The revelations keep coming Declassified files & stellar research keeps exposing the British administration’s appalling - sometimes criminal - behaviour in Ireland After centuries of persecution and extractive colonialism, Britain couldn’t simply leave Ireland in 1921. Instead

I am an Irish citizen, born in Derry and living in Belfast. I gave expert evidence to the Convention on the Constitution in 2013. After the work done and promises made, it is remarkable that in 2025 I am still excluded from voting for my own President. A shared island?

“Halloween, our Samhain, is now represented by plastic pumpkins. Our language and our culture is being lost to global events that have nothing to do with indigenous Irish culture.” irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…

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🇮🇪 Terence MacSwiney died 105 years ago today in Brixton Prison after 74 days on hunger strike. Ard-Mhéara Chathair Chorcaí, Irish Republican revolutionary, philosopher, poet, playwright, Irish language and cultural revivalist, patriot. He gave his life for the freedom of

Spare a thought for the bulk of the media commentators and newspaper columnists who now need to patronisingly explain how Catherine Connolly’s landslide victory isn’t really reflective of the public mood on neutrality, housing, health foreign affairs, Irish unity, Gaeilge etc…

"Experience the Irish language revival first hand". Tá sé go deas é seo a fheicáil ar suíomh gréasáin Tourism Ireland. Tá an-chuid suim i nGaeilge thar lar. It's good to see this on the Tourism Ireland website. There's interest in Irish overseas too. tourismireland.com/international/…

Priorities.

An 88 percent increase in the number of whole homes to rent in Gaeltacht areas on Airbnb – in just six years 'The history of the Gaeltachts as places of radical and forward thinking gets forgotten now when they've become a holiday destination,' say Conradh na Gaeilge ⭕️ ontheditch.com/airbnb-expansi…

The IDF is a tribal militia cosplaying as a conventional army. The only reason it can indulge this murderous LARPing is because Washington and its Western partners fund, arm, and politically shield it. Take that away and you’re looking at gunmen driving around in technicals...

“When Alison O’Connor warned that the rise of the Irish language might be “creating a them-and-us situation,” she revealed less about the language than about the anxieties of Ireland’s establishment commentariat.” Read full piece here 👉 substack.com/@senmacbrdaigh…

The ethnocidal thinking that defines Israeli and Israeli-American culture: ban smartphones for young people to hide Israel's mass murder of Palestinians. Proving yet again that Israel is a tribal state with a tribal mindset that cosplays at being part of Western civilization.

What if the British landed in Crossmaglen and commandeered the GAA pitch?

Published four weeks ago - will keep posting here until there is another article supporting Irish neutrality published in a national paper. Seems particularly important this week given the volume of fearmongering in the media & calls on Govt to prioritise military spending.

The Reality for #Disabled Citizens in Ireland - Intersectional Trauma of Homelessness, Poverty, Social Isolation & Never-Ending Moral Injury & Moral Distress - ‘I have been told a minimum of 11 years waiting’: On the housing list as a wheelchair user irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/1…

From a verified post in the last hour by an influential Trump acolyte and spouse of the White House Deputy Chief of Staff. This is literal American imperialism...

Even from Tokyo the message from the people is the same....FREE FREE PALESTINE ありがとう日本

🇮🇪 We continue the fight back against Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’s shameful plan to turn the GPO into shops and offices. This is sacred ground - the birthplace of the Irish Republic, the heartbeat of the Easter Rising, a monument to our country’s struggle for freedom. Hands off

Had V Interesting Discussion with Hugh Linehan⁩ & ⁦⁦The Irish Times Inside Politics Podcast On Ireland’s #TripleLock -I Believe We Need A Referendum To Put #Neutrality In Constitution & Whole Of Society Defence⁩ - Should Ireland keep the Triple Lock? irishtimes.com/podcasts/insid…

A private jet touched down in Shannon Airport. Onboard were Palestinian deportees from the US, their wrists and ankles shackled. It’s not that the Irish state doesn’t want to involve itself with this depravity – it doesn’t want to acknowledge it. ontheditch.com/comment-the-sh…