Fell to a mixed heritage Irishman to act on the majority will of the Irish people🙏 Bazunu (24) has secured his place among the heroes of Irish history, alongside the likes of Mary Manning, who was only 21 when she refused to be complicit in normalizing an apartheid regime, even though it cost her✊

Virgin Media Sport@virginmediasport.bsky.social · 4d ago

It has been confirmed that Gavin Bazunu has withdrawn from the Republic of Ireland squad after a "significant majority" of players voted to fulfil tomorrow's nights UEFA Nations League game with Israel. #VMSport #FAI #Israel #Nationsleague

“Concerns about failures of science journalism really amount to concerns about the collapse of institutional journalism more broadly. The social role of journalism—in a classic phrase, to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable—remains vital.” Mean while science communication is thriving

Is science journalism dying? Comparing a 'science crash' 40 years ago to today

When two popular science magazines—out of about 17 in circulation—ceased publication in the same year, one commentator said, "The science magazines didn't shake out. They fell apart." The general mana...

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Thank you, Martyn Turner, you're a star.

@ealadubh.bsky.social I 🤔 I got the 1000 follower spot.🎉

Dolly knew that people needed to be literate to realise all of their dreams. Her Imagination Library has gifted 300 Million books to children in United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Ireland. Scott Santens suggests Dolly knew that “books are empathy machines.” #DollyParton #SpeirGorm

Dolly Parton Knew What People Need

How the queen of country music gave unconditional cash to wildfire survivors — and proved basic income works

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Do you know that there is a Native American Ethnobotany searchable database? 🌱 Well you do now: naeb.brit.org

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

Some great comments 🤣

Credentials, Dan@dancredentials.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Me, nodding knowingly: The beaks.

Well done Phoenix Law Firm, the denial of visas to these students in Gaza is an absolute disgrace by the Minister for Justice. #LetThemStudy Minister faces potential High Court action over visa refusals for Gaza scholarship students www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Minister faces potential High Court action over visa refusals for Gaza scholarship students

More than 30 scholarship students due to study in Ireland have had visa applications refused over documentary requirements, lawyers say

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MNÁSOME 🥈

Lean grianghrafadóir Tuairisc, Seán Ó Mainnín, urú na gréine sna spéartha os cionn na Ceathrún Rua, Conamara, tráthnóna Dé Céadaoin.

It doesn’t matter that my people are not from Tralee. Spiorad Ban Chiarraí stands for all defiant women; for me, my female ancestors and for our children and future generations. I will go to see Elizabeth O’Kanes creation. I may cry. Great storytelling, as ever @clodaghfinn.bsky.social #speirgorm

Clodagh Finn: A lesson in how to reawaken the spirit of our revolutionary women

Clodagh Finn looks at Kerry’s revolutionary women whose spirit has been reawakened and honoured in a majestic bronze sculpture that stands 2.5m tall in the centre of Tralee Town Park

irishexaminer.com

What to say in #Irish when you don't understand.

I don't understand!

What to say in Irish when you don't understand.

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Coffee, tea, ginseng. Lotta potential for smallholders here.

Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦@earhart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...

The IMF says we pay $5T/year to subsidize fossil fuels — that's $13M per MINUTE to destroy our future. Meanwhile solar & wind fight for scraps. We don't have a funding problem. We have a priority problem.

Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

A woman from Mayo won the first Tour de France for women! How is this not common knowledge……oh, yeah cos it’s a woman. 🙄 What an incredible feat! 🚲 ♀️ 🙏 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social column For telling the ♀️stories #SpeirGorm

Clodagh Finn: The Mayo woman who won the first Tour de France for women

The memory of the last time the Sam Maguire went west, 75 years ago, is etched in local consciousness, yet a remarkable international win by a Ballina cyclist just a few years later remains little-kno...

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Mother Jones baptised in #Cork #onthisday 1837. The union organiser & activist was described as 'the most dangerous woman in America' but is pictured here with President & Mrs Coolidge & Theodore Roosevelt Jr in 1924 womenshistory.org/education-re... B&W📷LOC

Gotta say it thrills me to see US production companies saving money by making The Price Is Right in Ireland using the S481 tax break that was designed to create an indigenous film industry while many Irish filmmakers (including me) don't have a fucking pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.

"Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares

I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Please ✍️ and share. 🇵🇸 #Gaza #Speirgorm

Visa for Gaza students

I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?

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Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog

Mayo fans! Get yours quick!This special (100 only) hand drawn by an actual human #Mayo All-Ireland Champions 2026 Limited Edition Fine Art Print. ALL profits from the sale of this print go to Temple St Children's Hospital #NoAI #ActualIllustration www.anniewest.com/other-images...

Special limited edition 2026 Mayo All-Ireland Champions — Annie West

Commemorate that once-in-a-lifetime day with this special limited edition print. 100 only. All profits from the sale of this print go to Temple Street Children’s Hospital

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Would ya look at these fancy reeds strutting their stuff! Follow @tinaclaffey.bsky.social for regular shots of guaranteed gorgeousness Cosain ár dúlra. #SpeirGorm

Tina Claffey Photography@tinaclaffey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Branched Bur-reed with its magnificent spherical flower heads, in bloom at the edge of the Camcor, at Camcor Park, Birr, in the fading evening light. Beauty on our doorstep! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social

Tonight, a new investigation reveals how much water each individual data centre campus has used in the past two years. But our findings also show how pharma plants have used more than double that of data centres. Story w/ @davidmacredmond.bsky.social Read just after midnight on thejournal.ie 🔜

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Spare a thought for poor ol @donie.bsky.social we feel bad for you

Annie West@anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Wherever you are in the world and no matter what county you hail from, this clip will make you smile. Pure class from Mhaigh Eo 💚❤️ #Speirgorm #MaighEo #TheFamineIsOver

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · 2mo ago

“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa

“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa

I miss our old currency especially the coins. Euro notes are ugly. ECB proposing new € banknote designs. We can all respond to the choices basically; birds or people. Glad to see female representation. Don’t like the colour combinations of any of them. Voted for birds. 🦅 #speirgorm

Survey | surveys.ecb.europa.eu

I’ve just had my say on our future banknotes. Have your say too!

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