Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨the samsara enjoyer @rubot.ie · 16hA boycott should extend to all games ,troops. National team are dead to me. 0324
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 16hHave been a regular for ~35 years at Lansdowne but couldn’t stomach it this evening. None of us took our season ticket seats. Would have enjoyed seeing that goal live but struggling to articulate how we feel about this team. It was good to see the protest there despite RTÉ cutting away a lot. 43411
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Apropos of nothing, Áine, the Irish goddess associated with a legend where, when raped/assaulted by the King of Munster, she bites his ear* off and renders him unfit to rule as he's no longer "unblemished", taking from him his power. *Stories often mention it was another, more appropriate body part 724341
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 22hI’m listening to a podcast about AI psychosis and it reminds me so much of spiritualism in the early twentieth century: also a con, also preyed on people who were convinced it promised some eternal truths wrapped up in great personal significance. 15911
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Sarah Davis-Goff @sarahdavisgoff.bsky.social · 22hA guy on here asked if he was supposed to just stop being friends with someone who'd raped someone and I can't stop thinking about it 97012
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In the late 90s I went to a hypnotherapist to cure an anxiety issue i had. He sexually assaulted me in his office. And you know what I did when I left that office? I went to reception and paid for the appointment I just had. If I had ever reported it officially, my paying after would have saved him. 65712
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Follow people online who have similar life experiences to me, so single and/or childfree, but lately one of the single ones has veered into openly hating men and one of the childfree ones said the sound of children playing across the road infuriated her, and just wondering why can't people be normal 31172
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A mixed media #painting. One of Dublin's most loved buildings. "Sunlight Chambers", as seen from along the edge of Grattan Bridge's Hippocamp lamps, I painted because few sights in Ireland can instantly convert me back into childhood than seeing its ceramic friezes close up. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear 2647
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We're back, baby - this month's free newsletter features a reminder to get to the blackberries before the púca does, why black cats are useful for fungal infections, and Dublin's 17th century "bisexual witch" - for more of the nonsense below, sign up for the next one: www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter 17918
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Think I asked this a while back but it anyone has any reading on auctioning the goods of the dead in 16th- and 17th-century London, and/or the role of bellmen and criers around deaths and auctions, I'd be very grateful for recommendations! 22024
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026People casually using genAI instead of their own creativity or capacity for thought genuinely feels like a huge values difference now, on a very fundamental level. We do not hold the same things to be important or worthwhile. 820853
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Auntie O'Grimacey @bubblenoma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I've been listening back to this committee meeting and these doctors don't perform abortions. We are not hearing from GPs who perform abortions who support the 3 day wait. 5309
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We're back, baby - this month's free newsletter features a reminder to get to the blackberries before the púca does, why black cats are useful for fungal infections, and Dublin's 17th century "bisexual witch" - for more of the nonsense below, sign up for the next one: www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter 17918
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 642964969
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Had a fight about this in the office with someone a while back, saying he didn't see the problem. People's minds are getting shortcut-poisoned I swear to god 1315112
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026it's a lovely michaelmas day and you are a horrible goose 018026
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions. 12457141
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Straight out of JP's Oligarchy playbook. www.independent.ie/county/water...independent.ieMark Zuckerberg donates €150,000 to three Waterford GAA clubsThree clubs near the billionaire couple’s newly acquired Strancally Castle to receive €50,000 each 1256
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Bogshuffler 🐛 @bogshuffler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just got my new passport and it's a real work of art. Well done the design team - the artwork and detail is beautiful, especially under UV. www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/passp... 2497
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I've been a OnePlus guy for the past 12 years so I'm a bit lost now that they're no longer selling in the EU. Anyone have a rec for a similar type of phone? High end android specs without the crazy prices? 5142
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026No more yearning online, it's undignified. From now on all single people on here will meet and hold hands in a circle while we're gently and humanely smothered by a giant marshmallow held by someone the general size and shape of Jack Reacher, as God intended 3642
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible. 4621551265
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Tara Flynn @taraflynnirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hometown gig this weekend - Kinsale Words by Water, chatting to Niamh Hargan and Tanya Sweeney about BOOKS 📚 www.wordsbywater.ie/event/other-...wordsbywater.ieNiamh Hargan and Tanya Sweeney in conversation with Tara Flynn – Words By Water 092
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨ah lads @popeurbanfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026god grant me a big stick to change the things that can be changed with a big stick 333381
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Trá Lí le Gaeilge @tralilegaeilge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Seachtain gnóthach amach romhainn i dTrá Lí lán d'imeachtaí Gaeilge iontacha do chách! 🤩 A busy week ahead in Tralee full of exciting Irish language events for all! 🤩 @scaoilte.bsky.social @discoverkerry.bsky.social #gaeilge #irish #learnirish #trálílegaeilge #tralee #irishevents 051
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Can't believe the disrespect being put on the music of my people, the culchies (mediocre country pop) 3381
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Molumby asked match referee Harms Osmers and the fourth official Florian Exner to listen to alleged monkey chants from the tiny number of supporters in the stadium...According to reports, UEFA said that Molumby had not explicitly mentioned racism to the officials" www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...rte.ieAlleged racism against Idah will not be investigatedAn alleged racist incident involving Ireland goalscorer Adam Idah will not be investigated by UEFA because it wasn't explicitly mentioned on the pitch. 32211
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just need to find someone entirely compatible that I like who also likes me and doesn't want kids in an area with a pretty small, relatively sparse population of single people around my age and very few opportunities to socialise together apart from pubs and I don't drink, why is this taking so long 41193
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Massively frustrating that despite being pro-Palestine generally as a nation with many working tirelessly to support and help those suffering, we, and by extension the people of Gaza, are consistently let down on a global stage by the people who are supposed to represent us 121032
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Here’s my latest cartoon for @faroutmagazine.co.uk faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-squire...faroutmagazine.co.ukDavid Squires on Danny Boyle's unfortunate use of AIFrom 28 Years Later to Trainspotting and the Olympics opening ceremony, Danny Boyle has plenty of credits that have been celebrated over the years. 37221
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026People unfamiliar with Austen think her romantic heroes are unrealistically dashing and charming, but that's actually the villains. The romantic heroes in Austen are usually just consistent, kind, steadfast, and at least 50% likely to be a practicing member of the clergy 71349
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Auntie O'Grimacey @bubblenoma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've been making cards out of my watercolours and I really like them. Expect to get a card for every occasion now. 2343
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Think the fact I knew the Choosin' Texas song long before it even charted might be the most problematic thing about me 4400
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Wonder what war crimes Colonel Brandon committed in the East Indies 1221
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism. 18636255
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026 It’s illustrative that most of the leftist south is concerned with the Irish football team, while the north sits on a precipice. Can chew gum & clap at the same time and all that, indifference is also grand, but just don’t be cosplaying parts of the conflict here when it comes to election time 👍 411624
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The DUP and SF have been in a staring contest over who will collapse stormont first and I don't see how that won't happen when a load of people get battered off the road by the PSNI so 35 pricks, who've been using an alternative route for 28 years, can march down a road full of taigs. 616240
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Still thinking about this and can't decide if I liked it or not. Very visually beautiful, but the overall mood and the occasional but significant changes to plot and characters made it feel like Austen with all the Austen-y bits taken out 5220
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/09/2026Also reported by @gcooney93.bsky.social in the Irish Times tonight that following the team meeting and vote, some players “turned on Bazunu, one of whom is understood to have abused him to his face”irishtimes.comIreland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAIGavin Bazunu has been left brutally isolated as any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered 188842
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just out of the new Sense and Sensibility 3260
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Fair play to Bazunu for putting his head above the parapet and trying. Shame on the FAI. 440471
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨kelly @earley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026very disappointing #stopthegame 1314
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/09/2026🚨 Israel v Republic of Ireland game goes ahead, FAI’s David Courell confirms, at delayed press conference in Debrecen Fresh meeting this morning followed one player (goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu) saying they wanted to withdraw from the squad Squad voted after that meeting to establish the view 102915
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In case anyone is curious what the internet thinks of 36 year old women in the prime of their lives, all my Instagram ads are now for either egg freezing facilities or hip replacement information 121032
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Picturing Erling Haaland being sold at police auction like a drug lord's speedboat. 481470311
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Abortion Rights Campaign @freesafelegal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Join us tomorrow at 2pm at the Department of Health for the 15th annual March for Choice. #MarchForChoice2026 Bring your friends, voices and posters. Tag us in your photos and let's make the government Hear Us Now! 055
Reposted by Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.' 573318429
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Find it mildly amusing when people from other counties get their hackles up about being the butt of occasional inter-county ribbing considering my brethren, the people of Kerry, are the basis of an entire genre of joke 9652
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On the apps there's a lot of matching without ever messaging which presumably is due to the "swipe right on everyone THEN choose" approach, but it's annoying because I do believe men should message first, to outline the terms of the alliance and how many cows will be gifted to secure the arrangement 12924