Leah Nic Aodha
@leahnicaodha.bsky.social
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
The UN expert group reports that the UK Government denied medical care to the hunger strikers, used excessive physical restraint, denied them contact with family members, denied them legal counsel, and prevented independent medical oversight. UK Labour ministers refuse to speak with their families.
UN experts have expressed 'grave concern' for the lives and fundamental rights of eight activists who have been on hunger strike, calling out the UK Government in the process
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
December 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The UN expert group reports that the UK Government denied medical care to the hunger strikers, used excessive physical restraint, denied them contact with family members, denied them legal counsel, and prevented independent medical oversight. UK Labour ministers refuse to speak with their families.
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
“Sectarianism functioned as cover. It reduced a colonial conflict and a contested sovereignty question into “two warring tribes”, absolving the state of responsibility.”
~Patricia MacBride
The Irish News
☕️🥐
~Patricia MacBride
The Irish News
☕️🥐
December 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“Sectarianism functioned as cover. It reduced a colonial conflict and a contested sovereignty question into “two warring tribes”, absolving the state of responsibility.”
~Patricia MacBride
The Irish News
☕️🥐
~Patricia MacBride
The Irish News
☕️🥐
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
Apparently standing up for Public health, human rights and climate is performative 😑
Asked whether Ireland would still vote against #Mercosur if it looked certain to be approved, the FG leader said he had never been interested in “performative politics” www.breakingnews.ie/world/contro...
Asked whether Ireland would still vote against #Mercosur if it looked certain to be approved, the FG leader said he had never been interested in “performative politics” www.breakingnews.ie/world/contro...
Controversial Mercosur trade deal to be signed quickly in the New Year | BreakingNews
Farmers are concerned about different standards being applied in South America and say there will be unfair competition.
www.breakingnews.ie
December 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Apparently standing up for Public health, human rights and climate is performative 😑
Asked whether Ireland would still vote against #Mercosur if it looked certain to be approved, the FG leader said he had never been interested in “performative politics” www.breakingnews.ie/world/contro...
Asked whether Ireland would still vote against #Mercosur if it looked certain to be approved, the FG leader said he had never been interested in “performative politics” www.breakingnews.ie/world/contro...
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
December 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
Only 5 Fianna Fáil TDs voted to restore the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy)(Amendment) Bill. 35 voted against.
They're the only major party where none of the female TDs supported the bill. We have antichoice extremists at the helm. The work of Repeal is not done #spéirgorm
They're the only major party where none of the female TDs supported the bill. We have antichoice extremists at the helm. The work of Repeal is not done #spéirgorm
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Only 5 Fianna Fáil TDs voted to restore the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy)(Amendment) Bill. 35 voted against.
They're the only major party where none of the female TDs supported the bill. We have antichoice extremists at the helm. The work of Repeal is not done #spéirgorm
They're the only major party where none of the female TDs supported the bill. We have antichoice extremists at the helm. The work of Repeal is not done #spéirgorm
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
@jackabbott.bsky.social I wonder if you read these things and how comfortable you and @soclablaw.bsky.social are about the hardline stance this govt are taking on legitimate protest.
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social
Teuta Hoxha, 29, has been in prison without trial for 13 months.
news.sky.com/story/fears-... #BritishJustice #NeverNotAtIt
news.sky.com/story/fears-... #BritishJustice #NeverNotAtIt
Fears Palestine Action hunger striker will die in prison after 43 days without food
Teuta Hoxha's body is the "only form of resistance she has and that's what she is using against the state", her sister says.
news.sky.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
@jackabbott.bsky.social I wonder if you read these things and how comfortable you and @soclablaw.bsky.social are about the hardline stance this govt are taking on legitimate protest.
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
A leaked draft of legislation for MPAs that nearly passed in 2024 indicates that the government is taking a minimalist approach with low ambition for restoration of marine life.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Why are our marine 'protected' areas still nothing more than lines on maps?
Blanket bans on certain activities, such as towing trawls and dredges across the seafloor, or fixing nets for long periods, or even prohibiting all kinds of fishing or extractive activities from some ...
www.irishexaminer.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A leaked draft of legislation for MPAs that nearly passed in 2024 indicates that the government is taking a minimalist approach with low ambition for restoration of marine life.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Language capacity helps economic competitiveness, since Irish people and firms without third languages fall behind Europeans and others in labour and business markets.
Ach an athrófar aon rud san státseirbhís seachas páipéir gan gníomh?
Language capacity helps economic competitiveness, since Irish people and firms without third languages fall behind Europeans and others in labour and business markets.
Ach an athrófar aon rud san státseirbhís seachas páipéir gan gníomh?
Ireland remains locked into the anglophone world. Will we ever make the multilingual leap?
Language specialists doubt whether existing educational policies can deliver on State’s linguistic competence deficit
www.irishtimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Language capacity helps economic competitiveness, since Irish people and firms without third languages fall behind Europeans and others in labour and business markets.
Ach an athrófar aon rud san státseirbhís seachas páipéir gan gníomh?
Language capacity helps economic competitiveness, since Irish people and firms without third languages fall behind Europeans and others in labour and business markets.
Ach an athrófar aon rud san státseirbhís seachas páipéir gan gníomh?
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
The last time Ireland could deliver major infrastructure projects....
Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday
December 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The last time Ireland could deliver major infrastructure projects....
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
Never forget the Hozier is a real one
December 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Never forget the Hozier is a real one
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
On Wednesday night, UN Human Rights Day, IPSC activists disrupted
Central Bank Governor Gabriel Makhlouf in the RIA due to his continued involvement in the financing of Israel's genocide in Gaza through facilitating the sale of apartheid state's war bonds.
#StopFundingGenocide
Central Bank Governor Gabriel Makhlouf in the RIA due to his continued involvement in the financing of Israel's genocide in Gaza through facilitating the sale of apartheid state's war bonds.
#StopFundingGenocide
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
On Wednesday night, UN Human Rights Day, IPSC activists disrupted
Central Bank Governor Gabriel Makhlouf in the RIA due to his continued involvement in the financing of Israel's genocide in Gaza through facilitating the sale of apartheid state's war bonds.
#StopFundingGenocide
Central Bank Governor Gabriel Makhlouf in the RIA due to his continued involvement in the financing of Israel's genocide in Gaza through facilitating the sale of apartheid state's war bonds.
#StopFundingGenocide
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
Kneecap waving a flag thrown onto the stage at a gig is terrorism, heavily reported in Britain and debated in the Commons.
Loyalists putting * live pipe bombs * on people's cars to terrorise a sport club into shutting down is not terrorism, and ignored in Britain.
And he'll only do 18 months.
Loyalists putting * live pipe bombs * on people's cars to terrorise a sport club into shutting down is not terrorism, and ignored in Britain.
And he'll only do 18 months.
A man who left pipe bombs at a Co Down sports ground in an attempt to intimidate a newly formed GAA club into leaving, has been given a three year sentence.
Man who left pipe bombs at Down sports ground jailed
A man who left pipe bombs at a Co Down sports ground in an attempt to intimidate a newly formed GAA club into leaving, has been given a three year sentence.
www.rte.ie
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Kneecap waving a flag thrown onto the stage at a gig is terrorism, heavily reported in Britain and debated in the Commons.
Loyalists putting * live pipe bombs * on people's cars to terrorise a sport club into shutting down is not terrorism, and ignored in Britain.
And he'll only do 18 months.
Loyalists putting * live pipe bombs * on people's cars to terrorise a sport club into shutting down is not terrorism, and ignored in Britain.
And he'll only do 18 months.
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
This.
I would recommend anyone read the Kenova Report published today, especially ps 123-4 in context of the headlines stating there is no evidence of collusion between the British state and loyalist paramilitaries.
www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...
www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...
December 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This.
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
"The ignoring of facts, the sidelining of scientists and the breezy assertions, repeated ad nauseum, that Irish agriculture is ‘sustainable’ are largely responsible for the mess Irish farming finds itself in.
Honesty alone will not dig us out of the hole, but it would be a start."
Brilliant piece.
Honesty alone will not dig us out of the hole, but it would be a start."
Brilliant piece.
My attempt to cut through some of the misinformation around farming and water quality as we approach decision time on Ireland’s nitrates derogation
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Ireland's lax approach to inspecting farms and enforcing rules
The EU Nitrates Committee meets tomorrow and may extend Ireland's nitrates derogation by up to three years. At the same time we need to protect or restore water quality on a national scale writes ecol...
www.irishexaminer.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"The ignoring of facts, the sidelining of scientists and the breezy assertions, repeated ad nauseum, that Irish agriculture is ‘sustainable’ are largely responsible for the mess Irish farming finds itself in.
Honesty alone will not dig us out of the hole, but it would be a start."
Brilliant piece.
Honesty alone will not dig us out of the hole, but it would be a start."
Brilliant piece.
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
Artist, member of Cumann na mBan, revolutionary and an Irish Jewish woman - rename that park after the wonderful Estella Solomons #speirgorm jewishmuseum.ie/jews-of-irel...
Estella Solomons – Irish Jewish Museum
..
jewishmuseum.ie
December 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Artist, member of Cumann na mBan, revolutionary and an Irish Jewish woman - rename that park after the wonderful Estella Solomons #speirgorm jewishmuseum.ie/jews-of-irel...
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
November 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
You would think that someone with a degree in history would understand that renaming a park cannot and will not erase any history of any community or group, similarly to how the taking down statues of slavers has not erased the history of slavery! #speirgorm
November 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
You would think that someone with a degree in history would understand that renaming a park cannot and will not erase any history of any community or group, similarly to how the taking down statues of slavers has not erased the history of slavery! #speirgorm
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
Tá fadhb ag an Eoraip. Táimid spleách ar impireacht amháin i gcúrsaí fuinnimh agus ar impireacht eile do teicneolaíochtaí faisnéise. Is mithid an dá spleáchas a shárú.
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Tá fadhb ag an Eoraip. Táimid spleách ar impireacht amháin i gcúrsaí fuinnimh agus ar impireacht eile do teicneolaíochtaí faisnéise. Is mithid an dá spleáchas a shárú.
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
As someone who has worked for charities, still volunteers with charities but also someone who worked on the 'other side' in a public body I agree with Anne-Marie. Charities are filling the gaps where LAs and Govt are failing to act.
Duty of Care is outsourced.
Another legacy of the Victorians.
Duty of Care is outsourced.
Another legacy of the Victorians.
🧵 As we look towards the #LateLateToyShow next week, it's time to remember that everyone - including the State - will expect us all to donate generously to the very worthy causes supported financially by the Toy Show Appeal. Let's think about this.
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
As someone who has worked for charities, still volunteers with charities but also someone who worked on the 'other side' in a public body I agree with Anne-Marie. Charities are filling the gaps where LAs and Govt are failing to act.
Duty of Care is outsourced.
Another legacy of the Victorians.
Duty of Care is outsourced.
Another legacy of the Victorians.
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
🧵 As we look towards the #LateLateToyShow next week, it's time to remember that everyone - including the State - will expect us all to donate generously to the very worthy causes supported financially by the Toy Show Appeal. Let's think about this.
November 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🧵 As we look towards the #LateLateToyShow next week, it's time to remember that everyone - including the State - will expect us all to donate generously to the very worthy causes supported financially by the Toy Show Appeal. Let's think about this.
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
The Irish government is ideologically incapable of solving the housing crisis, but it's not only their fault.
If you voted for them, you own this just as much as they do, and you need to start fixing it.
If you voted for them, you own this just as much as they do, and you need to start fixing it.
#humanrights
The number of #homeless people in Ireland has reached a new record high of more than 16,700, including more than 5,200 children, latest figures show.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
The number of #homeless people in Ireland has reached a new record high of more than 16,700, including more than 5,200 children, latest figures show.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
Number of homeless people in Ireland reaches new record high in October
Focus Ireland says many children now facing second or third Christmas in emergency accommodation
www.irishtimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The Irish government is ideologically incapable of solving the housing crisis, but it's not only their fault.
If you voted for them, you own this just as much as they do, and you need to start fixing it.
If you voted for them, you own this just as much as they do, and you need to start fixing it.
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
“The intention of these sanctions, and the extraordinary difficulties they cause for the ICC judges, is obvious. They are aimed at sabotaging the work of the court and, in a larger sense, delegitimising the institutions of international law”
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
☕️🥐
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
☕️🥐
November 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
“The intention of these sanctions, and the extraordinary difficulties they cause for the ICC judges, is obvious. They are aimed at sabotaging the work of the court and, in a larger sense, delegitimising the institutions of international law”
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
☕️🥐
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
☕️🥐
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
Ireland women's Under-19 team struck up an a cappella version of Amhrán na bhFiann before a European Championship qualifier in Bulgaria after organisers mistakenly played Britain's God Save the King over the speakers
Irish team sing anthem after God Save the King blunder
Ireland women's Under-19 team struck up an a cappella version of Amhran na bhFiann before a European Championship qualifier in Bulgaria today after organisers mistakenly played Britain's 'God Save the...
www.rte.ie
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Ireland women's Under-19 team struck up an a cappella version of Amhrán na bhFiann before a European Championship qualifier in Bulgaria after organisers mistakenly played Britain's God Save the King over the speakers
Reposted by Leah Nic Aodha
“For northern nationalists, particularly those close to the border, the London Agreement was the ultimate betrayal meted out to them by the Free State government.”
~Cormac Moore
The Irish News
☕️🥐
~Cormac Moore
The Irish News
☕️🥐
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 AM
“For northern nationalists, particularly those close to the border, the London Agreement was the ultimate betrayal meted out to them by the Free State government.”
~Cormac Moore
The Irish News
☕️🥐
~Cormac Moore
The Irish News
☕️🥐