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Eilís they/them

@eilymay.bsky.social
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Early career researcher. Neurodiversity and criminal justice. Yapping into the void. Sharing passing thoughts on books (mostly fantasy, mostly queer), Formula 1, and, from time to time, law. 🌈

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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 21h
Don't get me started... Why don't the red and green Luas lines actually intersect properly?!
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 21h
When in Berlin last year, the sheer number of bins and benches was a constant source of awe, envy and lament.
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
'We are Irish lesbians, we've always been here, and we're just not going to be quite as invisible in the future'. Lesbian Lines is 77 about the importance and joy of community. Very striking parallels in oppression between trans people now and lesbians in the 80s. youtu.be/tjzuvhb-u_0?...
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LESBIAN LINES - OFFICIAL TRAILER (2026)
YouTube video by Wildcard Film
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Emmaaargh 🧟 @betaburns.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Imagine being in charge of the country and deciding at this exact moment to cut taxes and increase public spending on stuff like racehorses and fast dogs.
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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'Appalling injustice' - academics call on Taoiseach to intervene over visas for Gazan students. www.thejournal.ie/gaza-student...
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'Appalling injustice' - academics call on Taoiseach to intervene over visas for Gazan students
Four Gazan students have taken up their cases in the courts following the denial of their visas, despite having university places and scholarship funding to come to Ireland.
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
related: ‘UN housing expert warns Irish Government that foreign investors are ‘making housing unaffordable’ here’ www.independent.ie/irish-news/u...
independent.ie
UN housing expert warns Irish Government that foreign investors are ‘making housing unaffordable’ here
Data shows Ireland has 17,482 people in emergency accommodation
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would urge people to recall, as we hear the government justify their choices in the coming budget, that long before the fuel protests, this govermment gave a massive and economically unjustifiable VAT cut to hospitality, which cost more than half of what an additional child benefit payment would
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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
70,000 people dead. Gaza has been razed to the ground. And, Government expects people to be able to access documents. Why are they making the visa process so impossible when colleges have their arms open to welcome these students?
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hon the gays was legit the reaction in the Uí Dhuibhir/Chaoimh household when Diego turned his chalkboard around 🌈
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Diego having a secret game plan and winning the prize money is the only hope I have. #TraitorsIRL
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A choice is before you; who do you believe? Option A: Two women, one a traitor who knows who the other traitor is, the other a faithful who has just been murdered in plain sight. Option B: The guy speculating wildly, but he's one of the lads. .... #TraitorsIRL
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Particularly as she was murdered in plain sight.
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Losing based on misogyny would fit with the terrible dynamics that have been on display. Janet: He murdered me. Response: But he's a great lad. #TraitorsIRL
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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Siobhan looks like a stateswoman in a sci fi series. #traitorsirl That headpiece is amazing.
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
None of them have heard of Occam's Razor, it would seem. #TraitorsIRL
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If they don't vote out Pauric O or Carla, they don't deserve to win. #TraitorsIRL
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
"if there are circumstances where it is considered unsafe for gardaí to remain in a country, how is that assessment reconciled with the decision to return people there?" www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
irishtimes.com
Safety of gardaí abroad part of reason for State chartering return deportation flights
Public Accounts Committee is told more than €3m spent so far under a contract to transport people from Ireland
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This active state targeting of LGBTQ+ people in Turkey in recent days should be getting a lot more attention: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... There is a petition campaign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Janet's voice will haunt me. That's what you get for being nice, eh? #TraitorsIRL
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They are literally plotting in the other room. Come on!?!
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Like, lads, how many signs have to point to Carla before ye will vote her off. #TraitorsIRL
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Dónal, I felt for you previously. But, lad, you have completely made up what happened with Kayleigh. This show is a lesson in the fallibility of memory, particularly under pressure. #TraitorsIRL
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Hannah @hanzd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Even Siobhán looks bored of the kumbaya shite #TraitorsIrl
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Lionel Hutz's World Peace Daydream
ALT: Lionel Hutz's World Peace Daydream
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If Pete wins, I'm never watching this show again. #TraitorsIRL
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Janet to Diego: 'Your husband won't want to meet me now'. Diego: *awkward laugh #TraitorsIRL
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think Sean meant Dave's husband and kids.
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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
says the guy who championed the change to our constitution taking away the right for people born in ireland to have irish citizenship making a lie of the promise written in our actual passports
close up of page in Irish passport reading: it is the entitlement and birthright of every person born in the island of ireland, which includes its islands and seas, to be part of the Irish nation
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the transphobic witch hunt against the ALCI is an attack on academic freedom, and the lack of pushback on the politicians and publications driving it is emboldening the Irish right to target other conferences for the heinous crime of treating trans people as human beings
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
But they seem to understand equity only in its financial-lingo iteration, i.e., the value of an asset. The misogyny is popping off.
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Look, there's a lot to unpack here. But as @frankiegolucky.bsky.social just said to me, the equity over equality slogan misunderstands the word equity. An equitable solution might provide more funding to women's teams to make up for years of underfunding. www.rte.ie/sport/footba...
rte.ie
Minister for Sport wants 'realistic' integration deadline
Minister for Sport Patrick O'Donovan said he wants to see "realistic" and "achievable" deadlines in place for the amalgamation of the GAA, LGFA and Camogie Association.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't want to be more in line with the rest of the EU on citizenship. I want us to repeal the fucking 27th Amendement and return to our own tradition of birthright citizenship instead of the jus sanguinis shite that tells people born and reared here they aren't Irish if they have immigrant parents
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
not to be melodramatic, but do people remember what freedom is? liberty? autonomy? I seem to recall a lot of people howling those words about five or six years ago, now we've got Obergruppenführer O'Callaghan saying "I should get to decide how many people there are" and hardly anyone bats an eyelid
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's so long. Had to sit through it in the cinema.
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The clashes over Drumcree are one of the first political moments I remember. That and the clashes around Holy Cross.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
there has been remarkably little interest from the Irish press in the takeover of Mount Melleray by a private American university owned by a billionaire with close ties to Opus Dei that recently experienced a major outbreak of measles and has a statue of Charlie Kirk being embraced by Jesus
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Except to say that there will apparently be a historic mass there on the 20th September 🤨
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 23/08/2026
The kind of racist pseudoscience advocated for by Cofnas has no more place in the social sciences than flat Eartherism has in geology and the only reason anybody imagines a difference is because of white supremacy tbh.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
‘What we are asking the minister for is not complicated. Waive the documentation requirements that cannot realistically meet, and use the discretion his department already has to assess these cases against the exceptional circumstances people are coming from’ www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
irishexaminer.com
Why is department acting against Government policy and public wishes on Gaza students?
Last year, 80 Palestinian scholarship students were granted visas. This year, at least half have been refused. What has changed? asks Angie Gough
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Perhaps even part of a general ableist turn against disabled people who are seen as non productive? When poly crises of late stage capitalism and climate change, not to mention a recent pandemic, lead to increased disabilities, suggesting the disability isn't real seems easier than systemic change.
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Not a fun time. Cities should just ban them honestly. No justification for them in large urban areas.
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
As someone who got hit by one of these trucks while legally crossing the street in the US, I concur. I still have the visceral memory of being on the road and the gigantic wheel still moving towards me.
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Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This summer every glass roofed or glass walled late 90s early 2000s building looks like a monument to climate change denial.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026
I need people to understand the relevant context of this policy shift is not just the genocide, but Jim O’Callaghan’s political ambitions. He is staking his claim for the top job on being seen as tough on immigration. Palestinians are the most sympathetic but by no means the only victims
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday found dead after resigning from Cambridge over plagiarism claims. This is heartbreaking after following their story in recent weeks and all their work. Sending love to their family and our wider community. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Jason Arday found dead after resigning from Cambridge over plagiarism claims
Academic was pronounced dead at his home in south London after police called to address after 3pm on Friday
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Marty Hades 🔥💀 @smartypantsmarty.com · 14/08/2026
It’s just so wrong. We need to revisit the need for a public inquiry into press standards. No one should have to endure the hounding that Jason Arday experienced. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
Jason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, officials said.
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Now that the PhD is done, I'm hoping to share more book-related thoughts on here 😁
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Have to share my thoughts on Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell. The claustrophobia of entering the world of a queer Jewish artist in 1930s Berlin. The inevitability of what's about to happen. The author has done a fabulous job, and it's heartbreaking. #BookSky #QueerLit
Front cover of Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell. The cover is predominantly yellow with a black window upon which a woman from the 1930s sits, peering at her own reflection. She is depicted in black and white, as if from a period typical photograph. 
Praise for the book appears on the front cover. 'Gripping, gorgeously written.' Joanna Quinn. 
'This vivid novel of 1930s Berlin asks what it means to make art in an emergency.' Eleanor Catton
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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl... This is a useful summary of why we need to know who is autistic, for good support & healthcare. With so many studies showing major differences, (e.g. much higher rates of heart disease/stroke) pretending most autistic people don't exist is a really silly approach
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Autism across the lifespan: adult care remains inadequate
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects approximately one in 31 children, with prevalence increasing more than threefold over the past two decades. This rise has drawn considerable public attention. Ho...
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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A grim read. Galway heading the same way I'm afraid: 'The people who make the whole performance run, the ones pouring the pints, turning the beds, carrying the overpriced chowder, smiling on command, can't afford to live in the city they're paid to be charming in.'
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