Reposted by Ré DubhthaighDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Counterpoint: yes it is 514828
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighMedievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Strange Borders with Medieval Origins www.medievalists.net/2023/09/stra... #enclavesmedievalists.netStrange Borders with Medieval Origins - Medievalists.netAre you a geography fan, excited about enclaves and exclaves? Here we take a look at six strange border areas whose origins date back to the Middle Ages. 042
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is a fun one. It gets increasingly useful towards the end. buttondown.com/muledesign/a...buttondown.comNot without a fightGood things are possible through uncomfortable conversations 065
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighEmmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · 07/09/2026Here's a few thousand words reflecting on a two-year personal experiment exploring the practicality of bringing children to weekend activities (GAA matches) using public transport in Dublin. www.linkedin.com/pulse/bringi...linkedin.comBringing Children to Weekend Games using Public Transport in Dublin Pt 2: Your Journey Counts (But So Does the Quality of Your Choices)As if the return to school wasn’t enough to signal the end of summer for parents in Dublin, last weekend marked the return of the GAA’s and LGFA’s Go Games for boys and girls aged 8–11. Depending on t... 121
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighJames Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 03/09/2026Just to add that the “average of 15%” increase hides a lot of WHOPPER increases in some fares 2126
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighDr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Maybe it's time for commuters to block OConnell St. 22710
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighSam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026So maintain fuel excise cuts to subsidise driving more, and raise public transport fares -- is that where we are at with transport policy atm 811976
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Everyone knows this guy is a prick, but imagine being English (and a Brexiteer) and buying a literal castle in Ireland and then telling local Irish people they can't visit their family graves. Imagines telling *any* Irish person they can't visit the family graves! My mother would feckin kill him 58817254
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighNBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/08/2026BREAKING: Dolly Parton, a music icon considered the ‘Queen of Country,’ dies at 80.nbcnews.toDolly Parton, country music icon, dies at 80Her death came after in May 2026 she announced she was canceling a Las Vegas show and said she’d been undergoing treatment for kidney stones for several years. 1112742
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighThe School of Good Services @theschoolofgood.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Bad Services is going to be in Europe - we are going on another short book tour! After a fun launch touring around the UK and visiting some of our collaborators past and present to put on Bad Service events, we are headed to Europe in October. We're going to be in... 123
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is a very 2026 map title. 👀 But it also illustrates importance of circumspection when considering potential failure modes that can interact and cause seemingly implausible cascading consequences in complex systems (such as record heat, jellyfish swarms, & power grids). 735692
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026I'm going to keep saying this until it's rote practice: If you are in official connection with let alone in charge of an archive of data, if is your professional & moral responsibility to secure that archive, as a backup or otherwise, against just such an emergency, so we're not Hoping some kid did. 121977851
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighAlex @blangry.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Do I know anyone who has worked in Irish HE who'd give me the benefit of their wisdom/impressions on the sector? 002
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighDublin Commuters @dublincommuters.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Government have spent over a billion euro on fuel subsidies this year… yet have no room in the budget for new BusConnects phases, Luas expansions or Dart+ projects Opposition parties need to get their priorities straight 19141
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighSean Northridge @seannorthridge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026visualartists.ie/services/oco... Heads up from work for Dublin Peeps New pilot scheme going up for affordable artist studios on O'Connell Streetvisualartists.ieO'Connell Street Artist Studios, DublinO’Connell Street Studios: A one-year pilot delivering 21 visual artist studios, designed to test a repeatable local-authority-and-sector-body partnership mode 13843
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighGrangegorman Development Agency @grangegormandev.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Grangegorman is a place of many histories. One lesser known chapter is its part in the cholera epidemics of the 1800s. Discover the story of 'The Grangegorman Cholera Cemetery' and its connection to one of Dublin's most challenging periods for public health. @ria.ie @glasnevincemetery.bsky.socialria.ieThe Grangegorman Cholera Cemetery, Grangegorman Lower - Royal Irish AcademyIn 2023, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), working with Dublin Cemeteries Trust, undertook a project to reinter in Glasnevin Cemetery the remains of people who died during, and as a result of, t... 076
Ré Dubhthaigh @redubhthaigh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Having a life admin day. Closing long-open loops left right & centre. It’s deadly! 000
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"Left-handed People: Are They Just Pretending?" 18656178
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighBrant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 29/07/2026A Very Bad Thing to Do…. 306105973064
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighDavid Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Terry Prone’s spindoctoring career has been a blight on democratic accountability in the Republic of Ireland 021
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighAlan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026gas how much begrudgery persists in elements of the management classes about remote working because of the belief that it: 1. is an employee benefit 2. is a negative for employers and organisations 3. was given away without anything being given in return 2214
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Lots of folks had been hoping since last spring that the attacks on 18F and USDS would incite a resurgence of municipal public interest technology! 27915
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighIrish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 30/06/2026OTD in 1922 Dublin's Four Courts, incl Ireland's Public Record Office, was destroyed during the Civil War. @virtualtreasury.bsky.social have been working hard to reassemble the lost records from copies held elsewhere & they've just released 194,000 'new' documents: virtualtreasury.ie/2026-new-rel...virtualtreasury.ieVirtual TreasuryVirtual Treasury 01510
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighCiarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Nice! All European night trains running in 2026 on a single map. Thanks @back-on-track.eu Have you ever taken one? back-on-track.eu/all-night-tr... 4319
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighGerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 05/06/2026If you come here, you’ll find no mass grave, no evidence that children were ever so buried, and a local police force casting their eyes to heaven and saying 'Yeah, a few bones were found – but this was an area where Famine victims were buried. So?' — Terry Prone 44033
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighJoe Molloy 🇨🇺 🏳️⚧️ @freelancewebdev.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Doing something so counter to the greater public good should end a political career. 2104
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighRay Cunningham @ray-cunningham.bsky.social · 20/05/2026"Sentencing on Wednesday, Judge Keenan Johnson stressed that everyone involved was a decent person" People who drive like this are not decent people www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...irishtimes.comMan (24) who filmed himself drinking at wheel is jailed over 195km/h crash that maimed brotherGerard Duffy McAndrew posted video clip of drink-driving with the words: ‘Beer, steer and go’ 5268
Ré Dubhthaigh @redubhthaigh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026One of the hardest things about being a public servant is having to bite your tongue. 120
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighCian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Toxic populists are going to sour all public spending: No, secure bike parking for hospital staff is not the same as Dáil bike shelter irishcycle.com/2026/05/08/t...irishcycle.comToxic populists are going to sour all public spending: No, secure bike parking for hospital staff is not the same as Dáil bike shelterComment & Analysis: There’s never money for people on the front line, says Sinn Féin spokesperson on finance Pearse Doherty when he’s complaining about a secure bicycle shed in Dubl… 13624
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighEamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Back during the Black Lives Matter protests when everyone was on the bandwagon with "You don't get to be Irish and racist," etc, the Citizenship Referendum was never mentioned. People were ashamed of it. Maybe we should talk about these things because they don't go away you know. They resurface. 23110
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighAoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026"be safe, be seen" as a national strategy for road safety is an absolute joke 16935
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighWillem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Always nice to start the day with some good news 🫠 #EGU26 712964
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighDeirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Thanks to Denis Linehan of UCC for making sense of last week's CSO figures around urban and rural Ireland - this is such an important piece of work, it explains so much of the political discontent we are seeing. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...irishexaminer.comIreland's towns bear the brunt of the urban/rural divideIndependent urban towns are in a different level of social crisis to the rest of the country — unemployment at 5.9%, the highest of any area type, 17% at risk of poverty, and 20% of their households r... 66032
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighBrian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The O route goes along North Circular Road and was to replace the frequent 46A. The delay has implications for residents in @connectingcabra.bsky.social @leafybatter.bsky.social and @phibsboro.bsky.social Might be an issue to raise with canvassers in the Dublin Central bye-election. #SpeirGorm 064
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighDeirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Ireland is addicted to contracting away all kinds of State capacity www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...irishexaminer.comIreland is addicted to contracting away all kinds of State capacityBy treating governance as contract administration, we are letting our sovereignty erode gradually through every decision we outsource, writes Paul Davis 53710
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighJarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 19/04/2026We will continue to make two-dimensional maps. Because your mind can't handle the truth. 817726
Ré Dubhthaigh @redubhthaigh.bsky.social · 18/04/2026With all the census 1926 hype I made a small interactive map for North Frederick Street & Hardwicke Street, emphasising changes in residents between 1901 & 1911. Finding claude fantastic for bringing Dublin’s historic data to life. (Although basemap not rendering) claude.ai/public/artif... 120
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighChris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 17/04/2026We all have days like this 34480722134
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighLamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 15/04/2026This will devastate Ireland FYI and you never hear anyone in the Irish government talking about it #Spéirgorm 98331
Ré Dubhthaigh @redubhthaigh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Most of this money is going to private operators. 120
Ré Dubhthaigh @redubhthaigh.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Thinking about this today for no (agri-contractor / haulier) reason… www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comAmerican GentryThe jet-setting cosmopolitans of popular imagination exist, but they are far outnumbered by a less exalted and less discussed elite group, one that sits at the pinnacle of America’s local hierarchies. 020
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighWesley @wesgo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I'm sure the Gardaí are going to stand back for 5 days to allow this individual make their point and then have the Gov arrange meetings to better understand their demands. 313854
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighAideen Blackwood @aideen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026This James Geoghegan lad and his €600k in unpaid taxes are an extreme example of it, but I don’t think it’s an unusual position in Ireland to believe the state should pay for everything that goes wrong in your life, but you shouldn’t have to contribute when things are going well 1209
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighLiz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 11/04/2026Can someone please ask Gov if a tax clearance cert will be needed to collect on these? 27527
Ré Dubhthaigh @redubhthaigh.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Not dissimilar to Ireland where government policy for data is mandating use of eircodes, provided at cost by a commercial entity. 000
Reposted by Ré DubhthaighOwen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The only source of address data highlighted on this DataGovUK "collection" page is a link to an Ordnance Survey product that is only available to the general public on commercial terms: Addresses www.data.gov.uk/collections/... Isn't that (a) advertising, and (b) anti-competitive? 221
