Catriona Crowe: Where are the protests over the torture, beating and slavery of 100,000 Irish citizens? Are we going to 'literally concrete over' the sufferings of children and grieving mothers failed by Church and State?

Catriona Crowe: Where are the protests over the torture, beating and slavery of 100,000 Irish citizens?

Fairness of basic income for arts scheme under scrutiny as new funding round opens Artists unsuccessful in previous funding express frustration at nature of scheme and monitoring of recipients’ output

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Basic income for arts scheme ‘causing segregation’ and open to abuse, officials told One artist says housemate is availing of the scheme even though they do ‘not appear to be actively engaged in any creative practice’

Basic income for arts scheme ‘causing segregation’ and open to abuse, officials told

Teacher shortages: High cost of living leading to ‘brain drain’ in Dublin Urban allowance similar to London weighting could help alleviate difficulties in recruiting staff, figures in profession say

Teacher shortages: High cost of living leading to ‘brain drain’ in Dublin

Investigation: How raw materials from Aughinish Alumina in Limerick enter Russia’s weapons supply chain Alumina made in Aughinish, Co Limerick is exported to smelters that sell aluminium to a trader supplying Russian arms manufacturers, an investigation has found. The project analysed confidential docum...

The first major project from our new investigations unit.

From the Shannon to Siberia: How alumina from a Limerick refinery enters Russia’s weapons supply chain

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Senior Apple leaders ‘alarmed’ by Jim O’Callaghan’s comments on data security Tech giant told officials data privacy and security are ‘core values for the company’

Senior Apple leaders ‘alarmed’ by Jim O’Callaghan’s comments on data security

CMAT wins Choice Music Prize Album of the Year for Euro-Country Singer thanks Bertie Ahern in her acceptance speech

CMAT wins Choice Music Prize Album of the Year for Euro-Country

The changing face of addiction: ‘Some people were first using drugs in their 50s and 60s’ The prevalence of multiple addictions makes supporting people much more complex

Thanks to Passerose and Sarah from Chrysalis for their insights into how supporting people with addiction has become much more complex in recent years. And to Michael for sharing his personal experience.

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Family at centre of Department of Justice protest to be deported to South Africa Members of south Dublin community ‘shocked and saddened’ by development on Saturday

Family at centre of Department of Justice protest to be deported to South Africa

Imma seeks legal advice amid escalating row with OPW over Kilmainham plans Minister asked to intervene in row which museum says threatens to overlook its contribution to Irish life

Imma seeks legal advice amid escalating row with OPW over Kilmainham plans

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Crowd raves in protest outside Dublin hotel seeking injunction against Yamamori Izakaya Venue owners say they find it ‘extremely difficult’ to accept recent claims made by neighbouring Hoxton Hotel

Crowd raves in protest outside Dublin hotel seeking injunction against Yamamori Izakaya

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David Gillick among those calling for South African teen and family not to be deported Local community in South Dublin rallying around Joseph Oyekanmi, a promising athlete, and his family

David Gillick among those calling for South African teen and family not to be deported

Irish citizen detained in Russia since August after ‘anti-Russian’ messages found on phone Daria Petrenko, who lives in Co Galway, has not spoken to her husband in months and is worried for his safety

Irish citizen detained in Russia since August after ‘anti-Russian’ messages found on phone

‘The regime is slaughtering its own citizens’: Iranians in Ireland fear for safety of loved ones Many unable to contact relatives since internet blackout was imposed earlier this month

‘The regime is slaughtering its own citizens’: Iranians in Ireland fear for safety of loved ones

‘I couldn’t open my eye’: the dangers of unlicensed Botox procedures in Ireland Getting work done by unqualified practitioners can lead to ‘disfigurement or death’, warns doctor

‘I couldn’t open my eye’: the dangers of unlicensed Botox procedures in Ireland

Early Edition Podcast – 4 stories in 10 minutes: Botox warning, Maduro in court and more asylum seekers return voluntarily Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan

On today’s episode of the Early Edition podcast: Botox warning, Maduro in court and more asylum seekers return voluntarily
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Una Mullally: ‘We’re the only place that does it all’: Dublin cannot let another arts venue vanish Dublin city is used to this cycle: a cultural space is threatened and people immediately organise to save it. Now it’s the turn of The Complex

Una Mullally: ‘We’re the only place that does it all’: Dublin cannot let another arts venue vanish

‘It was utterly sacred’: Manchán Magan’s widow on his final days, death and legacy It is almost two months since Aisling Rogerson’s husband, the beloved writer and broadcaster, died of cancer

‘It was utterly sacred’: Manchán Magan’s widow on his final days, death and legacy

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Delivery rider needed brain surgery after attack by ‘laughing’ youths who filmed assault André Oliveira was cycling along the Royal Canal, Dublin, when he was beaten and robbed

Delivery rider needed brain surgery after attack by ‘laughing’ youths who filmed assault

JFMR Statement Regarding a Significant Error in Testimony Documentary On Sunday 23rd November, Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) became aware that recent screenings of the Testimony documentary in the UK and Ireland are missing an onscreen caption providing esse…

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The Testimony documentary has been screened without rolling text where a whistleblower Nun writes to the Bishop to let him know about severe abuses she witnessed in a Magdalene Laundry.

Actor declines degree from University of Galway over contract link to Israeli tech institute Olwen Fouéré calls on university to ‘sever all ties with Technion and the Israeli regime’

Actor declines degree from University of Galway over contract link to Israeli tech institute

"We believe it is of the utmost importance that we continue to be visibly queer."

Thanks to Lucina and Krystal for their time.

The brazen nature of the attack is very worrying and highlights the dangers many queer people in Ireland face today. This is not ok.

Pro-Palestine activists disrupt Brian O’Driscoll speech over company links to Israeli army Rugby star was speaking at tech conference organised by cyber security company with Tel Aviv and California offices

Pro-Palestine activists disrupt Brian O’Driscoll speech over company links to Israeli army

Dublin-based Microsoft engineer quits over tech giant’s links to Israeli military Pro-Palestine group protests outside firm’s Leopardstown offices after software worker resigns

Dublin-based Microsoft engineer quits over tech giant’s links to Israeli military

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

#globalsumudflotilla livestream, as interceptions are reported. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2... #Gaza

This morning, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that the Israeli government is committing genocide — affirming what Palestinians and experts have been saying for nearly two years.

Mother says CCTV footage shows creche worker dragging daughter ‘like a rag doll’ Dublin creche ‘immediately’ dismissed staff member and contacted Gardaí

Mother says CCTV footage shows creche worker dragging daughter ‘like a rag doll’

“Frankly, I’m losing words to describe the horror of this. The worst conflict for journalists that CPJ has ever documented, and the abject failure of the international community to do anything to address it,” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social told @aljazeera.com.

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The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine.

Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.