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Folks. Please do this tonight. It takes 3 or 4 minutes tops. I'll help you write it if you're struggling. Cheers. #Spéirgorm

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

On Wednesday, the Govnt will try to push through legislation to end the Triple Lock. Whatever you think about it, the way F/FG have systematically misinformed the Irish public about the reasons for doing this & the implications for our neutrality is fundamentally undemocratic.

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Irish Wildlife Trust @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

The #HandsOffNature petition closes tomorrow, 20 Oct! We are now at over 1,200,000 signatures - let's keep the momentum going 💪 ✍️ iwt.ie/what-we-do/h... @eeb.org @wwf.eu @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @clientearth.bsky.social @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu

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Orla Breslin @stitchlily.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Where else would you be on a sunny day. Back west, at Coumeenole and Dunmore Head. When people ask why I moved here, on a day like today, there's no need for words.

Gorgeous panoramic view looking across from Dunmore headland across the sea to the blasket islands. Stunning blue sky and sea

A small tidal pond beside rough sharp rocks looking out a small beach to blue sea and sky with a bright glowing sun.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??? AFTER REPEATEDLY BANNING EVERY PALESTINIAN TRYING TO FUNDRAISE DURING A GENOCIDE?????

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Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

recommend Irish followers to watch this clip. look at a map of our infrastructure - all roads lead to Dublin. we still have a colonial extractive economy #speirgorm

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Save Our Bride Otters @saveourbrideotters.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Taking a case against the state is not cheap. We need as much help as we can get. If you can help it would be great. Here is a link to our Save Our Bride Otters GoFundMe - gofund.me/2fccc2e89

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hey, authors, illustrators, poets, etc in the UK and Ireland! I’ve put together a statement in support of Sally Rooney with the help of others. Message me if you’d like to sign?

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Irish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️‍🌈 @iccl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Over 300,000 public sector workers are on strike across Ireland today. ICCL has comprehensive Know Your Rights guides on a range of topics including the right to protest. Make sure you know your rights every time you protest. www.iccl.ie/your-rights/

Graphic which reads:

"Know Your Rights
Print them, keep them, know them.
Download our free guides at www.iccl.ie/your-rights/"

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Uplift Ireland @uplift.ie · 14/10/2026

Solidarity ✊️

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

"Today's AI summit brings together businesses, governments and civil society together" Minister Peter Burke TD (fact: there are no civil society representatives, not in the list of speakers) #AISummitIE

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Orla Breslin @stitchlily.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

If I could strike myself, I would. Rang my bike bell in support when passing the school on the way to work. They are doing what what the rest of us worker bees can't do, saying we've had enough. #ISupportTheStrikers @siptu.bsky.social @forsatradeunion.bsky.social

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Attracta Uí Bhroin @attractaub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Palestinian Student Visa issue goes to the heart of public accountability & need to remedy a wrong consequent on Minister's unlawful decisions to refuse visas.B4 our courts Minister found to have erred.Time to right that wrong. Get these students to class www.socialdemocrats.ie/gazan-studen...

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Gazan students in race against time to secure safe evacuation to Ireland - Social Democrats

The Government must pull out all the stops for three Gazan students who successfully appealed the refusal of visas to them by the Department of Justice but are now in a race against time to be evacuat...

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Orla Breslin @stitchlily.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

21st century witch trials. The outcome will be horrific.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

From Gaza Scholars. 58 students in Gaza won full scholarships to Irish universities. Their visas were refused and they are still in Gaza. Put your name behind them, then ask your TDs to act. #LetThemStudy gazascholarsireland.org?utm_source=i...

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Stand behind Gaza's 58

58 students in Gaza won full scholarships to Irish universities. Their visas were refused. Make your poster and email your TDs.

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Simon Harris has 10 Special Advisers, each being paid a minimum of €100k, and up to a maximum of €182k. His Govt has just announced that they are scrapping the living wage their own low pay commission recommended. You’re not angry enough.

Hugh O'Connell - fmr pol corr
Sarah Bardon- fmr pol corr
Joanne Lonergan - FG lifer, stint as lobbyist Jack O'Donnell - Blue Green lifer, stint as lobbyist
Pauric McPhillips - FG lifer
Prof Stephen Kinsella - hmmm
Max Murphy - Tik Tok mgr
Clare Mungovan - FG lifer and yes Morgan
McSweeney's cousin
Niall O'Connor - fmr pol corr
Conor Glynn - FG lifer

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It was a great idea & no mass exodus of the super wealthy despite the fear mongering. #spéirghorm

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10/10/2026

So why should we care about Montesquieu and the administration’s actions related to the ICC? Because going after a tribunal that upholds the principle of international law and jurisprudence is not only really bad for international civil society but it’s a true sign of a despot.

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 10/10/2026

One year ago, a ceasefire was announced in Gaza. Today, Israel continues to: ⚫ Kill Palestinians and destroy civilian infrastructure ⚫ Restrict aid and cut essential services ⚫ Force people into an ever-shrinking space This is not a ceasefire, this is a genocide.

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 08/10/2026

Would like to see a journalist ask the 7 of Ireland's 14 MEPs (3 FG, 3 FF, 1 II) who just voted to: -endorse burqa bans -call "hatred of Israel" a sign of "Islamist influence" -identify European Muslim communities as potential tools of "malign foreign actors" to justify themselves

Believes that the practice of concealing the face in public spaces and premises open to the public poses an unacceptable challenge to public security, identification and effective law enforcement; supports, therefore, all national measures aimed at prohibiting full-face coverings (niqab or burqa) in public spaces and premises open to the public as a necessary step to ensure social cohesion, public safety and the protection of the rights and freedoms of others, in particular women

whereas separatist narratives, systematic victimhood, antisemitism, anti-Christian hatred, hatred of Israel, conspiracy narratives, challenges to secularism, the use of religion as a tool of social control or the contestation of equality between women and men may constitute markers of ideological radicalisation or Islamist influence;

whereas the ongoing investigations into suspected electoral fraud in Borlänge and Järva, Sweden, illustrate the particular vulnerability of diaspora communities to organised attempts at electoral influence; whereas such vulnerabilities may be exploited by malign foreign actors or transnational ideological networks pursuing covert agendas

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Not Here Not Anywhere @nhna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Government's planned LNG terminal is bad for County Clare and for all of us New film explores impacts LNG import and export has on communities in the US and Europe Ennis 11/10 6:30pm: www.eventbrite.com/e/gaslit-spe... Dublin 14/10 6:00pm: www.eventbrite.com/e/gaslit-spe...

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Gaslit Speakers Tour - West of Ireland

Join us in Ennis for the Irish Premiere of the award-winning Greenpeace documentary

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Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ireland & Council of the EU are pushing the 'Omnibus' proposal that will increase pesticide risks to the public and nature. Scientists have been ringing the alarm but the politicians pushing it —Fine Gael (EPP) and Fianna Fáil (Renew)—would rather listen to chemicals & agri-food industry lobbyists.

Screenshot of first page text from the 25 June 2026 Science journal article, 'EU Omnibus proposal increases pesticide risks', by Wintermantel et al..

Science link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeg8744

Open source link: https://pollinera-horizon.eu/storage/app/uploads/public/6a4/cd2/3b8/6a4cd23b81334056251798.pdf#file_name=EU%20Omnibus%20proposal%20increases%20pesticide%20risks.pdf

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"Here, we explain how implementing the Omnibus package would amplify rather than resolve shortcomings of current environmental risk assessment. This would jeopardize the Omnibus’s goal to maintain high standards for the protection of human and environmental health, as well as the EU’s long-term environmental objectives and international commitments to restore ecosystems."

"We provide actionable recommendations for improving environmental risk assessment for stronger biodiversity protection while limiting regulatory burden."

"The Omnibus proposal’s amendments to Regulation 1107/2009 would exacerbate shortcomings of the current environmental risk assessment and approval system"

"This would raise the prospect of aforementioned risk assessment gaps and leave many substances untested under new methodologies..."

"Unlike time-bound renewals, all three leave discretion over how many and which substances are assessed, creating room for political or economic considerations to influence reassessment decisions. As the stated goal of the Omnibus is reducing regulatory burden, the overall volume of assessment would likely be considerably reduced."

"The Omnibus specifies criteria for selecting substances for renewal or targeted reassessment, but these would neither make reassessment obligatory nor function as effective triggers."

"Rather than fostering sustainability and innovation, as claimed in the Omnibus, the removal of time-bound substance renewals would slow the identification of harmful substances and prolong their use"

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don't be confused, this is just a public grant to gambling companies

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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Have your voice heard! Nearly a million people have said: ✋ HANDS OFF NATURE! And we’re taking their demands directly to the EU Commissioner for Environment! Let’s make our message impossible to ignore. Sign the petition before it closes on 20 October: www.handsoffnature.eu #handsoffnature

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

More than 160 great civil society organisations and groups have endorsed our National March for Palestine on Saturday. Join us, 1pm, Garden of Remembrance. #FreePalestine

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Government promises that this budget will finally help parents, provided their child is a greyhound.

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Shazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thousands in emergency accommodation, HSE in an absolute mess, Teachers striking over wages, Generations now unable to even rent, never mind buy a home, but yea, millions for organised crime groups, I mean for horses and greyhounds pfffffffffft #SpéirGorm #Budget2027

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Orla Breslin @stitchlily.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

100% agree with this sentiment. Velcro all the way! Also, toggles are a great alternative and easily accessible to convert laced up shoes and runners. Tying shoelaces are the bottom of the pond in terms of things to be worried about.

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well done to Ken Early, Irish Times and Second Captains, for pointing out the total hypocrisy of the Israeli FA who said sport and politics don't mix even as the captain of the apartheid state's team and its fans praised its genocidal army. There is still time for the FAI to pull out. #StopTheGame

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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Publishing this open letter is just a first step in our campaign. We will be taking further action in the future to ensure our voices are heard!" Read 👉 buff.ly/9V3sJBU #GCNnews

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our tribute to Gavin Bazunu last night 💚

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A gut-punch of a statistic, reflective of what's happening throughout the entire natural world. But using the word "stocks" to describe a wild population of one of Earth's most breathtaking, magical species indicates precisely why we've reached such a predicament. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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Ireland’s wild Atlantic salmon stocks down 80% since 1970s

Public consultation launched amid fears ‘iconic species’ could be lost entirely from Irish rivers

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

says something about the workings of Ireland's democracy that we have no mechanisms to keep the government in check on climate. Climate Action Plan delayed, public transport not funded, Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity ignored

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H 🍉🌿 @helendublin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"People across the country are being encouraged to take part in a 15-minute walkout on Wednesday September 30 to highlight violence against women and girls. The walkout has the important message that tackling violence, abuse, misogyny and intimidation is an issue for everyone in Ireland" #speirgorm

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Huge congratulations to our colleagues at @iccl.bsky.social on this win! In a landmark ruling on 25 Sep, the ICCL secured a precedent that will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in GDPR class actions that impact their operations across the entire EU enforce.ie/digital-data...

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ICCL secures landmark precedent against Big Tech - Enforce

Landmark ruling will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in court for EU-wide GDPR class actions

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Orla Breslin @stitchlily.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Still haven't gotten one or seen one 🤷‍♂️

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Kikdare-based group are doing incredibly effective organising re: Data Centre resistance. I could see them writing the playbook that helps communities across Ireland protecting themselves from these energy-guzzling monstrosities. Please sign and support #spéirgorm

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t think that this should just be shrugged off. One of our Ministers (Enterprise or Justice, probably) has presented this plan. It isn’t an anonymous creature called the Irish Presidency. That is our Government.

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Orla Breslin @stitchlily.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorry for your loss, Paul. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam

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Orla Egan she/her @orlaegan1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you Gavin Bazuna for taking a stand on behalf of the Irish people and against genocide. I wish the FAI, the Irish government and the other players were as principled and brave as you. Show your support for him on instagram: @gavin_bazunu #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Via IPSC 🧵1️⃣ "The Irish team has not showed up for training yet and their press conference has been pushed back as there are rumblings of unhappiness among the players with Gavin Bazunu telling the squad he doesn't want to play against Israel. There might be others too. There is time to pull out

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Orla Breslin @stitchlily.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm not a sports fan, but I'd be prouder of the Irish team for not playing, than playing. C'mon #Ireland, do the right thing and #StopTheGame! #SpéirGhorm

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Orla Breslin @stitchlily.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

💔. I never met Rena in person, but loved her posts, her humour, her thoughts, her research. Such an interesting person. Sending love to her family and friends.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

British mathematician & physicist Phyllis Nicolson co-developed the Crank–Nicolson method, a foundational algorithm in numerical analysis. Her contributions during/after WWII laid the groundwork for modern computational science, fluid dynamics & heat transfer modeling. Born #OTD 1917. #WomenInSTEM

A black-and-white portrait of British mathematician and physicist Phyllis Nicolson (born Phyllis Lockett, 1917–1968). The head-and-shoulders shot is against a clean, plain, and bright studio background with no visible objects. Nicolson is posed facing forward with a subtle, pleasant smile and bright, intelligent eyes. She wears her dark, wavy hair styled in a mid-century chin-length cut with volume around the ears and curls framing her face. Her attire is a simple, light-colored collared shirt. The overall mood is dignified, optimistic, and intellectual. The composition utilizes soft lighting that minimizes harsh shadows, highlighting her features cleanly. This image holds historical significance, capturing a pioneering woman in STEM whose wartime and postwar contributions co-developing the Crank–Nicolson method laid foundational work for modern computational science.

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Abortion Rights Campaign @freesafelegal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hear us Now! at the 15th annual March for Choice, this September 26th in Dublin. Meet us at 2pm outside the Department of Health before we march to the Dáil. Share this post far and wide and show your interest by clicking "interested" on our facebook event page, link in our tree.

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