On this day 29 years ago investigative journalist Veronica Guerin was driving on the Naas Road. As she waited at a red light a motorbike carrying two male passengers appeared next to her. They’d been tracking her after a court date about a speeding offence earlier that day.
He finally said it. After 19 months of avoidance and prevarication, taoiseach Micheál Martin acknowledged in Dáil Eireann what the public has known since October 2023: the state of Israel is committing genocide in Palestine.
When I was 22 I applied for a job in Dunnes Stores, Rathmines. During the interview in a small office above the supermarket, a manager looked at my CV. “Seems fine – can you start tomorrow?” I was in luck. They needed someone.
A few years back I was spending a lot of time in a house in the Liberties. It was the residence of a woman I was dating and her roommate. I use the word residence because it didn’t feel like a home – it felt like the landlord might choose, at any moment, to turn it into an Airbnb.
In September 2023 Michael Healy Rae was walking on Kildare Street when he encountered a small group of protesters.
