The assembly is a beautiful program

Apparently, knee replacement surgery is the only thing in the world I’m too young for 😟

It’s a dogs life

Always amazed that the ones who tried to convince us tha their position on abortion is not based on religion, are always the one commenting on religious issues. Looking at you Wendy Grace

I'm not sure which video to post--the fifteen paramedics in their last moments as one of them prays amid gunfire, the journalist being burned alive, the man holding a headless toddler, the people blown into the air, or the young man quietly rocking the shrouded body of a child. It's a genocide.

Clodagh

Spring walk through the Moselle vineyards

#MAFSAU is amazing

Our Pakistani neighbour s are celebrating Eid today and dropped us over some delicious food

The family Rome bound

She wouldn’t make you feel at all guilty for leaving

The worlds longest tongue #Clodagh

This time four years ago, Clodagh came into our lives and made it immeasurably better

What it was always all about.

For anyone in Mullingar/Midlands This creep sexually assaulted a woman & secretly filmed dozens without consent, is free to resume his trade upon release. People like him don’t change. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Gym owner who sexually assaulted woman, filmed others, can resume work on release

Rape Crisis Ireland says case of Shane Flynn is ‘wake-up call’ on gaps in regulations for ‘predatory’ sex offenders

irishtimes.com

Thinking of Ann Lovett today, ##otd 1984, 15yrs old & pregnant, she went to the grotto in Granard where she gave birth to a still born baby boy, she was found sometime later but died shortly after of hypothermia & blood loss. Her story shocked the country #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/readme/ann-l...

Dr Mary McAuliffe: The details of Ann Lovett's tragic death are still harrowing 40 years on

The historian looks back at the loss of the teenager who died after giving birth in a grotto in Granard, 40 years ago today.

thejournal.ie

Lunchtime stroll through the #Moselle vineyards in #Luxembourg with wee clodagh

Every time you see a story in the media announcing that puberty blockers are banned, it's untrue. They've just been banned for trans kids. Cis kids who are in distress because of precocious puberty still get them. Trans kids who in distress, don't. People, generally, don't know that.

When we lived in London you'd see often see crowds with flags outside embassies, community centres etc- Moldovans, Romanians, French etc - they were voting in their national elections. The Irish abroad - often for the v reasons they had to leave - should have the vote #ge24

Your rights at work were not 'given to you'. Workers fought long & hard to protect your jobs, your wages, your safety. They fought for sick leave, gender equality, against discrimination. They won because workers hold all the power. But only if they know how to use it #JoinAUnion

I wrote this short companion piece to my recent @historywo.bsky.social article where I reflect a little bit on doing the history of youth sexuality and activism in 80s Ireland. Thanks History Workshop for the invitation and @beckierutherford.bsky.social for your amazing editorial support!

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 2y ago

How did young people in 1980s Ireland navigate a lack of sex education and repressive climate around sexual health? Laura Kelly (@tortietabby.bsky.social) explores the activist history of the Irish Family Planning Association Youth Group 🗃️

Mexico has refused to let US military deportation flights use its airspace. Colombia and Guatamala have refused to allow (at least some flights so far) to land. But Ireland continues to allow US military flights to refuel in Shannon. #WTF

Paris is utterly changed from the disaster it was 20 years ago: les noise, less stress, less pollution. Even less dog shit.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2y ago

“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century. We’re in the 21st.” - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social.

#StormEowyn If you want to keep track of the storm as it flies towards us. I always use this site to track its location and wind speeds. earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...

#January been on a (French accent) certain regime, for the last few weeks. 5kg down but todays shitshow really called for wine and pizza 🍕

A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it. Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was. Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”

Winter lunchtime walk

Today on what would have been her birthday, we remember that Janey Godley was always on the right side. #Trumpisacunt

Razed to dust, this is what Israel's apocalyptic erasure of Northern Gaza looks like. Palestinians are "returning" to nuclear-scale desolation.

Today in 1912 Scott got to the South Pole....Just one month after Amundsen had beat him to it. Amundsen had left a tent with a Norwegian flag flying above & inside, a letter for the Norwegian king with a covering note asking Scott to post it. Cold. Literally.