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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Your reminder that Brenda Power is an adjudicator for the International Protection Appeals Tribunal which currently has a number of appeals before it from transgender Americans
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Meanwhile in non-football news ...
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The only only sportsman and the only real man among them, standing head and shoulders above the cowards in the squad, the coaching staff and the FAI. This is how simple it is to do the right thing.
A statement from Ireland goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu that says: 

Representing my country means everything to me. I have the utmost respect for every single one of my team mates, the Manager, his staff and the Irish people.

However I have reached a decision that I have not taken lightly. I am a man of strong faith and try my best to be a person of character and principle therefore I feel it would be wrong to participate in the upcoming fixtures against Israel.

My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong.

It is important to note that my stance is not in opposition of the Israeli people or the Jewish community but against the atrocities in the region.

There are few times where you get a chance in life to stand up for something bigger and I strongly believe that this is one of them.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad

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Statement - Gavin Bazunu

Representing my country means everything to me. I have the utmost respect for every single one of my team mates, the Manager, his staff and the Irish people

However I have reached a decision that I have hot taken lightly. I am a man of strong faith and try my best to be a person of character and principle therefore 1 feel it would be wrong to participate in the upcoming fixtures against Israel.

My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong.

It is important to note that my stance is not in opposition of the Israeli people or the Jewish community but against the atrocities in the region.

There are few times where you get a chance ir ife to stand up for something bigger and strongly believe that this is one of them


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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Milo yes been deported to Britain? Ho ho, good luck to a racist, transphobic, paedophilia endorsing shitwit who hangs out with open Nazis getting work in the great British media... hang on, I'm just being handed a piece of paper.
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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 21/08/2026
I have a novel idea, hear me out. We could ban all trade with these illegal settlements. Both goods and services. We could call it an Occupied Territories Bill or something like that.
Israeli settlement proposal demands ‘robust’ response, says Helen McEntee
Minister’s remarks come after publication of tender to build 1,200 housing units in Palestine
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...
A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution
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Harry Burton @hbtoons.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 28/07/2026
Imagine my surprise when finding promised social homes on Daft.ie 🙃 140 apartments which should have been public homes now being advertised for €2400-4500 per month
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Deal for 140 Dublin social homes falls through as €4,500 rental ads appear online
A total of 140 social homes slated for Dublin 9 are instead appearing online for rent privately for up to €4,500 a month.
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david celis @davidcel.is · 23/07/2026
i don’t usually respond to these kinds of emails, but this one made me so fucking mad that i blacked out and regained consciousness with this in my outbox
An email exchange between Andre Hamra and David Celis

ANDRE HAMRA: Hi David, Andre here – Stanford MBA'24, Forbes Under 30, and founder of Refer. Not sure if you saw on Business Insider this week, but we just raised $10M for the crazy idea of making recruiting free for companies and built around the candidate instead. Do you happen to be hiring for Freshworks? Or planning your next move? If yes I’m happy to share more.

DAVID CELIS: No thanks, Andre. I think it shows a distinct lack of empathy to be running a recruiting platform where people who need work and who may already be unemployed are forced to pay for the “privilege” of getting hired, especially in the current job market. It's should be so obvious that companies who actually have the cash to hire should be the ones paying for candidate placement that this comes off as ludicrously out of touch and the fact that you’ve been able to secure $10M in funding only further entrenches my belief that this industry is run by absolute sociopaths who only care about sucking the working class dry. I truly hope your company crashes and burns.
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Holly Baleen @hollybaleen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It’s nice to see at least one journalist stand up against the Women’s Rights Network and JK Rowling. Idk if this is typical of the Belfast Telegraph but it’s good to see anyway.
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Belfast Telegraph
THE HOME OF POLITICS & OPINION
What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women's rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority
ALLISON
MORRIS
Féile an Phobail
is an inclusive
festival
've thought long and hard about com-menting on the controversy over the
cancellation of the Women's Rights
Network (WRN) esent at Felle an Phobail
- not because I don't have an opinion.
but because it is a debate that attracts the most
toxic elements.
WRN NI was not a group I was familiar with
oretane so esone cutel
No speakers were listed in the Feile pro-gramme for the planned event, which in itself is odd as there are for almost every other of the
90-plus debates and discussions.
The group has since announced who its
speakers were to be in a series of online posts.
My research took me down quite the rabbit
hole - a who's who of the anti-trans movement
not just on this island but Europe-wide.
I don't pretend to understand their motiva-tion.
In fact, I remain baffled as to why in one of the most dangerous places for women to live in Europe, the group - which has spoken out about femicide before - is obsessing about a small minority instead of the actual dangers we
I have worked for decades covering violence
against women and giris in all the distressing
forms that takes.
Iknow the names of every woman and child
years without even having to look them up.
Not a single one was caused by a trans woman
-Ichecked the list twice just to be sure.
None of them were murdered in a public toilet
cunct, wuich navig sookco atinc online posts ofWRN and their many affiliates, is apparently
нсни uanscuus mw cun caa suu
with trans predators lurking in every cubicle.
Apart from the absurdity of much of the
group's argument regarding the perceived dan-gers of trans women, the claim that women are being silenced by Féile is the most disingenuous of them all.
Most people know lam from west Belfast. and very proudly so. I have attended Feile since it was a concert i…
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/07/2026
“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Now the Mayo lads better not interrupt any funerals on the way home tomorrow...
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 22/07/2026
Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Worth adding some numbers to this. The British press decided to make trans rights into an issue. It just wasn’t an issue before. This was a top-down decision. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
Two striking statistics come to mind.
The first is how the British media decided to obsess over trans people. This is very clear.
Between 2012 and 2022 alone, trans-related articles went from just 60 to over 7,500. By 2022, there were at least 125 times more articles on trans people than in 2012. This has facilitated the rise of a far right narrative vis-a-vis "gender ideology" which is talked about in civilisational terms: In effect, trans people are being portrayed not as individuals but as the products of an ideology that threatens the dominance of 'man' and perceived traditional gender roles.
Fast forward just three years and we see the Daily Mail actively investigate whether any of Tyler Robinson's neighbours or roommates were trans, which would apparently help explain why he shot the white supremacist and Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk.
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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If you don't drink coffee, it'd be great if you could tell people about how we're run. If a large business ran this way, they could make a real difference. Everyone does well under this model. It works and it's sustainable. If you need coffee, we're very good at what we do imbibe.ie/pages/shop
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We are an Irish Coffee Roasting Business. We give away 4% of all we earn before we make a cent. We roast coffee very well.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Draconian tech bans are a sham designed to punish kids for the sins of the adults who've ruined our world, whether online or off. It's high time we began policing them, not our children. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Séamas O’Reilly: Social media bans for children ignore the scorpions in the room
We already have ways of mitigating online harms – they are enshrined in laws we refuse to enact
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Yesterday the Telegraph reported on my comments about air conditioning. The comment section is quite something. I have apparently become a hero of the anti net zero crowd by saying something what I think is sensible about air con. Allow me to point out three ironies in this 🧵
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Dublin Fire Brigade @dubfirebrigade.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage Listens to the News
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Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 03/07/2026
If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall.
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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 02/07/2026
Made a little bot to try and surface archive stuff (10+ years) showing up on iPlayer.
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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Colm O’Gorman @colm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
URGENT APPEAL A mam and her 5 children from Gaza need a wheelchair-accessible 3-bed home in or near Dublin. One child is awaiting critical surgery and stable accommodation is urgently needed. Rental support (up to €2,500/month for 18 months) is available through the Irish Red Cross. Info below:
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Jyoti Mishra @jyotimishra.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Well, that was a fucking ride.
A cropped screenshot of an article section titled "Gary Larson cartoon incident" from a Tumblr page. The text describes a controversy involving a Far Side cartoon and Jane Goodall. 

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Gary Larson cartoon incident

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 In 1987 Gary Larson published a Far Side cartoon of two chimpanzees grooming, in which one discovers a blonde hair and says, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"[127] The Jane Goodall Institute called the cartoon an "atrocity" in a letter drafted by its lawyers to Larson and his syndicate. Goodall, who was in Africa at the time, later found the cartoon amusing.[128] 

She went on to name it her favourite depiction of herself in pop culture.[129] Larson offered profits from sales of a shirt featuring the cartoon to the Jane Goodall Institute.[130] 

Goodall wrote the preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy.[131] She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals. 

In 1988 Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania.[128] While there, he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.[127][132]
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Pope Leo: "Every boat that arrives does not bring only migrants; it brings with it a question: what world have we built, if so many brothers must risk death to seek life?"
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The reluctance among media outlets to specify that these pogroms are the work of far-right loyalist thugs is particularly weird, given that they sign their work! The LVF spray tags on the houses of the people they burn out, whether Catholics, migrants or refugees. They've done this for decades!
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I see that the Southampton rioters are once again proving to be the kind of decent, law-abiding, women-defending, pleasant stout yeomen of the shire we should be paying attention to.
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The thing about the violence in Belfast last night is that it’s a reflection of a wider crisis within the Unionist community, a complete lack of leadership and the consequence of generations of working class people being abandoned. But also it’s down to the fact that these people are really racist
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We used to call them ‘race riots’ now we call them ‘anti-immigration protests’.
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
They could genuinely refuse to play the match. It genuinely could make a difference. It genuinely could spark action from others. Maybe it wouldn’t, but it could. Doesn’t that feel worth it?
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
it's bad that the Secretary of Defense of the US is a nazi
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/06/2026
BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 06/06/2026
It may be coincidence that the year the Dept of Education is made find internal savings of €200m, is the year that enrolment and resourcing of vital summer provision schemes goes to shite. But enrolment and resourcing of vital summer provision schemes has gone to shite. And guess who misses out.
substack.com
I'm Sorry. It's Another Piece About Special Education News That Is Less Than Ideal.
Before I begin, I promise you I would much rather be writing about something else.
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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE Martin O'Neill has agreed to become the new permanent manager of Celtic www.heraldscotland.com/spor...
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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"Restrictions on women's dress are anti-Irish." *Proceeds to tell women what clothes they can wear*
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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Fine Gael Minister Kieran O'Donnell just called the figures we reported "speculation by the Irish Times." To reiterate, they're from the Central Statistics Office.
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