Stíofan Ó Maolánfaidh (Stephen Molumphy)

Father, husband & soldier.

[Seamus O'Corcoráin 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @dohville]

Can you imagine if they tried to do this today??? Mock Battle At Oranmore https://t.co/smxJWVnOtx

[Conor Hogarty @ConorHogarty]

@BerryCathal writing in the Irish Mail on Sunday.

Triple lock! A more pressing issue is the fact that the state remains utterly defenceless at a time of heightened concerns regarding defence and security 🇪🇺 wide. That's what the government should be focusing on.

[The Irish at War @irelandbattles]

A snippet from my forthcoming documentary on Henry Knox, the first generation Irish-American whose book learned artillery skills enabled the Americans to push the British out of Boston.

Réabhlóid Mheiriceá

TG4

July 1st & 8th

21:30

#Ireland #History @TG4TV @TheBostonIrish

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

One day, in a not-too-distant future, most Democratic officials in the US will speak of AIPAC and Israel with this level of clarity...

[RoyK @roy_kinsella]

‘Ireland Is Becoming a French Military Protectorate’

“Literally defenseless, Dublin is outsourcing security to Paris.” https://t.co/kyNlPBOtXO

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[RACO @RACO_DF]

Michael McDowell: ‘Do we really need multiple senior finance and education ministers? We do need a full-time senior minister for defence to rescue Ireland’s capacity for its own internal and external security from the pitiful neglect of the last 20 years.’ https://t.co/MPQGaEDYYj

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Italian PM Meloni:

If you do not know how to defend yourself, if you ask someone else to guarantee your security, you will pay for it in terms of autonomy, sovereignty, and the ability to defend your national interests.

Defense spending is the price of freedom, and I want Italy to be a free nation.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Conor Hogarty @ConorHogarty]

McEntee expresses ‘deep regret’ over non-renewal of EU Mediterranean naval mission.

The decision to deploy Defence Force personnel on overseas missions should rest with Dáil Eireann without recourse to foreign governments or organisations. Sovereignty.

https://t.co/3megCKhF5M

[Barry Andrews MEP @BarryAndrewsMEP]

📺 WATCH: my speech in #Strasbourg on the crisis in #Lebanon, which I visited last month.

Israeli massacres continue 🇮🇱.

Most EU leaders still do not react 🇪🇺.

Lebanon deserves better 🇱🇧.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺🇮🇱 7 European countries voted to suspend the EU-Israel association agreement at today's foreign ministers meeting:

🇮🇪 Ireland
🇲🇹 Malta
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇪🇸 Spain
🇧🇪 Belgium

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

The body of the Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found by rescuers after several hours of digging in the rubble after an Israeli strike. She is the fourth journalist to have been killed by Israeli forces in seven weeks. This is why the word ‘journacide’ is now being used.

[Conor Hogarty @ConorHogarty]

When can we expect the National Security Body to be established?
@MichealMartinTD
@SimonHarrisTD

@CormacJOKeeffe in todays @irishexaminer 👇

[Matiullah Jan @Matiullahjan919]

Israel’s iron dome didn’t see this coming from Pakistan

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING! Amid widespread bombing across Arab regions, Israel approves its largest-ever colonial expansion. Under the "fog of war'', what I warned on 14 Oct 2023 is unfolding: the largest ethnic cleansing/land grab in Palestine, since the Nakba. It’s happening. Under our watch.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

See, they know all the words. They just choose not to use them for Israel.

[Shona Murray @ShonaMurray_]

The total dehumanising of Palestinians by israel has been a long journey. But is complete.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

“A toddler in Gaza released from Israeli custody has been returned to his family with suspected torture wounds.”

Read that again.

[Stíofan Ó Maolánfaidh (Stephen Molumphy) @SMolumphy]

Brussels camogie & hurling teams crowned as Champions of BENELUX (Belgium/Netherlands & Luxembourg) 2026 in 'The Hague' earlier today 🇧🇪 after both won their respective tournaments