#catherineconnolly — Public Fediverse posts

Sister of Irish president, Catherine Connolly, speaks out for people of Gaza from the captured humanitarian flotilla:
https://youtu.be/qgct7q7224U?si=UEGt4l7KVJrdRBAO
#Gaza #FreePalestine #flotilla #Ireland #DrMargaretConnolly #PresidentCatherineConnolly #margaretconnolly #catherineconnolly #Ireland #news #globalnews

https://www.europesays.com/ie/465224/ Martin Fraser bags Ambassador of the Year award, making him the diplomats’ diplomat – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #CatherineConnolly #ConstanceMarkievicz #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #GazaStrip #Headlines #IE #Ireland #IvanaBacik #JimO'Callaghan #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #MalcolmByrne #MartinFraser #MichealMartin #News #TopStories #TopStories #UnitedNationsUn #VeronaMurphy

Kylemore Abbey ‘honours legacy’ of estate labourers with restored bothy and tool shed – The Irish Times https://www.allforgardening.com/1719380/kylemore-abbey-honours-legacy-of-estate-labourers-with-restored-bothy-and-tool-shed-the-irish-times/ #CatherineConnolly #connemara #Galway #garden #gardening #GardeningIreland #Tourism

https://www.europesays.com/ie/423926/ President pays tribute to ‘extraordinary career’ of poet and author Gabriel Rosenstock following death at 76 #CatherineConnolly #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #LauraLynott #RTÉ #UCC

https://www.europesays.com/ie/415010/ Human rights and Irish language activists among President’s Council of State appointments – The Irish Times #Belfast #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #CatherineConnolly #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IE #Ireland #IrishLanguage #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #News #NorthernIreland #ProgressiveUnionistParty #SupremeCourt #TopStories #TopStories

Irish town of Killarney celebrates Jessie Buckley’s Oscar win

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://interaksyon.philstar.com/celebrities/2026/03/17/310667/irish-town-of-killarney-celebrates-jessie-buckleys-oscar-win/

Irish town of Killarney celebrates Jessie Buckley’s Oscar win

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://interaksyon.philstar.com/celebrities/2026/03/17/310667/irish-town-of-killarney-celebrates-jessie-buckleys-oscar-win/

"Amnesty International here in Ireland wants to put on the record our deep appreciation for the President’s clarity and resolve. She says only what so many of us are thinking." Stephen Bowen, Executive Director, Amnesty International Ireland.
http://amnesty.ie

#CatherineConnolly #PresidentConnolly #AmnestyInternational #InternationalLaw

‘Illegal War Crimes Are Illegal’ Insists Lunatic Irish President. 😉

#satire #WWN #WaterfordWhispersNews #PresidentConnolly #CatherineConnolly

‘Illegal War Crimes Are Illegal’ Insists Lunatic Irish President. 😉

#satire #WWN #WaterfordWhispersNews #PresidentConnolly #CatherineConnolly

‘Illegal War Crimes Are Illegal’ Insists Lunatic Irish President. 😉

#satire #WWN #WaterfordWhispersNews #PresidentConnolly #CatherineConnolly

‘Illegal War Crimes Are Illegal’ Insists Lunatic Irish President. 😉

#satire #WWN #WaterfordWhispersNews #PresidentConnolly #CatherineConnolly

‘Illegal War Crimes Are Illegal’ Insists Lunatic Irish President. 😉

#satire #WWN #WaterfordWhispersNews #PresidentConnolly #CatherineConnolly

#PresidentConnolly's statement on #InternationalWomensDay 2026 was about peace, and Ireland's #Article29 constitutional commitment to international law.

#CatherineConnolly's statement begins: "The violations of international law we are witnessing are shocking and numbing, but we cannot afford inaction.

What we have witnessed in recent days in the Middle East, and beyond, are not political disputes. They are deliberate assaults on international law."

Full text at https://president.ie/en/media-library/news-releases/statement-by-president-connolly-on-international-womens-day-2026

A certain Taoiseach is no doubt squirming about the upcoming public dressing down he will receive from a certain orange turdface #CatherineConnolly #InternationalWomensDay

Fantastic statement today by our President #CatherineConnolly for #InternationalWomensDay “The violations of international law we are witnessing are shocking and numbing, but we cannot afford inaction.

What we have witnessed in recent days in the Middle East, and beyond, are not political disputes. They are deliberate assaults on international law, the international laws that have underpinned global peace for eighty years. We must name them as such”. https://president.ie/en/media-library/news-releases/statement-by-president-connolly-on-international-womens-day-2026

https://www.europesays.com/ie/373768/ Young carers highlight realities of their work – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #CatherineConnolly #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #leitrim #MainNews #MainNews #MentalHealth #News #roscommon #TopStories #TopStories

Statement by #PresidentConnolly following strikes on #Iran

Date: Sat 28 Feb, 2026 | 17:50

As President of Ireland, may I join with all those who have expressed such grave concern following today's strikes on Iran by the United States and Israel, and Iran's retaliatory strikes in the region.
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#CatherineConnolly

https://president.ie/en/media-library/news-releases/statement-by-president-connolly-following-strikes-on-iran

https://www.europesays.com/ie/360666/ ‘I loved being on the shop floor. I thought my parents had bought Harrods’ – The Irish Times #AerLingus #BrownThomas #CatherineConnolly #Dublin2 #Éire #Entertainment #harrods #IE #India #Ireland #Italy #LouiseKennedy #magazine #MaryRobinson #MaryMcaleese #MerrionSquare #qatar

https://www.europesays.com/ie/339057/ ‘She’s careful, she’s considered, she’s steady’ – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #CatherineConnolly #CianOcallaghan #ClimateChange #DupLinks #EoinOBroin #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #GreenParty #GregoryCampbell #Headlines #IrishLanguage #IrishNeutrality #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #MichealMartin #News #NorthernIreland #Palestine #PaulMurphy #RodericOGorman #SinnFein #SocialDemocrats #TopStories #TopStories #World #WorldNews #WorldNews

https://www.europesays.com/ie/338746/ Ireland should apologise for ‘unjustifiable conduct’ during Troubles, says new UUP leader – The Irish Times #BloodySunday #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #CatherineConnolly #CommonGround #DemocraticUnionistParty #derry #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #HeatherHumphreys #IE #Ireland #KenovaReport #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #MichealMartin #News #NorthernIreland #PoliceServiceOfNorthernIrelandPsni #TopStories #TopStories #UlsterUnionistParty

Music legend Peggy Seeger (90) honoured with TradFest lifetime achievement award

President pays tribute to artist who has been in the business for seven decades Ireland’s Traditional Music Festival…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #AU #Australia #CatherineConnolly #Entertainment #MelanieFinn
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/401755/

Music legend Peggy Seeger (90) honoured with TradFest lifetime achievement award

President pays tribute to artist who has been in the business for seven decades Ireland’s Traditional Music Festival…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #CA #Canada #CatherineConnolly #Entertainment #MelanieFinn
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/398025/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/275633/ Music legend Peggy Seeger (90) honoured with TradFest lifetime achievement award #CatherineConnolly #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #MelanieFinn #Music

PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/31/patrick-lawrence-new-years-notes-on-purported-leaders/
It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News “Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.” So did Chinese…
#Politics #Commentary #EuropeanUnion #France #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Genocide #Germany #GreatBritain #International #Iran #Ireland #Israel #Russia #U.s. #Zionism #CaitlinJohnston #CatherineConnolly #ChasFreeman #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #FriedrichMerz #KierStarmer #Narcissism #Netanyahu #PatrickLawrence #PedroSanchez #Russophobes #Spain #Ukraine #WorldWar

PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/31/patrick-lawrence-new-years-notes-on-purported-leaders/
It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News “Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.” So did Chinese…
#Politics #Commentary #EuropeanUnion #France #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Genocide #Germany #GreatBritain #International #Iran #Ireland #Israel #Russia #U.s. #Zionism #CaitlinJohnston #CatherineConnolly #ChasFreeman #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #FriedrichMerz #KierStarmer #Narcissism #Netanyahu #PatrickLawrence #PedroSanchez #Russophobes #Spain #Ukraine #WorldWar

PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/31/patrick-lawrence-new-years-notes-on-purported-leaders/
It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News “Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.” So did Chinese…
#Politics #Commentary #EuropeanUnion #France #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Genocide #Germany #GreatBritain #International #Iran #Ireland #Israel #Russia #U.s. #Zionism #CaitlinJohnston #CatherineConnolly #ChasFreeman #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #FriedrichMerz #KierStarmer #Narcissism #Netanyahu #PatrickLawrence #PedroSanchez #Russophobes #Spain #Ukraine #WorldWar

PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/31/patrick-lawrence-new-years-notes-on-purported-leaders/
It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News “Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.” So did Chinese…
#Politics #Commentary #EuropeanUnion #France #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Genocide #Germany #GreatBritain #International #Iran #Ireland #Israel #Russia #U.s. #Zionism #CaitlinJohnston #CatherineConnolly #ChasFreeman #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #FriedrichMerz #KierStarmer #Narcissism #Netanyahu #PatrickLawrence #PedroSanchez #Russophobes #Spain #Ukraine #WorldWar

PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/31/patrick-lawrence-new-years-notes-on-purported-leaders/
It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News “Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.” So did Chinese…
#Politics #Commentary #EuropeanUnion #France #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Genocide #Germany #GreatBritain #International #Iran #Ireland #Israel #Russia #U.s. #Zionism #CaitlinJohnston #CatherineConnolly #ChasFreeman #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #FriedrichMerz #KierStarmer #Narcissism #Netanyahu #PatrickLawrence #PedroSanchez #Russophobes #Spain #Ukraine #WorldWar

Absolutely right, @byrnensorg!

Irish Facebook and Twitter are overflowing with the splenetic meltdowns of furious #broflakes and troglodytes and fascists and #IsraelBots and #ClimateChangeDeniers and #flagshaggers and #genociders and all the rest of the no-grammar-alliance. ❤

It has been truly heart-warming to watch them rage. 😈

#CatherineConnolly has done good.

2 photos this week reminded me of something Ireland now takes for granted. When you can choose a head of state, you can choose them by the company they keep.

On Friday, US #DoJ released a pic of British queen's son #PrinceAndrew hanging out with child sex traffickers at his mother's #Balmoral castle. 👎

On Wednesday, Áras an Uachtaráin released pics of President #CatherineConnolly with #climatejustice & anti-#genocide activist #GretaThunberg. 👍

Electing a head of state matters. #iepol #ukpol

I love ❤ that the first foreign head of government received by #PresidentConnolly at Áras an Uachtaráin was the #FirstMinisterOfScotland. #JohnSwinney made a courtesy visit on Wednesday.

British #unionists are having another meltdown. 🙄

#PresidentOfIreland #iepol #scotpol #CatherineConnolly

"Leag an tUachtarán nua ( #CatherineConnolly) níos mó béime ar an teanga ina óráid insealbhaithe ná mar a leag aon #Uachtarán eile roimpi." tuairisc.ie/ligimis-don-... #Gaeilge #Tuairisc #Spéirghorm #Irish #President #Ireland

‘Ligimis don Ghaeilge bláthú’ ...

"Leag an tUachtarán nua ( #CatherineConnolly) níos mó béime ar an teanga ina óráid insealbhaithe ná mar a leag aon #Uachtarán eile roimpi." tuairisc.ie/ligimis-don-... #Gaeilge #Tuairisc #Spéirghorm #Irish #President #Ireland

‘Ligimis don Ghaeilge bláthú’ ...

"Leag an tUachtarán nua ( #CatherineConnolly) níos mó béime ar an teanga ina óráid insealbhaithe ná mar a leag aon #Uachtarán eile roimpi." tuairisc.ie/ligimis-don-... #Gaeilge #Tuairisc #Spéirghorm #Irish #President #Ireland

‘Ligimis don Ghaeilge bláthú’ ...

"Leag an tUachtarán nua ( #CatherineConnolly) níos mó béime ar an teanga ina óráid insealbhaithe ná mar a leag aon #Uachtarán eile roimpi." tuairisc.ie/ligimis-don-... #Gaeilge #Tuairisc #Spéirghorm #Irish #President #Ireland

‘Ligimis don Ghaeilge bláthú’ ...

"Leag an tUachtarán nua ( #CatherineConnolly) níos mó béime ar an teanga ina óráid insealbhaithe ná mar a leag aon #Uachtarán eile roimpi." tuairisc.ie/ligimis-don-... #Gaeilge #Tuairisc #Spéirghorm #Irish #President #Ireland

‘Ligimis don Ghaeilge bláthú’ ...

“Größer als man selbst”

Oligarchische Spielkinder und irische Erwachsene – was für ein Gegensatz!

Sind sie doch “irrsinnig”? Nein, es ist profaner: sie haben schlicht zu viel Geld. Und Angst, dass Andere einen Längeren haben. Welcher reiche weisse Mann verkraftet das? So kommt es, wie es im real existierenden Kapitalismus kommen muss:

Tomislav Bezmalinović/heise: “Meta investierte 100 Milliarden Dollar ins Metaverse – Wo bleibt es? – Meta hat über 100 Milliarden Dollar in Virtual und Augmented Reality investiert. Was hat Meta erreicht, und was bleibt Vision? Eine Bestandsaufnahme.”

Das sind die, die Donald Trump finanzieren. Wofür? Damit er für sie arbeitet. Zurecht fürchten sie, dass er jederzeit unkontrollierbar ausrasten kann. Also nachschiessen. Wie bei den “AR-Brillen”. Brille oder Präsident – hauptsache teuer.

So geht Widerstand

Kaum hat es eine neue linke und optimismusverbreitende Präsidentin, legen Irlands Fussballer eine Siegesserie hin: 2:0 gegen Ronaldos Portugal und 3:2-Auswärtssieg in Ungarn, Einzug in die Playoffs zur WM nächstes Jahr. Gratulation!

Noch dollere Gratulation an die hier:

Cian Prendiville/Jacobin: “Wie Catherine Connolly Irlands Präsidentschaftswahl gewann – Mit Catherine Connolly ist jetzt eine Linke Präsidentin von Irland. Ihr Wahlsieg hat gezeigt, dass eine prinzipienstarke Kampagne für Frieden und Gerechtigkeit das zynische Establishment schlagen kann, wenn sie aus bloßen Wählern aktive Wahlkämpfer macht.”

Sehr informativ. Kampagnenchef Prendiville erklärt anschaulich, wie wichtig die immer komplizierter werdende professionelle Medienarbeit und eine funktionierende Bündnispolitik sind. Entscheidend für die Dynamik einer Kampagne sind aber die echten Menschen, ihr Glücksempfinden beim praktischen Erfahren der Wunderheilungskräfte von Solidarität.

Klasse, gute Arbeit.

“Größer als man selbst”

Oligarchische Spielkinder und irische Erwachsene – was für ein Gegensatz!

Sind sie doch “irrsinnig”? Nein, es ist profaner: sie haben schlicht zu viel Geld. Und Angst, dass Andere einen Längeren haben. Welcher reiche weisse Mann verkraftet das? So kommt es, wie es im real existierenden Kapitalismus kommen muss:

Tomislav Bezmalinović/heise: “Meta investierte 100 Milliarden Dollar ins Metaverse – Wo bleibt es? – Meta hat über 100 Milliarden Dollar in Virtual und Augmented Reality investiert. Was hat Meta erreicht, und was bleibt Vision? Eine Bestandsaufnahme.”

Das sind die, die Donald Trump finanzieren. Wofür? Damit er für sie arbeitet. Zurecht fürchten sie, dass er jederzeit unkontrollierbar ausrasten kann. Also nachschiessen. Wie bei den “AR-Brillen”. Brille oder Präsident – hauptsache teuer.

So geht Widerstand

Kaum hat es eine neue linke und optimismusverbreitende Präsidentin, legen Irlands Fussballer eine Siegesserie hin: 2:0 gegen Ronaldos Portugal und 3:2-Auswärtssieg in Ungarn, Einzug in die Playoffs zur WM nächstes Jahr. Gratulation!

Noch dollere Gratulation an die hier:

Cian Prendiville/Jacobin: “Wie Catherine Connolly Irlands Präsidentschaftswahl gewann – Mit Catherine Connolly ist jetzt eine Linke Präsidentin von Irland. Ihr Wahlsieg hat gezeigt, dass eine prinzipienstarke Kampagne für Frieden und Gerechtigkeit das zynische Establishment schlagen kann, wenn sie aus bloßen Wählern aktive Wahlkämpfer macht.”

Sehr informativ. Kampagnenchef Prendiville erklärt anschaulich, wie wichtig die immer komplizierter werdende professionelle Medienarbeit und eine funktionierende Bündnispolitik sind. Entscheidend für die Dynamik einer Kampagne sind aber die echten Menschen, ihr Glücksempfinden beim praktischen Erfahren der Wunderheilungskräfte von Solidarität.

Klasse, gute Arbeit.

75% of #Irishpeople support #Irishneutrality.

#CatherineConnolly's clear support for undiluted #neutrality was a big factor in her landslide victory in the #Aras25 presidential election.

Ireland's centrist media runs a propaganda barrage against neutrality. This is a rare case of 3 Irish academics being allowed in The #IrishTimes to make a pro-neutrality case: Patrick Bresnihan, Niamh Ní Bhriain, and Rory Rowan. #TheIrishTimes #iepol

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/11/16/opinion-neutrality-matters-to-irish-people-lets-stop-deriding-it/ / https://archive.is/ucgNK

How housing became the key to winning elections in the West.

Until now, the housing crisis had fuelled far-right populism, which draws a direct line between the lack of affordable housing and immigration.

Progressive political forces are increasingly taking the message away from the far right, posting recent victories in New York, the Netherlands and Ireland.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251113-how-housing-became-the-key-to-winning-elections-in-the-west?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Housing #Politics #CatherineConnolly #RobJetten #ZohranMamdani #MarineLePen #AfD #GiorgiaMeloni #Vox

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The new chair seats an elected head of state, with no title of nobility. The #ConstitutionOfIreland bans such pretentions.

President Higgins was inaugurated twice in this new chair, in 2011 amd 2018. Today, it was used by President #CatherineConnolly.

The old royal relic has recently been carefully restored, but without its crown. It is now a museum piece, as all royalty should be.

Photos from the #DublinCastle Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BwJUxyEbi/ & https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19qTWJWdZW/

Ireland is the first country in the world whose people have voted to elect three women as Presidents. #MaryRobinson #MaryMcAleese #CatherineConnolly 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

#PresidentConnolly with her three living predecessors. #CatherineConnolly is our third woman president, but the first to be inaugurated wearing #trousers.

I'm a firm believer in #bodilyAutonomy. Everyone should be free to wear whatever they like, and everyone else can mind their own damn business. But after centuries when #Irishwomen were expected to wear a skirt or dress, I am delighted that our women presidents have shown that there is a choice. 👍

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Catherine Connolly, who I used to meet cycling around Galway, was inaugurated as the 10th president of Ireland today. She's already making the right people uncomfortable

Text of speech is here: https://president.ie/en/media-library/speeches/inaugural-speech-of-president-catherine-connolly

#Ireland #CatherineConnolly #Mastodaoine #politics #IrPol #speeches

Irish flag design just dropped to honour new Irish President, Catherine Connolly (for those not aware, famous for her soccer "keepie uppie" abilities, amongst many others)

#IE #Ireland #CatherineConnolly

Great to see newly-inaugurated #PresidentConnolly with her 3 living predecessors, who reinvented the Irish presidency. Starting with #MaryRobinson in 1990, then #MaryMcAleese in 1997, and #MichaelDHiggins in 2011.

#CatherineConnolly continues Ireland's 35-year tradition of a popularly-elected Uachtarán na hÉireann who goes beyond the ceremonial role. Now a fourth successive president will use her position to build bridges, and to address the great ethical challenges of our time. <3