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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do vigilante groups help convict child sex offenders? Today's guest Alex Cunningham spoke to paedophile hunters, experts and gardaí about their methods and the questions surrounding their work www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

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Paedophile hunters: Do vigilante groups help convict child sex offenders?

Alex Cunningham speaks to paedophile hunters, experts and gardaí about their methods and the questions surrounding their work

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the cinemile @thecinemile.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Cathy and Deirdre watched the new #PracticalMagic sequel for today’s pod @deshocks.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/22jm...

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Ep 421 - Practical Magic 2 (w/ Deirdre O'Shaughnessy)

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

UCD Press author Maria Butler (@mariabutler.bsky.social) has a fantastic piece in the Irish Examiner this week about Marian Keyes and women’s commercial fiction. Our thanks to @deshocks.bsky.social and @irishexaminer.bsky.social for sharing this article. 📰 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Marian Keyes' writing is a powerful force for social change

Women's commercial fiction — or chick lit as it is dismissively called — helps to shape society in subtle ways, writes Dr Maria Butler

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Imagine my delight when this one was discussed at the editorial meeting. Great column from Alan Healy about the unprecedented economic success Limerick is enjoying - even with that note of caution. www.irishexaminer.com/business/eco...

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Alan Healy: Limerick is now beating Cork where it really counts

The hurlers aren't the only ones on a winning streak

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hi folks, I've taken Bluesky off my phone, if you need to contact me email is best please - all our emails are the same format at the Examiner, firstname.surname@examiner.ie

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/09/2026

Tell me a fun fact.

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Oliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺 @oliver.ie · 06/09/2026

The fine for riding an e-scooter without a hi-viz vest, so that a careless motorist *might* see you (€100), will be higher than the fine for the same motorists if a Garda stops them for driving carelessly (€80). 🤷‍♂️

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Mojito Fiend @ronronzo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Love how this week we’ve been told by the UN that keeping global warming at 1.5 degrees is now gone and we’re deciding to delay increasing carbon tax, increasing the price of public transport and paying through the nose to cut excise duties. Love that.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Well it appears that the UK political and media class have decided that tutting loudly is the most appropriate response to a large gang of masked racists. Utterly pathetic.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

NEW: French researcher Stephanie Lamy exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, and the media that fell into his trap. If you think the news cycle has “moved on” from this story, ask yourself why? broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...

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The killing of a black man

A French researcher exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey and the media who fell into their trap

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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Literally the same government on the same day:

Collage of newspaper articles:
Government cannot 'fund everything together': Bus and rail fare hikes of up to 35% confirmed
Ryder Cup spectator transport ‘could cost €1m a day’

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 03/09/2026

We're proud to be an employee-owned company 🙃 No big tech or shady investors here! And that means we can stay true to our mission of supporting indie bookshops with your audiobook (and soon, ebook) purchases 💓

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This government's attitude that spending money on public services is some kind of terrible loss to the state coffers rather than THEIR ACTUAL JOB is going to tip me over the edge, I stg.

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聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

All the Most Important people in tech are stuck in various rooms unable to ask their chatbot to remind them how a doorknob works

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴‍♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

Won't someone think of Sam Altman's children?

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Times obit of Gloria Steinem begins like this. Are you fucking kidding me?

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So about that Collison-funded think tank whose policies the Govt has been so receptive to… www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/1passwo...

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CNN @cnn.com · 01/09/2026

Given the near-constant Russian attacks on the capital over the past few days, the school decided it was no longer sustainable for the students to go down to the underground shelters whenever an air raid siren rang. Instead, they will have their classes there. cnn.it/4x0ric4

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Peter Thiel is getting a very cold reception outside his new mansion in the exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentinians are chanting: “Out, out, Peter out.”

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Late 2000s retro chic to tradwife fetishism pipeline...apathetic bourgeois hipster to far right radicalization pipeline...

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Charlie Day's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

ALT: Charlie Day's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I have seen Fionuala in the Panto a few times and I feel she is very much bringing Panto energy to this #traitorsIRL

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There’s absolutely NO WAY that Siobhan McSweeney and Fionuala Linehan don’t know each other from the Cork drama scene #traitorsIRL

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Kelly Fincham @kellyfincham.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🤯🤯🤯 So an apartment complex sewage is routed into the same place providing drinking water to 40,000 people and there are no consequences? And then if not for the Examiner this wouldn’t even be public information.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ms Campbell makes a fine point, and I too look forward to tractors blocking the roads to Clare.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Didn’t know I was drinking sewage for the past few months - and the EPA wouldn’t have known if our reporter Donal O’Keeffe hadn’t started asking questions. Real journalism is worth subscribing for. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

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Raw sewage flowed into Cork river feeding drinking water reservoir for five months

An apartment development was mistakenly connected to a storm drain, sending wastewater into the Butlerstown river

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026

If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/08/2026

Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The British far-right political commentator has called for supermarket ICE checkpoints and ‌summary deportation of anyone failing to prove legal U.S. residency reut.rs/3Umfmnr

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British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE

British far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, who has called for supermarket ICE checkpoints and ‌summary deportation of anyone failing to prove legal U.S. residency, has been detained ...

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is so confusing because all the worst people are here, I don’t know whose side to be on (except yours Amanda, obviously)

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When your Bluesky feed lines things up too perfectly.

Two posts, one by Strategic Risks Initiative, showing the head and shoulders of a bald white man with beard, wearing a blue top, the other by William Dalrymple, showing a painted illustration of a map on a table. There is a figure standing over it, with just their hands, wrists and waist visible. Their hands are on the map. The clothes and the stance match perfectly with the figure in the post above it, making it look like they're two halves of the same image.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A reminder, again, that Ireland has *chosen* not to take regulatory action against this abuse factory, whose office sits in Fenian Street in Dublin. I think this failure to act in the face of clear knowledge is an unforgivable act.

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Elon Musk's xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and Al-generated child pornography.
ASHLEY BELANGER - 27 AUG 2026 21:52

- An inflatable effigy of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, protesting Musk's Grok Al, stands in Times Square in New York City. Credit: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU /
Contributor AFP

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just heard Jill Lepore on Radio One and think I might just go back to bed and stay there... mother of god

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Irish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️‍🌈 @iccl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Meta agreed to adapt Facebook and Instagram to resolve claims by US states that it designed the platforms to addict children, misled consumers about their safety and improperly collected children's personal data. Will Meta extend these new protections to children in Europe? And if not, why not?

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

warning.

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katie @supermathskid.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

a book: the child had been underfed, me, a native speaker of English, reading since toddlerhood, daily reader of fiction and nonfiction, literally A Professional Writer: un-derfed

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/08/2026

???? feel like I knew on some level that Serbia was Not Doing Great Politically but what the everliving fuck

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Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

arguably there would have been no need for #DollyParton to pay for children's books anywhere in Ireland had the school libraries fund not been cut in 2008 (and not restored since) - something you won't hear Mícheal Martin or anynother govt minister mentioning in their tributes #speirgorm

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