Fionna O'Regan

barrister, civil engineer, planning/environment, livable cities, cat butler, dogs, horses, Irish Mammy, more importantly I'm from Cork

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

The russian plan to encircle Donbas is completely fucked. Ukrainians sent waves of ground drones into their positions and blew them all up. Totally ingenious

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Israel’s expanding network of checkpoints is UNLAWFUL and must be dismantled immediately.

Part of the carceral geography of apartheid, it makes Palestiniams' daily life fully dependent on arbitrariness.

Thank you @WIRED for exposing this viciousness: https://t.co/b9kHQ4YHHe

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

No, this isn't the new Taylor Swift album cover. I've cleaned-up this remarkable colour photo, taken 113 years ago in August 1913, a year before the First World War. It is a portrait of 16-year-old Christina Bevan at Durdle Door in Lulworth, Dorset. It was taken by Lt-Colonel Mervyn O’Gorman using an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.
This was one of the first Autochromes I cleaned up for Twitter and I share it again with you because it is such a beautiful image 😍

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

As the Israel team travels to Europe where they will play against Austria, Ireland and Kosovo between 24 September - 6 October, Palestinian families are being displaced and dispossessed, their land stolen, their olive trees uprooted, and their histories erased by settlers with the support of the Israeli military. The beautiful game should bring people together, not rubber-stamp apartheid.

It’s unconscionable that the Israel men’s football team will participate in the UEFA Nations League this autumn despite clear evidence that Israel’s football association continues to support illegal settlements.

Sport should never be used as a public relations spectacle for states committing atrocities. When rules are broken, when occupation, apartheid and genocide are ongoing, we cannot look the other way.

[Pádraig Murchadhfinn @murchadhfinn]

“Our nation's soul is at stake, not six points.”
~Andrée Murphy

The Andersonstown News
@ATownNews

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[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Russia had a chance after 1991 to look forward. Instead it chose imperial maps and millions dead in the mud.

It burned 21st-century wealth on a 19th-century map & threw away its 22nd century.

The world is laughing at the “great power” drag itself back to the Stone Age.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

The whole world has to isolate this rogue Apartheid genocidal maniac, serial killing, pathologically lying state, isolate it & shame anyone who goes there.

Israel is exposed, Zionism is on its last leg & only exists on the weight of its own collapsed propaganda.

@AbbyMartin 🔥

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.”
- Emmeline Pankhurst.
UK suffragette arrested, 1914 #womensart #Tuesday

[Amnesty Ireland @AmnestyIreland]

"UEFA failed to suspend the IFA, Palestinians pay the price, and a heavy burden now rests on our footballers. Israel's impunity must no longer be tolerated. Everyone should act with their conscience. Stop the game." Stephen Bowen, Executive Director, Amnesty International Ireland

[Dr Tom Clonan @TomClonan]

The Dunne’s Stores Workers Knew Difference Between Right & Wrong -Irish Rugby Players Recognised Evil of Apartheid & Refused to Play South Africa -Ireland Should Not Play #Apartheid #Genocidal #Israel - #StopTheGame -Opposing Mass Murder by IDF & #Netanyahu is Ethical Imperative

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Grace Gillespie, contemporary printmaker specialising in reduction linocuts, based in Bristol, UK #WomensArt #ColourBlueWeek

[Fionna O'Regan @FionnaOregan]

Gorgeous. High density not high rise. Every dwelling seems to have a small garden or good terrace/balcony & parking. Good quality architecture. Compared to the stalinist blocks being built in Ireland with tiny unusable clip-on balconies/no balcony & v little parking - beautiful

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

If we’re going to build suburbs, let’s build them like this!

Brabazon on the outskirts of Bristol has a density of 75 homes per hectare, triple the usual. It was originally planned for 2,000 homes but will now see 6,500 built

There’s start up offices, parks, trees, a lake…

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Powerful and utterly upsetting.

Today in the Irish Examiner.

800 items NOT allowed into Gaza and it's only half the actual list.

4 standout for me:

- Toys
- Crutches
- Babies nappies
- Cancer medication

Israel PREVENTS the very basics of life

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

RTÉ has confirmed that Ireland will not take part in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest and that it will not broadcast the competition
https://t.co/4094hksR1D

[Smart Science @SmartScience]

The Vatican has officially declared environmental destruction a ”sin against creation and the Creator” in a major new doctrinal text.

The 29,000-word document, titled Caring for Our Common Home, elevates ecological concern from a merely political or scientific issue into a direct matter of personal faith.

Authorized under Pope Leo XIV, the text declares that destroying natural habitats, polluting, and exploiting resources are not just civic failures, but a 'sin against creation and against the Creator' that directly violates God's plan.

This shift from Pope Francis' earlier concept of 'ecological sin' to a more explicit 'sin against the Creator' is designed to reshape how believers view their daily environmental impact. The Vatican emphasizes that failing to safeguard the planet severely harms the poorest populations and future generations, distorting the core relationships that define humanity. By placing ecological action squarely in the realm of moral responsibility, the Church is challenging millions of people to treat environmental care as a fundamental requirement of their faith.

source: O'Connell, G. (2026). Vatican theological commission defines 'sin against creation and the Creator' in new document. America Magazine.

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

I've been fascinated by this building since reading about it ten years ago and finally got to see it in person today.

It's called Tietgenkollegiet, one of Copenhagen's most interesting buildings. And it's a student dorm.

It's basically an experiment in whether architecture can make strangers become friends.

~390 students live here. Private bedrooms face outward, while the shared spaces, kitchens, lounges, etc. face inward toward a huge central courtyard.

So you can literally see other people cooking, hanging out, and gathering across the courtyard.

Instead of telling people to “build community,” the architecture makes it happen naturally.

I would've LOVED to live here as a student.

[ECHR CEDH @ECHR_CEDH]

⚖️ Grand Chamber judgment: Kavala v. Türkiye (no. 2)

➡️ The European Court of Human Rights holds that Türkiye must release Mr Kavala immediately and eliminate the consequences of his conviction

🔗 Press release: https://t.co/IQC6vmQY6i

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

“The climate is one of the planet’s most effective mechanisms of administering Karma: we can only expect to receive the climate we deserve.  Climate never forgives or forgets.  It responds with clockwork precision to any disturbances it endures”

From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Wrote an article in the @ConversationEDU about challenges balancing our need to build more floor area, with the environmental impact of construction

https://t.co/RVU8yK2EWc