Johannes Scotus Erigena aka John Scotus Eriugena aka the fella on the old £5 note was named Irish John from Ireland.

Ian Fay@ianfay.bsky.social · 4h ago

My favourite Nicholas Kole fact is that his surname also means Nicholas. Man is Nicholas Nicholas.

Banana republic....septic isle... #SpéirGhorm #IrishPolitics

Patrick Bresnihan@pbresnihan.bsky.social · 8h ago

Yesterday, the CSO announced that a record number of households are in arrears over electricity bills. Today, we learn the CEO of state owned ESB has a pay rise to €410k. Such blatant unfairness is a result of EU deregulation of the energy sector in the 90s.

On today of all days, we have some good news: This has reached 109,000 signatures. Cis women are still continuing to say ‘No!’ to the marginalisation of trans people in society. If you haven’t already signed, please do and join the voices of women who are standing up for us.👇 Notinourname.org.uk

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@stephaniejane.bsky.social · 2w ago

108,000 signatures from cis women has been reached. These are women who say that trans people are no threat to them! With the EHRC guidelines about to be implemented, their voices are now more important than ever! If you agree with them, and have not already signed, please do👇 Notinourname.org.uk

I am using the goodweeplace.com scripts & have them printed off

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 13h ago

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

Sorry. Had refried beans two days in a row. And cheese. And sour cream. Lactose intolerance is pulsing as it were.

YᗩY ᖴOᖇ ᗷIᑕYᑕᒪEᔕ 🚲@yayforbicycles.bsky.social · 11h ago

What's going on in Cork this morning with Air Quality? 🤷

Nothing says thriving constitutional republic like tied accommodation. Bonus points if it can qualify as tenement.

Frank O'Connor@frankoconnor.bsky.social · 11h ago

The race to the bottom is hotting up Beds in sheds progresses rapidly to beds in work depots This government is truly delivering #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland "Rental crisis forces bus firm to put beds for staff in Dublin depot" www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...

Banana republic.... #SpéirGhorm #IrishPolitics

Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · 23h ago

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-...

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

Looks like Bluesky's CEO is getting her wish. Blockety blocked!

Whoever football is for, it's not for the fans. Nor is it for Palestinians. Shame on the FAI. This game is a farce and should not go ahead. www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...

FAI confirms no Ireland tickets for Israel games

The FAI have confirmed that there will be no tickets sold to Republic of Ireland supporters for autumn's UEFA Nations League fixtures with Israel.

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Watching Reeling in the Years 1987. I'd forgotten how grim the 1980s really were. So called republicans bombing civilians, Loyalists going full Apartheid, actual Apartheid, AIDs, 8th Amendment, Kerry Babies, Ann Lovett, Laundries, moving statues, Haughey, Thatcher... Think f I was mostly stoned.

It's easy to feel helpless about the sustained efforts to erase the people of Gaza. It's easy to rage post about the complicity of the Irish government in the Israeli led genocide. It's also easy to send a few quid that will mean so much to so many kids. I don't care why you do it - just do it.

Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · yesterday

There’s a one-time donation button here. Thank you! www.ionadhindrajab.org

Over the weekend, a premature fetus was recovered from the rubble after an Israeli airstrike killed its pregnant mother. In another strike, 4 people were killed in their car.

That is an excellent observation. Perhaps women should start wearing recording devices as a matter of course. Ones capable of recording and live streaming at the same time - for those extra special men we meet along life's path.

TheBossRoss 🧶@thebossross.bsky.social · 2d ago

If women wore smart glasses, they'd be banned. (soigomaa/x) Think about it. If millions of women wore smart glasses, recording men's behaviour, conversations, comments, their driving & bar chats ... can you imagine the panic? Trust me, smart glasses would be regulated before you can say 'Meta'.

Being dead is not some kind of state line where, if you can just cross the border, all your trespasses evaporate. The flowers still wither where you poured salt. The living continue to suffer the consequences of your actions. People are entitled to say, he made the garden worse, and now he is gone.

So much for the safeguarding against 'male puberty as it gives physical advantages' bullshit. They want to inspect girls vaginas before they have even developed labia.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d ago

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

I can't afford much. But I can give what I can afford every month. So that's what I do. Been doing that far longer than I'd hoped, but I'm not stopping til it's not needed. Thanks @tonygroves.bsky.social for facilitating this.

Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · yesterday

We’ve just rented a projector so the kids can watch some films over August and we’re trying to source and buy treats and snacks. Ionad Hind Rajab is about more than education. It’s about getting back a little bit of childhood. 👇

And clerical officer grades are so poorly paid those with children are forced to rely on social welfare supports like Working Family Payment.

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

Unlike what Minister Jack Chambers claims Ireland has one of the lowest per capita ratio of civil servants among EU member states. And significantly fewer than other high tax member states like Sweden, Finland and Denmark

Lot of this going on at the moment.

Am beginning to think AI has gone HAL and is trolling the human race. And is quite horrified at how gobsmacking stupid we are.

Aodhán Ó'Coileáin@werslabber.bsky.social · 2d ago

app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/160302...

We give up 4% of everything you spend with us all year round which has equated to over 30% of profits in each of the last 4 years. On Bank Holidays we give Women's Aid 10% of all you spend. It's a bank holiday and we're good at what we do so if you need coffee imbibe.ie/pages/shop #speirgorm

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We are an Irish Coffee Roasting Business. We give away 4% of all we earn before we make a cent. We roast coffee very well.

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Train windows turn a shattered wall mural into smooth animation. The images are static, sliced into vertical strips, your brain does the rest.

Just in case anyone is planning on going to the UK and has need to urinate while being a woman in a public place (is this nonsense happening in NI too?) #SpéirGhorm

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 3d ago

Please share with all women (yes it affects cis women too) and trans + people. goodweeplace.com

Name the last film you've seen. The Last Stand of Ellen Cole.

Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@stephaniejane.bsky.social · 4d ago

Name the last film you've seen. The Equaliser 3

Wait.. The OAP George's dire pro-Israeli dirge is AI generated?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Couldn't even put minimal effort into being vile for pay.

Reports to the EPA show multiple wells and streams on site contain contaminated water in excess of regulatory limits. This figure has been broadly similar since at least 2021. Some water sources on site have become significantly more contaminated since last year. The EPA has taken no action.

Arsenic 133 times above legal level found in Aughinish Alumina groundwater

Water testing reports from Co Limerick refinery show more than half its wells and streams contain contaminated water breaching Irish rules

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Again, the mainstream consensus here increasingly seems to be comfort with this as just an unfortunate fact of life. It's become normalised. Imagine what you could have done for the problem with the money shovelled at the fuel protesters.

Hannah O'Sullivan@sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 5d ago

#SpéirGorm #Cork #Homelessness Homelessness reaches new record in Cork as national total rises to 17,482 share.google/4wcJMltYgRbM...

More apologia. Apparently creating a situation where you work closely and intimately with a 13 year old, you describe as a kid you are falling in love with, as a man in your 30s doesn't constitute grooming. It's respectful feelings.

This is it isn't it. Rather than deal with the substance of what was said - David here belittles a man he knows nothing about for speaking out so that David can continue to defend a predator. Even when men are gay - women still need to choose the Bear.

Thoughts on the dead singer. Yesterday, my middle aged straight hairy biker son went on one on social media about the dead singer and those eulogising him. He did not hold back. What was unusual was that he took to social media to vent knowing it would attract vile bile. I asked him why.