The reality is that Netanyahu 🇮🇱 attacked Iran 🇮🇷 not primarily to prevent a nuclear weapon but to prevent a nuclear agreement between 🇺🇸 and 🇮🇷. He was key in driving Trump to leave the original 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 JCPOA deal, and now wanted to prevent a new one. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

New policy brief on PublicPolicy.ie by Dr Seaneen Sloan Dympna Devine Gabriela Martinez Sainz Olga Ioannidou & Jennifer Symonds UCD School of Education Children's School Lives “Wellbeing in Children’s School Lives – The Importance of Belonging”. This policy brief underscores the importance of relationships

What would a just distribution of socio-economic and environmental resources look like at the global level from 2025 to 2100 – both between and within countries? How can we ensure this vision fits within planetary boundaries? From now to June 2026, the #GlobalJusticeProject

I recently wrote to the The Irish Times regarding their coverage of the Leaving Certificate and Junior Cycle exams. Needless to say in a letter around overlooked voices has been overlooked by the editor #edchatie #stateexaminations #LC2025

“According to the Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, Israel currently stands at 112th place out of 180 countries for freedom of the press – below Haiti, Guinea Bissau, South Sudan and Chad.” aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/19…

I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in The Lancet Planetary Health. We show that the world is not moving towards a just and ecological future for all. Growth in energy and material use is occurring primarily in countries that do not need it and is not occurring fast

Interesting role (2-year contract) being advertised The Wheel Research and Impact Manager #jobfairy wheel.ie/jobs/research-…

"Anyone who puts profit before health needs to re-examine their conscience & not re-examine alcohol health info labelling" 👏👏👏 John Higgins calls out politicians like Alan Dillon for dereliction of duty to defend people's right to be informed of health risks from alcohol

'It's a killing field': IDF soldiers ordered to shoot at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

This interview with Tom Baldwin draws out the private Starmer that those of us who follow him about and see when the camera isn’t rolling & he’s not in public view. He is, of all the PMs I have covered the most ‘ordinary’ and down-to-earth & yet the public perception of him

The consequences of delaying the introduction of alcohol health information labels will be felt by Irish people every day of every week. Are Irish lives really a sacrifice worth making to protect alcohol industry profits? Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD Micheál Martin

IDF officers and soldiers tell Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Could your savings be helping fund unlawful Israeli settlements or the Israeli military? Ask your pension provider or trustees today! We’ve created a template letter to make it easy. It only takes a few minutes. Link to the template letter here: labour.ie/campaigns/lets…

📑 Postdoctoral Researcher, Nicholas O’Neil has published in the Health Policy journal. The article investigates private equity and real estate investment trusts (REITs) as key actors driving the financialisation of long-term care systems. 🔗 Read full paper here:

In 1 month 550 starving Palestinians have been killed by US mercenaries while trying to get food at the points indicated by the so called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. This is horrendous but European Commission and EU Council remain unwilling to take any action against these crimes

We don’t have any time to waste if we want to solve the climate crisis in time to avert the truly catastrophic impacts that can still be prevented. But dangerous delay – which is the new “climate denial” – is exactly what Congress has done by repealing the clean energy provisions

Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all

A new mural in France depicting Lady Liberty covering her face in shame was unveiled the day before America's Independence Day.

July 4th, 2025