We did it! A victory for people power politics and for hope over despair. Thanks to the people of Ballymun-Finglas who put their trust in me. The real fight starts now, I will use this seat to uplift, empower and support our entire community ✊🏽

So much potential for homes wasted for a decade while people die on our streets Shame on all the owners for hoarding while also destroying our streets with this vandalism Time for use it or lose it across Ireland so everyone has a home Parnell Place, Cork City #DerelictIreland

Brain dump. This does, on its face, streamline the AON process - Norma Foley repeatedly said today that parents pursue AONs in pursuit of therapies, not just to get a diagnosis (etc). But, in doing so, the AON is by stealth being reframed as an assessment of therapeutic need -

I, along with my group @Left_EU have tabled 27 amendments to plenary on the so called "safeguard clause" to the proposed #MERCOSUR agreement. The clause is nothing but cheap political perfume for a rotten deal. It will be voted on next week in Strasbourg.

Heat or Food!!!! That’s the choice #Government left us with. A surplus of Billions yet we are down €1400 to €1800 a year. How is that equality. Enough is enough!!!!

But who has stood against it, bar a handful of Global South countries? Who has actually taken the "solemn duty" seriously? Certainly not the UN, Ireland or any Western state! Not only appalling in the face of ongoing genocides, but deeply worrying for future!

Qesser is in her fifth week of hunger striking. She doesn’t need to be here, the government are risking her health and life by remaining silent.

Coverage of our Finglas Bus Action Group protest in The Journal today - we'll keep up the pressure as long as it takes! 💪 https://t.co/iHi8yp9aGd

Christmas tree lit up in Bethlehem for the first time since start of Gaza war. 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/LFiovP6dVX

The nation that forced doctors out of a hospital and left newborns to starve and decompose will sing at Eurovision, despite not being in Europe. Meanwhile major European nations who called out their crimes will not. Europe's subservience to Zionist extremism is terrifying.

What an incredible woman for a) reporting her rapist b) taking a civil case when squashed by the DPP c) facing a multimillionaire with huge macho far right following d) withstanding unbelievable pressure. #NikitaHand has pushed forward the rights of all women and survivors.❤️✊

The state of Israel was in ‘constant contact’ with a Fine Gael councillor to help him defeat a county council motion calling for an Irish government boycott of Israeli military equipment. It directed ‘concentrated and intensive activity’ on social media. https://t.co/tZ2YDoF9zJ

Despite the best efforts of the DUP and TUV to delay democracy, the Palestinian flag went up at Belfast City Hall just after midnight. Solidarity prevails over bigotry and sectarianism. Belfast stands with Palestine and always will 🇵🇸

Lets talk about cultural erasure, lets talk about the villages of Latrun, renamed after zionist settlers, including Herzog, violently depopulated them. Lets talk about the Nakba, about the racist, eliminationist logic of zionism. My comments at @Sport4Palestine demo last night

Gutted to have lost so much support over the weekend. How will I ever manage without support in Germany, the US, Britain and "israel" 🙈

We and others will be ensuring it is back on the agenda soon after thousands of people signed petitions on doorsteps of the North Inner City and online! Justice for Terence, Independent Public Inquiry now!

Another sad aspect of the renaming farce is the pulling of the Terence Wheelock Memorial Park proposal which I + @EoghanOCPBP supported the Wheelock family on In the year of Terence's 20th Anniversary, it is cruel to his family+ community that management have withdrawn the item

Clearly less people were aware of this history in 1995 when the park was first named but times have changed and this is good! Attitudes are changing all around the world, including among large numbers of Jewish people. This will continue and Palestine WILL be free 🇵🇸

You can't decouple Genocide in Gaza+ ethnic cleansing today from Zionism or the colonisation of Palestine over the 20th Century. Genocide is an extension of logic of zionism Denaming Herzog Park is about recognising historic crimes+ placing ourselves on the right side of history

Chaim Herzog left Ireland to take part in a campaign of colonisation in Palestine. As a post-colonial nation we should not maintain park names that honour this work.

Solidarity protest tomorrow to demand Dublin City Council Rename Herzog Park, meet 6PM at Dublin City Hall on Dame Street, D02 DF02 . The news that the Motion to Rename Herzog Park has been withdrawn is absurd. The entire reaction to our Rename Herzog Park Campaign with 1815 FC