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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 3h

It should be this amount regardless of whether ex tenant has asked for it or not. If Gavin has any moral compass - he should now transfer that amount and say sorry - and then, like all of us, learn from it and know nothing goes away. Idea he knew the ex-tenant was now a working journalist baffles.

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 4h

So Gone Gavin now issuing statements making the repayment of funds he has owed for 16 years - conditional on some quibbles he has with tenant's story in podcast - and no 'sorry' ? He should actually pay interest on the sum for last 16 years - and move on #spéirghorm

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 7h

We need to tell the trends in climate and energy despite the Trampian and corporate push back on climate action globally - renewables outstripping coal in electricity
#climate ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember

Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

ember-energy.org

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 18h

What a dope www.rte.ie/sport/other-...

McGregor accepts ban for anti-doping violation

Conor McGregor has accepted an 18-month ban for a violation of the UFC Anti-Doping Policy.

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Tóchar Community Stories @tocharstories.bsky.social · 4d

Creating postcards from our bog nature & creative art project in Kilteevan NS/ Kilteevan Tidy Towns on Cloonlarge Bog (art mentored by @anniehollandart.bsky.social) Just want to showcase one of the beautiful pieces by a then 2nd class boy- Hadi - and his version of the common Blue #Tócharstories

Hadi and his Mum at the exhibition showcasing all the children's bog butterfly work on the last day of school term in June - Tóchar Stories

Hadi's version of the Common Blue butterfly found on Cloonlarge Bog - Tóchar Stories - Kilteevan

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 22h

www.rte.ie/news/courts/... The appalling continued abuse of Nikita Hand by refusal of these guys to accept the verdict (post an appeal) and their responsibility

Supreme Court asked to hear Conor McGregor appeal

Former MMA fighter, Conor McGregor and his friend, James Lawrence have asked the Supreme Court to hear their appeals in the civil cases taken by Nikita Hand against them.

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 1d

pretty important for USA - let's be honest. Seems the 'defending democracy and NOT * note caps* giving in to the rightward slide' core is in your net. We're actually just sweeping out the waters flooding in from Stateside.

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 2d

We think we're bad here in #spéirghorm with #aras25 falling apart - take a look at neighbour France where the new PM has had the timeline of a hot cup of tea. www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

New French PM resigns hours after cabinet unveiled

France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned, just hours after appointing his new cabinet, after allies and foes alike threatened to topple his government.

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 2d

The focus on the unpaid monies - misses the point that if he had complied with law and registered the tenancy with RTB - the tenant would have had easy access to his rights under RTB - and RTB would have handled it. For me the failure to register is the core issue.

Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 2d

idea a future president thinks its ok to dismiss registering a rental property ( let alone the missing payment)- and thinks that's what most people did - suggests he's not fit to be a candidate. Lots of people followed law and registered rental property - He'd be better to stop defending #aras26

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 2d

Bertie in the FF 'auld fellas' WhatsApp group right now must be priceless
(Bob Geldof's "I dont like Mondays' ringing in MM ears)
#Spéirghorm

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 2d

Seems candidate agrees - but how bizarre to now have just two candidates? www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 2d

idea a future president thinks its ok to dismiss registering a rental property ( let alone the missing payment)- and thinks that's what most people did - suggests he's not fit to be a candidate. Lots of people followed law and registered rental property - He'd be better to stop defending #aras26

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 2d

yes, missed key themes and no real development because of lack of time

Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 3d

Aine Lawlor doing a great job on #aras25 debate - no great surprises but good to see engagement - where is the question on our existential crisis - climate and environment ? #spéirghorm (the blog notes attempting to do live summary are quite funny): www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Candidates debate issues facing next president

Follow live coverage of the first of RTÉ's live debate in the presidential campaign, where all three candidates are discussing the issues facing the tenth president of Ireland

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 3d

Israel shows how it has lost its morality, ethical compass and humanity, treating Thunberg & humanitarians as 'terrorists' - degrading her simply ensures the world sees what's happening - the shame of their genocide deflecting into hatred and barbarism of those seeking to provide aid.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 3d

The Times of Israel reports that Greta Thunberg & her fellow Flotilla crew are being held in a special "terrorist" section of Ketziot prison—or in "terrorist conditions," as Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security put it.

www.timesofisrael.com/thunberg-sai...

On Friday, the ultranationalist minister suggested that Israel would be better off throwing the flotilla participants in prison for several months
rather than immediately deporting them back to their home countries. Security prisoners - those incarcerated for offenses that intentionally harm national security - are housed separately from criminal prisoners and are not eligible for many of the benefits available to the general prison population. The term is a catch-all term applied to detainees, convicted prisoners and terrorists, and administrative detainees who are held
without charges for extended periods, without trial.

"We are in Ketziot prison, and as I promised, those flotilla members,
supporters of terrorism, are here in a security prison," Channel 14 reported
Ben Gir as saying. "They receive conditions for terrorists here, for everything, terrorist sweatpants, terrorist conditions. This means, there is a minimum of the
minimum, that's what I promised and that's how we are fulfilling it."

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Matt McGrath @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social · 3d

Thorough reporting on the scale of the loss of Switzerland’s glaciers

Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes

They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 4d

#Spéirghorm - @tocharstories.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @katiesmirnova.bsky.social #Roscommon

Tóchar Community Stories @tocharstories.bsky.social · 4d

Creating postcards from our bog nature & creative art project in Kilteevan NS/ Kilteevan Tidy Towns on Cloonlarge Bog (art mentored by @anniehollandart.bsky.social) Just want to showcase one of the beautiful pieces by a then 2nd class boy- Hadi - and his version of the common Blue #Tócharstories

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 4d

Misses the point that the single way to make #Dublin better is to change how it is run - implement the Citizens Assembly on Dublin - it's always about governance #spéirghorm. These are all piecemeal not transformative change.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 4d

10 ways to make Dublin better: From public baths to scrapping gated communities

Open schoolyards at weekends, softer lighting and more places to sit down would help

www.irishtimes.com

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 4d

Does the continued labelling of Gaza by media as an 'enclave' help the narrative that somehow it is not a real and legitimate place. For Palestinians - it is part of Palestine ? Enclave is not an accurate definition given it has a border with Egypt ...it is lazy short-hand.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Trouble brewing: Maya people in Yucatán fear new Heineken plant’s thirst for water

Indigenous groups in Mexico opposed to the planned brewery say families already have little access to water – and that their way of life is also under threat

www.theguardian.com

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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 4d

Large housing developers in Ireland also have large land banks, the two publicly listed companies report 35,000+ development sites between them

Colbobs.bsky.social "Col" he/him/his @colbobs.bsky.social · 4d

At their reduced level of completions since interest rates started rising, the 8 companies here, could keep going until around 2040 without buying another plot.
Land-banking for profit reduces affordable housing, not migration.

Land banking: construction companies still hoarding land

The big boys of construction are sitting on enough land to build a couple of cities, and their stashes have increased by nearly 10 per cent in just a year.

www.bigissue.com

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 4d

All the stories in #Ireland but this is obviously what @nytimes.com love to focus on to feed Irish-American fantasy of 'homeland' -better if they had tapped into the work of Manchán Mangan #spéirghorm
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...

Ireland’s Last Leprechaun Whisperer Reaches for a Pot of TV Gold

www.nytimes.com

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 4d

Amazing to see a woman PM in #Japan - in the 90s when there on a study trip found Japan had zero tolerance of women in leadership - was told women were given advanced education in order to be good mothers to next generation - not to lead - so welcome progress www.rte.ie/news/asia/20...

Nationalist Takaichi set to be Japan's first female PM

Japan's ruling party has picked conservative nationalist Sanae Takaichi as its head, putting her on course to become the country's first female prime minister.

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 4d

pretty useless at present given there's so little engagement from some of the 3 candidates - some of our previous presidents were not fluent Irish speakers? McAleese had to learn and did so rapidly. Reducing climate to question of 'there's too many policies'?? - questions could be more nuanced

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 4d

The sham Israel 'peace' deal - all a cover for complete destruction of Gaza - as Israel blasts civilians despite Hamas offer. Blair and Trump complicit in enabling genocide www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Heavy air strikes reported in Gaza despite Trump appeal

Gaza's civil defence agency said that Israel carried out dozens of air strikes and artillery shelling on Gaza City despite US President Donald Trump's appeal to end bombardments after Hamas agreed to ...

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