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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

in case Irish people don't know the context, Stan Cullis played for and managed Wolverhampton Wanderers. in 1938 he objected to a proposed Nazi salute by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 players before a game vs 🇩🇪 and was dropped from the side. he's a club legend at Wolves, the Stan Cullis Stand was where I sat last weekend

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026

i hate this thing they do where they pretend like they are fulfilling some long and pent up demand. just own that you’re engaged in naked idolatry

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It is a running joke in our house to hijack each other's Netflix photos, but my Dolly Parton avatar has gone unchanged for about 5 years. No one has ever been prepared to disrespect Dolly.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is a complete distraction. Ireland cannot build a nuclear power plant fast enough to matter. Making a decision to do so would excuse punting on all the wind and solar things it can and must do. This is a lobby project of the tech industry to have something to say when building data centres.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

‘I have just returned from my first visit to the West Bank since 2023. What I saw then was deeply disturbing, but today the situation is far worse. It is now an emboldened and aggressive process of Israeli annexation of Palestinian land unfolding in plain sight’. theelders.org/news/what-we...

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What we saw in the West Bank: Palestine is disappearing

Mary Robinson reflects on her recent trip to the Middle East and the realities she witnessed in the West Bank

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Caoimhe Deyn @empressofkashyr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Do not stand at Dracula's grave and weep. He is not there. He does not sleep.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Trans people are roughly as common as someone who has the same birthday as you. Imagine if all people with your birthday are to be banned from toilets, sports, affirming your birthday at school etc etc. it's so fucked up and hardly anyone with a different birthday is doing anything to stop it.

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J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The worst I’ve been “owned” since Hugo did a number on me back on Twitter. Second-guessed every post I made for months afterwords

Hugo tweet evaluating a trite nature observation of mine:

“It's a shame to waste on Twitter what could become 850 gorgeous words on that Sunday Miscellany, with a fat fee to follow.
A closed shop, of course.”

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Me to himself: 'I'm so happy to have been married to you for 25 years.' Him: 'Don't be getting ahead of yourself. We're not there yet.' Our anniversary is on Tuesday. 🤷‍♀️🤣

Pink and grey clouds, with orange undertones, over the Shehy mountains.

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The West Cork Literary Festival starts tomorrow and it is jam packed with stunning events ✨️ There is so much to see (this year's programme is unreal!), but make sure to catch Mary Morrissy in conversation with Danielle McLaughlin and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne on July 12-

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I'm sure data centres will be taking part in these efforts to save water. After all, there can be no question that the human need for water outweighs the needs of computer servers, right? Right? #SpeirGorm

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 01/07/2026

*prepares a hasty thread on the work of Roger Casement to justify why a victory for DR Congo is also a victory for Ireland*

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Over There @coreilly.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Always a joy to watch Thanks for the memories #athletics #speirgorm www.athleticsireland.ie/two-time-oly...

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TWO-TIME OLYMPIAN PHIL HEALY ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM ATHLETICS - Athletics Ireland

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

All week, I’ve seen the best of Belfast at the Book Festival- welcoming, inclusive, creative, joyful- tonight we’re making sure all our lovely guest writers can get home safely through riots and burnt out vehicles and outpouring of hatred. It is such a shame. We are much better than this.

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Fred Logue @fplogue.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

What's terrible about his view on carbon budgets is that these are derived from international law and concepts of equity and climate justice. He invokes SF's working class orientation but ignores the very basis of the international response to climate change and Ireland's role as a rich country

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

nuts that you get guys who are obsessed with the idea of "legacy" for some reason and selfishly build their whole lives around that goal when I'm going to remember Anthony Head with the utmost fondness for the rest of my life because he went out of his way to be kind to a fan

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 25/05/2026

This reminds me of once being on the aircoach from Cork to Dublin and a girl answered her phone and said without pause that she would be at the Workmans in ten minutes. We had just past Tipperary.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is where the absence of strategic oversight hits: in what way is it wise for the UK to lose expertise in China?

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Exciting moment tonight at a horror writers’ panel where it struck me that the “you have to set your story in the past cos of mobile phones” era is over, cos now your phone will lie to you, mislead you, freak you out, let you down, and do all sorts of sinister uncanny shit.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

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Adrian Legg @adrianlegg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Become a legend. Buy an island pub. The Jolly Roger is for sale. Sherkin Island, County Cork. #Speirgorm #Ireland #Pub www.hodnettforde.com/properties/t...

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Adrian Legg @adrianlegg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Come to Sherkin Island. Get a BA in Visual Art with TUDublin. See the world differently. Maybe stay a spell longer... 4 years. Part time. Contact Jesse Jones jesse.jones@tudublin.ie www.tudublin.ie/study/underg... #speirgorm #art #Ireland

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A great interview with the fabulous Eimear O'Herlihy - director of the always wonderful and imaginative West Cork Literary Festival.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The Kings Speech 2, this time it's political

Watch: What next after the King's Speech?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Much like Irish media playing up party's like Aontú. Reform gets a disproportionate amount of air-time from Brit media.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 06/05/2026

“Sudan is an atrocities lab right now.” UN Aid Chief @tomfletcherun.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the dire conditions he saw on the ground in Sudan, and how funding cuts have meant humanitarians must choose which lives to save there. Watch: zeteo.com/p/un-humanit...

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Adrian Legg @adrianlegg.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The local island pub has been colloquially renamed "The Strait of Hormuz". Because no one knows if it is open or closed. #speirgorm #localgossip

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Back garden view this evening. The nights are stretching, lads.

Cnoc Baoi black in the foreground. Light blue evening skies and scattered pink clouds above, fringed by trees.

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

$2 trillion the value of labor and life stolen on Barbados alone. An “accounting of the harm that was done” indeed. 🗃️🇧🇧 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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UK stole 25m years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, says report

Experts put estimate for economic harm done by 200 years of chattel slavery at $2tn, but stress this is ‘not an invoice’

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The perils of freelancing - when you are editing documents on Merino wool in one tab and San Marino's foreign policy in another.

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Booking for the West Cork Literary Festival 2026 is open!

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The language of genocide. Overt, and unabashed. Not one of these people should ever again be able to set foot outside the USA without fear of arrest.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

As a lifelong BBC Radio 4 fan could not be happier to tell you all that #FewAndFarBetween will be Book at Bedtime airing every evening at 10:45 for 2 weeks. Beautifully narrated by Tara Lynne O’Neill and expertly produced by Michael Shannon. Listen along live or listen back on BBC Sounds

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Today I was sitting in a café next to a group of older women who were discussing the Louis Theroux documentary. 'There's a name for it, you know', one of them announced gravely - 'It's male toxicology'. #overheard

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Another #painting from the southwest of Ireland. "Bantry Bay II" came out of a perfect day cycling in West Cork, where in the middle of it myself and the bike had some lunch as we took in the views of all three hundred and and sixty degrees of beauty. #art #SpeirGhorm #ColorADay #BlueTue

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Bottom half is water, rippling in shades of blue including some navy ripples in foreground and stretches of pale aqua blue in the distance. Sparkles of light are rendered in many white dots along the crests of the ripples. 9 small boats are moored in the bay. Some are sail boats with their sails down and some are very small. One is in the foreground - a small boat on the left seen from the side facing right, in shade and backlit light throwing up yellow and turquoise into its little wheelhouse. The rest are in the middle distance, where just past all but one is a boat ramp on the left, silhouetted as a black triangle with a lit up warm top. Beside it is a row of dark piles. At far end of bay is sliver of a beach on the left reaching across to an island on the right. The island has its own little beach and clumps of trees on its steep side and on its top tilted towards us a couple of sloping bright green fields. Behind is a low band of pale green and lilac gently undulating hills and behind it large pale blue mountains. Across the top are white fluffy clouds with a horizontal flat pale grey bottom. The pale blue sky is along the very top edge disappearing behind the very soft smoky top edges of the bank of white clouds. Signed bottom right in very dark blue, Liam Daly

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

If anyone is into knitting or crochet, a Bantry business that was hit by the floods could really do with a bit of support. #speirgorm bantryyarns.ie

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls. But since she asked, "Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States." www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.

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Communities fight 'corporate' bid for seaweed rights

Communities on Ireland's west coast say they will fight to safeguard their traditional seaweed rights against what they describe as a "corporate takeover "of their livelihoods.

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

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