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Mary Gilmartin

@marygilmartin.bsky.social
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Geographer, Sligo Rovers fan, writes books, union member

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Walkout As it was foretold, members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) held a one-hour stoppage on Maynooth University campus today to mark World Teachers’ Day. The turnout was very good, helped by the reasonably nice weather. As well as speeches from members of IFUT, there…
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The Walkout
As it was foretold, members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) held a one-hour stoppage on Maynooth University campus today to mark World Teachers’ Day. The turnout was very good, helped by the reasonably nice weather. As well as speeches from members of IFUT, there were also contributions from the other Unions, Unite and Siptu as well as the Postgraduate Workers' Organisation; the latter is not an officially-recognised trade union, but supports the dispute.
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Members of my union, IFUT, will have a one hour work stoppage today, from 12-1, as part of the broader public sector union dispute. Read about it here: www.ifut.ie/content/ifut... - solidarity welcome on World Teachers Day
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IFUT Public Service Dispute Hub 2026 | Irish Federation of University Teachers
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polifeed @feed.gavreilly.com · 02/10/2026
TheJournal.ie: Taoiseach criticised for misrepresenting how citizenship rules work
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Taoiseach criticised for misrepresenting how citizenship rules work
There have also been calls for the government to introduce a permanent residency visa if it insists on changing current rules.
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Work stoppage for @ifut.bsky.social members. Monday. 12-1. Part of public sector industrial action across Ireland. www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...
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Schools likely to shut due to strike as unions tell minister there is ‘no basis for us to engage in negotiation’
Parents receive messages warning of disruption on October 14
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And solidarity with colleagues in Glasgow Caledonian
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Solidarity with colleagues in Nottingham
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Solidarity with colleagues in Edinburgh
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Solidarity with colleagues in Dundee.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/09/2026
Colleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts. Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Solidarity with colleagues in @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social and @ducuuo.bsky.social.
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Solidarity with colleagues in @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For people of my age (old) and my background (CNR) who grew up in NI during the 90s, Drumcree was the nadir of community relation & differences in our perceptions of ‘rights’. We just could not conceive how a group of snarling, angry men thought their ‘right to march’ surpassed our ‘right to exist’.
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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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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Parades Commission annual report for the year to 31 March 2026 identifies 172 notifications of parades considered sensitive. That figure includes 51 notified weekly parades in Portadown www.paradescommission.org/Publications...
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Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2026 - Northern Ireland Parades Commission
Parades Commission Website, providing information about Parades in Northern Ireland.
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The players have shown the way forward to the FAI before. Remember this? www.balls.ie/football/kat...
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Ireland WNT: McCabe Reveals Coleman's Key Role In Push For Equal Pay | Balls.ie
Katie McCabe has spoken about the key role that men's team captain Séamus Coleman played in pushing for the Ireland women's team to receive equal pay
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Exactly this. They need our support in the absence of support from the institution.
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Auntie O'Grimacey @bubblenoma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's pure shite that it has come down the players though. The FAI should have backed them, and got them out of the game.
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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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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A bad year for #SligoRovers fans, made worse by this news. This is a fundraiser to support superfan Eoghan Sweeney's family as he battles serious illness @sligorovers.bsky.social
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's a tough year for Sligo Rovers fans
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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 03/09/2026
Annoyed about the government's fare increase? I'm organising a protest outside Government Buildings tomorrow at 5:30pm. All are welcome! #speirgorm
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Nick Daly @nickdaly.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026
Several hours later and I’m still marveling at this. If you take the bus you will have to pay more; but buy your own bus and drive it to work and the government will subsidize your petrol. Bus and train fares for adults to increase by average of 15% from January, NTA confirms jrnl.ie/7150903
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Bus and train fares for adults to increase by average of 15% from January, NTA confirms
The move has been criticised by opposition parties.
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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I'll lie in bed all day, pull the curtains and shut the damned world out.
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's a special day. I get to apply for membership of Sligo Rovers AND I have one remaining Westlife stamp for the envelope.
Envelope and stamp
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Announced today. Probably a month in advance. Solidarity with colleagues and students who were planning for a very different start of the academic year.
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
British universities continue their slash and burn of Geography departments. Here, @universityofexeter.bsky.social, closing an outstanding programme after misleading its external examiner. Awful behaviour.
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Thanks to Social & Cultural Geography for the opportunity to write about books that are important to me. These are the books: the essay is here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026
Mention of “best interests of the child” quietly dropped from Department of Justice’s new family reunification policy A spokesperson for Ombudsman for Children said it is “very concerned” that the best-interests principle was not referenced in the new policy. www.dublininquirer.com/mention-of-b...
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Mention of “best interests of the child” quietly dropped from Department of Justice’s new family reunification policy
A spokesperson for Ireland’s Ombudsman for Children said it is “very concerned” that the best-interests principle was not referenced in the new policy.
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Trying to get home for the match. Seems like Dublin Bus has been afflicted by a shocking attack of ghost and cancelled buses.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Data centres use a lot of water, but they use even more during hot periods. While the government is set on growing the number of water-intensive data centres without any understanding of the implications, the media tells us to stop watering plants 1/3 www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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New heat warning as people urged to conserve water
Met Éireann has issued a new high temperature warning for 10 counties, while people have been urged to conserve water.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The FAI says that not fulfilling the Nations League fixtures against apartheid Israel will damage Irish football. Wrong. It will honour the Irish football community and the broader public by reflecting the majority will - be in solidarity with the Palestinian people #StopTheGame
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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
With the likely change in leadership to Andy Burnham and eyes on "Manchesterism" and the way municipal govt can contest privatisation, this is a good time to read our new paper on: How places are contesting the privatisation of local public services academic.oup.com/cjres/articl...
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ireland (Specifically Pico Lopes) Secure Historic Draw Against Spain
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Katy Hayward @katyhayward.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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What is the truth behind immigration figures in Northern Ireland?
Professor Katy Hayward Exposes the truth behind migration myths. The Queen’s University political sociologist explains how misinformation, fear and manipulation fuel unrest across Northern Ireland
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The May issue of Rundale on the theme of housing is out now. Five new contributions that approach housing and inhabitation in Ireland from new angles, offering different framings of (and answers to) ‘the housing question’. Quality analysis that you just don't find elsewhere. rundale.org
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
There's only one Rovers
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Peggy March @rebelgeo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026
Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/still-hurt-b...
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Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say
“It’s literally George Floyd on the streets of Dublin. I can’t believe that scene and that guy with his knee on his neck.”
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"I've got a terminal disease so I can stick my neck out". A report on the experiences of staff at Australian universities and the broader problems with university governance. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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The university where teaching is tougher than having terminal cancer for this academic
The University of Newcastle has been found to be worst in class when it comes to staff wellbeing. Now, an academic with terminal cancer is speaking out about it because others fear they cannot.
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My rough calculations (average rent €1500 per month, average take home pay €3000 per month) suggests Cost of Rent Day in Ireland is the end of June
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"It was considered unlucky to dust the house" in May: an early workers' protest? Happy May Day/Lá Bealtaine shona daoibh go léir. May your houses remain happily undusted.
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Bealtaine traditions in Ireland: fire, water, light and luck
Our ancestors engaged in a wide range of rites and rituals on May 1st which were believed to bring good luck
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A fantastic piece by Denis Linehan. This is why #GeographyMatters - careful, critical analysis of the differences between places that matter
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I loved 'Home Economics' by Caitriona Lally - read it in a day. It's observant, clear-sighted, insightful, and really funny. Get it from New Island, the publisher, or from your local bookshop or library.
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Home Economics — New Island Books
by Caitríona Lally An honest and forward look at the pile-up which is the colliding parts of selfhood: the mother who is a cleaner so that she can be a writer.  ISBN: 9781835940358...
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Amazing how they find an extra €100 million or so when they need it. www.dublincity.ie/sites/defaul...
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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This, by @oliviamason.bsky.social, is powerful and insightful. Our places of work are exploiting people, and work is worse for all of us as a consequence. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Precarity is shaping what it means to do geography, who can do geographical research, and how we do geographical research. In this short intervention I reflect personally on the relationship between ...
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