Katherine Butler

Next time you stay in an Irish hotel, think of this as you walk past the women with the cleaning carts. Thanks @A_Rychlikova who kindly let us use a clip from her film Limits of Europe to illustrate the series https://t.co/thTWMl07qH

Part 2 of our series in which Czech journalist Saša Uhlová goes undercover in low paid jobs in the rich side of the EU. ‘As a hotel cleaner in Ireland: Lifting the heavy mattress, I cry tears of rage and exhaustion’ https://t.co/thTWMl07qH

Great quote from the legendary Irish journalist Nell McCafferty, who has died, about her own reportage of the district courts in the 1970s for the Irish Times. (From a 1984 profile by Gene Kerrigan in Magill). https://t.co/PEiaDDBInL

Direct link between NHS/local GP closures and support for Reform UK: similar pattern in Italy, France and NL, Catherine de Vries on new research @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting https://t.co/p8q5x3PSFJ

This by Patrick Cockburn is so accurate: Kim Sengupta was took brave risks but calculated ones: he 'made his own luck' https://t.co/TinYGaDb5L

RT @BBC_Olga_M: Thank you to all who joined the insightful discussion on the rise of the far-right in Europe, hosted by @frontline @ninakwa…

Thanks to our French and Euro panellists for decoding the second round of the French elections @Mij_Europe @NathalieTocci @RymMomtaz @Shahinvallee @MarionVanR and Dr Françoise Boucek https://t.co/BEEZl4gSBP

RT @RokhayaDiallo: «France can argue later– now everyone who cares about our democracy must unite to keep the far right out. (…) Time is ru…

'Macron called for on voters to back 'republican and democratic candidates' against the extreme right. But few people are listening. The Macron era is over' https://t.co/FQen3GC26x

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Powerful piece of writing by Justine McCarthy on Natasha O'Brien who was punched unconscious by a serving soldier who walked free from court: 'Ireland loves its strong women, as long as they’re dead or they never lived at all.' https://t.co/OH6zFDr8xb

There was so much love there for TG Clare, it was palpable. He'd have been very happy you could tune in. We won't see his like again