Feargal O'Connell

Privilege to address @OireachtasNews Foreign Affairs Committee w/ @Dochasnetwork colleagues today. My remarks focussed on how climate change is having a disproportionate impact on the African continent. Women farmers are bearing the brunt of this climate emergency.

@ciarancannon I dont understand how minors are going around parts of the country on vehicles in excess of 20km/h that don’t require pedalling for propulsion and we all just shrug.

Tragic. My heart goes out to this mother. Ireland’s road safety laws are not optional. Illegal scramblers and high-powered e-motorbikes are not e-bikes. The law is already clear, but non-enforcement normalises danger. If we’re serious about safety, we must enforce the law, now.

@jgeoghegantd Where do I go get real time info on rod closures in the area, deputy?

Dodder burst at Milltown park by Dropping Well pub. Dublin City Council have the Pumps in operation at site and river levels dropping. Some of then worst flooding I’ve seen here.

@Aidan_Regan The FT has op-eds.

I don’t understand the opinion-column model of newspapers. If I want hot takes and manufactured controversy, I go to Twitter. If I want reporting, investigation, and serious analysis, I pay for a newspaper. That’s why the FT works - and so many others do not.

@lydiadepillis Do you mind me asking where your shirt is from?

If you like your economic news analysis in video form, I explained what immigration has to do with the unemployment rate these days, with the help of some excellent editors: nytimes.com/video/jobs/100… nytimes.com/video/jobs/100…

@bbcpaddy Hello Paddy. Please DM if you’d like to contribute. Thanks. theguardian.com/theobserver/20…

@MatinaStevis @nytimes When are results/exit polls expected, Matina?

We are LIVE please follow @nytimes coverage from coast to coast here throughout the day -#cdnpoli #elxn45 #Elxn2025 nytimes.com/live/2025/04/2…

@charlesjkenny That Europe block seems rather chunky and would presuppose all forthcoming defence spending will come from borrowing.

Quite right. cgdev.org/blog/dont-give…

@DublinAirport @ChooseChicago @united @eoinpurcell

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@NellyMoloney MosulMoss

Happy Friday. The journey begins! It's a twofer. Two essays about my early days of West Wing. I have no title for my Substack btw--taking suggestions 😎 janelmoloney.substack.com/p/slipstream

@Postvox I have just been informed that mail addressed to me is being returned to sender because I have “moved away”. I don’t not authorise this and am extremely concerned about important correspondence I might have missed. Who do I contact to remedy?

@RoryStewartUK Try posting the same content on blue sky and see what response you get. Would be an interesting comparison.

This is going well….

London please help. I’m praying for a miracle, I’ve just got into the office and noticed my mums locket (in all these photos) that I wear every day has fallen off my neck on my walk in. My mum died when I was seven and her jewellery is most of what I have of her. I’m devastated

@marksandspencer The store is not needed. This is how they're priced on your website. It's a corporate level decision to charge women more than men for the same pyjamas.

@Feargalll Hi Feargal. I'm so sorry to see this. Could you drop me a PM with which store this was in and some more images of the pj's, as I'd like to look into this further for you. Thank you - Charley twitter.com/messages/compo…

Hey @marksandspencer Why are your matching Christmas pyjamas priced differently for men and women?

@ShonaMurray_ @Aidan_Regan I don't think we can draw conclusions about the soul of the US from the election. The election outcome is too wrapped up in gerrymandering and partisanship of network news.

@Aidan_Regan Been thinking the same these last few weeks. Sometimes things just are what they are. All the handwringing about Dems being ‘woke’ and removed doesn’t stack up when you look at how Trump and GOP care less about lives of the average worker.

Might it just be that Musk and Trump better represent the core values of the majority of US society? Aggressive and rugged individualism, laced with old testament values of an eye-for-an-eye.

The new Homlessness Inter-Ministerial Group, led by @mhclg, has an opportunity to do things differently. My blog for @crisis_uk on three things to think about. crisis.org.uk/about-us/the-c…

@waleosofisan Sizeable chunks of electorates in the northern hemisphere *think* it does. I hope you're keeping well, we're long overdue a catch up.

@Feargalll The right doesn't have it, too.

Technocratic centrism doesn't have an answer to the late capitalism anxieties of low and middle income voters.

@NiallStanage "Just do your job"

Quick note to my fellow media members. You might well be tired. But the bottom line is, we type words into computers or talk into TV cameras. It’s no great hardship. Nobody’s working in the salt mines here. Let’s get on with it.