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Cllr Anthony Flynn @antoflynnser.greenpartyni.org · 26/09/2026
Lough Neagh belongs to all of us. Today we gathered at Stormont to demand urgent action to protect it. We need to tackle pollution, invest in our water infrastructure & properly enforce environmental protections. 💚 Save Lough Neagh.
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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 31/08/2026
8,383. That’s every graduate vacancy advertised across the UK last month: down 45% in a year and the lowest number on record. Employers are already pointing to AI adoption as part of the reason. 1/10
Graphic showing the cover of Northern Ireland’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy. Large text reads: “THEY WROTE THE CONCLUSION BEFORE THEY ASKED THE QUESTION. THEN THEY TOLD YOU, OUT LOUD, THAT THEY’RE NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR ANSWER.” Green Party NI branding and legal imprint appear at the bottom.Graphic with a dark blue and green background. Two tilted BBC-style news screenshots appear in the centre: one headline reads “Stormont suggests AI could automate public sector admin,” and the other reads “Graduate job vacancies drop by almost 50% in a year, survey suggests.” White dotted lines connect the two headlines. Text on the right says “JOIN THE DOTS.” Green Party NI branding and legal imprint appear at the bottom.Graphic with a blurred green and blue background. Two highlighted quotations from Northern Ireland’s draft AI Strategy appear in white and lime-green text: •	Page 4: “This strategy is grounded in the premise that… AI can unlock significant opportunities.” •	Page 7: “Debate will inevitably persist… but the purpose of this strategy is not to pronounce on those debates.” Below the quotations, large text reads: “They made up their minds before they asked you — then told you your answer would not change it.” Green Party NI branding and legal imprint appear at the bottom, with a hand icon and number 3 indicating the third slide in a carousel.Graphic containing four highlighted quotations from the draft AI strategy: •	Page 4: AI can “create higher-quality jobs.” •	Page 26: Public servants can be freed up by “automating routine public-facing tasks.” •	Page 33: Workers are “at risk of AI-displacement,” particularly people already facing inequality. •	Page 38: A “marketing campaign” could answer the question “why AI?” The quotes appear in white and lime-green text over a blurred green and blue background. A hand icon indicates swiping left. Green Party NI branding and legal imprint appear at the bottom.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’
Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti
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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 17/08/2026
Mal O’Hara has been chosen as the Green Party candidate for North Belfast, and he’s ready for the fight ahead. One in four children in North Belfast live in poverty. Thousands of households are homeless while homes across Ardoyne, Ballysillan and beyond sit empty, cold and falling apart. 1/2
Green Party candidate card for Mal O’Hara, North Belfast, standing inside a church with a stained-glass window and seated crowd behind him. Text: “Your Green Party Candidate, Mal O’Hara, North Belfast. One in four children in North Belfast live in poverty. Thousands of households are homeless while homes sit empty, cold and unfit for purpose in Ardoyne, Ballysillan and beyond. That’s a political choice, and I’m standing to change it.” Footer: greenpartyni.org/join, Green Party NI logo.
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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 13/08/2026
Áine Groogan is standing as our Green Party candidate for South Belfast & Mid Down in 2027. 1/4
Green Party candidate card for Áine Groogan, South Belfast & Mid Down, in an arched hallway at Belfast City Hall. Text: “Your Green Party Candidate, Áine Groogan, South Belfast & Mid Down. South Belfast lost its Green voice in 2022. I’ve spent seven years delivering for people at council, holding others to account. It’s time we had that voice back at Stormont.” Footer: greenpartyni.org/join, Green Party NI logo.
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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 10/08/2026
Brian Smyth is standing for the Green Party in East Belfast in 2027, and he’s bringing 20 years of frontline experience with him. 1/2
Green Party candidate card for Brian Smyth, East Belfast, speaking into a microphone at an event. Text: “Your Green Party Candidate, Brian Smyth, East Belfast. Too many young people in East Belfast have been let down and left behind. I’ve spent over 20 years working with young people in the care system, and I’m standing to fix it, not manage it.” Footer: greenpartyni.org/join, Green Party NI logo.
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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 06/08/2026
Big news from North Down: Anthony Flynn is standing for the Assembly next May. As an East Belfast councillor, Anthony has shown what determined Green representation actually delivers. Now he’s bringing that energy home to North Down. 1/6
Green Party candidate card for Anthony Flynn, North Down. Red banner reads “Hope is Here.” Photo of Anthony Flynn, a bearded man in a navy shirt with arms crossed, smiling in an arched hallway. Text reads “Your Green Party Candidate, Anthony Flynn, North Down.” Below, on a green background: “After years of the same politics at Stormont, it’s time for a strong Green voice that puts North Down first. Anthony will focus on cleaner seas and rivers, better public transport, and thriving town centres.” Footer shows “greenpartyni.org/join,” the Green Party Northern Ireland logo, and “Published and Promoted by Green Party NI, PO Box 369, Bangor, BT20 9FJ.”
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My new Substack. I discuss mortuary fridges, hell and crispy towels. open.substack.com/pub/rosiemee...
Stereum hirsutum fungus on a dead tree. The text 'Endings' is in the middle.
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My new Substack. I discuss mortuary fridges, hell and crispy towels. open.substack.com/pub/rosiemee...
Stereum hirsutum fungus on a dead tree. The text 'Endings' is in the middle.
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Cllr Anthony Flynn @antoflynnser.greenpartyni.org · 29/07/2026
Public transport isn't a luxury. It's how people get to work, education and healthcare. If we want stronger communities and a stronger economy, we need to stop treating buses and trains as an afterthought. 🚍🌿
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"All the perpetrators in these oral histories were men. All those in authority in the churches who made decisions about what to do when a disclosure or complaint was made were men." www.executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk/sites/defaul...
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Swimming in it.
Got a quid for your locker?
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I love the summer Warm bin juice Taps aff sunburn Wasps at a picnic Cigarette smoke Flip flop blisters
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
One day, everyone will have always been against this.
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Lauren is a courageous and kind human. She is showing exceptional generosity in using her horrible experience to try and raise awareness. Check your boobs. Check yours balls. It might save your life ❤️
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My new messy sandwich of a Substack. Borrowed Courage Veggie Club Sandwich substack.com/@rosiemeek/n...
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Borrowed Courage Veggie Club Sandwich
Try saying that ten times fast.
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My new messy sandwich of a Substack. Borrowed Courage Veggie Club Sandwich substack.com/@rosiemeek/n...
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Borrowed Courage Veggie Club Sandwich
Try saying that ten times fast.
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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 17/06/2026
A 10-year-old child can be criminalised in Northern Ireland. Ten. Years. Old. The science is clear - children that age don’t have the cognitive development to bear full criminal responsibility. Raising the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility isn’t radical; it’s basic child rights. 1/5
Graphic on a green background with a headline image of handcuffed wrists and the text “Move to raise NI minimum criminal age to 14 blocked.” Large caption reads: “Ten years old. That’s how young you can be criminalised in Northern Ireland. The DUP and UUP want to keep it that way.” Green Party logo and publication line at the bottom.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Terrible news: the Court of Appeal has just ruled that the Government’s ban on Palestine Action is lawful. PA is now likely to lodge an appeal before the Supreme Court. So the mass arrests of peaceful people sitting with cardboard signs will continue. Because that is what terrorism looks like ...
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Officials told Poots that the amendment was “comfortably within the scope of the bill” but he blocked it from debate anyway. Doesn’t seem very democratic to me. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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Advisers cleared mother and baby amendment for debate before Speaker Poots blocked it
In a surprise move last month, the Speaker barred debate around posthumous payments, prompting criticism from MLAs and victims
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Progressive Politics NI @ppni.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This family, who have lived here for 18 years, have been largely forgotten after this weeks trouble overshadowed the horrors they’ve been put through. We hope you can help us in supporting them! ✊🏻❤️
PLEASE SUPPORT THIS FAMILY

If you can, please donate to this GoFundMe to support a family who were targeted by racists.

Just days out from opening an Indian grocery shop on the Shankill Road in Belfast, racists burnt the place down. Along with the building all the money they poured into it and their hopes & dreams went up in smoke.

If you can't donate, a share alone will help!

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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 11/06/2026
They came with petrol, bricks and hatred. We came with food, car keys and open doors. #Belfast #NoToRacism #GPNI #NorthernIreland #StandTogether
Green Party NI card: “It began on Monday night with a brutal attack in North Belfast. Before the facts were even established, the agitators were already at work.” Ends: “Belfast was being asked — Who are you, really? What are you made of?”Green Party NI card: “The people of Northern Ireland answered the way they always have — not with speeches or press releases, but with a knock on a neighbour’s door, a car engine turning over at midnight and a voice saying: get in, you are safe now.”Green Party NI card: “On Tuesday night, as police were stretched thin across the city, Green Party members and councillors were already on the ground, working alongside community activists and support groups, helping families leave.”Green Party NI card: “By Wednesday, food was coming in from local businesses and a food larder, and a local church had become a place where frightened people could pause, be fed, be steadied, and find a way forward.”
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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 10/06/2026
Today, Green Party NI and the Green Party of England & Wales stand together. Zack Polanski and Mal O’Hara are united: what is happening in Belfast is not isolated. It is a coordinated far-right pattern - the same faces, the same tactics, the same hatred. 1/2
Joint Green Party NI and Green Party of England & Wales statement headed “Green Parties condemn Belfast pogrom and demand immediate action.” Quotes leaders Mal O’Hara and Zack Polanski condemning far-right orchestration and years of political failure. Dated 10 June 2026.Green Party NI and GPEW joint statement page 2. Highlights 38,000 households in housing stress, failed integration strategy, and expired Racial Equality Strategy. Calls on the Executive to act on hate crime, housing, policing and poverty. Signed by Mal O’Hara and Zack Polanski.
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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Anaka do amazing work - support if you can. Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks chuffed.org/project/1854...
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Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks
We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.
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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 10/06/2026
Families burned out of their homes. Again. Last night’s violence in Belfast was a racist pogrom, the third summer in a row. Green Party NI stands with every family targeted last night. Our full statement 👇
Green Party NI statement headed “This third summer of racist pogroms must be the last.” Condemns last night’s violence in Belfast, calls it an orchestrated racist pogrom, quotes Party Leader Mal O’Hara, and stands in solidarity with families targeted.
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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 08/06/2026
The Greens are on 5.8%, our highest support since the last Assembly election. People are tired of managed decline. They want lower bills, warm homes, a clean Lough Neagh and world-class public services. 1/2
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Curse of private equity Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. Companies making cash from England’s children in care. Average charge to the state by a private provider for a child in “care” is £384,020 a year, some charge £1m+. Provide poor service l. End privatisation.
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Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care | George Monbiot
Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes ran by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 30/05/2026
Last week, a decision taken in secrecy caused disquiet at Stormont — and hurt people who have already suffered horrifically. Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots is refusing to explain himself in circumstances where his actions are highly irregular, writes Sam McBride 🖋️ Read more: tinyurl.com/yf9vk2jw
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Why illegal children's homes are being paid up to £2m per child by councils. Outstanding reporting by Noel Titheradge. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why illegal children's homes are being paid up to £2m per child by councils
A ban was meant to bring an end to the practice - but councils continue to fund illegal placements.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/05/2026
⬇️ Economy down £240bn. ⬇️ Investment down 18%. ⬇️ 4000 fewer doctors in the NHS. ⬇️ £90bn less in tax revenue. 💰 All so he could pocket a few quid. He doesn't care about the working class, he is taking the country for a mug.
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Nigel Farage says £5m gift a reward for Brexit campaigning
The Reform UK leader, who is facing a Commons standards probe, said he "cannot be bought by anybody".
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 14/05/2026
@greenpartyhan.bsky.social in Parliament yesterday, calls for the "transformative, progressive programme this moment demands" The climate and cost-of-living crises are inextricably linked, with the poorest hit hardest. It’s time to put people and planet first.
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
“She would sob and wail, aiming her desperation heavenwards from behind the high walls of the hospital garden, begging God for a reprieve. In those moments I didn’t see any madness, only enormous sorrow nothing but the sky was large enough to contain.” open.substack.com/pub/rosiemee...
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Sadness, madness and zapping my brain
A number of years ago I did some agency shifts on a psychiatric ward.
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
“She would sob and wail, aiming her desperation heavenwards from behind the high walls of the hospital garden, begging God for a reprieve. In those moments I didn’t see any madness, only enormous sorrow nothing but the sky was large enough to contain.” open.substack.com/pub/rosiemee...
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Sadness, madness and zapping my brain
A number of years ago I did some agency shifts on a psychiatric ward.
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My newest article on sadness, madness and zapping my brain. open.substack.com/pub/rosiemee... #mentalhealth #writing #depression
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Sadness, madness and zapping my brain
A number of years ago I did some agency shifts on a psychiatric ward.
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My newest article on sadness, madness and zapping my brain. open.substack.com/pub/rosiemee... #mentalhealth #writing #depression
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Sadness, madness and zapping my brain
A number of years ago I did some agency shifts on a psychiatric ward.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 06/05/2026
🚨🏳️‍⚧️ New Campaign! 🩺 At Good Law Project, we're sick of 'trans broken arm syndrome'. People are being denied access to healthcare which has nothing to do with their gender identity - simply because they're trans. We plan to challenge this. First off: we're writing to the NHS. Will you join us? 👇
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Trans people have a right to the same healthcare we all need | Good Law Project
Across the country, trans people are being denied vital healthcare that has nothing to do with their gender identity – simply because they are trans.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵
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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 02/05/2026
Green Party Northern Ireland leader Mal O'Hara met up with England and Wales Green Party leader Zack Polanski today in Cardiff ahead of the Welsh Senedd elections next week. 1/3
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 30/04/2026
“What you get when you vote Green are local, very hardworking councillors who are absolutely committed to two vested interests - people and planet.” Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward contrasts Green councillors with other parties on #BBCQT
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Update: I have found somewhere to live 😮‍💨
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
An under celebrated milestone - when your child becomes reliably able to aim their vomit into a receptacle.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
“National scandal” of England’s shadow child social care as shocking new report reveals number of children in unregulated settings has increased by more than 370% in five years www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Get a grip on ‘scandal’ of illegal child social care in England, ministers are told
Vulnerable children placed in caravans, Airbnbs and holiday camps, with children’s commissioner saying practice must stop
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
"Between 2018 and 2023, 2,700 greyhounds died and more than 26,500 injuries to greyhounds were recorded." And many people and communitues suffered great harm from gambling www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Green MP: Labour caricatures working-class people over greyhound racing
Hannah Spencer says minister ‘continuously offends people by saying working-class people don’t care about dogs’
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thedetailtv.bsky.social @thedetailtv.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New research suggests that sand dredging at Lough Neagh is negatively impacting the entire ecosystem, including water quality, habitats, and biodiversity. Can Stormont keep ignoring the evidence?, asks journalist @tommygreene.bsky.social
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Tommy Greene: Stormont can’t keep ignoring the evidence on Lough Neagh sand dredging
New research shows sand dredging is "negatively affecting water quality, habitats, and biodiversity"
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I went to present as homeless today! So of course, that’s content now. substack.com/@rosiemeek/n...
It says housing is a human right
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Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
My new Substack: Aphantasia - the absence of a mind's eye open.substack.com/pub/rosiemee...
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Aphantasia
The absence of a mind's eye
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