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Kate O'Sullivan

@kateosully.bsky.social
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Trade unionist, director of digital at Fórsa, former human rights/aid worker. Interested in climate change, arts and culture, and always a free Palestine. Opinions my own, etc. She/ her

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Kate O'Sullivan @kateosully.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am filled with rage for Garvaghy Road residents today. 100% stand with them. I can't believe they are being put through this again. And for what? So some men can force everyone back into violence, because their egos demand it? Can we stop going along with the farce that this is 'tradition"?
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We’ve seen it. That’s the difference - we know now. We no longer have to commit to a leap of faith. We’ve seen it, and even experienced it during Fleadh Cheoil. I have yet to see the arguments on appeal that led to the march, but I know the residents, and all of us, have the right to live in peace.
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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pretty much this
Ed Sheeran: "I'm gonna side with oppressive colonizers. Literally everyone I'm touring with is Irish. Can't see any way this will go
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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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Kate O'Sullivan @kateosully.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The HSE is now going to fund the Friedreich's Ataxia drug! Actually tearing up. Incredible activism by the Ataxia community; this was a hard-won battle and they fought it with such dignity and humanity. jrnl.ie/7140915
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HSE approves funding for breakthrough Friedreich's Ataxia drug
The HSE said it ‘took account of a substantially improved financial offer made in recent days by the company Biogen’.
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Kate O'Sullivan @kateosully.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
At the Fredrich Ataxia Foundation protest ahead of the final decision on whether or not to fund life saving/ changing medication. Absolute no brainer. We subsidise greyhound racing to the tune of 20 million a year but saving lives is not 'value for money'?
Large crowd at the garden of remembrance
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 02/07/2026
In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Northern Ireland has a very high level of gender based violence, mainly committed by white Northern Irish men. I’ve yet to see riots after a woman has been violently attacked or killed. Seems like the issue isn’t qwhite about violence but who gets to commit it! www.ulster.ac.uk/research/res...
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Research uncovers eye-watering levels of violence against women and girls in NI
Based on responses from more than 540 women, the report also found seven out of 10 experienced some form of violence or abuse in the last 12 months.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 09/06/2026
How many women in Northern Ireland have been stabbed to death in the last few years without loyalists needing to riot over it?
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AB Garden Girl 🇨🇦 @ab-garden-girl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Everybody talks about how nothing is affordable anymore but no one talks about how poorly made and disposable things are. Part of the affordability crisis is because we keep repurchasing things, cars, appliances, clothes etc because things don’t last.
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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Richie on the ball
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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
i'll be at the protest outside the dáil tomorrow, against the killing of yves sakila if you're in dublin, come along 1pm
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began collecting data more than three decades ago.* Two-thirds of the journalists killed were by Israeli forces.*
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Apocalyptic aerial footage from east Gaza City.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Ireland is a cog in the wheel of an aggressive and reckless war. "a number of flights that transited through Shannon over the weekend. ... two US Air Force Hercules C-130H landed at Shannon on Saturday morning, while a US Navy air logistics flight left the airport for Sicily on the same day".
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Kate O'Sullivan @kateosully.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
An AI story in 2 pictures F**k Sam Altman
Sam altmans post about an agreement with the so called US department of war using OpenAIA screenshot of a personal chatgpt account with a notice saying we could not start deletion
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I have one spare ticket for the long sold-out premiere of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest at the Dublin International Film Festival next week. Like and repost this if you'd be interested in the chance of coming along for free!
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"Two babies are among at least 53 people dead or missing after an inflatable migrant boat sank off Libya, the U.N. migration agency said on Monday" abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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Babies among 53 dead or missing after migrant boat sinks off Libya, UN says
The U.N. migration agency says a shipwreck off Libya's coast has left at least 53 Europe-bound migrants dead or missing
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 31/01/2026
BREAKING: At least 25 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/yd606g
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This massive Canadian agtech company has put in an application to harvest seaweed from basically the entire west coast. The maps are actually shocking www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
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FS006108 Arramara Teoranta Harvesting of Seaweed
Seaweed Harvesting
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Kate O'Sullivan @kateosully.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Petition to get Met Éireann to not tell us when we reach day 45 of no sunshine. We know. We all know. It's just depressing to have it confirmed officially.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Sign! For ECIs to be considered by the European Commission, each country must meet its threshold, for Ireland that's 10,080. We are currently at just under 6,000, approx 58%, so we need a big push! Belgium, Finland, France and Spain are there, let's get there too! eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
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Patrick Corrigan @patrick-corrigan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Donald Trump’s very own Black and Tans are out of control My platform piece in today's @irishnews.com Link: www.irishnews.com/news/world/d...
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Kate O'Sullivan @kateosully.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Reposting for obvious reasons, and to add Minnesota for ever more obvious reasons.
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Kate O'Sullivan @kateosully.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The frogs have come to Ireland. The genocide isn't over, Free Palestine.
Someone in a frog suit with a palestine flag on their back
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Kate O'Sullivan @kateosully.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Finally some justice for Sean & the other defendants! The criminalisation of humanitarians & the racist European response to human beings fleeing is utterly shameful. I did the same as Sean on the Greek islands during the 'refugee crisis'. The only difference was the level of media attention...
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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The Government is seeking to dramatically erode public right of access to justice via courts by imposing prohibitively expensive costs on those challenging unlawful planning or policy. Today is the last day for making submissions, please have your voice heard. www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...
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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Have your say by January 15 deadline. In all our time in An Taisce, this is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. These proposed changes are clearly unlawful, undemocratic & unfair. For more: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han... #environmentaljustice
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Tomorrow! Do not let them die. Join the EMERGENCY protest at the Dâil, Wednesday at 5.30pm. Support the Palestine Action protestors. In 1981 Margaret Thatcher presided over the deaths of ten Irish hunger strikers. Keir Starmer and the Labour party government must not repeat this crime. #FreeThemAll
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 12/01/2026
In 2025 the country that Ireland received the most new asylum seekers from was Somalia. A country so dangerous that our own government's travel advice is, do not go there under any circumstances www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
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Cabinet to consider major reform of Ireland's asylum laws
Justice minister Jim O'Callaghan will bring the International Protection Bill 2026 to the first Cabinet meeting of 2026
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Uplift Ireland @uplift.ie · 09/12/2025
Email TD's and tell them no to the secretive corporate courts that CETA looks to bring in 🙅‍♂️ action.uplift.ie/campaigns/no...
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Don't amend the Arbitration Act to ratify CETA
I just emailed local TDs and demanded that they vote against amending the Arbitration Act to keep us out of CETA secret courts. Will you do the same?
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CorkBeo.ie @corkbeo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
If you have any info - contact Gardaí
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Renewed appeal for Tipperary boy, 12, now missing over two weeks
Meanwhile, another woman from Clonmel also missing 12 days
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Ireland on track to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040, HSE report shows
Ireland’s first progress report shows strong momentum toward eliminating cervical cancer, but stresses the need to tackle misinformation and boost HPV vaccination
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 10/11/2025
Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president. He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron. The President’s term of office ends at midnight. ⁦‪@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve. I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The archaeologists and the team working at Tuam have my greatest respect and gratitude.
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Cllr Oisín O'Connor @oisinoconnordublin.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Local volunteers are fundraising for the victims of the attack in Drogheda last night. (I have verified the organisers are genuine) gofund.me/c78df2a6e
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Donate to Aid for Drogheda Families After IPAs Centre Arson Attack, organized by Eve Nic Gabhann
This fundraiser supports the families affected by the deliber… Eve Nic Gabhann needs your support for Aid for Drogheda Families After IPAs Centre Arson Attack
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Kate O'Sullivan @kateosully.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I need to put this out into the ether. The people in the US who are taking on ICE in their neighbourhoods and physically defending other people.... I just love them. Chicago, New York, everywhere. I think they're amazing and what everyone should be doing.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Ireland is mentioned three times by the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in her latest report on the genocide in Gaza: ⚫ For the transfer of weapons from the United States to Israel through Shannon airport ⚫ For trade - importing over $3 billion of dual-use integrated circuits from Israel
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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Funny how the rioting crowds in CityWest haven’t staged any protests of any kind over, say, the Irish guy just sentenced to 24 years for stabbing his girlfriend 50 times and causing life altering injuries including blindness in one eye with piece of knife still stuck in her skull
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane. They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
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Fórsa trade union @forsatradeunion.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza is being intercepted by Israeli forces We again reiterate our call to global leaders, including Ireland, to do everything they can to ensure the safety & release of all participants Video is from Fórsa member Donna Schwarz who is still sailing as we post this.
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#globalsumudflotilla livestream, as interceptions are reported. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2... #Gaza
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24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
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Kate O'Sullivan @kateosully.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
All eyes on Gaza, and tonight on the Global Sumud Flotilla. They will no doubt be attacked soon. Israel's genocide has destroyed more than we can ever understand, but the hope and solidarity that the boats to Gaza represent are extraordinary. And so too are the survivors in Gaza waiting for them.
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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Activist flotilla seeking to break Gaza blockade says drones attacked its boats
Activists taking part in a flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza have said that some of their boats were attacked by drones ...
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 24/09/2025
The #GlobalSumudFlotilla was attacked by Israel in international waters. Multiple boats reported attacks by drones. Contact the Irish government. Demand they send an observer to the flotilla. While the flotilla continues, Israel continues to bomb Gaza around the clock. We must #BreakTheSiege
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Just in case she makes it onto the ballot, it’s good to remind yourself who Maria Steen and the Iona Institute are - fundamentalist zealots who represent almost no one cos even most Catholics think they’re awful
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