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Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue

Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue

Herbalist, poet, writer, and teacher living in western Maine; author of "Courting the Wild Queen" and "The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are"; guides clients in healing and offers classes blending herbalism, folklore, and ecology.

Jun 11, 2026

3:21
So we have the Flamingo Revolution, which we might do, and then Graham-Plattner, which we might do, and then the Belfast riots, unless you feel an ardent desire to move the Belfast riots up earlier.
3:38
They are very much alive for me in this moment and so it might be good to start there.
3:43
Let's start with what we need to unravel and then weave into what we need to weave.
3:51
And so it's been really quite horrific.
3:55
Earlier this week in Belfast there was a stabbing of a man by another man who happened to be Sudanese.
4:06
And while the family of the man who is in the hospital now has been calling for calm, Tommy Robinson, far-right anti-immigrant leader from Britain, Elon Musk have been using their influence during the very week that Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire to stir up hatred.
4:34
A lot of that hatred is being spread through the still heavily armed, still very violent right-wing militias in the north of Ireland who are the descendants of the people who burned the Catholic neighborhoods of Belfast in 1969 and in the 1920s.

11 MINS LATER

16:11
And you had said, ah, Northern Ireland's constitution has a similar problem, right?

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