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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 2d

"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning."

They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 8h

Or, for true Irish people #SmeartheBejaysus

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No left wing movement is complete without a split

Jennifer O'Meara @jenniferomeara5.bsky.social · 18h

Catherine Connolly decided to confuse the bejaysus out of #SpeirGorm by having 2 hashtags going at the same time!

#SmearTheBejaysus #SmearTheBejaysis

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Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 15h

Montreal has incredible cycling infrastructure. Way more bike lanes than Vancouver, Bixi is everywhere, and you notice more bikes locked up on the sidewalk.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Donald Clarke @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 8h

I hammered out a few more unworthy words on Diane Keaton. It really does feel as if the evening is drawing in. www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

Charming, eccentric and likeable, no star had energy quite like Diane Keaton

Laid-back Californian built a 60-year career unlike any other, from Annie Hall to The Godfather

www.irishtimes.com

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 11h

"She is the dream actress that every director should have." —Gillian Armstrong

Rest in peace to the great Diane Keaton, fearless and unique, a dream actress indeed. 📷 Norman Seeff, Los Angeles, 1975

Black and white shot of Diane Keaton in a tank top with her hands behind her head. I like this photo for its simplicity; you can feel her personality.

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 8h

Diane Keaton! Oh no #RIP

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 1d

In addition to being totally pathetic, he's also completely wrong.
EPA polls consistently show that the vast majority, across all ages, incomes , urban or rural, all want the government to take action.
So by polarising, he must mean that Micheal o Leary,Amazon, and Tirlan don't want it

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2d

“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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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 8h

There is

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 18h

Why am I voting for Catherine? She’s an ambassador for an Ireland that would have brought me home sooner.

Her election feels like the beginning of a broader movement to build a better Ireland, one worth fighting for, worth canvassing for. It’s a vision that feels like home.

Katie Ryan
Kilrush

Photo of Catherine Connolly with reader’s letter - 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 Melbourne has never stopped calling to me.

On September 22, 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 leaders who took the stage had put t…

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 13h

Right back at you

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 18h

Live long and prosper Denise

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 18h

Thanks Deirdre!

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 20h

Catherine Connolly built the RTÉ Player #Smearthebejaysus

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 2d

The British Pathe title card for this film of the 1920 burning of Cork describes it as a “mystery fire” 🤔

Ireland’s Agony

The Burning of Cork by British forces took place on the night of December 11th and 12th 1920 during the Irish War of Independence. It followed

ifiarchiveplayer.ie

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 2d

Great to see John Banvil e getting the Nobel Peace Prize

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Care of Earth and People Ensure A Future World 🌎 @bpermaculture.bsky.social · 4d

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 4d

Me every single budget day:

STOP GIVING MILLIONS TO GREYHOUND RACING

a cartoon of spongebob squarepants giving a thumbs up sign

Alt: a cartoon of spongebob squarepants giving a thumbs up as he gets blasted by a megaphone

media.tenor.com

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 4d

Amid the constant anti-renewables sentiment so common across our media, this letter today is a blessed relief.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 5d

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."
-Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist

#BicycleBirthday
October 7 (1931 -2021)

Photo of a man wearing a tie standing astride a bicycle with one arm raised in the air.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 5d

In a free post over on ‘All Old Strange Things’, I wrote about Ludovic Slimak’s ‘The Last Neanderthal’: open.substack.com/pub/drfranci... @politybooks.bsky.social

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 8d

We have completely normalised investment in congestion, pollution and the continuation of car-first planning, says @ciarancannon.bsky.social

www.thejournal.ie/readme/bike-... #cycling

Opinion: Those outraged by a €100k bike shed should look at the annual cost of renting out car park spaces

We have completely normalised investment in congestion, pollution and the continuation of car-first planning, writes Ciarán Cannon.

www.thejournal.ie

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 10d

Preventing an aid convoy from reaching starving people is a crime against humanity. There is no conceivable justification for such a blatant, brazen act of evil.

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 9d

Honestly, I find it pretty distasteful that prisoner rehabilitation - a very bog standard liberal value, not even an especially radical one - can be very easily thrown out the window by the likes of Michéal Martin for the sake of cheap politicial point-scoring. www.thejournal.ie/catherine-co...

Connolly defends trying to hire woman convicted of gun crimes after Taoiseach attacks judgement

As revealed by The Journal yesterday Catherine Connolly sought to hire a woman sentenced to six years in jail by the Special Criminal Court.

www.thejournal.ie

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · 10d

Earth lost a conservationist and scientist like no other, and I am saddened profoundly by this news. Dr. Jane Goodall changed lives and attitudes about conservation and respect for nature wherever she went. A gifted leader in every way.

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... 🧪

Jane Goodall, primate expert and conservationist, dies aged 91

Goodall was a pioneer in her field, both as a female scientist in the 1960s and for her work studying the behavior of primates

www.theglobeandmail.com

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