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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 11h

www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

New disability rights and equality organisation launches

A disability rights and equality organisation - which will be "upfront and uncompromising" in calling out matters impacting disabled people - has been launched.

www.rte.ie

Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 11h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Top US news outlets push back against Pentagon's reporting restrictions

A new Department of Defense policy bars journalists from the Pentagon unless they agree to only publish information that has been officially authorised.

www.bbc.com

Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 11h

www.thejournal.ie/retail-elect...

Retail electricity prices in Ireland three times higher than wholesale cost, report finds

A new report also found EU countries have some of the highest residential electricity prices in the world and that prices are highest in Ireland and Germany.

www.thejournal.ie

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 16h

Interview I did last week with @C103Cork, on behalf of @SVP_Ireland, regarding our reaction to Budget 2026.

shows.acast.com/c103/episode...

CorkToday 9th October 2025 | Cork Today

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 19h

There are so many that a quick search should be able to help you.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

At 17, I was jailed for a murder I didn’t commit – and spent seven life-changing years in prison

Basic police checks would have shown Sam Hallam wasn’t at the scene of the crime, but these weren’t carried out until he had spent much of his youth inside. He explains why he is still fighting for ju...

www.theguardian.com

Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 21h

This is such an important report.

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Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 23h

Energy firms accused of ‘price gouging’ as international report shows they fail to pass on lower costs.

m.independent.ie/business/mon...

#Spéirghorm

Surprised Pikachu GIF

ALT: Surprised Pikachu GIF

media.tenor.com

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 21h

Seminar yesterday in the @RIAdawson & @ArinsProject on the island economy @DCU & @UlsterUni 1. Cross border comparisons. 2. Making N-S economic data comparable & 3. the long term implications of a united Ireland. Reports and the cleaned up data all on all-islandeconomy.com

Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 21h

This from @financialjustice.bsky.social

The Global North owes the Global South $5 TRILLION a year in climate finance.

The Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) affirms what we have known: the Global North bears legal and historical responsibility for the climate crisis.

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 22h

The International Energy Agency (#IEA) found that retail prices in Ireland are three times higher than wholesale prices – one of the highest gaps in the world.

#CostofLivingCrisis #Electricity
#Energia #BordGáis #SSEAirtricity

independent.ie/business/money…

Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 22h

And the standard of trials in Israel are to the highest international standards?

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 22h

Was there a trial in accordance with international legal standards?

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 22h

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Stability of care system queried as 320 children put in three or more placements last year

The figure is up from 179 children in 2020, and accounted for 5.7% of the 5,705 children who were in care last year

www.irishexaminer.com

Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 22h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 1d

Culture war about Irish "doesn't help Unionists" - former aide to David Trimble jrnl.ie/6843132

Culture war about Irish "doesn't help Unionists" - former aide to David Trimble

Unionists opposing dual language signage including Irish in Belfast are told it won’t help their cause by leading unionist commentator.

jrnl.ie

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities

"Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US"

"The church cannot be silent"

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Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur HRDs @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social · 1d

People around the world are working for action on climate change & a just transition - one that respects the human rights of all. They are human rights defenders, yet instead of working with them, States have gone on the attack. I am calling for change.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert

Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists

www.theguardian.com

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 1d

BDS victory: The McGill Association of University Teachers passed a resolution to "endorse the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel," and to call on McGill administration to implement a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

@BDSmovement @PACBI
cjpme.org/who_supports_b…

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 1d

This.

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 1d

"Only 2.9% of all residents across the 536 streets approved for dual-language signage opposed."

The Belfast City Council street naming policy was passed in October 2022. Here's the 3 year review 👇

shorturl.at/hsB6E

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump prolonged the Israeli genocide resulting in thousands of deaths of children, men and women.
This ‘peace plan’ could have been implemented a long time ago.
I welcome the current suspension of the genocide but have no enthusiasm for praising Trump.

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 2d

A great piece here.

What is the justice system for if we don’t believe in rehabilitation?

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

Breda O'Brien: What is the justice system for if we don’t believe in rehabilitation?

Serving time in prison should not be the start of a longer sentence of stigma and shame

www.irishtimes.com

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 2d

‘Dilexi Te ("I Have Loved You") is a profound and yet deeply disturbing document. Prophetic in the truest sense, it is an uncompromising assessment of how wealth and faith in contemporary economic ideologies and markets have misshapen Christianity.’

Editorial: Pope Leo delivers breathtakingly bold salvo on wealth, elitism and poverty

Prophetic in the truest sense, Dilexi Te is an uncompromising assessment of how wealth and faith in contemporary economic ideologies and markets have misshapen Christianity.

www.ncronline.org

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 2d

“Before accusing all those people who protest, resist, struggle and voice subversive opinions abroad, it should be recognized that the only arena in which genuine change can still be effected is the international arena.”
~Gideon Levy

Haaretz

Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 2d

www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

WHO: Over a million Palestinians in Gaza require urgent mental health support

www.middleeasteye.net