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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 10h

This is a bird thread, I want to give a special mention to our feathered friend, the kestrel, who carries an important meaning for Palestine.

The Gaza Giving Circle is also a great initiative to amplify and contribute to. Six families with urgent needs being helped.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · Jul 29

Our kestrel represents resistance (the support front of mutual aid) & the martyrs (whom we seek to honor always)—of all of Palestine. We fight not just for these six families, but Palestinian life.

Give to anyone, act for all of Gaza, today today today. chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

This Is Fascism

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 18h

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 18h

#Aras25 poll: Business Post/Red C
(October 1-7, MoE 3%)

ℹ️ Sampling began before Gavin’s withdrawal

Connolly 36
Humphreys 25
Gavin 12
undecided 27

After Gavin eliminated:
Connolly 39
Humphreys 31

W/o undecideds:
Connolly 56
Humphreys 44

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Red C Poll: Connolly leads but Heather gains from Gavin exit

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 18h

That's so horrific

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 18h

Wonderful to hear ❤️

Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 18h

He's not wrong. It's celtic tiger stuff all over again

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Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 22h

ICYMI: Budget 2026 includes a VAT cut on apartment sales from 13.5% to 9%. Gavan Reilly says it’s “a bailout to an industry which is already profitable, at a time when everyone else has been told to suck it up.”

📺Catch up on #TheGroupChat on Virgin Media Play.

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 18h

That's so sad, thinking of his friends and family at this awful time ❤️

Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 18h

If we can't look after the most vulnerable members of society, what kind of people are we?

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 19h

A primary school in Kildare is facing an uphill battle to get more special education supports for its students.

The school's principal said her students are being "badly let down by a poorly resourced system".

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'A total nightmare': A Kildare primary school's fight for support for its students

The school’s principal said her students are being “badly let down by a poorly resourced system”.

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 23h

I think they thought i was dressed too eccentricly

Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 23h

I was wearing these glasses

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 1d

They made me remove the flower in my hair before I went up there because they said it was disrespectful. They also made me take off my glasses 🙄

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 1d

Greece’s famed Parthenon free of scaffolding for first time in decades

Walking along the broad pedestrian street that runs along the base of Athens’ famed Acropolis Hill, visitors can now enjoy something not seen in ...

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Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 1d

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is pushing back against criticism of #Budget2026 after ESRI findings suggested households will lose 2% of disposable income. He denies this, saying differences in measurement methods may explain the figures.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 1d

At least 60 people were killed today in a paramilitary drone attack on a displacement camp in the city of El-Fashar in western Sudan, activists said, doubling their earlier toll.
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'The world remains silent': At least 60 dead after drone strike in Sudan's El-Fasher

Activists described the scene as a “massacre” with bodies trapped in underground shelters.

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 1d

Really disappointing to hear that rte radio are still treating presenters so poorly. No matter the industry it's terrible form to pull someone off air suddenly and tell them they no longer have a job - with no notice. Rte did this to Louise McSharry a few years ago and now Ray Darcy.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

This week's changes in RTÉ Radio 1 follow two years of tumult and ruction in Montrose and management have been on a mission to right the ship amid on-going staff unease and mistrust, writes Alan Corr rte.ie/b/1537955 rte.ie/b/1537955

RTÉ's reshuffle kerfuffle brings big changes to Radio 1

Ray D'Arcy's shock exit and the appointment of Kieran Cuddihy as the new host of Liveline were all part of major changes on RTÉ Radio 1 this week

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 1d

Have just read that overall arts funding has been cut by €2M in the last budget- where/who has that money been cut from? #Budget25 #Speirgorm

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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 1d

Israel strikes south Lebanon, killing one and wounding seven

Israel has carried out intense air strikes on southern Lebanon, killing one person, wounding seven and briefly cutting a highway that links Beirut ...

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 1d

We want to hear our readers' reflections on Michael D's two terms in Áras an Uachtaráin.

You can get in touch my emailing [email protected] with a paragraph or two (around 200 words). Please let us know your name, where in the country you're living, and whether you would like to be anonymous.

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Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 1d

Aid agencies are urging all crossings into Gaza to open immediately to deliver vital food and medical supplies, as the latest truce between Israel and Hamas takes effect. UNICEF says over 1,300 trucks are ready, but UN officials say the aid surge hasn’t begun.

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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 1d

Report calls for strong measures to protect child victims of trafficking

There are 528 separated children being accommodated by Tusla

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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 1d

Carrickmines fire tragedy 10 years on: ‘The pain and suffering was left to the families – it’s still there’ www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

Carrickmines fire tragedy 10 years on: ‘The pain and suffering was left to the families – it’s still there’

It has been 10 years since a devastating fire engulfed a mobile home at a temporary halting site in Carrickmines in south Co Dublin.

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 1d

"Actors who have taken million-dollar paychecks to attend the Red Sea film festival include Will Smith and Johnny Depp."

All these famous people taking the soup from Saudi Arabia are showing themselves to be truly the Most Awful People.

SmidgenDublin @smidgendublin.bsky.social · 1d

#NOTALWAYSGOODNEWS #riyaghcomedyfestival Excellent article by @ladyhaja.bsky.social 👏👏👏 #speirgorm www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy ...

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 2d

That was obvious from the last budget which missed many opportunities to help fight climate change including incentives to use electric vehicles and more charging points. #ClimateEmergency

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2d

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

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

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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.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

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