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Blogger/Writer/Poet/Librarian/Larval Screenwriter/Nerdfighter(DFTBA) /Wholockian/Sancturian/Being Human UK (since the pilot)/TW. Goofball. Heart of a Lion 🇪🇺
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Liz (10) (^_^) Ⓥ @lionesskeeper.bsky.social · Apr 26
Dispatches: Pope Francis In Memorium lionesskeeperblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/d...
Dispatches: Pope Francis In Memorium
This is a post that I didn’t want to post for at least a little time more. But Pope Francis, ‘The People’s Pope’ has died on 21st April (Easter Monday). I’m trying to grapple with why this particul…
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Galway City Council has secured a €3.36 million EU grant to deliver an innovative project called WATERWAY
Galway city secures €3.36m EU grant to revitalise canals
Galway City Council has secured a €3.36 million EU grant to deliver an innovative project called WATERWAY.
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February 16, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Vogue Williams has been announced as the Grand Marshal for this year's National Saint Patrick's Day Parade
Vogue Williams named St Patrick's Day Grand Marshal
Vogue Williams has been announced as the Grand Marshal for this year's National Saint Patrick's Day Parade.
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February 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Or Shrove Tuesday
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New figures from the Central Statistics Office, ahead of Pancake Tuesday tomorrow, show that the cost of making pancakes has risen by 35.2% over the last five years
Cost of making pancakes up 35% over last 5 years - CSO
New figures from the Central Statistics Office, ahead of Pancake Tuesday tomorrow, show that the cost of making pancakes has risen by 35.2% over the last five years.
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February 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Malaysia has banned all shipments of electronic waste, as it fights against becoming a “dumping ground” for the spent gadgets of rich western countries, which increasingly end up in southeast Asia ⬇️
Malaysia bans e-waste to stop western world dumping rubbish
Malaysia bans e-waste to stop western world dumping rubbish
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February 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Well played.
Screenshot of a tweet jokingly naming a band “The Klanberries,” showing a collage of four blonde conservative women commentators and officials in separate headshots side by side.
February 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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February 16, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of #SupermanvsSpider-Man Treasury Edition, #AlexRossArt is offering an exclusive "Cover B" painted and personally signed by the award-winning artist along with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Read the full article at:
supermansupersite.com/Pre-Order_50...
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February 15, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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Cocoa stocks from main harvest pile up in Ivory Coast warehouses reut.rs/3OjOamj
Cocoa stocks from main harvest pile up in Ivory Coast warehouses
Unsold bags of cocoa beans are stacked almost to the ceiling in Sekou Dagnogo's warehouse in Ivory Coast's western Duekoue town, where his cooperative is struggling to sell to exporters following a fall in global cocoa prices.
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February 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Nice piece in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social here. Time for public bodies to stop supporting a social media company that facilitates production of CSAM and hate. #SpeirGorm
Government bodies need to get off X, now
Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed, writes Clare O'Donoghue Velikic
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February 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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Generative AI, in nearly every piece of software you try to use these days.

#AI #SpeirGorm #GenAI
"The Irritating Gentleman" by Berthold Wotlze. A young woman dressed in dark clothes, sitting on a train with a bag beside her, looking fed up as an older man leans over the back of the seat behind her, trying to talk to her.
February 12, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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I am again calling out the vacuous nature of declaring an area a National Park without plans, resources or management measures. This time following the report showing that over a thousand seals were drowned in fishing gear around the Blasket Islands.

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Ecologist accuses government of greenwashing by allowing tangle netting at Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara Ciarraí | RadioKerry.ie
Pádraic Fogarty states the practice of tangle netting being allowed at Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara Ciarraí is an example of greenwashing
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February 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Hey kitty kitty! New Film coming tomorrow...
February 4, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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New Rumor Claims to Reveal Which Original Avenger Will Be Joining AVENGERS: SECRET WARS
New Rumor Claims to Reveal Which Original Avenger Will Be Joining AVENGERS: SECRET WARS
There are a lot of Marvel rumors out there right now as we anticipate the release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day this summer, and Avengers: Doomsday in December. These are two of the most highly anticipated...
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February 4, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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holy shit
jeradwalker.bsky.social Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 15d
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
February 3, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has filed a complaint with the European Ombudsman against the European Commission, accusing it of using generative AI in public documents
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ICCL files complaint on European Commission over ChatGPT
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has filed a complaint with the European Ombudsman against the European Commission accusing it of using generative AI in public documents.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach have been unveiled in Germany in a discovery described as a "great moment for the world of music"
Two newly discovered Bach organ works unveiled in Germany
Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach have been unveiled in Germany in a discovery described as a "great moment for the world of music".
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November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Dublin Zoo has decided to name one of its parrots Troy in honour of Ireland's hat-trick hero in Budapest's Puskás Aréna
Watch: Dublin Zoo names parrot Troy after hat-trick hero
Dublin Zoo has decided to name one of its parrots Troy in honour of Ireland's hat-trick hero in Budapest's Puskás Aréna.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Gonna tell my kids this was Fleetwood Mac
Mary McAleese, Catherine Connolly, Michael D Higgins and Mary Robinson
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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"Oh I've something for you Joe, before you go... just left it here somewhere."
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Day One for Catherine Connolly and Michael D Higgins’s (endearing) famously messy desk is no more!
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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TIME Magazine (!!!) asked me to explain what the wider world should know about Catherine Connolly:

time.com/7333194/irel...
The Meaning of Ireland's New Anti-Establishment President
Catherine Connolly has a change mandate that may put her at odds with Ireland's own government—and its allies in Europe and America.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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lokideburca.bsky.social
Lookit...I'm just sayin...just doesn't feel like a coincidence is all.
#COYBIG #Ireland #Leftie #Speirgorm #VoteLeft
Catherine Connolly playing keepie uppies with some kids
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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🇮🇪 Since Ireland’s new football-loving President, Catherine Connolly, took office, the national team has won all matches against fierce competition and are now hopefully on their way to the World Cup for the first time in over 20 years!

Coincidence? I think not! ☘️
November 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Ok, just logged in to Twitter after a year. Just to check up on my account. Swiftly offloaded the app not to long after. Yes, it’s still a…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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transnormative.bsky.social
TikTok hired an IDF soldier as a content moderator and now their moderation policies are being updated, I wonder what that's all about. They ban glorification of groups that engage in mass violence, that includes the IDF, right?
August 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM