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Rita O’Reilly @ritaoreilly.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Floundering. Can It Still Help Younger Kids? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

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Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Floundering. Can It Still Help Younger Kids?

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Carlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Thankfully not as much rain overnight as forecast by most models but still showery today before heavy rain moves up for tonight and Friday.

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The Chinook Justice Campaign @chinookjustice.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

" @primeministeruk.bsky.social I'm appealing to you to do the right thing. Open a public inquiry. Let the truth be exposed." Says Darren Neilly, whose dad Maurice, was killed on ZD 576. #chinookjustice

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Mark Hennessy @markhennessy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

IRA members ‘astonished’ at Gerry Adams’s ‘brazen’ denial of role in organisation, court hears www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

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IRA members ‘astonished’ at Gerry Adams’s ‘brazen’ denial of role in organisation, court hears

Charge made by veteran journalist John Ware on fifth day of civil action against former Sinn Féin leader

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Is it appropriate for military aircraft involved in a war to use neutral Ireland’s airspace? Got into it with the Taoiseach about overflights ahead of his White House meeting with Donald Trump. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

'The US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey...US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased.' www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

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‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I think it's every public servants job to be empathic, I'd say it's a necessity.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

👋 Former State Department War Powers lawyer here. This statement by Rubio is false. As @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and I wrote in January: www.justsecurity.org/128517/war-p...

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Neil Michael 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇱🇧🇬🇱 @anewshack.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social front page includes a story about the Air Corps being warned about - among other things - potentially toxic dust in the workplace.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I'm totally pinching myself announcing this, but a film about my life journey rewilding a West Cork farm, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, will get its first screening at the Dublin International Film Festival on Saturday the 28th of this month. Tickets are available here: www.diff.ie/programme/an...

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Neil Michael 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇱🇧🇬🇱 @anewshack.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Murdered farmer Michael Gaine’s remains being taken from his cattle shed by a friend of his and a relative.

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Dr William Dance @williamdance.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

New from me 🚨 “Disinformation and Algorithms: Amplification, Reception and Correction” I contribute to the theory around disinformation and misinformation studies and then carry out a corpus-based analysis of the use of tokens like ‘disinformation’ on Twitter. www.cambridge.org/universitypr...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Orlando City Commissioner Tony Ortiz just switched from Republican to Democratic. “The Republican Party is not the party I signed up with... The marginalization of Latinos and immigrants—many of whom have helped build this country—is not leadership. It’s fear-based politics.”

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 01/04/2025

A personal statement apologising for provoking Deputy Lowry by filming him last week. tinyurl.com/2s4x9k92

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

New York stands with Ukraine. #3E #USprotests #StandWithUkraine

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Neil Michael 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇱🇧🇬🇱 @anewshack.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The narrative is - in effect: there really is not anything to be seen here. Everything is grand. Talk to mothers and fathers of babies that continue to die needlessly in Irish maternity units, and it's very far from grand. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

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HSE commissioned external reviews into two stillbirths at MUH

As well as commissioning external reviews at the Mayo hospital, the HSE also conducted additional internal reviews into another five stillbirths there in 2023

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— Oh wait.

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Carlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

High resolution image of #StormÉowyn yesterday as center moved away. I’ve had reports that all are safe on Aran Islands but no power of connectivity there at present.

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Carlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Heavy rain and sleet moving into the West with thunderstorms in Southwest and lightning strikes in Kerry. Wind will increase as band of showers cross the country too.

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Carlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

A milder morning with a lot of cloud but some sunny spells developing today, feeling fresh in breeze.

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Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'll be on RTE Countrywide with @philipb-h.bsky.social from about 8:15 to talk about this week's Draft Programme for Government. Get the coffee on and join us! ☕️ www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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CountryWide - RTÉ Radio 1

The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/01/2025

BREAKING: Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has announced that the Gaza ceasefire will start on Sunday at 8:30 am [06:30 GMT]. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dcziju

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Cllr Oisín O'Connor @oisinoconnordublin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

"You can't have trees and bikes replace the cars on this street. The Dutch just love their cars too much and it rains sometimes." - Dutch automobile lobbyist, 1988

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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Gavin Newsom made a website to fight the misinformation about the fires. Give it a read. REPOST gavinnewsom.com/california-f...

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California Fire Facts | Governor Gavin Newsom

Get the facts about the Los Angeles fires.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 08/01/2025

BREAKING: The Pacific Palisades fire is now the most destructive in Los Angeles city history, with an estimated 1,000 structures destroyed. Follow AP's live coverage. apnews.com/live/live-up...

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Live updates: Pacific Palisades wildfire is most destructive in LA history with at least 1,000 structures burned

The Palisades fire, Pasadena's Eaton fire and Hurst fire in the San Fernando Valley are raging in the Los Angeles area, fueled by powerful Santa Ana winds. At least two people are dead and over 1,000 ...

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Natalie O'Regan @natalieoregan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

DULF's 3rd paper gives us a look at a Compassion Club and Fulfillment Centre. What once stood as a safe haven, offering dignity and hope in a society bent on punishment, has been crushed under legal pressures and political scorn. #Drugsky journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Qualitative findings from North America’s first drug compassion club

In Canada, the ongoing fatal overdose crisis remains driven by the unpredictable potency and content of the illicit drug supply. From August 2022 until October 2023, the Drug User Liberation Front [DU...

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Hear UCC scientists talk food, artificial intelligence, ancient scripts and dinosaurs at free public lectures! Our popular @ucc.bsky.social Science in Society lectures will run from 14 January to 3 April, every Tuesday & Thursday at 6:00 PM in Boole 2. Details below www.yaycork.ie/hear-ucc-sci...

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Hear UCC scientists talk food, ancient scripts and dinosaurs at these free lectures

Find out more for free.

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Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Trump posts video of controversial economist Jeffrey Sachs calling Netanyahu "a deep, dark son of a bitch" who is responsible for orchestrating U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East

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'A deep, dark son of a bitch': Trump posts video of historian criticizing Netanyahu

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips says that Elon Musk's attacks have "turned her world upside down" and left her fearful for her own safety. The X billionaire "knows absolutely nothing" about grooming gangs scandal, she tells @itvnewspolitics.bsky.social

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I spent most of my adult life watching schools say they can't expel professors for sexually assaulting and harassing students and colleagues only to see how quickly they react over social media posts against genocide

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”

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Neil Michael 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇱🇧🇬🇱 @anewshack.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

And around the same time, or certainly the same day, Bono accepted an honour from the man who - in effect - sanctioned that arms deal. Up until that moment, I had planned to see U2 live this year. Not now. I will never again pay to see them play live, or buy another of their albums.

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Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

2025 will be a tough year for our global environment & well-being. Avoiding the anger-anxiety spiral will be a big challenge for individuals. This is good advice to keep front of mind as we venture forth. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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A neuropsychologist’s view on how to thrive in an angry, unpredictable world

All emotions serve an evolutionary purpose — the key is not to hide from anger, but to harness it productively

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 17/12/2024

The award-winning Irish language film Kneecap has been shortlisted for Best International Feature and Best Original Song at the 2025 Academy Awards

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Kneecap shortlisted for Best International Oscar award

The award-winning Irish language film Kneecap has been shortlisted for Best International Feature and Best Original Song at the 2025 Academy Awards.

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Cork Greens @corkgreens.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Cork County Council’s Community Climate Action Programme is now open: - Small scale projects: less than €20,000 - Medium scale projects: €20,000 to €50,000 - Large scale projects: €51,000 to €100,000 Apply before 22nd of January 2025.

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Cork County Council’s Community Climate Action Programme to Open for New Applications

The Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Joe Carroll is encouraging community groups to apply for funding to deliver climate action projects in their local area.

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Neil Michael 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇱🇧🇬🇱 @anewshack.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Am a little baffled why so many US based accounts which just rant about how awful/wonderful Trump is want to follow Irish accounts. There is more than a whiff of angry X here now. Posts getting angrier and more obscene. Profiles of those who follow everyone/anyone who follows them) getting weirder.

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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Me again! I'm working on a feature for House Beautiful on homeowner 'Renovation Regrets' but from the POV of Interior Designers. So, interior designers, what are the most common design issues you're called in to fix? Please email: jenmcs1987@gmail[dot]com with your top 2/3 ✨ #journorequests

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Neil Michael 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇱🇧🇬🇱 @anewshack.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

#journorequest Do you know someone who is - or are you someone - affected by the cost of living crisis and can talk to me on-the-record about how much of a financial struggle Christmas is going to be this year? If interested, can you/they email me 400 words itemising their monthly costs and

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 06/12/2024

Women's rights are under attack worldwide—from gender-based violence to restrictions on their autonomy. Women-led organizations are on the frontlines, facing backlash yet driving change. Join us during #16Days of Activism and support them!

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