Channel 4: “If this war spreads, there’s no doubt all American bases in the Persian Gulf will be destroyed. All oil and gas installations will be destroyed by drones. The smart thing to do is for the UK and US governments to rein in their mad dog and to stop murdering children.”

If you watch the news through the BBC, Sky or ITV you would have no idea this happened...
#BrokenMedia

Nothing to see here. Just Dubai after receiving 18 months’ rainfall in a single day, airport runway under water, the usual stuff, really.

Forgot to post the other day but here's my finished commission piece, a view of the ruin of the Red Abbey in Cork City, painted in watercolour. Might do more street scenes now so keep an eye out.

#IrishArt #IrishLandscape #Commission #TheRedAbbey #CorkCity #Watercolour

Jesus! The sheer unbridled hatred & rage coming from the guy behind the camera was horrendous. How was he not lifted? All those Gardai present & those men still had to make their way through a rabid mob. (Reason car couldn’t turn left is because mob blocked the road with pallets)

How I suggest we handle the Judge Nolan situation

Serious questions need to be asked of politicians and police

When climate activists protest, they are arrested, beaten and killed

When farmers protest, politicians and police capitulate
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

I'm old enough to remember last November when those of us who criticised the Israeli Ambassador's presence at their Ard Fheis were ridiculed.

Some news, I'm going to be taking part in this craft market in Midleton on Sunday the 14th of this month, just 8 days away. I'll have prints and a couple of paintings to show there so come and see. Ask info is in the poster below.

#CraftMarket #Midleton #Cork #SageRestaurant

All the local cllrs backing 'protests', the TDs who posed for snaps with far-right agitators outside the Dail and said it was' only concerned locals asking questions' - this is where it ends up....

i'm just waiting for the right opportunity . . .

Before painting the final piece I made this smaller one to show my commissioners to see if it they liked it, which they did so I was happy to go ahead.

#IrishArt #LandscapeArt #LandscapePainting #UrbanLandscap #RedAbbey #CorkCity #Watercolour

A while ago, I got a commission to paint the Red Abbey in Cork City, an urban scene way out of my comfort zone and a watercolour too. I started by making little studies to figure out the shapes, colour and light.

#RedAbbey #CorkCity #Watercolour

📯Small bit of news - the lovely people at The People's Museum of Limerick have been good/mad enough to put together an exhibition of my work, launching on Saturday 27th April at 5pm. There'll be light refreshments, doodles, and me having a nervous breakdown in a corner somewhere. All welcome!

Lost lives as a euphemism for slaughter in every official language of the EU. Sad and revealing.

It's an embarrassment and a stain on this country that the Israeli ambassador and diplomatic mission have not been expelled from our island

GAZA: 5 aid workers, including 4 foreigners, were killed in an Israeli air strike in Deir el-Balah.

Among the foreign aid workers were Polish, Australian, Irish and UK passport holders.

The humanitarians were working for World Central Kitchen.

A former AIB branch on North Main Street
Closed October 2021 so why is it still empty?
Surely use it or lose it
Scandalous waste in a housing emergency
Vacancy is a destructive force in Cork City, the gateway to dereliction
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #RestPlayWork

I really can't remember which family member said it to me but I have a memory of someone joking some dark night 'listen, some of us starved and died during the famine, but some of us became Americans, and that is much worse.'

BREAKING: An Israeli strike has hit a car carrying UN observers outside a town in southern Lebanon, two security sources have told Reuters.

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