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Laura

@takeithandy.bsky.social
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Exasperated but hopeful feelings for Dublin. (She/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Drumcree was not just a ‘march’ it was an annual extended period of fear that threatened to destabilize the entire province and resulted in a significant number of deaths. No one should forget that the catalyst for the march being halted was the deaths of the Quinn boys in their firebombed home.
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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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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Notice here how people from the North don’t actually exist in his mind. The people “looking to be outraged” are down here, the existence of actual residents being intimidated hasn’t even occurred to him.
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Laura @takeithandy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This reads very... empty?? Detached? Aloof? It feels like they resent having to even give an opinion
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Solidarity with the residents of the Garvaghy Rd standing firm to make sure that we won’t be brought back to the bad old days.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
but for decades, Loyalists have fought both on the street and in court to demand a "right" to parade down a street. The Quinn brothers should be in their late thirties today, parents themselves. I struggle to comprehend how a person could be proud parading down the Garvaghy Road this Sunday.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On Sunday, July 12th 1998, Jason (aged 8), Mark (aged 9) and Richard Quinn (aged 10) were killed in their home in Ballmoney when it was petrol-bombed by Loyalists, rioting after the Drumcree parade was banned from travelling the Garvahy Road that year. 3 brutal sectarian murders.
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Laura @takeithandy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Would that be these police??
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Colman O'Sullivan @colmanos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
1/This is one of 3 groups gathered on the Garvaghy Road to block an Orange Order march- the first given legal permission in 28 years. The parade is due to leave Drumcree church after 0800- in a little over an hour
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Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The FAI repeatedly told us players would be protected. Yet when a 24 year old acted on his conscience, they left him to stand alone & used a vote among his teammates to validate their own cowardice. This isn’t protecting a young player, it’s protecting themselves at his expense. #StopTheGame
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Laura @takeithandy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The respect I have for Gavin Bazunu is immense. 24 years old with his career ahead of him and he made a decision that every other person in safer positions of power above him failed to have the courage to make themselves. A true representative of Irish people everywhere
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Micheál @nameless-weevil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just to say what complete scumbags the FAI and Micheál Martin are for putting Irish players in this position.
Tweet from Daniel Lambert, September 26th: Hearing from several sources around Ireland hotel that agents are telling players you must play our you'll never play for a US owned team in the UK.

How grim and predictable from faceless agents who profit in the background.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/09/2026
Context to Gavin Bazunu’s position: a matchday squad of 23 must be submitted to UEFA before midnight tonight, and *must* include three goalkeepers. Were he to simply refuse to play, the FAI would only be able to submit a squad if they (farcically) redesignated an outfielder as a goalkeeper.
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Auntie O'Grimacey @bubblenoma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's pure shite that it has come down the players though. The FAI should have backed them, and got them out of the game.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Goodness, what a weight on the players. What a sense of clashing responsibilities it must be. How unfair it falls to the group of young men after their institutional supports chose to send them there.
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Laura @takeithandy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ended up listening to In Waiting by Pillow Queens last night - a near perfect album. Love Denise but man the Choice in 2020 should have been theirs. A very on the nose time capsule of how energetic and emotional those few years before COVID felt in Dublin.
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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
cute photo op. incidentally I spent 10 minutes trying to find a picture of the Taoiseach using public transport in Ireland and guess what
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They were cool with the racism, sexism, bigotry, corruption, dismantling of social services and common decency, burning every ally, shooting American citizens in the face in the street, the insurrection, Trump being besties with Epstein etc etc. But once the price of gas got too high it was over.
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ireland’s EU Presidency is first and foremost about serving global capital. Simplification means a bonfire of hard won regulations and oversight. Competitiveness means rolling back workers rights and employer obligations. Some call it tech feudalism, but it’s much worse than that.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 21/09/2026
In particular invoking this idea, also favoured by Friedrich Merz, of "imported antisemitism", which holds that 21st century Germany has so learned from its past that it contains no antisemitism except that brought in by immigrants, the evidence being that some of them are pro-Palestine
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 21/09/2026
Even if she sincerely believes that The Left's tepid criticism of Israel constitutes antisemitism, there is literally no reason to specify "from Neukölln" (not even the party's strongest district!) except to conjure up images of brown people. It is a racist dogwhistle. Franziska Brantner is a racist
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 21/09/2026
The co-leader of the German Greens Franziska Brantner, says that in Berlin, her party won't govern with The Left, with "anti-Semites from Neukölln" Neukölln is the most racially diverse district of Berlin. When she says "anti-Semites from Neukölln", she means "Muslims"
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Laura @takeithandy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What a perfect day it would have been for the All Ireland Football Final today - the true end to an Irish summer!
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
This is precisely why hundreds of experts demanded that during Ireland's presidency of the EU our country not be allowed to handle tech policy. Ireland is the trojan horse for US Big Tech lawlessness in the EU. It's really as simple as that.
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Laura @takeithandy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is insane. Can you imagine if we had a directly elected mayor in Dublin who was given the power to do work like this 😭😭
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Laura @takeithandy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Would like to know how many if any of those pubs operated as clubs, and how many of the total licences were converted to supermarket off licences
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Katherine Nolan @dochara.com · 18/09/2026
What is it with all leaders and governments everywhere being absolutely in thrall to these tech bros? They hang off every opinion like it came down from a mountain carved on stone. Money, I know, proving itself over and over to be the root of evil.
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh is it like a townhall meeting kind of thing? Can I speak at it next? Or, shockingly, do they only care what billionaires think, and feck the rest of us?
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is insanity. Irish Presidency's draft text of amendments to the GDPR allows training & operation of any AI without safeguards & tough legal basis (under "legitimate interest" a company claims what it is doing is OK. Up to you to find out and challenge in court). This is a free pass for US Tech.
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“If you live and work and pay taxes here, there’s an ever-tougher obstacle course. But if you’re Irish in a vaguely genetic sense, come into the parlour, there’s a welcome here for you”. @fotoole.bsky.social on the two routes to Irish citizenship and the racism therein. archive.is/dcddi
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
So when a Dem says they agree with any of this, they are taking a position that is against what trans people ALREADY HAD just 5 years ago. That's why trans people won't accept it. It's not about progress, it's about preventing a managed decline in civil rights agreed to by Democrats.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
So when libs say, you need to do incremental progress like gay marriage, it completely ignores the rollbacks that have happened in 5 years. It is every aspect of trans life from where we use the bathroom, how we are addressed, what our IDs say, to even censorship on discussions about our existence.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Again, 5 years ago, none of these policies existed. 15 states require the forced outing of trans students 16 states ban medicaid coverage of gender affirming care 14 states have "Don't say trans" laws banning discussion of trans people's identities. 29 states have banned participation in sports.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Chad C @chadc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is particularly crazy when you see how many NFL venues are scheduled to host Kanye West, a guy who literally released a song about Hitler. Including two of the stadiums who threatened Sheeran! But he didn’t say anything good about Palestinians so it’s fine.
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Dublin Commuters @dublincommuters.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Send the Message: Stop the Fare Hikes 📣 Public transport users can stop the fare hikes before budget day 2027, but you need to pressure your TD’s now!! If you’ve never contacting a TD before, there’s a template email you can send from the link below 👇 galwaycommuters.ie/fares/
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't say this lightly or flippantly: I honestly think this is the most incompetent government we've had in my lifetime and this is a really bad time for it. None of these guys are *anywhere near* qualified for their important ministerial portfolios. An embarrassing shambles of a cabinet
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Minister for Climate, Energy, and Environment
Minister for TransportJim O'Callaghan
Minister for Justice, Home Affairs, and MigrationPatrick O' Donovan
Minister for Culture, Communications, and Sport
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It is noticeable that whenever the Irish government says it wants to become more like our European neighbours it's never about things like rent controls, tenant rights, workers rights, public health care and always about thinks like the border regime and militarisation...
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The male GAA codes are built on the unseen work of women sacrificing their own free time to do the work of looking after children & elderly relatives that men who spend 3 nights training,2 nights at the gym, plus weekends at matches are consciously not doing. It thrives at the expense of women.
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Laura @takeithandy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
He has possibly the worst ability I've seen in any politician to read the politcal winds and understand the electorate, so I can see how his lack of critical thinking skills means he's fallen down the far right rabbit hole. We don't have to fall down there with him.
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Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
All this performative unpleasantness is entirely unnecessary for Jim O'Callaghan, who's already naturally widely disliked
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Jude Sherry @judesherry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What are Irish values? Letting childern die in agonising pain? Destroying nearly all our nature? Making sure most kids grow up with no hope of getting their own home unless they emigrate or have rich parents? Handing over resources to corporations & giving them their own courts to sue our democracy
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As someone who is less than 2 weeks from taking the oath of fidelity to the Irish nation and to 'respect its democratic values', I find this news incredibly disheartening. It is bad policy in search of a problem and a pathetic sop to a racist minority who do not embody the ideals of the nation.
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