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The Blue Light Smugglers

@bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social
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Country bluegrass harmony band that originated as a resident combo in the Blue Light Pub. Now almost nationwide. Ireland’s favourite contraband.

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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
At the Theatre!
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Albumism @albumism.com · 27/07/2026
Hope and strength to Carly Simon as she navigates these health challenges.
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Carly Simon reveals Parkinson's diagnosis
The singer also reveals she has received treatment for skin cancer, but vows to keep singing.
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
You take a selfie. No, I’ll take a selfie. No you.
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Luke meets the President
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A great day at Arás an Uachtaráin with President #CatherineConnolly
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Blue Light Smugglers are playing at 8 pm at the Hard Rock Cafe (downstairs ) on Saturday night, June 13. Ireland’s favourite contraband and some rock and roll legends on a Saturday night
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 06/06/2026
The Public Only Consultant Contract was introduced by the Government in March 2023, and it signalled the coming end of private practice in public hospitals. However, specialists in maternity care claim it will mean that private maternity care will gradually disappear
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Rotunda facing questions amid phasing out of private care
The Public Only Consultant Contract was introduced by the Government in March 2023, and it signalled the coming end of private practice in public hospitals.
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
thebluelightsmugglers.bandcamp.com/track/a-day-... For the day that’s in it…
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A Day in May, by The Blue Light Smugglers
from the album Record
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Irish Medical Times @irishmedicaltimes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
www.imt.ie/opinion/comm... “If you’ve told a child a thousand times and the child has still not learned, then it’s not the child that is a slow learner”
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Ghosts in the Machine
Ireland’s historic relationship with alcohol, romanticised in folklore and lubricated by commerce, has produced a crisis hidden in plain sight, writes Terence Cosgrave
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
bsky.app/profile/math...
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“The quickest way to kill the love you have for something is to do it for a living” - Doc Watson
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/03/2026
NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We’re playing in O’Connell’s Bar in Howth on Sunday at 9 pm at the #allshuckedup Oyster Festival this weekend #bluegrass
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Dayum. Just heard a minister say, as perhaps only Black ministers can, “We will fight until hell freezes over, and then we will fight on the ice.” I’m stealing that!!
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
#BREAKING #SCOTUS blocks President Trump's tariffs.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 19/02/2026
Ireland should embrace Uber and other ride-hailing apps to increase options, says watchdog
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Ireland should embrace Uber and other ride-hailing apps to increase options, says watchdog
New research from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission highlights ‘supply shortage’ in taxi sector
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Ted Lieu says the full, unreleased Epstein files show Donald Trump r**ing children.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/02/2026
Trump, Musk and now UK billionaire Jim Ratcliffe – they are the enablers, making racists feel great again | Jonathan Freedland
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Trump, Musk and now UK billionaire Jim Ratcliffe – they are the enablers, making racists feel great again | Jonathan Freedland
With their profile and vile words, these malign provocateurs are tearing down decency’s guardrails, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
@dennisgoris.bsky.social
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Lord Jeffrey of Nottingham #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇬🇱 @onemoregoodman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The world is burning, polar ice is melting, sea levels are rising, air pollution is killing millions worldwide... and the most ignorant anti-science president in US history is going to make it worse for all of us, not just for Americans.
bbc.co.uk
Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
People keep debating whether Epstein is more tied to Russia or Israel without understanding it's the same people: dual Russia/Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. The modern roots of this operation, going back to the 1980s, are detailed in the excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT below.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 04/02/2026
Milan prosecutors placed an elderly Italian man under investigation as part of an investigation into alleged "sniper tourism" in Sarajevo in the 1990s, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said reut.rs/4rwKBr8
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Italy probes 80-year-old over alleged Sarajevo 'sniper tourism'
Milan prosecutors have placed an elderly Italian man under investigation as part of an investigation into alleged "sniper tourism" in Sarajevo in the 1990s, two sources with direct knowledge of the ma...
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
‘E’s been ‘ampered #johnvirgo
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Rule of law…be dammed! 🤣
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
What you can do right now to end ICE indivisible.org
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Indivisible
Indivisible is a nationwide movement of millions of people working to stop the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and to demand a real democracy. We believe that politics is too important t...
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?... Bruce tells it like it is
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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john whitehouse @existentialfish.com · 27/01/2026
greg bovino next to stalin, in an image from stalin era infamous for removing the person where bovino is standing
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The Fox News response to the federal government execution of Alex Pretti sets a new level of depravity: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
Fox News once postured as the patriotic opposition to purported government tyranny.
Right now, its primary purpose is to explain to viewers why it is good that masked agents of the state are executing Americans on the street.
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Asked how thing were going in #Minnesota Stephen Miller replied: #Pretti #Good
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#allshuckedup #Howth
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
“The United States government under Trump has made a deliberate, calculated, and shameful decision to embolden and enable Nazi-glorifying elements within his party; to elevate and amplify Nazi messaging” My latest for the Guardian, and I bring receipts:
theguardian.com
The Trump administration has a Nazi problem | Mehdi Hasan
Think I’m exaggerating? Consider the copious amounts of evidence
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/01/2026
"Each bird species has its own unique 'song,' such as 'Bad Medicine' by Bon Jovi (mountain starlings), 'Wanted Dead or Alive' by Bon Jovi (grey hornbills), and 'You Give Love a Bad Name' by Bon Jovi (fan-tailed warblers)."
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Everything We Currently Know About Birds
Birds. Most people just know them as those loud things that are always flapping around the sky like jackasses, but there’s actually much more to th...
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11/01/2026
At a church in Minneapolis that is hosting an anti-ICE singing vigil, which will later process through the neighborhood. They sing: “This is for our neighbors who are locked inside, together we will abolish ICE.”
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Braille amp win 🎸🤘
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, wehave effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I really wish newsreaders would call the child rapist ‘Windsor’ or ‘Windsor Mountbatten’ instead of ‘Andrew’. He’s a pleb like the rest of us now. Grovelling dies hard.
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
RIP
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NPR @npr.org · 26/11/2025
One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today. n.pr/4iiYWUG
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At 100 years old, the Grand Ole Opry is the keeper of country music's legacy
One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today.
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Also there was Jeff Bezos, the Post’s owner who six years ago attended a memorial for the slain Jamal Khashoggi outside the consulate in Istanbul. -The Irish Times on the Whitehouse dinner to honour the Saudi prince MBS
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Fair play to #Channel4 for interviewing the widow of Jamal Khashoggi on the day his murderer, MBS is being feted in Washington
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Luke in Kerry moonlight
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Setting up in Kerry
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025 Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out
As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.
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The Blue Light Smugglers @bluelightsmugglers.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We’re playing in the Harbour Bar in Bray tomorrow night (Friday 26th) at 9.30 pm
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