Sarah Rua
@sarahrua.bsky.social
Múinteoir Gaeilge, Geography & S.P.H.E.
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
Maya Angelou
she/her
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
Maya Angelou
she/her
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European Court of Justice ruling slams Ireland on water quality, a ‘national embarrassment’.
How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
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How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
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A ‘national embarrassment’: Ireland in breach of multiple water quality rules, court finds
European Court of Justice ruling raises questions about Government’s system of water charges
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November 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
European Court of Justice ruling slams Ireland on water quality, a ‘national embarrassment’.
How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
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How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
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Right wing dickheads want you afraid of foreign criminals coming in, putting "our women and children" at risk, meanwhile this is what they're doing to women and children
Firefighters rescued five people, including three children under ten, from the top floor of an Ipas centre in Drogheda last night after a major fire.
Gardaí have preserved the scene while the cause of the blaze is investigated.
www.thejournal.ie/fire-ipsa-ce...
Gardaí have preserved the scene while the cause of the blaze is investigated.
www.thejournal.ie/fire-ipsa-ce...
Emergency services tackle major fire at Ipas centre in Drogheda
Arson has not been ruled out.
www.thejournal.ie
November 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Right wing dickheads want you afraid of foreign criminals coming in, putting "our women and children" at risk, meanwhile this is what they're doing to women and children
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I also LOVE a bit of representation for people learning Irish to such fluency as adults because so many people imagine that it's too late for them, they missed their chance, or it'll only ever be the cúpla focal they master and nothing more.
Find a rang! Find a ciorcal comhrá! Tá sibh breá in ann!!
Find a rang! Find a ciorcal comhrá! Tá sibh breá in ann!!
I saw so many English speakers who point out that they themselves didn't speak Irish/don't engage with it themselves saying that it would be ridiculous for the Uachtarán to be anything but an Irish speaker.
I think for some there's nearly an aspirational type of Irishness to her.
I think for some there's nearly an aspirational type of Irishness to her.
October 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I also LOVE a bit of representation for people learning Irish to such fluency as adults because so many people imagine that it's too late for them, they missed their chance, or it'll only ever be the cúpla focal they master and nothing more.
Find a rang! Find a ciorcal comhrá! Tá sibh breá in ann!!
Find a rang! Find a ciorcal comhrá! Tá sibh breá in ann!!
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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Apartheid Israel has extended its illegal incarceration, without charge or trial, of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya. This heroic doctor was kidnapped while providing medical care and has been subjected to beatings, starvation and abuse in Israel’s torture dungeons.
He must be released immediately #FreeThemAll
He must be released immediately #FreeThemAll
October 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Apartheid Israel has extended its illegal incarceration, without charge or trial, of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya. This heroic doctor was kidnapped while providing medical care and has been subjected to beatings, starvation and abuse in Israel’s torture dungeons.
He must be released immediately #FreeThemAll
He must be released immediately #FreeThemAll
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Grasshoppers evolved into their present form around 250 million years ago.
That was the period after the worst mass extinction event this planet has yet seen: the End-Permian 'Great Dying', and when the supercontinent Pangaea began to break apart.
In comparison, we humans arrived only yesterday.
That was the period after the worst mass extinction event this planet has yet seen: the End-Permian 'Great Dying', and when the supercontinent Pangaea began to break apart.
In comparison, we humans arrived only yesterday.
October 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Grasshoppers evolved into their present form around 250 million years ago.
That was the period after the worst mass extinction event this planet has yet seen: the End-Permian 'Great Dying', and when the supercontinent Pangaea began to break apart.
In comparison, we humans arrived only yesterday.
That was the period after the worst mass extinction event this planet has yet seen: the End-Permian 'Great Dying', and when the supercontinent Pangaea began to break apart.
In comparison, we humans arrived only yesterday.
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Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack
A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
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In prison, Israeli guards told him again & again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family–a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents beside...
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Video below ⬇️
October 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In prison, Israeli guards told him again & again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family–a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents beside...
Video below ⬇️
Video below ⬇️
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Ms Rachel schools Obama on why he really should stop using dehumanizing language.
October 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ms Rachel schools Obama on why he really should stop using dehumanizing language.
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Great letter in today's Irish Times, thousands of Palestinians are incarcerated in apartheid Israel's torture dungeons, they must be released. And our government must call for their release. #FreeThemAll #FreePalestine
October 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Great letter in today's Irish Times, thousands of Palestinians are incarcerated in apartheid Israel's torture dungeons, they must be released. And our government must call for their release. #FreeThemAll #FreePalestine
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
Nothing takes me out of the escapism of watching TV or film like the sight of character holding a coffee cup or other vessel for liquid that's very obviously empty. Once you start to notice, you'll never not notice. Surely they could put water in there or something? #TV #coffee #film #movie
September 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
September 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
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Sally Rooney won the Sky Arts award for literature for Intermezzo. Her editor collected it for her as she couldn't travel in case of arrest for her support for Palestine Action.
"to reiterate... and my solidarity with the people of Palestine." We are proud of her always. #BDS #SolidarityIsAVerb
"to reiterate... and my solidarity with the people of Palestine." We are proud of her always. #BDS #SolidarityIsAVerb
September 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Sally Rooney won the Sky Arts award for literature for Intermezzo. Her editor collected it for her as she couldn't travel in case of arrest for her support for Palestine Action.
"to reiterate... and my solidarity with the people of Palestine." We are proud of her always. #BDS #SolidarityIsAVerb
"to reiterate... and my solidarity with the people of Palestine." We are proud of her always. #BDS #SolidarityIsAVerb
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Palestine, 2025.
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September 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Palestine, 2025.
english.palinfo.com/news/2025/04...
english.palinfo.com/news/2025/04...
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Ambassador raises concerns with German authorities after Irish protester assaulted by police
Ambassador raises concerns with German authorities after Irish protester assaulted by police
Video shows Dubliner Kitty O’Brien (25) punched by officer during protest over journalists killed in Gaza
www.irishtimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Ambassador raises concerns with German authorities after Irish protester assaulted by police
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At the UN security council this afternoon Algeria held up a photograph of three month old Yahya Najjar, starved to death by Israel.
August 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
At the UN security council this afternoon Algeria held up a photograph of three month old Yahya Najjar, starved to death by Israel.
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“With the world’s attention focused on Gaza, the situation in the West Bank is sliding toward another crisis,” Jon Finer writes:
The West Bank Is Sliding Toward a Crisis
Unless it changes course, Israel is closer to triggering a second war with West Bank Palestinians than to ending the disastrous conflict in Gaza.
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August 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“With the world’s attention focused on Gaza, the situation in the West Bank is sliding toward another crisis,” Jon Finer writes:
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Twenty minutes from the loaded food trucks.
August 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Twenty minutes from the loaded food trucks.
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Student with place on UCD master’s course still awaiting evacuation from Gaza
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Student with place on UCD master’s course still awaiting evacuation from Gaza
Department of Foreign Affairs faces protest over pace of bringing over Palestinians who want to study
www.irishtimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Student with place on UCD master’s course still awaiting evacuation from Gaza
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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