Congratulations Hannagh Mc Ginley 🎉👏

The Taoiseach’s comments about “shanty towns being allowed to develop” are a blatant and cynical attempt to distract and deflect from what’s really going on. 🧵

Beautiful reading by Stephen Rea of 'If I Must Die' by Refaat Alareer, the Palestinian poet and professor murdered by apartheid Israel's #GazaGenocide at our protest at RTÉ
We must #BoycottEurovision2024

Tickets on sale now for these two gigs which will be brilliant: Shine on Palestine: The alternative Eurovision - One in Galway and one in Axis Ballymun.

Our joint statement on EU Migration and Asylum Pact, which raises serious human rights concerns in relation to children, detention and risks of refoulement, and fails to ensure rights of persons w/ disabilities.

The Community Recognition Fund, CRF, 2024 is targeted at areas in Clare that are hosting the highest number of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection and/or International Protection Applicants.
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I am extremely alarmed by information that Dr. Adnan Albursh, a well-known surgeon at #alshifa_hospital , has died while detained by Israeli forces in the Ofer military prison. While I acquire more information, I URGE the diplomatic community to intervene with CONCRETE MEASURES to…

A 14 year old boy has had limbs amputated after opening a tin of food that he found in his house in Khan Younis, after the withdrawal of the Israeli Defence Forces.

The tin of food was booby-trapped.

This is sickening.

#CeasefireNOW #WarCrimes
ochaopt.org/content/hostil…

I was on Newstalk Breakfast this morning to talk about why Ireland must stand with the Palestinian people, and not share the stage with the representatives of a genocidal apartheid state and must #BoycottEurovision2024 #FreePalestine
link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGmY2M1z4Kvx

Excellent letter from colleagues in MU English Dept to RTÉ challenging the decision last week to rescind an invitation to Rafeef Ziadah to appear on Arena.

'In the face of genocide, why should an artist be balanced, or be countered with “balance”?'

academicsforpalestine.org/2024/05/01/han…

Today we publish a new report - “That’s Not Your Role” - into State funding and advocacy in Ireland.

The report finds a worrying level of self-censorship by community & voluntary organisations receiving State funding due to fear of impact on funding.

iccl.ie/news/thats-not…

This is one of the key things we need to think about here in Ireland. We have a noisy and active far right, fed from international conspiracies however, how do we differentiate between this and how Travellers have been treated by everyone from Ministers down for generations?

Lads, if a population, a people, who are enduring an extended and extreme attempt to wipe them out (i.e genocide) ask us to boycott an entertainment event, in a non violent act of solidarity, I think its the very very least we could do, no? #Eurovision2024

Still open for signing here: forms.gle/yTmLkSTnsRuYeM…
Short version in the Irish Times today: irishtimes.com/opinion/letter…

Wrote about the outsized effect of US and UK social media users on debates concerning migration in Ireland

Pulled 30 days of Twitter data using social media monitoring tool Talkwalker, was interested in discussion of unrest in Newtownmountkennedy.

news.sky.com/story/how-inte…

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Our letter in the Irish Times today, 'We write, with increasing frustration but also hope inspired by students rising around the world, to reclaim Irish universities as spaces of justice', 400+ signatures, still open for signing here: forms.gle/yTmLkSTnsRuYeM…

🇵🇸🍉 Here we go! Dublin, 10th May
Shine on Palestine: The Alternative Eurovision - AXIS Ballymun
Get your tickets fast! 🍉🇵🇸
eventbrite.ie/e/shine-on-pal…
#BoycottEurovision2024 #FreePalestine

Housing is the missing link in the debate about immigration

🟧We have well over 100,000 usable empty houses and holiday homes around the country in some of the same towns, villages and cities that are apparently full.

irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

My new collection is launching in a month packed with exciting new books, hope to see some of you there!

BREAKING: President Gustavo Petro of Colombia announces the termination of diplomatic relations with Israel.