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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 4h

Boycott Apartheid Israel, issue sanctions against the Zionist regime, and stop the use of Shannon airport as a de facto US military base! No ifs. No buts. No excuses.

OCCUPATION NO MORE! 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸

#FreePalestine! | #BoycottApartheidIsrael!

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 4h

The Apartheid state of Israel, along with their U.S and EU allies, will keep trying to hide the crimes that they are perpetrating against the heroic people of Palestine. Don’t let them silence the truth!

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 4h

While a delicate ceasefire has been agreed to, it’s important that we remain steadfast in our solidarity with the Palestinian people and calling on the Dublin government to take action against Apartheid Israel’s crimes against humanity.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 4h

Éirígí #ForANewRepublic activists attended a local IPSC march in Newry today to show solidarity with the people of Palestine after facing two years of genocide in Gaza. #GazaGenocide

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 23h

Margaret Skinnider - socialist republican, feminist, 1916 veteran, and trade unionist, died on the 10th of October 1971.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 23h

Skinnider later became deeply involved in trade union activity, campaigning for equality of pay and conditions for women workers. Skinnider remained involved in trade union struggles until her retirement in 1963.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 23h

Arrested on Christmas Day 1922, Skinnider was one of twelve republican women to embark on a hunger strike. The strike ended upon the transfer of the women from Mountjoy to the North Dublin Union internment camp.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 23h

Skinnider was back in action during the Tan War and remained with the Republicans during the counter-revolution. Skinnider became the only woman to serve as quarter-master general of the IRA.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 23h

Seriously wounded during the Rising, Skinnider was nursed by Markievicz in the College of Surgeons until the surrender, whereupon she was transferred to St. Vincent’s Hospital.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 23h

Born in 1892 in Coatbridge, Scotland to Irish parents, Skinnider moved to Dublin in the run-up to the 1916 Rising.

Skinnider joined the Irish Citizen Army and showed her talents as a sharpshooter under the command of Michael Mallin and Constance Markievicz.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 23h

On this day in 1971, Margaret Skinnider - socialist republican, feminist, and the only woman wounded in action fighting the British during the 1916 Rising - died in Dublin.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 1d

We need to create a new secular, all-Ireland National Health Service that will provide high-quality healthcare to all citizens from the womb to the tomb. #ForANewRepublic

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 1d

People’s health and people’s lives are quite literally sacrificed to protect the interests of insurance companies, elite medical practitioners and politicians!

Only the establishment of a new all-Ireland National Health Service will end this crisis!

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 1d

Staff and patients alike are suffering at the hands of the Dublin government’s failure to properly fund and resource the public health system in this state!

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 1d

For far too long, the establishment has tried to downplay this crisis while staffing levels fall dangerously below safety standards, rosters go incomplete and trolley numbers soar.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 1d

Éirígí #ForANewRepublic sends our solidarity to the nurses in the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) who will be starting their strike against unsafe working conditions next Monday, the 3rd of November, at Mayo University Hospital.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 1d

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 1d

It seems that there’s only a cost of living crisis for ordinary people - corrupt TDs and landlord politicians certainly aren’t feeling the effects of it!

Éirígí is about the business of breaking the connection with capitalism and building a new socialist Republic.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 1d

Why? Because of the establishment's fanatical belief in the ability of the private sector and the ‘free market’ to solve all problems.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 1d

The Dublin government are intent on doing everything to make the cost of living crisis worse and only prop up landlords and the private sector!

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 1d

We simply can no longer afford the cost of capitalism! #CostOfCapitalism

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to the Twenty-Six County Government’s 2026 Budget, working families can look forward to having 2-4% less disposable income as the ‘cost-of-living ‘crisis deepens and state support is gutted. Meanwhile, the private sector will be laughing all the way to the bank! #CostOfLivingCrisis

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 2d

Boycott Apartheid Israel, issue sanctions against the Zionist regime, and stop the use of Shannon airport as a de facto US military base! No ifs. No buts. No excuses.

OCCUPATION NO MORE! 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸

#FreePalestine! | #BoycottApartheidIsrael!

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 2d

We should recognise the same struggle when it happens elsewhere!
We call on the Dublin government to take a stand against the Gaza genocide!

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 2d

It is clear that this ‘famine’ engineered by Apartheid Israel is just another weapon in its assault against the Palestinian people - particularly attacking Gaza’s future.

Today, there are many parallels to Irish history in Palestine. When we remembrecognisest, it is not enough to mourn it!

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