Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Horrific. The only paper I saw running it yesterday as their lead story was the Irish Examiner, couldn’t see it on other national papers abroad (guardian etc.)

Writer Alan O'Gorman, accepting the IFTA for best film for Christy, talked about the importance recognising and destigmatising the experience of being in the care system, said "Free Palestine, Free Palestine, Saoirse don Phalaistín, get the US army out of Shannon."
RTÉ cut this part of his speech..

Bravo to Olwen Fouéré and Margo Harkin, who turned down honorary doctorates from the University of Galway over its ties to Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology which works closely with the apartheid state's "defense industries", key to its genocide of the Palestinian people.
#BDS

I think much of the media underestimated how many of us have been Catherine Connolly fans for years 💚 The power of Left unity was also wildly underestimated ✨ #PresidentConnolly #Áras2025 #Aras2025

On a day which included a TV debate and Jim Gavin’s surprise Áras drop-out, Catherine Connolly still found time to impress the public with her football skills.

Read more: jrnl.ie/6836588

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

President Michael D. Higgins has sent a message to all those celebrating Pride today and across the summer

Join the Cork branch of the IPSC tomorrow, 1pm, Grand Parade. Stand together for Palestine, against racism, bigotry and the far right.#FreePalestine 🇵🇸

10 years ago. As we waited for the #MarRef results at Cork HQ. I’ll never forget that weekend. ❤️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪

Oh my god, I bawled my way through that hashtag ten years ago 😭❤️

Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partners, a ‘learning moment’

Using this as an example to students next academic year on how AI can’t do hands (ie can neither think critically nor check its own sources)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Marriage equality 10 years on: A boy sees us hold hands and says ‘I f***ing hate gay people’ I miss the optimism and unforgettable beauty of that time, whatever ugliness came before or after

Una Mullally today on the hope of the #MarRef moment -
“Ten years ago, when we came together, when empathy was expressed, the movement became broad and porous… If we can tap into that again, who knows what kind of society we could be?”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Ireland (and France) still with above average cinema attendance, a fact I like to see, despite global decrease last year 🎟️🍿

amp.rte.ie/amp/1513629/

Our President calling out apartheid Israel's forced starvation of Palestinians #GazaGenocide #SanctionsNow

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress:

"They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"

Filmmakers Denounce Industry ‘Silence’ About the Killing of Cannes Film Subject Ralph Fiennes and Yorgos Lanthimos were among over 350 artists to sign an open letter denouncing the industry’s silence in response to Cannes film subject, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.

Ralph Fiennes and Yorgos Lanthimos were among over 350 artists to sign an open letter denouncing the industry’s silence in response to Cannes film subject, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.

It has been over 9 weeks of siege on #Gaza, with the State of Israel banning the entry of all humanitarian aid, medical, and commercial supplies.

UNRWA has thousands of trucks ready to enter and our teams in Gaza are ready to scale up the delivery.

The siege must be lifted.

laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE

Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a

Laura Loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE

I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

🇵🇸 Events in solidarity with the Palestinian people around the country this weekend. All out for Palestine! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Suzanne Harrington: Trans women are not a threat — there is plenty of room for all TERF stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, but there is nothing radical or feminist about othering and excluding, about making another person a non-being

“TERF stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, but there is nothing radical or feminist about othering and excluding, about making another person a non-being.”
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Clodagh Finn: Mother’s Day Gaza vigil highlights Irish discomfort with female protest and dissent The treatment of Gaza protesters outside the Dáil shows how female dissent is still met with disproportionate force

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

It says on the Eventbrite link that it’s cancelled ?

Pen and ink illustration of a white woman walking away from tbe viewer holding a shopping bag and the hand of her child who walks beside her

Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s #mother, illustrator Signe Hammarsten-Jansson's self portrait, 1910. She had a huge influence on her daughter, including encouraging Tove to draw #womensart

Ooh.

“If we accept that war is inevitable, that inequality is inevitable, that environmental destruction is a necessary cost of progress, then we abandon the possibilities of transformation..”

President Michael D Higgins

What’ll we do without him?

Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?” So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.)

Yesterday, when I reached out to Daniels for a response from Meta, he wrote back: “Do you plan to write something about it, or are you just curious how we’re responding?” It’s always about controlling the narrative. But apparently, that’s not going so well. This morning, “Careless People” is No. 3 on Amazon. I know this is a long item, the longest I’ve ever written for the Book Club newsletter. But when one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.

WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People":

"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."

The utter ridiculousness of fox news exemplified in 20 seconds. MM a socialist, jesus wept