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Aontú voting with the government to extend the so-called Help To Buy scheme which is really a Help to Profit scheme for developers. All the research shows that this just pushes up property prices to the benefit of developers. Instead we should build social and affordable homes.

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 9h

Seriously, what is the point? You'd be lucky to get a half pan for that. Not much good to seniors on fixed incomes.

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Cianan Brennan @ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 11h

Horse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 9h

"Jack Gpt".🤌 Wit is Ireland's superpower

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 14h

We've been trying to buy a house for years and we've seen the prices respond to every "assistive" measure in real time. It doesn't help the buyer. It's a sly way to give more public taxes to developers. The most importan lever to bring prices down long-term is building social housing.

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Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 14h

Can't wait to spend less time with patients and more time doing efficiency paperwork

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 17h

Begging, begging, a journalist to ask the natural follow up, whatdaya mean, question...

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 20h

560 (!!!) FTE cuts approved & closure of music and languages courses. absolutely horrific proposals coming out of Nottingham. measuring ‘interest’ in languages in n of students on UG degrees is so disingenuous—language modules can be combined with anything! www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

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Uni to axe hundreds of jobs and scrap courses to cut costs

The university said the changes are 'among the most significant' in its 145-year history

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 19h

Holding fire here, but if as is reported the Govt delays the rise in the minimum wage, while pushing the bands at the higher end then this will further increase market income inequality here. We’re already the worst in the EU. 30% of workers are paid less than the living wage. WTAF, Ireland.

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 17h

I think I speak for most of us privileged enough to earn that much when I say KEEP THE MONEY! Buy an MRI macine and hire someone to operate it! Hire more nurses! More SNAs in classrooms and pay them better! Another coach or two for the Cork-Dublin line.....

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 18h

The TL;DR is that the circumstances have to relate specifically to the individual and not to general country conditions. Another way that applicants from Gaza are being screwed.

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Members @ifut.bsky.social staged a 1-hour walkout today at Maynooth as part of the Irish public sector pay dispute. Grateful also to the Postgraduate Workers' Organisation for their support. Solidarity with our colleagues in other unions who have begun working to contract. Power to the people! ✊️

Members of Maynooth University Postgraduate Workers' Organisation supporting the 1-hour walkout by the Irish Federation of University Teachers.

A crowd of IFUT members and supporters gather while staging a one-hour work stoppage as part of the Irish public sector pay dispute.

IFUT members and supporters gather during a one-hour work stoppage. A flag from the Climate Justice University Union is prominent in the bottom half of the photo.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An astonishing display of solidarity with the Garvaghy Road Community at yesterday’s rally! NO GOING BACK! #EndSectarianMarches

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Photos are up brendanjharkin.myportfolio.com/drumcree-dis...

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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We have nearly 1500 names now. Last day to sign

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 03/10/2026

Gaza's civil defence agency and a hospital have said that an overnight Israeli airstrike on an apartment in Gaza City killed five Palestinians, including four women.

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Five killed in Israeli strike on Gaza apartment building

Gaza's civil defence agency and a hospital have said that an overnight Israeli airstrike on an apartment in Gaza City killed five Palestinians, including four women.

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A newly published wastewater report shows the extent of the Covid wave currently hitting Ireland. Ringsend in Dublin has seen a near-vertical rise in Covid levels, with its peak likely to exceed last year's wave.

A blended chart showing the Covid wastewater levels across Ireland over the past five years. There has been a big spike in recent weeks.

Covid wastewater levels detected at the Ringsend wastewater treatment plant in Dublin over the past five years. There is a near-vertical spike in Covid levels over the past few weeks.

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Dublin South-West PBP @pbpdublinsouthwest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Garvaghy Road: There Are Not Two Sides. The mainstream media present the standoff on Garvaghy Road as a clash between 'two sides' and urge 'calm'. Here Eamonn McCann disputes the 'two communities' approach and explains why the Orange Order is a deeply sectarian organisation. Link to read in comment

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Garvaghy Road: There Are Not Two Sides - REBEL

The clashes in Portadown between Orange marchers and nationalist residents have widely…

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And he frequents a popular pro-Palestine pub when in Dublin.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am living to see the people of NI prove this assessment wrong. The Drumcree election is coming, but people who are actively whipping up tensions might well find themselves playing to a diminishing base. V few people believed this march would ever be back on the agenda: www.ft.com/content/9297...

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Given that Irish government TDs have cited Sweden's decision to introduce a language test for citizenship as justification for Ireland introducing one, it seems relevant that Sweden is finding it difficult to actually do it

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Always funny when people get pissy about, of all things, *work to rule*. They are still doing their jobs, to the letter of the law in fact. That is causing problems is a serious indictment of how much extra people are expected to do in their job.

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Phil @phlytecase.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If there's going to be huge disruption when the public sector does only what it is contractually required to, doesn't that prove the point that the system needs to be improved? Nice of Chambers to make our point for us

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hungary’s ex-PM Viktor Orbán is the most recent extremist to visit Belfast. A repressive anti-LGBTQ+, anti-migrant patriarch with Russian links is who anti-choice Precious Life's Bernie Smyth is doing selfies with. We won right to choose, it’s going nowhere as long as we are here to fight for it.

A picture of Bernie Smyth from Precious Life and Viktor Orbán outside Belfast city hall in Sep 2026. Text reads "Viktor Orbán the latest in a long line of extremists to target our city."

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 01/10/2026

I'm glad a lot of cis people are feeling so much optimism over Burnham, optimism is good, but I'm also immensely sad as a trans person because our persecution is so easy to completely and utterly dismiss for some shiny words.

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unis are also freezing new and replacement hires and cutting fixed-term employees. 'The Cassells Report estimated the third-level sector would need an additional €1bn annually by 2030, to address existing underfunding, projected increases in student numbers, and other budgetary pressures.'

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And this is one of the main reasons I (a well-paid academic) voted in favour of a strike.

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Den M @mousketeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Personally I think it's 'deeply unfair' that 'lower level' public sector workers are so badly paid many need to claim Working Family Payment just to survive. Think about that. FFFG force civil servants to claim social welfare rather than pay them a living wage directly via payroll. #SpéirGhorm

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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Me & @judesherry.bsky.social have been researching the Irish housing crisis since we returned in 2018 This piece in todays The Journal is by far the most shocking Realising how badly we treat the most vulnerable should put a chill down the spine of every reader www.thejournal.ie/the-housing-...

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Do we care where people with disabilities live?

Being disabled and homeless has long been normalised in Ireland, it is just largely hidden from us.

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brendan Behan: "I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse”.

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Retracing the steps back, from the Cornell 7 in 🇺🇸.

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bet he hasn't read a single book on the Troubles.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Coming soon to a campus near you 😉

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The more things change, the more it remains the same.

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Net positive for Sir Jeff and his fanboys.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s important to remember that Unionism is making Dumcree an issue again to try to distract people from the fact that they systematically tried to hide the fact that Jeffrey Donaldson was a rapist pedophile for decades.

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That this man is courted as a serious academic just confounds me.

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Needs re-sharing as the violence associated with these parades is often conveniently denied in some sections of media and political elite.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People have started to form a line, standing on the road, arm in arm. You can see MPs and MLAs, too. If the Orange Order was as legitimate and respectful as they say they are, they would have left.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We committed in 1998 for our children. And we are now back to having to do this again. In 1998, three brothers - Jason (8), Mark (9), and Richard (10) Quinn were killed on the 12th of July as a petrol bomb set their house on fire. The RUC linked the murders to the Garvaghy Road dispute. Today:

A woman holding a sign “for the sake of our children - there is no going back” on the Garvaghy Road, Portadown

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sinn Fein should have called for the resignation of the entire parades commission and listened to the people telling them that the high court case would likely result in a parade being allowed. There was also a mess over mediation.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gavin Bazunu Hero Who Refused To Be Complicit In Genocide, Stood With Humanity And Paid The Price ✊ Don't Back Down - You've Done The Right Thing And History WILL Remember Your Bravery 🇵🇸

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