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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ireland imports 80% of its wheat. Not great food security. Concentration on livestock farming elbowed Irish wheat out. Imported wheat and flour add considerably to the cost of living crisis. But new crop science opens the door to Irish grown wheat. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/listen/clip/...
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Food Security: Bread
Only the tiniest fraction of the flour needed to bake the 50kg of bread we eat a year is grown and milled in Ireland, and the cost of what we import is sky rocketing. We take a look at what needs to b...
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Gavin Cooney @gcooney93.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Big read here on an abject, rancorous, extraordinary day. The potential scale of fallout to come is the stuff of Saipan 2.0 Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI
Gavin Bazunu has been left brutally isolated as any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Want to hear about some of the amazing rewilding projects happening across Ireland, and what we can learn from overseas, especially Scotland and Costa Rica? My new book 'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' launches tomorrow (Wednesday) in @waterstones.bsky.social Cork at 6.30.
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Latest: the Uefa-led alliance against Infantino is willing to make Fifa "ungovernable" with more boycotts and a lack of co-operation on major business The idea is Infantino may have the seat - and the votes - but he will be unable to do anything with it www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Uefa doubles down on Fifa boycott but holds greater weapon to unseat Gianni Infantino
Uefa will continue its non co-operation with Fifa in a bid to oust Infantino from power
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Once dubbed one of the footballs greats, Andrea Pirlo showed his lack of morals by taking Kremlin cash to appear in Moscow. Pirlo, a teammate of Andrei Shevchenko at Milan, was joined by fellow Italian world cup winner Marco Materazzi in posing for photos as Russia hit Kyiv.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.
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GLOBE Ireland @globeireland.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Our #SurfaceTemperature Detectives collected some surprising data last week! Can you believe a surface in Dublin was 50°C?! That's the #HeatWave & the #UrbanHeatIslandEffect at play. The best way to counteract is by increasing urban trees & greenspaces. @epaireland.bsky.social @antaisce.bsky.social
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The Norwegian Football Association donated all proceeds and ticket revenues (totaling over $350,000) from their World Cup qualifying match against Israel to Doctors Without Borders for humanitarian aid in Gaza. Guess which team I’m rooting for . . .
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/07/2026
A week after Tibetan independence activist Lobga Rangzen self-immolated near the U.N. headquarters in New York, protesters gathered to demand international action on Tibet and raise concerns about China's new ethnic unity law.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 10/07/2026
Pollutionwatch: How harmful ozone builds up near ground in heatwaves #Climate
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Pollutionwatch: How harmful ozone builds up near ground in heatwaves
Concentrations of gas were continuously raised in Europe during June hot spell, with potentially deadly effects
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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Data centres now consume 23% of Ireland's electricity, with demand set to rise even further. That means higher bills, greater pressure on our energy security and growing risks to our climate targets. How many data centres are enough?
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
According to Irish Water, as of 2021, data centres across Ireland drank about 810 megalitres of water from the public mains a year. But that same year, Meta reported that it withdrew 928 megalitres of water for its data centres in Clonee alone. How is this possible?
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/06/2026
The record-shattering warmth in Europe in recent days is the most severe heatwave ever recorded in the region and is unequivocally the result of climate change driven by the burning of fossil fuels, according to World Weather Attribution climate scientists
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European heatwave is most severe ever recorded - study
The record-shattering warmth in Europe in recent days is the most severe heatwave ever recorded in the region and is unequivocally the result of climate change driven by the burning of fossil fuels.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Calling for the FAI to boycott the Nations League fixtures against apartheid Israel in Drumcondra on Friday night. #StopTheGame
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Reuters @reuters.com · 12/06/2026
After anti-immigration violence in Belfast left some residents too afraid to leave home, Ruchira Rangaprasad, a sales and marketing professional, took to social media to offer food.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/06/2026
Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones
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Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones
Location scans from the globally popular augmented reality game have helped train AI to recognise and interpret physical spaces * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An AI model trained on data collected from users of Pokémon Go will potentially help military drones find their location in war zones. Pokémon Go, a 2016 augmented reality mobile game, allowed players to find and catch Pokémon in the real world using the cameras on their mobile phones, and exploded in popularity. In 2018, the company reported having more than 800m downloads worldwide. Continue reading...
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Ireland is still trying to claim it's doing nothing wrong by allowing a Russian plant to operate and send products direct to St Petersburg. But is @caolanrob.bsky.social about to find the missing piece in the puzzle to expose Dublin's hypocrisy?
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is a great article. Playing football against apartheid Israel serves to normalise its genocidal crimes against Palestinians, the FAI must boycott the Nations League fixtures. #StopTheGame FAI can make global statement by refusing to play Israel www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
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FAI can make global statement by refusing to play Israel
The FAI must listen to the football community in Ireland and refuse to play Israel in the Nations League, writes Eoin Doyle.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 03/06/2026
The Ukrainian Embassy said alumina exported from the Aughinish plant in Limerick is "extensively used by Russia’s military-industrial complex." www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
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Ukraine embassy flags 'serious concern' on Irish alumina exports
The Ukrainian Embassy in Ireland has issued a statement expressing "serious concern" regarding the continued export of alumina from Ireland to Russia, despite the Irish Government saying it has launch...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/05/2026
Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052 | Bill McGuire
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Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052 | Bill McGuire
People sleep outside because their houses are too hot to inhabit, water is scarce and supermarkets are for the wealthy, says climate academic Bill McGuire
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Am gasping for air at the sheer recklessness and utter stupidity of this article. You wonder why we’re absolutely and totally fuc#ed as a species? This is why. www.irishtimes.com/culture/2026...
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Could Ireland end up with the climate of Newfoundland or Malmo?
In a Word ... Climate
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 23/05/2026
🔵 DUBLIN CENTRAL 11am and I'm calling it. Daniel Ennis (SD) to win the Dublin Central by-election.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
tv shows reeling nazis in like
3 panel comic done in the style of a Roadrunner cartoon

Panel 1: 4 stupid little Nazis are standing around a sign that says “Fascism”
They are all super excited about the fascism they are about to witness.

Panel 2: A large shadow is suddenly cast over them. They all look up.

Panel 3: A huge boulder labelled SATIRE lands on them. Crushing them all to death
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is sportswashing: from sponsor branding on shirts to advertising across stadiums, football clubs are promoting these corporations to millions of fans. 🟥 It's time for football to show genocide and apartheid the red card. waronwant.org/resources/re...
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Red Card: English Premier League Sportswashing of Israel’s Atrocities against the Palestinians
Nine English Premier League football clubs are sponsored by corporations that are complicit in Israel’s apartheid and genocide of Palestinians.
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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
At least 15 corporations that sponsor Premier League clubs are linked to Israel’s atrocities: AXA, BP, Canon, Coca-Cola, Expedia/Hotels.com, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Oracle and Sony.
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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
‼️NEW briefing Our new research reveals injustice at the heart of football. 9⃣ English Premier League football clubs are sponsored by corporations that are involved in Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people. Read the full briefing: waronwant.org/resources/re...
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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
⚽️ @lfcr.bsky.social, @arsenalfc.bsky.social, and Tottenham Hotspurs top the league table of complicity – but every club is indirectly sponsored by Barclays, the EPL’s main sponsor – which has long enabled apartheid.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/05/2026
Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ in violent Jerusalem Day march
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Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ in violent Jerusalem Day march
Far-right Jewish marchers call for Palestinian villages to ‘burn’ as they storm through Muslim quarter of Old City
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 15/05/2026
More than 70% of people, including a majority of Leave voters, agree that Brexit has been more of a failure than a success in Northern Ireland, an opinion poll has suggested
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Large majority in NI see Brexit as failure, poll suggests
More than 70% of people, including a majority of Leave voters, agree that Brexit has been more of a failure than a success in Northern Ireland, an opinion poll has suggested.
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The best thing you might read on FIFA this year, never mind today. If you care about football and the way it is being misgoverned and misappropriated, one of the best thing you can do is support @josimarfootball.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2026/05/14/o...
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Omerta - josimarfootball.com
The press remains one of the last checks on Fifa’s power. Gianni Infantino and his media office are cracking down on it.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 14/05/2026
BREAKING Ronald Dela Rosa, the chief enforcer of former president Rodrigo Duterte's deadly drug war, has fled the Philippine senate, where he had sought refuge days earlier to escape arrest for crimes against humanity
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The Ku Klux Kourt
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 12/05/2026
Around 2,000 workers at the National Ambulance Service, who are members of SIPTU and Unite, will engage in a 24-hour strike from 8am in a dispute over pay
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Significant impact as ambulance service strike to begin
Around 2,000 workers at the National Ambulance Service, who are members of SIPTU and Unite, will engage in a 24-hour strike from 8am in a dispute over pay.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 12/05/2026
The World Weather Attribution group of climate scientists has warned that extraordinary extreme weather is likely this year and said 2026 could turn out to be the second warmest, if not the warmest year, on record
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Climate scientists warn extreme weather likely in 2026
The World Weather Attribution group of climate scientists has warned that extraordinary extreme weather is likely this year and said 2026 could turn out to be the second warmest, if not the warmest ye...
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Irish Football @irishfootball.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Retained/Released list thread 🧵 Will post information as I get it #COYBIG 🇮🇪
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Kevin Higgins @kevinhiggins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
@loicentral.bsky.social Any early rumoured candidates emerging for the Waterford job?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
FIFA President Infantino just tried to force the representative of Palestine to stand with Israel and take a picture at the 76th FIFA Congress Palestine refused instead shouting out "We are suffering" FIFA is a sick organization and the World Cup should be boycotted by everyone
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
FairSquare's statement on the Norwegian Football Federation's statement yesterday in support of our filing of our complaint against FIFA President Gianni Infantino. Infantino has repeatedly broken FIFA rules on political neutrality. fairsq.org/norwegian-fa...
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Norwegian FA supports FairSquare’s ethics complaint against FIFA President Gianni Infantino
The Norwegian Football Federation have announced their support for FairSquare’s filing of an ethics complaint against FIFA President Gianni Infantino, and have said they will write to FIFA to relay th...
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 01/05/2026
The public has been advised not to feed garden birds during the summer months because of the threat of disease.
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Public urged not to feed garden birds over summer months
The public has been advised not to feed garden birds during the summer months because of the threat of disease. The advice was issued by Birdwatch Ireland to combat the spread of a disease known as tr...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 30/04/2026
From the AP to CNN and The New York Times, top editors of over 30 organizations are calling on Israel's government to lift a ban on foreign journalists from independently entering and reporting from Gaza. The barrier has been in place since the war's start in 2023.
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Media organizations call on Israel to allow foreign reporters independent access to Gaza
Leaders of major media companies are urging Israel to lift a ban preventing foreign journalists from independently entering Gaza.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 29/04/2026
Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, the European State of the Climate Report for 2025 has found
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Europe is fastest-warming continent, report finds
Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, the European State of the Climate Report for 2025 has found.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 28/04/2026
Euronews: The European Union has warned Israel that it is ready to impose sanctions on those aiding and abetting the trade of Ukrainian grain stolen by Russia in the occupied territories, after a new ship loaded with the cereal arrived in the port of Haifa.
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LOI Central @loicentral.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Got mail guys?
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Will O'Connor @entosphenus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Pine Marten (Martes martes) at a site in Co. Leitrim this week. This once-threatened native species has made a remarkable recovery and is now present in every county in Ireland.
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Environmental Pillar @envpillar.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
An Ireland Thinks poll has found 56% of Irish people think the “Government is not doing enough fast enough to cut Ireland’s reliance on fossil fuels”, compared with just 21% who think the Government is doing “too much, too fast” www.environmentalpillar.ie/majority-of-...
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 23/04/2026
🇵🇭 Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte will face trial at the International Criminal Court after judges confirmed charges of crimes against humanity over his so-called "war on drugs." ➡️ u.afp.com/SaZY
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LOI Central @loicentral.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Mailbag time
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