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Untitled νοῦς game @pneumismatist.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The year is 2032. The Irish Defence Forces are air dropping copies of Conversations with Friends over Britain. US Vice President Mario Lopez leads the hunt for Ms. Rachel's ragtag team of well-read resistance fighters in the Appalachian mountains. Work on the Dublin Metro Link has yet to begin.
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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I think all the Irish Sea ferries could do a nice business in selling Sally Rooney novels in the duty-free shop
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
not for the first time I say: Jim O'Callaghan must resign
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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maebhcon.bsky.social @maebhcon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Amazing. Who will set up the first smuggling ring.
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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 14/10/2026
This is incredible. And not in a good way at all www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be published in UK over her support for Palestine Action
Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling author’s works
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Joe Molloy 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @freelancewebdev.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We have one of, if not the lowest rates of disability employment in the EU and here we see one of the reasons why written large. I'm no fan of O'Donovan politically but this cowardly abelism should be a firing and party explusion offence.
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maebhcon.bsky.social @maebhcon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It is absolutly wild that Arthur Cox is using "she worked her actual hours" against Burke in the Labour court. Like its not that they'd think it but that they would say that, just plainly nah she works 9-5 and expects to have time to herself after. www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtan...
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Ammi Burke: Labour Court hears sacked solicitor 'could not have caused more damage to herself'
Ammi Burke is appealing the Workplace Relations Commission's decision to dismiss her claim of unfair dismissal by Arthur Cox LLP
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
One thing that rankles with me - slightly - about nepo baby discourse, is that seemingly 90% of successful actors in the UK have a massive structural advantage simply from being born rich. To obsess over the 1% who also have famous parents as if THAT'S the problem, misses the forest for the trees.
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
To the surprise of no one, Jim Allister MP TUV Ballymena Demands that the PSNI Chief Constable should have “sanitised” the Garvaghy Road prior to the Orange Order march in order to enforce its completion, against the will of the people of Ireland. Ulster’s children of Zion are out of control. 💀
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Myles na gCup O'Lean. @executivesteve.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You can tell this is actually a fake cr*pto scam because no article about Glen Hansard in an Irish newspaper would ever feature the words "Sorry, he did what?" because they all knew damn well but never printed it.
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If I was Timothée Chalamet's PR I'm have him parked at the barricades with these lycéens in a little cashmere scarf, can you imagine the edits
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
last year, in an argument about the budget, I mentioned I've lived below the poverty line my entire adult life and the person I was arguing with replied that he was "pretty close to the poverty line" at the end of the month. he was complaining he had more disposable income than I have total.
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am so on the side of these French students I find myself thinking silly things like "how dare they refer to those big six foot tall youngfellas in the balaclavas as intimidating, they just want to learn!!"
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
he's saying the right words about co-design, but it is difficult to have much confidence when the starting point – a one-off lump sum only for people on disability allowance – is a fundamental misunderstanding of what a cost of disability payment is and not what DPOs advocated in our submissions
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The interesting development however is that Breandán Mac Cionnaith, the head of the Garvaghy Road Residents Community, is now meeting up with other community leaders of parade flashpoints - Springfield, Lower Ormeau - for what we all predicted: if they march in Drumcree, they’ll reopen all.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the underlying premise of the idea of people "keeping their own money" through a reduced tax burden is that only people with factor incomes (workers and owners) deserve to have money at all, unlike people with transfer incomes (welfare recipients), who should be grateful for whatever scraps we get
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
The TL;DR is that the circumstances have to relate specifically to the individual and not to general country conditions. Another way that applicants from Gaza are being screwed.
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It confirms that PSNI aren't treating racially motivated loyalist paramilitary violence & pogroms as terror due to the colour of the victim's skin, their nationality and their ethnicity. The yearly downplaying by PSNI of terror involvement in ethnic cleansing through pogroms, is a cover up. [2/2]
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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Spent the day in the Central Criminal Court. Cases not proceeding because of the withdrawal of services by solicitors - adjourned matters will get a new hearing date some time after April 2027. If this goes on much longer, we'll be looking at 2028 dates for cases ready to be heard in July 2026.
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maebhcon.bsky.social @maebhcon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dreaming of this in Ireland. Councils here are generally not broadcast.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
I was very privileged to visit Kurdistan with Margaret several years ago, where we met with families who lost children to Turkish state terror. She’s an inspiration.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Forgot, but 2 hours ago it was announced that the legal team representing the Orange Order had withdrawn and informed the Court, citing a lack of safety
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Me for The Irish News on the Garvaghy Road standoff www.irishnews.com/opinion/sara...
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Sarah Creighton: Drumcree is a f*** you to nationalism. Is this really what victory looks like for unionism?
If the Drumcree parade is forced down the Garvaghy Road, our peace process will lie in tatters on the tarmac
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families.
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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't know what to say. This is just awful 😞
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maebhcon.bsky.social @maebhcon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have no idea what the NHL has done but they tried to appeal to romance readers tonight and made alot of them real mad. I think that'd beautiful.
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gavin Bazunu maintained his connection to all of us opposed to this match. He was also able to act, facing implicit and explicit threats. He turned his character to action, in a decision that was deeply personal but also collective. Thank you. www.ontheditch.com/comment-than...
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Comment: Thank you Gavin Bazunu
He turned his character to action, in a decision that was deeply personal but also collective.
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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a vigil in Belfast yesterday, the NUJ's Assistant General Secretary called for the immediate release of the Police Ombudsman’s report into police handling of Martin O'Hagan's murder, and for a new independent investigation. 📷 credit: @kevinc55.bsky.social www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
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NUJ demands justice on 25th anniversary of O’Hagan murder
A large crowd gathered in Belfast yesterday (28 September) to remember NUJ member Martin O’Hagan and demand justice.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think it's pretty bad that a senior lecturer in Irish politics is issuing statements on Drumcree that'd be embarrassingly ignorant from an undergraduate, a senior lecturer who recently used his newspaper column to boast that he refuses to "decolonise" his curriculum
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rich uncle skeleton @alexeptable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So unbelievably cringe of Novara to get basic facts on the situation in Garvaghy Road - facts that a brief 2 mins on Google could correct - completely wrong in their reporting. They didn’t even get the county right. Like come on lads, what are you doing.
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Actually just dwelling on how insane the aggro must be at the loyalist gathering, which was through the underpass, that a TSG officer would advise "risk the petrol bomb gauntlet instead".
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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are two simultaneous anti-choice protests raking place right now outside City Hall, 20 feet apart, one for the Catholics and one for the Protestants. This place has its drawbacks but ypu have to concede there is a rich seam in the comedy mines.
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David @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So that man who started that IDF chant at the match yesterday, as seen in that video doing the rounds? Same guy in the pic visiting the Dáil to visit Jennifer Carrol McNeil of Fine Gael and the Ireland Israel Alliance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoseph_... #Spéirgorm
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fact that Gavin Bazunu had to say "just me, personally, not big into huge death tolls"
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IanMoore3000 @ianmoore3000.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Join a union jrnl.ie/7174957
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Flahavan's workers win pay boost of up to 21.5% as unrest ends at porridge company
Unite said the new deal brings the pay terms of different workers in line with each other.
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jamie Bryson furiously tweeting "ENFORCE THE LAW" each hour as he commands the PSNI to go in and batter a load of taigs off their own street so the Orangemen can march through. Eternal 1969 of the spotless mind.
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Tipp FM @tippfm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
dlvr.it
Healy: Northern Ireland Secretary should intervene in Drumcree Parade dispute
A Tipperary TD has said that the Northern Ireland Secretary should overrule the decision that allowed an Orange Order parade to return to the Garvaghy Road in the North. The Parades Commission gave the go-ahead for march along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road for the first time in almost 30 years. However, Drumcree parade was […] The post Healy: Northern Ireland Secretary should intervene in Drumcree Parade dispute appeared first on Tipp FM.
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Samhain’d Lad @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Robbie Keane is probably raging about the Irish men’s team right now. “I fucking love Israel way more than these posers,” he thinks to himself.
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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Peelers response to the Garvaghy road residents would be shameful regardless but it is rage inducing given failures around the Belfast pograms & a complete police failure to respond to far right violence across Ireland and Britain. But this "low risk" parade seems to have all the police resources.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The cops watched on not moving a finger while people were burned out of their homes. Back then, and now. I think the large media attention and the presence of elected officials, despite what the SoS is saying, helps contain police action
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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Portadown is where the first Loyal Orange Lodge was founded. I don't discount that Drumcree is important to them. But the Orange Order is also a sectarian hate brigade that's inexorably linked to paramilitary violence over the years. They're bigots through and through.
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.
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Shade 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
The waiting list for the first appointment is 18 years for the @hselive.bsky.social National Gender Service. Reform the service have been refused by the gatekeepers who run the service. Franky the senior staff's attitudes & practices are not human rights compliant, or best medical practice.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"the hate march is legal, therefore it is totally fine for MPs and MLAs to be participating in it, but the protest against the hate march is illegal, therefore it is completely unacceptable for MPs and MLAs to be standing with the community targeted by the hate march" go fuck yourself
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