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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love libraries. We went every Saturday mornings as children. Wherever I have lived in the world I joined the local library. Now I go each week with my son. Libraries are just brilliant. One of humanity’s best achievement.

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Especially relevant today

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not my cat but it’s something he would do.

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Picture of my cat Charlie, living his best life soaking up the sun. #InternationalCatday

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Shamrock rovers all the way. Clear penalty

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Dublin Fire Brigade @dubfirebrigade.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Recruit Class 1 2026 will be hosting their charity car wash this Saturday 25th of April in our training centre from 10am - 4pm to raise money for Oscars Kids 🚗🧽 Please spread the word, join us for coffee and get down to support this amazing charity 😃 Eircode D03 WR02

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

My cat got stuck in a cattle drain today. 3 hours later, and he is free. Having lovely friends and neighbours is just the best.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is how you do it.

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I knew Joe all his life, best friend of my Niece,Maeve. He was gorgeous, funny, brave and we loved him so much. He especially enjoyed his journalism and had so much creativity and potential.

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Such courage these women have.

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It seems like the whole world has forgotten Afghanistan 🇦🇫 I never see reporting about the atrocities that Afghan women and girls in particular, but also Afghan men and boys, have to live with daily. It’s a country operating gender apartheid, with no consequences.

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This is a great way to include everyone in watching sport

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴‍♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social · 18/01/2026

Weaving and crafts community: we have a loom that needs saving. It's beautiful and looks to be in great shape. Please share to all Irish crafts people. #Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland

Facebook post re a loom

https://www.facebook.com/100068434251272/posts/1180937457530718/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

If you enjoyed this, please help me out by amplifying it and sharing it (although not, obviously, to Twitter). No algorithm here, so freelance journalists need all the help they can get. =)

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Sat to read this book and could not stop. I will reread again in the coming weeks. It should be required reading for everyone.

Book is One Day everyone will have always been against this. Author is Omar El Akkad.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 07/12/2025

I would hope that @theresthistory.bsky.social would have the common decency to withdraw this episode of their podcast rather than adding to the far too long list of men who treat this grim butchery of women as an exercise in deduction. Read this instead hallierubenhold.com/books/the-fi...

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The Five – Hallie Rubenhold

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God @thegodshow.com · 04/12/2025

Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.

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Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords

This is evil.

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

9 years since we became a family through adoption. Blessed and grateful.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Great Irish company, great service and, most of all, great craft products. Check them out 👇

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 25/11/2025

Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide

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One woman killed by someone close every ten minutes - UN

Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

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Primary School Survey

This survey is for parents and guardians of children in primary school or who will enter primary school in the coming years

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This is disgraceful. Nurses are highly trained and qualified professionals. USA devalues their profession.

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Really glad this has happened. Dervla Murphy was fascinating and her books are a joy to read.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 28/10/2025

If you’ve ever appreciated my updates, here or on Bird Site, I have a favour to ask: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 is up for Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and part of the decision is by public vote! It’s category 11 here: irishbookawards.ie/vote

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Vote - Irish Book Awards

AN POST IRISH BOOk AWARDS Public Vote 2025 Vote for your favourite books of the year here and win €100 of National Book Tokens Scroll down and vote for your favourite books and be in with a chance of ...

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I get that the world is in an uneasy place right now. I will however never understand that there is so little outrage about the Taliban in Afghanistan. They have banned books authored by Women now, no leaders in the Western world seem to care. It’s just so awful.

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 20/07/2025

As it's the #AllIrelandHurlingFinal today here's a sporting warrior from another age. The gravestone of Magnus Mac Orristin in Clonca Church on Donegal's Inishowen Peninsula. The depiction of a sword alongside a stick & ball illustrates how sport was deeply ingrained with medieval warrior culture

The gravestone depicting a sword and an early version of a hurley or shinty type stick with a ball.

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Collette @cmcg123.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Father’s Day on Sunday, my Dad died on the 8th of May. We miss him so much, that day and every day. Grief is really tough.

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Joe O’Brien @pnamblath.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Tip of the day 💡 Hydrate 💧 😂😂😂 #speirgorm #SpéirGhorm

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Aj d'Wit (Audrey) @audjde.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Grief, loss, sorrow is universal. There is this invisible, unspoken thread which unites us all. I know that I don't sit alone in my grief. To you who mourn, who grieve - may a gentle blanket of love rest upon you. #WriterPoet #Poem #Poetry #Grief #Loss #Death #Sorrow

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This is the best thing I’ve seen all day.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Soubhiye, from Lebanese Arabic, is the enjoyment of a quiet moment of peace before everyone else is awake. Gökotta is a Swedish term for waking up early to enjoy the birdsong. For the rest of us, there is hurkle-durkling, from Scots: lingering in bed long after it’s time to get up.

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Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Car accident today (I'm fine; car isn't), plus dog getting put to sleep on Friday. This poem is for anyone else having a crappy time. Take care, my friends. #poetry #mentalhealth

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Emma Langford @emmalangfordmusic.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Lá Fhéile Phádraig sona daoibh! Did you know: in Ireland we celebrate Paddy's Day by buying tickets to see Emma Langford at Levis' in Ballydehob on the 19th of April? I know, weirdly specific, but there you have it.

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Double Z @doublezcreative.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Sometimes we’d just get Davey Arthur in for a big hooley! That was kids TV in Ireland in the 1990s - it was the Wild West and the best ☘️🇮🇪 #theden #zigandzag #dustintheturkey #daveyarthur #thefureysanddaveyarthur #thefuterys #ireland

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

UK friends! Tonight Birdsong makes its UK TV debut on BBC4 at 9pm. It will also be available on BBC Player thereafter. Please spread the word! Extract taken from The Times.

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Mental Health Ireland @mentalhealthirl.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

We all have mental health and anyone can be impacted by it. Garron Noone talks about his experience of agoraphobia and how it impacted his life. www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li... #Speirgorm

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Garron Noone on battling his agoraphobia while finding fame

Aoife McHugh chats with internet sensation Garon Noone.

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miriamstaunton.bsky.social @miriamstaunton.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Have you had a diagnosis of cancer and been treated in Ireland? I’ve created this survey on accessing your medical information & would love to get your views. The link is here: bit.ly/3X6KXbc #speirgorm #patientvoices #yourhealthdata @cancertrialsie.bsky.social

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Susie on cue, as always

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