The family of a four-year-old girl with epilepsy has appealed for help from the State as they struggle to pay €1,000 per week for the medicine that has stopped her life-threatening seizures rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

Very sad to learn of the death of Toto Schillaci While he might have scored against us, Irish people have great affection for Toto because he was arguably THE iconic name from the best summer of our lives Here he is starring in a 2002 ad for Irish ale Smithwick’s RIP Toto!

Marriage vs. PhD

Guardian sent a Slovak reporter to work undercover in a rural Irish hotel - this should be compulsory reading for us all - but especially the Lots of Time on Our Hands Ireland Iz Fullz crowd - theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Congratulations to bigots Trump and Vance, whose fear-mongering racism has led to over 30 bomb threats in #Springfield in one week. So, two white, American-born men are damaging the fabric and values of the town more than any immigrants ever will.

Undercover as a hotel cleaner in Ireland: ‘I work for 11 hours, but it feels like 20. I barely have time for a bathroom break’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

Here's ReDICo's Fergal Lenehan from Universität Jena presenting a research paper at the University of Stockholm, as a guest of Professor Alexa Robertson. Look who's being cited Luisa Conti! Milene Mendes de Oliveira

It was a real honour to be in Stockholm, to present a research paper & to tell the Swedish colleagues about the ReDICo project. On Tuesday evening I also took part in a round table discussion on the topic of cosmopolitanism. A long train journey back to Germany now!

Had a wonderful time in beautiful Stockholm. Wonderful coffee culture; fantastic galleries - such as the Thiel Gallery with its Munch room - ; water everywhere; & really nice people. And great words like Tunnelbana - underground train - that sound a bit German & a bit English.

It’s #CultureNight & the amazing Aideen Barry commissioned me to write about childhood influences for Culture on RTÉ - so here are some poems about grief, & Tim Burton’s Batman Returns 🦇🦇🦇 rte.ie/culture/2024/0…

Der sächsische AfD-MdB Matthias Moosdorf ist mal wieder in Russland. Auftritt in der Eremitage in St. Petersburg.

Trump’s shocking anti-Semitic scapegoating of Jews yesterday 👇fits a pattern Charlottesville. The Nick Fuentes dinner. Promoting Tucker Carlson. Wake up: Trump’s an anti-semite & a grave danger to the Jewish people.

LIVE UPDATES: Lebanese health minister says 31 killed, including 3 children and 7 women, in Friday's Israeli strike in Beirut haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

📖 This brilliant new edited volume Manchester University Press just arrived on my doormat. A very welcome contribution to the field - in fact, I wish this had existed when I was doing my PhD. Must-read for students, scholars and journalists who study the far right.👏 The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right

Now that peaceful #climate protests have been banned and criminalised in many countries, guess there’s no need to ever worry about having our streets blocked again, right?

a lot of academics will have a keen-eyed structural analysis of breakfast cereals or barbie dolls but not when you ask them to think about their own profession and the context in which it operates

Musk agrees to take down accounts, pay fines, comply with #Brazil's request for X/Twitter to appoint a legal representative. Case was about a nation-state having sovereignty over its own media ecosystem in the face of the whims of a billionaire, and it looks like sovereignty won.

Leo Varadkar blamed Irish people wanting free housing and Irish family breakdown for rise in homelessness. Simon Harris TD is now blaming asylum seekers. 75 social houses were built nationally in 2015. 75! Homelessness is a product of FG housing policies.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the Israeli army’s raid and closure of Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah. 👇

Rising immigration levels not linked to homelessness crisis, says President Higgins irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…