Muireann O'Dwyer

🤓 Just Published! We know that contemporary European economic governance is gendered, but has it always been? In this paper in @CompEurPol_Jnl I explore a foundational text of EMU and show that yes, gendered biases were built in from the beginning link.springer.com/article/10.105…

ALERT Attention has drifted from the Palestine Action hunger strikers because 4 suspended their action. But Heba Muraisi, Teuta Hoxha and Kamran Ahmed are now on days 65, 59 and 58 respectively On average IRA hunger strikers in '81 died after 62 days prisonersforpalestine.org

As the New Year rings in, Palestine Action prison hunger striker Heba Muraisi will cross over into her 60th day without food. This is often the threshold where sudden death becomes imminent. Her government knows and is wilfully proceeding, just as it has with the genocide in Gaza

RMT demands urgent action to protect rights of remand prisoners on hunger strike RMT has called on the government to immediately intervene to protect the lives of remand prisoners currently on hunger strike. The prisoners have now been without food for more than 40 days, giving rise to serious concerns about their health, welfare, and the duty of care responsibilities of the authorities. RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said: “The government must immediately intervene to protect the lives of hunger strikers taking action in support of Palestine. "Regardless of the allegations against these individuals, the authorities have a clear obligation to ensure humane treatment and to protect life. “These are fundamental principles of justice in Britain, that must be upheld at all times. "The government must act now to protect lives and meet with the prisoners’ legal representatives without delay.” RMT will continue to work alongside the wider trade union movement and politicians to press the government to uphold its responsibilities and ensure that human rights and basic standards of decency are fully respected.

A Palestine Action-linked hunger striker begged prison staff to call her an ambulance as she suffered worsening chest pains – but was ignored and left alone for hours on her cell floor, her friends and family have said. Qesser Zuhrah, who has not eaten for 42 days, is among eight people refusing food as they await trial for alleged break-ins aimed at disrupting Britain’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Lawyers representing the hunger strikers wrote to justice secretary David Lammy last week to warn that their clients may die if he does not negotiate with them. Zuhrah buzzed from her cell last week at HMP Bronzefield to ask for a nurse after she began to feel chest pain that spread to her neck and shoulder, Middle East Eye reported on Sunday. “She lay down on the floor and couldn’t get up,” said Niamh Grant, a friend of Zuhrah’s who spoke to her on the phone. “As she continued to be ignored, she then started to beg for an ambulance to come because she knew that something was happening,” added Ella Moulsdale, Zuhrah’s next of kin. A prison officer told Zuhrah to wait for a nurse, who arrived at least two hours after her chest pains started. The nurse took her vitals and gave her an electrocardiogram test. She said she would be back in 10 minutes with the test results but Zuhrah was then left alone for hours. She later buzzed prison medical staff and said, “Can you ring an ambulance? I’m scared,” but they hung up on her. “This is how people die in their cells,” Grant said. “She could barely get up to call me, and all I could do was try to call for the nurse for her, and then get back to listening to her cry in pain and struggle to breathe." The Ministry of Justice and HMP Bronzefield said they could not comment on individual cases. There have been protests supporting the hunger strikers across the UK, including rallies at several BBC offices calling for the corporation to cover the story.

Eight political prisoners — held by the UK government without trial on bogus charges for opposing genocide — have mounted the largest hunger strike since the Irish republicans in 1981. Some of them are nearing death. They are heroes and we must all stand in solidarity with their immeasurably brave act of resistance.

The situation for the Palestine Action hunger strikers is urgent. They've gone weeks without food and several have been hospitalised. None of them have been convicted of a crime. Are David Lammy's hands not covered in enough blood already? The government must act now.

🚨 Latest: Full statement from @rte confirming Ireland's withdrawal from Eurovision 2026.

There is no ceasefire.

Yeah this piece absolutely nails it

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Nigerian activist Okey Vitalis has reportedly been held captive by Israel for a week. He was onboard an aid ship heading towards Gaza before it was intercepted. Members of the Omar Al-Mukhtar Flotilla are appealing for his secure release.

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza. Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

I was illegally detained in an Israeli interment camp for 2 days but now I’m home with love and support in every direction. 10,800+ Palestinian captives do not have the same privilege as me, and neither did Ahmad Khdeirat. Free them all 🇵🇸

Greta Thunberg in Greece: I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story. Israel is escalating genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an entire population in front of our eyes.

Sumud boats currently being intercepted by Israel, likely to illegally abduct and imprison those inside. I’m on one of the Thousand Madleens boats just behind. We need escalation from home to end the impunity with which this rogue state commits genocide and stifles opposition

60 nautical miles? Wow. If ordinary citizens of the world, with small and underresourced boats can do that, why states don't break the blockade with their navies? Is this the world we live in? No, we do not accept it. Go, go Flotilla! Sail safe. God's wind.

That’s a bomb about every 8 minutes, every hour, for 24 straight hours. On a starving civilian population, trapped in a strip of land the size of Philadelphia. After nearly two years of relentless attacks. The scale of Israel’s violence and atrocities is staggering.

For months, the Scottish Government insisted that it did not have the power to stop Scottish Enterprise's grants to complicit arms companies. Lo and behold, they do. An important victory for the anti-war movement.