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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

in case Irish people don't know the context, Stan Cullis played for and managed Wolverhampton Wanderers. in 1938 he objected to a proposed Nazi salute by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 players before a game vs 🇩🇪 and was dropped from the side. he's a club legend at Wolves, the Stan Cullis Stand was where I sat last weekend

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Via IPSC 🧵1️⃣ "The Irish team has not showed up for training yet and their press conference has been pushed back as there are rumblings of unhappiness among the players with Gavin Bazunu telling the squad he doesn't want to play against Israel. There might be others too. There is time to pull out

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Three young boys being burnt to death should have shamed the orange order from wanting to march down there again. That’s what is ringing in my ears. It’s a struggle for the exertion of supremacy - no matter the cost.

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Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie · 22/09/2026

#DIBLives Captain Charles Boycott believed Irish peasants were prone to idleness and required firm handling. Following an attempt to evict tenants #OTD 1880 he was subjected to the ostracism advocated by Parnell, and the word 'Boycott' entered the English language. www.dib.ie/biography/bo...

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Declan Smyth @declansmyth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From Aaron Rowe’s Instagram account. #Speirgorm

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This take is conservative, Danish, and very much correct.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Trump & Rubio are f-king with a private SANDWICH PLACE in Belfast, Northern Ireland. All because they make CUBAN sandwiches. You read that right. Some “free market capitalism” right there. @mollyjongfast.bsky.social was right - it IS getting more stupid.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hmmm the most incompetent military leadership in US history which spaffed away its missile interceptors, exhausted its navy, has no idea about strategy, and is presiding over an unfolding military debacle has "views" to share. Really? REALLY?

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

These people are profoundly evil

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AJ McTERROR @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I wonder why the media didn't pursue THIS plagiarist so harshly? I can't qwhite put my finger on it 🤔

Cambridge professor remains in post despite
plagiarism
History academic published an article containing large parts of essays copied from one
of his students
'the
Cambridge university professor Dr William O'Reilly. A university disciplinary tribunal ruled the plagiarism was product of negligent acts but was not deliberate' Warren Gunn/Cambridgeshire Live/BPM Media
Bethan Staton and Chris Cook in London
Published JUN 16 2023

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Declan Smyth @declansmyth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If the Clayton by election was held in Ireland Count Binface would be a cert for election. After all we sent Dustin the Turkey to represent us in the Eurovision Song Contest once.

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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

FIFA broke its rules to favour the US team. The @nytimes.com reports this happened after Trump called Infantino and pressed him on the issue. We will be submitting an updated complaint to FIFA's ethics committee on this matter. You can add your name to that complaint here 👇 rebootfifa.com/sign/

rebootfifa.com

Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA.  And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name now >>

Add your name to our mass complaint

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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 13/06/2026

It's time for Fingal to take legal action to stop Manna drones flying from Coolmine base, a councillor says. The council rejected a planning application for the base, but that hasn't stopped Manna, which says it's still flying and "considering the next steps available to us".

dublininquirer.com

It's time for Fingal to take legal action to stop Manna drones flying from Coolmine base, councillor says

The council rejected a planning application for the base, but that hasn't stopped the company, which says it is still flying and "considering the next steps available to us".

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

💔 The fascists will probably try keep the violence and destruction going till way after the 12th of July. We must not let them ✊️💚

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Declan Smyth @declansmyth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

inter&co Stadium pitch under water before England v Costa Rica friendly and Thunderstorms around. Organising a tournament during the rainy season (also Hurricane season), who would have thought it.

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Declan Smyth @declansmyth.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Well worth the subscription. Great in depth articles.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

In honour of St Brendan the Navigator, today being his feast day “Inuit, Irish and Norse: the earliest explorers of the North Atlantic”. An online lecture, delivered as part of 'Virtually Shackleton 2020' by the Shackleton Museum, Athy, Co. Kildare, Ireland. youtu.be/wSRZuuKStsk?...

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Inuit, Irish and Norse the earliest explorers of the North Atlantic - Prof Aidan O’Sullivan, UCD

YouTube video by Shackleton Experience

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/05/2026

My dog when someone says the word “treat.”

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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

An Irish Army team has won gold in the Sullivan Cup, an international competition run by the US Calvary Corps. They won the Bradley competition which is quite impressive given most of the participants probably never saw a Bradley until last month

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Declan Smyth @declansmyth.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Solar and wind versus fossil. No brainer

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Declan Smyth @declansmyth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How was that not a penalty #BAYPSG and the earlier hanball by Mendes would have been a red card

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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

100% on the first comment 😑

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Jonathan Burdick @jonathanburdick.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Robert Ebert’s review of Downfall in 2004 was as absolutely masterful as the movie itself. #history #wwii #skystorians #extremism

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Ministry of Wibble @ministry-of-wibble.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A new Banksy, mocking nationalism and flag shaggers, has appeared in London. It's a man holding a flag that is covering his face while he walks blindly off the plinth. Well done ✊🏼

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Ballrooms for them. Thoughts, prayers and Kevlar backpacks for the rest.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

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‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out

An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

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Claire Bradley @cbgenealogy.ie · 20/04/2026

I think this is my favourite so far. Alice Knox in Blackrock, Co. Dublin who is very glad to be single. #1926census nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 15/04/2026

A pretty comprehensive takedown of JD Vance by a Catholic priest, Msgr. Arthur Holquin open.substack.com/pub/liturgya...

Arthur Holquin • Follow
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When the Neophyte Corrects the Vicar of Christ
On JD Vance, Theological Hubris, and the Gospel He Has Yet to Learn
There is a particular arrogance that takes root in the newly converted - the zeal of the autodidact who, having just discovered the tradition, mistakes enthusiasm for mastery. JD Vance, who received baptism into the Catholic Church in 2019 at the age of thirty-five, has now committed the singular error of instructing the Bishop of Rome to
"be careful when he talks about matters of theology!"
We should sit with the full weight of that sentence.
The Vice President of the United States - seven years a Catholic, formerly an evangelical, before that a self-described atheist - stood before a Turning Point USA audience in Georgia and publicly admonished Pope Leo XIV about theological precision. "If you're going to opine on matters of theology," Vance informed the successor of Peter, "you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth."
The audacity is breathtaking. The irony is almost comic.

While Vance was dispensing theological warnings from a stage in Georgia, Pope Leo XIV was standing at the archaeological site of Hippo in Algeria - the episcopal see where St. Augustine served as bishop until his death in 430 A.D.
Vance, who claims Augustine as his patron saint and frequently invokes him in speeches, was lecturing on Augustinian just war theology to a political rally audience. The pope he was lecturing
- who served as Prior General of the Order of St.
Augustine for more than a decade and holds a doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - was planting an olive tree at the very ground where Augustine lived, prayed, wrote, and died. If God governs history with a sense of irony, this moment surely pleased Him.
The occasion for Vance's correction was Pope Leo's statement that "God is never on the side of those who wield the sword." Vance responded by invoking the thousand-year tradition of Just War theory as if the pope were unaware of it. But Leo did not say war is never permissible. He said God is not simply enlisted as a combatant on any nation's side. That is not a negation of Just War doctrine. That is its foundation. The Catechism at
§2309 is unambiguous about the conditions that must all be simultaneously met for a war to be just. Archbishop Broglio stated plainly on Easter Sunday that the war against Iran does not meet those criteria. Cardinals Cupich, Mcelroy, and Tobin, along with Archbishop Coakley, have spoken with notable unanimity. Cardinal Tobin put it plainly: Pope Leo "will continue to speak clearly against war and other offenses against human dignity and to call for authentic dialogue, because the Church's witness is grounded in the peace of Christ, not in partisan interests." That is episcopal fidelity. What Vance offered was its precise opposite.

The deeper problem is not merely that Vance is wrong about just war. It is the ecclesiological framework he is importing from American Christian nationalism into a tradition that explicitly rejects it. Vance told Fox News that "in some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what's going on in the Catholic Church, and let the president of the United States stick to dictating public policy." Let that formulation stand naked for a moment. The pope — who holds a universal pastoral office precisely because the Gospel speaks to every dimension of human life — is being instructed to confine himself to the sacristy, while the president is assigned the role of
"dictating" the political world. This is not a Catholic understanding of faith and public life.
Catholic Social Teaching from Rerum Novarum onward has always insisted that the Gospel is not a private spiritual comfort but a public moral claim. When Vance tells the pope to stay in his lane, he is not defending Catholic doctrine. He is betraying it.

JD Vance's forthcoming book on his Catholic faith is titled Communion. Its cover features a United Methodist church. I do not say this merely to mock. Symbolism matters in Catholic theology, and the symbolism here is telling. A book about Catholic unity, bearing Protestant ecclesial architecture on its cover, written by a man who publicly contradicts the pope on Just War doctrine - this is not communion. This is confusion dressed in piety. Archbishop Coakley said it plainly: "The Pope is not Trump's rival, nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls." Communion, in Catholic theology, is not a feeling of spiritual warmth. It is a participation in the Body of Christ that carries radical obligations — to the poor, the stranger, the enemy, to peace. It is a table the powerful do not preside over. They are guests at it, like everyone else.
A seven-year Catholic who tells the pope to watch his theology, while defending an administration that posted an Al image of the president as Jesus Christ and refused to apologize, is not in communion with the tradition he claims to be writing about. He is in communion with power.
And that, as Augustine himself understood deeply, is a very different thing.

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This is a really interesting piece. #SpeirGorm

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

thank you iranian embassy in ghana for helping summarize & confirm

Iran in Ghana
@IRAN GHA...•1h
Let's review:
Trump threatened to destroy "a whole civilization."
Then he begged for a ceasefire.
Then he flew his VP across the world to negotiate for 21 hours.
Vance left with nothing.
So now Trump wants to blockade the strait he can't even sail through; the same strait Iran closed weeks ago and dared anyone to reopen.
Your best generals failed. Your best diplomats failed. And your big move is... doing Iran's job for them?!?
Our Revolutionary Guard should send you a thank-you note.
You're the cheapest contractor they never hired.
No one can write a comedy this good.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 09/04/2026

BREAKING: Defence Forces will be deployed and vehicles blocking critical infrastructure removed, Minister for Justice says | Follow latest

rte.ie

Defence Forces will be deployed, says O'Callaghan

Follow live coverage of travel disruption as fuel price protests enter a third day.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2026

these are the stupidest people to ever live

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

That republicans have consistently taunted AOC for bartending post college, where she double-majored w/ honors in economics & international relations, makes it your patriotic duty to remind them they confirmed a college dropout with a background in plumbing to one of the biggest jobs in the country.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/03/2026

TRUMP: Iran gave me a “very big present”. And it arrived today.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

According to a senior officer aboard, in 1588 Spanish Armada sailed “in confident hope of a miracle.”

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