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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 53m

How bad are we talking? Pork Markets bad?

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Dublin Freelance @dublinfreelance.org · 18/08/2026

Freelance Forum Autumn 2026 @robertdunnemedia.bsky.social Using Oireachtas Resources @deanbuckley.bsky.social Ireland in the Epstein Files: a case study. Chair Margaret Ward. Monday 19 October NUJ Members/Students €5 Others €20 dublinfreelance.org/freelance-fo... Supported by Coimisiún na Meán

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Dublin Freelance @dublinfreelance.org · 10/08/2026

Freelance Forum Autumn 2026 Pivot to Video: Video is becoming a necessary part of everyone’s toolkit. Aileen O’Meara goes over what journalists needs to know. Monday 19 October, Dublin NUJ Members/Students €5 Others €20 dublinfreelance.org/freelance-fo... Supported by Coimisiún na Meán

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Freelance Forum Autumn 2026 is Supported by Coimisiún na Meán

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Dublin Freelance @dublinfreelance.org · 04/08/2026

Freelance Forum Autumn 2026 Rumour control & influence operations with @lizcarolan.com, The Briefing, @aidanobrien.bsky.social European Digital Media Observatory Ireland/DCU, & @stephaniecostello.bsky.social Monday 19 October, Dublin NUJ/Students €5 Others €20 dublinfreelance.org/freelance-fo...

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Dublin Freelance @dublinfreelance.org · 28/07/2026

Freelance Forum Autumn 2026 — supported by Coimisiún na Meán "Pitching and Commissioning" Alan Caulfield, Irish Independent Sinead O’Carroll, TheJournal Deirdre O’Shaughnessy, Irish Examiner Monday 19 October NUJ Members/Students €5 Others €20 dublinfreelance.org/freelance-fo...

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Dublin Freelance @dublinfreelance.org · 22/07/2026

Freelance Forum Autumn 2026 — supported by @cnam-ie.bsky.social "Beyond the Headline: The Role of the DPP in Focus" Catherine Pierse, director of public prosecutions in conversation with Margaret Ward. Monday 19 October NUJ Members/Students €5 Others €20 dublinfreelance.org/freelance-fo...

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Dublin Freelance @dublinfreelance.org · 07/07/2026

Freelance Forum Autumn 2026. Monday 19 October Pearse Street, Dublin 2 For freelance journalists, students, photo+videographers, PR. Full details to book your place: dublinfreelance.org/freelance-forum-autumn-2026/

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 2h

As someone once said of John Major, he is someone who rose without trace

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 2h

Either that, or there's a unification vote which renders the CTU largely moot. I doubt either is happening in the short to medium term though.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 3h

Annual reminder ahead of the post-Budget radio phone-ins that the questions for Jack Chambers are pre-screened and he's been given the answers, he isn't your friendly neighbourhood financial advisor.

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 22h

I actually love billions going to subsidise fossil fuel companies instead of long term solutions. It's class that we can afford to prolong the issue of fossil fuel dependency indefinitely. I love it

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 4h

The only thing stopping Ireland joining Schengen is the UK. The CTA has to be maintained to allow free movement with NI.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 4h

Shakespearian Obi Wan Kenobi

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 4h

It appears that the US government pressured the Canadian and Lithuanian governments (as well as the EEAS) to pull their support and representives from the @disinfo.eu conference in Vilnius. This decision happened at the absolute last minute.

The EU disinfo lab 2026 sponsors. Three names have been tapped over

CU you can see the Canada sign has been tapped over.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 12h

I don't think the tories are that imaginative.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 13h

Yeps. One giant egg in a big basket called Tax Haven.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 13h

This looks very like a sub to fund managers?

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 13h

If you mean we can't afford the North, I'm not sure that's true. There will be problems, but that won't be top tier.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 14h

The problem isn't that we're spending too much. The problem is we're taxing too little and too narrowly.

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 17h

I cannot get over that this happened. And to a book that I very much would have liked to read. It is WILDLY depressing that it happened at Oxford University Press.

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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 15h

And yet Jennifer Carroll-McNeill just said on #rtept that the State can only afford to give a shingles vaccines to immunocompromised over 85s. #IrishPol

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 15h

SF aren't going to bring change, just different names on the letterheads.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 15h

That number keeps getting smaller though. I remember when they could count on four-fifths.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 16h

This means UK too. Who's going to tell them?

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 16h

About one third of the population is doing just fine, and FFG figure they can coast along on that number..

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 20h

Then why are we not future proofing with solar farms and 100% grants for solar at home and heat pumps?

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Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 21h

I'm so fucking angry about this again. The amount we're paying for childcare went *up* by NINE HUNDRED EURO and the headlines were about the cost of childcare going down.

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 19h

All GDPR protection stripped if it's for AI use?? They're proposing absolute capitulation to the techbros. My goodness, what a brutish handover of people's privacy for the AI vultures. And really, I think 'honest broker' is not a fit phrase tbh. #spéirghorm #IrishPol #AI #EUPres

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ciara moloney @ciaramoloney.bsky.social · 22h

can I just say how irresponsible to the point of nonsensical coverage about this manufactured "debate" was in the media for the last year and that in a functioning society raising thresholds for INHERITANCE TAX would be treated as ridiculous

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 20h

I wonder how many TDs have shares in breeding/stud farms and racetracks

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Interesting thread on DevelEire about Stripe; seems to be an absolutely toxic place to work. www.reddit.com/r/DevelEire/...

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 21h

We did the exact same with stamp duty during the tiger years, in case you're wondering how this ends...

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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Now let the rest of the world follow and show tech companies surveillance by default is not something that we want

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 21h

So I'd like to hear one political leader today promise to increase taxes when they get into office in order to spend more on public services. And I'd like that to result in a rise in their poll support, not a fall. Also, I would like a pony.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 21h

I'll have a Betteridge's Law to go, please..

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A mystery why Draghi is pushing a billionaire techbro agenda.

Europe is weak’: Patrick Collison and Mario Draghi team up with new think tank

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 22h

A Silly Season special, alongside (re)joining the Commonwealth and compulsory national service. Usually shot down by people pointing to Lord Kinsealy, Baron Bertie... There was a plan for President's Awards in the 2000s, but it fell victim to An Bord Snip

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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The bill has been opened to feedback. Rather than dooming about the proposal, you can tell them exactly how you feel about the act here. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... With how much of an uphill battle Chat Control is having, you should never assume it's worthless to fight these draconian bills.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

He'll be televising them on pay-per-view in a few more months.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Martin McGrath @martinmcgrath.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The fact that it is inevitable that AI's money burning machines must create inequalities of access (and that these inequalities will directly reflect already deeply engrained societal unfairnesses) is precisely why hate the idea of an AI free-for-all in education share.google/Jgh6DBXwMb1N...

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Google is changing which models you can access on its Gemini AI plans — here's what you need to know

If you want access to the best models inside Gemini, you're going to have to start paying for them.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Of course there's a chance the threat was Putin threatening to release Epstein files to Assange

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