Rachel Neylin
@croballycat.bsky.social
Likes: cats, dogs, art, cycling, gardening, libraries, research. Dislikes: misinformation and shitehawks. Ex-Brummie living in & loving West Waterford, Ireland
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IO SATURNALIA! It’s time to celebrate this Roman winter festival. Here’s our special episode all about it 🥂🎩
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Saturnalia
Natalie Haynes celebrates Saturnalia with guests André Vincent and Llewelyn Morgan.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
IO SATURNALIA! It’s time to celebrate this Roman winter festival. Here’s our special episode all about it 🥂🎩
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Brilliant! You may like these Alt tags @catsofyore.bsky.social The inner life of cats 😅
THREAD.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
December 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Brilliant! You may like these Alt tags @catsofyore.bsky.social The inner life of cats 😅
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Up to €180,000 a year for every family in emergency accommodation is some profitable industry 😢
This is a broken social contract
Homelessness should not be an industry in Ireland but it's a big industry
Tale Cork City
They're enough homes for everyone lying empty across city
Instead money is pumped into boarding these homes up & funding charities to provide services #DerelictIreland #speirgorm
Homelessness should not be an industry in Ireland but it's a big industry
Tale Cork City
They're enough homes for everyone lying empty across city
Instead money is pumped into boarding these homes up & funding charities to provide services #DerelictIreland #speirgorm
December 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Up to €180,000 a year for every family in emergency accommodation is some profitable industry 😢
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Historic core Cork city centre
And you talk about anti-social behaviour
Who are the real vandals?
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm
And you talk about anti-social behaviour
Who are the real vandals?
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Historic core Cork city centre
And you talk about anti-social behaviour
Who are the real vandals?
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm
And you talk about anti-social behaviour
Who are the real vandals?
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm
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This is fascinating stuff.
And I will say again that we should have statues for those unknown inventors of ancient times, in stead of certain politicians and rulers who we have to tear down again after a few generations... ;)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
And I will say again that we should have statues for those unknown inventors of ancient times, in stead of certain politicians and rulers who we have to tear down again after a few generations... ;)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is fascinating stuff.
And I will say again that we should have statues for those unknown inventors of ancient times, in stead of certain politicians and rulers who we have to tear down again after a few generations... ;)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
And I will say again that we should have statues for those unknown inventors of ancient times, in stead of certain politicians and rulers who we have to tear down again after a few generations... ;)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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"Our waters are crying out for a break from the pollution, Irish people [want] clean water, but our voices are drowned out in a world of political wrangling and vested interest.
[But] you can’t drink politics."
Excellent piece by
@elainemcgoff.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
[But] you can’t drink politics."
Excellent piece by
@elainemcgoff.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Most Irish people want clean water, not a nitrates derogation
Has the Government ever asked the people of Ireland if they agree with pulling on the green jersey to convince Europe to give us another derogation?
www.irishexaminer.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
"Our waters are crying out for a break from the pollution, Irish people [want] clean water, but our voices are drowned out in a world of political wrangling and vested interest.
[But] you can’t drink politics."
Excellent piece by
@elainemcgoff.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
[But] you can’t drink politics."
Excellent piece by
@elainemcgoff.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Pod of this week’s Last Word on environment with Matt Cooper on Today FM now available. We did a wrap-up on highs & (mostly) lows of #Cop30, plus we discussed why Iceland is making emergency preparations for possible AMOC shutdown - why isn’t Ireland doing likewise?
www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...
www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...
Good Cop Or Bad Cop? Did Cop 30 Achieve Anything For Climate Action
John Gibbons joins The Last Word to give his assessment of this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Brazil.Catch the full chat by pressing the...
www.todayfm.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Pod of this week’s Last Word on environment with Matt Cooper on Today FM now available. We did a wrap-up on highs & (mostly) lows of #Cop30, plus we discussed why Iceland is making emergency preparations for possible AMOC shutdown - why isn’t Ireland doing likewise?
www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...
www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...
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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
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You might have thought Question Time was biased.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
You might have thought Question Time was biased.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
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Rents rise for council tenants
Tax cuts for developers
Irish government housing policy summed up
#HowIrelandWorks #DerelictIreland
Tax cuts for developers
Irish government housing policy summed up
#HowIrelandWorks #DerelictIreland
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Rents rise for council tenants
Tax cuts for developers
Irish government housing policy summed up
#HowIrelandWorks #DerelictIreland
Tax cuts for developers
Irish government housing policy summed up
#HowIrelandWorks #DerelictIreland
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I defy anyone to claim they haven’t considered this at some point.
Man drove stolen bus to Dublin because other bus was full
A young man stole a Bus Éireann vehicle in Co Donegal and drove it to Dublin after being told another bus was full.
www.rte.ie
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I defy anyone to claim they haven’t considered this at some point.
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Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
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I've TWO of these beautiful 'Witch & Hare' original linocuts by my mum, Jo, to give away to my Bluesky followers. The print is from my recently republished book, Help The Witch.
All you have to do to enter is repost this story from the book (maybe give it a read too?) www.tom-cox.com/robot-2/
All you have to do to enter is repost this story from the book (maybe give it a read too?) www.tom-cox.com/robot-2/
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I've TWO of these beautiful 'Witch & Hare' original linocuts by my mum, Jo, to give away to my Bluesky followers. The print is from my recently republished book, Help The Witch.
All you have to do to enter is repost this story from the book (maybe give it a read too?) www.tom-cox.com/robot-2/
All you have to do to enter is repost this story from the book (maybe give it a read too?) www.tom-cox.com/robot-2/
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"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Probably too late to enter, but I don't care. I love your Mum's art & I adore hares (we have plenty around here) 💕
I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Probably too late to enter, but I don't care. I love your Mum's art & I adore hares (we have plenty around here) 💕
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For all horrified by the fire in an Ipas Centre in Drogheda and wishing to help those impacted - a go fund me has been set up - see 👇🏼#speirgorm
www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-dr...
www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-dr...
Donate to Aid for Drogheda Families After IPAs Centre Arson Attack, organized by Aoibh Nic Gabhann
This fundraiser supports the families affected by the deliber… Aoibh Nic Gabhann needs your support for Aid for Drogheda Families After IPAs Centre Arson Attack
www.gofundme.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
For all horrified by the fire in an Ipas Centre in Drogheda and wishing to help those impacted - a go fund me has been set up - see 👇🏼#speirgorm
www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-dr...
www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-dr...
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Wicklow man charged over false social media post targeting migrant
www.independent.ie/regionals/wi...
www.independent.ie/regionals/wi...
Wicklow man charged over false social media post targeting migrant
A Wicklow man has been brought before a sitting of Bray District Court after allegedly sharing a fake social media post that falsely accused a migrant of indecent behaviour.
www.independent.ie
November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Wicklow man charged over false social media post targeting migrant
www.independent.ie/regionals/wi...
www.independent.ie/regionals/wi...
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The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia.
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia.
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Show me a single Irish politician reacting with even a millionth of the empathy of the woman from Drogheda interviewed on RTÉ News - who was weeping in horror thinking of the people inside the hotel and how terrorised they must have been. Or the man saying the same right after.
November 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Show me a single Irish politician reacting with even a millionth of the empathy of the woman from Drogheda interviewed on RTÉ News - who was weeping in horror thinking of the people inside the hotel and how terrorised they must have been. Or the man saying the same right after.
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Setting fire to a building when people, children, are inside should be investigated like it's an attempted murder because that's what it fucking is.
November 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Setting fire to a building when people, children, are inside should be investigated like it's an attempted murder because that's what it fucking is.
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A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
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The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
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October 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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A massive shout to unbelievable grassroots community who made this movement possible
While we mention Sligo, Drogheda & Martin Leahy in statement we could easily mention hundreds more who've relentlessly supported us in moving #DerelictIreland to top of political agenda
Thank you all for caring ❤️
While we mention Sligo, Drogheda & Martin Leahy in statement we could easily mention hundreds more who've relentlessly supported us in moving #DerelictIreland to top of political agenda
Thank you all for caring ❤️
Last week me & @judesherry.bsky.social told national politicians @oireachtasnews.bsky.social if we continue on our current trajectory it will take 30 years to end #DerelictIreland
Our recommendations included compulsory sales & rental & custodian squatting
Our full statement: lnkd.in/eAWwwPf5
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Our recommendations included compulsory sales & rental & custodian squatting
Our full statement: lnkd.in/eAWwwPf5
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October 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A massive shout to unbelievable grassroots community who made this movement possible
While we mention Sligo, Drogheda & Martin Leahy in statement we could easily mention hundreds more who've relentlessly supported us in moving #DerelictIreland to top of political agenda
Thank you all for caring ❤️
While we mention Sligo, Drogheda & Martin Leahy in statement we could easily mention hundreds more who've relentlessly supported us in moving #DerelictIreland to top of political agenda
Thank you all for caring ❤️