UNRWA has the reach, network, and trust to deliver lifesaving aid directly to people in need across #Gaza.

To meet urgent needs, let UNRWA bring in its aid to Gaza at scale.

Let us do our job.

"We need a president who can give a voice to those who feel they don't have a voice, who can give a voice to the real challenges in our society, who can give a voice to the terrible injustice that's happening in our world right now." - @mariesherlock.bsky.social @labourpartyireland.bsky.social

Fair play to #CatherineConnolly team who just sent a lovely reply to my request for info and a resource pack of her climate & environment interventions for students in my Climate Policy & Politics module. 🙌

We all live under the same sky.
We all belong to the same Earth.

We built the borders
and forgot
that we still live under the same sky,
that we still belong to the same Earth.

What great wrong has Ireland committed that Brian Leddin is getting to write an opinion piece on any female candidate for any position?

#spéirghorm #speirgorm

What is Heather Humphries vision for the Presidency? What values underlie this vision? Does she have independence of character? Can she be a President for all the people? Surely the electorate have a right to know? Catherine Connolly’s vision seems infinitely clearer despite wobbles.

"There is a lesson here for me, for my team, for the people of Ireland that if you put your head above the parapet and you dare to speak out and give a rational opinion that is based on evidence, this is what we will do, we will take you out, and this is really a very serious point in the campaign."

“There isn’t one single line on a commitment to public childcare.” - Catherine in the Dáil today, responding to the FG/FF Budget.

We want a president who speaks truth to power, vote Catherine Connolly #1 on October 24

"Unpaid carers are predominantly women, which might go some way to explaining why their contributions are ignored." Catherine Connolly speaking out following yesterday's budget on the continuation of the means test for carers, and the unfulfilled promise of a cost of disability payment.

One day we will have redress schemes for the children failed by Ireland’s care system

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

‘Domestic judges cannot undo the case law of the Strasbourg court that so irritates a section of the political class and its journalist outriders. But they are doing everything short of that to make human rights as much of a domestic legal irrelevance as possible.’

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ahhh *childish* is an insult to children, Alan.

@equalitynow.bsky.social press release welcoming the decision of the African Commission on Human & People's Rights in relation to sexual violence committed by DRC military personnel in South Kivu
reliefweb.int/report/democ...

#Gaza:  2 years too long.

UNRWA’s photographers document the suffering of the people in #Gaza, and the work our dedicated teams continue to do.

International journalists are banned to enter Gaza and independently report.

See Gaza through their eyes.

#UNRWAworks

"We need to look at the cost of genocide to our humanity."

@catherinegalway.bsky.social #twip #aras25

Today I stood
and watched the trees let their leaves go.

War made me more sensitive to beauty.
Don’t wait for war to see it –
just look around.

Care as a human right?

The IACtHR recently recognised this right and specified respective state obligations.

MIRIAM L. HENRÍQUEZ VIÑAS & SABRINA RAGONE explain what this entails – and why we may soon witness a proliferation of norms at the domestic level.

verfassungsblog.de/right-to-car...

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio.
It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply

card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?"

WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

'Sinister, criminal or reckless' Too many questions remain over Blackwater fish kill - concerned groups say inconclusive final report must not be last word on it
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

‘The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.’ ✨

I very much support the scrapping of the means test for carers allowance. If it happens it must not be allowed to continue to defray the states responsibility to support people to live independently (with supports as required). It can’t be the answer to the no vote to #CareRef.

The International Criminal Court matters. For the most vulnerable it is a ‘small light’ in the darkness. When enkindled it protects us all from severe forms rights deprivation.