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Alannah Uí Geargáin

@lanauig.bsky.social
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Disabled trainee barrister, budding academic, professional thorn in the side 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇵🇸⚖️ Thoughts and opinions mine ✨

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Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social · 4h
Next month we are very excited to be publishing... BLACK & IRISH: AWESOME ICONS By @irishbookawards.bsky.social-winning author @leondiop.bsky.social and Irish artist @enemaku.bsky.social Co-published with our friends and collaborators Black & Irish And with a foreword from actress Ruth Negga 🇮🇪
Cover with Pico Lopes, Rhasidat Adeleke and Fig O'Reilly, title BLACK & IRISH: AWESOME ICONS
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 23h
Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.
A drawing of mine of a goose looking concerned, with a tag around its neck that reads "This month's rent, with thanks".

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Michaelmas
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also tbh if you feel you need to react for these to criticise (or insult) Israel when there are so many easy ways to do so, at best your imagination has been deeply stunted by being cooked in an online stew, at worst your motives become incredibly suspect
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once again all it takes to get left wingers to adopt a an antisemitic nazi meme is drawing a very thin line through "Jews" and hastily scribbling "Israel" above it. Your solidarity is being twisted, you are being memed into using their terms, you are being played for absolute fools
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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also people, often outsiders or naïve, who are suggesting people just suck it up and let 35 men walk down the road, you are missing a context of decades of marches being deliberately routed through Catholic areas. Causing so much historical violence and contributing to the outbreak of the Troubles.
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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And while we're at it, if you are a public representative, learn how to crop statements or releases for social media or hire someone who can
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is our Justice Minister, seemingly inconvenienced, whose thoughts are with the police. Not with the residents. Not with the grieving mothers. Not with another elected officials attempting to de-escalate. Not for those across the North forced to hold their breath. Happy anniversary though Naomi!
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we really don't talk enough about the utter contempt certain quarters of the southern political and media establishment have for northern nationalists. not in a subtle way, not in an "if you think about it" way, just open disgust and disdain for people they would rather didn't exist
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Police in full riot gear are now exiting Land Rovers, so I assume a forced removal is about to happen. The PSNI triggered a mutual aid protocol earlier this week, and obtained 200 additional officers from Police Scotland. What they’re facing are regular civilians peacefully standing on a road.
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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.
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Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
what strikes me about both #stopthegame and Drumcree/Garvaghy is the severe lack of clear moral leadership at the highest levels of Irish society
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Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The FAI repeatedly told us players would be protected. Yet when a 24 year old acted on his conscience, they left him to stand alone & used a vote among his teammates to validate their own cowardice. This isn’t protecting a young player, it’s protecting themselves at his expense. #StopTheGame
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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cowards 🩷
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Gavin Elliott @sgelliott.net · 26/09/2026
The Oireachtas committee on Sport should urgently examine the behaviour of the FAI in relation to the Israel game more generally and their behaviour today in particular. Absolute hames made of the issue at every turn.
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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The lack of solidarity in the wider campaign for abortion rights was really on show today and it's so depressing
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On Sunday, July 12th 1998, Jason (aged 8), Mark (aged 9) and Richard Quinn (aged 10) were killed in their home in Ballmoney when it was petrol-bombed by Loyalists, rioting after the Drumcree parade was banned from travelling the Garvahy Road that year. 3 brutal sectarian murders.
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"I would be willing to consider changes, such as changing the flag and anthem and joining the Commonwealth" Now why would you include the Commonwealth in the question but not the headline? And then paywall the article? This is deliberate, misleading, atrocious journalism and abuse of polling data
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was on Tipp FM this morning to talk about the work my friends and I in Clonmel Together are doing to support inclusion and integration in our town, and also to have a go at the Minister for Justice and the government for undermining it m.soundcloud.com/tippfmradio/...
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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 21/09/2026
Even the victims are to blame, it seems. Unbelievably tone deaf from the minister who cancelled the reform of the Road Safety Authority, scuppered the speed limit reform and cancelled the red light camera enforcement pilot.
Road safety minister blames ‘everyone involved’, including road users, for rising death toll
Seán Canney’s remarks come after four deaths at the weekend and as EU ministers gather to discuss road safety
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Abortion Rights Campaign @freesafelegal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We are the majority and will not be silenced any longer. Our work is not done. We need you now more than ever. Join us this September to call for Free, Safe, Legal, Local and accessible abortion for all!
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Abortion Rights Campaign @freesafelegal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
trans and non-binary people, those without the money or means to travel, people who lack the privacy to take abortion pills at home, and those who may not know they are pregnant until it’s too late to access healthcare here.
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Abortion Rights Campaign @freesafelegal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The barriers effect those already subject to discrimination: migrants and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, those living in rural areas, people living in direct provision...
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Abortion Rights Campaign @freesafelegal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Why are we still marching? Because eight years after Repeal, there are still barriers to care: the unnecessary 3 day waiting period, the unworkable 12 week cut off point, the lack of providers due to criminalisation and conscientious obstruction.
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Abortion Rights Campaign @freesafelegal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Hear us Now! at the 15th annual March for Choice, this September 26th in Dublin. Meet us at 2pm outside the Department of Health before we march to the Dáil. Share this post far and wide and show your interest by clicking "interested" on our facebook event page, link in our tree.
Square illustrated image split into 4 horizontal sections. The is a collaged image, two figures in the centre in teal and pale purple. Their eyes and mouths are from different people and are much larger, and jump off the faces. They are saying "Hear us Now!" in black and white ransom style font. The backgrounds of these are cone shaped speech bubbles, they are both patterned with interlocking points in shades of teal, purple and yellow. The ARC logo is to the right of the two figures in the centre.
The next section says "15th annual March for Choice" in white font outlined in black, with a similar pattern to the speech bubble behind it.
The next horizontal says "Saturday September 26th 2026" in black against a see-through white rectangle, that you can see the pattern through.
The last section is a teal rectangle with rounded ends and says "When: 2pm, Where: Dept of Health Lower Baggot Street"
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Let this haunt Jim O'Callaghan for the rest of his days. When you've got Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh arguing against you, you know you're on yhe wrong side of history. Minister opposes Gaza student’s challenge over refusal of visa to study at Trinity. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Minister opposes Gaza student’s challenge over refusal of visa to study at Trinity
Student who got fully-funded five-year scholarship is among more than 100 denied visas
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NWL has posted a rambling statement attempting to defend faslely claiming Niall O'Connor of The Journal is the Garda Niall O'Connor mentioned in a 2012 Limerick Leader article on misconduct. he mentions, but derides, the possibility there were two Nialls O'Connor at Henry St in 2012. but there were!
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Don't really think Ireland as a whole deserves a pat on the back for the work of some artists, activists, and the people who pressure and protest, when our government watered down the OTB, the GAA refuses to drop Israeli weapon insurer Allianz, and the FAI is happy to play Israel without Irish fans
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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Skeletons for literature
A photo of my skeleton son Lenny holding Sarah Maria Griffins new novel, strange is the light. A pink glass pumpkin sits beside him on the table
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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Haha trump balloons in dublin showing him having anal sex. Hahah so funny. Gay sex is shameful. Haha. 🫩
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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Unfortunately a homemade matcha is not the same as paying overpriced cafe prices 🥹
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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am trying to get a campaign against assisted dying off the ground in Ireland, if anyone would like to be part of it please gently in touch x
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Brian O'Halloran @playingwithdust.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sinn Féin HQ right now
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Larry David's Exasperated Reaction
Alt: Larry David's Exasperated Reaction
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Totally beside the point but a someone who has long made fun of the left's awful posters, it's actually genuinely heartening to see them still cranking out these human-made graphic design disasters in the age of AI, and I hope they never stop
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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Meanwhile, civil and criminal legal aid have collapsed, the Minister for Justice is trying to kill off Judicial Review as it's inconvenient for the Government, and environmental and planning cases have been made prohibitively expensive for everyone but developers.
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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I wrote a paper on the fact that I'm pro - AD in an ideal world but the lack of value and weight placed on seeing disabled people as human beings under capitalist ableist structures means that I can't be. Eugenics as a tool of state violence is very real.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 10/09/2026
As of Cabinet yesterday, one now needs the ability to communicate in order to be considered a citizen. Yet in the first three months of 2026, not a single child in ten counties was given a plan on how the State would deliver them with speech and language therapy. This week’s column @thejournal.ie:
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Gavan Reilly: Six months by law. 24.3 months in reality. Ireland's disability numbers don't add up
The eye-watering numbers of children waiting for Assessment of Need in this country expose a broken system offering little hope to families.
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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A practicing barrister mind you
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Patrick @prayforpatrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
have a few nice framed pieces for sale now as well. all framed locally here in Donegal and the stag & Connolly prints can also be sent to the UK if anyone wants. the Larkin piece is too heavy for that so Ireland only for that. Stag €120 Connolly €150 Larkin €180 DM me if you’re interested
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Did you know that we deny Deaf people in Ireland the opportunity to learn Irish in school? Because it’s deemed that they wouldn’t be able. Without any assessment. Without any comprehension that many Deaf people are learning ISL and English at the same time? And are therefore bilingual?
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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Significant amount of money fell out of my pocket that I was gonna use for a treat for myself as well as usual groceries and honestly I feel like crying. Hope somebody finds it that needs it but fuck
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
SF must be denied DoJ in a future coalition, they can't be trusted with the migration portfolio
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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Exhausting to watch SF make near identical remarks to government re the new immigration regime and then be heralded as the future of the left by its own members and other big name left wing parties. Cop yourselves on
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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I get up early to administer my medication, to travel on inaccessible transport to go to an inaccessible college, where I will acquire a degree to become part of an inaccessible, non-functioning legal system, while being on a payment well below the poverty threshold. Sound though yup the economy.
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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In which Simon Harris dangles a pocket watch and tells us we’re very sleeeeepy and also we should haaaaate people on social welfare and also none of this is Fine Gaaaaael’s fault.
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Fianna Fáil going from running Brazilian candidates in the local elections in central Dublin to pushing for a more restrictive citizenship regime to make it harder for the same people to become citizens. I thought Micheál Martin was against 'populism' and 'cynical politics' 🙄
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't want to be more in line with the rest of the EU on citizenship. I want us to repeal the fucking 27th Amendement and return to our own tradition of birthright citizenship instead of the jus sanguinis shite that tells people born and reared here they aren't Irish if they have immigrant parents
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.
Photo from the telegraph. Red background with a roll of wheelchair stickers on white paper. Text reads “how having a disability became cool”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished.
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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Heather Humphreys being given free reign in the press to run the secretarian argument months after the fact is so ridiculous yet so on par for civil engagement and democracy. Relying on outrage clicks rather than actual discussion about why she lost.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026
Are these effectively operating courts in the room with us now
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