🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Signed, sealed, delivered. So proud that Wales is the first UK nation to legislate to end private profit in children’s residential and foster care. This will ensure money going into the system is reinvested into children’s welfare rather than taken as profit for shareholders.

Two Irish citizens ordered to leave Germany over pro-Palestinian protests despite no convictions irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/0…

Update: I have been terminated by Yale Law School and the LPE Project. What we are witnessing unfold in the United States is not the failure of democracy—this *is* Western liberal democracy itself. 1/2

‘Survivors did nothing wrong' Philomena Lee has called for all survivors of mother and baby homes to be included in the redress scheme, including up to 24,000 who are currently not covered by it. #MotherAndBabyHomes irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight…

Disappointed my concerns have been compounded by Govts misrepresentation. They claim no dissent was raised, yet multiple voices spoke in favour of removing the Traveller committee from d’Hondt. This erasure of support mirrors the disregard for Traveller voices in their decision.

My interview on ⁦Morning Ireland⁩ this AM on why delays to agreed workers rights improvements and further moves to a living wage are unacceptable and a form of austerity on low paid workers ⁦Irish Congress (ICTU)⁩ rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

"It often seems like a very poor excuse for a failure to deliver" Adam Harris explains the realities for autistic children in Ireland #RTÉUpfront RTÉ One | RTÉ News

Dr Bambrick said the combination of delays to increases to the minimum wage and the rowing back on commitments to increase the number of paid sick days for employees, along with the new delay to auto-enrolment, represented “an assault on workers” independent.ie/business/money…

"It is a basic tenet of news reporting, dating back over a century, that an article leads with ... the who, what, when, where, why and how of a story ... When it comes to reporting on Gaza and the West Bank, the who, why and how are often missing in Western media."

The Blue Origin women..."positioning themselves as aspirational models of femininity – have presented a profoundly antifeminist vision of what womankind’s future is: dependent on men, confined to triviality, and deeply, deeply silly." Moira Donegan theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Children deserve qualified, committed workers in their early learning years. It can't be at the expense of workers. We can't offer qualified staff a .15c wage above min. wage for such an important role. Solidarity to the workers. independent.ie/irish-news/all…

Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction [.] and the distinction between true and false [.] no longer exists.”

Most teachers think schools should not prepare pupils for church sacraments, survey finds irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4161…

Over 15,400 people in emergency accommodation in March via @RTENews rte.ie/news/2025/0425…

Hey International Association for Feminist Economics, Feminist Economics communities! Ebru Kongar and I just published Levy Institute WP levyinstitute.org/publications/t… We document who's recognizing #feminist #macroeconomics. Heterodox econs unite! Join me in bluesky!

The world is waking up.

New technologies such as facial recognition could worsen the problem, experts have suggested. #EuropeNews l.euronews.com/clj

Tax breaks were given to developers of private nursing homes by successive governments- the estimated cost of the State subsidy was €10 billion. Investors were attracted by tax breaks, rather than an interest or understanding of older people and their care #RTEInvestigates

🚼 What if making paternity leave mandatory could actually move the needle on gender equality? In a new working paper, we study Spain’s paternity leave reforms from 2017 to 2021 — and the effects are remarkable. 📄 cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLICATI…

"This is not a #famine born of drought. This is not the chaos of a failed state. This is a crime in progress – carried out with eyes wide open, under the protective cover of global indifference." writes Fuad of Union of Agricultural Work Committees and La Via Campesina (Official EN) aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/…