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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃

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Photographer 📸, Web Developer 💻 Corkonian in Liverpool 🔴⚪ Ranter on Irish Politics 🙃 Obsessed with Smart Thinking Books 📚 Hopeful for Climate Action Now 🌍 Into New/Experimental Music 🎶 Tá Gaeilge agam 🇮🇪 linktr.ee/dfeehely

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · Jun 15

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1h

Happy #SmartThinkingSaturday!

@elliottspeaks.bsky.social, author of Change Your Questions, Change Your Future recommends a great group of books!

smartthinkingbooks.com/smart-thinki...

#bookrecommendations #booksky #nonfiction #smartthinkingbooks

Elliott Connie Interview - Smart Thinking Books - Books To Fuel Your Mind!

Interview with Elliott Connie, author of Change Your Questions, Change Your Future: Overcome Challenges and Create a New Vision for Your Life Using the Principles of Solution Focused Brief Therapy rec...

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 2h

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's Michael Collins

Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 2h

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's Mystic Pizza

Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social · 2h

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's Nympho Pizza Delivery Plumber Stepsisters Vol. XX1.

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 2h

"It might be a bit of a concern for Micheál Martin that a columnist whose primary concern is seeing if he can fit a Muppets reference into his weekly reflections is giving him better advice than his advisors, and for free no less. "

#IrishPol

Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 3h

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 4h

#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae
Mushroom / Muisiriún

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 14h

Catherine Connolly makes unnecessary journeys.

Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 16h

I saw Catherine Connolly watch an ambulance pass by and she didn't bless herself.

Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 17h

Catherine Connolly seen buying 11 items in the 10 items or less aisle!

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 21h

They sure did "bulid a new future" 😬

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 23h

These aren’t offhand remarks. They’re a pattern.

They minimise. Mock. Downplay. Delay. Ignore.

The climate crisis is here. The question is: will our leaders wake up before it’s too late.

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 22h

Chuala mé gur dúirt sí gur nach mbeidh sí ar ais.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 1d

Something that really makes me furious about this is Martin is 65. He’s safe in the knowledge that he won’t be around to see the worst of climate change but he’s also saying that he doesn’t care about what Ireland would be like for future generations. He doesn’t care about his own legacy.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 1d

MM refusing to do anything on climate shows that he puts disproportionate weight on the opinions of lobbyists for data centers, car manufacturers, dairy, etc cause support for government action on climate change actually unites people across the country..so who is he talking about?

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

I hear she hates Coddle. Don't at me.

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

Where do you even start with this shit 😩

Do you know what else will polarise society?

Food shortages because we can't reliably grow as much because of...you guessed it Micheál...Climate Change.

13% more rain. Storms, floods, climate migration.

Fucking coward

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae
Post / Cuaille

A wooden marker post in the grass among sand dunes.

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

Fine Gael 🤮

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 1d

The Connolly campaign see the Presidency as an opportunity to further Catherine's lifelong mission of helping people. Fine Gael see it as a strategy game to be won at any cost. Straight from the horse's mouth #spéirgorm #Áras2025

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

He's such a bollox 🤮

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

🤯🤯🤯

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 2d

Minister O'Brien is _very_ comfortable with untruth., The reality is that the aviation sector cannot be decarbonised using existing technology. "Sustainable" Aviation Fuel makes up less that 1% of the fuel mix and is essentially impossible to scale up beyond that.

Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 2d

Asked about the effects of ending the Dublin Airport Cap on the climate, Minister O'Brien says "SAFs will play the greatest role in decarbonising the aviation sector". www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/q... Background on so called "SAF" aka unsustainable biofuel: stay-grounded.org/wp-content/u...

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

That's like saying paper straws will play a role in decarbonisation.

Technically true but utterly miniscule in their effect in both scale & timeline.

He's such a dangerous chancer.

Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

The rush of anticipation from putting a new bag AND filter in the hoover is unmatched. Ar aghaidh linn!

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

Cool! Undiscovered talents are the best 😀

Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

Ha! Who knows 😀

Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 2d

Maybe there was a resurgence of it around that time 😬

Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 2d

".. I know now that if we want change we have to fight for it"
🔥🔥🔥

#Áras25

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 2d

My partner's letter in today's Clare Champion. I'm very proud of her. Catherine Connolly's campaign is giving hope to people who have felt disenfranchised for so long. #spéirgorm ##Áras2025

Young people do have a future in Ireland

I’m not a very political person.

That’s a strange thing to admit as someone with two degrees in politics, but whatever enthusiasm I had for political engagement was quickly snuffed out as I graduated into an Ireland of austerity and dwindling opportunities. I knew change was needed and I was excited to vote for it, but time and again I was shown that change wasn’t possible. I voted to elect Labour - I got Fine Gael. I voted to elect the Greens - I got Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. If I just stayed home, I still got Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.

Time after time, Ireland’s youth begged for changes that would give us some hope for the future, but every time we were told that our lives mattered less than rising house prices. It was obvious there was no future for me in Ireland, so I took the same path as so many others before me and sought a better life in Australia. I had no intention of coming back. Ireland had turned her back on me long before I turned my back on her.

Covid forced me back home and I wasn’t happy about it. I met someone when I returned and we’ve done our best to build a life here, but always with one foot out the door. Melbourne has never stopped calling to me.

On September 22nd, my partner happened to be watching Catherine Connolly’s campaign launch and sitting beside him I felt something stir that I thought was long gone - hope. Catherine Connolly and the people she shared that stage with shared a vision for Ireland’s future that had a place for me in it. I heard Holly Cairns express that the presidency can be a role that highlights who we want to be, not just accepting the shortcomings of who we are right now. I heard Mary Lou McDonald speak of an Ireland where the aspirations and wellbeing of the people come first. I heard Paul Murphy reassure us that there is indeed hope that the 100 year rule of Fine Fáil and Fine Gael can be ended. Finally, when Catherine herself spoke, I saw why each of these le…

A photo of 4 women and a man canvassing for Catherine Connolly. It's a selfie style shot and most people are wearing Catherine Connolly badges or clothing.

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