It's Neve's 50th cap today..... Have to roll this out again...
Irish Women's Rugby Supporters Club@irishwomens.bsky.social · 2y agoShe's gonna kill me...
Miriam
@miriamkennedy.bsky.social
I'll stick a meaningful quote on here eventually. 🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺
Irish Women's Rugby Supporters Club@irishwomens.bsky.social · 2y ago
Another incredible shift this afternoon by Linda Djougang! 👏☘️💚👏 #RSAvIRE
Choking a man to death for allegedly shoplifting also counts as fairly antisocial behavior
Dublin Inquirer@dublininquirer.com · 3d agoMaybe people shouldn't be able to collect social welfare at the GPO, Arnotts lobbies. The company behind the Henry Street department store raised the idea with the man in charge of the regeneration of the city centre, returns show.
This government, who moved with rapidity to remove this campaign from circulation, targeting a charity with attacks on their credibility, responded earlier this year to the mass production of non-consensual sexual imagery on X with little more than a shrug.
Nothing is ever going to change until we start jailing executives. We gotta go back to ye olden days where we strip them of all land, rank, and title and cast them penniless into the howling winter
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2d ago“Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest… After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud”
That the Government would knee-jerk themselves back to treating, as policy, children as the property of older family members who would have rights over them which would stand ahead of the rights of the child is a fresh new low in a week of novel depths.
Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · 2d agoConsent to be touched respects the person who has the right to choose whether they want it. Nobody has a right to physical interactions with children, whether or not the intent of that interaction is physical. The alternative is an unconscionable denial of children's rights to body autonomy.
This, from the hugely experienced Irish courts reporter, Isabel Hayes, on the Minister for Justice’s performative outrage over an ad about children and consent, is worth reading.
What does "too far" mean? This legislation affects no one but helps many. RTE news: Government opposes bill on non-binary recognition, saying changes go too far www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...
Government opposes bill on non-binary recognition
The Government says it is opposing the Non-Binary and Intersex Recognition Bill because it goes too far in changing existing legislation.
rte.ie
Jim O’Callaghan in goose step with Peader Toibín and Aontú will be a shock to no one on #speirgorm
I am a grandparent (step-grandparent, if you're all about the blood) in a fairly complicated family, who only gets to see kiddo fairly infrequently. Sometimes they want to hug & sometimes they don't & that's 100% up to them. Hugs are absolutely the right place to start consent education!
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2d agoAdverts run by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre looking at consensual hugs between children and their grandparents has been suspended after criticism. Aontú's Peader Tóibín called the ad "bonkers", as he urged a "need to build resilience" among children. www.thejournal.ie/grandparents...
Lewis Hamilton "Free Congo, free Sudan, free Syria, free Palestine."
Seems like Peadar Tóibín and Aontu just don’t like the idea of agency and consent … especially for women and children, most especially embodied agency and consent, but then generally that’s a right wing, patriarchy, authoritarian position, so, of course🤷🏻♀️ #speirghorm
Maybe Arnotts shouldn't employee security guards to beat shoplifters to death? Totally lowers the tone of the area tbh.
Dublin Inquirer@dublininquirer.com · 3d agoMaybe people shouldn't be able to collect social welfare at the GPO, Arnotts lobbies. The company behind the Henry Street department store raised the idea with the man in charge of the regeneration of the city centre, returns show.
Dolly Parton's sister claims voting machines in Tennessee changed her vote to the Republican candidate.
I have greatly enjoyed watching America feel the same things I have felt about Vivek Ramaswamy since the fall of 2003
We were too spineless to regulate these billionaire freaks, so now one of them gets to decide whether Ukrainian drones can catch the missiles aimed at Ukrainian kids. We have failed spectacularly.
It's great to see a political leader speak out clearly and without equivocation
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3d ago
The happiness inside me when the Cowboys lose, especially on prime time, could power a small country. #SNF 🤗🤗🤗
Musk cannot be trusted - diversify from starlink and Tesla and let him concentrate to sending himself to Mars … good riddance
Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦@angel-shalagina.bsky.social · last wk.🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk personally proposed slowing down Ukraine’s Starlink access, and Trump agreed, The Telegraph reports, citing four sources. Musk reportedly later feared backlash from European customers and publicly denied responsibility, blaming the White House instead.
I’ve never read a Sally Rooney novel, dystopian (the darker the better) fiction is more my style … but I am filled with admiration for her principled & unwavering commitment to calling out #genocideingaza despite the very real impact, personally, financially & professionally.
Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · last wk.Sally Rooney: To publish my work in the UK could now constitute a serious criminal offence. After a process of consultation and deliberation, and with my full agreement, my publisher Faber has therefore determined that it can no longer supply my work within the UK. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...