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Damian Mac Con Uladh

@damomac.bsky.social
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Greece-based journalist and copy-editor. Ballinasloe sham.

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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
I never like to ask for anything, but this isn't for me - it's to help my wife & children as they continue after this pancreatic cancer inevitability finishes me off. If you can afford to chip in, please do. If you can't, please share www.gofundme.com/f/our-friend... whydonate.com/fundraising/...
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Donate to Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney, organized by Joseph Galvin
Our friend, colleague and comrade Eoghan Sweeney has been diagnosed with termina… Joseph Galvin needs your support for Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney
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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
My time in this world is very likely to come to an end in the coming days - although I'll keep trying to push it out a bit. Huge thanks to my old friend @gavinsblog.bsky.social for these kind words and appeal on behalf of my family. Love each other. Be kind
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ok Bluesky it's rare I ask for help. But this time I need huge help from the #osint community and #speirgorm #speirghorm, and everyone who follows me. I have a goal to raise up to €100,000 for a long time friend and colleague who is going to leave us.
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Fantastic result and a spectacular performance by Galway. But can someone please tell Marty Morrissey how to pronounce "Fohenagh" by the All-Ireland final. 😂
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"More than half of students failed to reach a passing grade in .... History" means that more than 50% of students didn't manage to rote-learn the turgid rendering of history - a fascinating subject that students learn to hate - in Greek schoolbooks. www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/soc...
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Nearly 90,000 compete for Greek university places, with low top scores | eKathimerini.com
Nearly 90,000 students competed for about 69,000 university places in Greece for the 2026-27 academic year, according to Education Ministry data released after nationwide exam results.
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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder
Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras formally re-entered the political realm Tuesday, heralding a new party named Greek Left Alliance (ELAS) that he said offers a “compass for a new Greece” and a “new patriotism inextricably linked to social justice.” www.ekathimerini.com/politics/130...
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Tsipras returns to politics with new Greek Left Alliance party | eKathimerini.com
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras formally re-entered the political realm Tuesday, heralding a new party named Greek Left Alliance (ELAS) that he said offers a “compass for a New Greece” and a “new...
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Katerina Moutsatsou! Νταξ! EPAM 2.0
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Well done, ERT, which has dropped the BBC from its channel listing, replacing it with ERT Cosmos.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The Dutch word for a horse is paarden (fairly similar to the English "pardon") and the Dutch word for breeding is fok (fairly similar to, well, you know) and that's all the context you need for this joke... Englishman: What do you do? Dutchman: I fok horses Englishman: Pardon? Dutchman: Yes paarden
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I was delighted once to have served as editor of Hostings, journal of the Ballinasloe and District Heritage Society . Currently the bestseller locally, it makes the ideal Christmas gift for Ballinasloe people (and not only) at home and abroad!
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Just dropped off copies of my book to all the East Berlin Kita teachers I thanked in the Acknowledgements and I’ve never been so stressed out about peer review in my life.
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
What can algorithmically rewarding the most divisive and inflammatory content and facilitating the spread of misinformation get you? For Mark Zuckerberg, it’s a $300m, 387-foot mega yacht, Launchpad, which is now moored off Corinth.
Mark Zuckerberg's yacht moored off Corinth
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 27/06/2025
Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
At Dublin Airport and there's a lad with an overcoat and Docs waiting to board a flight to Athens, where temperatures are forecast to hit 38°C today.
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"There was no hot bacon or sausage. We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot." www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Tourist's 'nightmare' as Corfu hotel 'had no English food' and not enough chips
Susan Edwards complained that her stay at a hotel in Corfu, Greece, came without the 'English food' she liked, and without entertainment or easy access to a private beach
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
So the Greek media is convinced that Egypt is confiscating Mount Sinai Monastery and evicting its monks on the basis of an "exclusive" report in an obscure religious "news" site?
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Has anyone else noticed recently in the Irish Times that the apostrophe in many possessive 's in texts is is wrong way around? Hard on the eye.
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Greek PM, who thinks Breitbart is a real media outlet, attempts to dismiss the Guardian as "the Efimerida ton Syntakton [left-wing daily] of the UK". Needless to say, EfSyn is celebrating what Mitsotakis intended as an insult. www.efsyn.gr/stiles/ypogr...
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Ποιος Guardian μωρέ, η «Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών» της Αγγλίας;
Θα στείλουμε λουλούδια και γλυκά στον πρωθυπουργό Κυριάκο Μητσοτάκη γι' αυτό που είπε σήμερα σε συνέντευξή του στον ΣΚΑΪ 100.3, για την Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών. Αυτός βέβαια νόμιζε ότι το είπε για κακ...
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
We can now reveal where each country stood during the meeting: In favour: 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇧🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇱🇺🇵🇹🇸🇮🇸🇪🇦🇹🇲🇹🇩🇰🇪🇪🇵🇱🇷🇴🇸🇰 Against: 🇩🇪🇧🇬🇮🇹🇬🇷🇨🇾🇨🇿🇭🇷🇱🇹🇭🇺 Neutral: 🇱🇻
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Pope Leo XIV is an American. Trump will surely claim it was all his work.
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
That was quick!
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Habemus Papam! Λευκός καπνός στην Καπέλα Σιξτίνα – Εξελέγη νέος πάπας www.kathimerini.gr/world/563601...
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Λευκός καπνός στην Καπέλα Σιξτίνα – Εξελέγη νέος πάπας
Λευκός καπνός εμφανίστηκε από μια καμινάδα στην κορυφή της Καπέλα Σιξτίνα στο Βατικανό, σηματοδοτώντας ότι οι 133 ρωμαιοκαθολικοί καρδινάλιοι που συναντήθηκαν σε μυστικό κονκλάβιο εξέλεξαν νέο πάπα.
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Some "Republican legislators set to grill university presidents in a congressional hearing on antisemitism ... are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity, have quoted Adolf Hitler, or have ... threatened to burn a synagogue to the ground." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing
Lawmakers on key committee have quoted Hitler and are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Greek American MAGA worshippers: "We feel left out. We demand an Orthodox ecumenical patriarch version! Remember 1204!"
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"The find has not been directly addressed by the country’s center-right government – a reminder that many Greeks still find it easier to walk past the country’s ghosts than confront them." www.ekathimerini.com/news/1268339...
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Discovered by chance, a mass grave revives memories of Greece’s brutal civil war | eKathimerini.com
It’s common to find ancient remains or objects in Greece. But hulking Yedi Kule castle was a prison where Communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during Greece’s 1946–1949 Civil War.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The Canadian election is definitely the only election in a developed country I can remember where the central pitch of the winning party was essentially “this country should exist”.
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🚨 Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia, was abducted from his final citizenship interview by ICE. My Israeli friends who had family murdered by Hamas on 10-7 are vouching for Mohsen as *an ally in fighting antisemitism & peace activism.* That’s the opposite of supporting Hamas terror!
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Jeez. Did Trump really just say President Zelensky started the war with Russia? Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator called Vladimir Putin FACTS MATTER
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
World's first vaporware
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"According to the findings, the individual in question has a close familial relationship with the university’s president." www.ekathimerini.com/news/1266520...
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University staff member taught for 12 years without a recognized degree, investigation reveals | eKathimerini.com
A recent investigation by the National Transparency Authority (NTA), prompted by a formal complaint, found that an individual served as adjunct teaching staff at a higher education institution in nort...
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I grew up around coal miners. For 16 years I was related to many by marriage, including some suffering from black lung and others whose bodies were either broken or on their way to being broken. None of them wanted that life for their kids and those still in it all wanted out. He's a fucking idiot.
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
BBC World has been relaying this insane verbal diarrhoea from the Shite House since the top of the hour.
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Two days to Tommy Tiernan in Athens! Universe (Leoforos Kifisou 87), April 10th, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. Tickets: www.more.com/gr-el/ticket... youtu.be/8fKVPtn-szk?...
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Out Of The Whirlwind (BEST OF) | TOMMY TIERNAN
YouTube video by Tommy Tiernan
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
#Moriatrialwatch www.ekathimerini.com/news/1266432...
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Three Afghans cleared in Moria camp fire case | eKathimerini.com
Three Afghan asylum seekers were acquitted last Friday by a juvenile court in Mytilene, on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, overturning prior convictions that saw them imprisoned for over three ye...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Israeli soldiers murdered these medical workers, buried them in a mass grave, libelled them as terrorists and then lied about it. One of the ambulance crews' last words were: "I only chose this path because I wanted to help people." www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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BBC Verify analyses video showing Israel's killing of Gaza medics
The IDF's killing of 15 emergency workers has drawn international condemnation. BBC Verify examines new footage of the incident.
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Ireland move through gears to sail past Greece 🇮🇪 4 🇬🇷 0 www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
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Ireland move through gears to sail past Greece
The Republic of Ireland produced a fine second-half performance to beat Greece 4-0 in Crete and get their Nations League back on track
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
RTÉ (Irish TV) is broadcasting Greece v Republic of Ireland (UEFA Women's Nations League) live while there's nothing on Greek TV. What a pity that Greece decided to hold the game in Iraklio, Crete, where the stadium is pretty much empty. #COYGIG
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
For any Thin Lizzy fans out there in Athens! To mark their 20th anniversary, Remember Lizzy, a Greek tribute band to the legendary Irish group Thin Lizzy, are playing at Kyttaro Live Club on April 5. www.ekathimerini.com/culture/what...
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Remember Lizzy | Athens | April 5 | eKathimerini.com
To mark their 20th anniversary, Remember Lizzy, a Greek tribute band to legendary Irish group Thin Lizzy, have invited Darren Wharton, former keyboardist with Phil Lynott’s Dublin-based band, to be th...
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"Lawyers for their case have raised concerns that the deportation orders undermine civil liberties for EU citizens living in Germany, as neither have been convicted of any criminal offences in the German courts." www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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Two Irish citizens ordered to leave Germany over pro-Palestinian protests despite no convictions
Lawyers say the move undermines civil liberties for EU citizens
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CNN @cnn.com · 31/03/2025
The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.
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Bodies of missing aid workers found in Gaza ‘mass grave’ following Israeli attacks | CNN
The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a “mass grave,” a week after they went missing following attacks by Isra...
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 30/03/2025
What does Ireland think of Conor McGregor's presidential bid? Sky News can reveal how difficult it will be for Conor McGregor to get on Ireland's presidential ballot, with no members of parliament saying they will back him.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 29/03/2025
The Red Cross said it is gravely concerned about the fate of nine Palestine Red Crescent ambulance crew missing for seven days in Gaza. The organization has not had any contact with the crew since they came under heavy fire while operating in Rafah in the early hours of March 23 reut.rs/41SVI3P
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Survey of councillors shows no support for Conor McGregor presidential run - except for one @fiannafailparty.bsky.social councillor in Sligo who said it was too early to say whether he’d vote for an abuser of women or not! There is always one, eh! #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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Survey of councillors shows no support for Conor McGregor presidential run
McGregor cllrs page 1 write off
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
For all the idiots who think that this scumbag is "running" for the presidency of Ireland. "Irish Times poll of county council members found all but one of 188 respondents would without hesitation reject MMA fighter’s bid" www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Councillors brace for chaotic Conor McGregor bid to seek presidential nomination
Irish Times poll of county councillors found all but one of 185 respondents would reject without hesitation MMA fighter’s bid
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Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The cadets chanted "Cyprus is Greek. Fuck Turkey." www.ekathimerini.com/news/1265104...
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Navy NCO cadets to be probed for anti-Turkey slogans during parade | eKathimerini.com
An incident involving cadets at the Navy’s non-commissioned officers’ school taking part in Tuesday’s Independence Day parade has created a diplomatic spat with Turkey and will be investigated.
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