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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Biggest strike in Ireland in over a decade and our Taoiseach is giving a speech about how AI is going to transform the economy. It’s humans vs robots, a chairde.

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Gardaí Called To RDS After Reports Members Of World's Largest Copyright Theft Gang Inside Building waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/10/1…

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I just signed to stop Italy from capping "foreign" children at 30% per class. Kids could be moved away from their friends because of their passport. Parliament can still delete it. Add your name. They’re taking signatures from all over Europe. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-10...

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Europe’s classrooms belong to all children

Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: Europe’s classrooms belong to all children

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jared Kushner is one of the blandest people I've ever seen. Apart from the insidious vibe, he seems to have no distinctive character whatsoever. This is a guy who's obscenely rich and still can't overcome the impression of being a vaguely malevolent shade of magnolia.

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Lynn O'K @lynnok.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This in light of huge staff reductions in higher ed across all ETBs for basic important courses like teaching English, or IT skills or horticulture or cooking. The opportunity cost of AI just keeps growing and growing.

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For someone with €100,000 to their name, it's like giving away 7 cents. For someone with €10,000, it's less than 1 cent.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 29/09/2026

Well, good news about the bad weather outside

In Irish folklore, clear weather on Michaelmas was a portent of a long winter, "Michaelmas Day be bright and clear there will be two 'Winters' in the year."[12]

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fair play to Bazunu for putting his head above the parapet and trying. Shame on the FAI.

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Seóna @seona-ni.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you, Gavin Bazunu. Much respect. #Spéirghorm

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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The ongoing situation around Gazan student visas is an embarrassment. One government department has offered these students scholarships, but another won't approve their visas. The Minister for Justice and the Minister for Foreign Affairs must communicate, and resolve this fiasco.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 25/09/2026

1️⃣7️⃣,8️⃣8️⃣5️⃣ Another new record for the number of people in emergency accommodation, as of the end of August. Includes 12,055 adults (+7% yoy) and 5,830 children (11% yoy). @virginmedianews.bsky.social

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Galway Advertiser @galwayadvertiser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A motion supporting Galway Commuter Coalition’s proposal to create a bus corridor on the Salmon Weir Bridge was passed unanimously by the Project Development SPC of Galway City Council, following a presentation made by two members of the Coalition www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

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Galway City Council SPC passes motion unanimously to advance trial of Salmon Weir Bus Proposal to next stage

A motion supporting Galway Commuter Coalition’s proposal to create a bus corridor on the Salmon Weir Bridge was passed unanimously by the Project Development Strategic Policy Committee (SPC ) of…

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Exclusive: New report says Ireland could have built 50,000 new homes over the five years of the data centre boom - and cannot “afford” to continue building. Authors called for a moratorium on new data centres - and have hit out at government comparisons painting them as “our German car industry.”

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's wild how many journos go over to Apple product launches and forget to mention stuff of actual news value ('always listening Apple Watches') and instead go absolutely ham for New iPhone FOLDS.

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Frank McDonald @frankmcdonald60.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

No doubt there will be whoops and hollers in Galway about this. But it’s very sad news because it means that the notoriously congested city will be locked into car dependency when what it really needs is an east-west light rail line and bus lanes on every arterial route. A billion Euro wasted! …

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Galway Commuters @galwaycommuters.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

- AGM NOTICE - It's been a year already, we're hosting our next AGM on the 9th of September at 7.30pm at Murrays Coffee House in Salthill.

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Galway Commuters @galwaycommuters.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Galway doesn't need another Starbucks, or another drive-thru on an already congested road. It needs a proper public transport system. You can find a link to the petition in our bio

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 27/05/2026

Ireland is on course to deliver only half the reductions of greenhouse gas emissions required by 2030. And when only existing government measures are taken into account, Ireland will reduce emissions by only 13%, against a target of a 50% reduction. jrnl.ie/7052024

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Ireland on track to deliver only half the reductions of greenhouse gas emissions needed by 2030

Nearly all sectors are on course to exceed their emissions’ ceiling by 2030.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

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Eóin Cunningham @eoinmcunningham.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

There’ll be fuck-all transfers for Thomas from the last two eliminations. I feel like Kyne will be more of the same, but Thomas would be actively damaging for the country, so I’ll take this as a positive. Ogbu and Nic Fhionnlaoich both very strongly positioned for the next general election.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 23/05/2026

Galway West are adjourned for the night docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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LIVE: Galway West by-election 2026 count

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Seóna @seona-ni.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The folks at Advertiser Towers are entertaining as ever this bye-election #SpéirGhorm

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/05/2026

I'm not going to pay a fucking fascist so I can go on his site and have my reasoned rebuttals to Russian bots buried by an algorithm

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Jennifer O'Meara @jenniferomeara5.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This is excellent @carlkinsella.bsky.social. "Lanzarote's Gerard Hutch" was unexpected an unexpected moment of mirth but so apt and true. We should all borrow that phrase (with your permission, of course) going forward. #Speirgorm.

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Galway City Council @galwaycity.ie · 18/05/2026

We are back again! The second month of our Repair Cafes at the Rowing Club, Woodquay is on Saturday 30 May. As usual, walk-in's welcome!

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

What do (real) physicists think about the big unanswered questions in fundamental physics? Niayesh Afshordi @nafshordi.bsky.social has made a page presenting results of an APS survey he did with Phil Halper. nafshordi.github.io/aps-dashboard/

Example responses from a survey of physicists, in this case their opinions about what is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate. 25% say time-varying field, 24% say cosmological constant, and then others.

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Lynn O'K @lynnok.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We've been waiting 20 years for the outer ring road. In that time, we could already have had a light rail system put in, good bus routes and bus lanes, cycling and walking infrastructure. And we would then know if we even needed a ring road after all that. Galway has been failed by FFG. #speirgorm

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 09/05/2026

"We’re about as likely to land someone on the moon as we are to successfully design, commission and build a functional nuclear power plant, let alone the infrastructure that would be needed to distribute the energy," writes @carlkinsella.bsky.social in this week's edition of Surrealing in the Years.

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Surrealing in the Years: Come on guys, we don't have it in the locker to pull off nuclear energy

We can’t even do debit card payments on buses.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Amazing the hysteria over a €127k spend on a bike shed, yet just by looking at photo, it's quite clear this is a substantial structure. Meanwhile, actual millions are spent building car parks, but what have commentariat got to say about it? Absolutely nothing. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

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HSE chief defends €127k spend on bike shed at Kerry Hospital

HSE chief executive Anne O’Connor also acknowledged 'the reality of hospital overcrowding' to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation conference today

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

It’s Friday night. I’ve done enough this week. You’ve done enough this week.

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 06/05/2026

Meanwhile, we are struggling to deploy technologies that already exist, are already cost-effective, and are already part of Ireland’s climate plans.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"The Giant has the potential to be something much more meaningful than any good idea. A lasting monument to all of our regrets." I wrote about why we must build the robot golem.

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I asked if I could write about the ginormous €29 million Docklands behemoth and they said yes

That this might be a bad idea is precisely what makes it such a good idea.

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Regulating airbnb being turned into another "attack on rural Ireland" shows how ridiculous and meaningless that phrase is. Increasing the available houses so people can actually live where they're from as opposed to being priced out by landlords and holiday homes is an attack on rural Ireland 🤷‍♀️

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School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology @soest.hawaii.edu · 24/04/2026

Researchers from University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa created a simple ocean-based model to predict El Niño and La Niña 15 months ahead using ocean surface temperature and height data. It achieves forecast skill similar to complex models. The current forecast predicts a strong El Niño later this year. 🌊

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Simple ocean-based model forecasts El Niño skillfully, points to a strong event ahead

For decades, scientists have worked to improve predictions of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climate powerhouse that can cause droughts, flooding, marine heatwaves, and more around the world

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/04/2026

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It's not the point of the article but look at the *SIZE* of the car he's driving through the presumably wild open rough farmland terrain of... Staten Island NYC

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Fintan @fintan-galway.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Má tá aithne agaibh ar éinne a mbeadh suim b'fhéidir acu scannán STEM as Gaeilge a léiriú.. ardan.ie/news/coimisi...

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