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Adviser for Business & more! Irish Tech News | Celtar Advisers | StartUp Ballymun | Dublin, Ireland. Grower of ideas, businesses, communities & #historymatters

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 3h
Much of the world sees tragedy in Gaza. Many Israelis, scarred by Oct. 7, see only a threat apnews.com/article/isra...
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Much of the world sees tragedy in Gaza. Many Israelis, scarred by Oct. 7, see only a threat
Many Israelis struggle to see Palestinians as anything other than a threat, three years after the war in Gaza began.
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 5h
What happens to all the heat generated by Irish data centres? To add AI-driven direct liquid cooling by Motivair changes the form in which that heat leaves servers,captures a large proportion in liquid at source,making heat recovery more practical @tudublin.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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What happens to all the heat generated by Irish data centres?
The energy from data centres ultimately becomes heat, but the question is how much of this ends up in somebody's radiator
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 8h
Drumcree is theatre of the absurd, straight from Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks Both sides are guilty of obscene exaggeration and competitive victimhood - enough! thanks @fotoole.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Fintan O'Toole: Drumcree is theatre of the absurd, straight from Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks
Both sides are guilty of obscene exaggeration and competitive victimhood
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 9h
Shaping Public AI: What role for Ireland’s cultural heritage? Ireland’s cultural heritage sector explores how its collections,expertise and public values can help shape the development of AI @europeana.bsky.social @dri.ie @irishmuseums.bsky.social @ria.ie @heritagecouncil.ie lnkd.in/p/dHfy_QYe
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#culturalheritage #dataspace #publicai #digitalculturalheritage #ai | Billy Linehan
Public AI and the Cultural Heritage sector At the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) today with Irish Tech News for “Winds of Change: Ireland’s Cultural Heritage Sector and Public AI.” Event explores the role...
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 21h
All about me? Irish media did not support the team, out of touch with fans as Aviva match showed and - continue to moan. "These were no ordinary match assignments. Irish journalists were watched and filmed" #COYBIG www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Ireland v Israel was no ordinary match assignment. Irish journalists were watched and filmed
Recurring presence of out-of-place people combined with blatant filming of reporters made for a deeply uncomfortable week
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wknder. Is a member of Eirigi representative of the residents' view?
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Britain's Green Party voted ​on Sunday to class ​Zionism as a form of racism, drawing criticism from British Jews, and others who support a Jewish right to self-determination, and a 2 state solution 400 voted online www.independent.ie/world-news/b...
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Britain's Green Party votes to class Zionism as a form of racism
Britain's Green Party voted ​on Sunday to class ​Zionism as a form of racism, drawing criticism from British Jews and from the Israeli government which said it now viewed the party as “a body that giv...
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Yachad @yachad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our Statement on the Green Party passing the motion 'Zionism is Racism' yachad.org.uk/statement-on...
The adoption by the Green Party conference yesterday of the 'Zionism is Racism' motion is a serious and deeply offensive outcome. 

An overwhelming majority of British Jews, regardless of their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, have now been told by the party that they are racists. 

They are not simply being shut out of a political party; they are being asked to dissociate themselves from organised Jewish life in order to pass what is effectively an ‘acceptability test’.Zionism is a fiercely debated and contested word. But for most British Jews, belief in Jewish peoplehood and self-determination is core to their Jewish identity, and this is what they understand to be the basic premise of Zionism. 

It is why when Jews attend synagogue they pray facing Jerusalem, and why the concept of ‘Zion’ has been at the heart of Jewish communal life for two millennia.

Telling Jews they are acceptable only if they give up that understanding of collective Jewish identity, is not, as some have sought to explain it away, an attack on a political ideology. It is an attack on Jewish identity.That is why, for most Jews across the political spectrum, yesterday's vote is deeply offensive and alienating. Jews do not need a political party to define Jewish identity on their behalf.

In any other context, a party telling a minority community what its identity may and may not include would be recognised, without controversy, as racist.

To be clear: there is a legitimate conversation to be had about the modern state of Israel, its policies and those of its successive governments, and the impact they have had on the lives and identity of Palestinians.Yesterday's motion is not that conversation. It is a blunt tool that does the opposite of encouraging legitimate debate. It alienates Jews regardless of their views on the conflict or on Israel more widely, and it hands ammunition to those who want to paint all pro-Palestinian activism as illegitimate.

Instead of focusing the discussion on the real issues at hand: dispossession, violence and deep insecurity, the conversation has yet again been reduced to a war of words that will change nothing.

Yachad will continue to work to build the conditions for policy change that makes a real difference on the ground. Yesterday's motion has only made that work harder.
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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You can support net zero, LGBTQ+ rights and a Palestinian state. But if you attend a synagogue or partake in almost any aspect of communal Jewish life, the Green Party now considers you a racist.
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Jewishness itself is now the offence
The Green Party votes to say “Zionism is racism”
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sultan did send financial aid to Ireland during the Famine. But Turkish historian Murat R. Şiviloğlu clarified that there is no evidence the Sultan sent relief ships to Drogheda. Same time,Ottomans were suppressing rebellions amid massacres of Christian communities www.independent.ie/sport/soccer...
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‘We were like rock stars’ — How a bond forged during the Famine brought Drogheda United to Turkey
League of Ireland side receives heroes’ welcome as a long-awaited meeting with sister club Trabzonspor finally comes to fruition
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The full story? AIG Ireland marketing manager John Gillick made a formal complaint at Coolock garda station, after it emerged that a large amount of extreme antisemitic content had been posted from his personal X account @jfederations.bsky.social @counterhate.com www.independent.ie/business/iri...
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Garda probe continues after senior AIG Ireland executive’s X account posts extreme antisemitic content
Marketing manager made formal complaint to gardaí that his account had been hacked
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mess of a press conference today, but @liberation.fr misses out that Irish sports corrs have beem harassing Irish team, and putting them under pressure not to play Israel - team decided to play the games #COYBIG #IRLVISR www.liberation.fr/sports/footb...
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Tensions entre les équipes d’Irlande et d’Israël : quand Gaza s’invite dans la Ligue des nations
Après un premier match tendu que les Irlandais ont un temps voulu boycotter en raison de la situation dans l’enclave palestinienne, les deux équipes s’affrontent à nouveau ce dimanche en Serbie dans u...
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How the media cesspit dragged Irish football into hell - how Irish sports journos turned against the Irish soccer team, and fans? No, more of the usual www.independent.ie/sport/soccer...
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Aidan Fitzmaurice: How the social media cesspit dragged Irish football into hell
On the pitch, the glass-half-empty take on this international window is that Ireland have dropped five points from a position from which they should have picked up more. The flip side is that they hav...
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Prof David Farrell, UCD @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chief Rabbi: All the good that might have come from Ireland v Israel has been lost www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Chief Rabbi: All the good that might have come from Ireland v Israel has been lost
The Israeli squad includes a number of Palestinian citizens of Israel. This fact has barely been mentioned in the extensive Irish media coverage
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
INNOVATION Mapping manuscripts: A data-driven approach to early modern poetry networks www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/e...
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Mapping manuscripts: A data-driven approach to early modern poetry networks
Dr Erin A McCarthy discusses her multidisciplinary, ERC-funded project about the transmission networks of early modern English poetry.
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chief Rabbi: All the good that might have come from Ireland v Israel has been lost The Israeli squad includes a number of Palestinian citizens of Israel. This has barely been mentioned in Irish media coverage www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Chief Rabbi: All the good that might have come from Ireland v Israel has been lost
The Israeli squad includes a number of Palestinian citizens of Israel. This fact has barely been mentioned in the extensive Irish media coverage
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New Dublin mural launched to celebrate and promote breastfeeding (not chestfeeding) www.independent.ie/irish-news/n...
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New Dublin mural launched to celebrate and promote breastfeeding
A new mural in Dublin’s Camden Row has been unveiled to mark National Breastfeeding Week.
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aine-lawlor.bsky.social @aine-lawlor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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State of Affairs
News Podcast · Aine Lawlor & Chris Donoghue team up to bring you State of Affairs on Irish and international politics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Protests encouraged by sports corrs in @rte.ie @irishtimes.com @irishindosport.bsky.social @thejournal.ie prove only a minor interruption as Aviva chooses to focus on football #COYBIG www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Protests prove only a minor interruption as Aviva chooses to focus on football
After fraught forecasts, the night belonged to Troy Parrott until the game slipped away from Ireland against Austria
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Paradonna lights up the Aviva with a twisty, turny, dribbly, nutmeggy piece of art Fairly pathetic @sport.rte.ie 'But Joanne told us at the break that the Stop the Game people said that would be the end of their protests' www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Paradonna lights up the Aviva with a twisty, turny, dribbly, nutmeggy piece of art
The pundits swooned over Ireland’s first-half performance, but Austria recovered in the second half to ruin the good vibes
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Rediscovery Centre @rediscoveryctr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Got something in need of repair? Bring your broken bikes, furniture or textiles and learn to fix them with our experts this Saturday in Ballymun! Book your FREE spot on our website now! ow.ly/e0k550ZTrSN This event is kindly supported by Dublin City Council.
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sports journos from @irishtimes.com continue the hype Fans’ reaction at Aviva Stadium could make Ireland players think again about Israel match #COYBIG www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Fans’ reaction at Aviva Stadium could make Ireland players think again about Israel match
Protest group plan demonstration to ‘let the players know they betrayed the people of Ireland’
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
Mature oak trees with bare branches in an autumn woodland
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a lucky escape
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Peronism? Will look out for it
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don't turn your performative anger against Irish players and FAI staff @social-democrats.bsky.social support civil society peace groups in Palestine and Israel, there are over 100 - ALLMEP
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Arya Satheesh invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades, an 18-year-old student from Letterkenny in County Donegal, Ireland, has spent the past couple of years studying microplastics. www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...
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This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades
Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution
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Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) @dri.ie · 28/09/2026
Join us on Friday, October 2nd for a full day event focused on the importance of Ireland's cultural heritage sector in shaping a European values-based AI ecosystem. There are still a few in-person places left! 🪑 Can't attend in Dublin? View the morning livestream ▶️ Register: dri.ie/events/winds...
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Animals, which blabbers and stumbles and tortures for a backside-numbing 190 minutes,is an unusual swing for the Abbey,the folks in charge should always welcome new ideas and new challenges.But this is an insufferable mess,the emperor’s new clothes of Irish theatre www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
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Animals review: Pretentious and exhausting adaptation of Blindboy Boatclub’s short stories is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen on an Irish stage
Abbey Theatre, Dublin, until November 7
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Article to follow next week, see you Friday.
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Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) @dri.ie · 30/09/2026
Great Billy, thank you!
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look out for my article in @irish-tech-news.bsky.social on this event on Friday at @ria.ie Winds of Change: Ireland's Cultural Heritage Sector and Public AI - Irish Museums Association @irishmuseums.bsky.social @europeana.bsky.social @dri.ie share.google/axp2JbCB66rY...
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Winds of Change: Ireland's Cultural Heritage Sector and Public AI - Irish Museums Association
In-person registration has now fully opened for 'Winds of Change: Ireland's Cultural Heritage Sector and Public AI', a collaborative event jointly organised by the Digital Repository of Ireland, the I...
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Half a million viewers tuned into Ireland v Israel game on RTÉ despite controversy Plus 230,000 views on the RTÉ Player #COYBIG www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
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Half a million viewers tuned into Ireland v Israel game on RTÉ despite controversy
Coverage has received more than 230,000 views on the RTÉ Player
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Damn, invasive Harlequin ladybird in the garden Harlequin ladybird (Harmonia axyridis) is an invasive, non-native insect species that is established in parts of Ireland and poses a serious threat to native biodiversity.
Photo of black and red ladybird in green  Coriander leaves
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The murky story of Manchester City and 115 charges www.bbc.com/sport/extra/...
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The story of Manchester City and 115 charges
The story of Manchester City and 115 charges
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jack Moylan’s scintillating start to his Ireland football career makes him hard to ignore www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Jack Moylan’s scintillating start to his Ireland career makes him hard to ignore
Kiss emoji from Palestinian teammate adds another layer to a surreal international window
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The murky story of Manchester City and 115 charges www.bbc.com/sport/extra/...
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The story of Manchester City and 115 charges
The story of Manchester City and 115 charges
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Damn, invasive Harlequin ladybird in the garden Harlequin ladybird (Harmonia axyridis) is an invasive, non-native insect species that is established in parts of Ireland and poses a serious threat to native biodiversity.
Photo of black and red ladybird in green  Coriander leaves
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Reluctant" Éirígí member (!) and Garvaghy Road resistance point man Breandán Mac Cionnaith rises to Drumcree challenge No. No. No to mediation? www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Reluctant Garvaghy Road resistance point man Breandán Mac Cionnaith rises to Drumcree challenge
‘Nobody saw this coming. I never thought we’d see this again. It’s like we’ve woken from a bad dream’
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Half a million viewers tuned into Ireland v Israel game on RTÉ despite controversy Plus 230,000 views on the RTÉ Player #COYBIG www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
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Half a million viewers tuned into Ireland v Israel game on RTÉ despite controversy
Coverage has received more than 230,000 views on the RTÉ Player
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My essay from Metz, the final day of the France trip. Leo preached against revenge in the cathedral, then used the flight home to push back on Nvidia’s chief over AI regulation and call Germany’s far-right religion “not an authentic expression of Christianity.”
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“It Is Not True That Those Who Seek Revenge Are Stronger” — Pope Leo XIV Ends His France Journey in Metz
Hours after preaching against revenge, the first American pope pushed back on Nvidia’s chief over AI regulation and called Germany’s far-right religion “not an authentic expression of Christianity.”
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look out for my article in @irish-tech-news.bsky.social on this event on Friday at @ria.ie Winds of Change: Ireland's Cultural Heritage Sector and Public AI - Irish Museums Association @irishmuseums.bsky.social @europeana.bsky.social @dri.ie share.google/axp2JbCB66rY...
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Winds of Change: Ireland's Cultural Heritage Sector and Public AI - Irish Museums Association
In-person registration has now fully opened for 'Winds of Change: Ireland's Cultural Heritage Sector and Public AI', a collaborative event jointly organised by the Digital Repository of Ireland, the I...
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pope LEO pushed back on Nvidia’s chief over AI regulation and called Germany’s far-right religion “not an authentic expression of Christianity" by @christopherjhale.bsky.social www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/it-is-not-...
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“It Is Not True That Those Who Seek Revenge Are Stronger” — Pope Leo XIV Ends His France Journey in Metz
Hours after preaching against revenge, the first American pope pushed back on Nvidia’s chief over AI regulation and called Germany’s far-right religion “not an authentic expression of Christianity.”
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Only two EU countries tax diesel more heavily than Belgium Not Ireland, Italy and Malta www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2338...
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Only two EU countries tax diesel more heavily than Belgium
According to the Commission’s calculations, 42.5% of the average price per litre paid by diesel drivers in Belgium last week went towards various government taxes.
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not sure about that, but I know what you mean.
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I see harassment of players and FAI continues in @irishtimes.com, sports corrs have led the charge #COYBIG www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Gavin Cooney: Long week ahead as Ireland brace for emotional fan reaction at Aviva Stadium
FAI unlikely to make any significant noises about second Israel fixture until home match against Austria out of the way
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
28 days to E-DAY. At least once a day, we'll share a term related to Israeli elections. If you listen to Unholy regularly, you probably heard these before. Follow us to get the 101 on Israeli elections.
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sam McBride: As Michelle O’Neill behaves like a medieval monarch, flouting courts she’s bound to respect, Stormont is lurching towards collapse www.independent.ie/comment/opin...
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Sam McBride: As Michelle O’Neill behaves like a medieval monarch, flouting courts she’s bound to respect, Stormont is lurching towards collapse
O’Neill’s view of her power akin to that of Richard Nixon, and has profoundly disturbing implications in other areas
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Surely Mark was in it for the money too? (& must listen to podcast)
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