The working people of Britain have been struggling to make ends meet for the last 3-4 years. They've been told "sorry, we know it's hard, but it is what it is. You have to put up with it". But as soon as anyone says to the rich executives and shareholders of the wealthiest

President Michael D. Higgins has sent a message to those attending this afternoon's memorial service in Birmingham to remember all those killed 50 years ago today in the horrific bombings in the city

Very important to recognise that Netanyahu is not being indicted in a personal capacity alone but as Head of Government of the State of Israel. This grave charge applies to the entire state and the army that is conducting these war crimes.

Blair has always got EVERYTHING wrong about the Middle East and his vast ignorance has destroyed his career. It also resulted in around one million unnecessary deaths.

An independent analysis of Gaelic games activity by Sheffield Hallam University’s Sport Industry Research Centre has found that the Social Value of Gaelic games is worth at least €2.87 billion to Irish society. #GAABelong

Bold choice for Micheál Martin to choose to end his election campaign with perhaps the most callously and politically stupid thing I've ever heard anyone say in an election campaign, when all he had to do was not say anything at all.

‘We walked him to the station in the rain We kissed him as we put him on the train We sang him a song of times long gone For we knew that we’d be seeing him again’ 💚

Palestinians don’t need your sympathy or your symbolic gestures. We need you to cut ties with our killers and colonizers. We need you to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. Yes that includes academic institutions, whose commitment to genocide is well documented.

The Government should make building hundreds of thousands of council homes its defining purpose. No other policy, achievable within a Parliament, would have greater social and economic benefits. theguardian.com/society/2024/d…

The story of the Birmingham Six was & remains a defining moment for the Irish in Britain. After his release Paddy Hill's remarkable humanity inspired MoJo, an organisation dedicated to highlighting miscarriages of justice. Ní bheidh a leithéid ann arís.💚 theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/d…

Excellent letter in the Guardian. "There is an alternative narrative Starmer could lead, stressing the enormous benefits of immigration."

This has been Israel's ambition since October 2023: use the Hamas attack as a pretext to make the conditions of Gaza so unliveable that ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians comes dressed up as a humanitarian effort.

Is the loophole that Palestinians were inadvertently classified as humans?

Fair play Christy Moore, a nice nod to Bik,in his speech when presenting Donal Lunny, with his well deserved Lifetime achievement award.

Yesterday David Lammy was unequivocal and clear that Israel is breaking international law in Gaza. Today Number 10 contradicts that and says it is merely “at risk of breaching” the law. It is an extraordinary position to put the Foreign Secretary in - who will now have to say why

Let it begin.

18 months ago, as a patient on a psychiatric ward having attempted to take my own life- this day felt impossible. Yet today I graduated from Queen's University Belfast 🎓, with the highest average mark in HAPP at Queen's, achieving a 1st in Anthropology & Philosophy & receiving the Joint Honours Prize.

Today - along with other rebels - I got an email from Party Authorities telling me I voted in Parliament against the Govts welfare reforms 6 times in one day. I don't repent my votes. I was elected on a pledge to stand by working class electors and above all the poorest.

We are repeatedly advised that the PSNI has insufficient numbers of officers. Yet here they are in London helping the Met to arrest pensioners for holding cardboard signs.