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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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Can we now have Irish Times journalists seek out Gareth Sheridan, Conor McGregor, Dolores Cahill, etc, and give them time and space to call for new election as they weren’t able to gather enough support either?

Or is it only Maria Steen that Irish Times needs to write about?
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13h
Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure
Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure
Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot
www.irishtimes.com
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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“Some of her supporters, who include social conservatives and other right-wing voters, have threatened to spoil their ballots on October 24th in protest at what they see as a lack of choice”

This is an awful threat, cancel the election !!!
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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“Some of her supporters, who include social conservatives and other right-wing voters, have threatened to spoil their ballots on October 24th in protest at what they see as a lack of choice”

As is your right, spoil your votes so. Knock yourself out
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13h
Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure
Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure
Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot
www.irishtimes.com
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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She wants to cancel this one, call a new one, and she might try again then
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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Just in. Photos of Jim Gavin hold-out Fianna Fáil canvassers have now emerged from woods around Glendalough and surrendered
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Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure
Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure
Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot
www.irishtimes.com
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

aidanosullivan.bsky.social
If you vote for the FG/FF candidate, you’re fine with this government
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 14h
Workers ‘royally screwed’ with ‘sweet package’ for big landlords in Budget 2026, says Sinn Féin
Workers ‘royally screwed’ with ‘sweet package’ for big landlords in Budget 2026, says Sinn Féin
Social Democrats say Government delivered ‘McBudget’ giveaway for fast food chains and developers
www.irishtimes.com
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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Ha ha!! And yet his notebook is really about medieval grave slabs, iconography, material culture, and landscape and sure isn’t the Grail (spoiler alert!), a simple cup of a carpenter. He might be a historian, but he definitely was making the “material culture turn” before historians ! 😁
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Workers ‘royally screwed’ with ‘sweet package’ for big landlords in Budget 2026, says Sinn Féin
Workers ‘royally screwed’ with ‘sweet package’ for big landlords in Budget 2026, says Sinn Féin
Social Democrats say Government delivered ‘McBudget’ giveaway for fast food chains and developers
www.irishtimes.com
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by Aidan O’Sullivan — Reposted by: Aidan O’Sullivan

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Nah, archaeologists don’t think that, they know when they get older, they can just become his Dad 🙂
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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Personally, I’m for neutrality but think it’s up to us, under a UN project, to decide how we use our Defence Forces.

Not Russia, China etc

by Aidan O’Sullivan

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I think the point is that some people don’t want the triple lock removed, which enables Russia, UK, China etc, to say how we use our peacekeepers.

They’d prefer that the democratically elected Dáil not decide such matters, as they don’t think the Irish people can be trusted to elect the right sort
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News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
www.theguardian.com
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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I was talking to someone the other night who uses old election posters to build a pathway out into reedbeds on the Shannon estuary mudflats, for cutting reeds for thatching cottages
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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 22h
Got a poster....
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Got a poster....
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As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'

Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming
This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

aidanosullivan.bsky.social
Popped over to my old X account to check something and saw Catherine Connolly’s gracious post about Jim Gavin’s withdrawal from Irish Presidential election.

And then I read the comments below her post.

Janey Mac… 😳
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On a day which included a TV debate and Jim Gavin’s surprise Áras drop-out, Catherine Connolly still found time to impress the public with her football skills.

Read more: jrnl.ie/6836588
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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A joke of course - it would be a long list for Trump to ignore, it is a long list indeed
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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Exercise

by Aidan O’Sullivan

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Jim Gavin, candidate for Irish presidency election withdraws when it emerges 16 years he was an unregistered landlord and did not repay €3,300 to a tenant.

Would information emerging like this have made President Trump withdraw from an election?

Surely yes?

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Jim Gavin withdraws from presidential election
Fianna Fáil candidate’s move leaves Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly in race for Áras
www.irishtimes.com
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Balance and focus.

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Catherine Connolly plays keepy uppy. Photo via Gary Gannon TD.
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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Indeed. What a week, and it’s only Monday. Rumours now that a quarter of the current Dáil membership who happen to be the parliament in charge of Irish housing policy, rents, have considered their position and announced they won’t run in next election

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
How many landlords and property owners are in the Dáil?
Election 2024: An Independent TD is the largest property owner in the Dáil, according to the most recent members’ interests report
www.irishtimes.com
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Report “littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references” www.afr.com/companies/pr...
Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report
Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.
www.afr.com
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Reposted by: Aidan O’Sullivan, Catherine J. Frieman

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For day three of #archInk prompt: flint
I created a digital collage of tools used during flint knapping and the by products spreading around the production zone: flakes and blades.

#archaeology #archInk2025
Digital collage showing hands reaching upward among flintknapping tools such as antler tines, hammers, and scrapers. Flint flakes are scattered across circular green and ochre shapes. The word “FLINT” appears in cut-out letters near the bottom right
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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Lots of references to natural phenomena in medieval Irish annals, stranding of whales, crops of nuts, heavy snows, etc. some might be sly references to kings, ie bad things don’t happen under just rulers, but some of them might just be remarkable happenings
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

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Annals of Ulster for AD 836

“A great crop of mast, both nuts and acorns, and as a result the streams became blocked up and stopped running”
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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 2d
A mast year to be sure. Oak legacy near Crickhowell, Wales
Welsh hills in background with a roadside plethora of oak acorns stretching out ahead
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A mast year to be sure. Oak legacy near Crickhowell, Wales
Welsh hills in background with a roadside plethora of oak acorns stretching out ahead
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by Aidan O’Sullivan

aidanosullivan.bsky.social
Your life matters, you make a difference in the world, you can choose what that difference is…

Lovely parting words
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 2d
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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