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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 4h

Jesus

Snopes @snopes.com · 4h

✅ Yes, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, "Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism." www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...

RFK Jr. said children circumcised early had 'double' rate of autism linked to Tylenol use

The U.S. secretary of health and human services cited a preprint study to back his claim.

www.snopes.com

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Reg Coppinger @regcoppinger.bsky.social · 5h

#SmearTheBejaysis

Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 6h

Catherine Connolly never says thank you to the driver when she’s getting off the bus!

Don’t miss my hard hitting investigative expose in tomorrow’s Independent.

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 19h

28 billion fine on the way
Scandalous statement from MM

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

“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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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Its pretty good. Alan reninding me of Paudie with a dark streak. But its so different.

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october krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 1d

so fucking devastating.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Israel has killed the third son of Gaza journalist Motasem Dalloul.

Motasem A Dalloul
@AbujomaaGaza
Israeli occupation forces have just killed my third son, Ibraheem..
RIP my dear son.
6:06 AM • 10/9/25 • 186K Views

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

save us wine moms

I’ve Had It Podcast @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

We should all be anti-fascist. #antifa

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 1d

Super takedown of hypocritical performers at recent Riyadh Comedy festival @ladyhaja.bsky.social

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 2d

💀💀💀

Haydyn Williams @tine119.bsky.social · 2d

Such an easy mistake to make….

Heather Humphreys removes campaign video mistaking Belfast for Berlin jrnl.ie/6838547

Heather Humphreys removes campaign video mistaking Belfast for Berlin

A shot of the Reichstag in Berlin appeared to have been included in the video instead of Belfast City Hall.

jrnl.ie

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 2d

🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 2d

This fills me with the rage. The sooner this fucking Bubble bursts the better....but itll prob be like 2007 again....but on steroids.

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 2d

Once a content thief, always a content thief www.theverge.com/news/674366/...

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

www.theverge.com

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 3d

This ... I love the Arts, life wouldn't be worth living without them, ppl who create deserve to be able to not just survive but to live but so do sick & #disabled people why have we been thrown under the bus to keep Ireland in "prosperity" in Pascals own words. #DisabilityRights #Speirgorm

Melissa @melissabreen.bsky.social · 3d

The Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is €325 a week, similar to what they gave out during the pandemic. This is how much they've deemed one needs in order to live in Ireland. So why is disability benefit only €244? Why are disabled and sick people expected to live so far below the poverty line?

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 3d

Agreed.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg has more courage & moral clarity than any world leader I have ever seen.

Bar none.

Period.

That tiny 22 year old is often accused of being annoying, but what she is, is unyielding to moral ambiguity. If it’s wrong, she says so until someone listens.

She deserves the Nobel Prize

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 4d

The GRA was passed in 2015 with very little fanfare following years of courageous campaigning by trans people. We have yet to see any negative ramifications in society - and we won't.

We simply *cannot* have a President of Ireland who speaks about trans women or their human rights in this way.

Reg Coppinger @regcoppinger.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not linking to the article but Heather Humphries thinks the Gender recognition act needs to be looked at, and trans women are not women. #Aras25 #SpeirGorm

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 6d

Cunt

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Israel-Gaza live: airstrikes reported in Gaza despite Trump’s call for Israel to stop bombing ‘immediately’

Netanyahu’s office has said that Israel is preparing for an ‘immediate implementation’ of the first stage of Trump’s Gaza plan * Full report: Donald Trump orders Israel to ‘immediately’ stop bombing Gaza as Hamas agrees to free hostages Turkey said 36 of its citizens were expected to return home via a special flight on Saturday afternoon, after Israel intercepted a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. “We expected 36 of our nationals on the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels seized by Israeli forces in international waters will return to our country this afternoon via a special flight,” Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said on X, adding that the final number has not been finalised. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 6d

🔴How Western Media Whitewashed Israel’s Mass-Abduction of Activists

Over 450 members of the aid flotilla to Gaza are now being held by Israel in an “anti-terror” prison in the Negev desert, reports @mathildamall.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

How Western Media Whitewashed Israel’s Mass-Abduction of Activists

Over 450 members of the aid flotilla to Gaza are now being held by Israel in an “anti-terror” prison in the Negev desert

bylinetimes.com

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miridescent.bsky.social @miridescent.bsky.social · 7d

#speirghorm

Rob Cross @robcross247.bsky.social · 7d

Key boxes have become modern-day parasites. Planning compliance rates in Ireland are abysmally low, and regulations are not consistently enforced. No wonder we have record homeless figures every time they're published.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Airbnb
Photo: Foster Street in Galway City

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Shazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 7d

Fuck Offfff and fuck off Trump, keep your genocidal enabling bloodsoaked paws out of our business! 🤬 #FreePalestine #Gaza #SpeirGorm

www.timesofisrael.com/ireland-said...

Ireland said set to soften planned sanctions on Israel, under pressure from businesses

Multinational corporations, which pay almost a third of Ireland's taxes, warn against discouraging US investors or drawing retaliatory American sanctions on participating companies

www.timesofisrael.com

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 7d

Some inspired, Limerick styled window display down here in Easons O'Connell St. Connor Murray should be honoured.

#speirgorm

Aeroboard Dummy on shop front window of aeasons bookshop. Front jacket of Conor Murray's book Cloud Nine seolltaped do to the head so it looks like his face is on dummy.

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 7d

Monsters

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 7d

Omg an absolute natural and a scream. And her new tune sounds excellent. A banger. Yay.

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 7d

Tolu Makay is the best TV reviewer I've heard in years. On Oliver Callan Now.

She's talking about the week in soaps that she has never watched in her life. It is precious. #speirgor.

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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 7d

Manchán 🕯️

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 7d

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 7d

Ireland has lost a mountain of libraries with the passing of Manchán Magan. A brilliant, gentle, inspiring treasure of a spirit.

As a friend said last night, “He described the Irish language as potent and infinite, but that was him too.”

Seol go réidh, mo chara.

Manchán Magan: writer and documentary maker dies aged 55

Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair

www.irishtimes.com

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