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Declan Moore

@mooregroup.bsky.social

An archaeological and environmental consultancy based in Galway, Ireland. You can also find us on Mastodon here: @mooregroup@mastodon.social

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Cian Ginty@cianginty.bsky.social · yesterday

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what a conflict of interest is -- it's far broader than this. But this financial interest is clearly a conflict of interest:

Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · yesterday

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-...

Aidan O’Brien@aidanobrien.bsky.social · 2d ago

The “cowardly French” and the “incompetent Irish”, at its heart Brexit was the last gasp of imperial British exceptionalism. In their minds Britain was being held back by its small minded, feckless, cowardly partners and would thrive once it was unshackled from the EU and “forged its own path”.

Sarah Pochin MP @SarahForRuncorn Pity the French did not show the same resolve in defending their sovereignty in June 1940. UR Politics UK @PolitlsUK • 5h * NEW: The French Government has attacked Reform UK's plan to use the Royal Navy to take small boat migrants back to France "This would be a violation of French sovereignty as well as a violation of maritime law and international law"Richard Tice MP KVE Follow @TiceRichard Congratulations Ireland, you're no longer Europe's most ridiculous country Mass amnesties and tolerance of illegal migrants has been disastrous for Spain & Ireland Only Reform will stop the rot in UK
Graham@1fivefive.bsky.social · 3d ago

Sorry to be going on about it but this Glen Hansard thing has middle aged (mostly) men queuing up voluntarily admit that they are either themselves dangerous to women or completely cool with other people being dangerous to women as long as they seem pretty sound to them. Over and over again.

Aidan O'Sullivan@aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fascinating - Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were populating upland lakes with brown trout. There are some species in Ireland that may have been brought in too, eg a small, cuddly bear cub is easy to transport in a boat … and how did red deer get here in the end?

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 3d ago

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 'The introduction of fish to the Scandinavian mountains by hunter-fisher-gatherers 5000 BC' - Axel Mjærum, Ellen K. Friis, Trygve Hesthagen & Andreas J. Kirchhefer doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 13/13 🧵

Emma Rogan 🇵🇸@emmadragon.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Dublin is cosplaying as #Dublin” “Dublin planning authorities have enabled the growth of a city centre hub that performs Irishness for a living & can't house the Irish who'd do the performing.” Devastatingly accurate telling of the dismantling of the town we loved so well. #spéirghorm #IrishPol

Bob Johnston@bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 4d ago

"A city doesn't get hollowed out by too many visitors. It hollows out when too little of the city remains underneath them, when the thing they queued to see has been quietly sold off around them while they queued." Great piece on #Dublin by Conor McGuire in Western People.

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick@animalarchaeology.com · 4d ago

In asking archaeologists to unify over a more apolitical archaeology, you are explicitly asking marginalised archaeologists to reject parts of themselves for the sake of civility. You’re asking people who recognise injustice to remain silent. Why would I want to be in a group like that?

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · last wk.

📰 Was Haughey's Fort in Northern Ireland "one of the most significant centres of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe"? 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @heritagedaily.bsky.social www.heritagedaily.com/2026/07/bron...

Bronze Age hillfort in Northern Ireland was a centre of power and ritual

Archaeologists have uncovered compelling new evidence that Haughey's Fort in County Armagh was one of the most significant centres of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe,…

heritagedaily.com

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5d ago

A rare and fragile survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of hand-spun, undyed silk, c. AD 875-950 Silk was an exotic material imported via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Found during excavations at Coppergate in 1980. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a hood-shaped silk cap from Viking Age York displayed on a thin metal stand against a dark display case background at the Yorkshire Museum. It is made from a rectangle of hand-spun, undyed silk, and shaped at the back by a centre seam. The pale silk is yellowy-gold in colour with a shiny lustre. The edges have been neatened with fine hems. According to the museum, it was probably worn with ties to fasten it to the head, as it includes the remains of two groups of stitches with which to attach ties. The museum says that the silk cap was likely worn by a female Anglo-Scandinavian resident of York. Also that “Silk was incredibly rare in the Viking North because it was not made locally. Silk-weaving is a Chinese technology, but by the 10th-century, the practice had reached the Arabian Peninsula, the Byzantine Empire, and parts of North Africa and Spain. Silk used to make the cap was imported from one of these places. The fine, pale-toned material would have been recognised in the town as a highly expensive and exotic fashion item”.
Katherine Stiles@katherinestiles.org · 6d ago

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four other archaic human relatives. #evolution #hominoids #genealogy #genomes

New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from 'ghost' ancestors

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four other archaic human ...

phys.org

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

12. Beyond anything about the film as a film, it was a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice to film the Trojan Horse sequence in occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara, without the consent of the indigenous population.

GylesNaMopaleen@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · last wk.

Quote of the day from a Mayo man in the jax in Croke Park after the game...."ring every fucking undertaker in Mayo now & make sure that cup passes no funeral tomorrow" 🤣🤣🏆 There was a Mayo "Curse" going back to 1951. They have lost 11 finals since.

A funeral demands the team fall silent, stop and pay their respects. But, too caught up in their celebrations, Mayo don't. The lorry motors on, the party continues and a sacrilege is committed. The priest at the head of the funeral procession fixes the players with a stare and narrows his eyes. "Damnation be upon every one of you," he says. "As long as you all shall live, County Mayo will never win another All-Ireland."
Philip O'Connor@philipoconnor.bsky.social · last wk.

Need to rewatch the game again, but that All-Ireland football final was one of the best and most enjoyable games of Gaelic football I have ever seen. So much at stake, such great skill and heart and fire, euphoria in victory and grace in defeat. We are so blessed to have Gaelic games.