They want to rape 35,000 acres of some of Ireland's richest remaining ecosystems, utterly *jam packed* with biodiversity, spawning grounds for fish, massive carbon stores, vital coastal storm protection. The whole country must rise up against this criminal plan. www.thejournal.ie/investigates...

Who's behind the seaweed harvesting applications covering over 14,000 hectares of Ireland's coastline?

Four companies are seeking to harvest almost 51,000 wet tonnes of seaweed a year from Ireland’s coast.

thejournal.ie

I love, and feel so sad about, this from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social - and imagine if a Chief Safety Officer was actually a thing in newsrooms. Maybe editors would have responded by now if it was broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...

The Jason Arday Reckoning

The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet

broligarchy.substack.com

Good piece from Ellen O'Regan of POLITICO: “How a 17th-century Irish law is shielding Big Tech from class actions in Europe”. www.politico.eu/article/17th...

How a 17th-century Irish law is shielding Big Tech from class actions in Europe

Ireland has limits on outside funding for court challenges, stopping Europeans from seeking compensation from Big Tech for harms.

politico.eu

A petition to support these students can be signed here: my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi...

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

Siobhán Dowling@siobhandowling.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just astounding: 'the applicant "has not sufficiently explained ... gaps in their education/employment career". One of the students explained that the gap in their education is accounted for by the war and destruction in Gaza over the past two and a half years.' www.rte.ie/news/educati...

The treatment of the Ulm 5 in Germany is as scandalous as the British handling of Palestine Action and their supporters. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Ireland urged to put pressure on Germany over pro-Palestinian activist’s trial

Irish politicians concerned about Daniel Tatlow-Devally’s treatment in jail want Micheál Martin to send observers to Ulm 5 trial

theguardian.com

Back in 1988 John Healy published his memoir The Grass Arena about his life as a wino turned chessmaster. This August the sequel, The Glass Cage, is published. To coincide with this @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social screen my 2011 documentary about Healy. Please share if you can ifi.ie/film/from-th...

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: The South Bank Show profiles not yet famous RADA hopeful Maxine Peake, as part of which she and drama school friend Diane Morgan take private elocution lessons.

Brenda Fricker, a legend, has died. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

Brenda Fricker, Irish Oscar-winning actor, has died aged 81

Dublin born and raised, Fricker was the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar in 1990 for her role in Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot

irishtimes.com

The Irish state is doing all it can to ensure vacant buildings go unused in a housing crisis. I wrote for the LRB about the Revolutionary Housing League getting evicted www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Naoise Dolan | Evicted

The masked men had hidden the identification on their olive green private security uniforms. They wore sunglasses, body...

lrb.co.uk

‘“Palestine Action has little or nothing in common with the suffragettes,” the Lady Chief Justice said. But the suffragettes were if anything more violent.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on British complicity in Israeli aggression, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Selma Dabbagh | Annexation with a Sales Pitch

My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a call...

lrb.co.uk

I knew it was bad but holy God I just found out that those useless AI slop datacentres don't just need water but need DRINKING WATER

Fergie Chambers, the main subject of our documentary All About The Money, has been arrested in Ibiza and faces extradition to the US for his support of pro Palestinian causes. How can Spain facilitate this?

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pro-Palestine activist Fergie Chambers arrested in Spain after US extradition request - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/fergie-chambers-arrested-spain-after-us-extradition-request

Fergie Chambers, the main subject of our documentary All About The Money, has been arrested in Ibiza and faces extradition to the US for his support of pro Palestinian causes. How can Spain facilitate this?

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pro-Palestine activist Fergie Chambers arrested in Spain after US extradition request - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/fergie-chambers-arrested-spain-after-us-extradition-request

Heading to the @galwayfilm.bsky.social this weekend? Add ⭐ 'All About the Money' ⭐to your must-see list... and thank us later 😊 By @sineadoshea.bsky.social Supported by @screenireland.bsky.social Tomorrow at 6pm Town Hall #Galway 🎟️https://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/all-about-the-money/

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... The sickening, callousness of this particular war crime is just staggering. Here was a human being just trying to lift the people and children of Gaza, but they couldn’t have that. It’s drives me mad that the governments of Europe will not boycott Israel.

Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike

Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before Egypt played Argentina in their last 16 match

theguardian.com

There are not very many good seats left for the Irish premiere of All About the Money with @screenireland.bsky.social next weekend in @galwayfilm.bsky.social so please book soon if you are coming 💚 www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/all-...

All About The Money - Galway Film Fleadh

galwayfilmfleadh.com

The Oireachtas is 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.

dublininquirer.com

The Prairieland 8 are political prisoners. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

theguardian.com

923 children died at Bessborough Mother and Baby Home between 1922 and 1998. Only 64 have known graves. Utterly shameful decision by Cork City Council to build apartments on the site. More erasure of the historical mistreatment and shaming of women in Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Bessborough vigil hears survivors will chain themselves to diggers to stop building work

140 apartments are planned for the site of a mother and baby home where 923 children died

irishtimes.com

An internal report obtained by The Ditch has exposed hospital consultants prioritising private child patients over those on public lists – with public patients forced to wait significantly longer for vital surgery. www.ontheditch.com/internal-rep...

Internal report: public child patients forced to wait

An internal report obtained by The Ditch has exposed hospital consultants prioritising private child patients

ontheditch.com

Astounding to think the Straits of Hormuz will soon be open. Never thought I'd see this happen in my lifetime.

Knife attack victim Stephen Ogilvie — whose stabbing sparked two days of race-hate rioting — was previously tortured by a UVF-linked gang led by a double killer and overseen by a Shankill Butcher.

Notorious Shankill Butcher and a UVF double killer headed gang that set fire to Belfast knife attack victim

Paramilitaries branded hypocrites for using gruesome stabbing as excuse for race-hate riots

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Our team are surprised and pleased that ALL ABOUT THE MONEY won the Best Documentary award in @sfindiefest.bsky.social - it's quite a film and we're grateful for the support especially from the United States. South Africa next for @encounters.film Thanks as ever to @screenireland.bsky.social

The houses of ethnic minorities in Belfast didn’t ’go on fire’ last night - as my radio has told me - they were set alight

Went long-form on L.A. underground heroes Lexicon

Rock to the Rhythm: The Story of Lexicon

The L.A. underground duo opens up about their secret history.

open.substack.com

A reminder that data centres are filled with computer servers, mostly running on their own. There are hardly any people in those enormous buildings.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3mo ago

Una Mullally: Over 870,000 jobs created by data centres? Don’t make me laugh

To the journalists on this beat: 1) You don't actually have to treat every bit of drivel that comes out of Anthropic as a news story 2) If it's news because Anthropic is planning a big IPO, you could frame it as about how ridiculous their valuation is given that they are peddling fantasies. >>

The fascinating life and work of Agnes Varda. in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Lili Owen Rowlands · Againstness: Agnès Varda’s Fruit Salad

Beneath the whimsy and the wit, Agnès Varda’s films were motivated by contradiction and critique. She said she was...

lrb.co.uk

Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died

Don't miss this film, screening on Thursday 4th June at Light House Cinema "Palestinian comedians forge a path through laughter, using stand-up to express their resilience and spirit amid rising conflict." #FreePalestine www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/palesti...