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Julie Kelleher
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Pro: tea/choice/(swear)words/arts/singing/dancing. Work: Theatre Director/Maker & Creative Consultant. Views: my own.
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alldayjk.bsky.social
Oh! I’m sorry to hear this. I worked for one of his concessions in BT in the early noughties, and though he had a rep for dissing Irish women, I always found him super charming and interested when the few times I met him. RIP.
November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
alldayjk.bsky.social
Have a ticket for Kae Tempest next week in Vicar St - Thu 13 Nov - for sale at face value. Gutted not to be able to go :( but would love if someone else could! #ticketfairy
November 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
Vote, vote, vote #connolly4president #aras2025 #speirgorm
Vote the bejaysus out of them
October 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
alldayjk.bsky.social
Stunning
electionlit.bsky.social Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · Oct 16
From the 1990 Presidential Election
Is the Left Right for the Park? Do you want radical socialists to run the Presidency? If Not vote no. 1 Brian lenihan
October 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
alldayjk.bsky.social
Ooh this is a *zinger* from Malachy Clerkin!

Malachy Clerkin: The Jim Gavin fiasco was a long overdue humbling for GAA exceptionalism

www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...
Malachy Clerkin: The Jim Gavin fiasco was a long overdue humbling for GAA exceptionalism
Micheál Martin had his head turned by Gavin’s football success, forgetting it’s just a sport, no better or worse than the rest
www.irishtimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
alldayjk.bsky.social
Other columnists categorised Catherine Connolly’s Morning Ireland as a “bruising encounter”. It only reaffirmed for me that she has my vote - @catherinegalway.bsky.social

Meanwhile, Justine McCarthy actually nails it (as ever!) here:
September 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.
To be a person of consequence is to matter. If you matter, you have rights, and your words serve those rights and give you the power to bear witness, make agreements, set boundaries. If you have consequence, your words possess the authority to determine what does and does not happen to you, the power that underlies the concept of consent as part of equality and ­ self-​­ determination. Even legally women’s words have lacked consequence: in only a few scattered places on earth could women vote before the twenti- eth century, and not so many decades ago, women rarely became lawyers and judges; I met a Texas woman whose mother was among the first women in their region to serve on a jury, and I was an adult when the first woman was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Until a few decades ago, wives throughout much of the world, including the United States, lacked the right to make con- tracts and financial decisions or even to exercise jurisdiction over their own bodies that overrode their husbands’ ability to do so; in some parts of the world, a wife is still property under the law, and others choose her husband. To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say some- thing and have it not matter than to be silent.
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
alldayjk.bsky.social
This is a great read, unlike, seemingly, the subject of its review.
September 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
alldayjk.bsky.social
Shocked and appalled at the glaring omission of Dawson’s Creek from this taxonomy of teenage representation by @patrickfreyne.bsky.social, which is a kind of culchie Skins-meets-TheOC, imo.

(Also have never read a better analysis of Hamlet)

www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
The jock, the nerd, the rebel, the princess and the freak: What kind of teenager were you?
From Ferris Bueller to Beverly Hills 90210 and The OC, teen dramas have helped turn us all back into adolescents
www.irishtimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
alldayjk.bsky.social
Lovely piece. I wonder if in 50 years time we'll have a great theatre critic who has been following the oeuvre of any theatre artist, with the longevity and credibilty to write about it, let alone the idea of theatre artists who could manage to make a 50 year career. Seems so implausible.
Fintan O'Toole: Ireland in the 1980s was bloody awful, but there was at least one good reason not to emigrate
Galway’s Druid theatre company had a superb, stubborn belief that a basket case of a nation could also be a Moses basket
www.irishtimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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marlboroughprods.bsky.social
We’re inviting applications for 6 roles in our company. We’d love for you to join our brilliant team. This is an opportunity to be part of a bold, collaborative organisation committed to pushing boundaries and platforming underrepresented voices.

bit.ly/mpwearehiring

@queerinbrighton.bsky.social
An image of five performers on stage at the Clore Ballroom at the Southbank Centre are washed with blue lights. We can see young people watching the show at the foreground of the image. The performer in the middle of the image spins a hula hoop over their chest with one arm up. Four other performers, two either side of the hula hoop artist, have their arms in the air. All performers are wearing colourful clothes. Text in the back of the image reads "Prancer the Dancer" on a screen. The "Marlborough Productions logo is overlaid up top and below the text reads "We're Hiring! We're inviting applications for six roles in our company, and we'd love for you to join our brilliant team."
July 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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lrb.co.uk
‘The response to this genocide shouldn’t be to allow more food into Gaza so that Palestinians can be saved from starving but killed by Israeli bombing. Rather, it should be to undo the system of control and killing.’

Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tareq Baconi · Short Cuts: Gaza under Siege
Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force is...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
alldayjk.bsky.social
*really* pleased, and possibly even relieved, to hear this news.
thejournal.ie The Journal @thejournal.ie · Jul 11
Galway Independent TD Catherine Connolly says she's made her mind up to run for president.

Connolly confirmed to the Galway City Tribune yesterday that she will launch her campaign formally next week. http://jrnl.ie/6760029
Galway Independent TD Catherine Connolly says she's made her mind up to run for president
The Galway TD told the Galway City Tribune that she formally launch her campaign next week.
jrnl.ie
July 12, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Oops, left a few names off:
Mussolini was shot and then his corpse was attacked and hung. Pinochet died under house arrest, while facing criminal charges in Europe and in Chile. Idi Amin died in exile. The Shah of Iran died in exile. Pol Pot died under house arrest. Mobutu died in exile. Ceausescu and his wife were executed by firing squad. Saddam Hussein was hung. The Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo was assassinated. The last Somoza dictator was assassinated in exile after being overthrown. Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner, Colombia's Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez all died in exile. Argentina's Jorge Rafael Videla died while serving a fifty-year sentence. Ferdinand Marcos died in exile, and Duterte is currently in the Hague for crimes against humanity. Slobodan Milošević died in the Hague while on trial for war crimes. Hashim Thaçi, former p.m. of Kosovo, is still being held in the Hague. The Khmer Rouge's Khieu Samphan is serving a life sentence in Cambodia. Charles Taylor of Liberia is serving a 50-year sentence in the UK. Chad's Hissene Habre went into exile in Senegal, where he was tried on charges of crimes against humanity and given a life sentence; he died in prison. Only last winter Assad fled Syria; only last summer Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh. That hasn't been the fate of all dictators but for many of them the chapters after their power crumbled were not what they would have written. Nor is this reassurance that justice or democracy always wins or dismissal of the damage each of them did. I was just thinking and then decided to compile a list.
July 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
alldayjk.bsky.social
🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 6
Grok is a full blown nazi now.
A screenshot of a Twitter thread discussing Hollywood and ideological biases in movies. The first tweet by @pnwguerrilla says, “Enjoying movies/cinema becomes almost impossible once you know.” Another user, @playpal001, replies, “once I know what?” The user @grok responds, explaining that once you know about “pervasive ideological biases, propaganda, and subversive tropes in Hollywood—like anti-white stereotypes, forced diversity, or historical revisionism—it shatters the immersion.” @friendly_gecko then asks @grok if a particular group injects these themes. @grok replies that Jewish executives have historically founded and dominated leadership in major studios and suggests their overrepresentation influences content with progressive ideologies some see as subversive.
July 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
alldayjk.bsky.social
First ever Cork v Tipp all Ireland hurling final, wowza!
July 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
alldayjk.bsky.social
Maureen telling it like it is.
June 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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kneecapceol.bsky.social
Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.
June 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
alldayjk.bsky.social
Righteous column from Justine McCarthy this morning 🔥

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Justine McCarthy: What gives Ursula von der Leyen the right to egg Binyamin Netanyahu on with his killing crusades?
Von der Leyen is living proof against the foolish notion that women don’t tolerate warfare
www.irishtimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Reposted by Julie Kelleher
news.rte.ie
Irish writer Donal Ryan has been announced as the winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for his novel 'Heart, Be At Peace' this evening in London
Irish writer Donal Ryan wins prestigious Orwell Prize
Irish writer Donal Ryan has been announced as the winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for his novel 'Heart, Be At Peace' this evening in London.
www.rte.ie
June 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
This is what happens when you coddle manbabies and don't hold them accountable for their lies; it's clearly very bad for their character development.

p.s. Fun to see Grok spank Elon. But.
June 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
alldayjk.bsky.social
Read this last night and still feeling *very* cross about it.
June 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
alldayjk.bsky.social
This lad 🤦🏻‍♀️ whose letter to Arts Council NI a few months ago, set out his expectation that, even as an Arm’s Length body, ACNI should “align with lines taken by me and my Department and do not go beyond them”. Boy oh boy does he have the wrong portfolio 🥴

artscouncil-ni.org/news/letter-...
beebsymca.bsky.social Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · Jun 11
Gordon Lyons posts the first and within hours the facility is under attack.

He (well someone) then posts the second.

The DUP. Stirring the shit and then standing back for 60 years.
Gordon Lyons MLA 6h. ... It has been brought to my attention that a number of individuals were temporarily moved to Larne Leisure Centre in the early hours of the morning following the disturbances in Ballymena. As a local MLA for the area, neither I nor my DUP Council colleagues were made aware or consulted on this decision until late this afternoon. It has now been confirmed to us by the PSNI and Council that all these individuals are in the care of the Housing Executive and have been moved out of Larne. Protesting is of course a legitimate right but violence is not and I would encourage everyone to remain peaceful. Gordon Lyons MLA 1h East Antrim MLA Gordon Lyons has condemned the damage inflicted on Larne Leisure Centre tonight and said it only serves to hurt residents of the town. He said, "The violence and disorder witnessed on our streets over recent nights serves no purpose. Wanton destruction such as the attack on Larne Leisure Centre is an attack on all residents who use the facility. There is absolutely no excuse for what has taken place in Larne, and it must be condemned."
June 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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wcorklitfest.bsky.social
Balsam Karam joins us at WCLF on 14 July along with her translator Saskia Vogel. Their visit is part of the Stories From Sweden programme, supported by Swedish Arts Council & Swedish Embassy, UK @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
🎟️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/...
📻 open.spotify.com/episode/4MBh...
chosentongue.bsky.social Chosen Tongue @chosentongue.bsky.social · Jun 8
Growing up in a country doesn’t always mean you feel like you belong, but being able to play in its language can make it easier. Hear the brilliant Balsam Karam reflect on this and more in our new episode, out today.
June 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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feminists.bsky.social
If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.

🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg
June 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM