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Oonagh Montague

@oonaghmontague.bsky.social
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Writer. Solo parent. Lecturer. Trainer. Exjournalist. Mostly nice, unless you kick the dog.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 19/04/2025
Old enough to remember when this kind of thing would end up being an April Fools hoax story www.thejournal.ie/woman-restri...
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Woman 'subjected to restrictive measures' by police for speaking Irish during protest in Berlin
The protest, which took place on Wednesday outside the Irish embassy, was in support of the Palestinian people.
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Oonagh Montague @oonaghmontague.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Beautiful things on our Ring doorbell.
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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‘My son was killed in front of my eyes. Three bullets in his chest’: Patrick Freyne in Chad’s desert camps
An unforgiving conflict between rival military factions has killed 150,000 people. Another 12 million people are displaced, many fleeing to a huge desert camp in eastern Chad. Photographs by Chris Mad...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Utah!! "The arena has a roughly 15,000-seat capacity, according to the university. An estimated 1,000 more packed the arena floor, and about 4,000 crowded outside the arena..." utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/04/13/b...
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Bernie Sanders, AOC and the ‘Fight Oligarchy’ tour cheered by 20K in deep red Utah • Utah News Dispatch
Bernie Sanders and AOC brought their "Fight Oligarchy" tour to deep red Utah, where they were cheered on by 20,000 frustrated Democrats.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
One for all the children’s book people. #SpeirGorm
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
There are three key facts in the Holocaust Encyclopedia produced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the second key fact:

What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 05/04/2025
Video emerges of aid workers being fired on in Gaza - contradicting Israeli account of deadly attack
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Video emerges of aid workers being fired on in Gaza - contradicting Israeli account of deadly attack
Footage has emerged of the moment 15 aid workers were killed in Gaza last month - showing their ambulances and fire insignia were clearly visible when Israeli troops are believed to have opened fire on them.
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Video obtained by @nytimes.com confirms the IDF fired on and killed clearly identified Red Crescent medics in Gaza. 15 were killed. Satellite pics analyzed by @ckoettl.bsky.social & @sanjanamv.bsky.social show the IDF then buried the medics andambulances. Story 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.
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Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action
I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for  reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would ...
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Get Creative: On writing poetry - pinning the poem to the page www.rte.ie/culture/2025... @jesstraynor.bsky.social
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Get Creative: On writing poetry - pinning the poem to the page
Ever thought about writing a poem? Why not take the leap?
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
They tried to bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds. Steff Reed singing to the #HandsOff crowd as people patiently waited in the rain before the joyous march down fifth avenue
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
WOW! Today was amazing. Proud to join over 100,000 people marching in New York City. Disabled folks want to protest too! I had my stool and took breaks, not easy. Let’s not forget the MILLIONS disabled by #LongCOVID and others, who are marching with us in spirit. #HandsOff #HandsOffMedicaid
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Debbie Rua @debbierua.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#Spéirghorm #irishpol Strip search the fucking war planes NOT the mothers.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.
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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
@bansheepress.bsky.social 2025 titles announcement day! 🔥🔥🔥 Can't wait to share Harbour Doubts, a new collection by @bebeashley.bsky.social & Filly, a novel in verse by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social with you all!
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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Your occasional gentle reminder that this place is not the other place. 💪🙂 Giving a post a Like on Bluesky won't boost its visibility (ie there's no Twitter-style algorithm here). If your intention is to draw wider attention to a post, you need to repost (and/or tag).
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Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
How is it right that big tech and bad actors simply steal work that writers have poured their (very living) hearts into? Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training - Sign the Petition! chng.it/npMY55XsYP via @UKChange
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Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
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Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?
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Oonagh Montague @oonaghmontague.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Spring sprang Sunday, so Sid and I headed out for a balmy read of the last saucy @bansheepress.bsky.social edition. I'll be honest, Sid peed on the daffs. I read. #spring #bansheelit #irishwriting
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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Feeling Brigidy? You can buy ‘Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine’ in Ireland, UK, now USA, and 📦 worldwide. You’ll find links and more info on this anthology, to which @oonaghmontague.bsky.social and I contributed a collaborative poem called ‘Here’, here: shaunagilliganwriter.com/publications...
Cover of Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine an anthology of art and writing (edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan) featuring “Snakelady” by Noël O’Callaghan on the cover. A loose painting of a happy looking woman wearing nothing but a green snake as a kind of scarf/boa. O Montague and C Leach reading at the launch of Fire in Kildare. Thank you Kildare Library Service and editors Shauna Gilligan and Niamh Boyce and publishers Arlen House. 

It was launched at Naas Library and Cultural Centre at 6.45pm on Thursday, 26th September by Lucina Russell, Lecturer in Art & Design Teacher Education, Limerick School of Art as part of Kildare Readers’ Festival 2024.
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Oonagh Montague @oonaghmontague.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Oh dear. I can feel a pile of time wasting ahead. Quick. No one be interesting on here. #Irishwriters
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Oonagh Montague @oonaghmontague.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Finally joined. I have no clue how to find all my writer friends. WHERE IS YOU PEOPLES?
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