Fine art prints for the season of 🍂 spooktivity 🍂 and much more available on www.ciaraioch.com/artprints - if you're in the market for some Irish Human-Made Art, please take a look, I have children* to feed. *Alright, crows.
Dr Mary McAuliffe
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
Irish 🇮🇪 / gender Historian, feminist, academic (UCD), lefty / 2 cat 🐈⬛ Mom / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
Me … I’m going on strike ✊🏼
The Journal@thejournal.ie · yesterdayPublic servants in sectors across the country will take part in a large-scale strike on Wednesday 14 October that will cause widespread closures and disruption. From firefighters and prison officers to dentists and paramedics, here's who's going on strike. jrnl.ie/7186611
Eamonn McCann is always razor sharp in his analysis of the North. Garvagh road is not a difference between ‘two communities’ that needs ‘both sides’ understood. It only benefits the DUP and hardline loyalists to force us to revisit a terrible time in the North. rebelnews.ie/2026/10/02/g...
Garvaghy Road: There Are Not Two Sides - REBEL
The clashes in Portadown between Orange marchers and nationalist residents have widely…
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And in other news, not unrelated to the news below, which will not surprise anyone but the orange blob and his minions, Trump did NOT win the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize (thankfully)
Dr Mary McAuliffe@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d agoSo they are going to livestream an execution, by firing squad, in America. Yup, so all’s well there! 😬#crazycountry
If you are looking for some good analysis of what has been happening in France, please read this thread from an actual expert. Of course plenty of other opinions are available...
Emile Chabal@emile-chabal.bsky.social · 5d agoThose of us who work on contemporary France have long predicted some kind of social protest in advance of the 2027 elections. It could have been a gilets jaunes mk 2 related to high petrol prices, but instead it was school students. Some thoughts... www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
So they are going to livestream an execution, by firing squad, in America. Yup, so all’s well there! 😬#crazycountry
Brendan Kennelly’s poem ‘Things I Might Do’ originally appeared in The Book of Judas (1991), published by Bloodaxe Books. It was subsequently included in The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems, edited by Terence Brown and Michael Longley (Bloodaxe Books, 2011)
From over on FB - north Kerry in all its glory (that’s Carrigafoyle, the castle was my childhood playground when visiting my grandparents in Ballylongford, and still my favourite place in this world) 💚💛 #northkerry #speirghorm
Have your voice heard! Nearly a million people have said: ✋ HANDS OFF NATURE! And we’re taking their demands directly to the EU Commissioner for Environment! Let’s make our message impossible to ignore. Sign the petition before it closes on 20 October: www.handsoffnature.eu #handsoffnature
And in today’s delighted news - just got my copy of this 600 page thumper in which I’m delighted to have a chapter-even more delighted that we had a wonderful long weekend in Kylemore abbey workshopping the book concept last year. Available from 4 Courts www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2026/t...
a headline in an Irish newspaper that does not reflect the reality of Irish university education-it’s got its problems but ‘whole classes who refuse to sit handwritten exams’, eh no-she’s talking about a privileged cohort in the UK system & applying it blindly to the Irish system- a fail there, Finn
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3d agoFinn McRedmond: University education has become meaningless - and now it doesn’t even promise a job
I'm delighted to say that, after many years anguishing over the desperate state of Killarney NP, I'm seeing a partial ecological recovery, like this wild baby arbutus tree. Such positive signs can only mean one thing: the NPWS must finally be taking a more proactive approach to invasive sika deer.
How bad are things ? Well, Darina Allen is starting survivalist/bunker stocking courses at Ballymaloe #ArmageddonOuttaHere
Darina Allen to host special course on surviving food shortages at Ballymaloe
How serious is it? Darina wants us to start keeping chickens
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Two staters: can I just clarify that the sovereign State of Palestine will be allowed a standing army and arsenal just like its separate but equal nation state, as well as all other infrastructure sovereign nation-states can have? ~The two states will be subjected to the same non-racist conditions?
President Michael D Higgins said he enjoyed "the gift of friendship with Brendan Kennelly for many years". "As a poet, Brendan Kennelly had forged a special place in the affections of the Irish people”. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
Watch: Brendan Kennelly recites much-loved poem 'Begin'
President Michael D Higgins also paid his respects to the Kerry poet and said he enjoyed 'the gift of friendship with Brendan Kennelly for many years'
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“The Government has simply given up on climate change. We’ve just come out of a summer with wildfires and record temperatures on the continent. The government’s response is to lower the cost of carbon and hike up public transport fares."
Carbon tax fiddling shows Government has “given up on climate” - Greens | Green Party
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This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
Don't be confused, this is just a public grant to gambling companies
Cianan Brennan@ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 5d agoHorse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...
I’d rather see investment in combatting environmental change, more help for organisations who run domestic violence centres, rape crisis centres, or for people dealing with unstable living conductions. People like me are doing ok, we don’t need extras at this moment. Still never going to vote FF/FG
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 5d agoThe Government has emphasised income tax changes to "give people more of their own money" as it revealed Budget 2027
I don't want tax cuts. I want services that work for all of us. What good is extra money in my pocket if I'm terrified to go out to my local hospital in an emegency. Or if a large proportion of people in my city are living in poverty or homelessness or with addiction.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 5d agoThe Government has emphasised income tax changes to "give people more of their own money" as it revealed Budget 2027
€22 million euro for the Ryder Cup is madness! I practise in a courthouse which has a rat problem & no consultation rooms. 22million would go a long way to building proper facilities. #Speirgorm
Every year Ireland gets stern warnings about how reliant it is on corpo tax revenue and every year it cuts its other tax nets to make that reliance worse.
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 5d agoHarris says there will be a personal income tax package of €1.3 billion in this year's budget. The standard rate cut-off will rise by €2,500 to €46,500 per person. The entry threshold for USC 3% band to rise by €1,600 from €28,700 to €30,300.
Excellent article by @paddyzemia.bsky.social exposing the obstacles that still exist in finding out the whole truth behind the murder of Pat Finucane.
PAT FINUCANE CENTRE@finucanecentre.bsky.social · 6d ago
Very efficient to have them doing what DPER already does. My guess is this will be a half arsed DOGE for the Healy Rae and Michael Collins axis who'll get to haul a few woke NGOs into the PAC and cancel a bikeshed in Ennis.
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 5d agoMinister announces new public spending efficiency taskforce to "extensively scrutinise day-to-day public spending". It will identify areas across public spending where there is scope for more efficiency, and recommend actions that can deliver better services and greater value for money.
An excellent piece from colleagues across the Irish university sector on the moral, legal and educational imperatives to accord visas to Palestinian students who have scholarships to study in Ireland. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Gazan students’ visas must be granted before it is too late
A group of leading Irish academics write that the mass refusal of visas to Palestinian students makes a mockery of the Taoiseach’s speech to the UN General Assembly
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