Reposted by Bookaneer808Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.theguardian.com/music/commen...theguardian.comEd Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the hollowness of neutralityBy standing behind support act Macklemore, who was removed from the tour for his vocal support of Palestine, these artists are demonstrating the self-sacrifice necessary to stand against those crushin... 11314
Reposted by Bookaneer808Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Damn 🔥 Ed’s dead baby, Ed’s dead. #EdSheeran 727828
Reposted by Bookaneer808Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ha ha ha Ed you cowardly hypocritical loser. 14887115
Reposted by Bookaneer808M. G. Leonard @mglnrd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Attack of the Sea Dogs is OUT TODAY! Climb aboard Sir Francis Drake’s ship and sail into a Tudor adventure with the TIME KEYS. 🔥 Stunning illustrations throughout by the incredible @manuelsumberac Grab a copy NOW! www.waterstones.com/book/attack-... 063
Reposted by Bookaneer808Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just watching RTÉ Investigates and my first thought when I see the ethics guy is “I know those eyes, but it couldn’t be”. It is. 33210
Reposted by Bookaneer808TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 16/09/2026Unpaywalled version of the story. This kind of abuse is so common that in the US it's called "running a plate for a date". www.rte.ie/news/courts/... 2159
Reposted by Bookaneer808James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Have a read of this. Great scoop, obviously, but it’s also an absolute masterclass in how to report on these jokers. Plenty of London-based hacks could learn a lot from Martin Shipton here. If they actually wanted to… nation.cymru/news/the-new...nation.cymruThe new leader of Reform UK Wales lives in Bath, not WalesMartin Shipton The newly appointed leader of Reform UK in Wales hasn’t moved back to his home town in the Valleys, but has bought a £1m house near Bath, we can reveal. Dan Thomas, the former Conservat... 971514678
Reposted by Bookaneer808Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Big thanks to Vivienne of @dubray-books.bsky.social for selecting PROJECT DINOSAUR: TOP SECRET! as August children’s 5+ book of the month! Between Max Porter and Cecilia Ahern is a nice place to be! Photos taken in the Rathmines branch 182
Reposted by Bookaneer808Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 03/09/2026Not going to lie, this is very cool. 3964
Reposted by Bookaneer808Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The urge became too strong. 39706174
Reposted by Bookaneer808Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The Bake Is Back!! GBBO starts again on the 22nd of September on @channel4tv.bsky.social! And in the US it’s the 25th of September on @netflix.com, though I’m afraid I don’t know the dates/networks for other countries yet. 3893781
Reposted by Bookaneer808Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"With a climate disaster now upon us, the imperative to change our policies, to redesign our systems, and to take on vested economic interests, has never been so clear." www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...irishtimes.comSetting the Land Free: Visions of a Rewilded Ireland – an urgent manifesto for living with natureIn his follow-up to An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, Eoghan Daltun shows how policy shifts in land managment could work in practice across Ireland 114335
Reposted by Bookaneer808Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport. 164115643180
Reposted by Bookaneer808Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 18/08/2026After another sold-out week, the @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social has extended the run for our film An Irish Atlantic Rainforest. *Again!!* 39019
Reposted by Bookaneer808Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 18/08/2026For over 35 minutes, we had a great discussion on Mooney Goes Wild of my 17-year journey rewilding a Beara Peninsula farm, covering such disparate subjects as Irish rainforests, lynx reintro, flooding, drought, and much more. Listen back here (from around 20 min.) www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...rte.ieMooney Goes Wild Monday August 17th 2026Mooney Goes Wild Monday August 17th 2026 04111
Reposted by Bookaneer808Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 28/07/2026Imagine my surprise when finding promised social homes on Daft.ie 🙃 140 apartments which should have been public homes now being advertised for €2400-4500 per monthindependent.ieDeal for 140 Dublin social homes falls through as €4,500 rental ads appear onlineA total of 140 social homes slated for Dublin 9 are instead appearing online for rent privately for up to €4,500 a month. 37865
Reposted by Bookaneer808Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Please sign this UK government petition to compel AI companies to reveal whose books they used to train their data petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training dataWe ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e... 5192172
Reposted by Bookaneer808London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/07/2026Sorry! We’re having some technical issues and our engineers are working on it. Listen to Emily Wilson on the podcast in the interim: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/nola...podcasts.apple.comNolan v. HomerPodcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · July 26 · 52m 0171
Reposted by Bookaneer808The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 14/07/2026Data centres in a heatwave: heaping demand on stretched electric grid during climate crisisirishtimes.comData centres in a heatwave: heaping demand on stretched electric grid during climate crisisSoaring temperatures lead to rising use of air conditioning to keep servers cool, exacerbating the heat outside 185
Reposted by Bookaneer808Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Please link to the report on the ground! The Portland Press Herald is doing great work (they're still updating), and citing where we're getting info from matters. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...pressherald.comLive updates: ICE agents involved in shooting of Biddeford man were not wearing body cameras, King saysProtests are growing after a man identified as a 26-year-old from Colombia was fatally shot. Immigration advocates say he was authorized to work in the U.S. 4466154
Reposted by Bookaneer808Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE. 10706503120329
Reposted by Bookaneer808Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I'd very much appreciate it if you took a moment to read the alt text on this. www.tom-cox.com 24638162
Reposted by Bookaneer808Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 08/07/2026When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted". 681864435
Reposted by Bookaneer808murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026“Think about it. Most Americans voted for this guy twice. The second time they knew what he was going to do. He told them beforehand” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐 1136
Reposted by Bookaneer808The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 04/07/2026Mark O'Connell: A climate event cancelled due to heat. Is there a more lurid symbol of the climate crisis?irishtimes.comMark O'Connell: A climate event cancelled due to heat. Is there a more lurid symbol of the climate crisis?The terrifying heat-map of the future is here 13218
Reposted by Bookaneer808Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026There are two East Belfast UDA paramilitary flags on lamp posts either side of the entrace to Garnerville Rd in East Belfast. Garnerville is where the PSNI training college is. The paramilitaries are showing everyone who is in charge. Policing is severerly compromised. How did we get to this? [1/n] 27850
Reposted by Bookaneer808👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 02/07/2026In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls 382218532
Reposted by Bookaneer808The Journal @thejournal.ie · 01/07/2026Stardust campaigner Bridget McDermott has died aged 89. Three of Bridget’s children - William, George and Marcella - died in the fire on Valentine’s night in 1981 in the Stardust nightclub in Artane, which claimed the lives of 48 young people in total. jrnl.ie/7086870jrnl.ieStardust campaigner Bridget McDermott, who lost three children in the tragedy, dies aged 89Bridget died oat home surrounded by her family. 0358
Reposted by Bookaneer808Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Grandpa Joe: In tellin' you. There was a werewolf who lived in Ballymena back in the day. Gerry: I don't think there was Joe. Sarah: Aye you're right Daddy. I remember him now. Eyebrows that met in the middle. Lovely fella most of the time but then he'd be an absolute nuisance once a month? 2438
Reposted by Bookaneer808Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne @rflong.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This Sunday I'm going to be at Otherworlds scifi festival with panels at 1pm "Ireland as a setting for Science Fiction" and 3pm "Fantasy in the age of AI". And I'll be around to sign books as well. Come and say hello! 078
Reposted by Bookaneer808Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 24/06/2026F*cking hell RTÉ Morning Ireland. Manage to spend 10 minutes talking about record temperatures in Paris, London etc, presenter twice says "high temperatures in X aren't usual", and not a single mention of climate change, let alone emissions. Public Service broadcasting..... 3274
Reposted by Bookaneer808Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21/06/2026There is no evidence puberty blockers are harmful to kids. There is plenty of evidence trans kids die if they don't get them. Labour banned them. 141459326
Reposted by Bookaneer808Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 13/06/2026My Q&A with Chris Haughton: ‘Children’s books are underappreciated in general. It’s short-sighted’ The new Laureate na nÓg on inspiring hope, combating injustice, and his upcoming court appearance www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...irishtimes.comChris Haughton: ‘Children’s books are underappreciated in general. It’s short-sighted’The new Laureate na nÓg on inspiring hope, combating injustice, and his upcoming court appearance 1104
Reposted by Bookaneer808Ray Cunningham @ray-cunningham.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Crumlin & Walkinstown History Festival 2026 will take place this year on Saturday 27th June, 2-5pm in St. Agnes Parish Centre, Crumlin. 044
Reposted by Bookaneer808David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share. 8309540
Reposted by Bookaneer808President of Ireland @president.ie · 16/06/2026Congratulations to Roberto ‘Pico’ Lopes on his outstanding performance for Cape Verde in yesterday’s World Cup match against Spain and best of luck to Pico and the team for the rest of the tournament. 2708
Reposted by Bookaneer808Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Israeli settlers destroy sole water pipeline serving Umm Safa village in occupied West Bankmiddleeastmonitor.comIsraeli settlers destroy sole water pipeline serving Umm Safa village in occupied West BankIsraeli settlers on Monday damaged the only water pipeline supplying the village of Umm Safa in the central occupied West Bank. Local sources told Anadolu Agency that settlers destroyed the village… 32539
Reposted by Bookaneer808Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation. 182203275467
Reposted by Bookaneer808Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Today marks nine years since the Grenfell Tower fire. Nine years without justice. 72 people lost their lives in a tragedy that was entirely preventable. And yet not one person has faced criminal accountability. Not one prosecution. Not one conviction. Not one person behind bars. 11298143
Reposted by Bookaneer808Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Thread: Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) was one of England’s greatest painters as well as a populariser of the art of landscape. He was a character in every sense & repays study big time! Here is a picture of his beloved daughters. Let’s explore this character’s work! [1] 15410
Reposted by Bookaneer808The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 05/06/2026Acclaimed French-Iranian author, artist and film director Marjane Satrapi has died aged 56. 👇ebx.shPersepolis author Marjane Satrapi dies aged 56 142
Reposted by Bookaneer808Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Love this video from @powells.bsky.social featuring @nan69.bsky.social, who has hand-sold so many books over the years for so many authors. 1138359
Reposted by Bookaneer808Limerick Literary Festival @limericklitfest.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Read Irish Women Challenge 2026 Day 30: Your next #RIWC26 read - The Hotel Guest by Rosemary Hennigan #readirishwomenchallenge #irishwriters #femalewriter #readmorebooks @bookaneer808.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Bookaneer808Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 10/05/2026In THE ORB OF CAIRADO - the latest instalment in @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's the world of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR - a disgraced scholar tries to clear his name but stumbles on murder, death-trapped tombs and ancient artifacts! Buy our signed, limited-run special edition novella geni.us/orbcairado 2325
Reposted by Bookaneer808Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026All Hail Chaos, book 2 in the Time of Iron series, is out May 12 and book 3 is out July 2027. So we thought you guys might like to know the title… I called the book that because Imma do it. Trust me, I’m telling you stories. #booksky 2619850
Reposted by Bookaneer808Bookaneer808 @bookaneer808.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Day 30 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 & I'm dying to see what everyone is planning to read next! So now to what our Rathmines booksellers are planning to read - list in alt text I've picked these two books The Red Mouth by Sheila Armstrong & Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa #RIWC26 #speirgorm 011