Tina O'Toole
@isdoighliom.bsky.social
Reader, writer, teacher of literature @unioflimerick.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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If a sizeable number of people in Britain believe immigration harms the country the government’s job is to reeducate them not to use their prejudices as the policy making springboard. It’s a Labour government founded on the principles of socialism, compassion and solidarity not expedient cruelty
‘I’m missing so much of my son’s life’: the families split by Labour’s asylum crackdown
‘I’m missing so much of my son’s life’: the families split by Labour’s asylum crackdown
As the government imposes stricter rules for families of asylum seekers coming to the UK, one mother tells how her son is growing up without her
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If a sizeable number of people in Britain believe immigration harms the country the government’s job is to reeducate them not to use their prejudices as the policy making springboard. It’s a Labour government founded on the principles of socialism, compassion and solidarity not expedient cruelty
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The new Pope has made an edict that time spent on the platform at Limerick Junction can be deducted from time in purgatory.
This was sent to me and captures Limerick Junction perfectly - bucketing down and the rain to Cork is late. #Speirgorm
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The new Pope has made an edict that time spent on the platform at Limerick Junction can be deducted from time in purgatory.
What Carrie says:
As an Irishwoman I'm so proud and moved that we as people value hard work, integrity, female resilience, compassion, bravery, and intelligence & that we've positioned those qualities centrally in our nation. Catherine abú. Thar a bheith bródiúil. #spéirgorm #uachtaránnahéireann
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What Carrie says:
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'It's a lost map!'
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
'It's a lost map!'
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
Worth a read …
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
www.irishtimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Worth a read …
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop
October 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop
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October 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Saying that it's "too hard" to get on the Irish president ballot when an independent woman got the entire Irish left to back her, got the biggest vote ever and beat two historically dominant parties is not just wrong - it is breathtakingly offensive and outrageously dishonest.
#Aras25 #Speirgorm
#Aras25 #Speirgorm
October 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Saying that it's "too hard" to get on the Irish president ballot when an independent woman got the entire Irish left to back her, got the biggest vote ever and beat two historically dominant parties is not just wrong - it is breathtakingly offensive and outrageously dishonest.
#Aras25 #Speirgorm
#Aras25 #Speirgorm
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Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.
October 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
October 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
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As the electorate goes to the polls next week, one presidential candidate has been far more active on podcasts than the other.
PR and communications expert Eoghan Tomás McDermott explains to us why this matters.
jrnl.ie/6847584t
PR and communications expert Eoghan Tomás McDermott explains to us why this matters.
jrnl.ie/6847584t
One candidate is winning the podcast war - the other has hardly been on the field
As the electorate goes to the polls next week, one presidential candidate has been far more active on podcasts than the other.
jrnl.ie
October 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
As the electorate goes to the polls next week, one presidential candidate has been far more active on podcasts than the other.
PR and communications expert Eoghan Tomás McDermott explains to us why this matters.
jrnl.ie/6847584t
PR and communications expert Eoghan Tomás McDermott explains to us why this matters.
jrnl.ie/6847584t
Useful 🧵 here:
It’s been a long term goal of the extreme right to detoxify fascism and ultranationalism by distancing it from its *zenith*. So they try to sow doubt & claim that the Nazis were socialists or misguided nationalists. Or more absurdly, that unless you have a time machine you don't fit the definition.
October 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Useful 🧵 here:
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“The miracle that saves the world, the realm of human affairs, from its normal, ‘natural’ ruin is the fact of natality... in other words, the birth of new & the new beginning, the action [people] are capable of by virtue of being born.”
Happy Birthday Hannah Arendt, 14/10/1906 💙🚬
Happy Birthday Hannah Arendt, 14/10/1906 💙🚬
October 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“The miracle that saves the world, the realm of human affairs, from its normal, ‘natural’ ruin is the fact of natality... in other words, the birth of new & the new beginning, the action [people] are capable of by virtue of being born.”
Happy Birthday Hannah Arendt, 14/10/1906 💙🚬
Happy Birthday Hannah Arendt, 14/10/1906 💙🚬
Good point, worth remembering this week
Mary Robinson was also significantly out-of-step with FF/FG throughout much of her tenure (& was subject, prior to her election, to very similar negative campaigning to what we see about Connolly now.)
October 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Good point, worth remembering this week
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Great article by our friend Sarah
Clancy, who was kidnapped by apartheid Israel in international waters trying to get aid into Gaza. Our governments' complicity in the genocide of Palestinians compels us to act in all the different ways we can. #FreePalestine
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Clancy, who was kidnapped by apartheid Israel in international waters trying to get aid into Gaza. Our governments' complicity in the genocide of Palestinians compels us to act in all the different ways we can. #FreePalestine
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Sarah Clancy: Flotillas show that ordinary people must be the antidote to toxic world powers
After arrest, imprisonment, and deportation from Israel, Sarah Clancy, an Irish Gaza flotilla participant, reflects on solidarity, conscience, and the power of ordinary people
www.irishexaminer.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Great article by our friend Sarah
Clancy, who was kidnapped by apartheid Israel in international waters trying to get aid into Gaza. Our governments' complicity in the genocide of Palestinians compels us to act in all the different ways we can. #FreePalestine
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Clancy, who was kidnapped by apartheid Israel in international waters trying to get aid into Gaza. Our governments' complicity in the genocide of Palestinians compels us to act in all the different ways we can. #FreePalestine
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Delighted to have had the opportunity to review Margaret Wards book on rebel women in Northern Ireland-it is a meticulously researched work - offers fascinating insights into the afterlives of northern revolutionary women #speirgorm womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...
Margaret Ward Rebel Women. Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim, 1914-1924, Beyond the Pale Books, Belfast, 2024
Frances ‘Frank’ Brady is one of the few members of Cumann na mBan who went on hunger strike during the War of Independence, and more unusually, for whom a photograph exists of her in bed, in jail, …
womenshistoryassociation.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Delighted to have had the opportunity to review Margaret Wards book on rebel women in Northern Ireland-it is a meticulously researched work - offers fascinating insights into the afterlives of northern revolutionary women #speirgorm womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...
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Tá an scríbhneoir agus an déantóir cláir fhaisnéise agus taistil, Manchán Magan, imithe ar shlí na fírinne.
jrnl.ie/6833855
jrnl.ie/6833855
An déantóir clár faisnéise is ceannródaí teanga Manchán Magan imithe ar shlí na fírinne
Bhain sé cáil amach as a leabhair is a chláir theilifíse a léirigh a thuiscint ar Ghaeilge, stair agus an saol ársa.
jrnl.ie
October 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Tá an scríbhneoir agus an déantóir cláir fhaisnéise agus taistil, Manchán Magan, imithe ar shlí na fírinne.
jrnl.ie/6833855
jrnl.ie/6833855
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16 Irish citizens have now been detained by Israeli authorities including poet Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/news/middle-...
www.rte.ie/news/middle-...
At least 16 Irish held after Israel intercepts flotilla
Israel has said it will deport pro-Palestinian activists on an aid flotilla intercepted at sea as they headed towards Gaza, adding that none of the vessels had breached its maritime blockade of the te...
www.rte.ie
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
16 Irish citizens have now been detained by Israeli authorities including poet Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/news/middle-...
www.rte.ie/news/middle-...
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Please read and reshare our statement on the Global Sumud Flotilla. We at Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann offer solidarity in this time of crisis.
irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...
irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...
Global Sumud Flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
2 October August 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the abduction of poet Sarah Clancy, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla. The flotilla was ...
irishpen.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Please read and reshare our statement on the Global Sumud Flotilla. We at Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann offer solidarity in this time of crisis.
irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...
irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...