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Felicity Hayes-McCoy

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USA Today Bestselling Irish author. Fiction/non-fic. Upcoming standalone novel #OnceAYear HachetteBooks Irl Oct 2025 Lives London, UK/Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland (Gaeilge agus fáilte). Rep: Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates UK Linktree: https://rb.gy/g9pf2

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · Aug 29

Delighted my upcoming novel Once A Year features in the Sunday Independent's list of Top 40 Bold New Reads for the new season

NB: Indie booksellers @omahonysbooks.bsky.social are currently offering a SPECIAL PRICE & A PRE-ORDER COMPETITION tinyurl.com/2zjw9wf4

#OnceAYear #spéirgorm #Booksky

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

The indictment of Letitia James should alarm us all.

It was meant to send a message: If you cross Trump, you could be next.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 6h

Timeline cleanse
came across tiny postman's gardens in old London where there is a wall of plaques, set up in 1900, for ordinary people who sacrificed themselves to save others...

Beautiful small garden and beautiful tributes

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 13h

Today is Bookshop Day, a day to celebrate ALL bookshops on our high streets.

Bookshops are an integral part of an author's livelihood, and we celebrate all the talented booksellers who share their guidance and expertise.

Visit your local bookshop today and show them your support.

#bookshopday

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11h

This year’s Liberty Festival took place in Wandsworth as part of my London Borough of Culture - a fantastic display of disabled creative talent from across our city.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 12h

Today’s real challenge: getting this vintage plate printing evenly for the inside of the cards.

A vintage metal-on wood printing plate inscribed with the words Christmas Greetings, in a printing chase with spacing and quoins, next to a carbon paper print from the plate. The print is very faint / unreadable at the top and dark at the bottom.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11h

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 1d

We are sorry to hear you have failed to pass your examination, and can only advise you to try again. We do not at all agree with your idea that “the only thing that can be done for you is to run away to London and try to get on the stage” nor do we see how that would help you.

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 14h

So important. They fired people working on Ebola in Africa tonight. The people who track and investigate and report on disease outbreaks. The CDC prior to the first Trump administration was the global gold standard... but the ideologues can't stand it.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 14h

Wot larks

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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @sensorystories.bsky.social · 21h

So what exactly are autistic needs?

This is probably the most confusing aspect of autism.

I think the reason this confuses so many people (even autistic people) is that autistic needs are literally just human needs.

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 14h

Always open to block suggestions (lifeblood of this platform), so nipped over. Looks like he's opened a new account with the same name.

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 14h

Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: For those familiar with Heaney’s work, the new poems will keep them going well beyond Christmas. But soon, the core of the book will matter more – the 12 volumes Heaney published in his lifetime placed in sequence.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: ‘A process of finding echoes and associations’

This book contains Heaney’s unpublished poems plus all those from his single books of poetry published

www.irishtimes.com

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s podcast is on the fallout from a brutal attack by a random stranger - and a quirk of the legal system that leaves victims of the “guilty but insane” with no rights. Listen here:

www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast: Legal loophole leaves attack survivor in the dark over her assailant’s release

After surviving a brutal 2017 attack, Fi Bourke still has no legal right to know when her assailant is freed

www.irishexaminer.com

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 15h

Very interesting discussion on RTÉ radio one with Philip Boucher Hayes now about which agency does what in relation to water, fish, the environment. “That’s not our role” seems to be most of the answers #blackwaterfishkill

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 1d

So many people I'd like to thank in Ireland for championing

Leonard and Hungry Paul @ronanhession.bsky.social

Here's a few

@jackielynam.bsky.social
@kitdewaal.com
Donal Ryan.
@martindoyle.bsky.social
@rickoshea.bsky.social

And all the booksellers & Librarians!

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Leonard and Hungry Paul cast and Director on telling a story about kindness, friendship, and the quiet heroism of everyday life -

The feel-good series stars Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, with Julia Roberts as narrator

www.bbc.co.uk

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 23h

Got to see the first two episodes of the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV show in a small cinema with the crew and cast. With genuine and heartfelt sincerity, I loved it. I feel so grateful to everyone who worked on it.

I hope you all love it as much as I do (but I think you will).

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda want to repost this every day because, while humour isn't a deadly weapon, it is exceptionally powerful in its own way

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: ICE agents just abducted a press camera operator in Chicago.

WGN-TV’s Debbie Brockman was dragged to the ground, cuffed and bundled into a van - which then rammed her vehicle to escape.

What the hell is happening in America?

(🎥 Original footage via Josh Thomas/FB)

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 1d

Goodnight, Yaroslava. Sleep well. 💚

Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 1d

This 👇

Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 1d

Almost midnight in Kyiv.
Calm.
We have power, water.
Drops of rain gently sing a lullaby
to those who didn’t sleep last night.

Please, don’t take for granted
the quiet treasures you have –
power, water, windows, a roof.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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