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Northern Secretary bans Orange Order from marching down Garvaghy Road www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Northern Secretary bans Orange Order from marching down Garvaghy Road
Chris Bryant uses power to intervene and quash Parades Commission decision
irishtimes.com
Great report by @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social & @rachellavin.bsky.social on the wanton devastation in Gaza Game over: Inside the ruins of Gaza’s football stadiums www.irishtimes.com/world/2026/1...
Game over: Inside the ruins of Gaza’s football stadiums
Sports stadium, bomb site, detainment yard, refugee camp – the three-year evolution of Gaza’s football stadiums
irishtimes.com
Great article on a seminarian in Indonesia. The catholic irish get a kicking www.economist.com/interactive/...
I’m sure this is a popular thing but it’s hard work for anyone to be interviewed for longer than the documentary they’re promoting. youtu.be/cx1LEjcl2eE?...
Stavvy's World #201 - John Wilson | Full Episode
YouTube video by Stavvy's World
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Thinking about her just last night - “To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing”
Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 4d agoVia Nobel Prize: "New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland."
Another interesting article by Sarah O’Connor, her book ‘We are not machines’ is great too. www.ft.com/content/0b45... The politics of losing sleep
The politics of losing sleep
There is still a class divide when it comes to work that tramples over your body clock
ft.com
This is a good report - ‘rogue’ agents are coming at a good time to build IPO buzz. Not that that’s the intention but ai companies are rewarded for recklessness atm, which I, as a person, am disincentivised from doing cause jail/ repercussions. arstechnica.com/security/202...
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
arstechnica.com
Having now had twenty-odd years of social media depleting our stocks of sanity, like overfishing North Sea cod, I think now might be a good time for a strict social media quota for about 20 years or so, to let stocks recover.
Twlldun@twlldun.bsky.social · last wk.Honestly guys isn’t this a bit weird? This is a bit weird
Im not sure if youve ever seen his defense of Larkin? The first published thing I think we have by him and writtem (IIRC) at 17 and its for a.... unfashionable poet with proper love. He's genuine in it I think and it went beyond trying to attract girls
Great profile of Breandán Mac Cionnaith by Gerry Moriarty Who is Breandán Mac Cionnaith, the Garvaghy Road protest leader for decades? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Who is Breandán Mac Cionnaith, the Garvaghy Road protest leader for decades?
Former IRA prisoner split with Sinn Féin over policing, but remains as committed as ever to his cause
irishtimes.com
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
Chilling report by Seanín Graham from portadown today. As an outsider, it’s incomprehensible there’s another standoff in drumcree. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
‘It’s like going back in time’ – after 28 years, communities stand off on Garvaghy Road
Politicians defiant as tensions expected to continue for days over planned Orange Order march
irishtimes.com
Our investigation into one of the capital's most notorious housing complexes. Originally billed as luxury flats which would rejuvenate the inner city, its real role was to launder money. It soon became one of Dublin's worst slums and a base for organised crime www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
Buckingham Village was supposed to reinvigorate Dublin’s inner city. By 2022, it was its worst slum
The north inner city flat complex has had more warning notices in recent years than any other development in Dublin
irishtimes.com
Don’t be at all surprised if Stormont collapses one way or another this week – SF because the present-day structures don’t serve the interest of nationalists; DUP because the First Minister participated in an unlawful protest gathering – and for another stalemate that last for *years*.
So, overnight, the Orange Order's appeal was allowed. The parade is due to commence imminently. Blesk is not the word.
Paul Murphy TD@paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 2w agoPolice arrived at top of Garvaghy Road with threatening audio saying protestors will be arrested.
Really good report by @gcooney93.bsky.social around the irish football camp today. Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI
Gavin Bazunu has been left brutally isolated as any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered
irishtimes.com
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand has a better record in the Balkans than the Irish national football team
Netanyahu's address at UNGA: "I vowed to prevent Iran's murderous dictatorship from developing atomic bombs, nuclear weapons aimed at destroying Israel, and. the entire world. That's exactly what we did."
Denis Staunton’s newsletter is a good read as always. UN members on the the ongoing killings of Palestinians by Israel and ethnic cleansing in the west bank view.comms.irishtimes.com?vawpToken=ZK...
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LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
Nice story by Ruby Eastwood The secret life of the man who stood on O’Connell Street in Dublin for 40 years www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
The secret life of the man who stood on O’Connell Street in Dublin for 40 years
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Louise Lowe and Anu are charting the extraordinary life of a man many would have recognised but few knew well
irishtimes.com
There’s lines all over this website. “The only thing that can beat a religious faith is a better religious faith. “war of the cradle” … “genuine, muscular Christianity”
Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 3w agoBlueskyers of the Northern/Irish persuasion, look at this site if you want a good laugh this morning securebritishfuture.com
Great to see Bradford Cox back around, a great frontman and singular talent www.instagram.com/reel/DdhkCE7...
Scott Lapatine on Instagram: "Though he did participate in a seemingly spontaneous noise jam at an Athens vintage market in 2023, Deerhunter and Atlas Sound’s Bradford Cox has stayed out of the public...
1,016 likes, 43 comments - scottgum on September 20, 2026: "Though he did participate in a seemingly spontaneous noise jam at an Athens vintage market in 2023, Deerhunter and Atlas Sound’s Bradford Co...
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A boat purchased by far-right activist Daniel Thomas (aka “Danny Tommo”) to interfere with Border Force operations in the English Channel has sunk.
Danny Tommo’s boat for policing Channel accidentally sinks
Daniel Thomas, whose Patriot Platform group caused havoc in Dover and Portsmouth, had purchased the vessel to interfere with Border Force operations
thetimes.com
Latest: Christy Kinahan, founder of the transnational organised crime group the Kinahan cartel, has had his UAE visa cancelled, Bellingcat and @thetimes.com can reveal. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/09...
Christy Kinahan's UAE Residence Visa Cancelled - bellingcat
Irish crime boss Christy Kinahan, who is being pursued by authorities around the world, has had his UAE residence permit cancelled.
bellingcat.com