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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Have been a regular for ~35 years at Lansdowne but couldn’t stomach it this evening. None of us took our season ticket seats. Would have enjoyed seeing that goal live but struggling to articulate how we feel about this team. It was good to see the protest there despite RTÉ cutting away a lot.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Despite all the insane alien and human tech, so many of the clear plot junctures in The Expanse rely on the fact that the writers hadn’t copped or imagined the possibility of deep fakes yet.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People all over Dublin terrified they accidentally walk into a pop up U2 concert today.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
RTE’s coverage of Burnham’s plan to add some bite to remote working rights in the UK is just so vibes based. Facts and research should be front and centre but they don’t work for the bosses or the Irish state, so here’s some random vox-pops.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I see Crime World is now hanging around the courts, snapping pictures of 25 year old carpenters who tested positive for cannabis while driving and naming and shaming them online Absolutely pathetic stuff.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The NCT waiting room when the mechanics are balling out random car reg numbers as if anyone remembers theirs.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As much as I'm gutted for the heads at Bohs every time there's a delay on this, I know a lot of us see it as a reprieve. Given the status the bar has as one of the last spaces in the city to facilitate truly DIY and community driven music scenes of all ilks. www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer...
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Bohemians postpone Dalymount Park exit to ‘minimise time’ away from stadium
The iconic League of Ireland stadium will undergo a major transformation ahead of the start of the 2029 season.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great to see a union like @siptu.bsky.social moving on this. There's are real swell of possibility around it now given recent events with Ed Sheeran. The people already have their minds made up on it. It's over to the FAI to do the right thing now. #StopTheGame #UnionNews
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That's not Robocop is it? The auld silver fox...
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Garda whistleblower unit members allege reforms undermined
Two people tasked with protecting Garda whistleblowers have alleged reforms to protect those speaking out have been undermined by senior management.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
An Irish guy on #Liveline has just described concentration camp conditions in an Ice detention centre and detention without trial. And people are ringing up saying he deserved it for over staying his Visa. Jaysus.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The elation on some of their faces is truly unhinged. Totally cult like. Someone pass them the kool-aid.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Pearl Ham The Scone Roses Whipping Cream Boy Plaicebo
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'To make the government look like the good guy, Harris has to make it seem like there’s some malevolent cohort of lazy, gadabout ne’er-do-wells out there, and the budget will finally rescue us from them. The only problem is that no such cohort exists in any meaningful way." Surrealing:
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We can never get up early enough to truly satisfy them
This week’s targets include poor children, imaginary lazy people and, of course, immigrants.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
For the weekend that’s in it: flashback to the 2004 “Ambush” protests. Trip-hop and grainy digi-cam! Hosted on Indymedia, circulated on DVD with community screenings. A real lesson in the precarious nature of digital archives. Hard to believe it’s 22 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnfF...
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Bush Weekend by Irish vid head/Indymedia Ireland
YouTube video by Polly Genic
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hardly Bucks it is so. Great to see Francis Higgins confirm he's having nothing to do with the new RTÉ comeback. If Cowboy Kelly is involved, it'll put the boot into the show's legacy. www.reddit.com/r/IntoTheHig...
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From the IntoTheHigginsVerse community on Reddit: Viper confirming he's not in the new Hardy Bucks :(
Explore this post and more from the IntoTheHigginsVerse community
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Caught this at the Fringe last night. Incredibly good craic while lacerating online paranoia and contemporary doubts about a shared reality. Think Black Mirror meets WWE or something. It goes off like a bomb. Well worth seeing.
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CRISIS ACTOR
You are invited to watch an emergency training demonstration. The gun isn’t real.The blood isn’t real.The pain is a performance. Crisis acting is a real job: performers simulate emergencies so others ...
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great stuff here from Gav Trickmist on the purgatorial state of delayed adult head, that young people are trapped in due to the housing crisis. He helped out with the Displace soundtrack. New album out very soon. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/r...
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The Gap – Trick Mist
Podcast Episode · Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media · 10 September · 42min
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Right, as if the worm who thinks fines are counter-productive is suddenly going to grow a spine and do anything more drastic to reign in tech giants. Good man Dougal. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Fines for social media firms counterproductive - minister
Minister for Communications Patrick O'Donovan has said that fines imposed on social media firms are "free advertising" for platforms and have become counterproductive.
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Also Irish nursing union @inmoirl.bsky.social votes for industrial action including #strike Workers want a fair pay deal Action announced for the end of the month starting with work to rule #solidarity @epsu.bsky.social @labourstart.bsky.social @strikemap.org @labournetgermany.bsky.social
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INMO members vote in favour of industrial action
Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action over delays in agreeing a new public sector pay deal.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ah yes, the “up early every morning” dog whistle. Because apparently the only people who deserve a break are those whose lives fit neatly around a 9–5. Hospitality workers. Healthcare workers. Shift workers. People working nights and weekends. Ye can go shite. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Government rules out universal energy credits in Budget
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has ruled out universal energy credits in next month's Budget.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fianna Fáil blaming vape shops for the decline of the high street is some peak backwards shit. They’ve built a car centric society where people spend inordinate amounts of time stuck in traffic jams to go to yank style “big box” retail parks. Now nicotine is to blame for donut towns and dereliction!
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This, in turn, leads to the "Good luck saying that in a fish shop in Derby!" trope, where private-schooled pundits sneer at the idea that working class people could care about, say, Palestine, climate or trans rights, rather than the right wing monolith they see all day on we-love-fascism-dot-com.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
With a wave of industrial action brewing across the public sector over the cozzie livs, a good old-fashioned #NoFaresDay could connect the anger of commuters with the frustrations of transport workers. Sure, everyone loves a bit of noughties revivalism these days! www.rte.ie/news/2003/09...
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No penalties on workers for no fares day: CIÉ
CIÉ has confirmed that workers will suffer no financial penalty for refusing to collect fares on the so-called 'no fares day' in July.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
David McWilliams syndrome (n.) — the phenomenon whereby a previously moderate, centrist dad type social media user undergoes a rapid rightward political shift after prolonged exposure to X's algorithmic feed.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Boomtown was once infused with a carnivalesque clowning of corporations. It was “Catatonically opposed” to and gleefully satirized surveillance capitalism. Now, it's become a vast data-harvesting farm for the cops and Big Tech. Live Nation strikes again. Sad to see. Recuperation writ large!
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Festivals Have Become a Data Collection Dystopia
YouTube video by Simon Doherty
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You can’t take essential workers for granted. The people who keep public buildings, hospitals and essential services running are taking action, as Chambers serves up tumbleweed. "The ladder was drawn up" according to the quoted Connect Official in here. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Ireland’s largest craft union to begin industrial action over public pay
Connect union leader says action involving tradespeople to begin in three weeks’ time after Government ‘refused to engage’ over pay mechanism
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Chambers gave RTÉ Radio 1’s This Week yesterday a sample of the establishment attack lines to come. Hard-headed union leaders. Refusing to talk. In reality, unions spent the summer organising, while Government greeted cost-of-living concerns with with radio silence. www.forsa.ie/members-vote...
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Members voted for industrial action: what's next? - Forsa
Fórsa General Secretary Kevin Callinan explains whats next in press conference after members voted for industrial action.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There’s a lad on Radio One blaming hedgerows and bio-diversity for an increase in deaths on the road. God forbid your HGV gets a scratch off a blackberry bush. Where do we get them.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Juvenile stuff from Savage. Tired, clapped-out shite from an establishment nepo-baby: Lenin references and Monty Python gags for the Southside wine-bar set to guffaw over. I regularly bought the Business Post years ago. Now I wouldn't. even wipe my arse with it. It’s taken a sad fucking turn.
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Anton Savage: People Before Profit’s internal row shows the left is still doing what it does best
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Lu-imbo: that uniquely Dublin experience of platform purgatory watching a Luas sign count down from seven minutes for what feels like half your adult life.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One of the few who made us think seriously about urbanism and where we live. Our own Jane Jacobs. May his eternal peace not be disturbed by some shit-hole Temple Bar pub blasting clichéd trad waaay too loud. The Destruction of Dublin is never more relevant. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Frank McDonald, former environment editor of The Irish Times, dies
McDonald’s reporting on planning corruption was pioneering in Irish journalism, and he regularly reported from abroad on climate negotiations
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Morning Ireland was wall-to-wall coverage of that new folk-devil - the urban e-scooter rider not decked out in a helmets and high-viz, or cyclists with EarPods. Yet you’d count handfuls of drivers doom scrolling going through Phibsborough on a 10 minute walk. We need to face up to the real problems.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s nearly a year to the day since the school secretaries and caretakers’ #pensionparity strike ended. They did something that, only a few months earlier, many would have thought impossible. And they did it with a bang. This is their story - in their own words.
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“No Shortcut to Winning” | Inside the School Secretaries and Caretakers’ Pension Parity Battle
YouTube video by Fórsa
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Subsidies for diesel and then fare hikes for public transport users - it all speaks absolute volumes in how the government understands the balance of forces in Irish society.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Increasing bus fares while passing € 1 billion in fuel subsidies is a conscious decision. Cancelling public transport infrastructure projects while approving new roads is a conscious decision. Underpaying solicitors & public servants while the country has a massive budget surplus is a....
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Bus and train fares for adults to increase by average of 15% from January, NTA confirms
The move has been criticised by opposition parties.
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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Maintaining 100's of millions in fuel subsidies while making public transport 15% more expensive is a statement of intent and any journalist interviewing members of government not tearing them to shreds over it is utterly failing at their job or so far inside the tent they may as well be an advisor
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Jude Sherry @judesherry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Why don't Uni's give their empty buildings to Student Housing Cooperatives? "Maybe Irish Uni's are so conservative that they still believe 3rd level education is only for the wealthy?" Check out our latest fortnightly housing essay #Speirghorm #DerelictIreland www.thejournal.ie/educational-...
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Should educational institutions be responsible for helping students find housing?
As student housing crisis once again rears its head, the cycle can only be broken with a new approach.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 03/09/2026
Commuter groups have described increases in public transport fares as "absolutely unacceptable", accusing the Government of asking bus, rail and tram users to "in effect" cover the "astounding cost" of an extension in cuts to Excise Duty on petrol and diesel
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Bus, rail users funding excise cuts, commuter groups say
Increases in public transport fares for adults have been described as "absolutely unacceptable" by commuter groups.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Well daycent doc on the grim consolidation of music culture across Europe by four ridiculously powerful entities. Worth a watch given the shit shows of poor planning and overcrowding at multiple festivals this year from EP to Reading and Boomtown.
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Vier Konzerne kontrollieren Europas Festivals – und kaum jemand merkt es | ARTE Tracks
YouTube video by Arte TRACKS
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The real story isn’t just the HUGE mandate for action - it’s the sheer scale of participation. 72.6% turnout. 64,000 members engaging in union structures. Unite and SIPTU have returned results too, with 16 more unions still in the process. The start of something big? www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...
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Fórsa members overwhelmingly back strike action over pay
Members of the Fórsa trade union employed in the public sector have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking industrial action up to and including strike action.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’m not even much of a Fontaines fan, but people moaning about them playing Slane (not there yet etc!) have clearly missed the cultural youthquake that’s taken place in Ireland over the past decade. Same goes for CMAT at EP this year. Stay happy listening to your Coldplay or Kaiser Chiefs. FFS.
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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 29/08/2026
Claims against Carlow active travel stink: Why do “straight-talkers” keep saying they support things they don’t? -- No, the project is not just a cycle lane: It adds accessibility and safety measures. …...
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Claims against Carlow active travel stink: Why do “straight-talkers” keep saying they support things they don’t?
-- No, the project is not just a cycle lane: It adds accessibility and safety measures. -- Saying you're all for safety and active travel while outright objecting to them makes no sense. -- Objecting to cycle paths on main roads should be seen the same as objecting to footpaths. Comment & Analysis: "1 don't agree with any of this!" said one submission, and if somebody I trusted made all the claims about a project, as two local political representatives have in this case, I'd be of the same view.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
At Idles and it’s like that generational divide. Folks, put down those phones and help that person crowd surf.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Pure moral panic drivel. This lot will be asking the same question of pedestrians next. Anything to take the blame away from poor infrastructure and bad driver behaviour. More fuel for the culture war. We are ruled by clowns.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Downing Street's press release for Burnham's "emergency" Cobra meeting on the drought didn't even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues. He's since appeared on GB News this afternoon to talk about migrant camps
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Fianna Fáil must’ve scraped this lad off the bottom of a barrel. It’s going to be an interesting 12 months watching this Simpson’s extra choke on his own foot. Mortifying stuff for the city of Dublin. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
rte.ie
Gardai day of action on e-scooters in Dublin
Daryl Barron, Lord Mayor of Dublin and Jason Miley, Detective Superintendent
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Derry screening of Displace is taking place in The Nerve Centre tomorrow! So much good stuff happening across the whole festival fortnight and am gutted to be missing it. Emma Warren would be a huge highlight for me amongst an absolute gluttony of savage events in the city! So much on!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
Column by Allister Heath

Britain can’t stop climate change. Scrap net zero and embrace Mediterranean life

We’ve lost the war against global warming so let’s learn to handle hotter weather
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Beyond delighted to be screening at Féile Derry as part of an outstanding programme of films and documentaries at The Nerve Centre. All screenings are free! Big thanks to the team there for including me in the programme. Gutted not to be able to attend in person due to pre-booked holliers! 😔💔
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Delighted to be taking part in Obedience - a pop-up exhibition in a former butcher turned disused bookshop on Meath Street, co-curated by Ishmael Claxton and Eve Woods, and featuring work by Ishmael Claxton, Hollie Gilson, Con:temporary Quarters (Aoife Ward and Eve Woods), and myself. Buzz down!
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