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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸

@karsugrue.bsky.social
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Sociologist, psychotherapist, parent, Star Trek fan, feminist, activist, #breastcancer ninja #repealedthe8th co-chair @together_safety & @mams4trans 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

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Roisin Meaney 💙📚 @roisinm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My youngest brother has just told me his ex was doing a clear-out, and he commandeered a bag of clothing, in case I might like to go through it. I could not be more excited.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺 @marksugrue.com · 22/09/2026
What was your first computer growing up?
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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺 @marksugrue.com · 22/09/2026
Something like this mockup (Apologies for using AI) #SpeirGorm #SpeirGhorm
A mockup of my proposed Leopold Bloom themed pedestrian crossing light for Dublin - GreenA mockup of my proposed Leopold Bloom themed pedestrian crossing light for Dublin - Red
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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺 @marksugrue.com · 21/09/2026
Dublin needs its own unique pedestrian crossing light symbol. I propose it be designed to look like Leopold Bloom on his odyssey
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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺 @marksugrue.com · 20/09/2026
I'd like to see Dublin try this.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Macklemore "every child deserves to live" Ed Sheeran "this is hurtful to a lot of people"
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Laura Maguire @lumagoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A surgical skewering. Absolutely flawless. "Sinn Féin took the faces from those trains and they're making them run on electricity, the lifeblood of the devil. As far as I'm concerned, electricity should be used for two things: treating hysteria in women and curing homosexuality."
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Live from DUP HQ
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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺 @marksugrue.com · 10/09/2026
Meta admits it controls where its child porn ads are bein shown.
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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why are men? Honestly?
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Solidarity with the incredibly brave women in our ambulance service who have spoken about the shocking behaviour they’ve been subjected to. It needs to be safe for women to make complaints about sexism at work @rteprimetime.bsky.social #PrimeTime #NAS
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I urgently wish to know what the Values of Ireland are.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 07/09/2026
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is expected to announce tomorrow a comprehensive ban on UK trade with the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise in illegally-occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. It's reportedly to include a ban on trading services, including British investment in settlements.
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UK set to announce ban on trade with Israeli settlements on Tuesday
New measures are expected to prohibit any investment in illegal Israeli settlement businesses
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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺 @marksugrue.com · 27/08/2026
I wrote a letter published in today's @independent.ie calling for Dept of Justice officials to take inspiration from Raoul Wallenberg and issue visas to the Gazan students despite government policy. #speirgorm
In recent days, Israel's Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has
publicly called for the nightly murder of '30 or 40' Palestinians,
describing Gazan civilians as 'not even people'. On Saturday, Israel's
Chief Rabbi David Yosef agreed in a speech, declaring Palestinians
'have no rights' and called for all of Gaza to be 'destroyed'. It is
against this background that Ireland's Department of Justice has
denied visas to those Palestinian students who have won fully funded
scholarships to study in the safety of our country.

In 1930s and 40s, a visa could mean the life or death. Most neutral
governments then had restrictive policies as they feared the
diplomatic consequences of openly acknowledging the ongoing genocide.
History remembers the names of officials who defied those policies
and issued visas anyway, often to the anger of their governments and
facing personal risk. They saved thousands of lives.Raoul Wallenberg at the Swedish Embassy in Budapest issued visas
regardless of his government's instructions. Visas in hand, those
refugees were able to travel to safety and survive the Holocaust.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes of the Portuguese consulate in Bordeaux
saved thousands more, disobeying the dictator of his country and
facing severe punishment. Today a museum in his honour stands in
Lisbon.

Are there any officials in Ireland's Department of Justice today
willing to take risks to do what is right? Will we in future remember
any of their names?
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We need to have an urgent conversation about what happens when women complain at work - the ways they are punished, the strategies weaponised against them, the catastrophic impact on their health, and what government must do to protect women from organisational retribution. #WhenWomenComplain
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Picard: There are four lights.
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
All the women of Ireland who’ve had severe post natal depression & experienced the terror of begging for help in a system designed to shame women in distress watching the #LindsayClancy trial knowing the exact same happens here #postnataldepression #Ireland
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Breaking: GOP Congressman Andy Ogles, who has said gay people have “no place in America” and “Muslims don't belong in American society,” just lost his primary in Tennessee. He will no longer serve in Congress.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/07/2026
1. Amnesty International has withstood threats from death squads and dictators. But it could not stand up to JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement she finances. It has apologized for calling those groups "anti-rights" after legal threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling, Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights"
The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much.
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Diarmuid Kennan @moonfisherman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @uplift.ie
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Visa for Gaza students
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I can’t stop thinking about who gave the order to publicly arrest a young woman who had been raped & the message that sends to anyone who might be considering speaking out (or attending UCD) We are all in danger when it’s not safe for women to complain #ucdstudent @irishtimes.com
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 19/07/2026
British officials are seeking to extradite Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after the pair were arrested in Miami Read more: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In the public sector when women make complaints at work they are punished. This serves to stop the person complaining & warns others to stay silent. We are all in danger if it’s not safe to complain at work. Full Healing Gals podcast episode link below 👇 #whenwomencomplain
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 14/07/2026
Hey, #Ireland -based folks: we've got a really bright pass of the #ISS coming up this evening (-3.76 magnitude, which is *bright!*), between around 23:35 and 23:44. You might want to step out and have a look! (as it seems likely it'll be clear tonight...) (data via Heavens-Above.com)
Sky map (via heavens-above.com) of the ISS's path over Ireland on the evening of July 14, 2026Schedule for the evening pass of the ISS over Ireland on July 14, 2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
It's also available here. Please share and spread this report. Trans folks in the UK can't for fear of lawsuits by gender critical groups. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...
drive.google.com
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Ireland’s top Mammy for Trans Rights President Catherine Comnolly met the @mams4transrights.bsky.social this morning & they got the chance to thank her for all she does to support and advocate for the trans community. #transrights @goshh.ie
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Dear Taoiseach, It’s men. It’s always men. The problem is men. We need to name the problem before we can start to fix it. Men’s violence is the problem. #violencebymen #vawg #violenceagainstwomen
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative
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Polly Curley @pollycurley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@karsugrue.bsky.social @izzykamikaze.bsky.social @berlinnaeus.bsky.social @pantibliss.bsky.social In case you missed it. 😂🏳️‍⚧️😂
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
ONLY FIVE MORE SLEEPS TIL the Mammies for Trans Rights are the 2026 Grand Marshalls for Wicklow Pride and we all MIGHT DIE OF EXCITEMENT Be sure to come join us for a wonderful day out in Wicklow #pride #wicklow #transrightsarehumanrights @wicklowpride.bsky.social
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It’s always a good day if you start it on Ireland AM talking about trans rights before dancing through the streets of Dublin. Happy Pride Love always wins ❤️💪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💪❤️ #pride #transrights
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“Some of the hype about risks (of puberty blockers) have been exaggerated” - Hilary Cass. #transrightsarehumanrights
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Thank you @gcnmag.bsky.social for this beautiful article ahead of @dublinpride.bsky.social this weekend. Everyone is welcome to march with us - just get in touch on mammiesfortransrights@gmail.com for details on where to meet Love always wins ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈❤️ #pride #transrightsarehumanrights
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Summer Solstice dawn in Kerry #solstice
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Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Yep!
#shethepeople

The childless women have been mothering the world and elevating culture as aunties, godmothers, teachers...you do not need to push out a baby to help push humanity forward.

- Tracee Ellis Ross
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Hanging out with my gorgeous pals in the @mams4transrights.bsky.social in UCD today talking about how all you need to be a ‘Mammy’ is the urge to make things better for the generation coming up behind you. #transrightsarehumanrights #thinkinggenderjustice #genderjusticeucd #genderjustice2026
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Thrilled to be heading up to the UCD Gender Justice Conference today to take part in a panel with the Mammies for Trans Rights. #transrightsarehumanrights @ucdgender.bsky.social
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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺 @marksugrue.com · 17/06/2026
Reminds me of Gibbon's description of post-collapse Romans who 'still considered themselves as the lords of the world... But they were living among the ruins of their own greatness, and the bones of their ancestors'.
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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺 @marksugrue.com · 17/06/2026
Further evidence that today's Russia not the Soviet Union. Its run out of Soviet-era gyroscopes and is unable to make more.
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Well done @shanehickeyomara.bsky.social talking this morning on @newstalkfm.bsky.social about the ‘severe human rights violations’ that take place in conversion therapy and why it needs to be banned immediately.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Are you beach body ready. Is your meat-wrapped skeleton prepared. Are your flesh-covered bones visually correct for coastal deployment.
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thrilled to launch our report: The Experiences of Single Women in Ireland. TLDR; single women are really happy, & love living alone, but would like less social stigma, & more policy change around housing, tax, travel, cost of living and aging. Report 👉 www.womenscollective.ie/post/wci-lim...
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Happy Pride 2026 everyone 🎉 If anyone would like to get one of these gorgeous T-Shirts made up for themselves just email Mammiesfortransrights@gmail.com and we’ll send you the art. #Pride #transrightsarehumanrights
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Join us tomorrow for this free event in TUS Moylish from 10-1. #Limerick
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H 🍉🌿 @helendublin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
#speirgorm
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Almost half the population are single and we need to talk about it. This free event is open to everyone- be sure to book your place. We’ll be talking about single women’s lives and hearing from the amazing Ailbhe Smith, Ashanti Bentil-Dhue,& Cllr @elisaodonovan.bsky.social #singlestudiesireland
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
‘Just a thick layer of men’
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🎉2026 PRIDE SEASON IS HERE. 🎉 If you’d like to get a tshirt printed, email mammiesfortransrights@gmail.com & they’ll send you art work that you can use at any tshirt print shop. If you’d like to march with us in your local Pride-email us. #transrightsarehumanrights @mams4transrights.bsky.social
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