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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 23/09/2026

This is why I'm on Bluesky, for reassurance there are people out there just as incensed as me by historical misunderstandings. My complaints about the surprise Robin Hood film got zero traction in the group chats

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 15/09/2026

This is the first time I've seen someone roll a nat 20 on deception in real life #traitorsIRL

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Irish political parties in power looking at attempts by governments around the world to appease the far right absolutely not working

But it might work for us meme from Arrested Development

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 30/08/2026

This has really been bourne out tonight as the whole country unites against hat guy before a traitor has even been chosen #TraitorsIRL

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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺 @marksugrue.com · 27/08/2026

I wrote a letter published in today's @independent.ie calling for Dept of Justice officials to take inspiration from Raoul Wallenberg and issue visas to the Gazan students despite government policy. #speirgorm

In recent days, Israel's Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has
publicly called for the nightly murder of '30 or 40' Palestinians,
describing Gazan civilians as 'not even people'. On Saturday, Israel's
Chief Rabbi David Yosef agreed in a speech, declaring Palestinians
'have no rights' and called for all of Gaza to be 'destroyed'. It is
against this background that Ireland's Department of Justice has
denied visas to those Palestinian students who have won fully funded
scholarships to study in the safety of our country.

In 1930s and 40s, a visa could mean the life or death. Most neutral
governments then had restrictive policies as they feared the
diplomatic consequences of openly acknowledging the ongoing genocide.
History remembers the names of officials who defied those policies
and issued visas anyway, often to the anger of their governments and
facing personal risk. They saved thousands of lives.

Raoul Wallenberg at the Swedish Embassy in Budapest issued visas
regardless of his government's instructions. Visas in hand, those
refugees were able to travel to safety and survive the Holocaust.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes of the Portuguese consulate in Bordeaux
saved thousands more, disobeying the dictator of his country and
facing severe punishment. Today a museum in his honour stands in
Lisbon.

Are there any officials in Ireland's Department of Justice today
willing to take risks to do what is right? Will we in future remember
any of their names?

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 26/08/2026

Finally got around to removing Microsoft from my laptop and installing Linux Mint - it feels like a free new computer! It was also a thousand times easier than changing the OS on my phone, I definitely should have tried this first

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 19/06/2026

Not getting these moments is the only downside to the Irish voting system

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15/06/2026

Is it carbon monoxide

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 14/06/2026

I don't really understand the thinking behind a curfew for online safety, the internet has the same stuff on it during the day

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Every season. Taskmaster Episode 1: Okay, I know two of these guys and heard of another but we'll see about the other two. Taskmaster Episode 10: These five people are dearer to me than my own family.

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olive consumer @machete.gay · 08/06/2026

most video games can be boiled down to playing dolls and, as a rule, the more a video game lets you play dolls, the better it is

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 04/06/2026

I keep getting podcast ads for an AI washing machine and it's bleak. The tag line is, "It's one less decision to make". Are we already at the point where selecting a wash setting is too much thought?

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 23/05/2026

Very interesting to see the Soc Dems top the poll in Dublin Central - all eyes on them as potential kingmakers in the next Government. But don't make me tap the thesis.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Every guy in a videogame:

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 06/05/2026

I've just been robbed by a seagull in Stephen's Green. Classic sunny day in Dublin.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

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Year-on-year datasets tracking changes in public sentiment in Ireland between 2024 and 2025 show
that 66% agree that immigrants contribute positively to Irish culture and community, which is up 2% up from 64% in 2024.
79% believe working-class people are struggling due to systemic inequality which is also up 2% from 77% in 2024.
Those who believe wealthy people are successful because they were given more opportunities than others has risen from 63% in 2024 to 69% in 2025.
The number of people who support the freedom of transgender people to live their lives is up 5% up from 70% in 2024.
80% agree that Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities face greater barriers to success than white people, up 5% up from 75% in 2024.

Research Framework
Ireland in Focus draws on multiple sources of data to provide a clearer understanding of how hate, disinformation and far-right mobilisation are evolving across Ireland in
2025. This includes H&CC's analysis of far-right developments in political organising, informal networks and far-right agitators, giving insights into how narratives, mobilisation and organising strategies are emerging and shifting.
company Dynata. The data was independently weighted by Ireland Thinks using demographic and methodological controls such as age, gender, ethnicity and voting behaviour at time of poll fielding to ensure representativeness and statistical robustness. The consistent methodology across both waves allows for reliable year-on-year comparison of sentiment and social trends and the large sample size gives high levels of statistical significance.
Ireland in Focus also draws data from 89 communities' crisis responses (49 in 2024 and 40 in 2025) supported by H&CC to capture how local communities responded in real time to moments of tension, protest and disinformation.
Ireland in Focus, assesses public attitudes through two large, nationally representative, anonymous surveys conducted in 2024 and 2025, each with approximately 3,000 respondents via independent polling
The consistency in design across both years provides a robust basis for tracking how attitudes are shifting - making this one of the first datasets of its kind in Ireland to capture changes in public sentiment over time. Finally to understand how narratives were spreading and evolving in the public sphere, narrative benchmarking was analysed using a commercial social media research tool.

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 30/04/2026

This is genuinely the most inspiring thing I've read this week

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 23/04/2026

Tried to read an article about how tech turned evil, but the site wouldn't let me access it unless I disabled my adblocker

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 09/04/2026

I can't believe this week we've nearly had a nuclear war and a papal schism and it's only Thursday

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 09/04/2026

Just worth saying, for absolutely legal clarity: the government does not have the legal prerogative to abolish carbon tax in its entirety. Carbon tax is a form of excise, and EU directives require excise on diesel to be a minimum of 33c per litre. (1/2)

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 09/04/2026

My love of video games with Avignon Papacy lore lying around has finally paid off

Page from a book in Kingdom Come: Deliverance on the Papal Schism. GOTY.

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 30/03/2026

It feels like we're in January 2020. Something is happening but we haven't quite realised it yet.

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genevieve 🏳️‍⚧️ @triceratops.zone · 17/03/2026

ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 10/03/2026

What's the biggest sign you're getting older? Mine is that I got a new phone and now take 8 accidental screenshots per day.

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 03/03/2026

I can't believe we all have to just keep on working and going about our day with headlines like this

Trump says US munition stockpiles mean wars can be fought 'forever'

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 22/02/2026

I don't think we need to worry about any software being worse than Teams

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 16/02/2026

The most romantic thing you'll ever read in Playboy

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 08/02/2026

I'm experimenting with installing a deGoogled android OS on an old phone and oh boy do phones not want you to do that

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 29/01/2026

My Dart stop is closed this morning. I didn't find out from the Irish Rail app I have, but rather from a lady at the bus stop whose friend had sent her a screenshot of an X post

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I'd say at least half of the news lines that I read when I wake up in the morning now read like text-based exposition you find lying around in Fallout games.

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It’s time to put away childish things. The Tik Tok Tanaiste is no more. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Substack Simon.

Harris heads to Brussels as
EU readies €93bn retaliatory tariffs over
Trump's Greenland threat

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The idea that journalists, politicians, groups or - you know, women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people - should "stay on the pitch" doesn't really hold up. Foreign Minister's account has 60k followers - 40 likes, 13k views? Blue ticks straight to the top of the queue with misogyny, bile.

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 02/01/2026

Having your Dart be so late it skips all the stations and goes straight to Connolly is like getting a Chance card in Monopoly

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 02/01/2026

Lot of childhood memories of getting weird stuff in the post from the Irish government (Millennium Candles, iodine tablets) so this is very relatable

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 27/12/2025

I don't know what age bracket this birthday has put me in but I just got a podcast ad about giving my loved ones power of attorney

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 25/12/2025

Adulthood has been a series of discoveries that an appliance has a filter I'm supposed to be cleaning

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 17/10/2025

Have we considered letting the presidency go fallow, to replenish the political soil #Áras2025

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 17/10/2025

Going through a two candidate election for the first time has made me understand how US and UK politics got the way it is. We need a dozen randos on a two foot ballot paper to stay normal #Áras2025

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 10/10/2025

Something tells me a man wrote this headline

Newspaper headline in the Irish Independent: Clontarf period pad transforms into a 'tardis' that brings visitors straight from the 19th century to the 21st.

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Someone at the IT is having a 'mare rushing out the Budget coverage. This was a sponsored post in my Insta Stories. The social team needs a break and a hug maybe.

A post from Instagram stories with a swipe up link for the Irish Times. A composite image of Leinster House, Jack Chambers and Paschal Donohoe is titled "Budget 2026: Main Points" but the bullet points that follow comprise non-sensical filler text (Lorem ipsum) and snippets apparently borrowed from a restaurant review (One point reads: "Borgo review: Well-priced and welcoming", the next "everything a good neighborhood", and finally "restaurant needsLorem ipsum dolor sit amet")

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Spare a thought for poor @gavreilly.com, sadly putting his smarties back in the box #Aras25

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 06/10/2025

Looks like I'll have to go for the old Students Union classic and write in a vote for RON #aras2025

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 11/09/2025

Can we do an Éirevision Song Contest instead with an act from each county? I vote @pantibliss.bsky.social to host

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Rev Darren Jalland @oldmacharrev.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This has surprised me as much as hearing tonight that Tennessee Williams only died in 1983, meaning he was alive at the same time as Serena and Venus, the other tennisy Williams

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Emer Ní Shiochrú @siochru.ie · 09/09/2025

This is excellent, and a perfect overlap of my love of political communication and period dramas

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