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Rónán

@rmconroy.bsky.social
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Cuma ann nó as. Health researcher during my lifetime, now musicology graduate. Organist and choir director for Christ Church Catheral group of parishes in Dublin. Wikipedia editor now past 1,800 edits. sé/é/a+h/t gairmeach a Rónáin

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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Léargas ó mo bhean chéile ⁊ muid ag caint ar an fón. Bhí orm é a bhreacadh síos láithreach bonn mar mhothaigh mé go raibh lomchlár na fírinne ráite aici.
A large envelope with the words "suddenly it was now " scrawled on it in thick blue marker.
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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A ​decade on the Iberian ​frontline​ has shown me that Europe’s ​climate ​emergency​ is ​impossible to ​deny
What once felt exceptional now arrives with grim regularity​ all over the continent and it will only get worse
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Leabharlann LadyBad? Cheannaigh mé cóip de "Uirlisí na chistine" (1971), ach spreag na híomhánna scéal eile ionam. …ar lean, b'fhéidir.
íomhá as "Uirlisí na chistine" (1971) le téacs malartach
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A print by Ruth Brandt, a calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh, and a print by the wonderful Kerrywoman. Grab one while they're going cheap. Oh for God's sake put that woman down and have a bit of sense, will you!
A print by Ruth Brandt, a calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh, and a print by the wonderful Kerrywoman.
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
openletter.earth/concern-abou... I am posting here to encourage anyone who is concerned about the future of the arts and humanities in Ireland to sign this letter. Our industry-based policy is a threat to Ireland's continuing rich contribution to these areas.
openletter.earth
Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Déin WTF??
Fógra sráide : Cearnóg an Déin Switf
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Ní féidir an bhean seo a stopadh! Agus tá mé tar éis an cheann seo a cheannach toisc go bhfuil sé chomh hálainn. www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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I Will Trust In The Darkness (A4 and A3 Fine Art Prints) — Ciaraíoch Art
From the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, attributed to Saint Brendan who is said to have travelled from county Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Fra...
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Of course, he would never say anything that articulate – but the thought is there, bless him.
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pa... @uplift.ie
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Pass the Sanctions Against the State of Israel Bill
Dear Deputies, We call on you to vote in favour of the Sanctions Against the State of Israel Bill 2026 when it comes before the Dáil.  The bill is being proposed by Richard Boyd Barrett (People ...
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Na Corcaigh – dream uathúil ar fad!!
Worlds smallest public statue proposed for cork mosquito linked to the death of Oliver Cromwell
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ProjectAllende.org / ProjectAllende @ substack @projectallende.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
You go Ursula!
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Maith sibh RTÉ! Ach tá muid fós ag feitheamh ar na caldhairí sa Dáil rud ar bith a dhéanamh…
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
@gaelchlo.bsky.social – cló álainn ar fad! GRMA!
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Ufás !
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Pat Ingoldsby – a national treasure that you could walk past on the way to the shops. This is from the 2001 anthology "Do lámh i mo bhrístí".
MANUS MCILHENNY REMEMBERS
"I mind the first time a bus came to the village.
It pulled upside of Benny Lee's and two people got out. We ate them because we thought that was what you did. The driver said they'd come to look at the orchids but it was too late then.
Another bus came the year of the Tostal but it went straight past Benny Lee's and it didn't stop.
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
You can tell at once that she's a vegan. It's the halo.
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
www.sen.com/video/48b728... Happy earth day!
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Watch Earth Live in 4K from Space | Sen
Watch Earth live in 4K from space with Sen's satellite video platform. Stream real-time views from the ISS and beyond, captured by our own orbiting cameras
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
www.thepensivequill.com/2026/04/9-ye... Meditate che questo è stato: vi comando queste parole. Scolpitele nel vostro cuore stando in casa andando per via, coricandovi, alzandovi. Ripetetele ai vostri figli. O vi si sfaccia la casa, la malattia vi impedisca, i vostri nati torcano il viso da voi.
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9-Year-Old Palestinian Girl Shot Dead In Front of Classmates In Gaza’s Beit Lahia
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
RIP Moya Brennan, a wonderful singer, composer, harpist, sister of Enya, and gave - with Clannad - the first ever performance in Irish on Top of the Pops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHT...
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Clannad - Theme from Harry's Game (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by ClannadVEVO
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Seanchaí le seanscéal seanchaite. An fhírinne lom atá ag @saoirsemc.bsky.social !
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 07/04/2026
Oh.
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A serious, reasoned engagement with a report that hardly deserved it. Well worth reading!
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Is í glór Gaelach Isibéal a bheidh le cloisteáil ar chloigíní dorais na hÉireann as seo amach jrnl.ie/6981397 Gaeilge na Ringe ar leac an dorais!
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Is í glór Gaelach Isibéal a bheidh le cloisteáil ar chloigíní dorais na hÉireann as seo amach
Beidh rogha Ghaeilge ag an aip Ring ón seachtain seo ar aghaidh agus cainteoir Ghaeilge ó Bhaile Átha Cliath ag cur fáilte roimh chuairteoiri ag dóirse ar fud na tíre.
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/... Éileamh chun an Comhaontú Comhlachais idir an tAontas Eorpach agus Iosrael a chur ar fionraí go hiomlán i bhfianaise sháruithe Iosrael ar chearta an duine Sínigí – trí bomaite tábhachtacha don Phalaistín!
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Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Join us at the Spire, Saturday 28th, 12pm to mark Land Day when Palestinians commemorate the six unarmed people murdered by Israeli police in 1976 while protesting the ongoing theft of their lands. It also marks the ongoing struggle resisting Israel's theft of Palestinian land. #FreePalestine
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A very useful paper not just for information on the current FDA position, but also for clear presentation of the difference between Bayesian and frequentist approaches.
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Amazing – Eunice Foote, in 1856, comparing the heating effect of sunlight on different atmospheric gases. CO2 produced significantly more heating than 'common air'. She went on to attribute changes in earth's temperature to changes in CO2 levels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_...
Foote's original paper tabulating her results and making an explicit link between CO2 levels and climate
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"Back when the science community used to deny climate change... Human caused climate change was looked skeptically for decades.... then the fact driven data forced all honest science literate skeptics to concede ..." www.facebook.com/groups/96164... via The Climate Realism Community
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Máthair na sprice an sloinne
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Ufás!
 Costas sé lá de chogadh SAM san Iaráin.
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Forests are paying the price for corporate profit. An anti-deforestation law is being watered down - but the European Commission’s President can still hold the line. Public pressure now matters. Add your voice for forests. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...
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Healthy forests are our right!
Every ruined forest. Every polluted river. Enough. A key EU law to hold coffee, rubber, and palm oil giants accountable for deforestation is being weakened to protect profiteering - not our safety or ...
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
If anyone had doubts that the climate was collapsing, this sunny, mild, charmingly breezy St Patrick's day clinches it! Gone are the days of the dancers, their leg flailed a mottled purple by driving hailstones!
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Ionadh ar éinne ?
Comparáid idir an Iaráin agus SAM o thaobh oideachais agus fostaíochta na mban.
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Laura @takeithandy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I vote we send the taoiseach to visit the Choctaw Nation every St Patrick's Day instead of the White House
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Sciodar IS sa Ghaurdian inniu. Neamhshuim tabhartha ar dlíthe na fisice ar fad!
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Not so much a war as history's biggest drive-by shooting
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
‘Illegal War Crimes Are Illegal’ Insists Lunatic Irish President waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/03/0…
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‘Illegal War Crimes Are Illegal’ Insists Lunatic Irish President
PRESIDENT CATHERINE CONNOLLY has caused an outrage in Ireland after publishing comments in which she shamefully suggested that illegal war crimes committed in illegal wars should somehow be avoided and punished when committed, WWN can …
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
An fhírinne lom!
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
on this the world endures - sources on making war and peace www.lifeisasacredtext.com/wart/ Rabbi Danya's thoughtful scholarship stands out amid the facile biblical self-justifications flying around.
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on this the world endures
sources on making war and peace
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Nach muintir éadóchasach muid!
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Tá mo chóip féin ceannaithe agam – ais tusa ??
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Watch the first teaser for Cartoon Saloon's 'Kindred Spirits,' the new animated feature in development from studio co-founder Tomm Moore ('The Secret of Kells,' 'Song of the Sea'). www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
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Cartoon Saloon Reveals Trailer for ‘Kindred Spirits’ Feature
Tomm Moore was at Cartoon Movie to tease his upcoming animated film about an Irish refugee and a Choctaw boy on a magical journey across 1840s America.
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Dearcaigí ais bíodh olc oraibh.
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Orla Breslin @stitchlily.eurosky.social · 05/02/2026
C'mon folks, only 721 people to go and we've passed the Irish threshold. If you haven't signed this already, why not? It's an important EU citizen led initiative that needs 7 countries to pass their threshold, and then the EU government machine is forced to talk about it. #Speirgorm #IrishSky
eci.ec.europa.eu
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Bhris na deora liom
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Sínígí in ainm Dé.
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Remembering Val Mulkerns, Irish writer, keen observer of the apparently ordinary, whose birthday is today. I met her when I was a 14-year-old brat, and from then until her dying day in 2018 she would inevitably greet me with "Well, what are you writing these days?" 451editions.com/author-val-m...
Three photos of the author Val Mulkerns at varying stages of her career.
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Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Not just illegal but morally bankrupt and utterly corrupt. Expect more of the same…
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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
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