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Órla Ryan
@orlaryan.bsky.social
Journalist @irishtimes.com; creator of Redacted Lives podcast; Signal: orlaryan.46; she/her
"We believe it is of the utmost importance that we continue to be visibly queer."

Thanks to Lucina and Krystal for their time.

The brazen nature of the attack is very worrying and highlights the dangers many queer people in Ireland face today. This is not ok.
October 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Pro-Palestine activists disrupt Brian O’Driscoll speech over company links to Israeli army
Pro-Palestine activists disrupt Brian O’Driscoll speech over company links to Israeli army
Rugby star was speaking at tech conference organised by cyber security company with Tel Aviv and California offices
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October 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Dublin-based Microsoft engineer quits over tech giant’s links to Israeli military
Dublin-based Microsoft engineer quits over tech giant’s links to Israeli military
Pro-Palestine group protests outside firm’s Leopardstown offices after software worker resigns
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October 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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#globalsumudflotilla livestream, as interceptions are reported. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2... #Gaza
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
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October 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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This morning, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that the Israeli government is committing genocide — affirming what Palestinians and experts have been saying for nearly two years.
September 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Mother says CCTV footage shows creche worker dragging daughter ‘like a rag doll’
Mother says CCTV footage shows creche worker dragging daughter ‘like a rag doll’
Dublin creche ‘immediately’ dismissed staff member and contacted Gardaí
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September 13, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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“Frankly, I’m losing words to describe the horror of this. The worst conflict for journalists that CPJ has ever documented, and the abject failure of the international community to do anything to address it,” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social told @aljazeera.com.

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August 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine.

Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.
August 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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A proposal for a law that would allow religious organisations to be held liable for abuse by their members will not be considered by the Government until 2027 at the earliest.

Delay of law proposal adds to uncertainty around redress for clerical abuse survivors

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Delay of law proposal adds to uncertainty around redress for clerical abuse survivors
Assets of many religious organisations remain beyond reach of courts, even when members are found liable for damages
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July 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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My latest, from the Israel-Gaza border, where I listened in as tour groups came to view the ruins of Gaza: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
July 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Tuam families can see ‘light at the end of a very long tunnel’
Tuam families can see ‘light at the end of a very long tunnel’
Children buried at former mother and baby home site ‘got no dignity in life and got no dignity in death’, sister says
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July 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Tuam mother and baby home: 80 people come forward to give DNA to identify buried children
Tuam mother and baby home: 80 people come forward to give DNA to identify buried children
‘We cannot underestimate complexity of task before us,’ director of organisation overseeing excavation says
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July 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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How Tuam, synonymous with a dark side of Irish history, can finally ‘do the right thing’
How Tuam, synonymous with a dark side of Irish history, can finally ‘do the right thing’
Two very different playgrounds exist in Co Galway town
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June 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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‘I called him Dad’: the Dublin scout leader and the men who accuse him of abuse
‘I called him Dad’: the Dublin scout leader and the men who accuse him of abuse
Neville Kearns died in a crash in 2024, a day before he was due to stand trial on charges relating to assault, rape and attempted rape of boys in the 1980s and 1990s
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June 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Leona Macken on cancer in Ireland: ‘Mammies, daughters, sisters are being ripped from their families’
Leona Macken on cancer in Ireland: ‘Mammies, daughters, sisters are being ripped from their families’
The HSE apologised to Macken, who has incurable cancer, over ‘failings’ of two cervical smear tests
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June 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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With the Tuam exhumation due to begin in mid-June, these are the over 800 most important people at the centre of this.

Found by Catherine Corless and shared with the world in 2014, it's taken 11 years to get to this stage.

#MotherAndBabyHomes

(Red = mothers)

[Accessible file version, see post 2]
June 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Personal fave: Go n-ithe an cat thú agus go n-ithe an diabhal an cat... May the cat eat you and may the devil eat the cat.
Always been taken with an old Irish bardic curse my friend Hugh Cooney was fond of repeating: may you die with your legs up, screaming.
What's the most brutal insult you've ever heard in your language? I think the most savagely specific one that I've ever encountered was from Finnish... sun gradu oli varmaan 20 sivua. It means "your thesis was probably 20 pages long"
April 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Daughter of Easter Rising participant ‘proud’ to attend GPO commemorative event
Daughter of Easter Rising participant ‘proud’ to attend GPO commemorative event
President Michael D Higgins led a commemoration ceremony outside the GPO to mark the 1916 Easter Rising
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April 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Parents of patients call for public inquiry into spinal surgery scandal
Parents of patients call for public inquiry into spinal surgery scandal
Patient advocates say health watchdog’s report leaves ‘more questions than answers’ amid ‘decade of catastrophic failings’
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April 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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"The trauma of our experience has lingered, and having to travel for a termination made an awful situation so much worse"

Women still have to travel from Ireland to the UK for an abortion. They told us about the trauma of this journey.

By @orlaryan.bsky.social as part of #ExportingAbortion series:
'I'll never forgive my country': Women on the trauma of having to travel to UK for terminations
“We brought our baby’s body back in our carry-on luggage, surrounded by frozen vegetables,” one woman told us.
jrnl.ie
April 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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“No one should be forced to seek abortion care outside the state” - Clare O’Brien, IFPA

Women in Ireland continue to encounter bureaucratic hurdles that force them to travel for abortions.

Our latest article by @orlaryan.bsky.social examines why and how women still have to travel:
'The most vulnerable are still being exported': Why and how women have to travel for abortions
Hundreds of women travel from Ireland to the UK every year for terminations.
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April 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Trump tariffs: EU ministers meet to discuss response
Trump tariffs: EU ministers meet to discuss response
Simon Harris will advocate today for a negotiated solution at meeting of European Union trade ministers
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April 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Ireland to push for ‘firm’ response to Trump tariffs as alternative export markets explored
Ireland to push for ‘firm’ response to Trump tariffs as alternative export markets explored
Simon Harris to advocate today for negotiated solution at meeting guiding European Union’s next move
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April 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM