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Inconsiderate Public Urged To Please Think Of The Data Centres Before Watering Lawns
IF YOU'RE planning to water your lawn or plants during the current hot spell, the government is urging citizens to be a little bit more considerate and spare a thought for the country's 82 data …
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Ireland refuses visas for Gazan scholarship students. www.rte.ie/news/2026/07...
€1.2m gift for Gazan students in doubt over visa refusals
A foundation which manages philanthropic donations on behalf of UCD has written to a donor asking them to pause a gift to the college worth €1.2 million until it has certainty around the issuing of st...
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Only 50 to go!! 🙌🙌🙌
poorly drawn cats@poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · last wk.2 days left… and we still haven’t reached 500 units i'd really love for this little partner to get the chance to see the world to travel in backpacks, keep keys company, sit on desks, and go on little adventures with all of you :( www.makeship.com/products/tin...
I'm slightly biased because me, my dad and my favourite purveyors of cake, vintage clothes and soft play centres are in it... but this portrait of Clacton by @timburrows.bsky.social and 📷 Andy Hall is superb. Balanced, diverse, intelligent, so so well done: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Farage’s got to come clean or clear off’: what voters on Clacton beach think about their MP – and the country
Nigel Farage’s constituency takes in genteel resorts and one of England’s poorest villages. With a snap byelection approaching, what do the residents want from the Reform UK leader – or the bin who’s ...
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We are saddened to hear about the passing of Glen Hansard. Glen was a wonderful musician and supporter of the arts. During the Covid lockdowns, Glen was kind enough to record himself singing "The Brown and Yellow Ale" for the Bloomsday Festival. May he rest in peace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEOb...
Glen Hansard The Brown and Yellow Ale
YouTube video by The James Joyce Centre
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2 days left… and we still haven’t reached 500 units i'd really love for this little partner to get the chance to see the world to travel in backpacks, keep keys company, sit on desks, and go on little adventures with all of you :( www.makeship.com/products/tin...
Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them
Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them
William Weaver could add an extension onto his Tuscan villa, which he called the 'Eco Chamber.' The Biblioteca Eco, or Eco Library, whose ribbon-cutting earlier this month you can see in the Italian n...
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One epic. Two interpretations. Two mediums. Two very different commutes. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey sails into theatres this weekend. It is the latest adaptation of the Homeric tale. Let us know in the comments who did it better: Nolan or Joyce. Only kidding! Enjoy the movie 🍿😎🛥️
Zuckerberg sued for using AI to target employees with disabilities, for layoffs. These people keep telling us who they are and are begging to be regulated. There's no good reason other for *not* regulating these companies other than greed. www.reuters.com/world/meta-u...
Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, lawsuit claims
Twenty-six employees of Meta Platforms have filed a novel lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who took medical le...
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45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...
RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS (Published 1981)
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substack.com/@abdallahalj... Please read, follow and support by subscribing to important writing. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings @abdallahaljazzar.bsky.social
Abdallah Aljazzar | Substack
I don’t know who I am, but I write from the diaspora to see my missing brother, Nour, alive again... In the liminal space between Gaza and Ireland.
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Do you have a used/battered copy of Finnegans Wake that you will not use ever again? At the James Joyce Centre we are happy to collect these copies to help an artist build a sculpture made of them. Contact info@jamesjoyce.ie if you would like to donate your copy.
Please join us for the launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing", a new special issue dedicated to the untold history of Ireland's unmarried women James Joyce Centre Dublin, Fri 10 July 5pm Refreshments will be provided The event is free but booking is essential www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-...
Launch of Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing
Please join us for the launch of a new special issue and podcast series dedicated to the untold history of Ireland's unmarried women.
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43,1 °C en Alemania. Junio. "Los científicos empezamos a sonar como discos rayados. Sí, esto es cambio climático; sí, somos nosotros; sí, tenemos las soluciones; no, no las estamos implementando lo suficientemente rápido”. 📝 @frediotto.bsky.social.
"Men We Seldom See: Irish Migrant Legacies & the British Construction Industry" Did you or someone you know migrate from Ireland to England after 1945 & work in construction (site & office) for at least 1 year & is willing to be interviewed for a Irish Studies@LivUni study? https://ow.ly/NSrM50Zf7CI
Men We Seldom See | Institute of Irish Studies | University of Liverpool
Research project at the Institute of Irish Studies looking at Irish Migrant Legacies and the British Construction Industry
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According to Irish Water, as of 2021, data centres across Ireland drank about 810 megalitres of water from the public mains a year. But that same year, Meta reported that it withdrew 928 megalitres of water for its data centres in Clonee alone. How is this possible?
Dublin Inquirer@dublininquirer.com · last mo.Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using? Much of the debate around data centres has focused on electricity, but the gap in figures for their water use has started to draw more attention – and breed mistrust.
FIFA organizers are enraged as they were led to believe that it's always sunny in Philadelphia
Celebrate Bloomsday today by exploring James Joyce’s world with our online exhibition ‘Dubliners: The Photographs of JJ Clarke’. This photographic series is a unique record of life in Dublin, Ireland, at the turn of the last century. https://ow.ly/rKVK50YOpeG
Online Exhibition | Dubliners: The Photographs of JJ Clarke
Online Exhibition | Dubliners: The Photographs of JJ Clarke Date Permanent Online Exhibition Location Online Category Exhibition Price Free View exhibition View exhibition Date Permanent Online Exhibition Location Online Category Exhibition Price Free View exhibition People at the junction of Nassau…
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Su cartografía del genocidio de Gaza, en la página de @forensicarchi.bsky.social. Está diseñada para los tribunales pero hecha por artistas para que se entienda claramente el proceso, con sus funciones y sus objetivos. gaza.forensic-architecture.org/database
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A further eight sets of infant remains have been recovered as part of the ongoing excavation of the site of the former Mother and Baby Institution in Tuam. It brings the total number of infant remains recovered from the site since the excavation began to 77. jrnl.ie/7061531
Further eight sets of infant remains recovered during Tuam excavation
It brings the total number of infant remains recovered from the site to 77.
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look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
Forbes@forbes.com · 2mo agoScientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.
Good news! FAI GA members have the numbers to call an EGM on the boycott of the games against apartheid Israel. Well done to all who proposed this motion to refuse to participate “on both legal and moral grounds”, and all who voted for it. Momentum grows! #StopTheGame www.the42.ie/ireland-isra...
