Appropriately musician& co-founder of Irishseedsavers Tommy Hayes kicked off the annual Food Sovereignty festival at Maynooth University playing the spoons. Thanks @pbresnihan.bsky.social & Afri &all. Glad to share how seed sovereignty works for food security at home & abroad. Timely!

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Genocide. Co-funded by our money via the EU.

Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business Senator Eileen Flynn's comments on far-right use of the tricolour have made her a lightning rod for online abuse — because viral hatred is highly profitable

Monetisation and algorithmic amplification has turned peddling disinformation, hate speech, and harassment into a for-profit industry.

It will only get worse if it's left unchecked.

- Aidan O'Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

This is a genuinely mindblowing combination. 1) Deliberately false information, 2) promoted in schools, 3) using public money, 4) in the service of private profits, 5) at the cost of our collapsing ecosystem.

Jennifer Horgan: We have set a new standard for what angry men can achieve. It's terrifying Angry men's blockades stopped my mother being with her dying brother-in-law last week. She was not the only vulnerable person whose needs were trampled on

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Complaint lodged over Independent Ireland members shouting over female TDs Complaint lodged over Independent Ireland members shouting over female TDs: A comprehensive series of articles on this topic

Complaint: pattern of interruptions directed at women TDs.

If primary school teachers (or anyone else) are looking for resources that are a little more...balanced...check out our Irish Tree Explorers Network pages:
www.ucc.ie/en/tree-expl...

Peace activist, 91, walks across Ireland in protest against US military stopovers Lelia Doolan, who finished 220km trek at parliament gates, says use of Shannon airport violates Irish neutrality

A 91-year-old peace activist has crossed Ireland on foot and arrived in Dublin to petition the government to bar US military flights via Shannon Airport. Lelia Doolan completed a two-week, 220km (138 mile) trek on Wednesday accompanied by throngs of supporters.

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On April 21st the 27 EU member country leaders will vote on whether to suspend the EU's Free Trade agreement with Israel.

The agreement that sustains Israel’s economy.

The agreement that commits both sides to respecting human rights.

Fiachna Ó Braonáin: I was lucky enough to know Moya Brennan - her voice brought us all home From Gaoth Dobhair to the wider world, Moya carried family, music and warmth in every note, and took us all along with her.

A privilege to be asked by @thejournal.ie to share thoughts and reflections on our beloved Moya ❤️💫

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The Money Is Not There Three collapses in a weekend the blockade ended — notes on the government, the opposition, and the tradition I write from

Follow-up to “The Blockade Is the Message” is up.
3 collapses in a weekend the blockade ended:
📌a gov’t that found €750m for a tractor but not €100m for disability
📌an opposition that filed the right motion on the wrong grounds
📌a tradition claimed by people it was built against

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Many thanks to Lelia Doolan.

91-year-old Lelia Doolan has completed her 220km protest walk from Shannon Airport to Leinster House to protest against the use of Shannon Airport as a stopover for US military flights.

I'm looking forward to presenting at this on the hope of Seed Sovereignty& Farmers' rights &hearing all involved. Much work to do in Ireland to address the inequities, environmental harm&missed opportunities of our globalised industrial ag system & threat it now poses to our food security.

"The paid Facebook ad, the trucker-convoy framing, the infrastructure-obstruction model, the international amplifier pipeline. These are not neutral tools the left can pick up and use better. They are a specific political technology developed over the last 2 years by a specific organising tendency."

Woman (91) walks 220km to protest US military use of Shannon Airport Organiser says requests to meet Taoiseach and Tánaiste following two-week trek have gone unanswered

Lelia Doolan (91) has walked 220km across Ireland to protest the US military's use of Shannon.

Lelia Doolan arrives at Dáil Éireann with her message of peace and calling for Irish Government to stop allowing Shannon Airport to be used by US military. Here with journalists Betty Purcell and Jerry O’Callaghan

The ever inspiring Lelia Doolan(91 years young) arriving at Dáil Éireann after walking 220km ‘For Peace’ from Shannon Airport to highlight importance of Irish neutrality &calling on Government to stop allowing use of Shannon by US military. With journalists Betty Purcell & Jerry O’ Callaghan.

And because the Govt. majority on the Oireachtas Infrastructure Committee voted to avoid the pre-legislative scrutiny process, TDs and Senators cannot even question the Government's rationale for targeting the Climate Action Act, and why this Bill is being steamrolled through the Oireachtas (2/2)

The Critical Infrastructure Bill as drafted will be the death of the Climate Action Act.

It will mean that major projects in areas like energy and transport - some of the biggest building projects in the State - will no longer be checked for their climate impact (1/2)

Lovely photo to treasure Fiachna. Solas na bhflaitheas dá hanam uasal🌠🎶

So sad to hear Moya has moved into the next life…. the heavens will be blessed by her voice…
Deepest sympathy to Tim, Aisling and Paul and all of her wonderful extended family… ❤️
solas na bhflaitheas go bhfeice sí go deo… ❤️💫

Italy suspends automatic renewal of defense agreement with Israel In March, Rome prevented US warplanes from landing at a base in Sicily while headed to conduct bombings in Iran

Italy: Defence Minister Guido Crosetto tells his Israeli counterpart Israel Katz that Italy is suspending the Italy–Israel memorandum which establishes a framework for defence cooperation regarding the exchange of military equipment and technological research within the armed forces.

So looking forward to the release of the digitised 1926 census next Saturday - I’ve a long list of people (family for my mother, and for me, Cumann na mBan women) to look for! Might go out Friday but Sat/Sun I’ll be glued to 1926. Yes, I am that history nerd. #hopethesitedoesntcrash #1926census

Affordable housing or car parks? The government have dictated that we zone more land for housing.

Do we zone land for private developers into the green belt or council land that can deliver affordable housing just minutes walk from jobs, Luas and amenities?
#housing #sandyford #planning

Investor courts are the main train to object to Mercosur or CETA. They are not intended to help people or nations at all. It's peak capitalism. Where all the rights are with corporations and the public good doesn't count at all. @greenparty.ie TD Patrick Costolloe took a supreme court against them.

This is a good article. It gives context to the insecurity of contractors&casual labourers at the heart of a globalised industrial Irish agricultural model, which no longer feeds us. However the ease at which racism, mysogyny &threat featured in this blockade also needs study& addressing.

Glór álainn caillte. Máire Ní Bhraonáin, Moya Brennan RIP.
Sa chuimhne i gcónaí: a lucht éisteachta faoi dhraíocht in Amharclann Ghaoth Dóbhair i 1975 agus í i mbun ceoil le Clannad.
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“Furthermore, a country that imports 83% of its vegetables is not food secure, no matter how competitive its dairy exports. This is the Gordian knot that needs to be cut, and no amount of tax credits will do it.“

Today I joined Lelia Doolan and other activists who are walking from Shannon to Leinster House, calling for an end to the use of Shannon by the US military.

Support Lelia and the campaign by joining her along the route to Leinster House.