Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It occurs me that there is a well known acronym for the Great Lakes, and Trump is attempting to make a HAMES of it 030
Reposted by Eimear Ní MCathal Mac Coille @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Lessons from the pandemic, based on UK experience but with obvious relevance to Ireland. 🧵 122
Reposted by Eimear Ní MDeirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended". Thanks to @cathalmalone.bsky.social for writing this for us www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...irishexaminer.comJudicial reviews are a fundamental part of democracy — not a dig at the Government by greedy lawyersA judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended, writes Cathal Malone 35937
Reposted by Eimear Ní MThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 04/06/2026Twenty-nine houses built without planning permission must be removed, High Court rulesirishtimes.comTwenty-nine houses built without planning permission must be removed, High Court rulesJudge notes ‘unbelievable chutzpah’ of developers who ignored warning letters and intensified construction at south Dublin site 0155
Reposted by Eimear Ní MGavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 29/05/202617,548 people in emergency accommodation at the end of April 2026 - another overall record, including 5604 children. The number is up 31 in that month and 1968 in a year. @virginmedianews.bsky.social 43625
Reposted by Eimear Ní MCarl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Usually I share some kind of snarky, pithy quote from my column here in the hopes that people will read it and share it or whatever but this week there really isn't one that does that kind of job. It's a column about the cruelty in our midst.thejournal.ieSurrealing in the Years: Some shameful Irish attitudes take a leaf out of Israel's bookItamar Ben-Gvir’s cruelty has echoes at home. 16242
Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Aon mholtaí / any recommendations @jdmccafferty.bsky.social ? 010
Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social · 29/03/2026#spéirghorm #spéiríní projectartscentre.ie/events/oiche... 020
Reposted by Eimear Ní MColin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Me and me cousin, one Arthur McBride, One morning went walking along Lake Street's side Now mark well what followed in that wintertide As the cold Friday morning was dawning 1030187
Reposted by Eimear Ní MDublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 27/02/2026Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds. Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.dublininquirer.comSixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worldsDiane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer. 16804238
Reposted by Eimear Ní MThe lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 14/02/20261940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated. 8322151
Reposted by Eimear Ní MTom Gleeson @tggleeson.bsky.social · 10/12/2025The Speir Gorm feed is gone, this replacement Spéir Ghorm collects the same set of hashtags in text and alt-text as the deleted one. #speirgorm 174
Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social · 04/12/2025#NaSpéiríní #SpéirGhorm thenewtheatre.com/event/2025/1... Is ceardlann agus léamh drama atá I gcéist anseo, Ina bhfuil béim curtha ar rannphairtíocht an lucht feachúna. Bheidh fáilte chuig gach leibhéail Gaeilge agus iadsan gan Gaeilge, a mbeidh túgtha isteach san aireamh. 000
Reposted by Eimear Ní MESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 04/11/2025Léigh tuilleadh: www.esa.int/Space_in_Mem...esa.intAriane 6: déanta in Éirinn 0114
Reposted by Eimear Ní MNa Cnocadóirí @cnocadoiri.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Seachtain álainn a bhí againn in Mijas Pueblo sa Spáinn! Míle buíochas do Shéan is Gwyn as na heagraithe go léir! 111
Reposted by Eimear Ní MPádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 20/10/2025A damning account of the rot within Inland Fisheries Ireland at a critical time for our rivers and waterways www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...irishexaminer.comMick Clifford: Our rivers are not the only places to have been polluted under the IFIIt seems there has been a complete disregard for the protection of rivers and lakes under Inland Fisheries Ireland, writes Mick Clifford 0187
Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Comhghairdeas @olamajekodunmi.bsky.social agus chuile dhuine eile a bhfuair sparánacht “Taibhsín”, tá súil agam go dtabharfaidh sé deis cruthaíochta daoibh 110
Reposted by Eimear Ní MDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 03/09/2025Just a quick note: This #ebook #sale's being extended a week (due to local cash flow issues). So if you've been thinking about it, go grab yourself some low-priced #YA and #SF / #fantasy #ebooks from the author! www.tumblr.com/dduane/79340... #ebooksky #bookskytumblr.comPost by @dduane · 2 images💬 0 🔁 82 ❤️ 102 · Sale's winding down! So just a reminder... · ...that the annual Summer Reading Sale at the Ebooks Direct store is still on! But not for much longer. ETA, 3 Sept 2024: Just to l… 14031
Reposted by Eimear Ní MDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 13/08/2025This takes about one minute to do, it’s extremely simple, just a few simple questions, and you don’t need to be an artist to do it, it’s open to the general public. And the far right are trying to load it, so please take a moment and fill it out 11123105
Reposted by Eimear Ní MFiona Doris @fionadoris.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Brilliant piece by Rea Cherniak-LeBov a non-Zionist Jew from Dublin I hadn’t realised the extent of trade 🇮🇱 👉🏼 🇮🇪 = $3.24 B 🇮🇪 👉🏼🇮🇱 = $1.61 B Cutting economic ties will have huge economic consequences like LeBov I think it is worth the pain to stop genocide of 🇵🇸 people. Ireland understands genocide.irishexaminer.comNot all Jews are Zionists — Alan Shatter does not speak for meThe past 21 months have caused increasing tensions between those in my community who stand in solidarity with Palestine and those whose loyalties remain with Israel, no matter how many red lines they ... 22313
Reposted by Eimear Ní MThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...irishexaminer.comSéamas O’Reilly: Ballymena violence is the result of politics based on scapegoating any ‘other’"The central perversity of treating these people as anything other than racist thugs is only more transparent in Ballymena because they have so few migrants that any other excuse is patently absurd." 161074481
Reposted by Eimear Ní MClaire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 13/06/2025What N. Ireland is experiencing right now is a form of state media censorhip to cover up the overwhelming level of paramilitary involvement in the far-right, white supremacist riots that have swept the North. While cameras and narratives focus on the 'youths' - the men in the shadows .. [1/n] 15510283
Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Organ donation to become soft opt-out in Ireland (👋 @kjhealy.co ) www.gov.ie/en/departmen...gov.ieThe Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Act 2024 110
Reposted by Eimear Ní MMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/05/2025it's published! finally! in this week's newsletter: my attempt to go through every single reason why I both dislike and distrust generative AI: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/11-things-... [free to read!] 26462126
Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Taken aback somewhat to identify “She Sells Sanctuary” as the background music in a bookies radio as. 000
Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Thread of fun. Have seen a few of these before but many were new to me 062
Reposted by Eimear Ní MSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21/04/2025New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act. (Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin) www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...thegist.ieThe Gist: Trans rights are Data rightsA UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist. 28552286
Reposted by Eimear Ní MÓ Raġallaiġ ᚑᚏᚐᚌᚆᚐᚂᚂᚐᚔᚌᚆ @reallynahreilly.bsky.social · 10/04/2025🧵 Snáithe desna frásaí ar fad, ionas go mbeidh sé níos éasca teacht orthu amach anseo; #SpéirGhorm #100daysofGaeilge 4175
Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Ba mhaith liom a rá go bhfuil seo dochreidte, ach, faraor, níl sé. Íospairt scannalach, náireach. 040
Reposted by Eimear Ní MCelestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I know it is a small thing in the scheme of things, but the thing that grates is that this (gestures expansively) demonstrates that every pious word we have read from Americans about their glorious constitution, free and fearless press, separation of powers, free speech, checks and balances has 9739
Reposted by Eimear Ní MJuliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Superb reading (and so are the two other books in the trilogy). 143
Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Fantastic value, worth picking up even if you have paper copies of some of them 042
Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Hi @davidmccullough.bsky.social , did you know this was in Florida? 120
Reposted by Eimear Ní MMichal Měchura @lexiconista.bsky.social · 25/01/2025A little-known fact is that the surname Musk comes from the Irish word "múisc" which means 'vomit'. www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/m%c3%...teanglann.ieFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (Ó Dónaill): múiscEverything about 'múisc' in the Ó Dónaill Irish-English Dictionary 3298
Reposted by Eimear Ní MTG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Foclóir an lae: 🌨️ #Sneachta 🧊 Oighear ❄️ Sioc 🌫️ Ceo seaca 🏔️ Sneachta ar thalamh ard ⛄ BOULI 🥶 Préachta ⚠️ Rabhadh aimsire 🌡️ Teocht íseal 🫖 Pota tae ☕ Cupán tae 🥣 Anraith 🍲 Stobhach 🛏️ Leaba 🛋️ Tolg 💻 Seinnteoir TG4 🔥 Tine 📺 Teilifís 🧥 Cóta 🧣 Scairf 🧤 Lámhainní 🧦 Stocaí te 412437
Reposted by Eimear Ní M👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/01/2025i have seen the theory that Trump is so obsessed with Greenland because he doesn't understand the Mercator projection and i cannot stop laughing. one hundred percent that's what's going on 591551246
Reposted by Eimear Ní MDr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024My head hurts reading the Israeli interpretations of Irish history. It’s disturbing to see so much pseudohistory deployed in order to [as our president noted] declare everyone Irish, everywhere, ‘antisemitic’. 26384107
Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Táim fiosrach, an bhfuil aon scoláireacht nó taighde faoin gcloch seo le gairid. www.megalithicireland.com/Mullagh%20Og... Aon fhios ag @davidstifter.bsky.social nó @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social , le bhur dtoil?megalithicireland.comRantavan Ogham Stone, Mullagh, County Cavan 220
Reposted by Eimear Ní MGerry McDied 10 years ago, on a night just like this @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Good man yourself Oedipus, how’re ye keeping these days, tell me now, do y’still have the 184064993
Reposted by Eimear Ní MÚna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 12/11/2024It's so important to vote in #Ireland #GE24. There are quite prominent racists going for TD seats in Ireland this time around and we need to make sure they don't get a seat. These are dangerous people who spread nothing but anti-immigration sentiment and stir extreme hate. Use your vote. 913459
Reposted by Eimear Ní MPaul Carroll @paulcarroll15.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I don't know who to credit for this photo or the artwork, but it's wonderful. 1236
Reposted by Eimear Ní MOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Not sure I can take another four years of being angry at news from the US. One of the problems with living on a small, English-speaking island in the Atlantic is that we tend to fill up very easily on the outrageous news from our two much-bigger neighbours. Pretty much at my limit now. 8373
Reposted by Eimear Ní MBig Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 31/10/2024Sean-Nósferatu! 38532
Reposted by Eimear Ní MFrank McNally @frankie49.bsky.social · 23/10/2024“To Irish ears, a schlep sounds like something you might get off a Kerry corner-back if you weren’t careful.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...irishtimes.comSchmuck spreader – Frank McNally on the unholy resonance of an old Christian hymnSchmuck was once considered so offensive that people had to invent a politer alternative 021