatre performance based on a live recording of actors warming up before the opening night of a show.
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Stephen Roddy@stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 5mo agoStrong recommend if you can get to Cork for this.
Slowly coming back to after Open Ear. Hearing Legion of One's dubby sludge on the beach was probably this year's highlight. Sunday was one hit after another. frontendsynthetics.bandcamp.com/album/of-dub
OF DUB, by LEGION OF ONE
10 track album
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Well done Revolutionary Housing League lreland Longterm empty buildings are vandalism Time for "use it or lose it"
INAR statement, including some description of the video referenced in the report. I have seen the video and the description is accurate. it was in the street, in broad daylight, and there were loads of people standing around watching, filming, talking, etc.
Anois, Os Ard is back, just in time for yr long weekend. Wrote about dreamestate indie-pop, folk-horror soundscapes, notes on becoming and the apocalypse, ‘90s internet star ambience, a breakthrough rap masterclass, some drone stuff, some club stuff, all sorts! open.substack.com/pub/anoisosa...
I'll be in Trinity next Weds giving a guest lecture, a mere 46 years after leaving midway through second year of my degree to pursue something or other. Talk about the long way around. Do come along if you're in Dublin. bit.ly/4dYIHMf
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