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💔 Remembering Rachel Corrie, on this day 2003 she was murdered by an Israeli bulldozer while standing in solidarity with the Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, helping them to defend their homes from illegal demolition. Like countless Palestinian families, the Corries have never received any justice.

Last year, we made the decision to step away from X.

The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour.

In our view, X no longer aligns with these values

Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank Exclusive: Tender posted for construction of 3,401 homes in settlement designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’

The ICJ ruled apartheid Israel’s occupation of Palestine illegal in 2024, it also ruled that states have an obligation to end it. Our government won't even pass the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill
Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Picture of Laytown beach in County Meath Ireland showing a cloudy sky with sunlight streaming through to light up a beach with some horse riders in the far distance.

Financial barriers to environmental litigation are against the law, because protecting the environment is an important public interest.

The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment

Please read and take action 👇

Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

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Wonder what the allegation was? it is now deleted.

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What is meant by community spaces?

Sign the Petition Stop Zionist David Draiman playing Dublin’s 3arena

www.change.org/p/stop-zioni...

Buíochas mór le Bord Oideachais agus Oiliúna Lú & na Mí as ucht cuireadh a thabhairt dúinn chuig Lá Idirchultúrtha s'acu!

Many thanks to Louth and Meath ETB for inviting us to their Intercultural Day recently!

✊CEARTA✊
🔔 Irish Speakers are taking to the streets in a national protest🅾️
⏰1:30pm on Saturday, 20th of September
📌Baile Átha Cliath

🚨Maoiniú • Funding
🚨Tithíocht • Gaeltacht Housing
🚨Oideachas • Education
🚨Cearta Teanga •Language Rights

Save the date #DeargLeFearg

Is linne uilig an Ghaeilge:
Strength in Diversity!

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Níl ach Easons i mo bhaile. Mac Coitir has other great books focusing on trees, birds and animals.

@conormccabe.bsky.social I see a anti-immigrant FB page justifying their stance by quoting JC

1988

#OtD 8 May 1943 the HQ of the Jewish Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters was captured by German troops. Most of the 120 fighters present killed themselves rather than surrender, although several dozen managed to escape through the sewers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10839/ZOB-HQ-captured...

Tá meantóirí deonacha Gaeilge fós á lorg againn ag Fighting Words le cabhrú linn ceardlanna a reáchtáil! Ní gá go mbeadh tú líofa le hobair linn, tá míle fáilte romhaibh foghlaimeoirí fásta freisin 🫶🏾 Má spéis leat, le do thoil bí i dteagmháil! ✨️

#OtD 17 Apr 1958 Belgium opened the world fair, and included a ‘human zoo' displaying Black men, women and children from the Congo. The people used were mocked by white spectators, until they left in October. More about Belgian colonialism in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

Pro-Palestine activists protest outside US consulate, police called in Anti-war protesters gathered outside the US consulate in Admiralty on Sunday urging Washington to stop suppressing the pro-Palestinian movement.

Mad story in Hong Kong.

Protesters picketed the US consulate over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil

Despite the US previously supporting the right to peacefully protest in Hong Kong, where most demos have been banned, the consulate called the police

hongkongfp.com/2025/03/25/c...

I was thinking about this of recent. The one thing I don't agree with is how the change into will "impact the school's diverse community."

From my work with FW, a few teachers have mentioned that pupils of migrant background take to the language very well. Esp if they have a mother tongue at home.

Ag tiomáint inniu agus iontach deas bheith ag éisteacht leis an chlos leabhar seo 😊 @tadhgmacdh.bsky.social

Taisce Chanúintí na Gaeilge Canúintí traidisiúnta na Gaeilge á gcur ar an léarscáil

www.canuint.ie/ga/

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Israeli forces used 80-year-old Palestinian as human shield before killing him Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian who used a walking stick and forced him to inspect areas used by Hamas before killing him and his wife

Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian man in Gaza and forced him to act as a human shield before killing him and his wife, an investigation by the Israeli news website HaMakom has revealed www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-is...