Remembering John Hume today on the 5th anniversary of his death. Politician, Peacemaker, Patriot. His contribution to peace immense. Remembering also Pat & her unswerving courage & commitment. We owe them a great debt. The John and Pat Hume Foundation #JohnHume #peace #sunday #OnThisDayI

The incredible beauty of the Ocean. A thread 🧵 1. I still have no idea how people traveled these seas 500 years ago 😱

Every single person I've spoken to inside Gaza for a week has been telling me the exact same thing: "Almost all food aid coming in is being stolen, looted, or resold at exorbitant prices; Hamas, clans, gangs, thugs & merchants are stealing aid; hardly any goes to needy people!"

MISSING 🐕‍🦺 #ticknock #fairycastle Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council #sandyford #dublinmountains #dunlaoghairerathdowncouncil #dlr

Derek Mooney 🇺🇦🇮🇪🇪🇺 Irish Foreign Ministry Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent President Donald J. Trump Retreat into ‘false narratives’ and Ireland’s unique capacity to see the ‘truth’ all you want. This is about raw power and an Irish political class with no capacity for strategically analysing Irish interests, be it in the European security context or US support for Israel.

Has the US Treasury responded and are their any indications of its views on the OTB? Is the US Commerce Dept looking at the issue and could it link the matter with wider tariff policy? What are the views of Democrats on the hill re the OTB? Any action by state legislatures and

How does this win hearts and minds?

An excellent piece on the media’s inability/unwillingness to divine anything approximating the truth on Gaza from Donal Moloney. A forensic evisceration of two recent RTÉ News interviews. Solutions won’t be found in simply appealing to emotions and pressurising one side.

Remember Them Their Name Liveth For Evermore All of the nurses, military personnel, civilians who died when SS Vyner-Brooke was sunk on 14 Feb 1942. All of those who survived then subsequently murdered by Japanese troops in Radji Beach, in the Bangka Island Massacre 16

Israel’s decision to further advance settlements in the West Bank is a breach of international law and will damage the viability of the two-state solution. My statement here: europa.eu/!W76CBg

Please, just die for the cause! It is official: Hamas’s strategy in Gaza City, which is experiencing the beginning of a ground invasion by the Israeli military, is to use the entire population as human shields to cause casualties and stop the Israeli military’s advance. This has

Yet she is happy for them all to keep a veto on Irish decisions on deployment of our Defence Forces through the farcical triple lock (as well as russia and China, on who she was silent on trustworthiness).

Catherine Connolly says we ‘cannot trust’ the US, England and France. But interestingly she also believes we can only trust them (and Russia & China) when it comes to our neutrality. Which is it? irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…

This is excellent. The Gaza City plan is a disaster waiting to happen, Israel has been strategically drifting in Gaza since at least the January ceasefire and arguably before, and Israel’s international leper status is now a far greater threat to Israel’s future than Hamas is.

RTE's Emma O'Kelly holding aloft an image of a Hamas member while listening to a Hamas worshipper. Tell me how this is acceptable?

The Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Varsen Aghabekian, an Armenian Christian, issued a statement calling for Hamas to disarm/surrender its weapons and end the disaster that the terror group started with its Oct. 7 massacre. Soon after, hordes of Hamas heads and

A really powerful and personal article on the tendency to minimise/reframe the horrible and unnecessary actions of SF/IRA during the Troubles.

*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:* **“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I

Douglas Murray says: 'Ireland couldn't pick a side in WW2'??? MI5 says: Ireland approached Britain and MI5 in 1938 to work together on tackling the Germans 'There was ‘A greater contribution to the British cause through security cooperation, Irish exports and Irish civilian