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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 11h

Looking forward to this tomorrow "Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives", in TCD.
Story of the American Revolution is not over, appears to continue to this day?
@tlrhub.bsky.social @virtualtreasury.bsky.social
www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
#histfest2025

Ireland and the American Revolution - Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute | Trinity College Dublin

A-two day conference exploring the role of Ireland and its people in the American Revolution, will take place in Trinity Long Room Hub on Thursday, 9 October and Friday, 10 October.

www.tcd.ie

Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 11h

Curtain opens?
Presidential race live updates: Catherine Connolly refuses to say if she acted for banks as barrister in repossession cases
#aras25
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Jim Gavin’s solicitor says former tenant will be repaid €3,300 ‘subject to clarifying two issues’

Taoiseach ‘very sorry’ for Jim Gavin, denies leadership under threat

www.irishtimes.com

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 17h

Bertie Ahern presidential bid would have been ‘bruising’ for him, says Martin
- and a big laugh for the rest of us
#aras25

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republi...

Bertie Ahern presidential bid would have been ‘bruising’ for him, says Martin

If Bertie Ahern has been chosen as Fianna Fail’s presidential candidate it would have been “bruising” for him, Micheal Martin has said.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 17h

It is well known they can't stand each other': Connolly campaign won't take down video featuring Michael D Higgins

Video also features clips of #MaryMcAleese and #MaryRobinson
#MichaelDHiggins
#aras25
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

'It is well known they can't stand each other': Connolly campaign won't take down video featuring Michael D Higgins

Catherine Connolly’s team is refusing to remove a campaign video that features a clip of Michael D Higgins used without his permission.

www.independent.ie

Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 21h

More than 100 million people, including at least 15 million children, use e-cigarettes, fuelling a new wave of nicotine addiction, the World Health Organization (WHO) is warning.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Alarming number of people now vape, says WHO

More than 100 million people, including at least 15 million children, use e-cigarettes, fuelling a new wave of nicotine addiction, say experts.

www.bbc.com

Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly campaign will not remove campaign video that used Michael D Higgins clip without permission - she fell out with President Higgins years ago, and opposed him when she left the Labour Party

www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

Catherine Connolly campaign will not remove campaign video that used Michael D Higgins clip without permission

Catherine Connolly’s team is refusing to remove a campaign video that features a clip of Michael D Higgins used without his permission.

www.independent.ie

Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 1d

Drones delivery services should be regulated of course, lets not kill off home grown Irish Enterprise?
10K plus customers for the service, there's obviously a demand

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Roderic O’Gorman TD @rodericogorman.bsky.social · 1d

And that’s why I’m publishing legislation to fill the gaps in the existing laws. Hopefully Government won’t block these common sense measures.

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 1d

Worth getting input of the new drone businesses too?
Lets not kill off Irish Enterprise,
and join the anti-tech Luddites

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 4d

Fantastic new tech that Ireland is leading on, let's not kill local entrepreneurship and bring Ireland back to the 1980s?
Yes, of course better regulation is required,
but service is meeting the needs of thousands of Dublin 15 residents

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Roberta Metsola @president.europarl.europa.eu · 2d

Two years. #7October2023

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 2d

Jim Gavin!
What a turn-on for #Speirgorm!
– unable to defend Connolly’s links to fellow campists Wallace & Daly, hiring of a released gun convict, admiration for Assad’s regime, equivocation over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, likening modern Germany to the Nazis, and opposition to common EU defence.

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 2d

Delays, distrust, dynamic prices and Trump chaos - how 'welcoming' will FIFA World Cup be?
No harm if Ireland won't qualify?
#WorldCup
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

World Cup tickets: 2026 USA tournament prices, visas and security explained

BBC Sport explores the issues which could make fans feel less than welcome when the World Cup takes place in the United States next year.

www.bbc.com

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 2d

Jim Gavin!
What a turn-up for #Speirgorm -unable to defend Connolly’s links to fellow campists Wallace & Daly, hiring of a released gun convict, admiration for Assad’s regime, equivocation over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, likening modern Germany to the Nazis, and opposition to common EU defence.

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Dublin Maker @dublinmaker.bsky.social · 2d

🪛 Know what kind of things are repaired at a Repair Café?

Bring your broken bits along to the Repair Café TOG Hackerspace on the 18th of Oct and learn how to fix them with help from our amazing volunteers. ♻️☕

🎟️ Tickets: www.eventbrite.ie/e/repair-caf...

Promotional flyer for a "Repair Café" event held at Tog Hackerspace, Dublin 12, on Saturday, October 18, from 2:00pm to 6:00pm. The flyer asks, “What type of things get repaired at a Repair Café?” and features colorful illustrations of repairable items grouped into four categories: electronics (record player, radio, vacuum cleaner), toys and small furniture (toy dinosaur, game controller, table, lamp), clothing (backpack, shirt, jacket), and kitchen appliances (kettle, toaster, hand mixer).

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 2d

Very much so, poignant too.

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 2d

Is that the Achill Mission on the cover?

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin @donnachadcu.bsky.social · 12d

A presidential candidate in Ireland has claimed that Germany’s recent increase in defence spending echoes Nazi rearmament during the 1930s.

I explain here why that parallel is not just misleading but simply wrong.

Full article: irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41712842.html

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 2d

Well worth the visit, thank you Oliver

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · 2d

My family exhibition The Objects of Love, first shown at
at Dublin Castle and @92ndstreety.bsky.social NY
opens at the Radogoszcz Museum, Łódź, Poland on 5th Oct 2025.

Radogoszcz was previously a notorious Gestapo detention centre. It was here that my grandfather, Pawel Rozenfeld was detained.

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 2d

Jim Gavin!
What a turn-up for #Speirgorm -unable to defend Connolly’s links to fellow campists Wallace & Daly, hiring of a released gun convict, admiration for Assad’s regime, equivocation over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, likening modern Germany to the Nazis, and opposition to common EU defence.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 6d

If you're in Dublin next week come join me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social at the Institute of International & European Affairs (IIEA) on Thursday where we'll talk about our new book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

Details: www.iiea.com/images/uploa...

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 2d

Best of luck with next one, happens even to a "seasoned' pro like yourself

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Conor Molloy | 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 @conormolloy.bsky.social · 3d

Is this headline correct? Should it not read 'heating' pumps? There's no notice on CCPC either, a link would be helpful 😡. Picture is wrong too?
@conorpope.bsky.social www.ccpc.ie/consumers/pr...

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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 3d

Well, we now know her inspiration