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Eoin Lettice @eoinlettice.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

If you thought Bishop Lucey Park was the only nature lost in #Cork lately, think again. Today, Cork City Council removing trees and grass to lay concrete for parking of council vehicles in Blackpool. No planning permission, no 'Part 8', no public consultation. Just green space & nature wiped out...

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Eoin Lettice @eoinlettice.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Good to see @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social covering the vanishing green space problem in Blackpool #Cork in today's Irish Examiner.

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Kevin O'Brien @kevob777.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

To read this reply from CCC to @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social piece in the Examiner today, it's impossible to know that not only was the tree removed, but the area concreted over too. Essentially, an area that once had grass and 4 mature trees in recent years, is now a car park.

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Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

ICON. 💔

The amazing Prunella Scales, starring as Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers. She is smoking a cigarette and holding a bonkbuster novel in her hand.

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Kevin Burke @kevburkeie.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Can't disagree with a word of this. Words won't work, automatic enforcement needed. Beyond frustrating that automatic cameras have not been rolled-out nationwide. Let's free up Garda resources and court time from challenges.

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I was sent this pic by Denis Murphy of Bantry Library, with a selection of books inspired by the desert island picks in the weekly Books are my Business feature I do in the @irishexaminer This has made my day, week, month, year! Cherish your libraries and librarians ❤️

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

$[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]$

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Michael Moynihan @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

As they say on LinkedIn, delighted to share news of my new book about the future of the GAA - more details to follow but feel free to circulate this message. More Than A Game: The GAA and Where It's Going is published soon by Gill Books

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below). If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

4 forthcoming Irish Sport themed titles - all from the new Gill Books catalogue - Including titles from Brendan Fanning on the evolution of Irish Rugby, Marc Ó Sé on Kerry GAA, @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social on the future of the GAA, and David Gillick on athletics and after. #preorders #irishsport

In a county where success is weighed in medals, the Ó Sé brothers all hung up their boots with heavy hearts but even heavier pockets: a combined total of 16 All-Irelands, 28 Munsters and 12 All-Stars
making their way back to An Ghaeltacht – a haul which is unlikely to be surpassed by a set of siblings any time soon. Marc Ó Sé is the youngest member of the most famous footballing family in Ireland – the Ó Sé family. As such his football path was clear and his mission was understood. Not only did Marc have his brothers to emulate; in Kerry the voices from the past can often speak loudest. How loud is that volume when your own uncle is the inimitable Páidí Ó Sé?
More than just a revealing account of Marc’s own glittering career, Ó Sé is laden with the tales and anecdotes, and the successes and failures that have marked the storied history of this footballing dynasty.

The GAA is more than a game. It’s a cornerstone of Irish identity — woven into parishes, families, and the national psyche. But behind the passion and pride lies a question that has never really been
asked. Where is the GAA going? In this revealing and timely book, acclaimed journalist Michael Moynihan explores how the GAA is changing, and what it means for the Ireland it serves. Is it still a grassroots, amateur participation movement? Is it a delivery system for elite sport? Is it a real estate organisation with thousands of premises? With sharp insight and deep research, Moynihan tackles
the big questions — from unregulated payments to stadium sponsorships, broadcasting
controversies, and postponed games for pop concerts. Moynihan lifts the lid on the inner workings of the GAA at a crossroads. At once thoughtful, balanced, and bold, Moynihan shows us the organisation behind the headlines — and why its future matters to us all.

Ireland went to the 2023 Rugby World Cup as the number one ranked team in the world. They had a unique Test series win in New Zealand on their list of achievements; they were the reigning Grand Slam holders; and still they came home early. Getting to the last four has become an obsession. But is this the only measure of success?
This ambition is a country mile removed from the awfulness of Irish rugby as the game went from amateur to professional during the nineties. We were all over the shop, and the men behind the counter were lost and disgruntled. But by the arrival of the Six Nations in 2000, pain gave way to change. There were real signs of growth. From Eddie O’Sullivan, who kicked it off and then was deported to a limbo where he couldn’t get a decent job, to men of massive influence like Joe Schmidt and Stuart Lancaster, to David Nucifora – the first tsar of Irish rugby in the pro era – rugby here became unrecognisable from its old days.

$The Race offers an exhilarating, behind-the-scenes look at the cut-throat world of elite athletics. With vivid recall, David Gillick, one of Ireland’s most celebrated 400m sprinters, describes the sacrifices, triumphs and devastating setbacks that define a life spent chasing greatness. From the punishing grind of training camps to the mental anguish of injuries and the darker side of athletics, this memoir captures the intensity of a career defined by fractions of a second. As an Irish athlete competing against the odds, Gillick recalls the unique challenges of representing a small nation: limited resources, enormous expectations, and the constant push to prove you belong among the world’s best. But The Race is more than a story of sport. It’s an exploration of human resilience and the fight to find balance in a life consumed by the pursuit of perfection. It’s about enduring heartbreak, overcoming burnout, and discovering who you are when the race is over.$

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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Alan Hollinghurst at WCLF has long been a dream of ours & it's finally coming true. Alan will be in Bantry Fri 11 July with his fabulous novel Our Evenings @picadorbooks.bsky.social 🎟️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/alan-hollinghurst/ www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @marjbrennan.bsky.social

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Author interview: ‘Gay life and history keeps on developing and changing’

The world of LGBTQ+ fiction is a completely different proposition now, and is flourishing thanks in no small part to writers such as Alan Hollinghurst

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Ireland, that most literary of countries with the most poetic version of the English language, choosing to ignore all its homegrown brilliance & slop up workaday words-by-numbers as its own face. Choosing to promote itself in a way that undermines one of the very things the world loves about it.

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Cork Cycling Campaign @corkcyclingcrew.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Today we’re rolling into the Marina for #BikeWeek2025! 🚲✨ Ever wondered about cargo bikes? Come take one for a spin or flaunt your own. Family? Friends? Pets? Bring them all! No booking needed — just show up. Fun activities for kids too!

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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

JFC. This is depressing. I feel like “kids these days” are looking at us like we’re Don Quixote tilting at windmills when we rage against this rampant use of AI and just refusing to evolve. But even us slacker Gen-Xers never imagined this level of disregard for learning and education and *work*

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Yup, as a former page designer on a newspaper, and kerner of headlines, this is absolutely shocking.

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Eoin Lettice @eoinlettice.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Hat tip to fellow northside native @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social for flying the flag. We can and must do better for the northside and the city as a whole. #Cork

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

About to get even more unaffordable then. Most people I speak to in Cork now swerve staying there because of hotel cost or drive up and down to gigs in the same night. It’s not a capital that serves the citizens of its country.

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The irony that I now bring headphones everywhere to block out the noise of people listening to stuff on their phones without any. Sartre wasn’t wrong.

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Mairéad Hearne | Swirl and Thread Book Blog @maireadhearne.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I went to the Cork Arts Theatre last night to see The Cure, with a mesmerising performance by Ciaran Bermingham. He had us all enthralled with his one man performance set in Cork. Written by @conalcreedon.bsky.social Running for another few nights so do go if you can Highly recommend 👌 #cork

Woman dressed in black standing in front of the Cork Arts Theatre

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Maybe we’ll finally stop lionising this pair.

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Heart of Glass, Hangin on the Telephone….the hits keep coming. What a band.

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

They are showing a Blondie concert from 46 YEARS ago on BBC4 right now, in honour of Clem Burke. Dreaming, followed by Union City Blues and Atomic. Absolute bangers and the band is still impossibly and timelessly cool 😎❤️

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

On this, I am in the city regularly enough. The paths are absolutely filthy. I never see cleansing crews washing them. Compare to somewhere like Malaga where they are out in the morning and evening every day 🤷‍♀️

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Michael Moynihan @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social city column. Maintenance in cities is important for safety, pride, hygiene and a host of other reasons. Why is it so difficult in Cork, then? www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

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Michael Moynihan: Lack of road markings in Cork is a hazard — and a message that the city doesn’t care

From chaotic junctions to unclear lanes, faded road markings are turning Cork’s streets into everyday obstacle courses

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Tramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Already it's up to 1,129 signatories. We work really hard to pay our authors and we always seek for collaborators to pay them too. We're supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social in doing this. Then Meta just scoops up all their hard work, uses it without payment or permission to build AI.

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Andrew Doherty @tidesntales.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Still a few spaces for my guided walk along the Dunmore East Coastal path this coming Friday 11th April. To book please contact Liz on the email below or directly with Eventbrite. Organised by Waterford Sports Partnership

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Eoin Lettice @eoinlettice.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

If you thought Murphy's Rock was the only public open space that the proposed new Cork Northern Distributor Road has in its sights, you'd be wrong. It will bisect the proposed Cork North West Regional Park on the Northside. Park study area in red. Proposed route of CNDR in green. #Cork #Speirgorm

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We buy back used books via An Post, for shop credit from anywhere in Ireland. A great opportunity to return books you have read for reuse( and credit!) #recycling #circulareconomy #booksky See how the system works here - thebookshop.ie/re-home-or-r...

A photo of a green grass heart between two open hands.

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

A little look into life as a bookseller in today's Irish Examiner with Gráinne from Kennys! www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m seeing a lot more Swastikars around Cork these days which is….interesting, considering Tesla sales seem to be declining elsewhere in Europe.

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Yeah, that’ll do it, Simon 🙄

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Calling all Cork music-lovers, this one is a beauty ❤️🎶

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street. Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist. Support local, not the billionaires.

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I’ve given it two episodes but this season of White Lotus isn’t a patch on the last two. Can’t believe how boring and slow it is. A waste of some serious acting talent.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 14/03/2025

Hi, we are an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible 👋🏻 With us, you select the independent bookshop you want to support (we have 3,000+ partners across the globe), and we share profits from your purchase with them. We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Always look to see what the tech bros want for their own kids: small class sizes with human teachers, human tutors with expert content knowledge, cell phone restrictions in classrooms, high per pupil spending, the arts and humanities--and much more they say is too costly for public schools.

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Great piece but the number of people in the replies complaining that it’s paywalled. God forbid the writer gets paid for their time, effort and creativity 🤷‍♀️

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Marjorie Brennan @marjbrennan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Just saw that Listowel Writers Week appear to have dropped their young writers competition this year. Such a shame as there is a real lack of such opportunities for younger writers, especially teens up to age 18. Anyone know of any others? 🙏

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I like fiction and don't always trust people, but am confident that if an old man was stabbed in a room where no one reads fiction at all, a FTSE100 company, say, or a university, people would still get up and help ffs

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The Glucksman @glucksman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Mix up your mid-week routine and encounter an original work of art today. We're open until 5pm. Come say hello!

Four people visit an art gallery. The two women in the foreground are looking at three blue photographs. The couple people in the background are looking at painting.

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