Not a great day for our men's team yesterday ahead of the game against 50,000+ Ajax fans on Thursday. Olivia Damico's goal on Saturday against Bohs most be a Goal of the Month (season?) contender, though. #Shels
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Working in tech but more likely to post about football or music. I wash bibs and pick up cones for Shelbourne FC's women's team. Kevin Godley once described me as a "visionary boffin".
The great Neko Case having to deal with Hansard back in the day. Horrendous.
socmot@socmot.bsky.social · 3d agoI despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
The Tour de France Femmes rolls off today + @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has the story of Mayo's Millie Robinson 🇮🇪, 'The Greatest Woman Cyclist of Them All', who won a precursor of today's #TdFF2026, 1955's Tour Féminin aka 'the First Tour de France Femmes'. #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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Ah, this warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. Wait til you see the price a TERF had to pay for lying about a trans woman. "...also be required to publish a court-approved apology that must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...
An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price. - LGBTQ Nation
Kirralie Smith admitted in court she didn't have any evidence to back up her claim about a trans woman injuring two cis women.
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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? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @uplift.ie
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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Imagine an entire cheery article on self expression ending in this paragraph on children. “Girlguiding’s new look is being launched shortly before a change in the charity’s membership policy from 6 September, which will force transgender girls to leave.”
Simon Cox@simonfrcox.bsky.social · last wk.Schools should learn from Guides. Being forced to wear clothes you don’t choose is bad for children’s confidence www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
The bigoted thug who assaulted the security guard at the Muslim prayer centre in Dublin yesterday, goes by the name of Hearns Derekmark. Be an awful pity if he became famous for being a bigoted thug.
looks more and more a part of the same spectrum. The rioters and pogromists aren’t out to protect women, girls and young men like Henry Novak. This is about their entitlement to rule and enforce their possession of families and communities. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse
Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence
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Back again at #ForestFest. Bumped into my pension adviser which couldn't be more on-brand for FF 😄
Ireland U21 international stars as Shelbourne earn emphatic win in Europe. the42.ie/7111719t
Ireland U21 international stars as Shelbourne earn emphatic win in Europe
Sean Moore registered two goals and an assist in the win over Nõmme Kalju as the Dublin side closed in on a glamour tie with Ajax.
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Lindsey Graham on Gaza: "Just flatten it, like we flattened Tokyo and Berlin." Lindsey Graham on the Iran War: "We are going to make tons of money." Lindsey Graham on Renée Nicole Good: "She deserved what happened. She provoked ICE." As grandma used to say: GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.
Access to justice must be “fair, equitable, timely and not prohibitively expensive” But new cost rules breach Constitution, Aarhus Convention & EU law by putting public & civil society organisations under financial constraints that don’t apply to State or others www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...
An Taisce has launched a challenge in the court against the government's new legal cost rules
Together, An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment initiated a court challenge to new regulations that put a cap on the costs litigants in environmental legal cases can recover if they win their...
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1/ Trigger warning ⚠️ "Her name is not in this piece. She is not a case number to us either. She is a person who was a small child once, in a room with a blue couch, in a house that should never have let her in the door." substack.com/@lastpagefir...
Just FYI: The SDNY Got Evidence of What Epstein Did to a Five Year Old and Responded With Two Words
A five year old child was sexually abused at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion. Her lawyers gave the Southern District of New York photographs, names, and phone numbers. The federal response is two words.
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FF and FG have placed too much emphasis on individuals making changes to improve emissions, while dawdling on large scale projects. We now have less offshore wind energy production than we did 20 years ago. It's time we stop going backwards, and fast track the country's reduction in emissions.
Same old tune as it ever was from the commentariat. First it was Labour's moral duty to go into government with the right (and get annihilated) then it was the Green Party's moral duty to go into government with the right (and get annihilated) and now it's the Soc Dem's etc etc etc
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe only interesting thing about this think-piece is that it shows how unserious the political correspondent who wrote it and the editor who published it think the Soc Dems are about their economic policies.
Drew Gooden's humorous and informative explanation of the music business stitch-up by the big players. #Spotify #LiveNation #TicketMaster youtu.be/Yx7baJMQuVA?...
The Music Industry is Broken
YouTube video by Drew Gooden
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Albania is erupting for the second consecutive day in angry mass protests against the Kushner land seizure deal worth $4 billion.
Whether you like her for her music, acting, or philanthropy, Dolly Parton is a wonderful example of how a person gives back to their community. Unfortunately, Republicans in MO, IN, and KY cut funding to her Imagination Library! #ProudBlue Note: KY restored it after heavy pushback from people
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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substack.com/@rawstory/no... Bravery can start at any age. The school should be ashamed of their reaction and proud of this young woman.
Raw America (@rawstory)
COURAGE: A valedictorian in North Carolina spoke out for “families being torn apart by ICE” despite threats to have her diploma taken away: “These are not distant issues, they are happening now as I s...
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What on Earth?! This video is from Greenpeace. 💔
Blue moon rising this evening between the Poolbeg Chimneys from Clontarf.
His government's housing policies have "no impact at all" but that doesn't stop them announcing new ones every few weeks
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2mo agoA boycott of Ireland's games with Israel may have moved a small step closer, as a section of the FAi has backed calls to hold an EGM to discuss a boycott. But the Taoiseach has warned that any boycott may have “no impact at all” on Fifa or Israel. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-isra...