Aisling Cahill (she/her)
@aislingcahill.bsky.social
Speech and Language Therapist, advocate for children's literacy and literature, fervently hoping we can make things Better.
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What is wrong with (some) men who feel the need to use X/Grok to create images of women and girls without their clothes?
The fact that their minds even go there is unfathomable.
Yes, sort out X/Grok/AI, etc but something else will pop up to replace them.
We need to address how (some) men see women
The fact that their minds even go there is unfathomable.
Yes, sort out X/Grok/AI, etc but something else will pop up to replace them.
We need to address how (some) men see women
January 6, 2026 at 6:24 PM
What is wrong with (some) men who feel the need to use X/Grok to create images of women and girls without their clothes?
The fact that their minds even go there is unfathomable.
Yes, sort out X/Grok/AI, etc but something else will pop up to replace them.
We need to address how (some) men see women
The fact that their minds even go there is unfathomable.
Yes, sort out X/Grok/AI, etc but something else will pop up to replace them.
We need to address how (some) men see women
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Do you work with a bookseller who goes above and beyond?
Our nominations for the O’Brien Bookseller of the Year Award 2026 are now OPEN and we’d love to hear from you! It’s easy to nominate and the winner will join some of the best people in the industry on the list of winners.
Our nominations for the O’Brien Bookseller of the Year Award 2026 are now OPEN and we’d love to hear from you! It’s easy to nominate and the winner will join some of the best people in the industry on the list of winners.
January 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Do you work with a bookseller who goes above and beyond?
Our nominations for the O’Brien Bookseller of the Year Award 2026 are now OPEN and we’d love to hear from you! It’s easy to nominate and the winner will join some of the best people in the industry on the list of winners.
Our nominations for the O’Brien Bookseller of the Year Award 2026 are now OPEN and we’d love to hear from you! It’s easy to nominate and the winner will join some of the best people in the industry on the list of winners.
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My 7yo son is such an inveterate bookworm that pals regularly ask me for reading recommendations which might get their kids - especially boys - reading too.
So this week, I turn the reins of my column to the man himself, so he can give you his BOOKS OF THE YEAR.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
So this week, I turn the reins of my column to the man himself, so he can give you his BOOKS OF THE YEAR.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Book of the year? Ask my son | The Observer
He considers Bunny Vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business to be ‘the best yet’ in the cartoon series
observer.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
My 7yo son is such an inveterate bookworm that pals regularly ask me for reading recommendations which might get their kids - especially boys - reading too.
So this week, I turn the reins of my column to the man himself, so he can give you his BOOKS OF THE YEAR.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
So this week, I turn the reins of my column to the man himself, so he can give you his BOOKS OF THE YEAR.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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Artists as the world crumbles around us
January 3, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Artists as the world crumbles around us
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CNN: We have major breaking news. CNN just learning of explosions in Caracas, Venezuela… We have now have CNN's own teams that have personally witnessed explosions.
January 3, 2026 at 6:46 AM
CNN: We have major breaking news. CNN just learning of explosions in Caracas, Venezuela… We have now have CNN's own teams that have personally witnessed explosions.
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Our message from Dublin today, and every day, Ireland stands with Palestine, always.
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
December 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Our message from Dublin today, and every day, Ireland stands with Palestine, always.
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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Don't think I've spoken to a single artist who didn't struggle this Christmas, and I spoke to a lot, so even if it's not my work I'd really encourage people to try to support a local artist that you like instead of big corporations - every single sale makes a real, tangible difference to their life.
If, like me, you did NOT get the ONE thing you wanted from Santy (a 95-year-old bachelor farmer with plenty land and a bad cough), treat yourself to a print from an Irish doodler instead - big discounts across the shop, including on bundles, so go on. Go on go on go ON.
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
December 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Don't think I've spoken to a single artist who didn't struggle this Christmas, and I spoke to a lot, so even if it's not my work I'd really encourage people to try to support a local artist that you like instead of big corporations - every single sale makes a real, tangible difference to their life.
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
On our Annual Christmas Tree Walk.
Little One: Well, I think they will need Rudolph tonight! It's so cloudy up there it looks just like fog
Husband: Oh yeah, you know that they got the idea for fog lights on cars from Rudolph?
Little One: Wowww
Me: *swoon*
Little One: Well, I think they will need Rudolph tonight! It's so cloudy up there it looks just like fog
Husband: Oh yeah, you know that they got the idea for fog lights on cars from Rudolph?
Little One: Wowww
Me: *swoon*
December 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
On our Annual Christmas Tree Walk.
Little One: Well, I think they will need Rudolph tonight! It's so cloudy up there it looks just like fog
Husband: Oh yeah, you know that they got the idea for fog lights on cars from Rudolph?
Little One: Wowww
Me: *swoon*
Little One: Well, I think they will need Rudolph tonight! It's so cloudy up there it looks just like fog
Husband: Oh yeah, you know that they got the idea for fog lights on cars from Rudolph?
Little One: Wowww
Me: *swoon*
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Blue sky and Solstice sun.
We are open 'til 6pm.
We are open 'til 6pm.
December 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Blue sky and Solstice sun.
We are open 'til 6pm.
We are open 'til 6pm.
Parenting with lingering vertigo: entirely forgot smallest child is a vegetarian and dished him up roast chicken and potatoes.
He's now having glazed carrots and a bowl of cereal for dinner :/
He's now having glazed carrots and a bowl of cereal for dinner :/
December 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Parenting with lingering vertigo: entirely forgot smallest child is a vegetarian and dished him up roast chicken and potatoes.
He's now having glazed carrots and a bowl of cereal for dinner :/
He's now having glazed carrots and a bowl of cereal for dinner :/
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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When you drift through some unheralded point in your 40s, you start accumulating actuarial risks.
The odds of illness, heart attack, or the chances losing of a parent go up.
But there is another risk- particularly acute for men.
There is a risk you will lose your capacity for joy.
The odds of illness, heart attack, or the chances losing of a parent go up.
But there is another risk- particularly acute for men.
There is a risk you will lose your capacity for joy.
December 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
When you drift through some unheralded point in your 40s, you start accumulating actuarial risks.
The odds of illness, heart attack, or the chances losing of a parent go up.
But there is another risk- particularly acute for men.
There is a risk you will lose your capacity for joy.
The odds of illness, heart attack, or the chances losing of a parent go up.
But there is another risk- particularly acute for men.
There is a risk you will lose your capacity for joy.
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"Petite" sizes often don't take plus-sized shorter women into account, while "Curvy" sizes rarely acknowledge that plus-size women aren't always tall, so I'd like to propose a new women's clothing size category - Little Teapot, for those of us who are short AND stout
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Petite" sizes often don't take plus-sized shorter women into account, while "Curvy" sizes rarely acknowledge that plus-size women aren't always tall, so I'd like to propose a new women's clothing size category - Little Teapot, for those of us who are short AND stout
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First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
So Santa has asked me to help out in getting a typewriter to a 10yo boy. Who knew they were so hard to find these days? Any pointers of even where to look? We are coming up blank. #SpeirGorm
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
So Santa has asked me to help out in getting a typewriter to a 10yo boy. Who knew they were so hard to find these days? Any pointers of even where to look? We are coming up blank. #SpeirGorm
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An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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So apart from being very talented my brother David is very brave. While his film Eternity was being wrapped up he had a very serious diagnosis and he has written about it here time.com/7339094/eter...
Me, My Film, and My Massive Brain Tumor
David Freyne directed and co-wrote a film about death. Then, he learned he had a brain tumor the size of an apple.
time.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
So apart from being very talented my brother David is very brave. While his film Eternity was being wrapped up he had a very serious diagnosis and he has written about it here time.com/7339094/eter...
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Blew out my front tyre swerving into a ditch out of the way of an oncoming Range Rover with floodlight strength LED headlights.
The sooner these are regulated the better - both the size of range rovers et al and those fkn LED headlights
The sooner these are regulated the better - both the size of range rovers et al and those fkn LED headlights
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Blew out my front tyre swerving into a ditch out of the way of an oncoming Range Rover with floodlight strength LED headlights.
The sooner these are regulated the better - both the size of range rovers et al and those fkn LED headlights
The sooner these are regulated the better - both the size of range rovers et al and those fkn LED headlights
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I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
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An Post last posting dates for Christmas
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
An Post last posting dates for Christmas
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Record breaking prices for artwork sales do not, sadly, represent an investment in art and artists.
Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage.
Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage.
A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million (€47.34m ) in New York yesterday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said
Frida Kahlo painting auctions for $54.6m
A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million (€47.34m ) in New York yesterday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Record breaking prices for artwork sales do not, sadly, represent an investment in art and artists.
Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage.
Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage.
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). We honour the memory of those who have been murdered due to transphobia and to raise awareness about the ongoing violence and discrimination faced by the transgender community.
#TDoR
#TDoR
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). We honour the memory of those who have been murdered due to transphobia and to raise awareness about the ongoing violence and discrimination faced by the transgender community.
#TDoR
#TDoR
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Your Burke name is the first name on this list you've never seen before (with the same first letter as your actual name) + Burke.
Link in alt text. Signed, Dabbasheth Burke.
Link in alt text. Signed, Dabbasheth Burke.
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Your Burke name is the first name on this list you've never seen before (with the same first letter as your actual name) + Burke.
Link in alt text. Signed, Dabbasheth Burke.
Link in alt text. Signed, Dabbasheth Burke.