michael farrell

@irish_news Well done Sue for condemning the genocide In Gaza and outrageous of the PSNI to arrest you and your colleague for trying to stop it.

The front page of today's Irish News: Grandmothers slam ‘foolish’ arrests over Palestine protest in Belfast

@OMuirighSols Outrageous that longtime activist Sue Pentel should be arrested and bundled into a police van like a dog cage, apparently for putting a sticker on a bank machine to condemn the slaughter of 52,000 people - many of them helpless children - in Gaza, by the Israeli forces.

Statement re: arrest of Sue Pentel 👇

Civilians in Gaza are under fire again, with 506 people killed since Tuesday - including women and children. Western governments are complicit and profit from this mass murder -- sign for a complete stop of arms deliveries to Israel. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ga…

@RyanRozbiani Thanks to B'TSELM for showing how armed settlers are driving Palestinians out of their land and homes in the West Bank.

@jvplive Courageous Jews condemn the genocide in Gaza and show that opposing the slaughter of women and children is not antisemitic.

BREAKING: At this very moment, the Israeli military is massacring family after family in North Gaza in a war of extermination. So hundreds of Jews and friends are shutting down the New York Stock Exchange to demand the US stop arming Israel and profiting from genocide.

Fifteen named Jesuits accused of child sex abuse were moved to new roles by order irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/0…

Award-winning author Arundhati Roy strongly criticised the US and Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza and Lebanon in her acceptance speech for the PEN Pinter Prize at a ceremony in London earlier this month

It is an unspeakable tragedy that innocent children continue to be killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, with another 20 children becoming the latest victims of this conflict. A school being used as a shelter in central Gaza was shelled, killing at least 22 people, including 15 children. In a separate incident, five children were reportedly killed by a drone strike while playing on a street corner in northern Gaza. We simply cannot accept the violence that Palestinian children continue to face as normal. We are continuing to urge the UK government to use their power and influence to secure an immediate, definitive ceasefire, and suspend all arms sales to the Government of Israel.

@MartinOBrien17 @liamherrick Congratulations Liam on your appointment to head IHREC at a crucial time and best wishes for what will be a difficult but very important job.

Really excellent appointment at a very important time for the protection of human rights in Ireland and Britain. Hard to think of anyone better for this important task than @liamherrick

@DonnchaLaw Deeply disappointing that the Government is dropping its promised anti-hate speech legislation at the very time when we have seen and heard the hatred that is being whipped up by hate speech that is going unchecked.

Watching lots of evidence of overt and violent racism on #RTEInvestigates but there’s a tentativeness about the framework of analysis being used in the programme. The undoubted racism on display is not being named as racism.

@jrf_uk Belated congratulations, Ursula, a great appointment.

🎉 We are delighted to have appointed Ursula O’Hare as our new Head of Northern Ireland. Ursula will lead the establishment of our new team and will be joining us early in 2025. 1/2

@jrf_uk Belated congratulations, Ursula, a great appointment.

Too many people in Northern Ireland experience poverty and economic insecurity 👥 We look forward to collaborating with those working on issues around poverty and economic security locally, building our involvement and continuing work towards a Northern Ireland free from poverty

Big congratulations to Thomas McCann his conferring today 👏 A number of Pavee Point workers will also be graduating with their BA in Social Science Community and Youth Work 🎉

The legal advice is clear. It’s time to pass the Occupied Territories Bill!

120 child welfare groups, faith bodies & trade unions are calling for the 2 child benefit cap to be scrapped. This would lift over 300,000 children out of poverty. In Parliament next week I urge the government to set out a swift timetable for this & give hope to many families.

Alongside 18 peer organisations, we call on all permanent and elected members of the UN Security Council to enforce the ICJ orders regarding Israel's actions in Rafah, Gaza. Immediate action is required. Full statement 👇 nrc.no/news/2024/may/…

At least 40 children, women and men are confirmed dead in Rafah after an Israeli airstrike last night on tents housing those forced to flee within Gaza. How many more red lines must be crossed? Our appeal to EU leaders meeting now: #NoMoreRedLines

Op-Ed: there exist no moral arguments that can justify the continued sale of weapons to Israel by states that respect the principle of the universality of human rights. irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…