Avo 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@ailbhe.bsky.social
Irish Mammy, wife, rugby, lefty, LGBT+ she/her
Politics without empathy is just greedy capitalism.
A bee isn't going to waste time trying to convince a fly that honey is sweeter than shite...
Politics without empathy is just greedy capitalism.
A bee isn't going to waste time trying to convince a fly that honey is sweeter than shite...
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Friends, I have an incredible update. I met a friend from Jersey the other day who was visiting and she almost got fined on the Luas with no ticket because *drumroll please* she thought it was free!
I had to explain to her why I was absolutely dying when she told me this.
I had to explain to her why I was absolutely dying when she told me this.
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Friends, I have an incredible update. I met a friend from Jersey the other day who was visiting and she almost got fined on the Luas with no ticket because *drumroll please* she thought it was free!
I had to explain to her why I was absolutely dying when she told me this.
I had to explain to her why I was absolutely dying when she told me this.
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Katherine Butler - a nun who was one of the first women in Ireland with a pilot's license
Gráinne Cronin - First woman to fly for Aer Lingus
Madeleine O'Rourke - Dedicated her life to flying, first women to fly a microlight in Ireland and recognised by the FAI for contribution to Irish aviation.
Gráinne Cronin - First woman to fly for Aer Lingus
Madeleine O'Rourke - Dedicated her life to flying, first women to fly a microlight in Ireland and recognised by the FAI for contribution to Irish aviation.
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.
Any counteroffers?
Any counteroffers?
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Katherine Butler - a nun who was one of the first women in Ireland with a pilot's license
Gráinne Cronin - First woman to fly for Aer Lingus
Madeleine O'Rourke - Dedicated her life to flying, first women to fly a microlight in Ireland and recognised by the FAI for contribution to Irish aviation.
Gráinne Cronin - First woman to fly for Aer Lingus
Madeleine O'Rourke - Dedicated her life to flying, first women to fly a microlight in Ireland and recognised by the FAI for contribution to Irish aviation.
Stop naming stuff after mediocre men.
Name them after women who achieved things in spite of lifetimes of oppression.
Name them after women who achieved things in spite of lifetimes of oppression.
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.
Any counteroffers?
Any counteroffers?
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Stop naming stuff after mediocre men.
Name them after women who achieved things in spite of lifetimes of oppression.
Name them after women who achieved things in spite of lifetimes of oppression.
See, this is pure capitalism.
Great idea or great new shiny intention gets ruined by the need to advertise and promote things, but also not pay workers, so that rich people can get richer.
Great idea or great new shiny intention gets ruined by the need to advertise and promote things, but also not pay workers, so that rich people can get richer.
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
See, this is pure capitalism.
Great idea or great new shiny intention gets ruined by the need to advertise and promote things, but also not pay workers, so that rich people can get richer.
Great idea or great new shiny intention gets ruined by the need to advertise and promote things, but also not pay workers, so that rich people can get richer.
I see Glinner is a criminal now.
How what he does and says isn't hatred and harassment, I don't know, by at least he has a conviction.
He's off back to Arizona with his little conviction. Should someone call ICE?
How what he does and says isn't hatred and harassment, I don't know, by at least he has a conviction.
He's off back to Arizona with his little conviction. Should someone call ICE?
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I see Glinner is a criminal now.
How what he does and says isn't hatred and harassment, I don't know, by at least he has a conviction.
He's off back to Arizona with his little conviction. Should someone call ICE?
How what he does and says isn't hatred and harassment, I don't know, by at least he has a conviction.
He's off back to Arizona with his little conviction. Should someone call ICE?
Doesn't this already exist?
I escaped Eir because of this back in 2017. I mean, yes they tried to get €754 off me anyway, and yes they sent my 'debt' to a collections service illegally and yes I had to threaten to sue them for them to go away, but it was still a legal right.
I escaped Eir because of this back in 2017. I mean, yes they tried to get €754 off me anyway, and yes they sent my 'debt' to a collections service illegally and yes I had to threaten to sue them for them to go away, but it was still a legal right.
New plan to allow customers to cancel mobile and broadband contracts penalty free if providers hike prices www.independent.ie/irish-news/n...
New plan to allow customers to cancel mobile and broadband contracts penalty free if providers hike prices
Automatic broadband, mobile or TV price hikes may become a thing of the past as the Government gets ready to introduce a law that would allow people to cancel their contracts if prices go up.
www.independent.ie
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Doesn't this already exist?
I escaped Eir because of this back in 2017. I mean, yes they tried to get €754 off me anyway, and yes they sent my 'debt' to a collections service illegally and yes I had to threaten to sue them for them to go away, but it was still a legal right.
I escaped Eir because of this back in 2017. I mean, yes they tried to get €754 off me anyway, and yes they sent my 'debt' to a collections service illegally and yes I had to threaten to sue them for them to go away, but it was still a legal right.
Martin Nolan
€10k worth of damage
1 year custodial sentence
Ruin a woman for life, suspended sentence
€10k worth of damage
1 year custodial sentence
Ruin a woman for life, suspended sentence
Martin Nolan
Rapist: Suspended sentence
Rapist: Suspended sentence
Sexual harasser: Suspended sentence
Garlic Man: 6 years
Rapist: Suspended sentence
Child sexual assault material: Suspended sentence
DJ Carey: 5.5 years
It's almost as though Martin Nolan thinks women don't matter but fraud does.
Rapist: Suspended sentence
Rapist: Suspended sentence
Sexual harasser: Suspended sentence
Garlic Man: 6 years
Rapist: Suspended sentence
Child sexual assault material: Suspended sentence
DJ Carey: 5.5 years
It's almost as though Martin Nolan thinks women don't matter but fraud does.
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Martin Nolan
€10k worth of damage
1 year custodial sentence
Ruin a woman for life, suspended sentence
€10k worth of damage
1 year custodial sentence
Ruin a woman for life, suspended sentence
Klarna etc
Their entire business model is targeting low income people who need to spread the cost, and banking (literally) on them failing to meet the repayments and financially burying them.
If you're not at risk, but spreading the cost would help, don't do it. Don't reward vultures.
Their entire business model is targeting low income people who need to spread the cost, and banking (literally) on them failing to meet the repayments and financially burying them.
If you're not at risk, but spreading the cost would help, don't do it. Don't reward vultures.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Klarna etc
Their entire business model is targeting low income people who need to spread the cost, and banking (literally) on them failing to meet the repayments and financially burying them.
If you're not at risk, but spreading the cost would help, don't do it. Don't reward vultures.
Their entire business model is targeting low income people who need to spread the cost, and banking (literally) on them failing to meet the repayments and financially burying them.
If you're not at risk, but spreading the cost would help, don't do it. Don't reward vultures.
Posturing bullshit.
They'll make up and she'll be made feel important again.
They'll make up and she'll be made feel important again.
Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from US Congress following Trump feud
Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from US Congress following Trump feud
Controversial Georgia Republican once among president’s strongest allies
www.irishtimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Posturing bullshit.
They'll make up and she'll be made feel important again.
They'll make up and she'll be made feel important again.
Criminal charges against them on the cards.
If they wore tracksuits and were from Tallaght they'd be locked up long ago...
If they wore tracksuits and were from Tallaght they'd be locked up long ago...
'This is not normal behaviour': Why three more Burkes could be facing jail for contempt of court jrnl.ie/6880856
'This is not normal behaviour': Why three more Burkes could be facing jail for contempt of court
A High Court judgment from this week has widened the case between Enoch Burke and Wilson’s Hospital School.
jrnl.ie
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Criminal charges against them on the cards.
If they wore tracksuits and were from Tallaght they'd be locked up long ago...
If they wore tracksuits and were from Tallaght they'd be locked up long ago...
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Ngl, it doesn't feel awesome that so much discourse about policies designed specifically to hurt trans people is about the negative effects it might have on some cis people.
Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Ngl, it doesn't feel awesome that so much discourse about policies designed specifically to hurt trans people is about the negative effects it might have on some cis people.
Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
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Enoch Burke is on the run
Do dah do dah
Enoch Burke is on the run
Do dah do dah day.
Do dah do dah
Enoch Burke is on the run
Do dah do dah day.
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Enoch Burke is on the run
Do dah do dah
Enoch Burke is on the run
Do dah do dah day.
Do dah do dah
Enoch Burke is on the run
Do dah do dah day.
Hi, I'm Abagtha Burke. Nice to try remove your basic human rights.
Your Burke name is the first name on this list you've never seen before (with the same first letter as your actual name) + Burke.
Link in alt text. Signed, Dabbasheth Burke.
Link in alt text. Signed, Dabbasheth Burke.
November 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Hi, I'm Abagtha Burke. Nice to try remove your basic human rights.
Defamation = a statement which
1. Is damaging to ones good (lol) character
2. Is published or heard by a third party
3. IS UNTRUE
I'm sure he'll argue that sexual assault is what he was found liable for and not specifically rape, but the details of the case make it clear that he raped Nikita Hand.
1. Is damaging to ones good (lol) character
2. Is published or heard by a third party
3. IS UNTRUE
I'm sure he'll argue that sexual assault is what he was found liable for and not specifically rape, but the details of the case make it clear that he raped Nikita Hand.
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Defamation = a statement which
1. Is damaging to ones good (lol) character
2. Is published or heard by a third party
3. IS UNTRUE
I'm sure he'll argue that sexual assault is what he was found liable for and not specifically rape, but the details of the case make it clear that he raped Nikita Hand.
1. Is damaging to ones good (lol) character
2. Is published or heard by a third party
3. IS UNTRUE
I'm sure he'll argue that sexual assault is what he was found liable for and not specifically rape, but the details of the case make it clear that he raped Nikita Hand.
To whoever informs the Gardaí on Enoch's whereabouts, first round is on me.
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
To whoever informs the Gardaí on Enoch's whereabouts, first round is on me.
Lol, has he gone into hiding?
Did anybody check at the school, no?
Gardaí can't find Enoch Burke after calling to his house to imprison him for contempt of court jrnl.ie/6880578
Did anybody check at the school, no?
Gardaí can't find Enoch Burke after calling to his house to imprison him for contempt of court jrnl.ie/6880578
Gardaí can't find Enoch Burke after calling to his house to imprison him for contempt of court
Burke was ordered back to prison by the High Court on Tuesday.
jrnl.ie
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Lol, has he gone into hiding?
Did anybody check at the school, no?
Gardaí can't find Enoch Burke after calling to his house to imprison him for contempt of court jrnl.ie/6880578
Did anybody check at the school, no?
Gardaí can't find Enoch Burke after calling to his house to imprison him for contempt of court jrnl.ie/6880578
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I’ve always said that gc is a man’s rights movement in drag
November 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I’ve always said that gc is a man’s rights movement in drag
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As a cis woman with short hair whose favorite outfit is a T-shirt and men’s jeans (they’re cheaper, more durable, and have POCKETS!) I’ve already had the ‘pleasure’ of anti-trans bigots trying to protect women from women like me.
Anti-trans bigotry simply misogyny. Always has been. Always will be.
Anti-trans bigotry simply misogyny. Always has been. Always will be.
If the EHRC had their way we'd see all women forced back into wearing only skirts and dresses and wearing their hair long lest they be suspected of being trans and banned from going to the toilet.
That's what this is suggesting. Masculine women being denied access alongside trans people.
That's what this is suggesting. Masculine women being denied access alongside trans people.
![The guidance said that if transgender people are excluded from a space, organisations should consider whether there is a suitable alternative for them and that it would not be proportionate to leave them without essential services, such as access to lavatories.
But it also outlines how in some cases that may not be possible owing to the physical constraints of buildings or high costs. It said: “It may be that offering alternative arrangements is not reasonably possible […] this may be because of the type of service being provided, the needs of the service users, the physical constraints of any building, or because of the disproportionate financial costs associated with making those arrangements.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:movr4wsu2du5xbmeragyr5cx/bafkreigp3qse73rzhl2czgxgbmpzectwrb4hdwxk44fm52m7l7cu36mwaa@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
As a cis woman with short hair whose favorite outfit is a T-shirt and men’s jeans (they’re cheaper, more durable, and have POCKETS!) I’ve already had the ‘pleasure’ of anti-trans bigots trying to protect women from women like me.
Anti-trans bigotry simply misogyny. Always has been. Always will be.
Anti-trans bigotry simply misogyny. Always has been. Always will be.
This is why most of the bad things in society happens.
Nobody questions the culture and the conditioning that leads men to behave the way they do and cause the huge harm in society they cause.
Yes. All men. Cos every single man benefits from the culture that blames everyone but them.
Nobody questions the culture and the conditioning that leads men to behave the way they do and cause the huge harm in society they cause.
Yes. All men. Cos every single man benefits from the culture that blames everyone but them.
A girl says no to a dance & a boy shoots up a school, & rather than investigate the boy's culture, entitlement, privilege, or violence, we zero in on exactly how the *girl* could've handled things better when rejecting someone dangerous we have concrete evidence she was right to.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is why most of the bad things in society happens.
Nobody questions the culture and the conditioning that leads men to behave the way they do and cause the huge harm in society they cause.
Yes. All men. Cos every single man benefits from the culture that blames everyone but them.
Nobody questions the culture and the conditioning that leads men to behave the way they do and cause the huge harm in society they cause.
Yes. All men. Cos every single man benefits from the culture that blames everyone but them.
Trans people have inherent value. No more or no less than you.
They're good, bad, interesting, uninteresting, just like you.
They work, eat, watch TV, sleep. They have friends, families, neighbours just like you.
They're not scary, they're just people, they just happen to be trans.
Let them be.
They're good, bad, interesting, uninteresting, just like you.
They work, eat, watch TV, sleep. They have friends, families, neighbours just like you.
They're not scary, they're just people, they just happen to be trans.
Let them be.
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Trans people have inherent value. No more or no less than you.
They're good, bad, interesting, uninteresting, just like you.
They work, eat, watch TV, sleep. They have friends, families, neighbours just like you.
They're not scary, they're just people, they just happen to be trans.
Let them be.
They're good, bad, interesting, uninteresting, just like you.
They work, eat, watch TV, sleep. They have friends, families, neighbours just like you.
They're not scary, they're just people, they just happen to be trans.
Let them be.
I don't for a second think his will topple him.
And even if it does, the country that voted for him won't change and the party behind him will do worse.
And even if it does, the country that voted for him won't change and the party behind him will do worse.
Trump knows he’s totally fucked by the Epstein files fiasco.
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I don't for a second think his will topple him.
And even if it does, the country that voted for him won't change and the party behind him will do worse.
And even if it does, the country that voted for him won't change and the party behind him will do worse.
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Happy International Men’s day 2025 to all cis, trans, NB lads!
Get your bits n pieces medically screened - we’re terrors for waiting till it’s too late.
If you’re having a bad day, reach out to someone, don’t let it fester.
When gobshites annoy women on IWD2026 - simply reply “Quiet Piggy”.
Get your bits n pieces medically screened - we’re terrors for waiting till it’s too late.
If you’re having a bad day, reach out to someone, don’t let it fester.
When gobshites annoy women on IWD2026 - simply reply “Quiet Piggy”.
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Happy International Men’s day 2025 to all cis, trans, NB lads!
Get your bits n pieces medically screened - we’re terrors for waiting till it’s too late.
If you’re having a bad day, reach out to someone, don’t let it fester.
When gobshites annoy women on IWD2026 - simply reply “Quiet Piggy”.
Get your bits n pieces medically screened - we’re terrors for waiting till it’s too late.
If you’re having a bad day, reach out to someone, don’t let it fester.
When gobshites annoy women on IWD2026 - simply reply “Quiet Piggy”.
Yes, but Trump isn't an authoritarian or dictator.....
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Yes, but Trump isn't an authoritarian or dictator.....
People are REALLY misunderstanding this ruling.
No, religious schools are not unlawful. No, religious teaching in schools is not unlawful.
Christian education in state operated schools without a religious ethos is unlawful.
It's VERY specific and not the broad separation of church and state.
No, religious schools are not unlawful. No, religious teaching in schools is not unlawful.
Christian education in state operated schools without a religious ethos is unlawful.
It's VERY specific and not the broad separation of church and state.
This is *absolutely not* what the UKSC has ruled.
The ruling is on how religious education should be delivered in those state schools that do not have an explicitly religious ethos given that many children come from non-Christian or non-religious families.
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/educati...
The ruling is on how religious education should be delivered in those state schools that do not have an explicitly religious ethos given that many children come from non-Christian or non-religious families.
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/educati...
UK Supreme Court rules religious education in NI schools is unlawful and ‘indoctrination’
The DUP has said it will “continue to support the Christian ethos that underpins” Northern Ireland’s education system, after a court ruling on religious education.
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
People are REALLY misunderstanding this ruling.
No, religious schools are not unlawful. No, religious teaching in schools is not unlawful.
Christian education in state operated schools without a religious ethos is unlawful.
It's VERY specific and not the broad separation of church and state.
No, religious schools are not unlawful. No, religious teaching in schools is not unlawful.
Christian education in state operated schools without a religious ethos is unlawful.
It's VERY specific and not the broad separation of church and state.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
⚠️⚠️⚠️ If you have an interest in being able to access secular, non-denominational pr multidenominational education for your kids in Ireland, then fill out the Dept of Education survey here ASAP: www.gov.ie/en/departmen...