Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 10hWhat a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff 5461542090
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred. 6185071626
Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 12h3 things: We're low sunshine with a high cost of power, it's labour intensive and we've a high cost of living, and you don't get the kinds of subsidies you'd get for sheep or beef. All the people I know in horticulture have a valuable niche they've gotten into, and you can't feed a nation on niches 130
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière 6098952903
Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026It's a small thing, but I ran into Jim O'Callaghan around lunchtime on Thursday mooching his way down towards Church street, alone and in the rain. My surprise meant that l held back from telling him how disappointed I am in him and his courting of the racists (along with much else). 100
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026when Mairead McGuiness was the vice president of the European Parliament, she tried to give the religious lobby special privileges while blatantly favouring Christians this year, she was made the EU Special Envoy for Religious Freedom or Belief outside the EU www.opendemocracy.net/en/revealed-...opendemocracy.netRevealed: controversial plan to boost religious lobby in Brussels, as far right pledges to fight for ‘Christian Europe’Leaked proposals from a senior Irish politician, backed by powerful Christian lobbyists, raise stakes in European elections, where the far right is pushing for big gains 3138
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Another super piece by @philipcball.bsky.social! This one on the enduring impact of "Waddington's landscape"! www.quantamagazine.org/how-does-lif...quantamagazine.orgHow Does Life Unfold? A Landscape Metaphor Comes Into Its Own. | Quanta MagazineC.H. Waddington’s powerful image of embryonic stem cells specializing on a rolling landscape has captivated biologists since the 1950s. Experimental data is finally confirming, and complicating, his v... 24216
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Dropped in to see him/her in @nmireland.bsky.social National Museum of Ireland Country Life Turlough Park, Co Mayo recently. The Irish Hallowe’en ur-turnip from Baile na Finne, Co Donegal, getting ready to carve one again for October 31st #Samhain 68519
Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026A colleague of my mam blocked me on Twitter after I made a terrible Mountbatten joke around the time that The Crown aired the assassination episode. Turns out that she was a cousin to a Rhodesian Prime minister who was a nephew of Rhodes, which put her colonialism in context. 0132
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 09/10/2026hello, I am doing some research and would like to tap into the collective brains of BSKY: 1. can you share some genre or literary fiction magazines that have closed and the archive is NO LONGER ONLINE 2. the same but the archives remain online FOR NOW i would also appreciate RTs for awareness 💀 45119186
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Jeffrey Archer RIP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_...en.wikipedia.orgMonica Coghlan - Wikipedia 1124
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Beyond The Pale have uploaded this book - for free - Garvaghy: A Community Under Siege Published in 1999 and written by Garvaghy Road residents Powerful testimony www.beyondthepalebooks.com/shopnewbooks...beyondthepalebooks.comGarvaghy: A Community Under Siege — beyond the pale books – books on Irish society and politicsPublished in 1999 and written by Garvaghy Road residents, this book presents a graphic description of life in a Catholic/nationalist area of Portadown under siege in the late 1990s. Forcing unwanted O... 15136
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜heute jedoch nicht @heutejedochnicht.bsky.social · 12/09/2026liebe 81575423
Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026My favourite version of this is Newgrange where they have to make a point of saying that "Loved ones" includes pets (who won't be allowed to haunt in the chamber either). 2125
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"BRITAIN BECOMES DUMP FOR THE NAXI EXILES. Scores of Jews and other exiles are being smuggled into England in small foreign ships, for £25 a time." Daily Mirror, 1938. Sound familiar? 2230103
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026Btw, some of these refusals are so clearly unlawful that the Department of Justice will end up paying ***HUGE*** sums in legal fees. Jim obviously counting on that being another Minister for Justice’s problem. 22818
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Me for The Irish News on the Garvaghy Road standoff www.irishnews.com/opinion/sara...irishnews.comSarah Creighton: Drumcree is a f*** you to nationalism. Is this really what victory looks like for unionism?If the Drumcree parade is forced down the Garvaghy Road, our peace process will lie in tatters on the tarmac 97828
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is just a sentence that gets progressively more fabulous with each word 223066
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Making the objections of Garvaghey Road residents to a parade that 11 people were murdered over, symbolic of the what a United Ireland would be like by those who are rolled out by the state media, over and over - as sensible voices, is some of the worst faith bullshit I’ve seen - & the bar is low 49320
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14780831990
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I was reminded of a very Dublin insult this morning - “oh he’s such a martyr, Padre Pio has a picture of him on his windscreen”. 1135373
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026tonight someone asked me if I thought twitter/posting was bad for mental health and here’s my take: if you have baseline kinda poor mental health it’s usually fine, but if you have normal mental health it will destroy you 325532
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.socialsammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 252124938
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One of my favourite typos was from the cover page of a student's coursework a few years back 1816923
Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026Great movie and a better book. And also, the cause of the most awkward 5-mins of my 14-year-old life. I first watched it with my evil Granny who froze when the village girl seduced brother Adso and rode him like a pony. 121
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026When your proposed changes to Irish citizenship laws are too draconian for Michael McDowell www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...irishexaminer.comExempt migrants with Irish citizen in family from proposed residency rule, says McDowellIndependent senator Michael McDowell warned of “injustices” for families where an individual is denied citizenship “unnecessarily" under proposed new rules. 25921
Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026After refunds from the Pharma-sector we spent about €3,650,000,000 on drugs last year (though for some reason the HSE accounts for COVID vaccine spending under an unquantified PPE. Weird that someone makes a story about this. I reckon that if they weren't calling it PPE this'd be invisible. 000
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hi everybody, my young lad wants to do a paper/report/study on the Bourkes/Burkes/de Burghs in Ireland as a part of his Leaving Cert... does anyone have a book/books suggestion that I could get for him? 403
Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026Weird... Seems like these guys need you to know they are not fans of Jews. Seems really important to them. No doubt it's because of (((legitimate concerns))) and there's no point in thinking about this anymore. 073
Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026Can someone in Dunboyne light up the CMAT signal? 040
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The UK has, unfortunately, provided the Irish government with a decade’s worth of *demonstrable* evidence that making immigration harder is an act of economic self harm. *AND* that the UK government’s performative acts of cruelty against migrants does not appease far right voters. 5270103
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You can order a Palestinian mezze box for next Saturday or this tea box for Oct 10 and support Dublin’s Silk Road Cafe while it is involuntarily shut down during the EU presidency. Collect in Kimmage. Highly recommended!!! silkroadcafe.ie 02022
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf 973173835
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Well now, Xi, what happened is, one of our chatbots, it had a sort of, well it had a little hallucination. And uh, we went and did a silly thing. Well, I'll tell you what we did, we sank one of your ships. Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it? Can you imagine how I feel about it, Xi? 16612
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026great art articulates eternal truths 1048511482
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I worked in a factory with a part-time lifeboatman once. His beeper would go off every now and then and he'd drop whatever he was doing and RUN out to his car. No-one would say a word, we'd just work around him, what with the guy being an actual real life hero and everything. 722542
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'm still looking for people's stories and insights about location tracking of family, friends, partners for good and/or ill.... If anyone has anything on this subject they'd like to talk to me about please email me on patrick.freyne@gmail.com (it can by anonymous) 367
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026stealth edits without acknowledgement are unethical and the normalisation of them has contributed to the deteriotation of public trust in the press 👍 26220
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 17/09/2026This is absolutely insane. The speed with which everyone in politics and media in Europe has accepted that pervasive state oversight of the internet is not only acceptable but so clearly necessary it should be beyond debate makes my head spin 23317
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I think it's pretty bad that an organisation so corrupt it had to delete its own public statement denying it took had ever taken money from Russian oligarchs (because it had) is getting a stand at the ard fheis of an Irish political party, but what do I know web.archive.org/web/20230605...web.archive.orgStatement on the fake news about CitizenGO, Russia, and the Invasion of UkraineStatement on the fake news about CitizenGO, Russia, and the Invasion of Ukraine In the last few weeks, the radical left has published false statements and fake news accusing the CitizenGO Foundation o... 0296
Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026I think it's 14 years we've been waiting since the building was in use, and over a decade since the squat was cleared. Still waiting. 000
Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026Look, I know there is a lot wrong with this paragraph (from the empty prose, to the mispelling of names, the bad grammar, the historical inaccuracies, and beyond), but also, the evidence that is contemporary to Cleopatra is that she wasn't hot hot. Her wit and charm was what made her attractive. 141
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 16/09/2026I love a good bench! I think we need a lot more of them all around the city and that's why I got funding for new benches in my area in this year's budget. If you have ideas for where to put benches in Phibsborough, Glasnevin, Drumcondra, Cabra or Ashtown, let me know in the comments! 54716
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I had two approved last week after eight years. 0107
Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026I think the only good thing about the Gardaí is that they usually destroy the career of anyone who is sitting in the Justice portfolio when trouble arises, so the shit-slinging they're about to start should sort out Jim O'Callaghan for us 083
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Remember - they are calling it the EU KIDS Act so that if you raise objections to it (such as the inevitable need for everyone online to register with a govt ID so the platforms can identify the kids) you are then against the Kids. 16735
Reposted by Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I knew this would be annoying, but I didn't expect McDowell to be such a lowdown dirty coward he doesn't even acknowledge he was the one who spearheaded abolition of birthright citizenship and doesn't try to defend the changes wrought by it. he also pretends the Golden Visa program never happened 44216