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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 3d

On a day which included a TV debate and Jim Gavin’s surprise Áras drop-out, Catherine Connolly still found time to impress the public with her football skills.

Read more: jrnl.ie/6836588

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Sep 4

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

www.irishtimes.com

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President of Ireland @president.ie · Jun 28

President Michael D. Higgins has sent a message to all those celebrating Pride today and across the summer

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · Jun 6

Join the Cork branch of the IPSC tomorrow, 1pm, Grand Parade. Stand together for Palestine, against racism, bigotry and the far right.#FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · May 22

10 years ago. As we waited for the #MarRef results at Cork HQ. I’ll never forget that weekend. ❤️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪

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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · May 21

Oh my god, I bawled my way through that hashtag ten years ago 😭❤️

National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · May 21

Thinking of all the people who travelled home to vote #OnThisDay ten years ago for the Marriage Referendum! 📝

[IMAGE: #hometovote pen, ink and watercolour drawing of the Marriage Equality Referendum by @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social, 2015; catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...

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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · May 21

Using this as an example to students next academic year on how AI can’t do hands (ie can neither think critically nor check its own sources)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist

Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partners, a ‘learning moment’

www.theguardian.com

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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · May 19

Una Mullally today on the hope of the #MarRef moment -
“Ten years ago, when we came together, when empathy was expressed, the movement became broad and porous… If we can tap into that again, who knows what kind of society we could be?”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Marriage equality 10 years on: A boy sees us hold hands and says ‘I f***ing hate gay people’

I miss the optimism and unforgettable beauty of that time, whatever ugliness came before or after

www.irishtimes.com

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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · May 19

Ireland (and France) still with above average cinema attendance, a fact I like to see, despite global decrease last year 🎟️🍿

amp.rte.ie/amp/1513629/

Global cinema attendance drops in 2024

amp.rte.ie

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · May 18

Our President calling out apartheid Israel's forced starvation of Palestinians #GazaGenocide #SanctionsNow

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · May 14

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress:

"They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · May 13

Ralph Fiennes and Yorgos Lanthimos were among over 350 artists to sign an open letter denouncing the industry’s silence in response to Cannes film subject, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.

Filmmakers Denounce Industry ‘Silence’ About the Killing of Cannes Film Subject

Ralph Fiennes and Yorgos Lanthimos were among over 350 artists to sign an open letter denouncing the industry’s silence in response to Cannes film subject, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.

www.vulture.com

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · May 11

It has been over 9 weeks of siege on #Gaza, with the State of Israel banning the entry of all humanitarian aid, medical, and commercial supplies.

UNRWA has thousands of trucks ready to enter and our teams in Gaza are ready to scale up the delivery.

The siege must be lifted.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · May 8

Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · May 8

I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · May 2

🇵🇸 Events in solidarity with the Palestinian people around the country this weekend. All out for Palestine! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · Apr 28

“TERF stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, but there is nothing radical or feminist about othering and excluding, about making another person a non-being.”
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Suzanne Harrington: Trans women are not a threat — there is plenty of room for all

TERF stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, but there is nothing radical or feminist about othering and excluding, about making another person a non-being

www.irishexaminer.com

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · Apr 7

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Clodagh Finn: Mother’s Day Gaza vigil highlights Irish discomfort with female protest and dissent

The treatment of Gaza protesters outside the Dáil shows how female dissent is still met with disproportionate force

www.irishexaminer.com

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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · Mar 31

It says on the Eventbrite link that it’s cancelled ?

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Mar 30

Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s #mother, illustrator Signe Hammarsten-Jansson's self portrait, 1910. She had a huge influence on her daughter, including encouraging Tove to draw #womensart

Pen and ink illustration of a white woman walking away from tbe viewer holding a shopping bag and the hand of her child who walks beside her

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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · Mar 26

Ooh.

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · Mar 26

Zendaya will star in a new Ronnie Spector biopic directed by Barry Jenkins

Zendaya To Star In Ronnie Spector Biopic Directed By Barry Jenkins

Well, this is cool. Ronnie Spector had one of the wildest lives in pop music history. She led the Ronettes, the early-’60s girl group who made some of the all-time great pop songs with producer Phil S...

www.stereogum.com

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · Mar 15

“If we accept that war is inevitable, that inequality is inevitable, that environmental destruction is a necessary cost of progress, then we abandon the possibilities of transformation..”

President Michael D Higgins

What’ll we do without him?

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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · Mar 14

WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People":

"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."

Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?”

So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.)

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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · Mar 13

The utter ridiculousness of fox news exemplified in 20 seconds. MM a socialist, jesus wept

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · Mar 13

Micheál Martin lambasted as a “very socialist” leader by Fox & Friends.

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