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Patrick Brannigan

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In Choirs; on board of Housing Rights NI, worked at QUB Belfast An Dún/music/nature/whatever resonates....

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · Jan 4

This is but one version of my work history. In it, I'm suggesting that social interactions are vital, hint at issues around managerialism and corporatism (see later episodes!); and how singing in a work choir was life changing...
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BLOG: Gestetner to Office 365: Looking back on my time at Queen's

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Gerry McBride @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 1h

Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 5m

It's lamentable.

Perhaps not quite #ReichstagGate but it's stupid and ignorant.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 7m

What happened here? Norman Hamilton is very impressive, and it looks like he was treated despicably. It happened prior to Claire Hanna taking over.

#SpéirGhorm

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Norman Hamilton says apology needed from SDLP over New Ireland Commission

SDLP MP Colum Eastwood says the New Ireland Commission has

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Melissa Chemam @melissaontheroad.bsky.social · 12m

the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 17m

The Reichstag is a legislative government building on Platz der Republik in Berlin that is the seat of the German Bundestag.

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 24m

Reichstaggate

#Aras25

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 24m

Reichstaggate

#Aras25

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David Phinnemore @dphinnemore.bsky.social · 2h

Interested in what voters in Northern Ireland currently think about Brexit, the Windsor Framework and UK-EU relations?

Join @katyhayward.bsky.social and me on Friday 24 October as we present the findings from our latest polling with @lucidtalk.bsky.social

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Post-Brexit Clinic at Queen's - October 2025

Join us online for our latest Post-Brexit Clinic for updates on the Protocol/Windsor Framework.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 6h

Up and over, they congregate and go.

New life, life renewing itself.

North Belfast

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 8h

Mushrooms on the march

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 9h

And why is the I.T. bothering to quote her?

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 9h

Good food in the Maghera Inn, near Newcastle, Co Down.

And 0.0% Free Damm beer from the tap and from Barcelona.

#Catalonia
#SpéirGhorm

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 11h

Spoke with TD Barry Heneghan on the #EchoChamberPod who was onboard the Thousand Madleens to Gaza Flotilla yesterday just as they were entering the “red zone.” A few hours later he was abducted by Israeli forces in international waters alongside the rest of his humanitarian crew.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

NEW! from @nicolefroio.bsky.social: The reason governments, universities, and other public institutions across the world want to quash pro-Palestine speech—including art and music—is because they understand the danger it poses to life as we know it. Which is all the more reason to say it louder.

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 10h

You're welcome. Hope the album sells well.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 12h

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 12h

A company in Northern Ireland supplied parts for F-35 fighter jets, despite assurances from economy ministers that Invest NI does not support projects that supply arms to Israel.

Further proof NI firm supplied fighter jet parts to Israel

A company in Northern Ireland supplied parts for F-35 fighter jets, despite assurances from economy ministers that Invest NI does not support projects that supply arms to Israel.

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Tom McKinney @tommckinney.bsky.social · 12h

Wednesday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3 is live. Andras Schiff in Bach Before 7, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, looking back at Jess Gillam's brilliant debut album ... and ... Scooby Doo. Sort of. Come join us! 6.30-9.30

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 12h

Georgia Mann on #BBCradio3 has @musicasecreta.bsky.social new album as Album of the Week. Yesterday she quoted from the @lauriestras.bsky.social article about the source www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/articl...

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 12h

Róisín Ingle writing about Manchán Magan.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13h

Manchán Magan was a great man for a video message. You’d never know what you might get

One of the most precious gifts cancer has given me is a deep friendship with this extraordinary Irish man

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 13h

Just keep saying "robust and comprehensive" and it will have been so.

Many organisations duly and respectfully follow governance procedures. Why is this not so when a party is required to respect the electorate?

Not to mention when driving buses over ....

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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 20h

🗣️ "Beyond asking Jim Gavin, what was the other thing that you did that was robust and comprehensive?" Kieran Cuddihy

🗣️ "There are a number of people who would go through a due diligence process with a presidential candidate..." Jack Chambers, Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13h

Seán Moran: Jim Gavin’s stark weekend, from crowning glory to cautionary tale

Dublin’s record breaker and football’s saviour is the latest to fall prey to the political snake pit

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 21h

The moon is starting to wane.

From Dundrum looking across the Inner Bay to Ballykinlar.

Those lights are the former military camp barracks. Do we pay for all that igniting. In the clip, you see occasional sweeps of St John's Point Lighthouse further east.

Co Down
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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Firethorn/Pyracantha,

Chambers says: "near akin to hawthorn. [Gr. pyrakantha-pyr, fire, akanthos, thorn.]".

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
#Autumn

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 23h

Hearing reports of Jim Gavin canvassers in the Wicklow mountains who are refusing to surrender.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Firethorn/Pyracantha,

Chambers says: "near akin to hawthorn. [Gr. pyrakantha-pyr, fire, akanthos, thorn.]".

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
#Autumn