Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 6hNo harm to her but The Irish Times has more coverage of Michael Flatley’s late wife than the public service pay dispute and forthcoming strike. It’s quite odd 150
Reposted by NiamhAmerican Historical Association @historians.org · 07/10/2026"Teaching students how historians work, rather than simply what historians know, has proved a powerful pedagogical tool." In #AHAPerspectives, Arminda Lawrence Sr. shares a class assignment that asks high school students to research, write, and edit their own history book. historians.orgMaking Students into Historians – AHAIn a high school historical methods course, students researched, wrote, and edited their own history books. 13012
Reposted by NiamhKarl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026From business pages in the past I know that Games Workshop has slightly more prominence as a story than it might cos you can put a pic of some elves in instead of a stock photo of a calculator. I wonder if, over decades, this has given a false impression that it is actually the UK's main industry. 131
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Surely I am not alone hearing CMAT whoever I read Sally Rooney data centre 🎵 thems the words now ‘They’re getting electricity for way lower prices’: Few regrets in Mayo over data centre refusal www.irishtimes.com/environment/...irishtimes.com‘They’re getting electricity for way lower prices’: Few regrets in Mayo over data centre refusal‘The price of energy is going up all the time and yet ... data centres are getting electricity for way lower prices than we ordinary people’ 010
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I’m watching How to Shop Well Now. Me: ooh cool choons - that’s someone Oscillate Wildly by The Smiths but for a segment on beef farming. Nooooo 000
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026RELEASE DETAINED LGBTI RIGHTS DEFENDERS At least 23 LGBTI rights defenders have been detained alongside more than 100 people in a police operation targeting LGBTI people and organizations that began on 12 September. www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...amnesty.org 000
Reposted by NiamhClaire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One of my favourite things about the last few days, is stories from trade unionist, artist, environmentalist circles… when the letter started circulating, people realised they didn’t actually know who was a Prod. Cue hilarious conversations. Happily, that’s how many of us in the north live now. 1598
Reposted by NiamhWendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026I 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. 0249
Reposted by NiamhStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comUnlikely revolutionary Mr Rogers will lead the uprising: the Stephen Collins cartoonWhere’s Fred Rogers when you need him? 310532
Reposted by NiamhTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com 211180357
Reposted by NiamhCarol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is written to fly under the radar, from today’s Sunday Independent (Ireland). The press council upheld a complaint about an offensive and transphobic opinion column by Brenda Power. Sindo was required to publish the decision. @mams4transrights.bsky.social @jesalady.bsky.social 413394
Reposted by NiamhNational Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026⏱ Closure notice: On Saturday 3 Oct the NLI Kildare Street campus (Reading Rooms, Exhibition and Registration Office) will be closed to the public. This is due to industrial action across the public sector. www.nli.ie/news-stories... 026
Reposted by NiamhMaria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The only reason this is necessary is a small group of extremists have painted themselves as representing all Protestants in the North. And the media, particularly in the Republic, has mostly let them get away with it. 2133
Reposted by NiamhClaire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures 13293125
Reposted by NiamhLisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AfD vote with CDU to prevent more of Holocaust victims rembrance sett stones in pavements in east German town. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comThe German town where the right has banned new ‘stumbling stones’ for Nazi victimsHeidenau council has halted the laying of Stolpersteine installed to remember individual victims of the Nazis 052
Reposted by NiamhRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?" 5540144
Reposted by NiamhKate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 653022990
Reposted by NiamhJim Bliss @jimbliss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My 14 year old nephew pays an €80 / year fee at his local club in Meath. Pro rata, that's more than 250 times Zuckerberg's donation. Not saying the lump sum won't help some clubs. It will. But if I had a net worth of a quarter of a trillion dollars, I'd be embarrassed with that donation. 111
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I appreciate that the picture accompanying the “people pleased with bribe” headline is the man who bribed them wearing pervert glasses 1214
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wilf, Felicity Cloake’s dog, who has brought me so much joy on the internet, has visited the butcher for the last time. I am bereft 111
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A real talent I have is reading backwards. I do it all the time. This means turning up at the end of meetings thinking they’ve just started is a speciality. Fml 130
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Solidarity demo in support of LGBTQ people in Türkiye and their allies in Dublin on Wednesday, 6pm at Europa House, Chatham St (near Amuri/Nearys) 002
Reposted by NiamhWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yay, latest ALCS distribution is about to drop, time to buy myself... a bottle of chicken wine from Coop. The literacy crisis just got real. 151
Reposted by NiamhEPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We say… ❌ NO to supporting war mongers ❌ NO to draining our public wealth ❌ NO to the tech broligarchy NO TO #PALANTIR! Read the open letter from over 120 organisations from across Europe here: www.epsu.org/article/120-... 12114
Reposted by NiamhBrendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"it's just 35 men with no bands walking down a road" it's just 6 extra minutes and no rioting 117512
Reposted by NiamhBrendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism. 18637255
Reposted by NiamhMaria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026I 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. 6543170
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In today’s Sindo Marty Regan says Forsa and Siptu voted for industrial action by “more than 90%”. The figures are 96.7% and 99% repsectively. That’s not really “more than 90%, Mary. It’s almost 100% 181
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sorry. There’s a lot happening but I just read something I that needs corrected 000
Reposted by NiamhIrish Independent @independent.ie · 26/09/2026Garvaghy Road residents to ask if PSNI chief ‘misled’ Parades Commission over Orange Order march www.independent.ie/incoming/gar...independent.ieGarvaghy Road residents to ask if PSNI chief ‘misled’ Parades Commission over Orange Order marchGarvaghy Road residents challenging a ruling permitting the Orange Order to march along their street have said they will seek to find out if PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher “misled” the ruling body. 061
Reposted by NiamhBrendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026March blocked. Appeal being lodged. 13010
Reposted by NiamhCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Fair play to Bazunu for putting his head above the parapet and trying. Shame on the FAI. 440270
Reposted by NiamhRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam 6584021411828
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Due to be en grève next month and am deeply envious of these posters 130
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Town at a standstill cops everywhere. Must be some serious VIP activity here 230
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A necklace I was wearing got so knotted I have been unable to take it off for days. I have spent half the evening at it and have successfully unravelled the chain. We celebrate all the wins 2110
Reposted by NiamhClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 271477752
Reposted by NiamhCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026Kids used to do that in book reviews on Barnes and Noble. Authors were like "why am I getting all these 3 star reviews that say "redtail plz go back"? 522946
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I swear to god. Things can feel grim enough and then sometimes I see who is being hired by universities and it’s more than I’m able for. It’s academicwashing dipshits and inflicting absolute bullshit on students 171
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Scores of LGBTQ people in Turkey remain in prison after mass arrests last week. There’s a demo at the Embassy of Türkiye in Ballsbridge today, Wednesday, at 12.45 pm www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/statement... 153
Reposted by NiamhJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless. 532023402
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Dozens of LGBTQ people are still in prison in Turkey after raids on homes last week. Thereafter lack of attention this is getting is appalling www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comTurkey arrests dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activistsThe arrests are an escalation in the Turkish government's campaign targeting LGBTQ+ community and activists. 145
Reposted by NiamhJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 19/09/2026It’s a £41k job now that’s alright. 915049