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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 11/10/2026

Why is the Government pumping more than €20 million into greyhound racing while animal welfare concerns continue to mount? Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore argues that Budget 2027 shows just how far down the government's list of priorities animal welfare really is. jrnl.ie/7188354

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Why is the government keeping the greyhound industry on life support with taxpayers' money?

Judging by its Budget 2027 choices, it appears this government sees animal welfare as some kind of game.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In May 2025, ICC President Akane publicly asked for help from the EU. Specifically, to implement its own law that would protect Judges from sanctions being imposed on them *within the EU*. The EU has turned a deaf ear. That was 17 months ago. Today, this: www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...

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EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who currently works on the supervisory board of the Russian hypermarket chain Globus, celebrated Putin's birthday at his home. While the celebration went on, Putin was killing Ukrainian children.

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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The fact that the slaughter of 78 Ukrainian civilians by the russians in two days does not make the headlines in Europe is a testament to our failure as Europeans The skies above Ukraine must be closed now! All russian citizens should be banned from travelling to and conducting business in the EU!

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Zelenskyy accuses U.S. of inaction as Russian strikes kill over 70 in two days

Ukraine’s president criticized Washington’s effort to pursue economic ties with Russia while also seeking to mediate the more than four-year war.

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Des @despod.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Still with "Hamas-run". Surely at this stage there's no doubt that people are being killed ?

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Cyrille Amoursky @cyrilleamoursky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🕯️🇺🇦 Je n’ai plus les mots. 33 morts aujourd’hui dans deux bus à Kramatorsk, tués par la Russie. Des corps déchiquetés qui jonchent les rues. Le fameux Donbas russophone à libérer. Voici le vrai visage de la Russie : massacrer les civils sans répit.

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

❗️19 people were killed, including five small children. A Kh-101 missile hit a house directly in Pryluky, Zelenskyy said. “This is the kind of ‘gift’ Putin gave himself for his birthday. The murder of children, the murder of people.”

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 07/10/2026

Is the climate crisis over? There was no mention of it at all in the budget speech.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A large Canadian Coast Guard buoy has washed ashore on Achill Island.

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gazan students’ visas must be granted before it is too late. A group of leading Irish academics write that the mass refusal of visas to Palestinian students makes a mockery of the Taoiseach’s speech to the UN General Assembly. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Gazan students’ visas must be granted before it is too late

A group of leading Irish academics write that the mass refusal of visas to Palestinian students makes a mockery of the Taoiseach’s speech to the UN General Assembly

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 07/10/2026

⚡️ Russian attacks kill at least 24, injure more than 130 over past day, rescue efforts continue in Pryluky. Fourteen of those killed died when a Russian cruise missile hit a residential building in Pryluky, in Chernihiv Oblast.

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Russian attacks kill at least 24, injure more than 130 over past day, rescue efforts continue in Pryluky

Fourteen of those killed died when a Russian cruise missile hit a residential building in Pryluky, in Chernihiv Oblast.

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Cianan Brennan @ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Horse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...

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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If we could get endangered wildlife to run around a race track they'd have a better chance at getting support from this government.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Note the soft soaping the serial liar and fraudster, Jeffrey Archer, gets from the media compared to what they put Jason Arday through.

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Cllr Honore Kamegni, Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork @cllrhonorekamegni.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Green Party delivered a 50% fare cut for young people while in Government. Now everyone faces fare hikes while Cork’s public transport infrastructure remains underfunded. No BusConnects Cork. No Luas Cork. Yet €1.4bn is being spent subsidising fossil fuels. Cork deserves better.

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Antonio Vieira Santos @antonio.wsocial.eu · 01/10/2026

This has been the norm over the last 15 years. The FT finally got it. US Big Tech companies have an outsized influence in Brussels, spending more money and meeting more often with EU policymakers than European companies, according to an FT analysis. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Big Tech out-lobbies European companies in Brussels

US corporations including Google, Apple and Amazon use their influence to push back against EU digital bloc rules

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Paul O'Donovan @paulodonovan.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

I want to blame AI or other suspicious forces but I have a robot lawnmower which has gone quite mad. Takes itself on escapades with no relation whatsoever to its programmed time. I shelter indoors.

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 01/10/2026

My column in The Irish Times today is about heating oil, and how policy can deal with the awful pain facing households depending on it to heat their homes this winter. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Cutting fuel taxation in the budget does nothing to cure the disease

Households need help to break free from home heating oil for good

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Cork Cycling Campaign @corkcyclingcrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of our members noticed that Ford Motors in Cork was illegally parked and spoke to the personnel. If you see a vehicle parked illegally, you can report it to a traffic warden on 021 492 4382. @cyclingincork.bsky.social @badparkingcork.bsky.social

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At least 21 members of my extended family were arrested and sent from Lithuania to camps or exile colonies in this 1951 act of repression by the Soviet occupiers.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Next Wednesday, October 7, #BCIrishStudies is co-sponsoring a Journalism/International Studies event featuring award-winning Irish journalist Sally Hayden. The lecture will begin at 5:00 pm in Higgins Hall, Room 225.

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 01/10/2026

Here's the liquid gas industry framing its product as a "just transition". This would be sidesplittingly funny if it was not apparent that this message is getting through to politicians.

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Jude Sherry @judesherry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Owners of derelict homes are exempt from LPT Have 1% chance of being registered as derelict Almost 0% risk of paying any derelict levy Yet their wealth assets rise in value while causing increases in our rents & mortgages These owners also destroy our community & local economy #spéirghorm

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Den M @mousketeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cork City Council just voted to increase LPT by 15%. They wanted 20% because our financial needs are great. But not so great that they collect all the Derelict Property Tax... sure lookit and fukkit ... what's a million and a half quid a year left uncollected between friends? #SpéirGhorm #Cork

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More than €6.5m owed to Cork City Council in unpaid derelict site levies

The local authority has not levied derelict site tax on the former tax office site on Sullivan's Quay for two decades.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lavr, a dog with two prosthetic legs, regularly visits war veterans at the TYTANOVI rehabilitation center, where he supports them through their recovery. The Defenders say his presence brings them real emotional relief, strength, and inspiration. 📹: tytanovi_rehab / Threads

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Viktor Orban travelled to Belfast yesterday, appearing alongside the Northern Irish anti-abortion group Precious Life, "celebrating" preventing Belfast City Hall from joining"International Safe Abortion Day" Precious Life's former director, Jim Dowson, is a far-right extremist with ties to Hungary.

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Viktor Orban was in Belfast last night at City Hall

Precious Life and other prolife groups were celebrating after successfully preventing City Hall from being lit up to celebrate 'International Safe Abortion Day'

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Anti-abortionist resigns from job
Anti-abortion poster The anti-abortion campaign has come in for criticism

The leader of the controversial anti-abortion group Precious Life is reported to have quit his job because of his views.

Jim Dowson, 33, who has admitted previous involvement with hard-line loyalist groups in the west of Scotland, was told he should curb his activities or face dismissal.

Notorious far-right extremist returns to Scotland to fund growing anti-immigration protests
Jim Dowson has spent the last 20 years fundraising for the far-right in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Hungary and the US.

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meta hosted senior Irish Government officials & regulators at an event titled "Ireland as a Trusted Digital Regulatory Hub". Ireland's former regulator who sued all other EU data regulators to avoid investigating Meta was a speaker. (She now works for Meta's law firm.) lnkd.in/p/dYg9TPnk

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have watched this a million times and probably will one million more. Do the right thing and you can help change the world.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“No bearded gays, just Athenian philosophers”. This guy is thicker than a walrus smoothie.

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National University of Ireland @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NUI is delighted to support the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin in hosting the 'Casimir Markievicz, a Polish Artist in Bohemian Dublin, 1903-1913' exhibition as part of the Dublin Festival of History 2026 🤝

Photo of panel exhibition of Casimir Markievicz: A Polish Artist in Bohemian Dublin, 1903-1913 in 49 Merrion Square

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 30/09/2026

Mise Éire premiered at the #Cork Film Festival #Onthisday 1959. The 1st feature-length film in Irish, it depicts events in Ireland leading up to, during, & immediately after the 1916 #EasterRising, using unrivalled archive with music by Seán O Riada share.google/5Wy1sAZOwulH...

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This story has really annoyed me. These tech billionaires LARPing as aristocrats bestowing their noblesse oblige on the local peasants. Just think about how many sports clubs you could fund if you taxed Facebook properly.

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Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Student Will Fearn said what “hangs in the balance” for he and his peers is far more than five lost weeks of teaching. He said: “In the long term, the quality of our education is going to decrease massively as lecturers are overloaded with work. www.scotsman.com/education/we...

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'We want what we pay for': Student fears as Edinburgh Uni strikes begin

Students say strikes will have a long term impact on their studies as the union calls for the university to meet its demands

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 28/09/2026

Irish plans to exempt processing of your data for AI from the GDPR are "not in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights"; they amount to an "illegal change of primary law"; they "exempt AI from the guarantees in the Treaties and render them largely meaningless". Damning, from the leading expert.

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I didn't know anything about X so I asked chatGPT." You still don't know anything about X. You have read what a sophisticated summary-generating tool predicts as the answer to your question. You have no critical insight, no direct experience, no awareness of the underlying evidence. Stop talking.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My God. This is the center of Kyiv. A civilian building, a historic one, built in the 1850s. Russian terror knows no bounds. They are attacking and killing Ukrainian civilians just because they can. If Russia is not stopped, it will expand its terror and violence.

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“It’s not just about attacking warehouses so that we won’t have food. They also want to intimidate us — to make it so that we can’t work, study, do scientific research or really do anything at all.”

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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center

A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This week we learned that the Irish government has proposed weakening Europeans citizens' fundamental right to privacy to favour AI companies. We also learned this week that 83% of Irish people under 25 want stronger government regulation of AI. Who *exactly* does our government work for?

AI: EU Member States plan "digital expropriation" of Europeans in the interest of Al companies
Artificial Intelligence / 21 September 2026
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAl, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection. Use of personal data "in the context of Al" should automatically be lawful.
There seems to be wide informal agreement by many Member States. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens "in the context" of Al. Schrems: "Under these proposals, the profits of Al companies would trump European's fundamental right to privacy. This is nothing but a digital expropriation of Europeans." All this is happening despite the key figures of Al corporations actively warn about the enormous risks associated with their own products.

Transport costs and mental health also remain prominent concerns.
More than seven in ten adults believe Al will make it harder for young people to find secure employment over the next five years, while 83% support stronger government regulation of Al.
Just 17% of young adults said they believe the Government is doing enough to support them through the cost-of-living crisis.
"These findings should serve as a wake-up call," said Grace McManus, Policy and Campaigns Manager at NYCI.
"Too many young people feel that the chance to build a secure and independent life is slipping out of reach," Ms McManus said.
The polling was conducted by RED C, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,010 adults, including a cohort aged 18-24.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

By normalising a genocidal regime, pretending that international games are not about politics, refusing to support a teammate & entering into a ‘both sides’ trope they handed an amoral victory to the Israeli state. Utterly shameful.

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Bazunu: 'I feel it would be wrong to participate'

Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu has released a statement on his withdrawal from the squad, saying he felt "it would be wrong to participate" in the Israel fixture in light of the atrocitie...

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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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