just a reminder the cathaoirleach of the AI committee has stock in a AI-based revenue intelligence company. Naoise insists the stock – whose value is only realisable if the company goes public – is not a conflict of interest for him as a TD forming AI legislation www.ontheditch.com/fianna-fail-...

AI committee FF TD has stock in IDF-vet-founded AI company

It was co-founded by a man who “conducted classified intelligence work” for the Israel Defense Forces.

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Nurses have an ethical & epistemological duty to provide inclusive care to all My latest article in Nursing Philosophy draws on fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing, arguing Authentic Allyship of Trans people is integral to ethical, person-centred nursing practice. dx.doi.org/10.1111/nup....

Authentic Allyship for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Patterns of Knowing Perspective in Nursing

Trans and gender diverse people experience persistent inequities across healthcare systems, including discrimination in care, barriers to access, and poorer mental and physical health outcomes. While...

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Kemi Badenoch last month: "We are recruiting serious people who understand common sense, can get stuff done and can unite the country...Candidate selection is... one of the first serious tests of whether the Conservative Party has actually learnt from defeat." www.jewishnews.co.uk/former-neo-n...

Former neo-Nazi selected as Tory candidate despite antisemitic convictions - Jewish News

Joshua Bonehill-Paine was convicted after targeting the Jewish former MP now peer Luciana Berger

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He's being held hostage by Schrödinger's Cat...

David Pakman@davidpakman.bsky.social · 2d ago

So, um…what’s going on with Mitch McConnell?

I really appreciate every share on this episode - I’ve known Cindi for over a decade and this is her first time ever speaking publicly about what happened to her in Bessborough.

Deirdre O'Shaughnessy@deshocks.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ireland’s notorious mother and baby institutions operated until the late 1990s. Zoei Bonny was the last baby to die under the care of Bessborough, in Cork, in 1994. Her mother Cindi shared her story with me a few days ago. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

German court rules comparing Israel to Nazi Germany constitutes 'protected speech' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/german-court-rules-comparing-israel-nazi-germany-protected-speech

German court rules comparing Israel to Nazi Germany constitutes 'protected speech'

The court also rejected the suggestion that comparing Israel’s conduct with Nazi Germany automatically trivialised the Holocaust or incited hatred

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The lady vanishes by @smellosopher.bsky.social "The overwhelming absence of women in intellectual history is constructed. And we won’t prevent the fading of women from future history simply with an occasional reminder about the existence of a few remarkable individuals" aeon.co/essays/why-a...

Neff, a consultant endocrinologist, will step down by the end of 2026. Read 👉 buff.ly/a0EOH1N #GCNnews

Who knew that all the weak people would fall to fascism so easily. All it took was to make them enraged about all the trans people they’ve never met in a public toilet.

There's not a single trip I make by car into/from Dublin on the N11 where I do not see 5-6 cars break red lights, often clearly with intent. And almost everyone in the inside lane is going over the speed limit. Maybe a clampdown on car drivers would better improve road safety

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · 2w ago

#wildflower #stillblooming

In reply to so many people asking us what they might do to ensure justice for the 878 missing mothers and babies of Bessborough - we (jfmresearch.bsky.social) soft-launched this email campaign some days ago - it is already having impact - clannproject.org/savebessboro...

Save Bessborough

WE NEED YOUR HELP 878 mothers and babies remain missing at Bessborough. We must force the Government to step in before developers build over this land. Despite the Commission of Investigation confirmi...

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'Do the right thing': Over 1,000 brave heat to protest over plans for Bessborough site

As the Taoiseach says a memorial park would be an appropriate use of the grounds, survivors and protesters say they are afraid to hope for justice

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Bessborough Planning Permission: State's Continued Failure - Doing Feminist Legal Work

On July 9th it was announced that planning permission was granted by Cork City Council for the building of 106 apartments at the site of Bessborough Mother

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In reply to so many people asking us what they might do to ensure justice for the 878 missing mothers and babies of Bessborough - we (jfmresearch.bsky.social) soft-launched this email campaign some days ago - it is already having impact - clannproject.org/savebessboro...

Save Bessborough

WE NEED YOUR HELP 878 mothers and babies remain missing at Bessborough. We must force the Government to step in before developers build over this land. Despite the Commission of Investigation confirmi...

clannproject.org

In more recent years the nuns did a remarkable alteration to the grounds around the folly where this woman saw a baby being buried — tonnes of soil was poured on site and very large boulders were set into position there. www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

Woman born in Bessborough recalls seeing baby buried on grounds of mother and baby home

Therese Meyer says she witnessed a baby's burial in the grounds of the institution as An Coimisiún Pleanála upheld permission for a major housing ...

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— the failure of the State re. Bessborough has deep and entrenched roots— Nice article by @ococonuts.bsky.social Canon law insists that accounts must be kept by religious orders & presented to church hierarchies www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

SPECIAL REPORT: Nuns told don’t co-operate as Bishop tried to thwart probes into Bessborough scandal

As Bessborough was investigated, the nuns were told don’t co-operate, writes Conall Ó Fatharta

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Following the tragic killing of Ann Widdecombe we are already hearing a lot of reactionary takes about what a sport she was & how she loved to debate politics then share a sherry afterwards. It's not a virtue, it's the privilege of politics being a game rather than your life or death.

Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home.

Government trying to limit your ability to challenge decisions prepared with ChatGPT 👌👌👌

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Note: The error in this part of the IT 22 June story has not been corrected yet. ACP did not rescind anything. Its decision was quashed by the Court. This was thanks to an judicial review application brought by a public spirited environmental NGO. The type of case the Govt is trying to restrict.

19 mothers & 859 infants held in Bessborough Mother & Baby Home died but their bodies are missing The Commission of Investigation stated ‘it is highly likely that burials did take place in the grounds of Bessborough’ but now planning has been granted to a developer. jfmresearch.com/bessborough/ 1/3

JFMR AND CLANN PROJECT STATEMENT ON BESSBOROUGH PLANNING PERMISSION

9 July 2026 We are horrified that An Coimisiún Pleanála has now granted planning permission for a private apartment development at the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Bessborough, even t…

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JFMR & CLANN PROJECT STATEMENT ON BESSBOROUGH PLANNING PERMISSION We are horrified that An Coimisiún Pleanála has granted planning permission for a development at Bessborough, even though 19 mothers and 859 infants remain missing. Read more: jfmresearch.com/bessborough/

Palantir CEO Alex Karp couldn’t stay seated in his chair as he proudly stated: 'We kill people sometimes', while speaking to shareholders. (Feb 2026)

I'm sorry, Lyra. I'll never forget how angry you were in my car, talking about how many people's families and loved ones were denied justice because of the culture of intimidated silence that surrounded paramilitary murders in Northern Ireland. It's dark that you have now joined that long list.

Sky News@news.sky.com · last mo.

Three men found not guilty of murdering journalist Lyra McKee

Great thread…

Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · last mo.

If I read one more reference to 'gold plating' of EU law in Ireland....Can anyone show me the evidence? Should we look to the over half our rivers and lakes polluted? The trend which is getting worse? The 25% of our most pristine waterbodies now lost? A 🧵 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

www.echolive.ie/wow/arid-418...

Katherine O'Donnell: ‘I learned so much about a country that I thought I already knew well’

Writer, academic and activist, Katherine O’Donnell will return to Cork this month where she will be taking part in a panel discussion at the West ...

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www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

‘The shame is ours’: Keir Starmer issues formal state apology over forced adoptions

After decades of campaigning by those affected, PM says state ‘did not do enough to protect’ mothers and children

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Top Colombian court clears way for journalists to request church records on priest abuse

A ruling by the Constitutional Court sided with two journalists seeking to unlock the Catholic Church’s 'secret archive' on investigations into priests accused of sexual abuse. Church officials say th...

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Buddy that is the most Catholic demo on earth

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JD Vance says his faith makes him averse to “low wage foreigners”

In 6 minutes Hannah Arendt truthfully and simply explains the Holocaust, how ordinary men did horrific things - the banality of evil - a must watch - youtu.be/YOR5SKzWMcc

Hannah Arendt Explains the Banality of Evil (1967) - Fantasy Class #13

YouTube video by The Ancient Dog

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