Deirdre O'Shaughnessy
@deshocks.bsky.social
Opinion Editor, Irish Examiner |
Host, The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast | Mother of three.
Interested in news, books, politics, culture, science, climate and life in Ireland - and everywhere else. Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine.
Host, The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast | Mother of three.
Interested in news, books, politics, culture, science, climate and life in Ireland - and everywhere else. Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine.
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Is this the most Financial Times story ever?
Some of the richest Americans are confronted with a thorny question this time of year: is spending the festive season with family worth paying millions more in taxes? ft.trib.al/3nDA3ou
December 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Is this the most Financial Times story ever?
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“About 40% of visa applications from Palestinian nationals have been rejected by Ireland since October 2023.”
- @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social
- @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social
Palestinian cultural tour to Ireland in limbo as Government tightens visa policy
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December 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“About 40% of visa applications from Palestinian nationals have been rejected by Ireland since October 2023.”
- @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social
- @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social
I’m agog
Well you can call me the Earl of Surprised because sir, I am surprised.
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Unfortunately he passed away earlier this year. Looks like of his children, Luke gets the sandwich title and Orlando gets the sandwich chain. I'm on the edge of a rabbit hole here..
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Unfortunately he passed away earlier this year. Looks like of his children, Luke gets the sandwich title and Orlando gets the sandwich chain. I'm on the edge of a rabbit hole here..
Earl of Sandwich (restaurant) - Wikipedia
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December 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I’m agog
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Today’s episode of an Irishwoman’s diary is on Maureen O’Sullivan, the Irishwoman who parachuted into occupied France as a resistance spy. Search for the Deirdre O’Shaughnessy podcast on your podcast platform
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Spotify – Web Player
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December 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Today’s episode of an Irishwoman’s diary is on Maureen O’Sullivan, the Irishwoman who parachuted into occupied France as a resistance spy. Search for the Deirdre O’Shaughnessy podcast on your podcast platform
open.spotify.com/episode/7daa...
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Take a break, lads
Networking over the holidays can be a great way to reconnect with people when offices are quiet. It can also set you up for success in the new year.
The holidays can be a great time to network for your next job
Networking over the holidays can be a great way to reconnect with people when offices are quiet. It can also set you up for success in the new year.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Take a break, lads
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
Making the kids go to bed early is great but I’d like to go now too 🤣
December 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Making the kids go to bed early is great but I’d like to go now too 🤣
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Over the past month my colleague Clodagh Finn and I recorded six podcasts about Irish women in history - a Christmas miniseries to replace my usual output. First one, Grizelda Steevens “the pig faced woman of Dublin” dropped today. Listen by searching for the Deirdre O’Shaughnessy podcast
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Over the past month my colleague Clodagh Finn and I recorded six podcasts about Irish women in history - a Christmas miniseries to replace my usual output. First one, Grizelda Steevens “the pig faced woman of Dublin” dropped today. Listen by searching for the Deirdre O’Shaughnessy podcast
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concentration camps.
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
concentration camps.
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I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules ft.trib.al/TgoG45B
US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules
France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’
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December 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
Kim Cattrall is in the horrible histories movie, this just makes me love her more
December 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Kim Cattrall is in the horrible histories movie, this just makes me love her more
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If the US wants to sanction an EU Commissioner for work he did to restrict the spread of extremism in the EU then that is a decision that must have consequences, incl reciprocal denial of visas - not least for the leaders of tech companies who lobby the White House to undermine the EU / EU law
France foreign minister: ‘France strongly condemns the visa restriction imposed by the United States against Thierry Breton, former minister and European Commissioner, and 4 other European figures. The Digital Services Act (DSA) was democratically adopted in Europe so that what
December 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If the US wants to sanction an EU Commissioner for work he did to restrict the spread of extremism in the EU then that is a decision that must have consequences, incl reciprocal denial of visas - not least for the leaders of tech companies who lobby the White House to undermine the EU / EU law
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Les peuples de l'Europe sont libres et souverains et ne sauraient se faire imposer par d'autres les règles s'appliquant à leur espace numérique.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Les peuples de l'Europe sont libres et souverains et ne sauraient se faire imposer par d'autres les règles s'appliquant à leur espace numérique.
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Le règlement sur les services numériques (DSA) a été démocratiquement adopté en Europe pour que ce qui est illégal hors ligne le soit aussi en ligne. Il n'a absolument aucune portée extraterritoriale et ne concerne en aucun cas les Etats-Unis.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Le règlement sur les services numériques (DSA) a été démocratiquement adopté en Europe pour que ce qui est illégal hors ligne le soit aussi en ligne. Il n'a absolument aucune portée extraterritoriale et ne concerne en aucun cas les Etats-Unis.
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La France dénonce avec la plus grande fermeté la restriction de visa prise par les Etats-Unis à l'encontre de Thierry Breton, ancien ministre et Commissaire européen, et quatre autres personnalités européennes.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
La France dénonce avec la plus grande fermeté la restriction de visa prise par les Etats-Unis à l'encontre de Thierry Breton, ancien ministre et Commissaire européen, et quatre autres personnalités européennes.
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Once again we see that the biggest motivation to turn right wing is to find some cover among fellow sexual predators
Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Russell Brand charged with further counts of rape and sexual assault
The alleged offences took place in 2009, the Crown Protection Service said
www.independent.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Once again we see that the biggest motivation to turn right wing is to find some cover among fellow sexual predators
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“Why didn’t the media report” usually turns out to be “why didn’t I read/watch.”
People have lives and the algorithms blind us, but still, have less certainty in that critique!
People have lives and the algorithms blind us, but still, have less certainty in that critique!
December 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
“Why didn’t the media report” usually turns out to be “why didn’t I read/watch.”
People have lives and the algorithms blind us, but still, have less certainty in that critique!
People have lives and the algorithms blind us, but still, have less certainty in that critique!
This is almost impossible to read without dying inside for everyone concerned
I want to share with you the single funniest thing I have ever read in my life. I first read this around 1993 in a copy of the Oxford Book of Humorous Prose that I picked up in a bookshop in Pittsburgh, PA.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is almost impossible to read without dying inside for everyone concerned
If you’re an Apple Podcasts listener you’ll find the @irishexaminer Christmas miniseries with Clodagh Finn #anirishwomansdiary here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t... #womeninhistory #irishhistory #socialhistory
An Irishwoman's diary Episode 1: ‘Quiet piggy’ - Grizelda Steevens
Podcast Episode · The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · 23/12/2025 · 18m
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December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
If you’re an Apple Podcasts listener you’ll find the @irishexaminer Christmas miniseries with Clodagh Finn #anirishwomansdiary here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t... #womeninhistory #irishhistory #socialhistory
You can find the Christmas miniseries from me and Clodagh Finn of the @irishexaminer
here in my usual podcast stream (Spotify link): open.spotify.com/episode/7bnk...
#anirishwomansdiary #womeninhistory #irishhistory #socialhistory
here in my usual podcast stream (Spotify link): open.spotify.com/episode/7bnk...
#anirishwomansdiary #womeninhistory #irishhistory #socialhistory
An Irishwoman's diary Episode 1: ‘Quiet piggy’ - Grizelda Steevens
open.spotify.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
You can find the Christmas miniseries from me and Clodagh Finn of the @irishexaminer
here in my usual podcast stream (Spotify link): open.spotify.com/episode/7bnk...
#anirishwomansdiary #womeninhistory #irishhistory #socialhistory
here in my usual podcast stream (Spotify link): open.spotify.com/episode/7bnk...
#anirishwomansdiary #womeninhistory #irishhistory #socialhistory
Over the past month my colleague Clodagh Finn and I recorded six podcasts about Irish women in history - a Christmas miniseries to replace my usual output. First one, Grizelda Steevens “the pig faced woman of Dublin” dropped today. Listen by searching for the Deirdre O’Shaughnessy podcast
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Over the past month my colleague Clodagh Finn and I recorded six podcasts about Irish women in history - a Christmas miniseries to replace my usual output. First one, Grizelda Steevens “the pig faced woman of Dublin” dropped today. Listen by searching for the Deirdre O’Shaughnessy podcast
Have escaped from the chaos for ten minutes to “wrap presents”. Bwahaha
December 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Have escaped from the chaos for ten minutes to “wrap presents”. Bwahaha
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Read some of the stuff written by Irish hunger strikers who survived. These people will suffer the impact of this on their bodies for the rest of their lives, if they survive and, at this point, that is getting increasingly unlikely.
Via Prisoners for Palestine… take action: linktr.ee/prisoners4pal #Palestine
December 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Read some of the stuff written by Irish hunger strikers who survived. These people will suffer the impact of this on their bodies for the rest of their lives, if they survive and, at this point, that is getting increasingly unlikely.
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Probably worth noting that the British government allowed so many Irish people to die on hunger strikes at various times that it has its own Wikipedia page:
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Category:Irish people who died on hunger strike - Wikipedia
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December 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Probably worth noting that the British government allowed so many Irish people to die on hunger strikes at various times that it has its own Wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...