Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat in parliamentary elections to his rival, conservative Peter Magyar, a former government insider and political newcomer who has pro...

Welcome back to the EU 🇭🇺 !
Now get on the road to work dismantling this autocrats disgusting corrupt system.
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How Ireland's far-right movement got involved in the fuel protests and tried to hijack them While many are protesting fuel costs, far-right actors and international figures are using the movement to push anti-immigrant narratives.

While many protesters in Ireland are complaining about fuel costs, far-right actors and international figures are using the movement to push anti-immigrant narratives.

How lovely! Enjoy.

Sometimes, many years later, I am by the water and reminded of the first time I went to Greece, the sea governed by absolute blue, the sun gold leaf on the waves, a world away from the Atlantic, except for those exceptional days out west when Connemara wears the air of the Greek islands

An update on Donie was posted yesterday, details via the link below. Thank you to everyone from his family who said, "your generosity has been a beacon of hope." Best wishes to the others injured as well.
Go raibh míle maith agaibh go léir.

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A friend and shipmate Donie Goulding has suffered a terrible accident in Spain. He is in a critical condition.
If anyone here would consider supporting his @irishdefenceforces.bsky.social comrades efforts to enable his family to be by his hospital bed please do:
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Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver

God this poem is haunting me again.

Until the middle. Then it hailed.
But passed over quickly.

A great privilege to attend the 110th anniversary commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising at the GPO.

Comhghairdeas @irishdefenceforces.bsky.social for exceptional drill amd ceremonials throughout. BZ to all.
Go raibh míle maith agaibh @dfsgtmajor.bsky.social

Wonderful to speak with you and @lauraharmon.bsky.social this afternoon. Thank you for such a warm introduction.
Fantastic to meet some more of our #Labour party stalwarts amongst the crowd as well.
@labour.ie 🚩🌹

At today’s #EasterRising Commemoration outside the GPO today with @lauraharmon.bsky.social

A very moving event - despite the hailstones…

Female Kestrel. Pastel & Coloured Pencil on Pastelmat

Cobh Readers & Writers Daily Prompt ~ Day VIII Cobh R&W DailyPrompts ~ DayVIII Demagogue.’Can I have your attention please’My path has no snow or wood to diverge in,’I need all of your attention now’I take the road l…

Mind yourselves today and all days.
No Kings!
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Eamon Ryan: Ireland’s retrofitting scheme is not failing Ask homeowners who have upgraded their homes if they would go back to a damp, cold house

Eamon Ryan: Ireland’s retrofitting scheme is not failing

BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Jan Carson The Northern Irish writer on her new novel and the three influences behind it.

I’ll be on Take 4 Books on Radio 4 at 4pm today chatting to James Crawford about the books that influenced #FewAndFarBetween. Tune in live or listen back via the link www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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The Idiot King was on full display again today. Its like watching a different species, utterly devoid of a shred of empathy or decency.

32.5% of the US voted for this creature.
34.8% didn't vote.

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Mothers of Many Nations Mothers of  Many Nations. Mothers are mothers, white, brown, yellow, black.no divide amongst the races by colour, creed or social status,each mother cradles two generations inside her during gestat…

On #MothersDay spare a thought for the Mothers who risk all for a better life for their children.

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Coaxing the Fire Coaxing the Fire. The poker methodically at its task,guided by the sure and steady hand,rosy glow of the embers coaxed back to flame,nursed from deathbed to resurrection,throwing warmth out over wo…

Happy Mothers Day to all Mothers.
This would have been my Mum's 84th, and we remember and miss her.

#MothersDay

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Getting ready to submit an abstract for this Hidden Histories conference. Sounds like an interesting one. ✍️

Happy Mother’s Day #mothersday to all mothers, and in memory of those no longer with us.

It wouldn’t be complete without sharing this celebrated poem by Seamus Heaney (from Clearances), written in memory of his mother, Margaret Kathleen Heaney (1911–1984).

James Connolly

Did it pay off did it, all your cheering for the english

Six Nations 2026

The pigs are flying over Ireland,Hell has frozen stiff,The nation is in a tizzy,We're really in a twist,To cheer the ancient enemy?What cost that laurel wreath!

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The pigs are flying over Ireland,
Hell has frozen stiff,
The nation is in a tizzy,
We're really in a twist,
To cheer the ancient enemy?
What cost that laurel wreath!

"I don't know what weapons the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be with sticks."
"Because of nukes, right?"
"No, because we decided logistics was woke."