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Sinead O'Shea

@sineadoshea.bsky.social
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Filmmaker/Writer ALL ABOUT THE MONEY - SUNDANCE 2026 BlUE ROAD - THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY - TIFF 2024 PRAY FOR OUR SINNERS A MOTHER BRINGS HER SON TO BE SHOT

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have not been able to post because there are so many people on the Garvaghy Road that phone signal is jammed. But I have two takeaways before we drive back to Belfast: • this isn’t a Protestant v Catholic conflict. Members of the Protestant and unionist communities signed an open letter -
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It shouldn't have come down to the players. #StopTheGame
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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @stopcopcity.bsky.social @atlpresscollective.com @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social
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Spain allows US extradition case against pro-Palestine aid donor to proceed
Lawyers for James ‘Fergie’ Chambers, wanted over alleged support for Hamas, say client is being persecuted
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Break Out Pictures @breakoutpictures.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🎞️🔊Trailer and artwork release for the much anticipated ⭐All About the Money⭐ directed by @sineadoshea.bsky.social In Cinemas October 30th!
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This Saturday is the first Dublin screening of All About The Money as part of @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social Documentary Festival with @mrkocnnll.bsky.social I know much less about the Fergie Chambers extradition case but hope he can return to his family soon. ifi.ie/films/doc-fe...
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New polling from the National Youth Council of Ireland: - 68% of 18–24-year-olds are considering emigrating - 71% believe they'd have a better quality of life outside Ireland - 83% support stronger government regulation of AI - 89% agree the housing crisis disproportionately affects young people
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RED C: 7 in 10 young adults considering leaving Ireland for a better quality of life - National Youth Council of Ireland
RED C: 7 in 10 young adults considering leaving Ireland for a better quality of life - National Youth Council of Ireland Young people are responding to unaffordable housing, the rising cost of everyda...
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This Saturday is the first Dublin screening of All About The Money as part of @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social Documentary Festival with @mrkocnnll.bsky.social I know much less about the Fergie Chambers extradition case but hope he can return to his family soon. ifi.ie/films/doc-fe...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
They want to rape 35,000 acres of some of Ireland's richest remaining ecosystems, utterly *jam packed* with biodiversity, spawning grounds for fish, massive carbon stores, vital coastal storm protection. The whole country must rise up against this criminal plan. www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
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Who's behind the seaweed harvesting applications covering over 14,000 hectares of Ireland's coastline?
Four companies are seeking to harvest almost 51,000 wet tonnes of seaweed a year from Ireland’s coast.
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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I love, and feel so sad about, this from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social - and imagine if a Chief Safety Officer was actually a thing in newsrooms. Maybe editors would have responded by now if it was broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...
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The Jason Arday Reckoning
The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good piece from Ellen O'Regan of POLITICO: “How a 17th-century Irish law is shielding Big Tech from class actions in Europe”. www.politico.eu/article/17th...
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How a 17th-century Irish law is shielding Big Tech from class actions in Europe
Ireland has limits on outside funding for court challenges, stopping Europeans from seeking compensation from Big Tech for harms.
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A petition to support these students can be signed here: my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi...
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Visa for Gaza students
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The treatment of the Ulm 5 in Germany is as scandalous as the British handling of Palestine Action and their supporters. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Ireland urged to put pressure on Germany over pro-Palestinian activist’s trial
Irish politicians concerned about Daniel Tatlow-Devally’s treatment in jail want Micheál Martin to send observers to Ulm 5 trial
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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
30 YEARS AGO TODAY: The South Bank Show profiles not yet famous RADA hopeful Maxine Peake, as part of which she and drama school friend Diane Morgan take private elocution lessons.
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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Brenda Fricker, a legend, has died. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
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Brenda Fricker, Irish Oscar-winning actor, has died aged 81
Dublin born and raised, Fricker was the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar in 1990 for her role in Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Irish state is doing all it can to ensure vacant buildings go unused in a housing crisis. I wrote for the LRB about the Revolutionary Housing League getting evicted www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Naoise Dolan | Evicted
The masked men had hidden the identification on their olive green private security uniforms. They wore sunglasses, body...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/07/2026
‘“Palestine Action has little or nothing in common with the suffragettes,” the Lady Chief Justice said. But the suffragettes were if anything more violent.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on British complicity in Israeli aggression, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Selma Dabbagh | Annexation with a Sales Pitch
My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a call...
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I knew it was bad but holy God I just found out that those useless AI slop datacentres don't just need water but need DRINKING WATER
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Fergie Chambers, the main subject of our documentary All About The Money, has been arrested in Ibiza and faces extradition to the US for his support of pro Palestinian causes. How can Spain facilitate this?
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Fergie Chambers, the main subject of our documentary All About The Money, has been arrested in Ibiza and faces extradition to the US for his support of pro Palestinian causes. How can Spain facilitate this?
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Break Out Pictures @breakoutpictures.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Heading to the @galwayfilm.bsky.social this weekend? Add ⭐ 'All About the Money' ⭐to your must-see list... and thank us later 😊 By @sineadoshea.bsky.social Supported by @screenireland.bsky.social Tomorrow at 6pm Town Hall #Galway 🎟️https://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/all-about-the-money/
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BelfastCitizen @belfastcitizen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... The sickening, callousness of this particular war crime is just staggering. Here was a human being just trying to lift the people and children of Gaza, but they couldn’t have that. It’s drives me mad that the governments of Europe will not boycott Israel.
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Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike
Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before Egypt played Argentina in their last 16 match
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
There are not very many good seats left for the Irish premiere of All About the Money with @screenireland.bsky.social next weekend in @galwayfilm.bsky.social so please book soon if you are coming 💚 www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/all-...
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All About The Money - Galway Film Fleadh
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 01/07/2026
The Oireachtas is leaning into Microsoft for its comms, even as other European governments abandon US tech. Switching to the US big tech provider, for phone systems and more, comes at a time of fierce debate about tech sovereignty.
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The Oireachtas leans into Microsoft for its comms, even as other European governments abandon US tech
Switching to the US big tech provider, for phone systems and more, comes at a time of fierce debate about tech sovereignty.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Prairieland 8 are political prisoners. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison
Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
923 children died at Bessborough Mother and Baby Home between 1922 and 1998. Only 64 have known graves. Utterly shameful decision by Cork City Council to build apartments on the site. More erasure of the historical mistreatment and shaming of women in Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
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Bessborough vigil hears survivors will chain themselves to diggers to stop building work
140 apartments are planned for the site of a mother and baby home where 923 children died
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
An internal report obtained by The Ditch has exposed hospital consultants prioritising private child patients over those on public lists – with public patients forced to wait significantly longer for vital surgery. www.ontheditch.com/internal-rep...
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Internal report: public child patients forced to wait
An internal report obtained by The Ditch has exposed hospital consultants prioritising private child patients
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 13/06/2026
Knife attack victim Stephen Ogilvie — whose stabbing sparked two days of race-hate rioting — was previously tortured by a UVF-linked gang led by a double killer and overseen by a Shankill Butcher.
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Notorious Shankill Butcher and a UVF double killer headed gang that set fire to Belfast knife attack victim
Paramilitaries branded hypocrites for using gruesome stabbing as excuse for race-hate riots
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Our team are surprised and pleased that ALL ABOUT THE MONEY won the Best Documentary award in @sfindiefest.bsky.social - it's quite a film and we're grateful for the support especially from the United States. South Africa next for @encounters.film Thanks as ever to @screenireland.bsky.social
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The houses of ethnic minorities in Belfast didn’t ’go on fire’ last night - as my radio has told me - they were set alight
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Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Went long-form on L.A. underground heroes Lexicon
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Rock to the Rhythm: The Story of Lexicon
The L.A. underground duo opens up about their secret history.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A reminder that data centres are filled with computer servers, mostly running on their own. There are hardly any people in those enormous buildings.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
To the journalists on this beat: 1) You don't actually have to treat every bit of drivel that comes out of Anthropic as a news story 2) If it's news because Anthropic is planning a big IPO, you could frame it as about how ridiculous their valuation is given that they are peddling fantasies. >>
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The fascinating life and work of Agnes Varda. in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Lili Owen Rowlands · Againstness: Agnès Varda’s Fruit Salad
Beneath the whimsy and the wit, Agnès Varda’s films were motivated by contradiction and critique. She said she was...
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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died
Cover of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Don't miss this film, screening on Thursday 4th June at Light House Cinema "Palestinian comedians forge a path through laughter, using stand-up to express their resilience and spirit amid rising conflict." #FreePalestine www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/palesti...
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Palestine Comedy Club
Palestine Comedy Club | Light House Cinema Dublin Ireland
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
One of the ways this is especially good is it does what most writing on A.I. models have failed to do, which is actually be a (not subtle) inquiry into the motivations of the model’s creator, and most tech writers just seem incapable of thinking about the human reasons tech creators really do stuff
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
“… when you search for art and humanity and cannot find it, you glom onto the closest thing, which is someone who says she has created art with her machine, and the empty vessel who talks to you as if she’s a person, as if being a person is a thing you can imitate.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/m...
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I Profile Celebrities for a Living. Nothing Prepared Me for Tilly Norwood.
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is well worth reading, by @naoisen.bsky.social, on the "quiet" defunding of Irish arts festivals, in favour of tourism initiatives. Lots of people visit Ireland for arts festivals, which Fáilte Ireland doesn't seem to recognise. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Naoise Nunn: I'm an arts festival organiser — our funding  has been gutted in the name of tourism
A policy to defund arts festivals arrived with little fanfare as funding for tourism-led initiatives moved to a different government department
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026
Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/still-hurt-b...
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Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say
“It’s literally George Floyd on the streets of Dublin. I can’t believe that scene and that guy with his knee on his neck.”
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I first saw the lyrical doc BEEN HERE STAY HERE, about Tangier Island, last summer, and I keep thinking about it. It’s about an island community that’s sinking into the sea and asking God to save it. Playing in NYC starting today. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/m...
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On Tangier Island, Documenting Rising Seas and a Devout Community
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The launch of Prestige Drama by @seamas.bsky.social - looking forward to reading!
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A pleasure and honour to present All About The Money + Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story from @screenireland.bsky.social to audiences in Warsaw for Gravity Millennium Against Docs. Screenings of both films continue across Poland this week. mdag.pl/23/en/warsza...
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I am proud to be in Warsaw with two films for Millennium Gravity Against Docs - one of the great European documentary festivals. Lots of great films here this weekend: mdag.pl/23/en/warsza...
Warsaw at night
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Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Omar's child has been diagnosed with meningitis, he has had just one donation in ten days and has been struggling to get online. He just wants to get medication to help his child. Do whatever you can to get him help, please. chuffed.org/project/1400...
A child with an IV drip in their arm rests in a hospital bed under a green blanket, with a hand on their head.
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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Seven members of the Eritrean soccer team defected after playing an AFCON qualifier in Eswatini last week. Similar defections occurred in 2019, 2015, and 2013. The risk of an uprising in a heavily militarized autocracy is torture and death. So people flee. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Eritrea football: Seven players fail to return home after international match
Several footballers have absconded in the past leaving behind what rights groups call a repressive government.
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Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland @screenireland.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Screen Ireland is seeking to recruit a Head of Digital Games. This role will lead the agency’s strategy and policy for the Digital Games sector. 📅 Deadline for applications: 16th April, 5pm 🔗 screen-ireland.jobs.personio.com/job/2529275 #JobFairy #IrishGames
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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
John Hume, Derry (ca. 1960s) Photo: Colman Doyle / National Library of Ireland
A man in a crowd next to a wall painted with the words You Are Now Entering Free Derry
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