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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meanwhile, the Irish government is about to waste hundreds more millions of euros subsidising petrol, diesel instead of putting that same money into supporting people to buy EVs, save the #climate & a ton of money too. Far too sensible, clearly, for Micheál, Simon & Co.
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Attracta Uí Bhroin @attractaub.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Shocked to hear of the passing of Frank McDonald. A great champion for Dublin's built heritage and good #planning. Key driver behind Mahon & Flood tribunals. We owe him a huge debt. Ar dheis lámh Dé go raibh a hanam uasal. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Frank McDonald, former environment editor of The Irish Times, dies
McDonald’s reporting on planning corruption was pioneering in Irish journalism, and he regularly reported from abroad on climate negotiations
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“up to his last days, Frank [McDonald] was justly incensed at recent dismantling of Ireland’s planning process & kowtowing to institutional property lobbying in reducing hard-won housing standards & coherent urban design principles” Graham Hickey Dublin Civic Trust www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
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Frank McDonald was Dublin’s greatest champion
Former Irish Times environment editor was in many ways the living embodiment of the capital
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 22/08/2026
An online, and unfunded, encyclopaedia of Dublin's architectural history celebrates 30 years. Archiseek specialises in "unbuilt Irish architectural proposals and lost buildings, giving the public a rare look at 'the Ireland that almost was'", says founder Paul Clerkin.
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An online, and unfunded, encyclopaedia of Dublin's architectural history celebrates 30 years
Started in 1996, the site – now known as Archiseek – specialises in "unbuilt Irish architectural proposals and lost buildings, giving the public a rare look at 'the Ireland that almost was'", says founder Paul Clerkin.
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Duine éigin @duineeigin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You could say the dog got high on the mountain www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dog rescued from Ben Nevis suspected to have eaten discarded cannabis
Tokyo the black Labrador collapsed half way up the UK's highest mountain during a hike with her owner.
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Duine éigin @duineeigin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article... may God have mercy on his soul
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US Senator Lindsey Graham dies after 'brief and sudden illness', his office says
The influential politician has just returned from Kyiv, where he met Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brexit cost 6% of UK economy, Bank of England company data suggests
Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.
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Duine éigin @duineeigin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
@archiseek.bsky.social do you have the photograph of Jim Larkin addressing a crowd from the window of liberty hall?
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If ISIS or another Jihadi terror gang were doing this, the world would be literally up in arms, but hey, it’s the actual Israeli army, so nothing to see here. Again and again and again.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Harborne gave the Brexit Party £6 million in 2019 and was mentioned in the Panama Papers but luckily the UK has the memory of a goldfish... so nobody talks about that
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Animated Goldfish Making Funny Faces
ALT: Animated Goldfish Making Funny Faces
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
More than 4 in 5 vans sold in Holland in the first quarter of 2026 were fully electric, with around 1 in 3 in Denmark, Sweden & Finland. And Ireland? Yet again we’re stuck at foot of the table as tar-loving FF/FG gov’t asleep at the wheel as renewables revolution sweeps Europe.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The real price of Ireland’s toxic car culture: woefully poor infrastructure makes cycling dangerous as billions flood into road funding. Meanwhile, incidence of diabetes, asthma & heart disease largely due to car-centric sedentary lifestyle is a major killer. www.thejournal.ie/oireachtas-s...
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'I miss my old life': Doctor severely injured in hit-and-run speaks out on road safety crisis
Seán Owens was on the way to a house call when he was hit by a car. He lost his right ear and spent nine months in hospital. He can no longer work as a GP.
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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Ciarán's letter is good. mastodon.ie/@ccferrie/11...
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Ciarán Ferrie (@ccferrie@mastodon.ie)
Attached: 2 images My letter in the Irish Times today in response to Pearse Doherty and Sinn Féin's faux outrage about cycle parking at Kerry University Hospital. Cycling infrastructure is Public H...
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Another triumph for the NIMBYS…this offshore wind farm would have powered 350,000 homes, but no, we’d rather burn the world down with foreign oil, gas. RTÉ chatshow host Tommy Tiernan among the objectors. Well done, Tommy, as long as you’re ok. Joke’s on the rest of us.
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Duine éigin @duineeigin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
It was such a great night in Dublin
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Journalists of the world, unite!
You have nothing to lose but the cowardice/apathy of your corporate overlords. Something has to change.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Make #FarageCamps trend on every available platform. Nobody wants their name associated with evil crap like that
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Why are these people giving Farage so much money?
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Absolutely sickening. Israeli bulldozers wrecking solar farms in southern Lebanon yesterday. It’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from an “army” that bombs hospitals, schools and refugee camps & slaughters children for fun.
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Frank McDonald @frankmcdonald60.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
So right …
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It’s coming.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
What a beautiful piece of writing from my boss, @brycetetraeder.bsky.social. theonion.com/at-long-last...
With this new InfoWars, we will democratize psychological torture, welcoming brutal and sadistic ideas from everyone, even the very stupidest among us. It will be like the Manhattan Project, only instead of a bomb, we will be building a website. 

The InfoWars of tomorrow will converge into a swirling vortex of content about content, talent acquiring talent, rings of concentric media mergers processing all human artistry into one endlessly digestible slurry. This will be a dank, sunless place, one where panic and capital feed on each other like twins in the womb of a hulking, unknowable monster—a monster known by many names, but which I like to call modern-day America.
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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Please no carbon taxes to invest in public transport, renewable energy or heat pump retrofits. Please shit the country’s future away on tax cuts for angry man business owners and leave us all more exposed to a massive global fuel shock in 6 months with turbo austerity. I am very left wing.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
It’s a mark of how completely normalised the corruption & depravity have become that we barely bat an eyelid at the thought of two *property developers*, one Trump’s nepo baby son-in-law, being sent to represent the USA in peace negotiations with Iran. Sometimes it all hits you afresh.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
A recipe for total chaos. And worse, cos we know who'll be most militant and it won't be the ones looking to help the vulnerable or most in need
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 13/04/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
It is hilarious in every way but my fingers are still firmly crossed for Hungary today.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Our statement on the fuel protests. We call on governments at all levels to act now and deliver a faster transition to clean energy for a healthier, more secure and more resilient Ireland.
Ireland’s continued reliance on fossil fuels leaves households, communities, farmers, the transport sector, healthcare and other essential services exposed to global instability. We have the renewable resources to build a cleaner, healthier and more secure future, but we are not moving fast enough.

The US-Israeli war on Iran has once again showed us how dependent Ireland remains on imported fossil fuels. When supply is disrupted, costs rise and communities feel the impact immediately.
The response however, cannot be more fossil fuel subsidies or lower fuel prices that further lock in this dependence. The response must be to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, starting now.People across Ireland are under real pressure. The cost of living is high. Any subsidies should directly benefit people, not fossil fuel companies. But decades of policy decisions have tied our economy and daily life to fossil fuels, leaving us vulnerable.

At the same time, burning fossil fuels is driving climate change and harming health. Air pollution contributes to heart disease, respiratory illness and premature death. Extreme weather is becoming more frequent and more damaging.

Reducing fossil fuel use is a health, economic and environmental necessity.

The Government’s Moving Together transport strategy sets out a clear direction: better public transport, safer walking and cycling, cleaner air and more liveable towns and cities. These are practical solutions that reduce costs and improve quality of life.Yet, the ongoing protests in Dublin are blocking public transport and active travel routes. These actions are disrupting the very solutions that can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and lower costs for people. Calls to remove VAT, carbon tax and excise duty on fuel chain us ever further to fossil dependence that is subject to geopolitical volatility – a price that we are so fortunate to pay with only our pockets, and not our lives, as do others around the world. 

Ireland is well placed to change course. Our wind energy can power homes, transport and industry while reducing exposure to volatile global fuel prices.Investing in electrified transport, rural infrastructure and sustainable farming will improve health and strengthen our economy. Renewable electricity has already reached record levels, supplying more than half of demand at times in late 2025.

We need to accelerate this progress.

We call on governments at all levels to act now and deliver a faster transition to clean energy for a healthier, more secure and more resilient Ireland.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
James Geoghegan, one of the organisers of the fossil fuel protests, on Prime Time this evening asking for the government to open Irish oil fields. This is absolute madness. Yes, we need to support people, but this is not the way.
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Fuel protests cause widespread disruption | Prime Time
YouTube video by RTÉ News
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Thugs and bullies
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Overboard broadband! Ireland now has rural fibre but the NBP remains a monument to bad planning, political avoidance and a settlement pattern that makes every infrastructure project cost more than it should. By Michael Smith villagemagazine.ie/overboard-ba...
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Overboard band - Village Magazine
Ireland now has rural fibre but the NBP remains a monument to bad planning, political avoidance and a settlement pattern that makes every infrastructure project cost more than it should
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Well he looks like a completely straight up guy who will totally be making our politics better... for the greater good.... (may include sarcasm) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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British crypto billionaire Ben Delo says he has given £4m to Reform UK
Delo, pardoned by Trump after violating US banking law, describes himself as champion of free speech
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Sadiq Khan @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Disinformation about London has become a global industry. The new “outrage economy” is growing - and it’s eating away at the bonds that hold our society together. That's why I'm calling for urgent action from social media companies and government.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is absolutely nuts
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Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
These lads seem to be able to take loads of time off work - occupying the Bord Bia offices for weeks & then they block public transport for 1000s of working people. Living off subsidies from the tax payers they are blocking. Why aren’t they protesting outside the US Embassy - it’s Trump’s fault!
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 07/04/2026
Come on then, and remove him.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Meanwhile, the Fox News Cabinet is rallying behind Trump's call for war crimes. www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...
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Between Hegseth and the Fox Cabinet, no restraints on Trump’s war crimes plan
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Frank McDonald @frankmcdonald60.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This is well worth reading to get a sense of the issues raised by the campaign to save a late 1980s iconic postmodern landmark - Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green Shoppjng Centre www.type.ie/blog/saving-...
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Saving Stephen’s Green: is commercial architecture at odds with heritage?
The redesign and the public backing of the campaign have brought the building to people’s attention, posing questions about conservation: what is historic, what is worth keeping, and what are we willi...
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
“The scale of the nightmare in Gaza and the West Bank is vast. It is her job to somehow absorb and relay it to the rest of the world. That costs her profoundly — more than any American sanctions.”
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Paul Clerkin, Archiseek.com @archiseek.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Getting very discouraged at my inability to land a job. Even interviews are hard to get. If anyone know of any business or heritage organisation that needs some graphics done, or their website maintained, even a couple of hours a week, I'm their guy.
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Sadiq Khan @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The evidence is overwhelming: Brexit has been a disaster for London and the UK. Rejoining the EU is now clearly in our national interest. The option to rejoin should be on the ballot at the next General Election. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Sadiq Khan urges Labour to campaign on rejoining EU at next election
Mayor of London says returning to EU now more desirable because of economic instability caused by Donald Trump
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This is absolutely bananas.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Another entry for "charts that do not require annotation or in-depth analysis to indicate when the thing happened" www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It is utterly bizarre how apparently everyone in charge of everything has gorged themselves on every bit of AI hype bullshit and swallowed it all whole - presumably because they exist in a totally separate entirely fabricated world of PR bullshit and lobbyist money
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Farage and Jenrick pull a stunt in Buxton in protest at the fuel prices which are going up - on account of a war they both back - started by a man Farage flew thousands of miles to "have dinner with" only for said man to decide he was busy. So much dignity going on.
WATCH: Nigel Farage and Robert
Jenrick change fuel prices in Buxton at
a Reform UK petrol station


They have pledged to reinstate the 5p
fuel duty cut in their first Budget
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Grasping little nobodies, who think they have a god given right to literally lord it over us in perpetuity, because some ancestor bought a peerage or was the illegitimate child of a royal or won some battle in a long forgotten colonial war or lent money to some tosser who lived beyond their means.
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Praise from Trump is a moral condemnation.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A juxtaposition for the ages…
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The Brexit horseshoe’s back.
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