Katherine Nolan
@dochara.com
Vet turned web developer based in Kilkenny. Here for news, less rancorous political discussion, cute cats & dogs, tech stuff, experts on the many things I know nothing about. #FreePalestine
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
Yet another reason why our politicians should get the hell off that site. While it was Gary Gannon's fault for not checking his facts, the avalanche of mis/disinformation makes it too easy for things like that to happen.
A forensic look on X suggests the wrongful claim about Alan Shatter and Jeffrey Epstein - subsequently shared by Gary Gannon TD, who has now paid damages - was first posted by a little-known ‘news outlet’ solely sharing ethnonationalist content
A vivid example of how disinformation gets to the top
A vivid example of how disinformation gets to the top
February 13, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Yet another reason why our politicians should get the hell off that site. While it was Gary Gannon's fault for not checking his facts, the avalanche of mis/disinformation makes it too easy for things like that to happen.
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The Quiet Girl/An Cailín Ciúin is free to watch on ARTE until the 6th of March. #spéirgorm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyx2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyx2...
The Quiet Girl | Film complet | ARTE Cinema
YouTube video by ARTE Cinema
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February 12, 2026 at 8:41 PM
The Quiet Girl/An Cailín Ciúin is free to watch on ARTE until the 6th of March. #spéirgorm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyx2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyx2...
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Ireland, Day 1056 of The Rain. Everything is saturated to the grey of the sky. Moss covers every surface. The outdoors sounds like constant static. The entire staff of Met Éireann is on mental health leave. I’ve forgotten what dry clothes feel like.
It is still a yellow weather alert.
#SpeirGorm
It is still a yellow weather alert.
#SpeirGorm
February 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Ireland, Day 1056 of The Rain. Everything is saturated to the grey of the sky. Moss covers every surface. The outdoors sounds like constant static. The entire staff of Met Éireann is on mental health leave. I’ve forgotten what dry clothes feel like.
It is still a yellow weather alert.
#SpeirGorm
It is still a yellow weather alert.
#SpeirGorm
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There's a term in cold reading called a "shut eye" that is basically this, and I would explain it, but why would I and deprive you of Orson Welles explaining it
youtu.be/3Poac0eciM0?...
youtu.be/3Poac0eciM0?...
February 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM
There's a term in cold reading called a "shut eye" that is basically this, and I would explain it, but why would I and deprive you of Orson Welles explaining it
youtu.be/3Poac0eciM0?...
youtu.be/3Poac0eciM0?...
Justice delayed truly is justice denied.
Margaret Loftus says 13 years before Garda husband was convicted almost broke her
Margaret Loftus says 13 years before Garda husband was convicted almost broke her
Margaret Loftus says she was intimidated and punished by her Garda colleagues after reporting her husband for assault
www.irishtimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Justice delayed truly is justice denied.
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🗣️ “Surely nobody should be in a condition described like that?” — guest presenter @newschambers.bsky.social
🗣️ “They shouldn’t,” — Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe
🗣️ “Sorry, that’s actually a description of the Knockalisheen Centre,” — @newschambers.bsky.social
#TonightVMTV #SeamusCulleton #ICE
🗣️ “They shouldn’t,” — Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe
🗣️ “Sorry, that’s actually a description of the Knockalisheen Centre,” — @newschambers.bsky.social
#TonightVMTV #SeamusCulleton #ICE
February 10, 2026 at 10:38 PM
🗣️ “Surely nobody should be in a condition described like that?” — guest presenter @newschambers.bsky.social
🗣️ “They shouldn’t,” — Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe
🗣️ “Sorry, that’s actually a description of the Knockalisheen Centre,” — @newschambers.bsky.social
#TonightVMTV #SeamusCulleton #ICE
🗣️ “They shouldn’t,” — Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe
🗣️ “Sorry, that’s actually a description of the Knockalisheen Centre,” — @newschambers.bsky.social
#TonightVMTV #SeamusCulleton #ICE
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absolutely not. we cannot let Tom Monaghan turn Mount Melleray into an Opus Dei finishing school for fascist tradcaths
www.rte.ie/news/munster...
www.rte.ie/news/munster...
US Catholic college in bid to set up campus in Waterford
A Catholic university based in Florida, in the US, has claimed it is setting up a new campus in Co Waterford.
www.rte.ie
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 PM
absolutely not. we cannot let Tom Monaghan turn Mount Melleray into an Opus Dei finishing school for fascist tradcaths
www.rte.ie/news/munster...
www.rte.ie/news/munster...
This is why you don't see the Irish government or other European governments speaking out about what's happening in the US. Sure, they are watching it carefully but watching with a certain amount of envy, to see how much they can get away with and how they can emulate them.
New rule could be used to send asylum seekers to countries they have no ties to if they're 'deemed' safe.
EU votes to allow deportation of migrants to ‘safe' third countries
New rule could be used to send asylum seekers to countries they have no ties to if they're 'deemed' safe.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This is why you don't see the Irish government or other European governments speaking out about what's happening in the US. Sure, they are watching it carefully but watching with a certain amount of envy, to see how much they can get away with and how they can emulate them.
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I ticked an item off the old 'bucket list' this evening. Witnessed a murmuration of starlings. Here in Co Limerick. #speirgorm. A spectacular display, just before sunset. Awesome, in the proper sense of the word.
February 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
I ticked an item off the old 'bucket list' this evening. Witnessed a murmuration of starlings. Here in Co Limerick. #speirgorm. A spectacular display, just before sunset. Awesome, in the proper sense of the word.
This one did for me. Can you imagine the planning, the excitement, the preparation, the "only three more sleeps"? Then the dream day finally arrives and all of that is swept away in an instant. Instead of Disney you end up in a prison. That poor kid.
6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
![Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k4jt6heuiamymgi46yeuxtpt/bafkreihpnudavq27nzelfb2kd3fjjthco7haqmhvx4zryksfbfruoxkm74@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 PM
This one did for me. Can you imagine the planning, the excitement, the preparation, the "only three more sleeps"? Then the dream day finally arrives and all of that is swept away in an instant. Instead of Disney you end up in a prison. That poor kid.
I really love dogs but harsh as it seems I'd rather they stayed lost if the only alternative is mass surveillance. It isn't of course, because this isn't really about dogs.
February 9, 2026 at 10:00 AM
I really love dogs but harsh as it seems I'd rather they stayed lost if the only alternative is mass surveillance. It isn't of course, because this isn't really about dogs.
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5 days modestly gallivanting around Ireland (Total pints consumed = 1) and the bill was the equivalent of a cocaine orgy in Iceland or Japan.
How the giddy fuck does anyone on a normal (Stand fast economists! You know what I mean) wage have any chance?
All of my friend’s children have emigrated.
How the giddy fuck does anyone on a normal (Stand fast economists! You know what I mean) wage have any chance?
All of my friend’s children have emigrated.
February 8, 2026 at 1:36 PM
5 days modestly gallivanting around Ireland (Total pints consumed = 1) and the bill was the equivalent of a cocaine orgy in Iceland or Japan.
How the giddy fuck does anyone on a normal (Stand fast economists! You know what I mean) wage have any chance?
All of my friend’s children have emigrated.
How the giddy fuck does anyone on a normal (Stand fast economists! You know what I mean) wage have any chance?
All of my friend’s children have emigrated.
What's the story with eggs?
February 7, 2026 at 2:22 PM
What's the story with eggs?
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Oh would it now
February 6, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Oh would it now
Weird. "Revenue growth outpaced inflation". I thought the sector was in dire trouble and needed a vat cut to survive.
Investment in hotel sector hits record level of €1.7bn on back of Dalata sale
Investment in hotel sector hits record level of €1.7bn on back of Dalata sale
Savills Ireland report says revenue growth outpaced inflation for many hotel operators in 2025, despite slow start to the year
www.irishtimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Weird. "Revenue growth outpaced inflation". I thought the sector was in dire trouble and needed a vat cut to survive.
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The government is gonna look themselves in the mirror, take a deep breath and tell themselves 'we gotta get more racist'
New polling on Ireland's housing crisis:
- 81% want the government to build more social housing "even if there are local objections"
- 64% disagree government is making progress on housing
- 67% would vote for a constitutional right to housing
- 29% are personally affected by the housing crisis
- 81% want the government to build more social housing "even if there are local objections"
- 64% disagree government is making progress on housing
- 67% would vote for a constitutional right to housing
- 29% are personally affected by the housing crisis
Appetite for radical change grows as voters’ patience wears thin over housing crisis
Half of all voters say country’s problems are getting worse instead of better
www.irishtimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:16 AM
The government is gonna look themselves in the mirror, take a deep breath and tell themselves 'we gotta get more racist'
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This week’s Gist is about how the U.K. Labour Party unknowingly has been blowing itself up by following Morgan McSweeney’s FG electoral instincts.
They don’t know the patterns, but we do.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-...
They don’t know the patterns, but we do.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-...
The Gist: UK Labour's FG mastermind
The UK Labour Party is being run into the ground, thanks to adopting FG's election tactics. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
February 6, 2026 at 9:24 AM
This week’s Gist is about how the U.K. Labour Party unknowingly has been blowing itself up by following Morgan McSweeney’s FG electoral instincts.
They don’t know the patterns, but we do.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-...
They don’t know the patterns, but we do.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-...
Penny wasn't born like that. Half of her ear was cut off when she was a puppy and the remainder splinted for weeks/months to heal upright. Her tail was cut off too, and her dewclaws. All illegal in the UK & Ireland. Unmutilated Doberman below.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
Doberman named Penny takes Westminster’s best in show as Catherine O’Hara honored
Doberman Penny wins best in show at the 150th Westminster, giving handler Andy Linton a second career crown nearly four decades after his first triumph with the breed
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Penny wasn't born like that. Half of her ear was cut off when she was a puppy and the remainder splinted for weeks/months to heal upright. Her tail was cut off too, and her dewclaws. All illegal in the UK & Ireland. Unmutilated Doberman below.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
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Micheál Martin has posted photos of schoolchildren on X twice since this controversy began
“The idea that we would give priority to not standing up to big tech over the generation and sharing of child abuse material, it’s an absolutely shocking and reprehensible assertion,” insists Micheál Martin.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
February 4, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Micheál Martin has posted photos of schoolchildren on X twice since this controversy began
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Listen, this headline is a better endorsement of the Digital Services Act than any 1000 words I could come up with.
There has been criticism of the European Union's Digital Services Act at a committee hearing in the United States.
Linehan among critics in US of EU Digital Services Act
There has been criticism of the European Union's Digital Services Act at a committee hearing in the United States.
www.rte.ie
February 4, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Listen, this headline is a better endorsement of the Digital Services Act than any 1000 words I could come up with.
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It’s not just keepie uppies President Connolly is skilled at apparently.
📍 Queens University where she joined the PeacePlayers basketball team on the court.
📍 Queens University where she joined the PeacePlayers basketball team on the court.
February 4, 2026 at 12:56 PM
It’s not just keepie uppies President Connolly is skilled at apparently.
📍 Queens University where she joined the PeacePlayers basketball team on the court.
📍 Queens University where she joined the PeacePlayers basketball team on the court.
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Minister for Environment Darragh O'Brien is attempting to rush through approval for a €900 million LNG reserve at the cost of the taxpayer & the planet.
The proposed legislation would give the Minister full responsibility for the planning application & completely change the normal planning process.
The proposed legislation would give the Minister full responsibility for the planning application & completely change the normal planning process.
January 29, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Minister for Environment Darragh O'Brien is attempting to rush through approval for a €900 million LNG reserve at the cost of the taxpayer & the planet.
The proposed legislation would give the Minister full responsibility for the planning application & completely change the normal planning process.
The proposed legislation would give the Minister full responsibility for the planning application & completely change the normal planning process.