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Seán Finnan

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PhD candidate & Research Ireland scholar @tudublin seanfinnan.ie

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Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The FAI repeatedly told us players would be protected. Yet when a 24 year old acted on his conscience, they left him to stand alone & used a vote among his teammates to validate their own cowardice. This isn’t protecting a young player, it’s protecting themselves at his expense. #StopTheGame
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#StopTheGame #BoycottIsrael #ShameOnFAI Statement by Irish Sport For Palestine:
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Igor Mortis @munizreplacement.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Developments with Ireland: My understanding is that Gavin Bazunu has indicated that he doesn't want to play in the game - a view expressed in meeting last night. And there are other players now deliberating over coming with him. Training delayed. [Daniel McDonnell]
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Press release from the family of Irishman Daniel Tatlow-Devally, who has been imprisoned in Germany since a Gaza-related protest at an Elbit Systems site in Ulm. "On 8 September, Daniel will have spent one full year in German pre-trial detention, in 23-hour daily lock up, without a verdict."
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Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The great Jess Kav on the soul-searching (or lack thereof) in the Irish music scene over the last week or so
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Angel At The Table
The thicket of un-grooming and the Irish music industry
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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Today's sad news brought me back to this Irish Studies Review article by Martin McLoone, which used Kevin Keegan as jumping-off point to discuss Irish surnames, Englishness, assimilation and who gets included in the popular image of the Irish in Britain. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Why didn't Kevin Keegan play for Ireland? Contrasting narratives of the Irish in Britain
This article considers a range of contrasting narratives about the Irish in Britain that are sometimes overlapping and sometimes contradictory. These narratives reflect the complexity of the Irish ...
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Nice argument, but it’s too late. I’ve already depicted myself as the calm under pressure, cheerful, and suave Pico Lopes while you are the shocked and fearful Lionel Messi
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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23/06/2026
When an immigrant stabbed a man in Belfast a few weeks ago, the image of that attack was on the front page of most of the UK papers. Jeffrey Donaldson is not on the front page of the Times, Telegraph, Express, Mirror, Star, Metro, Morning Star, i paper, Guardian, Herald, Journal, or National
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
www.thejournal.ie/readme/music...
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Beyond the decks: The movement that opened up Irish electronic music
Ireland’s dance music scene looks very different today thanks to the community organisers and artists who helped to make it more inclusive.
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Tonight's the night. Jane Deasy's The Warm Up opens tonight at Cork School of Music. You can listen back to the radio show below to get you warmed up :) www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigita...
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Time Slip W/Jane Deasy (The Warm Up Special)
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Justine McCarthy: Ireland’s refusal to say sorry to men convicted of Sallins train robbery is shameful
The men wrongfully convicted have suffered physical and psychological consequences from the injustice done to them
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We used to call them ‘race riots’ now we call them ‘anti-immigration protests’.
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 09/06/2026
The incident is racist neo-Nazis wandering around in a pack and attacking anyone they decide looks like an immigrant.
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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
All week, I’ve seen the best of Belfast at the Book Festival- welcoming, inclusive, creative, joyful- tonight we’re making sure all our lovely guest writers can get home safely through riots and burnt out vehicles and outpouring of hatred. It is such a shame. We are much better than this.
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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
There is an urgent conversation which needs to be had. And it's not about immigration. It's about fascism and its enablers.
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Glasgow city centre had an edge tonight that felt scarier than the Dublin riots a few years back. Police everywhere and the aftermath of random attacks on non white folks and delivery cyclists on Glasgow Bridge.
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
And he's back.
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"Four performers prepare to go on stage. The same routine. Night after night after night." Put together a mix with Jane Deasy and the cast of The Warm Up for Éist tonight at 6pm. It's a sonic sketchbook of music and influences that have inspired the show. www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/the...
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The Warm Up | Cork Midsummer Festival | 12 – 21 June 2026
A music theatre performance based on a live recording of actors warming up before the opening night of a show.
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If you're in Cork this weekend don't miss this show! www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/the...
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The Warm Up | Cork Midsummer Festival | 12 – 21 June 2026
A music theatre performance based on a live recording of actors warming up before the opening night of a show.
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Slowly coming back to after Open Ear. Hearing Legion of One's dubby sludge on the beach was probably this year's highlight. Sunday was one hit after another. frontendsynthetics.bandcamp.com/album/of-dub
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OF DUB, by LEGION OF ONE
10 track album
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Well done Revolutionary Housing League lreland Longterm empty buildings are vandalism Time for "use it or lose it"
Well done Revolutionary Housing League lreland 
Longterm empty buildings are vandalism
Time for "use it or lose it"
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
INAR statement, including some description of the video referenced in the report. I have seen the video and the description is accurate. it was in the street, in broad daylight, and there were loads of people standing around watching, filming, talking, etc.
INAR Statement on the death of Mr Yves Sakila: Monday 18 May 2026. Dublin.

The Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) is very concerned about the news that a
man, believed to be Mr Yves Sakila, has died from suspected asphyxiation following
his apprehension for an alleged shoplifting incident in Arnotts in Dublin on Friday 15
May. Nobody deserves to die for being suspected of shoplifting. Something clearly
went terribly wrong. News of the tragedy is doubly shocking as some newspapers
have reported that Mr Sakila is said to have “become unresponsive” after Gardai
arrived on the scene.
A very disturbing 4m44s video has since emerged which appears to show the man
on the ground being subdued by several men, who appear to be security guards
and management at Arnotts. One of the men is seen to shift his weight onto his knee
to drive it into the neck and head region of the subdued man. The man on the
ground is heard shouting in distress as several men are kneeling on his body and the
men shout several times for him to “stay down” while holding his neck and pinning
his body to the ground with their combined weight. By the end of the 4m44s video
we have seen, the man appears motionless. Gardai do not appear to have arrived
on the scene at this stage.
Shane O’Curry, Director of INAR said ”At INAR we are extremely disturbed by the
reports of the incident, and we extend our sincere condolences to the family and
friends of Mr Sakila. We are very concerned that this case appears to have the
hallmarks of a case of excessive use of force. The death of a black man in such
circumstances is extremely worrying, and we urge the authorities to thoroughly
investigate all of the circumstances leading to this man’s death, in order to ensure
minority ethnic community confidence in the criminal justice system.”
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Eoin Murray @eoin-murray.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Anois, Os Ard is back, just in time for yr long weekend. Wrote about dreamestate indie-pop, folk-horror soundscapes, notes on becoming and the apocalypse, ‘90s internet star ambience, a breakthrough rap masterclass, some drone stuff, some club stuff, all sorts! open.substack.com/pub/anoisosa...
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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I'll be in Trinity next Weds giving a guest lecture, a mere 46 years after leaving midway through second year of my degree to pursue something or other. Talk about the long way around. Do come along if you're in Dublin. bit.ly/4dYIHMf
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Event - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin
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Chris Jones @chrisjonesbelfast.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Wtf this is horrifying.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"He seemed to believe... that to abandon his work meant giving in to what fascism wanted for him: an existence so devoid of value + meaning that it would be indistinguishable from death. He held on to his briefcase not until it was too late but because it was too late."
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What Walter Benjamin Knew
A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
BBC Verify confirms that the United States killed 110 young children, in their school, on just the first day of this war. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows
A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people were killed, expert video analysis shows.
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
www.dublininquirer.com/new-film-doc...
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New film documents Dubliners’ resistance to subordination of social life to profit
“The market is a monster,” says filmmaker James Redmond. “It turns living spaces into dead space.”
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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The second, final installment of my interview w/ historian Peter Linebaugh on @thedigradio.bsky.social: Luddites' machine-breaking revolt, the centrality of capital punishment in consolidation of capitalist state, remaking struggle against enclosure for 21st century. thedigradio.com/podcast/brea...
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Breaking the Machine w/ Peter Linebaugh
Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the Luddites’ machine-breaking revolt against the enclosure of handicraft production, the central role played by capital punishment in the consolidation of the capitalist ...
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Big day out for the parish. Unfortunately I won't be in the parish. To find out why you'll need to watch this film 😉🍿
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
All out this Tuesday, 6pm against #ThePoxtonHotel injunction! A British hotel group seeking to silence a neighbouring club. Izakaya isn’t noise pollution. It’s part of Dublin’s cultural fabric. Hotels rise. Rents climb. Venues close. The city dies. Image from Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin's Instagram.
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers
Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal
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Scamp Media @scampmedia.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Filmed over four years across kitchen tables, protests and public meetings, this documentary follows a city fighting for itself as a broken property market chews up its citizens for profit. Rooted in Dublin, it reveals global forces reshaping cities, where homes are assets and people are obstacles.
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TRAILER: DISPLACE: THE BATTLE FOR DUBLIN
YouTube video by Scamp Media
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I know everyone means well with their 'scoop this reporter up immediately' endorsement posts but christ — who's doing the scooping? What's left? Thinking about our industry this way, like this is a momentary setback and there are ample open roles, obscures the truth about the rot at its core.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
An analogy for this is research chemicals and synthetic drugs. Labs are well able to keep ahead of legislation. Yet politicians like this go all out in their condemnation and efforts to ban them. When it's X enabling CSAM? Ara shur look, each to their own -shur isn't technology mad lad...
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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
These people are being held on remand as punishment. Bail is routinely offered for more serious offences. The Home Secretary is refusing to meet their representatives. Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns | Prison News | Al Jazeera share.google/rXo7ju6GqlM2...
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Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns
Hundreds of doctors, dozens of MPs and thousands of everyday Britons call on the justice secretary to intervene.
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oddfellows local 151 @oddfellows151.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Really sad to hear this, Asad was a total genius! Remembering this Black Panther movie which turns into both a meditation on Huey Newton's political thought and an appreciation of Detroit Techno act Drexciya.... One of a kind. RIP viewpointmag.com/2018/03/05/b...
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Black Atlantis - Viewpoint Magazine
Like Star Wars, Black Panther presents us not with science fiction but with myth, sharing with it what we might describe as “semi-feudal futurism” – a term far more appropriate for this film than “Afr...
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Daryl Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 04/12/2025
This is shite. The Complex serves so many artist tribes in Ireland. All artists need is a space, they'll do the rest because they've had to. It's so frustrating that €10m can be given to the NFL but Dublin CC can't open a basic event space for artists without trying to commercialise everything.
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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I wrote about The Complex’s first experience of eviction in this paper. In the years since they have clearly embedded themselves in this area of the city and contributed to its vibrancy. We need to protect cultural institutions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Vacancy as Precarious Property in Dublin's Temporary Urbanism Moment
This paper makes a case for viewing vacancy as “precarious property” (Blomley 2020; Antipode 52[1]:36–57), i.e. less a material object defined by absence of use than the property relation (understood...
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Rest in Power to a real one. pirate.ie/archive/inte...
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Interview with Margaretta D'Arcy (Women's Scéal Radio/Radio Pirate Woman) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive
No account of Galway pirate radio would be complete without the unique station set up by the writer and activist Margaretta D’Arcy from her home in the city centre. Women’s Scéal Radio broadcast irreg...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"Can places like KXLU survive, when the tech pull [is] squarely in the opposite direction? 'One administrator can kill a college 📻station,” @katejewell.bsky.social said, while adding that she feels the health of such stations is strong [bc] DIY camaraderie + community feel so urgent..."
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College Radio Keeps Its Cool
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
My opening remarks danmcquillan.org/irish_parlia... were described by committee members as 'blunt' and 'sceptical about AI, to say the least'
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Opening Statement to the Irish Parliament Committee on AI
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Gavin Elliott @sgelliott.net · 25/10/2025
Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.
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Eoin Murray @eoin-murray.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music round-up is back ☁️ Harps and bodhráns reimagined as ambient instruments, surrealist avant-folk, fairy forts, some Prefab Sprout-style sweetness, uilleann pipes, motorik psych, Pavement covers and a tribute to Manchán Magan anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
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New Irish Music: September/October 2025
Remembering Manchán Magan, plus new releases from Throwing Shapes, Ian Nyquist, Junior Brother, and more
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 01/10/2025
BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
When the dust settles, I hope we remember that on the precise evening Trump (a) pulled his cultural critics off TV and (b) designated his political enemies as terrorists, the UK was giving him every honour imaginable, and glorying in its "special relationship" with his regime.
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