In the wake of the killing of Josip Strok and the serious assault on David Druzinec, a line has been crossed, and there are things we all can and need to do to reclaim Irish society from the tiny coterie of racists currently sowing division.
The most important of these is ... ... to stand together.
The next most important are to think about what we stand for, what we say, and when we choose to be silent.
The vast majority of Irish people are not in any way racist - but they are angry, and historically the anger of ordinary people has repeatedly ...

Ireland in the 1980s was a dark place moving towards the light. It was our artists and, most of all, our musicians that led the way.
Tiny and bald, Sinéad O'Connor began kicking over the last vestiges of respectability in our Catholic past.
The fact that her head was ... ... shaved was not an accident; given how women's bodies and actions were policed, she was the ultimate symbol of who we were, and who we wanted to be.
And then she sang.
"Mandinka" changed so many things, because it was angry and raw and energetic and soothing, all at ...

Why @MichealMartinTD's attack on @wereontheditch is as problematic as it was predictable, and why you shouldn't fall for it - a 🧵.
When the Tánaiste stood up in the Dáil and made his idiotic attempt to link Limerick Country Council business to Vladimir Putin, he knew ... ... exactly what he was doing.
He also succeeded, because now everyone is talking about his stupid allegations, rather than focusing on the real issue, which is the allegation that one of his TDs knowingly voted to enrich his wife through a land deal.
Whatever you think ...

In the midst of the well-deserved praise for Mick Lynch, we need to ask why it is that the default position of most (if not all) of the people interviewing him is to take the side of capital over the workers. If media is about balance, where are the working-class journalists? Several of the clowns interviewing him clearly had no idea how a modern picket actually works (Burley appeared desperate for Lynch to say that picketers would use force), and Madeley simply wanted to dismiss him as a "red (out from) under the bed". It was pathetic.