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Dónal Ó Duinn
@oduinn.bsky.social
Mistake maker. Ag foghlaim. Liberal Left. Slava Ukraini. BÁC, Éire / Dublin, Ireland.
New post! @nikomccarty.bsky.social and I have been writing regular round ups for a little while now, but so much has happened recently that this month’s post feels like it contains a year’s worth of breakthroughs. Read it here!
What’s new in biology: June 2026
The most effective weight-loss drug so far, cancer breakthroughs, gene editing for cholesterol, ancestral CRISPR systems, and more.
worksinprogress.news
"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables
Lots of Orange-tips around. My favourite butterfly, so I thought I’d paint a male on Cuckoo Flower, with egg from a visiting female.
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
I cannot for the life of understand why pay in RTE is dubbed a national scandal while man chocked to death outside Arnotts in broad daylight isn’t.
Janey Godley is still right. RIP Janey.
That one time Russia Today accidentally broadcast something truthful. Farage getting eviscerated by a six-year-old.
Mír ón gcartlann agus é ag caint ar an dteanga agus an timpeallacht i gCorca Dhuibhne tar éis seoladh a leabhar ‘Thirty Two Words for a Field’ i 2020 www.rte.ie/radio/rnag/c...
Manchán Magan
Mír ón gcartlann agus é ag caint ar an dteanga agus an timpeallacht i gCorca Dhuibhne tar éis seoladh a leabhar ‘Thirty Two Words for a Field’ i 2020.
rte.ie
As Yom Kippur ends, it is terrible that a holy day has seen people killed at a place of worship in Manchester I hope many of us will express solidarity + support for Jews in Britain, and work with them + those of every faith and none to deepen our efforts to tackle antisemitism, hatred + extremism
It is hard to describe the emotion in the conference hall today as Margaret Aspinall spoke with such power and heart about her son James and all those unlawfully killed at Hillsborough A moment no-one in that room will forget
Margaret Aspinall's powerful message to Starmer
She spoke on the main stage and introduced the Prime Minister
liverpoolecho.co.uk
@musaalgharbi.bsky.social providing essential reading for anyone interested in actually moving forward.
Inserting “Culture” Into the Culture Wars
Ideology and formal rules are less consequential than most seem to think. This matters for institutional reform.
musaalgharbi.substack.com
Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
I legit think a problem on the Irish left is a failure to engage with other European leftists. You’d see how insulting comments like these are if you’ve touched grass with socdems in Finland, Lithuania, Poland etc Too much absorbing American leftist talking points and not enough internationalism.
Connolly seems to think the US and Russia are on a par with each other. Delusional.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · last yr.Independent presidential candidate Catherine Connolly has described America as an 'imperial power' contributing to current volatility
Fact of the day. Brian Lenihan Snr topped the poll in the 1990 Presidential election, with 44% of first preferences.
“If the medium is the message, the message is mass psychosis” open.substack.com/pub/samharri...
We Are Losing the Information War with Ourselves
If the medium is the message, the message is mass psychosis.
open.substack.com
Catherine Connolly says “the Ukraine” in every speech on the war. She opposes Ireland providing Ukraine paltry combat medic and de-mining training, and objects to all EU arms funding for Ukraine. She took part in a PR blitz for Bashar al-Assad in Syria, but wouldn’t clap for Zelenskyy in the Dáil.
Irish-Syrian activists ask Labour not to support Connolly’s presidential bid
Irish-Syrian activists ask Labour not to support Connolly’s presidential bid
Galway West TD Catherine Connolly officially confirmed her candidacy on Tuesday
irishtimes.com