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Joe Noonan

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Cork-Donegal migrant blend. Knows some law.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/09/2026
“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for."
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“Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”: Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump
“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for. … ...
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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Hope Is the Thing with Feathers” with my Silkroad Ensemble family 💜
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Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 31m
TBI refused to answer any of our questions and pretty much said they’re not talking to us anymore. This is an organisation that advises governments in 45 countries. Questions about who pays for access to it - and the ministers in its contacts book - are squarely in the public interest.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 01/10/2026
Netanyahu denies receiving warnings before Hamas’s 7 October attack. But reports now point to alerts from both the UAE and Egypt, while a source says he privately sought a denial from the Emirati president, Jack Khoury and The Associated Press report. #Israel #October7
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Netanyahu asked UAE leader to deny October 7 warning report, source says
Netanyahu has repeatedly denied receiving warnings before 7 October. Now a source says he privately asked the UAE president to deny one of the accounts.
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Levi @levi98k.eurosky.social · 12h
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Damian Stack @damianstack.bsky.social · 8h
Hope Is The Thing With Feathers live this evening by @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social at Cyprus Avenue in Cork... Goosebumps. Thanks for an amazing show 👏👏
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RalfGrahn @ralfgrahn.bsky.social · 3h
Violations of the UN Charter, international law and international justice are spreading like wildfire giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Putin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian leader tells FT his Russian counterpart has given the order that ‘there are no rules now’
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3h
“We're working musicians who made a principled decision, and the financial and professional stakes are very real in all of that. "But we are really not the story here, and I would always want to bring it back to the people of Palestine and the plight of our Palestinian brothers and sisters."
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Beoga 'remain friends' with Ed Sheeran after tour exit
Niamh Dunne of the Irish trad band Beoga has told RTÉ Radio 1's News at One that the group "remain friends" with Ed Sheeran, despite their decision to leave his North American tour in solidarity with ...
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SJ Thompson 🍁🇨🇦 @sjsthompson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How lovely! The poignancy of that moment when our old world dies and we begin to wait anew for the miracle of birth.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 4h
We're all so freaked out about AI crushing students' cognitive skills (and rightly so) so it's nice to be reminded that at least some of them are just out there reading and learning and thinking much as they've ever been.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 4h
Student came to office hours today to tell me they'd been reading up on the Paramount-WB merger and that had led them down a rabbit hole about corporate power and they'd found the article I contributed to on corporate oligarchy and could we please talk about this because they were really freaked out
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Voice4Justice @voices4justice.bsky.social · 3h
An intimate evening with Mai Shahin and Jamil Qassas, Combatants for Peace and true profiles in courage. Beautiful, inspiring humans who exemplify that there IS another way. I am so proud to call them dear friends 🇵🇸🕊️🇮🇱 1/7
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Ron Chusid @rchusid.bsky.social · 3h
Scientific American interviews Abdul El-Sayed on science and Medicare for All.
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Abdul El-Sayed explains how science influences his politics
Scientific American spoke to the Michigan Senate candidate about how his background in medicine has shaped his outlook
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mariaevajarrous.bsky.social @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social · 8h
True 🤬
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Steve @adriel1819.bsky.social · 3h
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3h
Alexandra Kopf (17) wins Caritas Salzburg Art against Poverty prize for her painting of arms holding empty plates in a feeding station queue in Gaza. Via Misan Harriman on Insta
Left - Her painting
Right - At her easel
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 9h
This was teamwork with 5 of us. Others will pick it up tomorrow. We’re up to 400 names now and still going strong. Thanks to every single one of you who have supported 🙌
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 12h
Add your support here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road
An open letter to the Rt Hon Chris Bryant MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Helen McEntee TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, was sent at 8pm Thursday 1 October 2026. We will co...
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 12h
🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 10h
Exceptional musicians. Rhiannon Giddens, Jason Robinson, Newal Tzumba ...
Rhiannon on banjo
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 13h
Cork
Lee at night with flowers
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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 14h
"EU lawmakers are calling for European Commission to forbid European firms & banks from applying U.S. sanctions on ICC. Dutch lawmaker Dirk Gotink said EU “needs to protect the ICC” which would involve “blocking statute”' www.politico.eu/article/bloc...
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Block US sanctions on ICC, EU lawmakers tell Commission
Automatically applying U.S. sanctions “stems from the time when we thought that the Americans were still our friends,” said Dutch lawmaker Dirk Gotink.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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WIRED @wired.com · 14h
Traverse barriers and checkpoints in the occupied West Bank—your choices reflect the reality of nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there. www.wired.com/story/experi...
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Experience What It’s Like to Travel in the Occupied West Bank
Traverse barriers and checkpoints in the occupied West Bank—your choices reflect the reality of nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15h
I'll be on a panel debating "rogue" AI on RTE Prime Time tonight, 9:30pm stay tuned
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 20h
This is the same place in November 2023.
Satellite image of an intact neighborhood in eastern Rafah on 24 November 2023
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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 16h
Hard to interpret this specific request except as an indication that the judges know their decision is legally flawed and would require them to explicitly overturn well-established Bagatz jurisprudence and they’d prefer a highly discretionary de facto red line (their own judgement).
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High Court unanimously urges Abu Shehadeh to end candidacy, says majority backs ban
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h
“Becca Good addressed the media for the first time, saying, ‘I’m Renee Good’s partner, and she was the love of my life.’”
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Live: Renee Good’s partner calls for ‘accountability’ in emotional statement
Renee Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 15h
Your new car says more about you than you may intend.
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19 Out of 21 Late-Model Cars Tested Shared Data With 3rd Parties, Including Big Tech: Study
Researchers found vehicles in real-world settings contacted “third parties ... known to provide advertising and tracking services.”
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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 15h
But the most incisive take was from Ken Early on @secondcaptains.bsky.social yesterday: this case is symptomatic of the arrogance of the wealthy that the rules simply don't apply to them. Even when they're caught, they still insist on the system somehow being "against" them. Sham City indeed.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 15h
the capture of this government by tech interests isn't surprising, but it's still mind-boggling how naked it is. Malcolm Byrne was chair of the AI committee until he had to step down, replaced by fellow FF TD Naoise Ó Cearúil, a former sales manager at Gong.ai who holds shares in his former employer
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Gong - Revenue AI OS
Gong Revenue AI OS helps your entire GTM organization win. Drive growth with multimodal revenue signal processing, specialized AI agents, and purpose-built applications.
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Margaret Cahill @margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social · 19h
I've been living in Limerick for a very long time but the city has only crept into my stories in recent years. I'm not sure you'll all thank me for it when you read this! I'm thrilled to have Two Choices published with @mrbullbull.bsky.social today. mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
Oskar is woken by the slamming of doors as people from the floors below him leave for work. The noise echoes up the wide staircase of the Georgian building to where he lies under two duvets in a bed that isn’t quite long enough for his six-foot-three frame.When the sun eventually comes out from behind the grey clouds, Oskar decides to go to the city park. It is the one place in the city where there are always more foreigners than Irish people. Like him, they mostly live in cramped city centre apartments with no back gardens or space for children to run around in. The park is their meeting place, their cricket and football field, their access to the sun, their refuge.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 15h
Sr Julie Doran, of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles, arrived with snacks, including some from Palestine, for the protesters. Sr Doran: “We Sisters have been in Palestine for many years .. They’re a beautiful people. “I’m supporting these people today, and my heart is for them.”
Sr Julie Doran, of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles, arrived with snacks, including some from Palestine, for the protesters.

Sr Doran, who previously worked in Palestine, said she has attended a number of solidarity rallies.

“We sisters have been in Palestine for many years ... They’re a beautiful people,” she said.

“I’m supporting these people today, and my heart is for them.”

A larger protest, organised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Irish Sport for Palestine, is expected to take place outside the Aviva at 6.30pm.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h
Is it National Victim-Blaming Week?
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 17h
"if you are reading this online, you are using a data centre" is a really poor excuse to make Ireland such a hub for data centres that they're threatening the stability of our power grid, driving up fossil gas use and greenhouse gas emissions. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Debate: Should we put a pause on data centre development? Lynn Boylan vs Malcolm Byrne
Our electricity grid is under pressure, leading to calls for a moratorium on data centres
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 17h
Viral reports this week suggested new Google satellite imagery showed unseen destruction in Gaza. But the imagery actually depicts the scene in February 2026. Bellingcat has obtained satellite images from September that show how the destruction has continued. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...
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Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcat
Earlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 16h
Hoping to hear the answer this evening.
Album artwork 
Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson. 

What did the blackbird say to the crow.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Amnesty EU: “Cruel and unlawful betrayal.” www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-isra...
EU refusal to suspend EU Israel agreement a betrayal says Amnesty
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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 18h
Call for proposals for UK-Germany Bilateral Collaborative Research and Development UK registered SME's can apply for a share of up to £2.4 million for the purpose of developing innovative proposals with Germany. Closing date: 1 December 2026 www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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Germany Bilateral Collaborative R&D: round 5
UK registered SME’s can apply for a share of up to £2.4 million for the purpose of developing innovative proposals with Germany. You must collaborate with at least one German SME applying under the eq...
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 18h
The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman who was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent near her home in January, filed two federal lawsuits Thursday alleging wrongful death, among other contentions.
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Live: Renee Good’s family files lawsuits over fatal shooting by ICE agent
Renee Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 22h
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social have been researching the Irish housing crisis since we returned in 2018 This piece in todays The Journal is by far the most shocking Realising how badly we treat the most vulnerable should put a chill down the spine of every reader www.thejournal.ie/the-housing-...
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Do we care where people with disabilities live?
Being disabled and homeless has long been normalised in Ireland, it is just largely hidden from us.
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 18h
The Office of Public Works (OPW) has been renting residential properties to its staff and retired workers for only a fraction of their market value, an audit by Revenue has found. jrnl.ie/7179368
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OPW renting properties to staff and retired workers for a fraction of their market value
The audit of how the OPW manages its 92 residential properties produced a long list of damning conclusions.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h
Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action aje.news/zjyo4q
Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 20h
" ... while you’ve the chequebook out, you might have a look and see how that €2.5 billion fine from the Data Protection Commission is coming along. The State has only got €17 million of that so far, as it’s still under appeal, but we can stay in touch." - Ciaran Murphy
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Mark Zuckerberg’s few coins thrown to the GAA should not fool us
Tech tycoon has bought a castle in Waterford and given €150,000 to three clubs, so expect to see him at a game soon
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 21h
A town in Germany has banned the laying of Stolpersteine, the "stumbling stones" remembering victims of the Holocaust. A couple of years I interviewed Gunter Demnig, the artist who came up with the scheme, and met the family behind one of the over-100,000 stones. www.economist.com/europe/2023/...
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Stolpersteine grieve for victims of the Nazis, one at a time
Gunter Demnig’s paving stones spark countless acts of remembrance
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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 21h
the afd ban on the stumbling stones is super, super worrying this combined with jordan bardella's antisemitic messages show that the european far-right's nazi roots are still well connected
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US has already withdrawn from a number of European-based UN & multilateral agencies, including the #WHO and the UN Human Rights Council, and is weighing further such steps. The US withdrew in January from another CoE panel — the Venice Commission, which is an advisory body on constitutional law.
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