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Niamh O’Connor

@niamhsbluesky.bsky.social
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Aviatrix, European, Feminist (a.k.a Niamhstweet on the other place) with a passion for politics.

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social is bringing his POP-UP MUSEUM OF IRISH FOOTBALL to Blackrock 🥳 Thursday October 15th from 7.30pm Urban Junction Main Street Blackrock
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No parent should ever have to experience this‼️
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The first two items on BBC News have unsubstantiated claims from Trump and Netanyahu as core parts of their story. This follows a Times of Israel ‘journalist’ on the radio quoting things other people had seen on Facebook. Journalism is dying.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My conversation with @rbreich.bsky.social about Trump, power, and what comes next. snyder.substack.com/p/trump-powe...
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Trump, Power, What Comes Next with Robert Reich
A recording from Timothy Snyder and Robert Reich's conversation
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patrickcherry @patrickcherry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On this Peter Oborne column in @bylinetimes.bsky.social September issue, I can certainly 100% agree. The World Tonight and the Midnight news cut by BBC News does feel like a bereavement. Comments on Rajan, and Mishal Hussain - yes, quite right. BBC, beloved, but heading in the wrong direction.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was delighted to attend the launch of Stillorgan Library 📚 A fantastic resource for the community, well done to all involved in getting this over the line!
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today, Labour published an Alternative Budget that shows it does not have to be this way: €400 energy credits for households who need them, a doubled Rent Tax Credit, stronger incomes and a second tier of Child Benefit to help tackle child poverty.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🇺🇳 United Nations: The rubble in Gaza has reached 61 million tons, which is equivalent to 20 times the amount of rubble generated by all the wars in the world over the past 18 years.
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J.P.Mullen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @buzzbomb11.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One man of principle out of 23 who can walk with his head held high.🇮🇪
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today's Must-Listen Podcast: “NAZA” co-director Yuval Abraham addressed the issue he later discussed on stage at the New York Film Festival on Saturday, explaining why he believes Americans should watch the film—and confront how US taxpayer dollars fund Israel’s war in Gaza.
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Yuval Abraham on NAZA storm, 'unhinged' Netanyahu and why he wants to come back home after all
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Following its theatrical release in October, NAZA will stream free on The Guardian's website throughout November. Be sure to see it. youtu.be/YIBRLEEaueo?...
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NAZA - official trailer
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing 77 countries walked out when Netanyahu rose to speak at the UN General Assembly, The British delegation stayed. I am appalled by and ashamed of the British government for its complicity in genocide and war crimes. This is not in my name.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A former staff member of Tony Blair Institute said they had serious concerns that this was “very much trading money for access”, but was instructed by a colleague not to describe it that way. ‘They were saying you have to be really careful not to make it seem as if they’re paying money for access’😬
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 25/09/2026
Alona gave birth to her son, Kyrylo, while Kyiv was under attack and a russian missile damaged a maternity hospital. The day after, President Zelenskyy visited the facility and met them. Kyrylo is one of thousands of Ukrainians who were born amidst war and destruction.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 24/09/2026
They killed civilians in Bucha, and now they expect to enjoy holidays in Europe. The EU wants to stop that. 🧵 1/7 ⬇️
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:
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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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Pendle Mills @pendlemills.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
King Abdullah of Jordan's speech to the UN today, which I've just watched, is one of the best I've ever seen made to the UN assembly. Watch it and judge for yourself. youtu.be/XeG5u5zVyFk?...
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'Is this the behavior of a democratic state?', Jordan's King Abdullah Slams Israel At UNGA | FULL
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Israel has just banned all Arab Parties from running in their upcoming elections. Arabs make up 21% of Israeli Citizens they have now been banned from having any representation. Israel isn't like Nazi Germany. It is Nazi Germany.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Danny Tommo has been filmed slashing a dinghy in the channel containing migrants and a rescue worker on board. There is no mention of this on the BBC news website at all as far as I can see. Yet when he and his thugs turn up in masks it's all "Legitimate protestors show ankle in Dover".
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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rob evans @robevansgdn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Victims of intrusive police surveillance have accused the government of seeking to cut short the #spycops public inquiry that has been examining widespread misconduct committed by undercover officers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Victims say Home Office attempt to curtail spycops inquiry will result in a ‘cover-up’
Shabana Mahmood is concerned about length and £144m cost of inquiry into intrusive police surveillance
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed is just so good at this.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 19/09/2026
Okay, this got me.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Doctors Without Borders say Israel just bombed one of their clearly marked vehicles 👇🏽 (Will 🇺🇸 media even mention this?)
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔴 The £72million pound question - how worried are you about big money in British politics? Democracy for Sale is running a survey to find out what the public thinks about money in politics - and what we should do about it Please take it!! And share widely!! thx! 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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How concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale survey
We're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13/09/2026
Flight attendants have the right to organize a union without intimidation or interference. I've received reports that Delta threatened pay and benefits, and encouraged new workers to report colleagues for even mentioning a union. I'm pushing back against union-busting tactics.
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
HAPPENING NOW: A large crowd of demonstrators take to the streets in Ireland to protest Trump’s visit Check out those signs
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Niamh O’Connor @niamhsbluesky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
At least 25,000 anti-Trump demonstrators on the streets of Dublin today. Even the sun came out. #NoKings
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NAZA: 24 Israeli soldiers sit on Tel Aviv rooftops, sharing how they killed entire families, thousands of people, in Gaza. These testimonies appear in NAZA, a film that premiers in Venice today. Here are the directors, explaining why they made the film: www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...
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‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza
Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.
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Nick Bryant. @nickbryantoz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How American unity was squandered after the attacks of 9/11, as the country went from September 11th to January 6th. My latest at History Never Ended. Free to all. historyneverended.substack.com/p/how-americ...
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 09/09/2026
Ukrainian journalist Oleg Borysov reports from the site of a damaged apartment building in Kyiv, just minutes after a russian drone struck at 8 a.m. This is what russia does: targets innocent people in their homes. Help protect civilians. Support Sky Defense: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In another act of ethnic cleansing, Israeli forces forcibly displaced around 30 Palestinians by bulldozing their homes, sheep pens and water tanks in Khirbet al-Fakheit, Masafer Yatta – destroying their livelihoods and leaving entire families homeless.
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tourists staying in family homes while families are forced to stay in tourist hotels. It has to end. Today Europe proposed its first ever housing law. Here’s what it means for Dublin: from cracking down on Airbnb to tackling vacant homes and second properties.
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IFJ- International Federation of Journalists @ifjglobal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#Palestine🇵🇸: Journalists Nidal Al-Wahidi and Haitham Abdel Wahid were arrested by Israeli forces shortly after the war in Gaza began. Nearly three years later, their whereabouts remain unknown. The Israeli government must disclose information and secure their release. @abellanger.bsky.social
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Palestine: Whereabouts of two journalists still unknown after three years / IFJ
Palestinian journalists Nidal Al-Wahidi and Haitham Abdel Wahid were arrested by Israeli forces shortly after the war in Gaza began in October 2023. Nearly three years later, their whereabouts remain ...
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#HousingHousingHousing
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The Socialist Dad @thesocialistdad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When will the police be arresting former and current IDF soldiers living in Britain? They are terrorists and a danger to our society.
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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"holding British Jews responsible for the actions of the Israeli government is antisemitism.." As a Jew, I think this needs clarifying. Holding Jews responsible for Israeli govt crimes is wrong. But holding in contempt those who support or defend it is surely right. www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
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U.K., France and Canada announce 12-country ban on Israeli settlement products
The countries cited unprecedented settler violence and settlement expansion, saying Israeli policies are undermining the prospects for a two-state solution
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Rolf Meier 🌐 @openeysdown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
⚠️ The UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, warns large-scale removal of rubble in parts of Gaza under Israeli control risks removing evidence of Israeli “atrocity crimes”. ⚠️
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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Russians have just attacked Kyiv again, at lunch hour, targeting of the "We are Ukraine" TV channel, broadcaster of "United News". The attack occurred in the middle of the day, while journalists were working live. There are injuries and the building has sustained partial damage.
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Gutless tripe.
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