TODAY: There is NO Ceasefire. National March for Palestine in Dublin

 TODAY, Saturday 29th November the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by more than 170 Irish civil society groups, is holding a National Demonstration for Palestine to International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and call for an Irish government action to end Apartheid Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has seen more than slaughtered at least 70,000 Palestinians.

It will be the eighteenth such national mobilisation since October 2023 - all of which have seen tens of thousands flood Dublin's streets in opposition to Israel's slaughter in Gaza.

Protestors will assemble at 1pm at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square, and will march from there to Leinster House for a rally outside the Dáil.  There will be a disability access point outside the back gate of Trinity, at the intersection of D’Olier Street and College Green.

Speakers at the rally will include genocide survivor Miral Khaled Qudaih, Richard Boyd Barrett TD, actor and activist Liam Cunningham, IPSC Vice-Chair Fatin Al-Tamimi, and Noreldaim Ahmedkagho of the Ireland Sudan Solidarity Collective. There will be a poetry reading from genocide survivor Nour Hania, and performances from Aoife Scott & Andy Meaney. 

Speaking ahead of the protest, IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said, "There is no ceasefire in Gaza. Amnesty this week stated that 'Israel’s genocide is not over', and the Max Planck Institute has found that the violent death toll in Gaza in likely more than 100,000. All while Israeli Ministers cheer on the execution of unarmed Palestinians in the West Bank. This is why we stay on the streets and demand action from our government.

"Due to the global pressure of the mass movement for Palestine, which has seen some states begin to impose sanctions, limited as they are, the US was forced to pressure Israel into stopping, at least temporarily, its campaign of hourly mass killing. However the so-called 'ceasefire' is a fiction, and Israel has violated it at least 400 times since October 10, killing more than 300 people and injuring 700 more. Aid is still highly restricted and controlled by Israel, Gaza remains in ruins, and winter is closing in. Meanwhile Israel is busy bombing Lebanon again, while the UNSC just voted to approve the colonial Trump-Netanyahu plan for international troops to oversee the illegal occupation and continued 'slow genocide' in Gaza.

"The collective pressure from the global Palestine movement has brought us this far - and now is not the time to rest, it's the time to increase the pressure. It's imperative that we hit the streets in large numbers once again to keep piling the pressure on the Irish government which is still refusing to do even the bare minimum and pass the Occupied Territories Bill. We've seen victories thanks to our collective movement in Ireland - but we demand so, so, much more!

"We need to bring people’s rage to the government’s doorstep – no more pathetic excuses, no more hiding behind legalese, no more empty words: we want sanctions on Israel now!"

TODAY: Dáil Protest to call on Government to enact the Occupied Territories Bill

TODAY Wednesday 19th November will see a protest organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign outside the Dáil ahead of a vote on a joint left opposition motion calling on the Irish government to pass the Occupied Territories Bill, including a ban on trade with both goods and services. The protest will take place at 5.30pm on Molesworth Street.

The motion calls on the government “as a matter of the utmost urgency” to “bring the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill, amended to include services, before the Dáil, and do everything necessary to ensure the Bill can be enacted before the end of this year”.  Speakers at the rally will include Sinn Féin Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, PBP TD Richard Boyd Barrett, and Independent Senators Alice Mary Higgins and Frances Black. 

IPSC Chairperson Zoe Lawlor said: "This government promised to pass the OTB after the election… then it was kicked to a Committee for review. The Committee fully endorsed it… but the government did nothing. Then they promised it after the Summer recess… and still nothing. Now, as we approach the Dáil’s Christmas break there is still silence. 

"This Bill is a ‘bare minimum’ action that Ireland should have taken a long time ago – it is astounding to think that it remains stalled. We urge all TDs to support the motion: the government must stop stalling and pass the full Bill, as recommended by the Joint Committee, many of the world’s foremost legal experts, and the vast, vast majority of Irish voters!"

HIV experts "pivot" to finding treatments for Long-Covid. SARS2 is not mild, "just a cold" or over. Mask up, clean indoor air

Trigger warning: The truth about the harms caused by forced mass infection with SARS-CoV-2, a level 3 biohazard, is starting to surface. Reality & denial are on collision course. Buckle up. 

Better still:

• Wear an ffp2/3/N95 respirator mask when sharing indoor air 
• Ventilate/filtrate indoor air

HIV experts in the vid below👇

 "Sars-Cov-2 can persist for long periods of time throughout the body in tissues, gut, bone marrow, brain"

"We found profound changes & inflammation in tissues"

"Residual T-cell activation across much of the body following SARS-Cov-2 infection"

It [SARS2] causes chronic inflammation which makes the immune system not work well"

"We're targeting the exact same pathways in long-covid as we did in HIV"

"We need to move beyond single therapy treatments for long-Covid". Me: Any treatment at all would be welcome. Antivirals are largely unavailable in Ireland & the UK.

Boo! Old habits die hard: Sister Conceptic, Gobnit, Attracta from the sisters of (no) mercy scaring the bejesus out of local kids again this Halloween

God love her. Sister Conceptic, Gobnit, Attracta, scaring the bejesus out of kids with her habit & pumpkin earrings again this Halloween. Handing out penance & prayer, instead of Tayto & toffee, concomitantly spraying passing kids in holy water whilst singing hail Mary to the sound track of "Sisters are do'in it for themselves". "Can you sing far away, the children chanted, "The farther away the better"!

Dead Ned with the plastic head made his annual appearance!💀

Halloween hijinx & chicanery

Horrendously horrible cakes👇🥮

Autumnal hikes👇🍂

Dóchas: Catherine Connolly wins presidential election in landslide victory.

Comhghairdeachas Catherine Connolly 💪👏👏👏

A victory for humanity, peace, unity & hope. Catherine is the embodiment of compassion & integrity 💖

Tá dóchas ann 💝

Guardian fact check required when viewing the above:

1) The video claims Catherine was little known before the presidential election. False. Catherine has been a household name - in Ireland - for many years. 

2) It claims that Catherine is oft compared to Jeremy Corbyn. Codswallop. Catherine Connolly is a woman who stands in the world in her own right with her own voice, accomplishments & vision. This woman requires comparison to no man and seeks not permission nor approval for that which she has earned through her own merit, graft & grace💪🌟

Protest TOMORROW at The Dáil, 1.30pm – 3pm

 Press Release, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Tuesday 21st October 2025

A protest, organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, will take place at at The Dáil, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, TOMORROW Wednesday 22 October from 1.30pm – 3pm to demand an end to Central Bank complicity in Israel’s genocide and apartheid. The protest will happen as CBI Governor Gabriel Makhlouf appears before the Joint Committee on Finance in relation to the transfer of Israel Bond prospectus to the CSSF in Luxembourg.

Why? Thanks to massive public pressure, Israel’s genocide bonds were forced out of Ireland. However, the CBI is still the lynchpin for the sale of these bonds in the EU. The CBI transferred the Israel Bond prospectus, on the request of Israel, to the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) in Luxembourg, which approved the prospectus. Under the EU Prospectus Regulation 2017/1129 Ireland remains the “home member state” in the EU for Israel and the CSSF is acting as a “competent authority” of Ireland for the purposes of the Israel Bond prospectus.

The transfer, in violation of international law and with absolute disregard for the recommendation of the Joint Oireachtas Committee Report on Israeli Bonds, enables Israel to raise funds in the EU for actions  which include genocide, apartheid, occupation, collective punishment, interment and forced starvation.

 

IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said: “The Central Bank agreement, nearly two years into the genocide in Gaza, to Israel’s request to transfer the Israel Bond prospectus to the CSSF in Luxembourg was a shameful duplicitous act of complicity in genocide. The intention of the transfer was to ensure continued access to EU markets for apartheid Israel’s fundraising for genocide. Offshoring renewal does not absolve the CBI of responsibility, nor does it absolve the government of responsibility to take immediate action to end the Central Bank’s facilitation of the sale of Israel Bonds.

 

We demand that the Government take all necessary actions to stop the CBI, directly and through transfer, enabling the sale of apartheid Israel’s war bonds which directly fund its crimes against the Palestinian people.”

 

Speakers:

Abubaker Abed, Palestinian journalist and Gaza genocide survivor

Sen. Chris Andrews, participant on Gaza Sumud Flotilla

Naoise Dolan, writer and journalist, participant on the Thousand Madleens Flotilla

Barry Heneghan TD, participant on Thousand Madleens Flotillas.

Miral Khaled Qudaih, Gaza genocide survivor

Sean Marmion, IPSC 

Covid Inquiry hears Seren's story: "School became terrifying". "I was coughed at, sworn at, verbally abused and physically intimidated".

Please watch & share Seren's testimony, given recently to the UK Covid inquiry. She was forced to leave school half way through her A-levels, having become the target of sustained bullying, abuse & intimidation - not just from other students, but from staff & parents too. 

Why? She dared to continue masking to protect her disabled little sister when everyone around her wanted to pretend the pandemic was over. Afterall, we were given official permission not to care about the clinically vulnerable. By continuing to care, Seren defied official government guidance to forcibly infect everyone, including the disabled, elderly and clinically vulnerable. For the crime of following the science, refusing to consent to mass infection & salting the vibes, Seren was ruthlessly, cruelly targeted & punished. Welcome to our post caring era.

Extracts from Seren's testimony👇

"I was the only child masked and became the target for bullying"

"I was coughed at, sworn at, verbally abused and physically intimidated". Not just by other students, but by staff & other parents too

"School became terrifying"

Seren's burden, and that of many like her, is never acknowledged, such as: "The toll of carrying the burden of being the risk to your vulnerable family member, of having to advocate for clean air, having to defend myself for continuing to wear a mask or endure abuse for reminding people of a pandemic they'd rather forget".

"My sister's 13 now & still extremely vulnerable. Outside of my family, who is protecting her now"?

Seren's courage, moral clarity and defiance in the face of such abject adult failure, is inspirational & humbling. As I told her myself, you're the very best of us, Seren 💪💓🌟

TODAY: Two Years of Genocide. National March for Palestine to take place in Dublin

 TODAY, Saturday 4th October the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by more than 175 Irish civil society groups, is holding a National Demonstration for Palestine to mark two years of Apartheid Israel’s genocide in Gaza in which it has slaughtered more than 66,000 Palestinians, and protest the Irish government’s continued refusal to hold the Apartheid state accountable.

It will be the seventeenth such national mobilisation since October 2023 - all of which have seen tens of thousands flood Dublin's streets in opposition to Israel's slaughter in Gaza.

Protestors will assemble at 12.30pm (NOTE EARLIER THAN USUAL TIME) at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square, and will march from there to Leinster House for a rally outside the Dáil.  There will be a disability access point outside the back gate of Trinity, at the intersection of D’Olier Street and College Green.

Speakers at the rally will include Gazan writer and academic Yousef Aljamal, genocide survivor Dua'a Ahmed, Flotilla participant Paul Murphy TD, disability rights campaigner Sophia Mulvany, and IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor. With performances from Grooveline, Sexy Tadhg, and Aoife Kelly & Eoghan Scott.Speaking ahead of the protest, IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said, "Two years into this genocide, and Israel's unrelenting genocide continues with at least 66,000 people murdered in Gaza, and another 900 in the West Bank. There has been a savage food and aid blockade for months — the only food available distributed by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, spaces that have become sites of slaughter as more than 2,500 unarmed aid-seekers have been murdered by occupation forces. Between 50 and 100 people are still being killed every day - and more than 100 more Palestinians were murdered over the past 24 hours.

"We have also seen the illegal interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, and the detention of hundreds of activists, including many Irish citizens, trying to deliver aid to Gaza.

"And the response of Western powers has been to keep sending guns, bombs, and tech to murder Palestinians. To distract, obfuscate, and feign outrage at comments made by people who are angry and upset by genocide. To arrest, assault, and now criminalise as 'terrorist' peaceful anti-genocide protesters. To try to gaslight us all into thinking this is normal. To do everything they possibly can to continue business as usual with this appalling genocidal state.

"And sadly, Ireland is little different. Simon Harris has called Israel's actions 'genocide', 'unconscionable' and 'unacceptable' — yet the Irish government is barely lifting a finger to end Ireland's deep complicity in this genocide. It won't act to stop the Central Bank offshoring of the processing Israel's genocide bonds, it won't stop the use of Shannon Airport and Irish airspace for transiting weapons to Israel, it won't stop dual-use exports to Israel. It won't ban the state investment fund — that invests our taxes — from investing in companies that profit from Israel's illegal colonial settlements. It won't even commit to ensuring the new Occupied Territories Bill bans both trade and services with illegal Israeli settlements - in fact despite promising the swift implementation of the OTB, we are still waiting.

"Let's make this Saturday, 4th October the biggest Palestine demo in Irish history, and together tell the government that there can be no more business as usual, no more pathetic excuses and hand-wringing statements — we want sanctions now!"

Forever-Covid hurts young people’s health – and their futures

 My article in today's Irish Independent. The only mainstream media outlet in the world to allow the "Immunity debt" codswallop to be interrogated & debunked, from the start. Thanks to my lovely editor, Tom Coogan, & the Indo for not being afraid of salting the vibes🙏

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/tess-finch-lees-forever-covid-hurts-young-peoples-health-and-their-futures/a58161326.html

“Immunity debt” doesn’t exist, immune damage does. Children are sicker now than pre-pandemic – many with disabling chronic illnesses. This cycle of harm can only stop when we accept reality – there’s no off ramp without cleaning classroom air".

Trigger warning 1: The article contains photos of children wearing fun floral masks. Note to anti-maskers: It's never too late to embrace science.

Trigger warning 2: The masks featured are not respirators (ffp2/3 or N95s), therefore offering little or no protection against airborne viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.

Note to those upset by that: I don't get to choose the photos. Please direct complaints to the chief medical officer for  negligence & dereliction of duty to inform the public that covid is airborne & that cleaning indoor air & respirator masks are proven to protect against all airborne diseases.

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/tess-finch-lees-forever-covid-hurts-young-peoples-health-and-their-futures/a58161326.html

Excerpt:

"The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has just cited these studies as evidence that “immunity debt”, a theory to explain the global surge in non-Covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is being challenged by emerging evidence. BMJ documents the prevalence of bacterial infections, flare-ups of old viruses, and children being hospitalised with diseases not usually seen in young, healthy people.

In the report, Samira Jeimy, an immunologist at the University of Western Ontario, explained that as many infants and toddlers hospitalised with rare infections since 2022 weren’t born when pandemic restrictions were in place, they cannot be experiencing immunity debt.

They were, however, probably exposed to coronavirus, she said.

Prof Jeimy believes that people who are unwilling to consider the possibility of immune system damage are perhaps driven by a fear of what it might mean. As she told BMJ: “Nobody wants to be the one that says, ‘Yes, Covid-19 causes disability’.”

It’s the responsibility of Ireland’s interim chief medical officer, Mary Horgan, to disseminate these BMJ findings. Instead, children have returned again to overcrowded, under-ventilated classrooms amid yet another coronavirus wave, with hand sanitiser and Calpol as their only protections against the dangerous airborne disease".

And

"Ziyad Al-Aly, professor of medicine at Washington University, said: “We worry about kids’ educational attainment, forming friendships, sports. All these facets of normal development could be impaired in long-Covid. This may negatively affect children in their most formative years, leaving them scarred for life.”

Níl na páistí ceart go leor.

Watch Violet Affleck advocate for clean indoor air as a human right, as well as respirator masks, at the UN yesterday🔥

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” 

TODAY: Disrupt Complicity – Sanction Israel Now! Protest at The Dáil

 Press Release, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, 18th September

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is organising a protest Today Thursday 18 September, 4.30pm – 6.30pm at the Dáil to demand that the Government end all complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestine people, apartheid, and illegal occupation of Palestine lands.        

Why? Palestinian civil society organisations - trade unions, human rights and civil society organisations, cultural and sporting organisations - have called for support to end complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people:

“In this most horrific phase of the genocide Palestinian civil society is united in reiterating the call on people of conscience worldwide to channel their immense grief and anger to cut the links of state, corporate and institutional complicity with this genocidal regime and with all the institutions and corporations that enable its crimes. The utmost moral obligation is first and foremost to do no harm, to end complicity.”

Speakers will include: Anas Abusour, Executive Director of Aida Youth Centre in West Bank,  Ghada Ashour, Genocide survivor,  Mary Lou McDonald TD, Leader of Sinn Fein, Ivana Bacik, TD, leader of the Labour Party, Paul Murphy TD, People Before Profit and participant in Gaza Sumud Flotilla, Paul McSweeney, Trade Union Friends of Palestine, Ken Powell, Dubs for Gaza, and Rebecca Heslin, Vice-Chairperson Dublin IPSC

IPSC Chairperson Zoe Lawlor said: “Today is the UN General Assembly's deadline for Israel to end its unlawful presence in Occupied Palestine. Instead genocide, apartheid and occupation continue with impunity. We are protesting to call on the Government to immediately enact the Occupied Territories Bill to ban all trade with illegal Israeli settlements; pass the Settlement Divestment Bill to ensure that no Irish taxpayers’ money is invested in entities that assist or profit from the occupation; pass the Arms Embargo Bill that will prevent Irish airspace and airports being used to transit weapons to Apartheid Israel; ban the export of all dual-use items to Israel; impose a ban on the import or purchase of any Israeli weaponry, military or security items, and security or surveillance tech; and stop the Central Bank from funding genocide through the off-shoring of the approval of Israeli genocide-funding bonds.”

"These are just some of the measures that can, and legally must, be taken in order to help end Israel’s ongoing two-year genocide in Gaza, to remove the impunity Israel has enjoyed for 77 years, to ensure accountability for crimes against the Palestinian people, and to secure Palestinians enjoy freedom, justice and equality in the future. "

ICTU General Secretary Owen Reidy said: "The Irish public is horrified by Israel's genocide in Palestine. With the UN's deadline today, it's time for the Irish government to step up and represent the public's outrage. We saw South Africa treated as a pariah state during the apartheid era, we must now see the same for Israel. Trade Unions will join the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will protest at the Dáil from 4.30pm – 6.30pm to demand that the Government end all complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestine people, apartheid and illegal occupation of Palestine lands.”

It's official: UN (finally) declares that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

 Member states are legally bound to take action to stop it. ACTION, not strongly worded statements. 

Boycott, Divest, Sanction Israel: Now.

TODAY: Large Regional Protest for Palestine Across Ireland

 TODAY: Large Regional Protest for Palestine Across Ireland

Press Release, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Saturday 6th September

TODAY Saturday 6th September will see a series of coordinated regional protests in solidarity with Palestine taking place across Ireland, ahead of the end of the Dáil recess on the 17th of the month. 

Large protests organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups will take place in Dublin (1pm), Belfast (12pm), Derry (2pm), Galway (1.45pm), Limerick (1pm), Cork (1pm), Waterford (2pm), Carlow (12.30pm) and Navan (1pm) [full details below] as well as a number of smaller protests in various towns.

Speaking ahead of the protests, IPSC Chairperson Zoe Lawlor said: 

"As the leaders of the nuclear armed genocidal Israeli state openly declare they are opening the 'gates of hell' in Gaza, we are calling on people to hit the streets and join their nearest regional protest for Gaza. We called these protests as Dáil gets ready to reconvene to let the government know that we haven’t gone away: we are still demanding SANCTIONS NOW to help end the Gaza genocide and to support freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people!".

Saturday 6th September – Regional Day of Action for Palestine
Dublin – 1pm, Assemble US Embassy, March to Dept Foreign Affairs 
Belfast – 12pm, Assemble Writers’ Square
Cork – 1pm, South Munster Regional March for Palestine, Grand Parade
Galway – 1.45pm, The West Awakes – Regional Rally for Palestine, Burke Park
Limerick – 1pm, North Munster Regional March for Palestine, Bedford Row
Carlow – 12.30pm, South Midlands Regional March for Palestine, Assemble at the Liberty Tree 
Waterford – 2pm, South East Regional March for Palestine, Bullpost, Ballybricken
Derry – 2pm, North-East Regional March for Palestine, Assemble at Bishop’s Gate
Navan– 1pm, Meath Stands with Palestine – Regional March, Assemble at Fairgreen Carpark

Others - Click here

Breaking: Israel Genocide Bonds Forced Out of Ireland!

Proud to have played a very small part in this big outcome💪 

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has welcomed media reports today that Israel's genocide bond prospectus approval process has been moved to Luxembourg. 

IPSC Chairperson Zoë  Lawlor said: 

"Coming after a year of campaigning by Palestine solidarity activists, today is a huge victory for the people of Ireland who stand resolutely in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

"The Central Bank of Ireland has been forced by to end its shameful complicity in genocide. It has been forced to stop enabling Israel selling its genocide-funding bonds – to stop acting as the lynchpin of Israel’s fundraising in the EU.

"For a year the Central Bank of Ireland and the Irish government stone-walled all calls to end the facilitation of bonds which directly funded the genocide in Gaza, the forced starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza, the murder of over 62,000 people in Gaza, daily bombardment and forced displacement and the destruction of Gaza. Finally, this complicity in the funding of genocide has ended.

"People all over Ireland have won this victory for Palestine through marching and organising in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Councils from Dublin City to Kerry to Donegal demanded an end to the approval by the CBI of Israel Bonds. The ICTU, legal experts, opposition politicians, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Israel Bonds, civil society organisations and ordinary people in every town and village have called for the end of the shameful complicity of the CBI in the funding of genocide. We have been joined by amazing artists, musicians and writers in this campaign and very brilliant committed public representatives. From protests to complaints to parliamentary work, this is a huge victory for people power, and for the BDS Movement. 

"The IPSC welcomes the end of the Central Bank’s shameful role in approving Israel Bonds. We believe that the CBI should not have continued to enable Isarel to fundraise for genocide by transferring the prospectus to another competent authority. We ask that the Government confirm that Ireland will have absolutely no further involvement with Israel genocide-funding bonds. Specifically we ask the Government to clarify if Ireland remains the “home member state” for Israel Bonds under the transfer arranged by the Central Bank. And we reiterate the call from the Joint Committee's that the Irish government demand legislative change at EU to end the sale of these bonds throughout Europe.  

"Shamefully, however, many other areas of state complicity with the genocidal Apartheid state of Israel remain, and the IPSC calls for the Irish government to end the use of Shannon airport by the US military, stop the use of Irish airspace for transiting weapons to Israel, end the export of dual-use items, pass the Occupied Territories Bill in full, and join the Hague Group. 

"We are also sure that Palestine solidarity activists in Luxembourg will now take up the baton to cut off funding for Israel's criminal genocide in Gaza - and we will offer them any support we can.

"End Israel’s impunity - Sanctions Now!  Freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people!" 

Protest TODAY: Central Bank Must Not Renew Israel Bonds on 2 September

 Press Release, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, 19th August 2025

A protest, organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, will take place outside the Central Bank of Ireland on North Wall Quay, TODAY Tuesday, 19 August between 12.30pm and 2pm, to demand that the Central Bank do not renew approval of sale of Israel Bonds in Europe on September 2nd.

Speakers: Donnchadh O’Laoghaire TD, Sinn Fein Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, David Landy of Jews for Palestine and Academics for Palestine, Paul Murphy TD, People Before Profit, Daire Dempsey, TENI - Transgender Equality Network Ireland, and a representative from Conradh na Gaeilge

Why? The Central Bank of Ireland is the sole gateway into the EU for Israel’s genocide-funding bonds. Approval by the CBI is given on an annual basis and the current approval ends on 1 Sept. These bonds fund the forced starvation and the genocide of the Palestinian people being perpetrated by Israel in Gaza.

IPSC Chairperson Zoe Lawlor said: “It is shameful that twenty-two months into the live-streamed genocide being perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza the CBI is set to renew approval of Israel Bonds on the 2nd September. Not only the people of Ireland, the trade union movement, the solidarity movement, county councils and city councils but also the Oireachtas Finance Committee has called for an end to the approval of Israel Bonds by the CBI. This Report, published two weeks ago, states unequivocally that Israel Bonds 'assist the financing of Israel’s violations of human rights and contravening international law'.

 

"The government has to end the direct involvement of the CBI in apartheid Israel’s sale of genocide-funding bonds. The CBI is an organ of this state, and its complicity in genocide makes Ireland complicit. The government must stop renewal of Israel Bonds and end the flow of funds, authorised by the CBI, from Europe to Apartheid Israel for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity - including the forced starvation of the entire people of Gaza and the threatened forced displacement of over 800,000 people from Northern Gaza.”

David Landy of Jews for Palestine, and Academics for Palestine said: “We are asking the Central Bank to do the absolute minimum required of it under law – to end the sale of Israeli war Bonds, to finally end this direct Irish participation in Israeli genocide. This funding of genocide has been a shameful chapter in our nation’s history, and it must stop now.”

Donnchadh O’Laoghaire TD, Sinn Fein Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs said: "The urgency of the situation in Gaza cannot be understated, as starvation closes in on thousands, and the Israeli Government continues to push on with its plan to occupy Gaza and to remove it from the map. The international community has sat on its hands for far too long in the face of genocidal policies. The Irish government must use every lever at its disposal, and clearly ending the facilitation of Israeli war bonds is one of those. We need to show leadership and act now. The people of Gaza and of Palestine need us to act."  

The Fascist Times survival guide

Joy is an act of resistance💪💝

Despite the increasingly dystopian, authoritarian world we live in, my family & I continue to find peace & joy in our friendships, travels & outdoor adventures. Not being in denial of Israel's genocide in Gaza, enabled by our Western governments & the ongoing pandemic (repeated forced infections with a level 3 biohazard) is eviscerating. When reality is this twisted & cruel, feelings of helplessness & despair so overwhelming, the mind reaches for denialism. It's a short-term, unconscious survival strategy: shutting out that which seems impossible to bear. In the long term though, living life in denial of reality is a form of psychosis, which causes harm to self & others.

As a therapist, working with trauma patients, the most threatening act was inviting them to revisit their traumatic events(s). Opening old wounds, covered in layers of tough, unyielding, sinewy scar tissue, exposing the rawness and pain to daylight: hurts. Moving from a state of emotional dissociation & repression, known to cause physiological & psychological harm, to processing those triggering feelings & confronting reality, is where the healing & harm reduction begins. The acute phase of the SARS2 pandemic, the lack of preparedness and the chaos, mass deaths and disablement that ensued, resulted in collective trauma which is being exploited by our political leaders. We're just cogs in a bankrupt (morally & financially) capitalist system, the survival of which depends on us consuming tat (online, social media, "reality" TV) & not feeling or caring very much at all. 

I choose to care: About forced disablement, forced displacements, genocide, our planet and the future of humanity.

I choose to feel and process this trauma. 

I choose to resist.

I choose reality & living life without causing harm to myself or others. I haven't been sick in 6 years & am fitter & healthier than I've ever been. I choose to live my life without SARS-Cov-2 (or any airborne) infections. Without being forcibly, repeatedly infected with a vascular, neurotropic, organ damaging, level 3 biohazard. Turns out the scientists that warned disease prevention is the best way to safeguard population health, were right. RIP public health science.

Choosing reality in this timeline is a tough gig. So, I pace myself & repeat my reality check/stayingsaneinaninsaneworld mantra since 2020: Grief & joy in every day. Making room for both. Helps me stay grounded in reality whilst protecting body & mind from the enormity, anger & grief of that. It's a life hack that I swear by. Requires mindful use of social media. Highly recommend.

Random joyful moments (just a snap shot): March-August 2025. In no particular order👇

When you find a secret river spot deep & clean enough to swim in & hang out with friends on hot summer days. Bliss.

When you forget your cossie & it's a heatwave so...

Sit awhile, read, breathe, let the sound of the flowing stream wash your worries away.

The swifts frolicking in the sky above. Playful, soft, like hand in satin glove

Hopped off the bike to film the swifts. Any excuse...

Himself: Mountain biking at start of day

Shush, it's a Wood pecker wood pecking💞

Prizes for correctly guessing song & language said song is sung in!

March: Camper trip to Germany & the Czech Republic.

Son at German border: "Let's hope they don't check your passport. Your articles about Israel's genocide in Gaza are grounds for arrest under terrorism legislation here".

Me: "Let's hope they don't check at the UK border either" Journalists were being arrested in the UK since 2023, homes raided, for exposing Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza🙃

Someone needs to start a news outlet that captures this timeline & call it: The Fascist Times

Fascist Times soundtracks contributions from himself👇

1) You fascists bound to lose by Woody Guthrie, featuring Rhiannon Giddens💪✊

2) Cognitive dissonance blues

Resisting with  joy👇💪💖

Germany & Czech Republic road trip

Fantastic outdoor market town. Street vendors everywhere

Skiers gone, had the slopes to ourselves to bike & hike 💕

Wild lake swimming👇

Mother's day hike with my boy💓

Never took a single moment with this bundle of joy for granted. Stealing as many magical moments as I can, for as long as I can💓

Magic

Traditional spud planting (March). Between the slugs & shoats (cross between sheep & goats - my word!) who frequent our garden, they didn't stand a chance

Offending shoat interlopers!👇

Carrots & radishes survived & thrived👇

Courgettes, tomatoes, rocket, radishes &  lettuce. Harvesting this veg for the chief chef is a great feeling. Washing up never felt like a fair deal💪💚 

Ready to plant out

First courgette of many this season & still going strong

Courgette flowers in batter for starters

Garden veg mix for mains

First attempt at growing tomatoes not too shabby

Gone fishing!

Catches of the day🎣

Gutted

I do like to be beside the seaside...

When your Shaolin monk mate says it's time for Kung Fu💙😎

Sprat haul, off the pier, deep fried in batter. Yum

May: Wonderful day seaweed foraging & touring the magnificent Mungo Murphy's seaweed & abalone farm in Connemara.  Learning all about the science of aquaculture https://www.mungomurphyseaweed.com/ Amazing, sustainable, ethical business run by two hugely knowledgeable, brilliant, badass women 💪👏😎💙

Castle tour with friends👇

Teens in their natural habitat💙💖

Foraging for berries

Father's day hike: My 2 favourite humans in the whole wide world. Couldn't be prouder of my life partner & father of our son. His hands on parenting is defined by expressions of love, in words & actions. He has taught our son that, real men hug their sons (& daughters!): Even when they're taller & cooler and, that our son is loved, seen & cherished for the incredible human he is - unconditionally 💖

Sowing the seeds of love💖

Cat crashing my yoga 💕

There were other joyful encounters with fabulous folk but not everything has to be shared💙💞