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Catherine Connolly takes office as Ireland’s president today. Her left-wing insurgent campaign took the Irish political establishment by surprise, winning a record number of votes and proving the Left can still triumph even in a bleak political landscape.jacobin.com/2025/11/connol…

Thats not a red bull btw

Pro-Putin, anti-choice protesters on the streets of Dublin today, pretending to be 'Irish patriots'. Fortunately they were met by a large crowd of anti-imperialist, anti-racist people who remember the words of Connolly: "Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner."

@NoelMar69 @paulmurphy_TD @SimonHarrisTD This is a clip from a live stream. - Social Media team

@paulmurphy_TD @SimonHarrisTD So during the recording his phone was taken, so how was the video posted?

These are the final seconds we have from Paul. His phone has been taken, and his passport. We urgently need Minister for Foreign Affairs @SimonHarrisTD to intervene, demand he is freed, his passport & phone returned and the protesters are allowed to peacefully #MarchToGaza

The Ditch’s @BigPaulieDoyle talks neutrality at the Rupture Radical Book Fair tomorrow at 1.30pm The fair runs 12-5pm with talks from 12-7pm and a social afterwards – free entry in the Teachers Club

Rupture is excited to announce the Radical Book Fair 2025, which promises to be even more packed with stalls, talks, workshops and of course books then before! Saturday 31 May 2025 12 noon to 5 pm Teachers’ Club, Parnell Square, Dublin More info here: rupture.ie/bookfair

"McGuirk also stated "If Dublin Central is 75% yes on the day (3-1), I will never take a political job again".[22] 76.5% of votes cast in Dublin Central supported 'Yes'"

New article on our site: Robin Koenig and @cianplk survey the 2025 People Before Profit AGM, which took place in Dublin earlier this month. rupture.ie/articles/pbp-a…

Today a public inquiry into the proposal to mine for gold in the Sperrin mountains begins. Local campaigners have highlighted dangerous climate and health impacts of mining, and faced massive intimidatiom for speaking out. Read my article on it all here: rupture.ie/articles/save-…

I didn't see this line up for I'm A Celebrity coming. #leadersdebate #ImACeleb #RTEupfront

@paulmurphy_TD You get put on a provisional TV licence until you pass your media literacy test, no?

Do people think there's an exam or something for the TV or dog licence?

Join @_WCCA for next week's panel discussion as our speakers discuss the rise of the far right & what we can do to stop it. Sasha Josette @NatashaJosette Stiofán Ó Nualláin @S_O_Nuallain Cian Prendiville @cianplk Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos wccalliance.org/frp/

I dunno, I think it's good there's debate. Considered, developed, in writing & open for all to see. But I wish it was based on a genuine search for clarity. Marxism is meant to be a science, not a point scoring exercise. Still, hopefully sparks replies, insights & discussion.

So now they aren't critiquing the actual existing pamphlet that sparked this whole thing, but a vaguer notion of what they they think some statements in the press "let on"? Selective quoting, paraphrasing 'the purpose' of an article is rather than quoting the article etc?

Nice to see some developed written debate on the left on this, glad @RuptureMag_ could help kindle this! However, socialist debates should be honest and comradely, understanding the others point and responding to it - not shifting the goal posts to try save face.

Finally, let's be clear. This isn't some case of 'SFs hands are tied by Ard Fheis'. The SF leadership aren't ruling out a deal with FF, because they want a deal with FF. Their not 'pretending' to go to the right - they are going to the right. The left needs to fight back.

Most importantly, such an Ard Fheis could end the drift to the right by SF, which has been disastrous. People are angry, many aren't voting cause they don't trusy anyone. We need a bold, anti-establishment left to mobilise that anger, and present a radical socialist alternative.

Glad to see my article sparking a bit of debate, hopefully more tune in to this too! I don't that it is "probably too late in this election cycle to build a movement that will gain enough seats to be in contention for government without either Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael."