“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” - Aldous Huxley

I'm talking to someone today worried he is at risk of this & I can't describe the terror. Years spent escaping a dictatorship, being extorted on the route, locked up in Libyan detention, tortured, risking his life at sea, & now this horrible uncertainty. x.com/sallyhayd/stat…

Yes, there is basically a class system in academia now with a well-paid full-time elite, whose position is often based purely on luck, & a precariat which is struggling finanically & has no real sustainable future. The precariat are often brighter & produce the better work.

Oceans of Hope Challenge founder Robert Munns on sailing with MS and the first Irish event afloat.ie/blogs/waveleng…

Sr Majella McCarron, social justice and climate campaigner who fought for rights of migrants independent.ie/irish-news/obi…

A Journey Around the Sea Area Forecast with Meteorologist Joanna Donnelly afloat.ie/blogs/waveleng…

Respect for Barry O'Kelly for calmness, courage and dignity in responding to people who harassed a very good journalist at work.
#RTEInvestigates #TruthMatters

“Dear Germans, stop making Palestinians pay for your parents crimes.”

Spotted in Berlin, Germany

As a Palestinian & a filmmaker - I’m starting an open letter right here & if you share or like it, consider it signed: Dear Jonathan -Thank you for being a decent human being & openly opposing occupation and violence being inflicted on any innocent civilians. Millions r with you.

Is Galway losing its cultural capital? Meet the artists who fear for the future independent.ie/entertainment/…

An invitation to Cillian Murphy.

#CillianMurphy #Oscars #Cork
@Eoin_Bearla Graham Hunter

A Sasanach learns Irish: ‘I wish I’d been forced to do this at school’ independent.ie/irish-news/a-s…

I’m firing my agent. First the Late Late show debacle and now this. 🤬

delete before hollywood turns it into an orientalist high fashion thriller movie starring timothee chalamet and zendaya

While the American are running their obscene PR campaign over Gaza -

The German term, coined in WW2 for people who have been starved to near death and become all skin and bone is Muselmann. Those were the people we saw in the movies the Allies filmed when they liberated the…

When you see death more than one time
When you lose all your memories, life and friends
When you lose your house and sleep in the streets
When the snipers open fire on you and you can’t find food, water, medicine and the smell of dead bodies become part of your day
You lose…

What remains of the PRCS ambulance sent to rescue Hind Rajab 12 days ago. The ambulance was bombed by the Israeli occupation, resulting in the deaths of the crew, Yusuf Al-Zeino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun.
#Gaza #NotATarget ❌ #IHL
#TheyKilled_Hind_YousefAndAhmed

About 5 years ago The Stunning did a fundraiser organised by Ciaran Tierney and others in Galway to bring the Gaza kids team to Ireland. The Israelis refused to let them leave the open prison. All were gutted. Now this. 💔

“Immigration, as has been said countless times before, keeps the country running. Now it is being framed as something we must ‘tackle’.” ⁦Una Mullally⁩ ⁦The Irish Times⁩ [€] irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Rest in Peace Adele Springsteen ❤️