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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 1d

This ... I love the Arts, life wouldn't be worth living without them, ppl who create deserve to be able to not just survive but to live but so do sick & #disabled people why have we been thrown under the bus to keep Ireland in "prosperity" in Pascals own words. #DisabilityRights #Speirgorm

Melissa @melissabreen.bsky.social · 1d

The Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is €325 a week, similar to what they gave out during the pandemic. This is how much they've deemed one needs in order to live in Ireland. So why is disability benefit only €244? Why are disabled and sick people expected to live so far below the poverty line?

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 23h

Agreed.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg has more courage & moral clarity than any world leader I have ever seen.

Bar none.

Period.

That tiny 22 year old is often accused of being annoying, but what she is, is unyielding to moral ambiguity. If it’s wrong, she says so until someone listens.

She deserves the Nobel Prize

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 2d

The GRA was passed in 2015 with very little fanfare following years of courageous campaigning by trans people. We have yet to see any negative ramifications in society - and we won't.

We simply *cannot* have a President of Ireland who speaks about trans women or their human rights in this way.

Reg Coppinger @regcoppinger.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not linking to the article but Heather Humphries thinks the Gender recognition act needs to be looked at, and trans women are not women. #Aras25 #SpeirGorm

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 4d

Cunt

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Israel-Gaza live: airstrikes reported in Gaza despite Trump’s call for Israel to stop bombing ‘immediately’

Netanyahu’s office has said that Israel is preparing for an ‘immediate implementation’ of the first stage of Trump’s Gaza plan * Full report: Donald Trump orders Israel to ‘immediately’ stop bombing Gaza as Hamas agrees to free hostages Turkey said 36 of its citizens were expected to return home via a special flight on Saturday afternoon, after Israel intercepted a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. “We expected 36 of our nationals on the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels seized by Israeli forces in international waters will return to our country this afternoon via a special flight,” Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said on X, adding that the final number has not been finalised. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4d

🔴How Western Media Whitewashed Israel’s Mass-Abduction of Activists

Over 450 members of the aid flotilla to Gaza are now being held by Israel in an “anti-terror” prison in the Negev desert, reports @mathildamall.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

How Western Media Whitewashed Israel’s Mass-Abduction of Activists

Over 450 members of the aid flotilla to Gaza are now being held by Israel in an “anti-terror” prison in the Negev desert

bylinetimes.com

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miridescent.bsky.social @miridescent.bsky.social · 4d

#speirghorm

Rob Cross @robcross247.bsky.social · 5d

Key boxes have become modern-day parasites. Planning compliance rates in Ireland are abysmally low, and regulations are not consistently enforced. No wonder we have record homeless figures every time they're published.
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Airbnb
Photo: Foster Street in Galway City

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Shazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 4d

Fuck Offfff and fuck off Trump, keep your genocidal enabling bloodsoaked paws out of our business! 🤬 #FreePalestine #Gaza #SpeirGorm

www.timesofisrael.com/ireland-said...

Ireland said set to soften planned sanctions on Israel, under pressure from businesses

Multinational corporations, which pay almost a third of Ireland's taxes, warn against discouraging US investors or drawing retaliatory American sanctions on participating companies

www.timesofisrael.com

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 5d

Some inspired, Limerick styled window display down here in Easons O'Connell St. Connor Murray should be honoured.

#speirgorm

Aeroboard Dummy on shop front window of aeasons bookshop. Front jacket of Conor Murray's book Cloud Nine seolltaped do to the head so it looks like his face is on dummy.

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 5d

Monsters

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 5d

Omg an absolute natural and a scream. And her new tune sounds excellent. A banger. Yay.

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 5d

Tolu Makay is the best TV reviewer I've heard in years. On Oliver Callan Now.

She's talking about the week in soaps that she has never watched in her life. It is precious. #speirgor.

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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 5d

Manchán 🕯️

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 5d

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 5d

Ireland has lost a mountain of libraries with the passing of Manchán Magan. A brilliant, gentle, inspiring treasure of a spirit.

As a friend said last night, “He described the Irish language as potent and infinite, but that was him too.”

Seol go réidh, mo chara.

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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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry, but this is some old baloney. But also, I have GDPR questions about the emergance of this story.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 7d

Counter-terrorism gardaí intervened to stop Catherine Connolly from hiring a woman convicted of a gun crime to work in Leinster House, The Journal has learned.
http://jrnl.ie/6830299t

Gardaí blocked Catherine Connolly from hiring woman convicted of gun crime

The presidential candidate sought to hire Ursula Ní Shionnáin, a former Éirigí member who was sentenced to six years in jail by the Special Criminal Court.

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 5d

Jesus Christ. Not sure whats worse at this stage....the tech bros or the comedy bros.

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 6d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 5d

Free Palestine.
Love and solidarity from Limerick

#samudflotilla #gaza #speirgorm

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Chris @cc42.bsky.social · 6d

Israel has intercepted at least some of the Global Sumud Flotilla. It's an illegal interception of a peaceful humanitarian mission in international waters, and is the latest in a long line of actions by Israel that the world's governments should not be standing by and allowing.
#spéirgorm

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6d

BREAKING: Israel has intercepted Global Sumud Flotilla vessels Alma and Sirius, according to activists onboard.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/356qba

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 6d

Contact your elected reps to demand a diplomatic intervention to keep humanitarians safe.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.bsky.social · 6d

A reminder that the Irish government's Climate Action Plan which, as part of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2021 it is obliged to update annually, has not been updated since December 2023.

#spéirgorm

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 7d

Ireland could be hit with fine of up to €26bn for failing to meet emissions targets, C&AG report warns

'If Ireland fails to meet its national emissions reduction targets, the consequences will be significant, affecting the State legally, financially, economically, environmentally, and politically,' report says

dlvr.it

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Morag Friel @moragfriel.bsky.social · 7d

In order to be able to vote for Catherine Connolly in the upcoming Irish presidential election (or for either of the two running against her 😀) you need to be registered before Oct 7th. Check the register or sign up for it here:
www.checktheregister.ie./en-IE/

#spéirghorm
#spéirgorm
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