Sign in

Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪

@brownekelly.bsky.social
292 followers 442 following 58 posts

🇮🇪 #speirgorm🔰 Living the dream in North Kerry

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
mollycad.bsky.social @mollycad.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
After a video call with her husband on Sunday night – their first in 5 months – Smyth told Culleton’s family in Ireland he had lost weight and hair and had sores and infections. “There’s no hygiene there. He’s been asking for antibiotics for the last four weeks,” his sister..told RTÉ.
001
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Radio Kerry @radiokerry.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Kerry has won nine awards at this year's Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition including the overall prize won by Aoibheann Daly of Mercy Mounthawk. The winning students attend Mercy Mounthawk, CBS The Green in Tralee, & St Michael's, Listowel. www.radiokerry.ie/news/kerry-w...
radiokerry.ie
Kerry wins nine awards at this year's Stripe Young Scientist exhibition | RadioKerry.ie
Kerry has won nine awards at this year's Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.
081
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
A #painting from a few years ago. "Listowel" is a County Kerry town I've done a few paintings of, but this particular painting came out of a time I was cycling in north Kerry and having the time of my life. Mind you in fairness whenever I'm in north Kerry I have the time of my life. #art #SpeirGhorm
Landscape format loosely painted in acrylics on canvas. Row of nine 3-storey brightly coloured buildings on left side of square (near to far being tangerine, fawn, pink, brown, turquoise, blue, peach, green, blue and grey) with different coloured shopfronts. Paved area in front of buildings is canary yellow and dotted with decorative trees which a narrow trunk up to a small clump of foliage, black underneath with dots of bright green and yellow at their tops and sides. Road with black surface runs through centre of square from packed car park at top down to bottom where, upside-down to viewer, STOP is written in white on surface at t-junction. Beyond cars at far end of square is beginning of another row of bright buildings (pink, orange, green). Planters, metal bollards, and yellow lines are along edge of road. Roofs are dark blues. Sky is dramatically cloudy and bright, rendered in blotchy yellows, ochres, with tints of greens and oranges. Signed bottom left in yellow on black road surface, Liam Daly
1485
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“China isn’t just building gigantic amounts of power; its businesses are reshaping technological foundations to electrify the world.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is Obsessed With Oil, but Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World
03214
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Steve @steveuntilnextyear.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation
The front of a nail salon called "Nail Shop Near Me"
201745399
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Russian attacks across Donetsk Oblast killed four people and injured seven, including a 7-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy in Kostiantynivka. Video taken in Kostiantynivka #Ukraine #UkrainianView
109256
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Shazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Cork Mural Sparks Nationwide Conversation on Immigration and Irish Identity. Cork students paint 50m mural quoting James Connolly on Sullivan's Quay. Source: Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign (on Facebook) #SpeirGorm
A photo of a mural painted in Cork, Ireland. Painted by students in Cork using a quote from James Connolly. The quote reads: "Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner, he may hit his own clan", Pictured is a long white wall with darker coloured text. There is a landscape of buildings in the background including a church spire on the right. with a grey coloured road area to the front of the photo.
1166
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
#speirgorm #irish #diaspora
010
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
дика тигрюля з дикого мєда 🇺🇦 @taika-i-titi.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Yesterday was Holodomor Memorial Day. And I wanted to post something about it, but couldn't force myself. From all the events throughout the history when Russia tried to wipe out the whole Ukrainian nation, Holodomor remains for me as one of the most horrific, cruel and inhumane. #UkrainianView
411733
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 29/09/2025
President Trump has announced that he will place 100% tariffs on foreign-made films in a fresh blow to Britain’s film industry
thetimes.com
Trump places 100% tariff on foreign-made films
743
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
‘We’re right and you’re wrong’ Mo Chara www.irishtimes.com/video/video/...
irishtimes.com
Kneecap's Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (Mo Chara) reacts after terrorism case against him dismissed
Kneecap's Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (Mo Chara) gives a statement to the press and supporters after the terrorism case against him was thrown out. Video: Reuters
010
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/08/2025
Breaking News: As planes with children sat on a tarmac, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting dozens of Guatemalan minors and demanded assurances that they would remain in shelters until a more permanent ruling.
nyti.ms
Judge Halts U.S. Effort to Deport Guatemalan Children as Planes Sit on Tarmac
The temporary block ended another last-minute flurry of legal action over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
3037896
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Riham Jafari ActionAid said: "The time has run out for the people of Gaza. There is no time for words or statements, the time should be allocated for action” www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
rte.ie
UN-backed body confirms famine in Gaza
A UN-backed organisation has confirmed famine in Gaza, with more than 500,000 people facing "catastrophic conditions characterised by starvation, destitution and death".
010
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Katherine Thomas is playing a blinder @roseoftralee.bsky.social #speirgorm #roseoftralee 🌹🌹🌹
020
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Ballybunion sunset last night was magical #speirgorm
0110
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Journalist Anas Al-Sharif reporting from Gaza, shortly before Israel killed him tonight: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Anas Al-Sharif post shortly before his death under Israeli fire:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
37877
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
BPI News @bpinews.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, 28, has been killed alongside 3 colleagues after a tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital was hit in Gaza City. Israel accuses him of Hamas ties, which the network rejects. #Gaza
Image
001
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
theguardian.com
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
15573382836
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Listen to Oliver Callan’s interview with the amazing Irish sisters Catherine Wrightstone and Paula Fay who discuss abuse, the path to justice and recovery . www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #abuse #speirgorm
rte.ie
Sisters of former priest jailed for abusing them speak out
Catherine Wrightstone & Paula Fay on reclaiming their voices by testifying against their brother, former priest Richard Brennan, why his 8 year sentence is too lenient and their calls for judicial ref...
010
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Meanwhile, in Cork
Instagram ad for a Cork-based vasectomy clinic advertising €100 off for any Kerryman this week, followed by "We have to stop them somehow"

#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
926151
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
'Man-made mass starvation' in Gaza - WHO chief www.rte.ie/news/middle-...
rte.ie
'Man-made mass starvation' in Gaza - WHO chief
The Director-General of the World Health Organization has said that a "large proportion of the population in Gaza is starving".
000
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 21/07/2025
Twenty states filed a lawsuit Monday challenging new Trump administration rules that bar undocumented immigrants from a host of federal programs, including Head Start and career and technical education offerings.
bit.ly
States sue over rules barring undocumented immigrants from education, health programs
Twenty states filed a lawsuit Monday challenging new Trump administration rules that bar undocumented immigrants from a host of federal programs, including Head Start and career and technical education offerings.
13017
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Did Michael Flatley say he .. eh., might .. run for President of Ireland on the Brendan O Connor show? #speirgorm #thingsgettinginteresting #ireland
100
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Dizzy ★ @tindizzy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Hey. Okay. Looking for some help from the #FineArt crowd. Have this print that’s at least 35 years old and am trying to learn more about it and the artist who I think is named Paul Greene. It’s not signed in the usual place, so I’m not positive that is the artist’s name. #Art #Artsky
Print by Paul Greene (?) of a streetscape of ‘Central hotel’. Photo of artists’ signature.
4104
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
rte.ie
What happened to the golden eagles reintroduced to Co Donegal?
Two decades on, breeding success is poor and the golden eagle's future in Ireland is uncertain so what went wrong?
010
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/07/2025
People waiting for aid among dozens reported killed by Israeli forces in Gaza – Middle East crisis live
theguardian.com
People waiting for aid among dozens reported killed by Israeli forces in Gaza – Middle East crisis live
Gaza civil defence said Israeli forces killed at least 30 people on Friday Talks aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza are stalling over the extent of Israeli forces’ withdrawal from the Palestinian territory, Palestinian and Israeli sources familiar with the negotiations in Doha told Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP). The sources said the indirect talks over a US proposal for a 60-day ceasefire are expected to continue despite the latest obstacles. Delegations from both sides began discussions in Qatar last Sunday to try to agree on a temporary halt to the 21-month conflict sparked by Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. The negotiations in Doha are facing a setback and complex difficulties due to Israel’s insistence, as of Friday, on presenting a map of withdrawal, which is actually a map of redeployment and repositioning of the Israeli army rather than a genuine withdrawal. Turkey has won. Eighty-six million citizens have won. We know what we are doing. Nobody needs to worry or ask questions. We are doing all this for Turkey, for our future. Continue reading...
2210059
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Beautiful Ballybunion Beach #speirgorm #heatwave #wildatlanticway #Kerry
0110
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
rte.ie
Hillary Clinton to receive Sutherland Leadership Award
Hillary Rodham Clinton has been named as the latest recipient of the Sutherland Leadership Award.
000
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Staggering.
This is a graphic showing the location of the 58 women murdered on the island of Ireland since 2020, with pronounced clusters in the North
43131
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
CorkBeo.ie @corkbeo.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Teen missing in West Cork as Gardaí issue urgent appeal for info www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
corkbeo.ie
Teen missing in West Cork as Gardaí issue urgent appeal for info
Gardaí are concerned for the 15-year-old's welfare
002
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
CorkBeo.ie @corkbeo.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
14-year-old Liza was last seen yesterday wearing a black Adidas top and brown jeans
corkbeo.ie
Teen girl missing from Limerick city as Gardaí issue urgent appeal
14-year-old Liza's family are concerned for her wellbeing
011
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Bog snaps #speirgorm
062
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"The BBC should hang their heads in shame" for not airing the 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' film, said Gary Lineker at a screening in London tonight. Luckily, Zeteo bought the global rights to this hugely important documentary and is airing it here: gazadoctors.film
442010615
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Conor Keane @ciarraioch.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Mickey MacConnell, a true legend — songwriter, poet, lyricist, composer, columnist, journalist, balladeer, husband, and dad, has died. He lived amongst us in Listowel. Tá sé smith ar shlí na fírinne. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
rte.ie
Acclaimed songwriter Mickey MacConnell dies
The death of the writer of the popular song 'Only our rivers run free', Mickey MacConnell, has been confirmed by his family in Cork.
121
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/07/2025
TV tonight: Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary the BBC wouldn’t broadcast
theguardian.com
TV tonight: Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary the BBC wouldn’t broadcast
Ramita Navai investigates Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s hospitals in a controversial film. Plus: celebrating football hero Mary Earps. Here’s what to watch this evening
22554212
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
www.rte.ie/news/connach...
rte.ie
Innovative AI-powered tourism tool launched in Sligo
A new AI-powered itinerary planner for visitors to Yeats County, which marks a new approach in destination marketing in the northwest, has been launched by Sligo County Council.
001
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I was last there in 2018. I was in the West Bank/Ramallah/Bethlehem, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Eilat. We walked over the border from Jordan and drove from Eilat north. Saw a lot.
36412
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 22/06/2025
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said peace was now the 'only hope' www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
rte.ie
UN calls US strikes on Iran 'dangerous escalation'
Here we take a look at initial reactions after teh United States carried out attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran overnight.
83912
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
6253660411254
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
000
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Reuters @reuters.com · 03/06/2025
At least 24 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip, local health authorities said, in the latest bout of chaos and bloodshed to plague the aid operation reut.rs/4kivoGZ
reut.rs
At least 24 Palestinians killed near Gaza aid site, medics say
At least 24 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local health authorities said, in the latest bout of chaos and bloodshed to plague the aid operation.
76234
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Happy faces on Day 3 Listowel Literary Festival #LLF25 📚#books next up @johnboynebooks.bsky.social at 6.30pm #speirgorm #writersweek #blueskybooks @mairelogue.bsky.social @stjohnstheatre.bsky.social @writersweek.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org @kerrygroup.bsky.social #writers
Organisers of Listowel Literary Festival
031
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
So looking forward to my first time being part of the Listowel @writersweek.bsky.social tomorrow. Tickets in the link below. My late mother-in-law, Kathleen, was a proud Listowel woman. I dedicated Leonard and Hungry Paul to her. writersweek.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
writersweek.ticketsolve.com
Ticketbooth
2154
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Roisin Meaney 💙📚 @roisinm.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
#3goodthings (belated, sorry) 1. Great gig with @sophiegrenham.bsky.social in Listowel. Thanks to all who came. 2. Guess which bunch of bananas @mairelogue.bsky.social gave to me - and delighted I was to get them. 3. A sign outside the institution that is Woulfe's bookshop in Listowel.
An author on a stage in Listowel. An audience at an event at Writers Week.A bunch of perfectly ripe bananas in a fruit display. A sign outside Woulfe's bookshop in Listowel.
2182
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Listowel Literary Festival 2025 #LLF25 was kicked off tonight by Ned O’Sullivan to a packed room of well wishers in the Arms Hotel. 4 days of workshops, readings, poetry music, drama, and lots of chats ahead. #kerry @stjohnstheatre.bsky.social @discoverkerry.bsky.social @kerrygroup.bsky.social
010
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
NBC News @nbcnews.com · 27/05/2025
Thousands of hungry Palestinians arrive at a new aid distribution center in Gaza, after a three-month blockade by Israel that reduced aid shipments, and leave with boxes of food while Israeli soldiers fired live rounds in the air to disperse the crowds.
nbcnews.to
Hungry Gazans flood new U.S. and Israel-backed aid center
Israeli soldiers fired live ammo in bid to maintain control at the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation facility.
94633
Reposted by Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪
Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 25/05/2025
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
theguardian.com
Systems are crumbling - but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
47630
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
www.rte.ie/news/ireland... #ireland #cooleypeninsula #WW11 #history
rte.ie
Stolen World War II gear returned after online campaign
Landing gear from a World War II bomber stolen from a memorial to 15 RAF airmen killed in a crash in the Cooley Mountains in Co Louth in 1942 has been returned after a social media campaign by a local...
000
Kelly Browne 🦋 🍀 🇮🇪 @brownekelly.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Listowel Literary Festival LLF25 Co-produced by 3 local arts groups Writers Week ❤️ St John’s Theatre ❤️ Seanchaí ❤️ Tickets selling fast. Festival office in Listowel Arms Hotel during the week or visit bit.ly/4dwDd9f #speirgorm @mairelogue.bsky.social @kerrygroup.bsky.social
032