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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 6h

this is so weird. I assumed he went after the extremely narrow set of "RTÉ twitter posts" in the first place because he was grasping at straws, but I think this dimwit is actually so phone-poisoned he doesn't think any of this coverage happened because he didn't see it on X, the Everything App

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 5h

Ok Jim Power speaking more truth and the programme finally attaching below cost selling (of veg at least) to decline of producers #speirgorm I am concerned this section is at odds with the beef one, again falsely driving a wedge between producers... www.thejournal.ie/readme/farme...

thejournal.ie

Don’t blame the cows for farmers not growing carrots

Ireland’s veg growers are in deep trouble. Between several bad policy decisions and consumer complacency, we’ve now got the farming system we pay for.

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 5h

Won't be surprising to hear this RTE programme on food is frustrating the hell out of me. Only highlight is UCC's Thia Hennessy, only one bringing reality of actually producing food. Ivor Deverall explaining how hard summer was was good, but then cognitive disconnect of how to buy cheap #speirgorm

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David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 14h

Israel are absolutely shameless liars. They put up a photo the other day of the 1939 English soccer squad and (clearly knowingly) told their followers that it was that era’s Irish squad #spéirgorm

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 13h

I wonder why Ireland was asked but Bulgaria was. A pure oversight I'm sure. Not like we were the most affected by the madness that was Brexit & had to waste considerable resources preparing for it. As others have said, ask those Europeans their attitudes to exemptions the UK will demand #speirgorm

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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 19h

This week’s housing opinions of economists that don’t hold up to any scrutiny at all, in my view #Speirgorm #Housing

How will the market make them more affordable? I think what will happen is, if the economy stays strong, wages will keep rising. Wages are supposed to rise by 3pc or 4pc and house prices won’t rise that fast. They’ll flatline, or they’ll rise at a lower rate — and therefore that overvaluation will be worked off gradually over time, by wages outstripping house prices.” Alan Ahern in Irish Independent

We need far more apartments in our cities, and the asking prices for these apartments must fall. The State must fast-track building in the cities. We need to build up, because obviously the more floors in a building, the cheaper the apartments ultimately built will be – and we also need to reduce the ability of serial objectors to put spurious spanners in the works. David McWilliams in Irish Times

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not a modern country fan (despite being rural & NW), I literally couldnt leave a room fast enough from Late Late's abominable version of 'Good Riddance'. That said I love Johnny Cash/Dolly/Real Country. Wasnt aware Zach Bryan was closer to them than modern posers #speirgorm youtu.be/fN9or5sWSoQ?

youtu.be

Zach Bryan - Bad News

YouTube video by Zach Bryan

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hide this at all costs from the rural mammies and daddies. It'll knock Joe Rogan off the top spot

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

Was in Ave Maria, Florida, the centrepiece of the Domino’s Pizza guy’s hardline Catholic education empire a few years back for a Ron DeSantis rally. A uniquely strange place. Never been anywhere like it. Middle of a swamp. Like a Lego Knock?

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interesting RTE Radio 1 brings a Berlin correspondent from right wing rag the Telegraph to cover the hard left Die Linke's fairly radical plan to address corporate landlord companies owning 100/1000s of homes. He brings up some "Hamas supporter" who showed up at their election celebration #speirgorm

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wild stuff over on Verona's Wikipedia page

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

in 2023, Azerbaijan ethnically cleansed Nagorno-Karabakh of ethnic Armenians in a blatant war crime in October 2025, the UK dropped its longstanding arms embargo on Azerbaijan less than a year later, a junior defense minister is with 18 British companies at an arms industry conference in Baku

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do some "journalists" just never leave the M50? Do they not know the border counties even exist? Maybe he thinks Donegal is part of 'up north'? www.bbc.com/news/article... Because there's lodges in Cavan, Monaghan & Leitrim. Fionnan might even be surprised I know Catholics that went for the craic

bbc.com

Rossnowlagh: Thousands attend Donegal Orange Order parade

The Rossnowlagh demonstration takes place each year on the Saturday before the main Twelfth of July.

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whose going to explain to Trump what lamping/coursing is...

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 29/09/2026

Anthropic: "We are losing unimaginable amounts of cash, more every year. We are also delusional and think we are creating a vengeful god that will kill us all. Please give us more money than currently exists."

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

40% of badgers in one region infected with TB is a tragedy. In my county (Cavan) it was 32%. Whats an absurdity is releasing infected badgers back into the population, 31 out of 100 infected badgers will be missed with tests DAFM uses for vaccination #speirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid...

irishexaminer.com

TB found in four in 10 Cork North badgers

Nationally, bTB was found in 372 out of 1,530 badgers, a 24.3% incidence

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tereska Janowicki from NRW, who is voting for AfD in the hope that it will round up these ugly creatures in burqas and deport them, is the same Tereska who was refused a job because "no offence, but Poles steal and leave a lot of mess" back in 1992. The spiral goes only downward.

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

...wait a sec. So I listened to the entire meeting, plenty I'd oppose (obvs Pepper & Malachy) but this woman wasn't 'ranting'. She could have been a #speirgorm poster saying how our views are distorted by silicon valley billionaires who are buying up Ireland & our gov is subservient to. Pepper

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Outside a few I'd consider sinister it's surprising how many of these are fairly positive lobbying, on behalf of charities or likes of rural link etc. Of course things are rarely as rosy or simple as in the register but still a great transpancy #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/irish-tds-mi...

thejournal.ie

How 63 former politicians and civil servants lobbied their one-time colleagues dozens of times

The findings came after an analysis of more than 83,000 returns filed on the register since 2020.

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I share nothing in common with Geoghegan bar farming. My sector lost half it's income (42%to be exact www.agriland.ie/farming-news...) while costs have skyrocketed. My contractors protested & the reliefs made it possible for them to stay in business. Are they scumbags too? Am I? #speirgorm I hope

agriland.ie

Average dairy farm income could fall by 42% in 2026 – Teagasc

'Taking the year as a whole, Irish milk prices in 2026 could be down by more than 20% on their average level for 2025'....

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was involved in youth representation from 2010 on. 100% nobody hates their children like the Irish. I have no idea why, decades of generational trauma, self hatred, or greed. I cant tell. But it was always there, 'wait your time', 'sure aren't they just experiencing life', 'we had it #speirgorm

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sounds like a great idea...and a familiar one from 2021! I did the maths on Ireland's carbon fines, "free" travel for under 25s actually saved the state money. Meanwhile gov went the opposite way! #speirgorm www.agriland.ie/farming-news...

agriland.ie

Macra launches policy documents on rural ‘quality of life’

'The young farmer organisation is calling for the provision of free travel for under-25s on all public transport'

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

'What if instead of working on complex and at times politically contentious actions that ultimately benefit the entirety of human race but might cut 0.00001% of the richest people's wealth we instead just made up some bullshit that enriches those people?" See also: carbon farming & SFA #speirgorm

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Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Even if a figure of 20% going uneaten is correct (anecdotal accounts suggest older kids and teachers eat a lot of spare lunches), that still means the school dinner programme staggeringly outperforms households, which are regularly said to waste 33% of food bought. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

rte.ie

School meal review includes portion size and cold options

The Cabinet is to discuss proposals to overhaul the free hot school meals programme after two Government-commissioned reviews revealed shortcomings in the service.

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Spain: maybe we shouldn't remain as the US' bitch and actually act like the union we're meant to be Germany: we'd rather repeat the same mistakes we've been making for the last 15 years thanks, austerity worked so well after all!

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We are back at rate hikes to fight a supply shock. Will this stop the war against Iran? Will it reopen the Strait of Hormuz? Will higher financing costs help build out renewables? No. But it risks pushing livelihoods & democracies over the edge.

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Na they'd never do that...not like schools are striking protestors! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

en.wikipedia.org

Battle of Blair Mountain - Wikipedia

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yet another 'delirious' blocking high pressure area is building over SW-Europe. Would be a heat dome in summer, will lead to high daytime temperatures next week, and worsen the drought in France.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams:

Before the meeting closes, Prime Min-
ister Kenny has a favour to ask. Europe
is steaming about privacy and Facebook,
and they're about to adopt a law--the
General Data Protection Regulation
to crack down on how Big Tech uses per-
sonal data. Exactly who will enforce this
law is still being negotiated. Kenny wants
it to be Ireland. We do too. But we've got a
problemn because no one believes Ireland
will be tough enough on the tech com-
panies. With good reason.

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A pen of cows condemned by 72 years of gov failure. Otherwise healthy cows, all raised by me since their first minute of life, lost to a disease Haughty claimed eradicated in 1965. The red girl at the beginning is 1919. Im not too proud to say when the vet said she had TB it broke me #speirgorm

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Listening to Irish radio coverage of Ursula Von der Leydon about what she said on AI development 'But that doesn't apply to "us" as "we're" not players' Does that mean Ireland or the EU? Is it yet more EU ignorance from Irish media because SAP and Mistral are absolutely players #speirgorm

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fertiliser prices in Europe next year + El Nino affecting southern Europe and key exporters to the EU means food prices will likely skyrocket next year. Good thing the whole world is acting together on climate change....right?

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Shocking revelation here! If only there was some indication that he owned farmland! #speirgorm

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There's parts of the Amazon less humid and hot than Cavan tonight. 20c at 8pm

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The firm cautions that investor buyers still tend to acquire larger farms, meaning the picture is different when measured by acreage rather than transactions." So yea the tax dodgers have moved from individuals to trusts/investment buyers. Exactly what farmers said would happen, bullshit headline

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm sorry but why is not a single article on this claim by Trump doing the basic journalism of asking 'Is this bullshit?' Because here's thing Ireland doesn't have a trade deal with the US, the EU does. And under it Trump can't keep tariffs on French, Dutch or German whiskey but not us #speirgorm

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thanks to @thejournal.ie for opportunity to cover a longer dive into what I often talk about on here: addressing Agri misinformation & trying to get more truth into 'the discourse' around farming. Theres some addressing chronic myths about 'cow subsidies' #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/readme/farme...

thejournal.ie

Thomas Duffy: Don’t blame the cows for farmers not growing carrots

Ireland’s veg growers are in deep trouble. Between several bad policy decisions and consumer complacency, we’ve now got the farming system we pay for.

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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 13/09/2026

A reason why within the automotive industry lobby, the parts suppliers are the ones clinging on the fiercest to the internal combustion engine

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

...never thought I'd say this but how do we copy the English? #speirgorm

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 11/09/2026

I have trouble putting into words how utterly depressing the German train situation is. I have been in Germany for two days. I have not seen a single punctual train. I have misse every single connection. I have spent hours longer on trains than needed. This is a third world country.

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This week gives more credit to my theory that Michael O'Leary is our Trump circa 2005. And media is massively helping him. Personally I think rather than demands for apologies or offers of training (implying he simply doesnt understand the issue) response should have been 'hes a scumbag' #speirgorm

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dear Irish journos,don't mimic yank media when Trump lands,don't ask him about his trip,don't ask him how he feels about being in "Oireland",detach yerselves from the schmaltz and bs,ask him about Epstein,ask him the difficult questions,and if one of your colleagues is shut down pick up the baton.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 10/09/2026

Only 71,850 people have registered to vote in the new Higher Education constituency for the Seanad, despite a potential electorate of between 800,000 and 1,000,000 graduates. The unified 6-seater is open to graduates of over 80 higher level institutions, not just the historic TCD and NUI.

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Diarmuid O'Brien @diarmuid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Everyone in Ireland this weekend. #SpeirGorm

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