Many would rather the President keep quiet lest he annoy our new landlords - the Direct Foreign Investors. That you could draw a line from many of those companies to the bullets in the chests of Palestinian children is a truth too hard for them to swallow irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…

Congratulations trailblazer, Senator Eileen Flynn- making history twice! Significant day for Travellers and esp Traveller women. Eileen Ní Fhloinn Houses of the Oireachtas - Tithe an Oireachtais

Sustained decline in adolescent heroin addiction in Dublin is something to celebrate. Reduced from 190 per annum in 1996-97 to zero in 2023 (& other opioids = zero too). See below the data from the communities which were most affected by the 1990s heroin epidemic. 1/2

"What we're doing is demonstrating a compassionate, health-based response..." Social Democrats' Gary Gannon TD tells @miriamocal drug injection centres are crucial for preventing fatal overdoses in the city. RTÉ News | #rtept

Catherine Connolly TD would be an outstanding President in succession to Michael D.

More respect for our clubs, More respect for our communities, And more respect for anyone that calls the North Inner City home.

Morning Mile for #cbwellbeing. Perfect start to a Monday morning. Join us every day this week ..15am in the GPA. Thanks to everyone who joined us today. Music always makes the walk a little more uplifting.

Social Democrats Honoured to take my seat last night as a DCC Councillor for Kimmage Rathimes LEA. Thanks to Tara Deacy Jen Cummins TD & all my fellow Soc Dems. I look forward to beginning work & intend to be an active and engaged Councillor for Kimmage Rathmines LEA.

Comhghairdeas Cllr. Noelle Brown on your co-option to Dublin City Council last night for the Kimmage Rathmines LEA. Thank you to Tara Deacy for your work over the last number of months and previous years.

If you haven’t signed already please do it now. Thank you.

[New to the library] ‘It was the first step of so many good things’. Boxing clever Ballymun: facilitating supportive opportunities and environments (2012-2024) drugsandalcohol.ie/42953/

April is Autism Awareness month.#AutismAwareness #CelebrateDifference #AutismAcceptance

Free event with HRB, Dep of Health and UL experts discussing the HRB/TCD study, Growing Up in Ireland – Substance Use & Childhood Adversity. 📅13 May, 11am Register: bit.ly/4kaZvQ More: bit.ly/44oT2wr GrowingUpinIreland Trinity College Dublin University Of Limerick @dcediy #evidenceforpolicy

Up to 280,000 family members affected by addiction of a loved one. Launch of new support organisation and research today irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4162… Drugs Library

A number of first edition signed copies of The Meek are currently available in Hodges Figgis in Dublin. Thanks to Jane Clarke who spoke so generously and insightfully at last night's launch, and the wise powerhouse Eithne Hand whose new book Tickle is full of verbal gold.

I will be discussing my new book The Meek tonight with Sean Rocks on Arena on Radio One after 7pm. Poems in tribute to the composer Conor Walsh, the great Traveller singer John Reilly, and a host of talking animals are on the menu. rte.ie/radio/radio1/a…

Colin Sheridan is an ex Irish Army Officer, served with UN, lived in the Middle East & is writing powerfully on Gaza. This experience & expertise should make him an obvious choice for interviews, panels TonightVMTV RTÉ News RTÉ Prime Time NewstalkFM Did I just miss him?

New Echo Chamber Podcast: Gaza, Western Journalism and the Self-Critical Columnist with Colin Sheridan is out now everywhere Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3CgPfg…

Thanks to Tony - Pod Guy - Groves and martinmcmahon for the opportunity to discuss - amongst many other things - how Irish media has talked (or not talked) about Palestine

A personal column on the death of my brother's friend. And why, of all the emotions, grief is the absolute fucking worst