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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A lot of me doing this @ certain posts today

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 24/10/2025

The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Wait is there really no exit poll? #Aras25 😭

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Why are people still sending ‘Hey, how are you?’ slacks with no immediate follow up in the year of our lord 2025. You don’t care who I am, get to the point.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

These were the Irish ones, both pre-euro, and pre-pre-euro notes. The older ones were very large and you felt properly wealthy if you had £20. The post-1993 ones were...okay, I guess, if you like that sort of thing.

Fairly shitty bank notes from 1993 to the euro. A yellow £5 with a nun on it and a school for blind children on the back, a green £10 with noted fart-addict James Joyce and a writer if his on he back, a weird purple and green £20 with Daniel O'Connell, the great liberator, and on the back his pledge not to accept blood money from slave owners in the US even for the cause of Irish emancipation (because obviously), President Dúbhglas de híde (Douglas Hyde) on the front of the bluish grey £50 with a piper on the back (de híde was instrumental, no pun intended, in preserving the Irish language and culture), and the uncommon red and blue and yellow (mawkish) £100 had Parnell on the front and back. All the notes are bilingual with some fairly crap typographic choices.

Irish bank notes from the 1970s to 1993. The £1 and the £5 have snippets from famous Irish manuscripts on the rear and drawings of Queen Maedhbh and Jennie Scotus Eriugena. The £1 is mostly green and the £5 is sort of beigy. The purple £10 is Johnathan Swift with a map of his contemporary Dublin on the back, the blue £20 is James Joyce on the front with a chart of the Blasket Islands on the back, and the goldy £50, which I never remember seeing in person, has Toirdealbhach Ua Cearbhalláin (Turlough O'Carolan), a famous harpist and composer, with musical instruments on the back. All the notes are bilingual with some chonky 70s typography and the lower denominations beautiful medieval Irish manuscripts.

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Where are all of the “Irish patriots” now? Why aren’t they holding the same energy for these pricks? Interesting that they’re quiet when it’s their own. So I guess it’s okay for Irish men to inflict harm on women?

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

In years to come, many may ask how the world watched on as the people of Gaza starved.

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Evan @artisangossip.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A mate of mine is in Cardiff on work related jolly up to see Oasis.

Text message that reads "Cunts in bucket hats everywhere."

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Going back over old posts and I just want to say that my hairdresser now charges €300 for highlights and a cut. Toner is still extra. 😒

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I think I’ve seen this film before, and I didn’t like the ending…

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I read at such a rate that the books I own are threatening to become my new overlords. Have popped some up on Vinted if anyone wants to buy. www.vinted.ie/member/25695...

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Does this mean we can all stop pretending the TV albums are actually better

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Did anyone actually get Lorde tickets? Sigh 😔

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/05/2025

RIP Nick Miller, you would have loved the Pope being from Chicago

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Reaching the stage of my illness where I’m going to be spending money on silly things.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The rats have chosen a new pope.

Steam rising from orange pipes on a Manhattan Avenue.

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Is it a requirement for GP receptionists to be the rudest people you’ve ever encountered? I know they deal with a lot but I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a polite one.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

What a doll. 🥹 Postcard from my collection, mailed 1941.

High contrast black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby kitten lying upright and looking toward the camera with an angelic expression.

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Just spent €54 getting 3 pairs of trousers taken up… is this normal now? I feel like I’ve been swindled.

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Why am I hearing so much about the “male loneliness epidemic” when I’m also seeing 39 year old men on dating apps saying that they’re still “figuring it out”?? My good sir, you’ve lived half your life. It’s not figured out now it never will be.

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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Bat, Literally Translated into English. Map by me

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I won’t give anything away but someone on Twitter spoiled The Last of Us for me 2 years ago and now that I’ve seen said spoiler I’m even more mad.

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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I went to the gym today because I’ve got no plans and found this in my locker after. How cute is this? 🥹🥹🥹

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Fiona @fionasmall.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Jesus to Judas at the Last Supper

betrayal
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like you're sort of vibe,
on broski,

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This is a genuine question. Surely the climate impact of using AI is similar to that of using the internet on a daily basis, if not less? I say this as someone who barely uses any AI tech, but curious as it’s an argument that gets cited a lot.

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Asked a bloke to go for a drink yesterday, got ghosted. Then I got offered a threesome from someone else. Swings and roundabouts?

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Chatting to someone on Hinge for my sins and he hasn’t asked me one question. Not a single one. So I’ve asked him is he allergic to them? Maybe he needs a clarityn

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

no big deal just eugene the pig getting some sunscreen applied as one does when sunbathing in the compost pile

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

He’s now looking AND sounding like Voldemort.

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Just once I’d love to go up to one of those men who huff and puff so loudly in the gym, tap them on the shoulder and say “You know if it’s too heavy you might want to consider dropping the weight” and walk away. Full menace mode.

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I’ve just seen a TikTok say long nails are a side effect of the patriarchy. Can we not have anything we like without it a bloody statement

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I’ve been in the bus for 40 mins. I live in the liberties, I work on Pearse St. Why are we so bad at this?

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I truly believe that barrel leg jeans have been sent to us by the corporate gods as to test to see if we’ll actually buy any old shite

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

As if we didn’t literally give lives to LEAVE IT.

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Forgot it was Mother’s Day this weekend. You’d think after 3 years that realisation would stop feeling like taking a bullet. Alas.

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kelly @earley.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

this is all i can think about when i see people on the internet saying they feel unsafe walking down o connell street

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I’m a bit baffled by the people claiming GN was bullied into leaving social media. I looked at *a lot* of comments and nothing was hate filled. Not saying they don’t exist but it was mostly disagreeing with good reason. It was hardly a witch hunt. I had worse kickback on Twitter for far less.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A lot of people are reasonably very concerned that a well-liked comedian might be hurt by angry online comments, but are unconcerned that already piled-on and sometimes destitute immigrants might be hurt by false and alarmist online comments because they see the former as a person but not the latter

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Dave @davesrants.com · 22/03/2025

If you think Garron was getting it bad in his comments on TikTok you should see any Irish black athlete/creator or whatever being told they actually aren’t Irish!

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

If deleting all socials after spewing racist shite isn’t an admission of guilt idk what is

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Truly, if people aren’t allowed “voice their concerns” around immigration then why am I always bloody hearing about those concerns?

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Feeling justified that I never found that Garron No one bloke funny now.

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Friends fear she’s doing her yearly re-watch of Insecure again.

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The kids in the crèche across the road from my gaff are doing a St Patrick’s day parade in the estate 🥹☘️

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Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Is a kindle worth it? I’m not mad about supporting Amazon but the rate at which I read is expensive and also takes up a lot of space in my gaff. I have a library card but feel a kindle could be good for travelling too? Idk. I also prefer a real book so there’s that.

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