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Eoin Lettice @eoinlettice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Update: new footpaths installed. Absolutely fine job but in no way respects the Architectural Conservation (ACA) or the heritage value of the original limestone kerbs. We should expect better. #Cork
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madoptom31.bsky.social @madoptom31.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good work 💪🏼. Thank you.
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Oliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺 @oliver.ie · 25/09/2026
I've been in touch with officials about footpath repairs at Madden's Buildings, and especially the limestone kerbs. I've been told all salvageable kerbs will now be reinstalled. Unfortunately, some broke apart during excavation. The remainder will be reinstated part of the works, which are ongoing.
Limestone kerbs at Madden's Buildings.Concrete footpath repairs at Madden's Buildings.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Eoin Lettice @eoinlettice.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Footpath works on Maddens Buildings, Blackpool this week. It would be great if #Cork City Council could confirm that the historic limestone kerbing is safe and will be returned as part of the job. Any ideas @damianboylan.bsky.social @oliver.ie
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Cork Astronomy Club @corkastronomyclub.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
On the evening of Wednesday 12th August at about 7.15, Cork will experience a 96% solar eclipse,
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Des @despod.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026
Solar eclipse public viewing events in Cork City on 12 August. Free glasses provided. #Speirgorm
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Solar Eclipse Viewing - MTU Blackrock Castle
This partial eclipse will see 96% of the Sun blocked by the Moon which will bring about a noticeable reduction in the daylight. The eclipse will begin at 18:15 and reach maximum at 19:13 and ending…
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The case for more trees, like a lot more trees, in our towns and cities jrnl.ie/7095293
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Heat is here to stay: Irish cities urgently need more trees
As Europe swelters through another summer of record temperatures, trees, wetlands and other nature-based solutions are becoming essential tools for keeping cities cooler.
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madoptom31.bsky.social @madoptom31.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
What are we paying taxes for. Seriously, any business run this badly would be bankrupt and shut down aeons ago 🤦🏼‍♂️
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Someone has been sitting on this historic property on Fr Matthew Quay, Cork city centre for a very, very long time Everyone else has to suffer consequences Built around 1800, sad to see this level of vandalism, captured so well by the photo, particularly the bleakness & scale #DerelictIreland
Someone has been sitting on this historic property on Fr Matthew Quay, Cork city centre for a very, very long time
Everyone else has to suffer consequences
Built around 1800, sad to see this level of vandalism, captured so well by the photo, particularly the bleakness & scale
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Please consider becoming a member of @thenerve.news to help us continue our public interest investigations. We can & will keep going but need your support 🙏 9/ www.thenerve.news/membership
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Future generations will look back on these as the equivalent of slave traders Plunderers & exploiters, nothing but criminals
Future generations will look back on these as the equivalent of slave traders
Plunderers & exploiters, nothing but criminals
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Mark Braggins @markbraggins.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Haha, nice one @privateeyenews.bsky.social !
Extract from Private Eye: Bluesky also banned

THE government confirmed today that, despite being left off the initial list, Bluesky would be included in the social media sites banned for under 16s.

Said a Downing Street spokesman, "We're determined to protect impressionable teen minds from being exposed on Bluesky to friendly polite
conversation on topics ranging from the albums of Miles Davis to classic 70s Hollywood movies and the best era of Doctor Who."

He continued, "Filling teenagers' impressionable young minds with this genial chat is no way to prepare them for the hellish Al future that awaits them."
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The Lakota are suddenly taking notes, here.
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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 #Conservation
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Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area
Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Ladybird books have always had their finger on the pulse for the young reader. I swear by them.
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madoptom31.bsky.social @madoptom31.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
@badparkingcork.bsky.social Two days in a row now on Southern Road @garda.ie
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A conflict of interest is .... Independent Landlord Junior Minister TD Michael Healy-Rae #speirghorm
A conflict of interest is ....
Independent Landlord Junior Minister TD Michael Healy-Rae
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Yes landLORD minister #speirghorm
Yes landLORD minister
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Cork Astronomy Club @corkastronomyclub.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
On Monday, where you will be welcome, UCC’s Prof Paul Callanan will discuss the current state and future promise of the imaginatively named Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones, a mountain at an altitude of 3,046 metres in Chile’s Atacama Desert.It is in the process of being built by ESO
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Did I mention poor Michael happens to be our biggest Landlord Minister #speirgorm
Did I mention poor Michael happens to be our biggest Landlord Minister 

#speirgorm
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Cork Astronomy Club @corkastronomyclub.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
We are back with our public lectures on the 12th of January. How to take a picture of an exoplanet” by Dr Evert Nasedkin of Trinity College Dublin (pictured). Check our website for more. corkastronomyclub.com
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Paul Hosford: People living in hotels long-term should have the homes we let to tourists
Short-term lets have their place. But 16,000 people are homeless in Ireland and it’s right to question if leaving homes empty for much of the year is a choice we can stand over
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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Someone stole my wife's maroon Raleigh Motus bike in Dublin City Centre this afternoon. If you see it, give me a shout
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John Wenger @johnwenger9.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Cork needs more green spaces. Sign the petition to turn a derelict site into a park.
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Joe Healy @jtphealy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Glimpses of History: Joe Healy's 'Cork in Decades Past'. A highly anticipated event for photography lovers and anyone interested in the heritage of Cork. All welcome.
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Dereliction is a social crime Former Odlums, Port of Cork City #DerelictIreland
Dereliction is a social crime 

Former Odlums, Port of Cork City #DerelictIreland
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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Colin Sheridan: Assata Shakur’s death recalls life’s living struggles
Shakur’s death should remind us that the struggles of the 1970s are not relics. They are living, breathing, unfinished
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Des @despod.eurosky.social · 21/07/2025
Dog found in Cork.
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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
#BuiltHeritage Cork city — derelict historic buildings in prominent locations negatively affecting amenities & character of city. Targeted action req'd for renovation/reuse (Derelict Sites & Section 59, P&D act) 📷 1 Fr Mathew Quay 2 South Tce 3 George's Quay 4 Odlums, Marina Rd #DerelictIreland
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Michael O'Sullivan @michaelos.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Patricks Quay. Total block of footpath. @badparkingcork.bsky.social
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madoptom31.bsky.social @madoptom31.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I find these lovely buildings depressing every time I see them. Surely these are a protected structure and the OPW can intervene? #Cork #Ireland #vandalism
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
You think what's being done to land-based ecosystems is bad? Take a look at what's happening under the sea. It's as if all birds and other wild animals were being hoovered out of forests for our mass consumption, shredding the trees and everything else in the process. Out of sight, out of mind.
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Three Red Kings @threeredkings.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
He Who Remains Stephen Archer is retiring this summer, so I had a look back at this 300 cap legends time at the club. It's free to read. www.threeredkings.com/cult-hero-0w...
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madoptom31.bsky.social @madoptom31.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
We live in eternal hope 😳 #derilictCork
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Cork Astronomy Club @corkastronomyclub.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Our next public lecture is on 14th of April. Check out our website for more details. I am really looking forward to this one. corkastronomyclub.com/calendar/
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Green Party / Comhaontas Glas @greenparty.ie · 31/03/2025
Figures released to @rodericogorman.bsky.social show just €7.5m was spent of €150m State fund to purchase vacant and derelict homes. Read more below 👇 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
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Roderic O’Gorman TD @rodericogorman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Commercial LNG operators clearly receiving positive signals from the new Government. A commercial LNG facility will lessen the drive towards renewables, make it harder to reach our climate targets and puts profits right into the hands of polluters.... www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Shannon LNG granted planning permission for power plant
An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission to Shannon LNG Limited for a power plant, with a total installed capacity of 600 megawatts.
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Cork Astronomy Club @corkastronomyclub.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Check out our website for more details on the partial solar eclipse that will be visible in Cork on the 29th of March corkastronomyclub.com/ireland-to-w...
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Ireland to witness brief total lunar eclipse early Friday morning
Ireland can witness a brief total lunar eclipse early Friday morning.  However, dawn twilight will make it difficult to see and the Moon will set while still in total eclipse.  Times for an observe…
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Leeforum @leeforum.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It's depressing to see the OPW pursue this environmentally and economically damaging scheme. Upstream storage would cost just 1/10th of the cost of this over engineered monstrosity. Even if it's done, businesses won't be able to get insurance. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
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Cork’s €20m Blackpool flood relief scheme faces fresh calls for fast-tracking
While the village escaped flooding in the recent rains, it has suffered devastating floods before – most recently in 2010, 2012 and again in 2013
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rewildyourland.bsky.social @rewildyourland.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Welcome to Rewild! If you have land in Ireland and you want to rewild it but are not sure how, this is the site for you! www.rewildyourland.ie
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HOME | Rewild!
Join a growing network of people in Ireland taking action in the face of the biodiversity emergency
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🌊 Cork Coast, Ireland @corkcoast.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Cork Astronomy has just landed here on BlueSky! Become a member here: corkastronomyclub.com/membership/ #speirgorm #spéirgorm #coast #ireland #irish #cork #corkCity #mastodaoine #ucc #astronomy #telescope
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Why Join?
The Club offers the following benefits to its members: Monthly observers’ group Monthly lectures on astronomy related topics at UCC (lectures are public, but everything else on this list is fo…
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madoptom31.bsky.social @madoptom31.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
corkastronomyclub.com/the-third-te... Great lecture tonight, really enjoyed it. See you again soon. 👍🏼 #Cork #astronomy #EAS2025
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“The Third Test” – 10th February 2025
Prof Paul Callanan will give a public lecture with the mysterious title of the “The Third Test”.  (Don’t ask us because we don’t know either—you’ll have to come along to see for y…
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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ESB urged to use record profits to pay for Storm Éowyn damage
Chief executive said cleanup from the storm would likely cost 'tens of millions', which will eventually likely 'find their way back into the overall cost of our distribution system network'
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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is the empty saline seabed where I traced the source of liquorice which makes fishermans friend no longer taste like recently washed human anus
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Leeforum @leeforum.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The LLFRS in Cork is to have 40+ pump stations to manage surface water. That's a lot of potential for failure, and subsequent flooding.
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Free Trees Ireland @handle.invalid · 20/01/2025
Want to know how our application and distribution of free native provenance Irish trees work? You can find all the information on freetrees.ie/next
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I published this on Monday but forgot to post here. If you'd like to sign up to newsletter (it's free unless you'd like to & can afford to pay) then please do so. The rule from here is that none of these platforms are to be trusted (inc Substack) broligarchy.substack.com/about
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About - The Power
Girl power vs Tech bros. Click to read The Power, by Carole Cadwalladr, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Shameful decision from Sweden which has no excuse for exterminating wolves like this. Imagine India decided to halve its tiger population, or Kenya its lions? There'd be an outcry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Sweden begins wolf hunt as it aims to halve endangered animal’s population
Five entire families can be killed, totalling 30 wolves, in move campaigners say is illegal under EU law
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A social distancing cheat chart:
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