Kate O'Dwyer
@katedreamsof.bsky.social
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The Govnt wants to remove the Triple Lock, change legislation so Irish companies can compete for EU defence contracts, and deepen cooperation with NATO to the point where 'formal' membership is moot.
And those objecting are 'squeamish'.
The arrogance.
www.thejournal.ie/martin-defen...
And those objecting are 'squeamish'.
The arrogance.
www.thejournal.ie/martin-defen...
'Squeamish debate' misses the point of working with NATO and EU states on defence, Martin says
Ireland should not be afraid of mutually beneficial co-operation with other nations amid the heightened Russian threat, the Taoiseach said.
www.thejournal.ie
December 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The Govnt wants to remove the Triple Lock, change legislation so Irish companies can compete for EU defence contracts, and deepen cooperation with NATO to the point where 'formal' membership is moot.
And those objecting are 'squeamish'.
The arrogance.
www.thejournal.ie/martin-defen...
And those objecting are 'squeamish'.
The arrogance.
www.thejournal.ie/martin-defen...
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Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy
Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital
MPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The Irish commentariat has gone into overdrive, not just misinforming but outright lying about threats to our security.
What makes it worse is that this small handful of people with paid column inches, media appearances & think tanks dismiss the majority as 'lecturing' others.
What makes it worse is that this small handful of people with paid column inches, media appearances & think tanks dismiss the majority as 'lecturing' others.
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The Irish commentariat has gone into overdrive, not just misinforming but outright lying about threats to our security.
What makes it worse is that this small handful of people with paid column inches, media appearances & think tanks dismiss the majority as 'lecturing' others.
What makes it worse is that this small handful of people with paid column inches, media appearances & think tanks dismiss the majority as 'lecturing' others.
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Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism?
Odd that.
Odd that.
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism?
Odd that.
Odd that.
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RTÉ news referring to planning law as 'red tape' is not good.
The Government is weaponising the housing crisis to weaken existing legal protections and democratic process (not the other way around as Minster Chambers tried to claim).
www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
The Government is weaponising the housing crisis to weaken existing legal protections and democratic process (not the other way around as Minster Chambers tried to claim).
www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
Govt to introduce legislation to fast-track key projects
The Government is set to introduce emergency legislation to fast-track key projects through the planning process under a plan Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers will outline to the Cabinet.
www.rte.ie
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
RTÉ news referring to planning law as 'red tape' is not good.
The Government is weaponising the housing crisis to weaken existing legal protections and democratic process (not the other way around as Minster Chambers tried to claim).
www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
The Government is weaponising the housing crisis to weaken existing legal protections and democratic process (not the other way around as Minster Chambers tried to claim).
www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
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Funny how @zackpolanski.bsky.social suggesting a raft of policies to try and improve the lives of the vast majority is ‘fantasy economics’, but when Brexiteers were allowed to indulge their lunatic fantasies about leaving the EU it somehow became ‘The Will of the People’. 🦄🤔
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Funny how @zackpolanski.bsky.social suggesting a raft of policies to try and improve the lives of the vast majority is ‘fantasy economics’, but when Brexiteers were allowed to indulge their lunatic fantasies about leaving the EU it somehow became ‘The Will of the People’. 🦄🤔
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I'm just gonna say it: you wouldn't need to ban the kids if you just made the platforms responsible for moderation in the first fucking place.
Good luck papering over that chasm and calling it protection. ✌🏻
Good luck papering over that chasm and calling it protection. ✌🏻
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I'm just gonna say it: you wouldn't need to ban the kids if you just made the platforms responsible for moderation in the first fucking place.
Good luck papering over that chasm and calling it protection. ✌🏻
Good luck papering over that chasm and calling it protection. ✌🏻
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'The Price of Prosperity: How US FDI is Enabling Genocide in Gaza and Eroding our Neutrality'.
Full report written with Paulie Doyle and Pat Brodie is now available here: www.uplift.ie/neutrality-f...
Full report written with Paulie Doyle and Pat Brodie is now available here: www.uplift.ie/neutrality-f...
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
'The Price of Prosperity: How US FDI is Enabling Genocide in Gaza and Eroding our Neutrality'.
Full report written with Paulie Doyle and Pat Brodie is now available here: www.uplift.ie/neutrality-f...
Full report written with Paulie Doyle and Pat Brodie is now available here: www.uplift.ie/neutrality-f...
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This was published in the Irish Times a week ago but re-sharing because it might be a while before there is another article supporting neutrality in the broadsheets.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This was published in the Irish Times a week ago but re-sharing because it might be a while before there is another article supporting neutrality in the broadsheets.
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'If a bridge can't carry a 60 tonne tank, we have a problem'.
The speed with which planning and finance are mobilised for the militarisation of EU transport infrastructure, versus planning and finance for public, decarbonised, climate resilient infrastructure is startling.
The speed with which planning and finance are mobilised for the militarisation of EU transport infrastructure, versus planning and finance for public, decarbonised, climate resilient infrastructure is startling.
The fast movement of Europe's militaries is essential for European defence.
We have to ensure that forces can be in the right place and at the right time.
It is quite simple: the faster we can move forces, the stronger our deterrence and defence.
We have to ensure that forces can be in the right place and at the right time.
It is quite simple: the faster we can move forces, the stronger our deterrence and defence.
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
'If a bridge can't carry a 60 tonne tank, we have a problem'.
The speed with which planning and finance are mobilised for the militarisation of EU transport infrastructure, versus planning and finance for public, decarbonised, climate resilient infrastructure is startling.
The speed with which planning and finance are mobilised for the militarisation of EU transport infrastructure, versus planning and finance for public, decarbonised, climate resilient infrastructure is startling.
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Government TDs have been eager to praise the EU as the greatest peace project in history.
Worth remembering that besides arming and enabling genocide in Gaza, the EU is engaged in neocolonial 'peace-enforcement missions' in Africa.
www.rundale.org/2025/07/31/t...
Worth remembering that besides arming and enabling genocide in Gaza, the EU is engaged in neocolonial 'peace-enforcement missions' in Africa.
www.rundale.org/2025/07/31/t...
The Triple Lock and the Case of Ireland in Mali - Rundale
The EU-led neo-colonial war in Mali and the Sahel is a stark example of why the Triple Lock should be strengthened if we are to preserve meaningful neutrality heading into an uncertain future.
www.rundale.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Government TDs have been eager to praise the EU as the greatest peace project in history.
Worth remembering that besides arming and enabling genocide in Gaza, the EU is engaged in neocolonial 'peace-enforcement missions' in Africa.
www.rundale.org/2025/07/31/t...
Worth remembering that besides arming and enabling genocide in Gaza, the EU is engaged in neocolonial 'peace-enforcement missions' in Africa.
www.rundale.org/2025/07/31/t...
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What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be.
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns
Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investment
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 AM
What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be.
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Active neutrality is not about being passive, it is about actively working to stop war and genocide and to uphold international law.
The Government's inaction on the OTB is closely linked with its far more urgent action on removing the Triple Lock.
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
The Government's inaction on the OTB is closely linked with its far more urgent action on removing the Triple Lock.
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
Calls for Government to enact Occupied Territories Bill
Opposition party leaders and Senator Frances Black have called on the Government to enact the Occupied Territories Bill before the end of the year.
www.rte.ie
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Active neutrality is not about being passive, it is about actively working to stop war and genocide and to uphold international law.
The Government's inaction on the OTB is closely linked with its far more urgent action on removing the Triple Lock.
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
The Government's inaction on the OTB is closely linked with its far more urgent action on removing the Triple Lock.
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
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Is this what Labour politicians came into politics for?
To get cheered on by Tommy Robinson as they kick some of the most vulnerable people on earth?
How are they not all dying of shame
To get cheered on by Tommy Robinson as they kick some of the most vulnerable people on earth?
How are they not all dying of shame
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Is this what Labour politicians came into politics for?
To get cheered on by Tommy Robinson as they kick some of the most vulnerable people on earth?
How are they not all dying of shame
To get cheered on by Tommy Robinson as they kick some of the most vulnerable people on earth?
How are they not all dying of shame
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Hard to understand how the UK Labour party has even a single member left, seeing as it it has now become everything that you imagine someone once drawn to joining a Labour party is vehemently against. No one joins a Labour party hoping to punch down on the weakest and advance far right arguments
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hard to understand how the UK Labour party has even a single member left, seeing as it it has now become everything that you imagine someone once drawn to joining a Labour party is vehemently against. No one joins a Labour party hoping to punch down on the weakest and advance far right arguments
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Article with @dondeniamh.bsky.social & Rory Rowan in today's Irish Times - a response to the relentless media commentary deriding Ireland's neutrality.
As Catherine Connolly, and the movement behind her, has shown, neutrality remains popular. Something to build on, not abandon.
As Catherine Connolly, and the movement behind her, has shown, neutrality remains popular. Something to build on, not abandon.
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Article with @dondeniamh.bsky.social & Rory Rowan in today's Irish Times - a response to the relentless media commentary deriding Ireland's neutrality.
As Catherine Connolly, and the movement behind her, has shown, neutrality remains popular. Something to build on, not abandon.
As Catherine Connolly, and the movement behind her, has shown, neutrality remains popular. Something to build on, not abandon.
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Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.
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Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
BBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals | Novara Media
An analysis of over 35,000 broadcast segments and articles found that the BBC referenced the 7 October attacks in at least 40% of its coverage - but only 0.5% of articles referenced Israel’s decades o...
novaramedia.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
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The Spider Nebula | NASA
December 13, 2024 at 12:26 AM
The Spider Nebula | NASA
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Most unusual way to spell “Israeli genocide in Gaza” on @news.rte.ie just now.
International Criminal Court calls it a genocide, why is RTÉ, 14 months into a rolling massacre, still calling it a “War”?
International Criminal Court calls it a genocide, why is RTÉ, 14 months into a rolling massacre, still calling it a “War”?
December 11, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Most unusual way to spell “Israeli genocide in Gaza” on @news.rte.ie just now.
International Criminal Court calls it a genocide, why is RTÉ, 14 months into a rolling massacre, still calling it a “War”?
International Criminal Court calls it a genocide, why is RTÉ, 14 months into a rolling massacre, still calling it a “War”?
