Edna Dowling
@libertiesbelle.bsky.social
Rugadh agus tógadh i mBaile Átha Cliath 8.
Dubliner. Living the dream.
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." — Oscar Wilde
Dubliner. Living the dream.
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." — Oscar Wilde
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Certain people here on bluesky very much need to read this article today and quit the gatekeeping when it comes to Gaeilge
#Spéirghorm
#Spéirghorm
The Kneecap effect - gatekeepers of minority languages need to loosen their grip and let language live.
Yesterday I learnt that the first Irish-Irish dictionary (monolingual) was published THIS year!
#GaelicRevival #AthbheochannaGaeilge
www.irishcentral.com/no-english-a...
Yesterday I learnt that the first Irish-Irish dictionary (monolingual) was published THIS year!
#GaelicRevival #AthbheochannaGaeilge
www.irishcentral.com/no-english-a...
‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen
What does it mean to lose a language, and what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently, says freelance writer Stephen Burgen
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Certain people here on bluesky very much need to read this article today and quit the gatekeeping when it comes to Gaeilge
#Spéirghorm
#Spéirghorm
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I took all of your advice.
The new boards are now live in the SLATED Landmark Collection.
Feel free to point out any errors. It was a bit of a rush job.
Reposts would be amazing.
Slated.ie
#SLATED #speirgorm
The new boards are now live in the SLATED Landmark Collection.
Feel free to point out any errors. It was a bit of a rush job.
Reposts would be amazing.
Slated.ie
#SLATED #speirgorm
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I took all of your advice.
The new boards are now live in the SLATED Landmark Collection.
Feel free to point out any errors. It was a bit of a rush job.
Reposts would be amazing.
Slated.ie
#SLATED #speirgorm
The new boards are now live in the SLATED Landmark Collection.
Feel free to point out any errors. It was a bit of a rush job.
Reposts would be amazing.
Slated.ie
#SLATED #speirgorm
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The Bookseller's Gift and Once A Year looking good among the Christmas glitter in Dunnes Stores nationwide!
#spéirgorm people, please share the news 🥰📚📚
#Irish #festive #fiction #spéirghorm #booksky #writingcommunity
#spéirgorm people, please share the news 🥰📚📚
#Irish #festive #fiction #spéirghorm #booksky #writingcommunity
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The Bookseller's Gift and Once A Year looking good among the Christmas glitter in Dunnes Stores nationwide!
#spéirgorm people, please share the news 🥰📚📚
#Irish #festive #fiction #spéirghorm #booksky #writingcommunity
#spéirgorm people, please share the news 🥰📚📚
#Irish #festive #fiction #spéirghorm #booksky #writingcommunity
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Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members internationally - one death every 10 minutes, according to the UN, who released their annual femicide report today.
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469
One woman or girl killed every ten minutes by intimate partners or family members, UN says
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, but according to the UN the number of women and girls killed intentionally remains unchanged.
jrnl.ie
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members internationally - one death every 10 minutes, according to the UN, who released their annual femicide report today.
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469
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Here’s the link: www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
It’s probably worth stressing that there will be groups who will be highly motivated and organised in responding to this survey, so if you have primary school age children and don’t want your voice drowned out by such groups, well…
It’s probably worth stressing that there will be groups who will be highly motivated and organised in responding to this survey, so if you have primary school age children and don’t want your voice drowned out by such groups, well…
Primary School Survey
This survey is for parents and guardians of children in primary school or who will enter primary school in the coming years
www.gov.ie
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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I continue to be surprised at how under the radar this is going, considering that it’s more consequential than a lot of the things that #spéirghorm gets worked up about.
There’ll be major handwringing on here if we get a “majority of parents support Church patronage of primary schools” result.
There’ll be major handwringing on here if we get a “majority of parents support Church patronage of primary schools” result.
If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Primary School Survey
This survey is for parents and guardians of children in primary school or who will enter primary school in the coming years
www.gov.ie
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I continue to be surprised at how under the radar this is going, considering that it’s more consequential than a lot of the things that #spéirghorm gets worked up about.
There’ll be major handwringing on here if we get a “majority of parents support Church patronage of primary schools” result.
There’ll be major handwringing on here if we get a “majority of parents support Church patronage of primary schools” result.
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If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Primary School Survey
This survey is for parents and guardians of children in primary school or who will enter primary school in the coming years
www.gov.ie
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
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If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Primary School Survey
This survey is for parents and guardians of children in primary school or who will enter primary school in the coming years
www.gov.ie
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Agreed, dangerous people. This is real good. bsky.app/profile/andr...
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Agreed, dangerous people. This is real good. bsky.app/profile/andr...
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Gentlemen of #Bluesky/#SpeirGorm!
Contacted a friend to go for a drink the other day, he couldn't as he had an operation for cancer a month ago and is undergoing chemo.
He went to the doctor for something different, and a test showed he had cancer.
Get yourselves checked out regularly.❤️
Contacted a friend to go for a drink the other day, he couldn't as he had an operation for cancer a month ago and is undergoing chemo.
He went to the doctor for something different, and a test showed he had cancer.
Get yourselves checked out regularly.❤️
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Gentlemen of #Bluesky/#SpeirGorm!
Contacted a friend to go for a drink the other day, he couldn't as he had an operation for cancer a month ago and is undergoing chemo.
He went to the doctor for something different, and a test showed he had cancer.
Get yourselves checked out regularly.❤️
Contacted a friend to go for a drink the other day, he couldn't as he had an operation for cancer a month ago and is undergoing chemo.
He went to the doctor for something different, and a test showed he had cancer.
Get yourselves checked out regularly.❤️
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At least ive made a start on the talk Im giving on Dec 10! Ps, hardly a horse in sight....
www.communities-ni.gov.uk/events/pictn...
www.communities-ni.gov.uk/events/pictn...
Pict’n Mix: art and identity in Ireland and Scotland’s Iron Ages
New research of a small collection of unusual Iron Age artefacts, mostly found in the north of Ireland, has led to a re-examination of communication between Ireland and Scotland, well before the early...
www.communities-ni.gov.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
At least ive made a start on the talk Im giving on Dec 10! Ps, hardly a horse in sight....
www.communities-ni.gov.uk/events/pictn...
www.communities-ni.gov.uk/events/pictn...
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An arctic species of whale, normally seen in the waters off Greenland, Canada and Siberia has been recorded in Ireland for the first time, after a carcass was found washed up on a beach in Co Donegal
Carcass of arctic whale species found on Co Donegal beach
An arctic species of whale, normally seen in the waters off Greenland, Canada and Siberia has been recorded in Ireland for the first time, after a carcass was found washed up on a beach in Co Donegal.
www.rte.ie
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
An arctic species of whale, normally seen in the waters off Greenland, Canada and Siberia has been recorded in Ireland for the first time, after a carcass was found washed up on a beach in Co Donegal
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We have 101+ years of data on how disastrous british rule has been, economically & societally, in NI. It's been a basket case for decades.
Then, along comes brexit, which accidentally gave us an insight into what an All-Ireland economy might be like.
GRMA (thanks) Brexit! #spéirgorm
Then, along comes brexit, which accidentally gave us an insight into what an All-Ireland economy might be like.
GRMA (thanks) Brexit! #spéirgorm
The key finding of the research, conducted by Dublin City University and the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre, was a €3b p.a. 'subvention' in year one, reaching breakeven point within 5-9 years.
i.e. Reunification would be positive for the whole Island of Ireland.
2/7
i.e. Reunification would be positive for the whole Island of Ireland.
2/7
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
We have 101+ years of data on how disastrous british rule has been, economically & societally, in NI. It's been a basket case for decades.
Then, along comes brexit, which accidentally gave us an insight into what an All-Ireland economy might be like.
GRMA (thanks) Brexit! #spéirgorm
Then, along comes brexit, which accidentally gave us an insight into what an All-Ireland economy might be like.
GRMA (thanks) Brexit! #spéirgorm
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this might be quite a significant moment in the future of the UK Union.
"A cross party group of Irish MEPs has written to the president of the European Parliament requesting that Northern Ireland political representatives be granted observer status at the Brussels and Strasbourg chambers."
"A cross party group of Irish MEPs has written to the president of the European Parliament requesting that Northern Ireland political representatives be granted observer status at the Brussels and Strasbourg chambers."
Observer status sought for NI reps in Euro parliament
A cross party group of Irish MEPs has written to the president of the European Parliament requesting that Northern Ireland political representatives be granted observer status at the Brussels and Stra...
www.rte.ie
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
this might be quite a significant moment in the future of the UK Union.
"A cross party group of Irish MEPs has written to the president of the European Parliament requesting that Northern Ireland political representatives be granted observer status at the Brussels and Strasbourg chambers."
"A cross party group of Irish MEPs has written to the president of the European Parliament requesting that Northern Ireland political representatives be granted observer status at the Brussels and Strasbourg chambers."
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The EU-Mercosur trade deal will be a disaster for rainforests and other natural ecosystems in South America, as well as the climate. Every environmentalist should be fighting this.
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IFJ probe 'undermines' EU-Mercosur trade deal, says IFA
The Irish Farmers' Association has said an investigation carried out by the Irish Farmers Journal in Brazil undermines arguments by the European Commission that the EU-Mercosur trade deal should be ap...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The EU-Mercosur trade deal will be a disaster for rainforests and other natural ecosystems in South America, as well as the climate. Every environmentalist should be fighting this.
share.google/FkOsGQPzuMDO...
share.google/FkOsGQPzuMDO...
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According to the farming organisation, "the team were able to walk into over a dozen agri-stores in Brazil and buy any amount of antibiotics without showing any prescription, ID or herd number and were not asked any questions."
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
IFJ probe 'undermines' EU-Mercosur trade deal, says IFA
The Irish Farmers' Association has said an investigation carried out by the Irish Farmers Journal in Brazil undermines arguments by the European Commission that the EU-Mercosur trade deal should be ap...
www.rte.ie
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
According to the farming organisation, "the team were able to walk into over a dozen agri-stores in Brazil and buy any amount of antibiotics without showing any prescription, ID or herd number and were not asked any questions."
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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A curious robin for #HolidayRobin day!
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A curious robin for #HolidayRobin day!
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding
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The Design and Crafts Council of Ireland emailing yet again to get makers to do their work for them.
Remember, this is the body that tried to sue a maker for having an opinion.
Here is your reminder that the Guaranteed Irish logo does NOT mean a product is made in Ireland.
#SLATED #Speirgorm
Remember, this is the body that tried to sue a maker for having an opinion.
Here is your reminder that the Guaranteed Irish logo does NOT mean a product is made in Ireland.
#SLATED #Speirgorm
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The Design and Crafts Council of Ireland emailing yet again to get makers to do their work for them.
Remember, this is the body that tried to sue a maker for having an opinion.
Here is your reminder that the Guaranteed Irish logo does NOT mean a product is made in Ireland.
#SLATED #Speirgorm
Remember, this is the body that tried to sue a maker for having an opinion.
Here is your reminder that the Guaranteed Irish logo does NOT mean a product is made in Ireland.
#SLATED #Speirgorm