Ireland further taking its place among the nations of the earth

'Yes to Europe, no to Russian law.'

Protesters speak outside Georgia's parliament where they have approved the divisive 'foreign agents' bill.

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Eurovision organisers EBU banned the 🇪🇺 flag at the final in Sweden. Morally vacuous and utterly incompetent.

Coffee in Rome (2): great to be back in a country where it’s possible to order a cappuccino without specifying “no chocolate”

Wonderful to be back in Rome and the Villa Spada - especially on 🇪🇺 Day. Patricia O’Brien

Excellent coffee in Rome this morning for 90 cents. Just sayin’ 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ridiculously belated but best news for a long time. Netanyahu’s ongoing brutality risks further damaging democratic world theguardian.com/world/article/…

One million people have fled to Rafah. For months, the U.S. has warned against an attack.

Netanyahu ignored the warnings. Now an assault is imminent. It will kill countless civilians.

President Biden must back his words with action. End all offensive military aid to Israel.

Ahead of the EU elections, remember what’s at stake. And what we take for granted.

A powerful statement

Devastating Fergal Keane piece on BBC News (UK) 10 just now, using an American medic’s footage from Gaza. Children nearly dead from starvation-gaunt, lifeless, cadaverous. Unimaginable suffering for innocents.

Well said

We should do more to avoid a Brexit-driven linguistic mindset. The EU is as far from a ‘bloc’ as it’s possible to be. ⁦Brigid Laffan⁩ ⁦Barry Andrews MEP⁩ ⁦Frances Fitzgerald MEP⁩ ⁦Mairead McGuinness⁩ ⁦Matt Carthy TD⁩
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Read my Irish Times article about how algorithms have changed how we communicate! I felt silly typing the words ‘skibidi toilet’ but it’s important to acknowledge how divided the online space has become, and how vulnerable that leaves children.

Two good pieces about social media in Irish Times yesterday. This one by my niece ⁦Catherine Prasifka⁩ and op ed by ⁦Jennifer O'Connell⁩ e-pages.dk/irishtimes/334…

'I think a much more likely reason that Iran attacked Israel was because Israel attacked the Iranian consulate in Damascus'.

Lord Ricketts reminds a pro-Israel advocate that bombing a diplomatic building tends to provoke a response.

👉Watch more youtube.com/c/Declassified…

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Important and wise article by ⁦Nathalie Tocci⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Good day for American interests and values

She is an extreme example, but I do wonder how many Kremlin fifth columnists (paid and unpaid) there are, not least in UK, Germany and in other Western countries. We need to do more to expose them