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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 15h

Really glad all the media guys have put their heads together and decided that neurodivergent people are the next group to go after. Fair enough, we've had it far too easy for far too long.

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 08/10/2026

Would like to see a journalist ask the 7 of Ireland's 14 MEPs (3 FG, 3 FF, 1 II) who just voted to: -endorse burqa bans -call "hatred of Israel" a sign of "Islamist influence" -identify European Muslim communities as potential tools of "malign foreign actors" to justify themselves

Believes that the practice of concealing the face in public spaces and premises open to the public poses an unacceptable challenge to public security, identification and effective law enforcement; supports, therefore, all national measures aimed at prohibiting full-face coverings (niqab or burqa) in public spaces and premises open to the public as a necessary step to ensure social cohesion, public safety and the protection of the rights and freedoms of others, in particular women

whereas separatist narratives, systematic victimhood, antisemitism, anti-Christian hatred, hatred of Israel, conspiracy narratives, challenges to secularism, the use of religion as a tool of social control or the contestation of equality between women and men may constitute markers of ideological radicalisation or Islamist influence;

whereas the ongoing investigations into suspected electoral fraud in Borlänge and Järva, Sweden, illustrate the particular vulnerability of diaspora communities to organised attempts at electoral influence; whereas such vulnerabilities may be exploited by malign foreign actors or transnational ideological networks pursuing covert agendas

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I will not stand for the rehabilitation of Leo (who probably has his eye on Aras). That's the problem with "progressive" views - you can make cute noises sometimes and still hate the poor/have dire class politics.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anyone who spends €25 bucks on this book shouldn’t be allowed to own a credit card or get a loan.

The Game of Life (and how to win it) by Ivan Yates

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It makes me feel mental, we're subsiding predatory gambling companies that destroy lives, and doing so in a way that forces thousands of dogs to be killed and dumped every year

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The allocation to reduce the student contribution appears to be the same as the allocation to small rural pubs (~15 million); what a great country. www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

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Third level student contribution fee to be cut by €150

The student contribution fee at third level will be permanently reduced by €150 under a range of measures aimed at the education sector in Budget 2027.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Could the "LLMs can't do anything" crowd and the "LLMs can do everything" crowd go somewhere private to yell at each other so the rest of us can have a normal "this new tech can do things previous tech couldn't but is limited in various ways, let's figure out best uses and regulations" conversation?

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And again, gender theory, queer theory, critical race theory - all university level subjects - you are not going to encounter them at primary or secondary levels. What these muppets want is to shut down any age appropriate discussion of sex, sexuality & identity in 1st & 2nd schools.

Cornell shows us we cannot keep telling our girls to be careful while teaching boys to be entitle

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Notice here how people from the North don’t actually exist in his mind. The people “looking to be outraged” are down here, the existence of actual residents being intimidated hasn’t even occurred to him.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/09/2026

Brian Kerr on Virgin Media: “I’ve been in touch with [Gavin Bazunu] this evening, and he’s feeling quite low, and shunned by some of the players and by the FAI… (🧵)

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My God. We have truly crossed a Rubicon when the Irish Times of all newspapers is spreading misinformation about the Royal Houses of Europe. It wouldn't have happened back in the days when it was calling for the execution of the 1916 leaders😂

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Finn McRedmond thinks "Mary Antoinette" was one of Henry VIII's wives. aren't editors supposed to catch their columnists when they betray their ignorance so severely it damages the credibility of the newspaper for continuing to publish them?

Beautiful women have been driving the world insane as long as has been recorded. The semi-mythical Helen of Troy is the most obvious evidence of this time-worn tradition. Cleopatra was a main character in that great hinge point of history: the collapse of the Roman republic and the creation of the Roman emperor. Anne Boleyn and Mary Antoinette – by today’s standards perhaps not as “hot” as Sweeney – scrambled Henry VIII’s faculties, redirecting the House of Tudor twice.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Paloma Faith speaking with Krishnan Guru-Murthy on #C4News "I did play at a concert with Ed Sheeran to raise money for Ukraine, so he wasn't being apolitical doing that" "My perspective, my motivation, as a mother, I've looked at the pictures and what I've seen is abominable"

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

To say Irish citizenship is “given out like smarties” betrays an ignorance that is unworthy of an elected member of the Oireachtas. Also deeply insulting to the many people who have had to wait years for it due to sheer governmental incompetence.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 15/09/2026

Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.

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Claire McGing @clairemcging.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

How lucky am I to get to celebrate my gorgeous and Intimidatingly razor sharp nanny's 94th birthday with her? ❤️

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Tens of thousands of people protested Trump's visit,from Shannon to Dublin and back to Doonbeg,people all over the country and backgrounds,but a handful of rich golf gobshites bawling fields of Athenry will take the headlines,this is all Trump will take from his trip. Fuckin dopes.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 10/09/2026

As of Cabinet yesterday, one now needs the ability to communicate in order to be considered a citizen. Yet in the first three months of 2026, not a single child in ten counties was given a plan on how the State would deliver them with speech and language therapy. This week’s column @thejournal.ie:

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Gavan Reilly: Six months by law. 24.3 months in reality. Ireland's disability numbers don't add up

The eye-watering numbers of children waiting for Assessment of Need in this country expose a broken system offering little hope to families.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I bore myself explaining what a bad idea age-based bans on internet access is. You can do it a few ways, ranging from bad to extraordinarily bad. But it always ends up building and embedding tools of authoritarian surveillance for everyone (adults and children) with no positive trade-offs.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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Claire McGing @clairemcging.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Must not offend the social media company overlords, which I presume is one of the codified Irish "values".

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The urge became too strong.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

btw both those measures would stimulate the economy more than what Harris is proposing. disabled people spend more of our money than non-disabled people and spend it more locally. whereas Harris is giving a tax cut to encourage investment that will almost exclusively go to non-Irish companies.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the myth of Simon Harris as some champion for disabled people was always nonsense, but it should be well and truly dead now. he gets his hands on the purse strings and it's not long-promised cost of disability payments he prioritises, or scrapping means tests, it's tax cuts and investment incentives

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It feels a little like the editorial team at the Irish mail on Sunday may have gone rogue on the owners as this is the second one they’ve asked for. Note the headlines are theirs obviously. My view is you have to talk to everyone before folks pile on here.

A comment piece in the irish mail on Sunday on the unep overshoot report, Ireland’s carbon tax and the upcoming ets2.

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Claire McGing @clairemcging.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Westlife must have retired at least 5 times by now.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It took them more than 85 years, but the Nazis have finally managed to invade Dover.

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Claire McGing @clairemcging.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Venn Diagram between ableism, transphobia and racism is all too real. And it has real consequences.

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Emmaaargh 🧟 @betaburns.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

About a month ago, Kathleen Stock was baffled by the existence of young disabled women using mobility aids in public. Watch now as the brave press begins sallying forth with attacks on disabled people, especially young women and trans people. Transphobia is the blueprint for targetted dehumanisation

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It was never going to stop with Jason Arday. Our resident Bluesky creeper Ben Ryan is now turning his attacks onto Jason Arday's students--no doubt the fact that the student is a Black woman has nothing to do with Ryan and Wright's apparent concern for "academic rigor"

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and I obtained a Cambridge PhD thesis—one of questionable academic rigor—that Dr. Arday examined and that was put under a new, five-year embargo just after the scandal about Dr. Arday broke.

The PhD thesis of a student in Cambridge’s Faculty of Education—in which the late Jason Arday held a professorial chair, in the sociology of education, until he resigned hours after Cambridge on Aug. 5 announced it was investigating him—has been put under what British and Canadian academics have told Colin Wright and me is a remarkably long embargo, shielding it from public view until 2031.

Crucially, among the panelists who reviewed the thesis was Dr. Arday himself.

The thesis, which we have obtained and which we review in this Substack, raises important questions about whether the Faculty of Education, including Dr. Arday’s own contributions, let down the basic standards of higher education.

Written by Damilola Folayan, the thesis is entitled Of, but not in: A poetic exploration of how Black women students respond to the coloniality of Oxbridge—referring to the portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge. It garnered her a coveted Cambridge PhD in 2025. Following what’s known as an autoethnographic style, it is in essence an epic poetry-slam interpretation of the plight of Dr. Folayan and three other black women at Oxbridge and their experiences navigating, with considerable ambivalence, these historically, and still overwhelmingly, white elite institutions.

The sprawling thesis unabashedly thumbs its nose at the rigors and demands of academia even as it demands in return an elite PhD and all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto.

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The geographer in me loves this. Africa is ~14× larger than Greenland, yet on the Mercator map they can look almost the same size. Serious implications for perception, representation and equity, as maps don’t just show the world… they shape how we see it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size

The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.

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Claire McGing @clairemcging.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Excellent. This means the eventual end of public funding for horse and greyhound racing, I guess.

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Claire McGing @clairemcging.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Remember when IBEC raised concerns about Domestic Violence leave? The worst.

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Simon Boyne @simonb84.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Jesus Fucking Christ this government is absolutely fucking useless. Public transport price increases during a fuel crisis while burning over a billion on duty cut. #IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So maintain fuel excise cuts to subsidise driving more, and raise public transport fares -- is that where we are at with transport policy atm

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Claire McGing @clairemcging.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A guy spends a really, really long time trying to get rid of a piece of jewellery.

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

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Claire McGing @clairemcging.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I lost two people that I loved to this extremely cruel disease. Any scientific breakthrough is amazing. ❤️

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/08/2026

The reason why people think Dolly was “politically neutral” is because they don’t understand being political as a series of actions born of commitment to an idea. Being political as defined by the pundit class is to be in front of a microphone delivering sound bytes, it’s something to be devoured

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In a world of JK Rowlings, be a Dolly.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Really flies under the radar how psychopathic it is to tell people who choose not to have children that they'll never experience "real love"

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