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Celia Keenan

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A warm reception for both Mary and Padraic Colum at Granard Community Library Longford as part of the 'Padraic Colum Gathering'. Beautiful readings and discussions. Special thanks to wonderful team at Glanard Library, guest speaker Chair of Poetry Vona Grourke and our author Margaret Kelleher 👏👏
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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Red-billed Chough, Ballycotton. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026
Chough in grass, showing its red beak.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is an inexplicable vote by Regina Doherty, Nina Carberry, Seán Kelly Barry Andrews, Barry Cowen, Billy Kelleher Ciaran Mullooly
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Paul Singh 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @paulsingh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When are the government going to proscribe ’Patriot Platform’ as a terrorist organisation & not treat it as a protest group? And who is funding these organisations?Because there’s a reasonable chance that they are being funded by both the Russian government & far right organisations based in the US
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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fixed that for you, BBC.
Racist gang forces its way into a hotel and threatens a group of teenagers
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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sandwich Tern arriving with a sprat for its chick - they’re on a feeding stopover at Ballycotton in preparation for the long migration south. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Ballycotton
Young Sandwich Tern on the water with an adult flying towards it carrying a sprat.
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Roxy Hart @roxyhart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It’s weird how you just know these were people who didn’t wear masks during the pandemic
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa... @uplift.ie
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Save Our Postal Depots!
Local communities rely on An Post to deliver accessible services. Currently, there are three Delivery Service Units (DSUs) in Dublin South Central, located at Dolphin's Barn, Crumlin, and Ballyfermot...
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We need a new word for that particular type of stupidity where you blindly trust generative AI without even the most basic check on its output.
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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Greater White-toothed Shrew in our garden.
Small shrew in grass
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @uplift.ie
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Visa for Gaza students
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/su... @uplift.ie
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Support Ireland’s monitoring of Germany’s “show trial” against the Ulm 5!
  Who’s really on trial here: The Ulm 5 - or German justice?  Family and loved ones of the Ulm 5 ask you to bring attention to this trial.  Please sign the petition! If you care about...
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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Coal Tit chick #Birds
Fluffy Coal Tit chick perched on a sprig of New Zealand Flax
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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Obverse and Reverse ... Barn Swallow #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026
Barn Swallow Barn Swallow
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Happy Bloomsday
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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The lovely female Red-footed Falcon on the Cooley peninsula, Co. Louth 10/06/26 #Birds #RareBirds #BirdsSeenIn2026
Small falcon perched in a tree.
Small falcon perched in a tree.
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/tr... @uplift.ie
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Transparency, Fairness and Public Consultation in the Closure and Transfer of Carlow College
On 19th May, the staff and students of St. Patrick’s College in Carlow, along with the wider community, were devastated to hear of the planned closure of Carlow College. While the merger with SETU had...
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
For Bloomsday ‘26 in Dublin 8.
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 29/05/2026
“A logistical near-miracle,” the Washington National Opera’s production of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha “was also an artistic triumph and a political vindication.” —Larry Wolff
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Opera in Ragged Times | Larry Wolff
During the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s second presidency, while he was devastating American society with mass deportations and shredding the
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The personal toll the slashing and burning of large parts of the Higher Education sector, especially in Arts and Humanities, in Britain and now the North of Ireland on our colleagues should not be underestimated. This is horrendous but grimly unsurprising.
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pa... @uplift.ie
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Pass the Sanctions Against the State of Israel Bill
Dear Deputies, We call on you to vote in favour of the Sanctions Against the State of Israel Bill 2026 when it comes before the Dáil.  The bill is being proposed by Richard Boyd Barrett (People ...
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I remember when a radio station in the US contacted Annie Lennox in 2017, offering to promote her, thinking she was a young up-and-comer, but *this* is in another league.
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy Mayday
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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Woodchat Shrike at Ballymacart, Co. Waterford today - it was very nice to get such good views of this rare vagrant. #Birds #RareBirds #BirdsSeenIn2026
Woodchat Shrike perched on a bramble, showing its characteristic bandit-like black face mask
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Lilac Time
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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Male Stonechat, Ballycotton #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026
Stonechat perched on a small twig
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Miriam Lord on the Healy Rae’s and MHR departure from Government 😂 “Sure they were going since the day they came in,” shrugged a Government backbencher in the aftermath, before waspishly adding: “They said they would support the Government through thick and thin – now thick and thin have departed.”
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In case anyone hasn’t seen them in person, quite a few of the trucks on O’Connell street are covered in tricolours and it’s not because they support the women’s soccer team. The “take back our country” placard doesn’t mean “from the grey squirrels”.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.” #cdnpoli
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
time.com/article/2026...
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Iranian President Pens Open Letter to American People
The leader appealed to the American public to “look beyond” what he characterized as “the machinery of misinformation” amid the war in his country.
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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hunting Kestrel, East Cork. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026
Common Kestrel in flight.
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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The blue of the night (no filter). Looking out from Portmarnock. Howth on the right, like a night ferry. Dots of light at sea from the fishing boats looking for razor clams.
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
That sheep may safely laze and donkeys safely gaze. Farmleigh Dublin.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“We have an administration in the United States which is flooding the atmosphere with lies, not in order to be believed, but to confuse, to confuse that there is no truth,” Mary Robinson said. “Truth is our relations with each other ... we must flourish together.”
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Trump administration ‘flooding the atmosphere with lies’, Mary Robinson says
Former president tells Belfast rally marking International Women’s Day that ‘undermining of the rule of law’ is very worrying for the world
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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 06/03/2026
I wrote a book called Nature’s Acre — an Irish garden memoir about wildlife, community, and making a place where life can grow. If that sounds like your kind of book, I’d love you to read it. And if you’d share this, I’d be very grateful. 🌱 #climateaction #spéirgorm gardeningwell.ie/natures-acre
The cover of my book :  nature’s acre: an Irish garden memoir of making a place where life grows.
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Sunshine at Last
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
My response to the Minister - and his suggestion that universities compress lectures into fewer days so students commute less. No way he’d agree for affordable and available student housing so students could have the full third level experience! #spéirgorm
Headline - students deserve more than a hollowed out student experience
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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Vermilion Flycatcher, Ecuador. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026
Striking looking Flycatcher with bright red body plumage, perched on a twig.
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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
'Here in Ireland, in Europe and further afield, we are witnessing a deregulatory agenda cloaked in the language of simplification. Across the world, right-wing political forces are working to dismantle decades of environmental and social progress.' www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Rolling back environmental regulation is the ultimate act of self-harm
Across the world, right-wing political forces are working to dismantle decades of environmental and social progress, writes Ciaran Brennan
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Celia Keenan @chkeenan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Revealed: Private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank
Exclusive: Luxury aircraft owned by property tycoon close to US president’s family has twice flown Palestinian men from Arizona to Tel Aviv
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
According to Reporters Without Borders, in 2025, Ireland was ranked 7th in the world for freedom of the press. The United States was ranked 57th. So we’ll be taking no complaints about censorship from US politicians, thanks. #SpeirGorm rsf.org/en
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Reporters sans frontières assure la promotion et la défense de la liberté d'informer et d'être informé partout dans le monde. L'organisation, basée à Paris, compte des bureaux à l'international (Berli...
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
They . . . they know where the United States borders are, don't they? I'd imagine it's important for their job. www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/...
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ICE agents from US set to help with security at Winter Olympics in Italy
The 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics are set to begin on February 6, with shock at the late news of ICE involvement.
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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Got my son a book of interesting maps including this one, which is handy for settling and/or starting arguments, whether around the Christmas dinner table or online.
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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Another lapsed civil service Christmas tradition (along with the Christmas shopping half day – RIP) is the practice of bringing your kids. into the office to show them your workmates, office, sweets in the top drawer of your desk. The wife/husband would come too. Quite the reveal on both sides.
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Liz Nolan @lizlyricfm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
... and a very blingy Christmas from the #FullScore team! Myself & @lindamcglynnoconnor (pictured) & producer Áine Fay (making the magic happen elsewhere) would like to thank you for your company on the complete classical experience- here's to a new year of great maaterworks! @rtelyricfm 🤶🎄🎁
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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Well that was an absolute joy. Thanks to Maggie O'Farrell and Chloé Zhao for being such warm, giving, interesting interviewees in front of a packed screen one this afternoon. Thanks to everyone at the @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social for asking me to host...
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Artist, member of Cumann na mBan, revolutionary and an Irish Jewish woman - rename that park after the wonderful Estella Solomons #speirgorm jewishmuseum.ie/jews-of-irel...
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Estella Solomons – Irish Jewish Museum
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
You would think that someone with a degree in history would understand that renaming a park cannot and will not erase any history of any community or group, similarly to how the taking down statues of slavers has not erased the history of slavery! #speirgorm
Statement from the Taoiseach condemning the denaming of Herzog Pk saying it would erase the history of Jewish people in Ireland
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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Polite public announcement: I'm taking an extended break from reviewing books in order to rebalance my workload and focus on my writing. Publisher/PR people: best not to send me proofs. Likewise, blurb requests. I have always tried to be supportive but I need to read for my own writing now. 🙏
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I’d never have guessed.
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