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Shelley

@shelleyxgardens.bsky.social
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Irish, living in Limerick. Love family and friends, growing flowers for pollinators. Worry about the environment. Followed by Ruby and Oscar, the springer spaniels. History, politics, rugby and current affairs are all discussed at our dinner table!

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Jon Knight @greenjimll.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a wake up call post written by my chum Tom Ingall. When farmers start saying its not worth growing a crop because of #ClimateChange, that's the start of a slippery slope to high food prices, changed menus, loss of national food resilience and much more. #farming #resilience #potatoes #food
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🌱🌱 Dahlias, cosmos and salvia amistad
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/op... @uplift.ie
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Open Letter to Darragh O' Brien showing support for banning LNG terminals in Ireland
Climate impact LNG has a devastating impact on the climate because of the methane emissions released by fracking, cooling, shipping and regasifying it. It produces Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions 33% ...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 23/09/2026
Ukraine's elite 422nd Unmanned Systems Regiment is spearheading a "middle strike" campaign, utilizing heavy Zozulia suicide drones and $5,000 U.S.-built Hornets to sever Russian supply lines.
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Inside the Ukrainian drone unit controlling Russian-occupied Crimea’s highways
Russian logistics continued to be hunted by Ukrainian drones on a daily basis, but Kyiv's advantage is not set in stone
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Mike Finnerty @mikecjf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Every single household in this country is facing rocketing energy prices because of Trump’s bloody warmongering" - Donald Trump paid Dublin a visit recently; the reception was anything but warm dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...
"Donald we've prepared a special Irish welcome for you - fuck off home""Wrong Island, Now Leave," photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump"You can't buy your way out of the Epstein files"
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🥹😍🤩✊🏽👏🏽👏🏽👀🗣️🫦✌🏽🔥💟💙💟💙💟💙
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The first 2 minutes of this exceptional documentary are a very good indication of the high quality of this brilliant 1 and a half hour journey through fear and despair and arriving at hope.
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🌱🌱 My absolute favourite dahlia The Bishop of Llandaff, now in it's 3rd summer and utterly gorgeous
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Oh My God Our AI Is So, So Advanced & Dangerous" Confirm CEOs Of AI Companies Making Huge Losses & In Desperate Need Of Investment loom.ly/wwWgkFc
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is the Bishop of Canterbury... darker than the famous Bishop of Llandaff. The bees are thrilled! 🌱🌱
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you privatise the profits from fossil fuels, you can’t keep socialising the costs of the damage. Those who’ve profited should pay their fair share of the impacts. That’s why Spain’s push for an EU oil and gas tax to help fund climate adaptation is worth supporting. www.ft.com/content/86da...
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Spain pushes for EU oil and gas tax to pay for climate change response
Rising extreme weather costs fuel campaign ahead of new resilience strategy
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
@imparter.bsky.social
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
@news.rte.ie Oh My God .... welcome back to the dulcet tones of the one and only Brian Jennings! #rtenews
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Roses! The pink one is Blessing and the red is Dame de Coeur but simply cannot remember the variety of the orange one 🌱🌱
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 11/05/2026
A historic counting house complex on South Main Street in Cork is set to be reborn as the new city library. The €35 million acquisition by Cork City Council will replace the existing library on Grand Parade jrnl.ie/7037022
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Cork's historic Counting House to be reborn as new city library after €35m council purchase
The €35 million acquisition by Cork City Council will replace the existing library in Grand Parade.
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This grand old lady - a giant oak tree has survived another winter at probably 300+ years old. Located in Monaleen, Limerick 🌱🌱
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Monetisation and algorithmic amplification has turned peddling disinformation, hate speech, and harassment into a for-profit industry. It will only get worse if it's left unchecked. - Aidan O'Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social
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Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business
Senator Eileen Flynn's comments on far-right use of the tricolour have made her a lightning rod for online abuse — because viral hatred is highly profitable
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Tulips in March! Greetings from Limerick, South West of Ireland 🇮🇪 🌱🌱
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The unbelievable feeling of relief and pride as old friends make a return after winter 🌱🌱 Lobelia, astrantia and astilbe
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I don't think my fabulous heliopsis (false sunflower) perennial has survived the winter. It's been through three, but it's been so bloody wet this February, I'm not seeing any shoots. Most of the other plants are waking up..... I'm crossing my fingers🌱🌱🌱
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I don't think my fabulous heliopsis (false sunflower) perennial has survived the winter. It's been through three, but it's been so bloody wet this February, I'm not seeing any shoots. Most of the other plants are waking up..... I'm crossing my fingers
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Surprise! 🌱🌱
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🌱🌱 the first crocus ... a yellow one! Just need a bit of sun 🌞
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Uisce Eireann have submitted a planning application to build a Pipeline from the Parteen Basin at Birdhill 172 km to Peamount in Dublin passing over 500 farms en route. The cost an estimated €10.4 billion euro. SACs and habitats will be severely affected.
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
@irishenvnet.bsky.social I am a member of River Shannon Protection Alliance. Uisce Éireann applied for planning to pipe 2% of flow from the Shannon south of Lough Derg to Dublin.The flow here is low and this will severely affect SACs and area covered by Natura 2000. DM if you can help or need info
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift.ie
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Provide Safe Shelter For All People Seeking Safety
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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored ― Anne Lamott
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🌱🌱 a good week in Limerick has given dahlias and roses a bit of a second summer
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#climate #Ireland #EPA #NPWS the report this morning from Europe was utterly depressing. No improvement in 5 years. 50% of wildlife disappeared and habitats destroyed in the name of economic growth. Fed up and disappointed by the Irish attitude 🌱🌱
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IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · 27/09/2025
Taoiseach Micheal Martin criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his lack of empathy to the suffering in Gaza, asking: "I don't know how such a person sleeps at night."
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Irish leader's critical response after Netanyahu lectured world on Gaza genocide
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🌱 Summer, specifically August
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
@noelio.bsky.social
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Ireland’s county towns: ‘There were 300 people living on this street. Now it’s 17’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... @rositaboland.bsky.social how strange that you are writing about Clonmel next week. Mum from Sligo and dad from Clonmel. They'd have been delighted x
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Ireland’s county towns: ‘There were 300 people living on this street. Now it’s 17’
In the second in her series on county towns, Rosita Boland discovers there is a lot more to Sligo than its Yeats connection
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's been raining all day so I've brought some of the garden inside 🌱
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
🌱 Dogs and gardens
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🌱🌱 My new dahlia ... blown away by the colour
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
July in my garden. Worth all the mulching and trips for horse manure in the rain and cold of November in County Limerick!
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
www.facebook.com/share/p/1WHj... @rewildingire.bsky.social @treesforlife.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social Darwin's theory of evolution and survival of the fittest. Leave the Ash in place and their seedlings can come through with some immunity 🌱🌱
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Redirecting...
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Hydrangea doing really well in a half barrel and the first sweet pea🌱🌱
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🌱 some items from the garden today! Purple French beans in flower, broccoli ready to eat, penstemon "apple blossom", Rosa Sexy Rexy and ... dahlias!
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Bought this rose as a "hospital case" bare root in Mr Price for €1.99 last April - bred from the famous Peace rose, which were everywhere in the 50s and 60s before they went out of fashion. Peace had a glorious scent ..... and so has this little rose. But sadly I don't know it's name🌱🌱
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🌱 Red rosa dame de coure, pale is rosa blue moon, pink is rosa sexy rexy and orange rosa just joey. In the middle is rosa thomas á beckett which is dark pink but a late one to flower. Enjoy your weekend gardening folks!
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🌱 Rosa Just Joey. Hybrid shrub rose with an old fashioned scent. It's bred from Rosa Fragrant Cloud, hence the pretty scent
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🌱🌱 I've never known such a long spell of sunshine. No rain for a month in County Limerick. I'll really miss that blue sky and morning coffee in the garden!
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I'll miss seeing this blue sky! No rain for a month in Limerick, but is expected this evening
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Shelley @shelleyxgardens.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🌱🌱 clematis Hagley Hybrid, Rosa Dame de Coure and the amazing Albertine xxx
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"When I came back to Dublin, I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence." Brendan Behan The Hostage (1958)
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