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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 5h

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She's Made President http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/08/maria-steen-turning-up-at-gates-of-the-aras-refusing-to-leave-until-shes-made-president/

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She’s Made President

A WOMAN who has never been a presidential candidate or appeared on a ballot paper has taken up residence outside the gates of Leinster House, vowing never to leave until she is made president of …

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 3h

Terrifying scenes from Portland

Some of those people probably wear shoes without socks, grow hipster beards, and can engage in long overly-detailed conversations about coffee roasting

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 4h

I love archaeological reconstructions - and they’re always fun to deconstruct - what is this artists image saying about power, gender, status, etc, and how do these images create thoughts in our head, and how do we watch for their influence on us - they’re active not passive

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 5h

Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“
I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.

A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 9h

We've finally made it to #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖

Here's a reconstruction of Buckspool coastal promontory fort in south Pembrokeshire, a craggy limestone headland defended by a set of intermittent banks & packed with house platforms 😮

Excavations in 2025 revealed a wealth of Roman finds 🏺

📷 My own

Drawing of a coastal fort seen from the air with many roundhouses inside & smoke rising

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 1d

As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'

Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming

This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 17h

Can we now have Irish Times journalists seek out Gareth Sheridan, Conor McGregor, Dolores Cahill, etc, and give them time and space to call for new election as they weren’t able to gather enough support either?

Or is it only Maria Steen that Irish Times needs to write about?

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 20h

Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure

Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot

www.irishtimes.com

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 18h

“Some of her supporters, who include social conservatives and other right-wing voters, have threatened to spoil their ballots on October 24th in protest at what they see as a lack of choice”

This is an awful threat, cancel the election !!!

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 18h

“Some of her supporters, who include social conservatives and other right-wing voters, have threatened to spoil their ballots on October 24th in protest at what they see as a lack of choice”

As is your right, spoil your votes so. Knock yourself out

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 20h

Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure

Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot

www.irishtimes.com

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 18h

She wants to cancel this one, call a new one, and she might try again then

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 19h

Just in. Photos of Jim Gavin hold-out Fianna Fáil canvassers have now emerged from woods around Glendalough and surrendered

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 21h

If you vote for the FG/FF candidate, you’re fine with this government

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 21h

Workers ‘royally screwed’ with ‘sweet package’ for big landlords in Budget 2026, says Sinn Féin

Social Democrats say Government delivered ‘McBudget’ giveaway for fast food chains and developers

www.irishtimes.com

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 21h

Ha ha!! And yet his notebook is really about medieval grave slabs, iconography, material culture, and landscape and sure isn’t the Grail (spoiler alert!), a simple cup of a carpenter. He might be a historian, but he definitely was making the “material culture turn” before historians ! 😁

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 22h

Nah, archaeologists don’t think that, they know when they get older, they can just become his Dad 🙂

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 22h

Nah, archaeologists don’t think that, they know when they get older, they can just become his Dad 🙂

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 23h

Personally, I’m for neutrality but think it’s up to us, under a UN project, to decide how we use our Defence Forces.

Not Russia, China etc

Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 1d

I think the point is that some people don’t want the triple lock removed, which enables Russia, UK, China etc, to say how we use our peacekeepers.

They’d prefer that the democratically elected Dáil not decide such matters, as they don’t think the Irish people can be trusted to elect the right sort

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Steve White @stevewhite.bsky.social · 1d

Huge if true.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 1d

I was talking to someone the other night who uses old election posters to build a pathway out into reedbeds on the Shannon estuary mudflats, for cutting reeds for thatching cottages

Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 1d

Got a poster....

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2d

Balance and focus.

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Catherine Connolly plays keepy uppy. Photo via Gary Gannon TD.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 2d

On a day which included a TV debate and Jim Gavin’s surprise Áras drop-out, Catherine Connolly still found time to impress the public with her football skills.

Read more: jrnl.ie/6836588

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 1d

Popped over to my old X account to check something and saw Catherine Connolly’s gracious post about Jim Gavin’s withdrawal from Irish Presidential election.

And then I read the comments below her post.

Janey Mac… 😳

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 2d

A joke of course - it would be a long list for Trump to ignore, it is a long list indeed

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 2d

Exercise

Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 2d

Jim Gavin, candidate for Irish presidency election withdraws when it emerges 16 years he was an unregistered landlord and did not repay €3,300 to a tenant.

Would information emerging like this have made President Trump withdraw from an election?

Surely yes?

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Jim Gavin withdraws from presidential election

Fianna Fáil candidate’s move leaves Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly in race for Áras

www.irishtimes.com

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