Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Offer to send your cash via email for them to print out. 020
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The aim of this comms strategy is to create this narrative: 👐 Look at all the things we're doing about school attendance! 👐 Rather than: ⚠️ School attendance figures continue to be terrible, despite all the Action Plans and Ad Money we've thrown at the issue. ⚠️ 140
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Tusla has published multiple reports & studies about school attendance recently - including an ERSI publication on the 17th September - and they have always been featured in the news. Tusla has also spent >€1m on media adverts, so why was the release of the 2024/25 school attendance data so quiet? 020
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One week later, with no fanfare - or statement from the minister - Tusla quietly published the 2024/25 school attendance report, the Thursday before Budget Day. It received practically zero news media coverage, even though it shows continued high levels of absence, mainly due to illness. 120
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026How to bury bad news, Tusla style: On 24/9/26 Tusla hosted a School Attendance Summit in Croke Park, with 300 attendees, including the Minister. It published a couple of reports at this summit, none of which were the 2024/25 School Attendance Report, which should have been published months ago. 120
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's Covid. But, there is some early flu circulating too. 000
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A newly published wastewater report shows the extent of the Covid wave currently hitting Ireland. Ringsend in Dublin has seen a near-vertical rise in Covid levels, with its peak likely to exceed last year's wave. 053
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Only at surface level. Who gets to decide who gets to pay what rent? What is expected in return? How are favours traded within the organisation? Does that culture expand beyond the management of properties? Is it the same culture when it comes to handing out multimillion euro public contracts? 000
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026OPW should be disbanded. I suspect it's beyond reform. Seems to be a vehicle for transferring State wealth to the well-connected. jrnl.ie/7179368jrnl.ieOPW rented vacant Phoenix Park homes to staff and retired workers for as little as €56 per monthAn audit of how the OPW managed 92 residential properties produced a long list of damning conclusions. 000
Reposted by Kieran RyanThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 01/10/2026Chronic absenteeism: More than 75,000 secondary students missed 20 days in school yearirishtimes.comChronic absenteeism: More than 75,000 secondary students missed 20 days in school yearReport from Tusla Education Support Service shows ‘one in five students continue to miss a month or more of their school year’ 001
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tusla has published its school attendance report for the 2024/25 school year, and attendance still hasn't recovered compared to pre-pandemic levels. Illness is by far the biggest cause of absence, accounting for 52% of explained absences in primary schools, and 57% in post-primary. 030
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026For sure, but the overwhelming majority of the public have been misinformed about airborne transmission so it's a big ship to turn around. 040
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We're in a proper Covid wave here in Ireland at the moment with a significant number of hospitalisations each week. Flu cases are ramping up too. For all the recent news coverage of the flu vaccine shortages, there has been very little public acknowledgement of this Covid wave. 12311
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Straight out of JP's Oligarchy playbook. www.independent.ie/county/water...independent.ieMark Zuckerberg donates €150,000 to three Waterford GAA clubsThree clubs near the billionaire couple’s newly acquired Strancally Castle to receive €50,000 each 1256
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Didn't think Packie Bonner's penalty save against Romania would ever be bested by an Irish goalkeeper, but here we are. 063
Reposted by Kieran RyanJamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller. 20747511188
Reposted by Kieran RyanAlan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026cute photo op. incidentally I spent 10 minutes trying to find a picture of the Taoiseach using public transport in Ireland and guess what 1110339
Reposted by Kieran RyanWear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not. 869286198261
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There is a sense that the HSE is manufacturing the conditions in which it can drop the Covid vaccine altogether. It's actually outrageous that children are not being ordinarily offered thr vaccine at all. Probably a lot of kids (0-4yo) who haven't had it at all, and others not since 2022. 251
Reposted by Kieran RyanGerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026Numbers without context are numberwang. I have no idea if this is a lot or a little. Maybe it's half of the vaccine stock. Maybe it's a half of one percent. The article doesn't say The only number I have to measure it against is an overall HSE deficit of €1bn, against which it's a drop in the ocean 2375
Reposted by Kieran RyanTheresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'll be calling Jim O'Callaghan the cruelty man from here on out. 084
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The way you can tell it's a Covid wave by how many of your favourite radio shows have fill-in presenters. 🤒 020
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026In Ireland, "Respiratory Virus Season" is officially considered to run from Oct to May, with reporting & vaccination programmes geared around that. But...the Covid wave that's currently overwhelming hospitals took root in *JULY* and exploded when schools returned. "Season" is an outdated concept. 1119
Reposted by Kieran RyanDr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Why is everyone sicker these days? ‘Relative to adults reporting no SARS-CoV-2 infections, those reporting two or more had significantly greater odds of being diagnosed with a new condition’ Gov of Canada, Sept 2026 www.canada.ca/en/public-he...canada.caAssociations between self-reported SARS-CoV-2 infections and the diagnosis of new health conditions - Canada.caExploratory analyses examining associations between SARS-CoV-2 infections and newly diagnosed health conditions 010551
Reposted by Kieran Ryanwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Hanna Van Aelst, contemporary basket maker and artist making functional and sculptural work from willow based in Tipperary, Ireland. #WomensArt 2660110
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026People have complained. Sometimes they have subjective reasons, and sometimes it's just that the car-sized metal boxes for bicycles trigger an emotional response that the car-sized metal cars don't. 0130
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The govt now uses this phrase exclusively as a dogwhistle for landlords, business owners, and anyone else who uses wealth to extract more wealth from society. 040
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I visited the Hill of Uisneach yesterday, only to realise when I got there that it's on private farmland and you have to prebook a tour. The lesson learned? All property is theft. 130
Reposted by Kieran RyanPhilip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This summer has made it clear how big a job of climate adaptation Irish farming has to do. I’ll break down what we learned in this thread, but the programme is worth listening to as a whole. #Climate #Drought #RTECountrywide Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/listen/show/...rte.ieCountryWide - RTÉ PodcastsThe CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across Ireland. Listen live Saturdays at 8am on RTÉ Radio 1. 1175
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The road to climate breakdown seems to be paved with strategic defeats, Pyhrrhic victories, and death by a thousand self-inflicted cuts. 030
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026There was only a 34% uptake of the flu vaccine by HSE healthcare workers last season, well below the target of 75%. The disinformers are winning the information wars. 110
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026✋ You had me at Mallow.static.klipy.comJerry Maguire: You Had Me at HelloAlt: Jerry Maguire: You Had Me at Hello 020
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026D'you know, an emergency Dáil session held on the Platform 3 at Limerick Junction might not be a bad way to focus the minds of our nation's decision makers. 191
Reposted by Kieran Ryanjacob galapagos @jacobgalapagos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It’s think for yourself thursday 241491353
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Lookit, they announced half a million in support for Nepal while at the same time calling an EMERGENCY Dáil session to extend fossil fuel subsidies and then immediately increasing public transport fares. So, literally spending billions to worsen situations like Nepal's. www.gov.ie/en/departmen...gov.ieMinister McEntee and Minister Richmond announce €500,000 in emergency assistance following floods in Nepal 070
Reposted by Kieran RyanSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The recent subsidy to fuel costs over €1billion. One of the arguments Eamonn Ryan used against making public transport free was that if they did that, people would use it too much. Meanwhile a recent survey found Dublin the most traffic congested EU capital city. 69856
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026None of these things are unconnected, unfortunately. 040
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Today's wastewater report can be found here: www.hpsc.ie/a-z/national...hpsc.ieReport_maker_long.knit 020
Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A new wastewater report published today shows that Covid is currently widespread in Ireland. Castlebar, in Mayo, has had one of the sharpest increases in Covid wastewater levels since tracking began in 2021. 2155
Reposted by Kieran RyanKarSteN Haustein @khaustein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Globally, the hottest August in observed history is just about to end. In Western Europe, the summer of 2026 (June, July, August) has been the warmest as well. Compared to this year, 1976 (the famous UK summer) and 2003 (the hottest EU summer so far) look like amateurs in terms of heat (1/2) 17948
