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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 19h

With the notable and singular exception of Gavin Bazunu, the FAI made us all complicit in this, and we just forgot about it and ignored it.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 17h

Israeli settler terrorists steal the car of a Palestinian family in broad daylight in the village of Yabrud in the occupied West Bank.

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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’ve expanded on the thought process behind this on that shitty platform that is Instagram due to the word count. We’re @imbibe_coffee .The image was created by a real life graphic designer:).

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 08/10/2026

The Rock of Lough Key • Roscommon Also known as McDermott's Rock, as it was the seat of the McDermotts, the ruling dynasty of Magh Luirg in Connacht. The Annals of Loch Cé record a disaster in 1184, when the Rock was hit by lightning. Duvesa, wife of Conor McDermott, and over 100 people perished.

The ruin of McDermott's Castle emerges from the trees and ivy over the waters of Lough Key

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love these books - they were a secret language between me, my dad, my brother & my brother's friends - I feel ridiculously nostalgic seeing them again. Lucky whoever finds them in Secondhand - hope you enjoy the fish!

Angled view of Douglas Adams’ five-book Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy box set, standing on piles of secondhand books at Chapters. The bright yellow slipcase displays the series title, a blue towel and a “42 anniversary collection” badge. All five dark blue book spines are visible.

Front view of the yellow Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy slipcase by Douglas Adams, resting on stacked secondhand books. Dark blue lettering reads “The Complete Collection”, with a circular “42 anniversary collection” badge above and a rolled blue towel pictured below.

Close-up of the five numbered Douglas Adams paperbacks in their slipcase: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; and Mostly Harmless. Their dark blue spines have colourful lettering and Pan logos, with stacks of books and the shop interior blurred behind them.

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yesterday was a bad day for nature as virtually no new funding was announced. The guessing and uncertainty as how Ireland's Nature Restoration Plan is to be funded goes on. www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...

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‘Government clearly not listening’: Nature groups criticise lack of budget funding

Budget allocates just €6m extra to NPWS despite experts saying €700m needed annually for nature restoration

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seriously 👇

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 06/10/2026

It’s not unusual to come away with your new glasses with the uneasy feeling that you have paid quite a bit more than expected. It's also the case with eye tests. Specsavers, for example, advertises 'free' eye tests - but often charges far more 'advanced' tests. jrnl.ie/7182508

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Eye tests are supposed to be free, so why does Specsavers charge for them?

Many Irish customers have complained about upselling in Specsavers – but ‘advanced’ eye tests may be a good idea for some.

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Though this book is necessarily about Jews, it exists only because of Palestinians.” Benjamin Moser on recovering the Jewish history of anti-Zionism and placing “the real victims of Zionism, the Palestinian people, at the heart of all they do.” jewishvoiceforliberation.org.uk/article/anti...

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Anti-Zionism has an important Jewish history - Jewish Voice for Liberation

The history of Jewish opposition to Zionism is a long one that continued even after the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust.

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Paul Tighe @paultighe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Norah Patten, from Ballina, Co. Mayo is an aeronautical engineer but listed nowhere as an astronaut... yet!! Hopefully, a fact that will soon change.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Have your voice heard! Nearly a million people have said: ✋ HANDS OFF NATURE! And we’re taking their demands directly to the EU Commissioner for Environment! Let’s make our message impossible to ignore. Sign the petition before it closes on 20 October: www.handsoffnature.eu #handsoffnature

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good for me, but really are we the cohort who need tax breaks - that money would be better put to use among the many struggling in this high cost economy. FF/FG won’t buy my vote with this financial ‘sop’.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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Paul Tighe @paultighe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I picked one up in Penney's for €7 a while back. They know no different!!

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A west of Ireland #painting, "Mayo Bog" I painted following a day where I had cycled north through Ballycroy and kept stopping just to enjoy the bog. There's not a lot else to say except I think we're quite lucky in Ireland to have the bogs that we do. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. In expressive brush marks are a yellow sky with orange under-painting breaking through, a peaked patchy dark hill of oranges and blues sitting on the horizon to the right with some lime green fields at its base, and the edge of a distant blue hill on the left edge. The rest of the painting, the bottom two-thirds, being the flatness of the yellow ochre bog running across the full width of the painting, and in the foreground cut away revealing the maroon cut turf, with grasses, some long, and bog plants in front of it along the bottom rendered in blues, oranges, yellows, and whites. Some white is on top of the flat stretch of the bog across the middle, perhaps flowers, and some dark lines suggestive of tracts or cuts. Signed top left in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Earlier this summer mosquitoes capable of transmitting Zika virus and dengue were found breeding in homes in east London" Oh joy! Another perk of global heating www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms

Climate crisis blamed as virus that originated in Africa spreads to livestock as far north as Aberdeenshire

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Paul Tighe @paultighe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Guess who's not going to Hogwart's?🤪

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 02/10/2026

This sheela na gig is on display in the Ulster Museum. It is thought to have originally belonged to the church of Errigal Keerogue, Tyrone.

A stone carving known as a sheela na gig. It is classed as a female exhibitionist figure. It has a pained expression with gritted teeth and round staring eyes, and pendulous breasts. The right arm extends forward over the vulva; and the left backwards and under the leg.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seven Palestinian daughters grieve over the dead body of their father, Tamer Al-Hamaida, who was murdered by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis.

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Paul Tighe @paultighe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Roll it there Colette in my youth, when I had to watch it as an excuse to stay up late on a Saturday night.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It doesn't matter that Ireland only has miniscule fragments of native forests left, or that these are mostly in a dying state. When it comes to fixing that, everything takes forever and is piecemeal, if it even happens at all. It's always plenty of talk and written reports, but little or no action.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Excited to be off to Cork to see this exhibition-two reasons- I studied them in college but never saw the originals, and before ending up in the Bodelian Library they were, from 12th century, on the island monastery of Inishfallen in Killarney. #nerdlife #kerrybook 💚💛 www.ucc.ie/en/news/2026...

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The Annals of Inisfallen to go on public display in University College Cork | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

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Paul Tighe @paultighe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She doesn't seem to realise if Reform get into power she, and her family, are the very people that'll be targeted for deportation. Talk about sleeping with the enemy. 🙄

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Save The Hellfire @savethehellfire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Take a breath and listen to the wonderful sound of the early morning breeze. #sunrise #friday #goodmorning

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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This Government lack courage. They are scared. Afraid to give people the constitutional right to housing we so desperately need to tackle the homelessness catastrophe and to simply give dignity to all our citizens.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's officially Deireadh Fómhair - after the harvest. Time for stories of the sídhe, ghosts & goblins, creepy laudanum-addicted uncles, dancing skeletons, creatues scratching in the walls, curses & craven monsters. What is your poison of choice? I am loving the latest Lex Croucher, magic galore.

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Paul Tighe @paultighe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@madradogrescue.bsky.social are a great organisation. I got my last dog, Marley, from them. She was the beat of my heart. I would encourage everyone to help them, and Pluto, of course.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Doesn’t anyone want to adopt Pluto from @madradogrescue.bsky.social I mean COME ON #speirghorm

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Claire 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

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

36 months and 78 years. The decades-long invasion and genocide of Palestine continues in front of our eyes.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026

🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/

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Irish Wildlife Trust @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Last year, Irish politicians voted against the Wolf, delivering a decision that has weakened one of Europe's most important legal protections for wildlife. This decision opened up a new & dangerous precedent for species protection in Europe. Latest blog: iwt.ie/ireland-wolf... @ec.europa.eu

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Ireland's betrayal of the wolf in Europe - Irish Wildlife Trust

Irish politicians voted against the Wolf, a decision that has weakened one of Europe’s most important legal protections for wildlife.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here’s the President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly, speaking fluently in Irish about Irish culture. It’s important to remember that Ireland has distinct language, music, art & cultural traditions. These inform how we see the world.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cooking in a Bedsitter has arrived in Secondhand. Is that a mouse hanging on the cover? 🐭 Inside: a lovingly handwritten recipe involving beans, chilli, “thickish brown gravy” and fruit added at the end. We cherish the note. We have some questions about dinner.

A handwritten recipe on a torn sheet of lined paper found inside the book. It begins by simmering red beans, then adds onion, chilli powder, mushrooms and meat. The beans are stirred into “thickish brown gravy”, with fruit added near the end.

Worn black paperback cover of Katharine Whitehorn’s Cooking in a Bedsitter. A candle stands beside a row of hooks holding a cup, food, a knife and a small furry object that looks rather like a mouse.

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