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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Newsletter was basically Der Sturmer with Schools Rugby and the Farmers Journal

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 02/10/2026

I would kill to have been a fly on the wall when silicon valley hacks tried over a fancy dinner to convince catholic theologians that machines have souls

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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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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What the UN expert doesn't realise is that our ministers travel abroad to tout the astronomical rents we're forced to pay here as a lure to attract more vulture funds.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

every single ESL course offered in Tipp is oversubscribed and has a waiting list. as in so many aspects of integration, volunteers are working to help fill gaps as much as possible with English speaking clubs, etc. while the govt is only interested in making things worse

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In furtherance of getting the Orange march down the Garvaghy Road, the DUP group leader on Belfast City Council is claiming that [pauses for breath] the murder of the Quinn children in 1998 was not carried out by the UVF but was in fact the fault of the family who she says were involved in drugs.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Amazing photo

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And, as I wrote over a year ago, this kind of ethnographical skull-measuring will always lead to outright racism and - in the attempt - utter absurdity. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

When, this week, the Telegraph printed a rabidly scaremongering report that “White British people will be a minority in 40 years”, they clarified this cohort as “the white British share of the population — defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent”.

Leaving aside how garbled that formulation is — there are millions of non-white Brits who meet that definition perfectly — it carried with it a parallel consequence. I myself do not have an immigrant parent.

In fact, every single pale and freckled ancestor of mine since 1800, Irish farmers to a soul, was born and raised in something called the United Kingdom. This is true for a large number of Irish people in the North. And since the late Prince Philip was himself a Greek immigrant, it gives me great pleasure to point out that they’d settled on a definition of ‘White British’ which includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles III.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well like you I wouldn't regard the outpourings from the GB right over NI as being very sincere (as unionists found when the Brexiteers threw them under a bus to win Johnson a general election) but NI needs an extended period of relative stability.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not a political strategist, but shutting BBC Scotland's broadcast service down completely to save £42 million seems like an early and very generous Christmas present from UK Labour to the independence parties there.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You're right, and we would likely vote to join if we had a free choice. As in so many other things, we are constrained by the partition of this country and thereby by the policies and politics of the British state.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Although that is a rational arrangement from our perspective, it would be taken by the Unionist parties in NI as a vast plot against them by the Irish government in particular and Europe in general. A formal immigration border between GB and NI agreed to by London and the EU would cause a crisis.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That would cause volcanic conniptions in political unionism in NI (and the GB hard right) though. It's why my preference is for the UK to rejoin on the basis of CTA/CU/SM — as was the case before 2016 — and with a guarantee that if they leave again we automatically revert to the Windsor Framework.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If Schengen is not a precondition and the UK were to rejoin with both of us maintaining the CTA then we would still need a binding guarantee that in the event they decide to leave again then we revert automatically back to the Windsor Framework.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We would prefer Schengen not to be a precondition because once we join it with GB we're exposed to the risk they might leave it in the future in a Brexit2. That would be catastrophic. But if other MSs want it then we'd need a binding guarantee from UKG they will never do that while parition exists.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

...the outcome of a Schengen referendum in Ireland. For as long as partition exists Schengen is more risky for us than the CTA because once we're in it with the UK we're exposed to the risk that a future nativist govt in GB would leave it. That would be a nightmare, worse even than the last decade.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Were partition not a factor we would likely join Schengen. However partition means our overriding interest is keeping the border open and minimising N/S divergence so the CTA/SM/CU is sufficient. However if another MS demands Schengen as a precondition then UK re-entry to the EU would depend on...

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 01/10/2026

Knowing that you were abetting war crimes and continuing to do so is actually worse than earnestly believing no wrong was done, both legally and morally

When Mr. Biden got on the phone with Mr. Netanyahu and declared that he was no Santa ("his words, flecked with spit," Mr. McGurk writes in the book), the Israeli asked what he meant. Mr. Biden said he could cut Israel's military aid with the snap of a finger.

Mr. Netanyahu started to explain that the strike on the aid workers was a tragic miscommunication.

Mr. Biden interrupted. "I don't want to hear it, Bibi," he said.

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H 🍉🌿 @helendublin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

While men who commit offences get character references, women get their character attacked. It's actually upsetting, misogyny like this

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It depends on the complexion of the govt. here at the time but I think it more likely that, say, France would ask for Schengen. But if the UK did end up joining Schengen we would need cast-iron treaty guarantees that they wouldn't subsequently leave which would drop us into another border crisis.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

UI requires a majority of the NI electorate as a whole, not a majority of each designation. Unionists do not have a veto over the referendum result.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If one or more member states regard Schengen as being necessary to ensure Britain is serious about rejoining then that's their right. If that happens Ireland has to decide if we want to join Schengen. It will likely require a referendum. If that referendum yields a 'no' then Britain couldn't rejoin.

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Stephen Baker @stephenbaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I signed this. “This is a time when all of us committed to a better future have a responsibility to raise our voices to protect peace, progress and a shared society free from sectarianism.”

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Kildare County Council @kildarecoco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are delighted to announce that Libby, the award-winning reading app, is now available to members of Kildare Libraries with something for all ages. Books can be downloaded for offline use. Read more: ow.ly/EHh050ZTrbE #Kildare #YourCouncil

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All the both sides chin-strokers down here should read this.

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John Barrington @johnbarrington.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Keep hearing of the cost of disability, and state payments. I don’t qualify for Carers Allowance despite being a 24/7/365 home carer for past 20 years.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I didn't know that distaste could reach a pitch but I'm glad that after decades of screaming at confused strangers in the Chiswick branch of M&S about how disgustingly rancid the Irish are, RDE can finally wipe the gobs of spittle off her chin and find peace.

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JesALady @jesalady.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

cw: stark transphobia stats The EMIS-2024 Ireland survey results are out, and trans/non-binary people in Ireland are not doing well: 88% scared to be in public 84.3% verbally harassed 32.5% blackmailed 51.8% avoided healthcare 73.5% excluded from family activities

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Arya Satheesh, an 18-year-old student from Letterkenny in County Donegal, Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...

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This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades

Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not easy to get an Irish person to side with the redcoats but here we are.

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Mojito Fiend @ronronzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He looks like a Simpsons character.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's wild that a Likud government minister who supports T Robinson and neo-nazis in the EU can publicly paint a target on a UK cabinet minister's back and the UK will still carry on sending them weapons.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This really makes me want Ireland to join NATO

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Calling the residents a mob and threatening to arrest their elected reps is definitely going to make things better. Especially when the basis for the claim that it's a criminal offence for residents to go outside to object may well be wrong.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the same principle as the national homelessness eradication policy in Finland which has worked for years. We could do this in Ireland. We absolutely won't do it, but we could.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The significance of this isn't that U2 are cool or anything, but rather that they only back a horse when the race is over. --------- U2 jointly condemn Israel over Gaza as Bono admits his past statements 'circled the subject' jrnl.ie/6786986

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U2 jointly condemn Israel over Gaza as Bono admits his past statements 'circled the subject'

In a lengthy statement posted to social media, the four members of the band individually set out their stances on the war raging within Gaza.

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

FPTP keeps the crazies and incompetent out of power.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If the elected reps like Claire Hanna refused the invitation of the residents to go there, then the residents would already have been pushed off the street by the PSNI and the march forced down the road.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen OBE, arrested under the Terrorism Act outside @labouruk.bsky.social conference. Her crime? Holding a piece of cardboard with the words “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on it. She was among hundreds doing the same.

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Diarmuid Slattery @diarmuidslattery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Deranged stuff from the 🇬🇧

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“EU commissioner for climate Wopke Hoekstra said talks would take place with the Government to find solutions to whatever was impeding progress.” The "whatever" is in fact the government.

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