Ideas merchant & teacher. Post-growth economics & working class green politics. Democratise, decolonise and decarbonise. Views my own. RTs are not endorsements.
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For years, the comrades at @ConnollyBooks have kept the Collected Works of James Connolly in print and accessible to all. We are proud to expand that library with The Lost & Early Writings of Connolly, unearthed and edited by @CMacCaba!
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Lots of disengenous and patronising remarks about respecting the rule of law. Yous know why Garvaghy Road is different. Why are yous pretending you don't? Thousands of marches every year where the rule of law is respected. This one is different and we all know why.
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Bleak is not enough to describe this. None of this needs to happen.
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RT @extremetemps: EXTRAORDINARY EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE 41 DEGREES
Never happened anything like this
Almost 41C again in SPAIN today
Almost 30C…
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Around a thousand people are gathered at the lower end of the Garvaghy Road in anticipation of the Orange Order march which is set to come down the road after 8am | Follow live updates
rte.ie/news/2026/0927/159309…
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While the focal point for many was (understandably) elsewhere in Belfast today, a few hundred demonstrators turned out at Stormont to protest ongoing inaction over Lough Neagh's recovery
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Hearing from several sources around Ireland hotel that agents are telling players you must play our you'll never play for a US owned team in the UK.
How grim and predictable from faceless agents who profit in the background.
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High court in Belfast issues temporary injunction requiring the orange order to postpone Drumcree parade rte.ie/news/2026/0926/159303…
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High drama outside the Irish football team hotel in Debrecen with speculation the players may be about to pull out of their match with Israel tomorrow, a decision the majority of people in Ireland would support.
We understand the Ireland players are meeting Heimir Hallgrimsson and that discussion remains ongoing.
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If they refuse to play, the majority of this country will celebrate these footballers more even than if they had won the world cup.
The Ditch: The Party Line | Episode 29: Foul Play, with Rebecca O’Keeffe
‘What would constitute a Kaepernick moment for the Irish soccer team over the next 10 days?’
‘Not playing. Refusing to play.
‘There's no other action that you think we could have. There's not a taking the knee for them?’
‘If you're talking about sporting moments, I genuinely think if they refuse to play that would be a sporting moment that we celebrate in this country. It would constitute one of the great sporting moments of this country. I think it will impact far beyond the game. I think it will have a domino effect.
That will be a sporting moment. And sporting moments bring the country together collectively. It captures the nation. And that would do it.’
‘It would be Jesse Owens. It would be Muhammad Ali not going to Vietnam. I do think that's the level we're talking about.’
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Confusion in Hungary as players hold meeting - updates rte.ie/sport/soccer/2026/092… via @rte
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I really hope the players ignore the suits on this one.
Stand up and be counted 💚🤍🧡
Training - due to start in 15 mins - postponed too. Following mtg with FAI chief executive last night at team hotel, players holding their own meeting now. This will only proceed on their terms.
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Bizarre nonsense in the Irish Times article on Netanyahu's speech at the UN—the idea that Hasan Piker "has made virulently anti-Semitic remarks" was invented wholesale by a clique of Democrats who ardently support Netanyahu's genocidal regime. It has no place in a news report.
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Polanski heckled at by-election husting for condemning zionism
Jewish Voice for Liberation, however, praise the Green Party leader for showing that ‘Jews are not one homogeneous bloc’
morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
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24 septembre 2026 : encore 37 °C en France.
Si cette température était un épisode isolé, je n'en ferais pas un post. Mais ce n'est justement pas le cas car cela dure depuis le mois de mai.
À Nîmes, 2026 cumule désormais 112 jours à plus de 30 °C. C'est l'équivalent de près de quatre mois de chaleur supérieure à 30 °C sur une seule année...
Les 30°C seront encore observés en France jusqu'à la fin du mois. Certaines simulations voient les prolongations jusqu'à début octobre.
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The UK’s spy chiefs examined the impacts of the collapse of overseas ecosystems, under pressure of climate crisis and biodiversity loss, on UK’s national security.
Their findings?
“Apocalyptic.”
UK defence and society at risk, impacts within 5 years.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Declassified journalists banned from Labour conference – again.
A Trumpian policy started by Keir Starmer.
Burnham can't make a fresh start without getting rid of the previous advisers.
Democracy means accepting scrutiny, even when it is uncomfortable.
declassifieduk.org/declassif…
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Reported just yesterday that Swiss tech company Eryce has bought a data centre site in Coleraine with the goal of developing it for AI.
colerainechronicle.co.uk/new…
Pat Brodie, Seán Fearon and me on why the north must not follow the south in becoming a data centre haven.
'In an era of widespread social deprivation and ecological crises, we need a radical change in economic and industrial policy.'
irishnews.com/opinion/stormo…
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