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Ciara Kennedy

@ciaraskennedy.bsky.social
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She/Her Cork, Ireland Feminist (no time for TERFs or SWERFs) Trying to be a good person in a world that’s testing us all. Often found tired & angry. Love a good book recommendation, but full disclosure not buying books by straight cis men right now.

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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I know soccer players are known for being dramatic when fouled but the victimhood of a couple of the Israeli players has been their only outstanding performance #stopthegame #stopthegenocide #holdisraelaccountable
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Violent and organized online attacks are growing. Love Only is building a community of Kindness Ninjas and Kindness Fairies who respond with messages of kindness and support. Become a Kindness Ninja or Kindness Fairy: sign.myvoice-mychoice.org/forms/join-l...
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JOIN LOVE ONLY: FIGHT ONLINE VIOLENCE WITH KINDNESS AND COMMUNITY
I just joined Love Only, and I'd love for you to join me. Violent and organized online attacks against activists, journalists, and others who speak up for a fairer and more equal world are growing. ...
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
For the first time since @gallup.com began asking the question in 2001, more Americans sympathize with Palestinians (41%) than with Israelis (36%), a seismic shift with profound political implications. news.gallup.com/poll/702440/...
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Israelis No Longer Ahead in Americans' Middle East Sympathies
Israelis no longer lead the Palestinians in Americans' sympathies, with independents' shift toward the Palestinians driving most of the change.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/06/2025
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I have a proposal
A drawing of the bronze statue of Molly Malone wheeling a cart with the title "Electrify Molly Malone: saps get zapped. They deserve it!"
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20/03/2025
The Houthi military spokesman , Yahya Saree, says that the group carried out a “qualitative operation” against Israel. 🔴 LIVE updates:
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Israel begins invasions of Gaza’s Rafah, kills nearly 600 in 72 hours
The army says troops are attacking the Shaboura in southern Gaza, and ‘strengthening’ operations in the central Strip.
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I just saw Conor McGregor referred to as Andrew Tayto.
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I LOVE Laika Party #EuroSong
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Happy #EuroSong night to all who celebrate.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
‘Political power may require compromise and behind-the-scenes trade-offs, but there are some moral red lines that should never be crossed, whatever the political cost. The genocide is the quintessential test of the moral courage of leaders in the 21st century.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode
I saw them killed by sniper fire and drones. Why doesn’t Labour condemn it? Why do arms keep flowing in Israel’s direction? asks retired professor of transplant surgery Nizam Mamode
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This feels like an appropriate soundtrack for the Canadian, Mexican and Chinese response to theTrump Administration’s attempt at bullying youtu.be/NC3M7kIpAaY?...
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My Kink Is Karma (Audio) - Chappell Roan
YouTube video by Obsidian Music
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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The ethnic cleansing of Gaza in real time. Advertising the seafront property for months, settlers all prepped… it’s disgusting how easy it is to let colonial tendencies run roughshod over the bodies of 1,000s of children, men & women. #speirgorm #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #Resist
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I am weak for this EuroSong finalists. A worthy tribute to Laika the dog 🐕 🚀 and it’s a bop! #Eurovision2025 #SpeirGorm youtu.be/nnK5TOTmHbU?...
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Eurosong: EMMY - Laika Party | Irish Eurovision 2025 (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Late Late Show
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If the European Union is an accomplice in what the international Criminal Court considers the war crime of civilian starvation and multiple crimes against humanity, how can the EU justify its continued existence? theintercept.com/2024/12/23/e...
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EU Officials Will Claim Ignorance of Israel’s War Crimes. This Leaked Document Shows What They Knew.
The internal EU document may strip European foreign ministers of “plausible deniability” in Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Elon Musk biographer here. The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now. Publicly. Daily. The Post either knows this or should not be in business.
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Opinion | The missing context from the Elon Musk salute
We can’t have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil.
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
To be fair @mcculld.bsky.social asked some good questions of Dana Erlich on @news.rte.ie this evening. #FreePalestine🇵🇸
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
my.uplift.ie/petitions/re...
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Remove the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism from the Programme for Government 2025
I've just signed this petition calling on the government to remove the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism from the Programme for Government. Will you sign too?
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 18/01/2025
#Gaza: The temporary ceasefire in #Gaza is a relief, but it comes after 465 days and 46,000 lives lost. This is just the beginning of addressing the immense humanitarian, and medical needs. All parties must respect the #ceasefire and ensure safe delivery of aid to those in need.
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The EUs inaction is shameful. I’m probably being generous using the word inaction, the EU has actually been complicit in what has happened in Gaza over the last 15 months.
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Week 67, Cork Palestinian Solidarity march.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Vet: “I was like, ‘Are they seriously dropping 1,000lb JDAMs [highly destructive munitions] in one of the most densely populated places on Earth?’” “It was so egregious, it was so insane, that we had to just call each other to make sure we weren’t hallucinating.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘I realised we’re such hypocrites’: how growing numbers of US veterans were moved to protest over Gaza
As images of the war flooded social media and news reports, disillusioned ex-military personnel increased their efforts to pressurise the administration to stop arming Israel
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
If the Government thinks that Ireland would suffer very damaging retaliatory measures if it enacted the Bill, it should put that entire calculation into the public domain. If they believe their judgment is soundly based, why hide it?
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Worth read in full 🧵
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Mara Clarke @maraclarke.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
📢📢Good abortion news Klaxxon!! 📢📢 Luxembourg government approves bill to abolish mandatory (but completely unnecessary, are you listening Ireland and Germany?) 3 day reflection period for abortions, ban virginity certificates & hymenoplasty. today.rtl.lu/news/luxembo...
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Bill approved: Government to end abortion reflection period, ban virginity exams
The Luxembourg government has approved a bill to abolish the mandatory three-day reflection period for abortions and ban virginity certificates and hymenoplasty, marking a significant step forward for...
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I immediately hate all but two men on season 3 The Traitors US. They are terrible human beings. #TheTraitorsUS
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 08/01/2025
International Court of Justice receives Ireland’s intervention in South Africa’s case against Israel
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International Court of Justice receives Ireland’s intervention in South Africa’s case against Israel
South Africa has alleged genocide by Israel during the war in Gaza
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Nadine Dorris has met her match tonight in @vicderbyshire.bsky.social on #NewNight I eye rolled so hard at some of the answers from Dorris I’ve given myself a headache
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
“We need a zero tolerance to all forms of male violence against women and it will take all of us to commit to lasting change.” Sarah Benson, CEO of Women’s Aid.
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 03/01/2025
Lost to Violence: The 37 women killed in Ireland in the last five years The Journal Investigates shines a spotlight on the women lost to violence in Ireland since 2020. www.thejournal.ie/investigates-viol…
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Lost to Violence: The 37 women killed in Ireland in the last five years
The Journal Investigates shines a spotlight on the women lost to violence in Ireland since 2020.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Jimmy Carter visited Palestine in 2010 with Mary Robinson and others. Their bluntly worded report is here www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_re...
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Worth reading the whole thread 🧵
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Dear @sulliview.bsky.social, I always appreciate your work, but there's some major flaws with this argument. The Guardian *does* have a billionaire owner. It's owned by the Scott Trust that is led by a private banker seeking to grow a £1.3bn trust fund. 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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US media is in big trouble – but I find far less to be worried about at the Guardian | Margaret Sullivan
The US is in urgent need of well-funded, truly independent journalism in 2025. If you are able, please make a gift to the Guardian now to help us reach our fundraising goal by our New Year’s Eve deadl...
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Amoral.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/12/2024
Israeli soldiers have stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last remaining medical facility in the northern Gaza Strip, torching large sections and forcing hundreds of Palestinians to leave aje.io/pnuxun
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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Doctors and patients forced out of Gaza hospital during Israeli raid
Israeli forces have reportedly stormed northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital and forced out all the patients and staff.
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
www.rte.ie/news/middle-...
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Israeli forces enter Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital
Israeli forces have raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of three medical facilities on the northern edge of Gaza, torching large sections and ordering dozens of patients and hundreds of others to lea...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/12/2024
A Palestinian healthcare worker has died due to 'extreme' weather conditions, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health, as severe cold compounds the hardship faced by Palestinians displaced by Israel’s relentless attacks aje.io/av97vf
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Just watched the Gavin and Stacey finale. It was wonderful. I love every single character so much. #GavinAndStacey
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Louise Crowley @louisecrowley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
4 men, and another joined virtually, on the Virgin Media Tonight Show panel. Do better @virginmediatv.bsky.social.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 17/12/2024
The award-winning Irish language film Kneecap has been shortlisted for Best International Feature and Best Original Song at the 2025 Academy Awards
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Kneecap shortlisted for Best International Oscar award
The award-winning Irish language film Kneecap has been shortlisted for Best International Feature and Best Original Song at the 2025 Academy Awards.
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2024/12/16/country-that-stole-irish-passports-for-use-in-assassinations-attacked-irish-peacekeepers-closes-embassy-in-ireland-over-countrys-opposition-to-genocide
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Country That Stole Irish Passports For Use In Assassinations, Attacked Irish Peacekeepers Closes Embassy In Ireland Over Country’s Opposition To Genocide
SOMETIMES, brutal regimes with little regard for human rights go too far. This, it transpires, is true of the outgoing Irish government. "Just when you think a regime has reached the nadir of its inh...
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 16/12/2024
Ireland’s Prime Minister Simon Harris called Israel’s decision to close its embassy in Dublin part of Israel’s “diplomacy of distraction,” intended to deflect attention from “what Netanyahu is doing to the innocent children of Gaza.” He said Ireland remains committed to human rights and int’l law.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Left: Simon Harris, "You're all asking me about Ireland's position. What about Israel's actions? Nobody is going to silence Ireland" Right: Al Jazeera's report on the most recent UN school to be bombed by Israel
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is the loveliest group of celebrities ever #ImACeleb
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 02/12/2024
On day 3 of counting in the General Election, spare a thought for our correspondent Brian O’Donovan in Cork North Central. Brian is losing his voice but still managed to make it through his live insert into the One O’Clock News. #rtenews #GE24 #Election24
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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Day 3 in my home constituency of Cork North Central and a third Hairy Baby Tees t-shirt from Cian working in the count centre. #GE24 #GeneralElection2024 #Cork #CorkNorthCentral Unreal indeed! 🗳️
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
For the #SpeirGorm & #Spéirghrom fans 👇🏻
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It’s all happening at the count in Nemo, come on Cork North Central I’ve to be up for work in the morning #GE24
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two women are standing next to each other and one of them is saying nothing yet !
ALT: two women are standing next to each other and one of them is saying nothing yet !
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davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/b... For all my new Irish friends, because of the strangest case of mistaken identity in the history of Irish-American relations, I've been invited to be interviewed by Katie Hannon. The taping is tomorrow and I'll let you know when it's scheduled to be aired
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Behind the Ballot
Politics Podcast · 15 Episodes
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Ciara Kennedy @ciaraskennedy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I sang PRSTV to the tune of Ottawan’s D I S C O. #GE24 It is P phenomenal It is R…
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