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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 5d

Is briseadh mór croí dom an scéal a chloisteáil faoi bhás Mhanchán Magan ar maidin. Thug sé beocht agus brí nua don teanga trína chuid oibre ag léiriú gur lionsa eile í an Ghaeilge leis an domhan a fheiceáil agus a thuiscint.

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 5d

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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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 12d

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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Mountain Rooster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪 @mountainrooster.bsky.social · 19d

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 21d

Yep. Arrested them for just long enough for the parade to complete, then they said “whoops, sorry” and let them go without charge. It’s such bullshit.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah this is the one that most recently stands out to me. Just arresting people for completely bullshit made up reasons and holding them until after the event.

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Bullivant @bullivant.bsky.social · 21d

Interesting, thanks Melody.

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Melody. @melodyfair.bsky.social · 21d

Legally challenging the individual officers doing this, rather than the CC of TVP, would almost certainly have an effect.

It's well established that individual officers have to conclude areest or other action is necessary. That just following orders thing again.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 21d

www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/...

Police admit breaking law on anti-China protests

The Metropolitan police today admitted they broke the law in their handling of demonstrators during the state visit of Chinese president Jiang Zemin last October. Police parked their vans in front of ...

www.theguardian.com

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 21d

Lian is amazing. She’s also one of the people responsible for Waking the Feminists and has co-edited a new book about it, out this month with @ucdpress.bsky.social www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

WTF HAPPENED

Great theatre changes the atmosphere in the room and reshapes how we see our lives. Great campaigning changes our vision of society and reshapes our future. When the Abbey Theatre’s 2016 centenary pro...

www.ucdpress.ie

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Bullivant @bullivant.bsky.social · 21d

When was that Steve, can you remember?

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 21d

Last time I recall police going so heavy-handed on demos against visiting govt bigwigs was for that renowned democracy China.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 21d

This is absolutely delightful.

Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 21d

The council wasn’t hiring a municipal walker, but she took the job anyway. Once a month since September 2022, artist Lian Bell has done a full circuit of the North and South Circular Roads, observing these 14km through the seasons.

The council wasn’t hiring a municipal walker, but she took the job anyway

Once a month since September 2022, artist Lian Bell has done a full circuit of the North and South Circular Roads, observing these 14km through the seasons.

www.dublininquirer.com

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 21d

This is fascism. 👍

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 21d

🚨Watch as police confiscate van showing Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump in Windsor amid the US president's state visit

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Bullivant @bullivant.bsky.social · 21d

Exactly. Presumably the objective is to get it off streets so as not to 'upset' Trump (the big man baby) and worry about the rest later. The rest including presumably legal action against the police followed by rapid capitulation and settlement.

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Aaron Vincent @pylade.bsky.social · 21d

On what grounds?

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 21d

🚨Watch as police confiscate van showing Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump in Windsor amid the US president's state visit

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Lisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 23d

First celebratory lunchtime pint as an Irish citizen. Beer by Rascals.

Pale white lady in green dress with a Rascals Happy Days

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Bullivant @bullivant.bsky.social · 23d

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23d

Conor McGregor can't stand he needed 20 Irish MP's to nominate him.

He got 0, nobody, diddly squat, he hasn't dropped out.

He has been thrown out.

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Bullivant @bullivant.bsky.social · 23d

Musk fulfils every definition needed to be classified as a foreign terrorist and a promoter of terrorism in the UK. He, his hate-filled platform, and all his companies need to be banned. Why are people still buying cars from him knowing that they are funding fascism?

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 23d

🔴‘My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk’s Far-Right Hate’

Labour MP @noahlawmp.bsky.social explains why it’s time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the ‘foreign extremist’ he now is

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...

'My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk's Far-Right Hate'

Labour MP Noah Law explains why it's time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the 'foreign extremist' he now is

bylinetimes.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24d

Not only has Starmer said nothing about yesterday’s march, his official account has put out a statement *on X* this morning about financial investment in Britain. Dismal.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 25d

Elon, speaking at the Tommy Robinson march today: “This is a government against the people and not for the people, this is why everyone is gathered here today…we don’t have another four years…there’s got to be a dissolution of parliament”

And the government just…continues to use X.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 26d

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish.

The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts

Social media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.

www.denverpost.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25d

There's very good money in being a right-wing hate monger.

We really need to be pointing that out a lot more. It's a path to wealth for quite a few people on both sides of the Atlantic in the age of politainment.

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