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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you’re a cyclist in Blackrock, you’re probably familiar with Deepwell Lane 🚴 Preliminary works are taking place Monday 24th - Friday 28th August, which will involve closing the existing lane from Blackrock Park to Blackrock Dart Station. Works to expand the lane are due to begin in Qrt 4 🥳

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Bins, bogs and benches, the three Bs of local government After waiting years for a bin in Rockfield Park it was placed in the area with very few passers-by. It’s now been moved to the main lane from Barclay Court. Thanks to everyone who got in touch about it and to the cleansing staff for moving it.

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Looking for something to do this week? Enjoy some of the free activities our community has to offer!☀️ ➡️Story time in French in LexIcon Library ➡️Imagine Futures: A Live Art Series in DL Baths ➡️Film clubs in LexIcon Library There’s so much happening in the area, something for everyone to enjoy!

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Have an issue you want to discuss? Join me for my drop in Advice Clinic! 📍The Wishing Well, Newtown Park, A94A6Y6 ⏰ 6pm - 7pm 🗓️ Monday 13th July All are welcome. See you there!

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We are one of the Gaeilge-friendly businesses around Blackrock, not fluent by any stretch but cúpla focail if you want to Give Gaeilge a Go☘️ If you're on the insta: www.instagram.com/p/DaL_O2TNvEr/

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Proud to march with @labour at today’s Dublin Pride. Celebrating the hard fought wins while demanding full equality for all🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The jack-up barge; it’s the talk of the town

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Youngest doesn’t want to be met from the station. Delighted and devastated 💖

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Such a special evening in the LexIcon where HE Larysa Gerasko launched the #ukrainianbookshelfproject. The Ambassador spoke so beautifully about the importance of literature in helping us understand and make connections with each other’s cultures 🇺🇦🇮🇪

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Ivana Bacik @ivanabacik.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Bertie Ahern's comments are disgraceful and he should apologise. But we also must take a look around the Dáil chamber. There is not one black or African voice in the Dáil that has the real, lived experience of racism. We want to change that on 22 May, and put Cllr. Helen Ogbu in the Dáil.

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Fantastic new research published today by Transport Infrastructure Ireland delving in to women’s attitudes to cycling in Ireland. Loads of new information, as well as providing hard data on hunches and assumptions 🥳

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Conor Sheehan 🌹 @conorsheehan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A free vote is a cop out! The recommendations of the review are clear and three years old.

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Delighted to get cross party support for my motion calling on Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to roll out Dementia Cafes #communitysupport @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social

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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

One of the most brilliant talks I ever heard was from John Fanning 20+ years ago who in a room full of business people said to forgo business books and to read fiction, poetry and art because artists are the harbingers of the future.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today is our 18th birthday!🎉 I was asked yesterday by our Transition Year work experience student how many staff I'd had over the years and my mind flickered back back over the many helping hands. Very grateful to have had Lili by my side these last few years, and Cormac more recently🙏

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

On May Day we celebrate workers’ rights and highlight the rights we still need to fight for, including paid leave for fertility treatment and paid leave during miscarriage. Special shout out to former @labourparty leader #RuairiQuinn who introduced this public holiday in 1994 Thanks Ruairi 🌹🌹🌹

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Gorgeous new mural in Clonkeen Park! One of the perks of cycling to Shanganagh for the parkrun

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

An rud is annamh is iontach! After a series of long, bad-tempered meetings on the dlr Development Plan variation, it’s lovely to be home, watching the latest #taskmaster, shooting the breeze on study (too early apparently 😳), dog walking (dog not the most enthusiastic 🐾), and wind (ruining my swim🌊)

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Lovely weather for the annual Blackrock village clean with #Blackrocktidytowns and for the Carysfort Park and Cloisters cleanup. Great chats and fabulous baking!

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Very much open to correction but think I might've found Peig. #1926Cencus #TheStoryOfUs nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Enjoying the views from Dún Laoghaire’s newest social housing. Great to see 39 new social homes in the heart of Dún Laoghaire. Well done to everyone involved in delivering Bentley Villas and best wishes to the new tenants!

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Great to see pedestrian safety works progressing on Booterstown Avenue

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Wonderful to attend the launch of the beautiful new tourist map of Blackrock. Congrats to Tom, Jen and Michelle for the hard slog, and massive thanks to Jeanne Colton for the beautiful design and to DLR’s Heritage Officer, Deirdre Black, and Dave Lawless, from DLR’s tourism office for their support

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Sometimes, it’s the little things! For people using mobility aids, stepping up to or down from a kerb is not feasible. Thanks a million to @dlrcoco.ie and the contractors #Nolan for installing the speed bump. Handy also if you’re trying to get your wheely trolley of groceries back from the village

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

✨Highlights from last week ☕️Restoration of the tearooms in the park. Welcome #mistermagpie (photo #dlrcoco) 🌳Lots of new trees at #DalkeySchoolProject 😱Lows 🚲Half a greenway (Cabinteely Greenway; the park component ✅, but the decision NOT to build the part where children mix with cars 🤯)

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

With International Women’s Day on Sunday, we were out and about in Monkstown this morning asking people what women’s rights and achievements we should be most proud and what we still need to fight for. Take a look at some of the responses here and leave a comment to add your own!

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Fab new mural on George’s Avenue. Well done to Gwen and Blackrock Market

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Patrician AGMs, always a lovely evening

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Out and about with local update. Thanks to these legends for helping out 🌹

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Ciarán Ahern TD @ciaranahern.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I spoke about the Government’s ridiculous proposal to criminalise cyclists who don’t wear helmets 🪖 The fact they even proposed this betrays their complete lack of understanding of what makes our roads unsafe for cyclists & pedestrians 🚗🚙 @labour.ie @dublincycling.bsky.social

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Boast of Quietness Jorge Luis Borges

Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors.
The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.
Sure of my life and death, I observe the ambitious
and would like to understand them.
Their day is greedy as a lariat in the air.
Their night is a rest from the rage within steel, quick to attack.
They speak of humanity.
My humanity is in feeling we are all voices of the same poverty.
They speak of homeland.
My homeland is the rythm of a guitar, a few portraits, an old sword,
the willow grove's visible prayer as evening falls.
Time is living me.
More silent than my shadow, I pass through the loftily covetous multitude.
They are indispensable, singular, worthy of tomorrow.
My name is someone and anyone.
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away
he doesn't expect to arrive.

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Labour Party @labour.ie · 26/01/2026

Labour selects Cllr. Helen Ogbu to contest Galway West Bye-Election 🌹 “I will listen deeply, work tirelessly and deliver for the people of Galway West.” Councillor Helen Ogbu ➡️ labour.ie/news/2026/01... #GaillimhOgbu

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Labour Selects Cllr. Helen Ogbu To Contest Galway West Bye-Election - The Labour Party

Labour Selects Cllr. Helen Ogbu To Contest Galway West Bye-Election - The Labour Party “I will listen deeply, work tirelessly and deliver for the people of Galway West.” – Councillor Helen Ogbu “Labou...

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is what the contractors have the "pocket park" looking like when the work is finished (they're aiming for "Spring" though not sure by what calendar)

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A couple of people have asked about the cross - it's still there, carefully covered to prevent damage (this, btw, with added sandbags, is what you do when the Russians are raining missiles down on your cities)

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Out and about with a local update in Deansgrange

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This is a Bad Take. I left X this time last year, reluctantly. My Twitter community built my career. I had (I think?) about 50k followers. But it became clearer and clearer after Musk took over where it was going. Bots, nazis, all manner of hate speech and vileness. No going back.

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

When you are ready to take down the Christmas tree, dlr will recycle it for use in local parks. Drop off locations below 🎄

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

It’s up🎄 A little late to the countdown

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Gorgeous morning yesterday in #RockfieldCommunityGarden. Contact them via Facebook or Instagram if you would like to get involved

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Fancy getting involved in the new community garden in the Rockies? Drop by on Saturday morning

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 09/12/2025

Ireland has secured a three-year extension to the controversial nitrates derogation. An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland, said the decision is "actually shocking". "Recent EPA data on water quality is unambiguous. We are going backwards," An Taisce said. jrnl.ie/6897863t