Ciara Daly

@ciaradaly.bsky.social

Howya? Food Marketer at www.conquerdigital.ie Podcast Host at @climatealarmclock.bsky.social Wannabe DIYer, gardener + adult

We're back in your ears tomorrow morning through The @climatealarmclock.bsky.social podcast. God bless us everyone.

The Climate Alarm Clock@climatealarmclock.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Climate Alarm Clock podcast returns Thursday, the 13th of March, woo! Darragh, @annapr.bsky.social, @ciaradaly.bsky.social and @tpspencer88.bsky.social will be diving head first into the latest climate news stories to try and make sense of it all. In a bid to make climate mainstream, we've...

Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

They arrived at the United States
border from around the world, hoping
to seek asylum. Instead, they were
detained, shackled and flown by the
U.S.military to a faraway country,
Panama


They were stripped of their passports
and most of their cellphones, they said,
and then locked in a hotel, barred from
seeing lawyers and told they would
soon be sent to a makeshift camp near
the Panamanian jungle.


At the hotel, at least one person tried to
commit suicide, according to several
migrants. Another broke his leg trying
to escape. A third sent a plaintive
missive from a hidden cellphone: "Only
a miracle can save us."In one window visible from a sidewalk
below the hotel, a woman clawed at a
latchless glass pane in an attempt to
escape. When she noticed journalists
below, she held up a piece of paper that
read "Afghan.


She made hand motions that indicated
an airplane, then her head falling off.
The message seemed to be clear: A
flight home meant death.

Art should be funded like science. To properly fund art, you fund failure. Funding failure will give you occasional excellence. Creating any art with the aim of it being popular enough to make money, will give you consistent mediocrity. Arists need funding to play and fail because that's the process

Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2y ago

Let me tell you about the weird business that delivers art into our lives, and the impact it has on the long-term careers of artists. This is a thread prompted by yet another article on authors' incomes, and the inevitable reactions from the 'people-would-pay-if-it-was-worth-it-to-them' brigade. 1/

Wrote about how 2024 represented a crescendo of Irish pop culture and art, Peak Ireland, and the irony that exists in the space between the global impact of Irish creativity and how the lived experience of those creating art in Ireland is often a struggle. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

Una Mullally: From Paul Mescal to Bad Sisters to Clare Keegan, the green wave keeps rolling

Unfortunately, the lived experience of creatives working in Ireland is often a struggle

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Never, EVER accept the lie that this is somehow a 'forest', just because there are trees: it's not. A real forest is 1,000s of diverse species, all intricately connected. By contrast, what you're looking at here is one face of the death of nature, covering around 10% of Ireland.

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In a world obsessed with celebrating viral fame & billionaires, @unamullally.bsky.social reminds us that "just because something isn’t tangible doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable. And just because something doesn’t go on to become the next big thing doesn’t mean its creative expression isn’t of worth."

Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social · 2y ago

I spent the past year writing weekly on emerging, alternative and experimental art in and of Ireland. Here’s what I learned.