Carol O’Riordan
@carolor.bsky.social
Irish. Love books, history, politics and dogs. Learning how to garden. 🖤🩶🤍💜♠️
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... if you love & accept people, you love & accept them. If they are valued members of the community with the same rights as everyone else, then they are valued members of the community with the same rights as everyone else. You don't get to pick the times for love off a menu. Love is love.
December 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
... if you love & accept people, you love & accept them. If they are valued members of the community with the same rights as everyone else, then they are valued members of the community with the same rights as everyone else. You don't get to pick the times for love off a menu. Love is love.
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I think all my old mates emigrating because there were no jobs between 2008-2014, and then most of my new mates emigrating between 2018-2025 because there are no gaffs, has had a greater effect on social cohesion than migrants
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I think all my old mates emigrating because there were no jobs between 2008-2014, and then most of my new mates emigrating between 2018-2025 because there are no gaffs, has had a greater effect on social cohesion than migrants
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We’re doing Brexit Bus slogans now.
Triple-lock reforms are about ‘taking back sovereignty’, Helen McEntee says
Triple-lock reforms are about ‘taking back sovereignty’, Helen McEntee says
Government moving ‘quickly’ on legislation to remove need for UN mandate for peacekeeping missions
www.irishtimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We’re doing Brexit Bus slogans now.
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The triple Lock was a promise to the Irish people that we would not become part of an EU-NATO military structure made in 2002 so we would vote for Nice #2.
Removing it is not about 'taking back sovereignty', it is a betrayal of Ireland's sovereignty.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Removing it is not about 'taking back sovereignty', it is a betrayal of Ireland's sovereignty.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Triple-lock reforms are about ‘taking back sovereignty’, Helen McEntee says
Government moving ‘quickly’ on legislation to remove need for UN mandate for peacekeeping missions
www.irishtimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The triple Lock was a promise to the Irish people that we would not become part of an EU-NATO military structure made in 2002 so we would vote for Nice #2.
Removing it is not about 'taking back sovereignty', it is a betrayal of Ireland's sovereignty.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Removing it is not about 'taking back sovereignty', it is a betrayal of Ireland's sovereignty.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
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The EU has approved a mechanism to keep €210B in Russian state assets frozen until the Kremlin pays reparations for Ukraine's war damage.
Emergency powers are granted to the European Commission, with a formal decision set for today 5pm local time. The move was approved by a strong majority.
Emergency powers are granted to the European Commission, with a formal decision set for today 5pm local time. The move was approved by a strong majority.
December 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The EU has approved a mechanism to keep €210B in Russian state assets frozen until the Kremlin pays reparations for Ukraine's war damage.
Emergency powers are granted to the European Commission, with a formal decision set for today 5pm local time. The move was approved by a strong majority.
Emergency powers are granted to the European Commission, with a formal decision set for today 5pm local time. The move was approved by a strong majority.
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I don't understand how any adult, let alone a politician who's job it is to make decisions for the benefit of the 5m people in the country, can decide it's grand to poison the water so 130k farms can make more money.
What's the point of any of it if you decide poisoning the water is ok 😞
#IrishPol
What's the point of any of it if you decide poisoning the water is ok 😞
#IrishPol
Nitrates derogations are a risky business model for agri-industry. EU Commission seems to be indicating that the new three-year derogation is on borrowed time.
New Ireland Thinks poll shows public want clean, healthy water, and majority not in favour of Ireland seeking another derogation.
New Ireland Thinks poll shows public want clean, healthy water, and majority not in favour of Ireland seeking another derogation.
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I don't understand how any adult, let alone a politician who's job it is to make decisions for the benefit of the 5m people in the country, can decide it's grand to poison the water so 130k farms can make more money.
What's the point of any of it if you decide poisoning the water is ok 😞
#IrishPol
What's the point of any of it if you decide poisoning the water is ok 😞
#IrishPol
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Read this entire thread le do thoil 🧵
Coffee thoughts:
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
December 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Read this entire thread le do thoil 🧵
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If we'd been bounced into joining NATO by the very small, but very loud, minority of people who support doing that, then we'd now be in a military alliance dominated by an administration murdering people in the Carribean, up to it's neck in the Gaza genocide and siding with Putin against Europe.
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If we'd been bounced into joining NATO by the very small, but very loud, minority of people who support doing that, then we'd now be in a military alliance dominated by an administration murdering people in the Carribean, up to it's neck in the Gaza genocide and siding with Putin against Europe.
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The most delightful and hilarious birdcall EVER… (giggles of delight and newfound knowledge to @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social ) (and also a werewolf…) #Birds
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The most delightful and hilarious birdcall EVER… (giggles of delight and newfound knowledge to @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social ) (and also a werewolf…) #Birds
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If I had failed a responsibility to deliver housing and infrastructure for decades, I too might try to build a narrative blaming my failure on third parties (courts, lawyers, citizens, The Goblin Prince Under The Mountain).
But I see no reason, bar abject power worship, for anyone to repeat it.
But I see no reason, bar abject power worship, for anyone to repeat it.
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
If I had failed a responsibility to deliver housing and infrastructure for decades, I too might try to build a narrative blaming my failure on third parties (courts, lawyers, citizens, The Goblin Prince Under The Mountain).
But I see no reason, bar abject power worship, for anyone to repeat it.
But I see no reason, bar abject power worship, for anyone to repeat it.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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This is Jim Callaghan's fault.
Straight line from him throwing hardline shapes to this.
Straight line from him throwing hardline shapes to this.
Asylum seekers have told of how they were followed by men on motorcycles before being subjected to an alleged attack in rural Co Dublin yesterday.
The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.
www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...
The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.
www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...
'They started punching us': Asylum seekers followed before alleged attack in Co Dublin village
One man who came on the scene told of how the men had been ‘badly beaten’ and left bloody by the incident.
www.thejournal.ie
December 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is Jim Callaghan's fault.
Straight line from him throwing hardline shapes to this.
Straight line from him throwing hardline shapes to this.
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Horrible story, and I hope those assholes are caught and dealt with
And while I certainly blame far right agitators, Facebook etc, and sleeveens like McGuirk/Gript for fomenting this kind of awful stuff, Simon Harris and others in government need to take a hard look at themselves and their rhetoric
And while I certainly blame far right agitators, Facebook etc, and sleeveens like McGuirk/Gript for fomenting this kind of awful stuff, Simon Harris and others in government need to take a hard look at themselves and their rhetoric
Asylum seekers have told of how they were followed by men on motorcycles before being subjected to an alleged attack in rural Co Dublin yesterday.
The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.
www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...
The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.
www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...
'They started punching us': Asylum seekers followed before alleged attack in Co Dublin village
One man who came on the scene told of how the men had been ‘badly beaten’ and left bloody by the incident.
www.thejournal.ie
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Horrible story, and I hope those assholes are caught and dealt with
And while I certainly blame far right agitators, Facebook etc, and sleeveens like McGuirk/Gript for fomenting this kind of awful stuff, Simon Harris and others in government need to take a hard look at themselves and their rhetoric
And while I certainly blame far right agitators, Facebook etc, and sleeveens like McGuirk/Gript for fomenting this kind of awful stuff, Simon Harris and others in government need to take a hard look at themselves and their rhetoric
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Two things can be true at the same time: Israel is a rogue state engaged in genocide, and antisemitism is real and thriving. And because of the latter it's understandable that Ireland's small but proud and storied Jewish community might be feeling particularly sensitive right now
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Two things can be true at the same time: Israel is a rogue state engaged in genocide, and antisemitism is real and thriving. And because of the latter it's understandable that Ireland's small but proud and storied Jewish community might be feeling particularly sensitive right now
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Kharkiv, Ukraine right now.
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Kharkiv, Ukraine right now.
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“The rules on family reunification – where members of a successful asylum seeker’s family can be granted permission to join them in Ireland – would be tightened and limited to immediate family members only” Again, this is already the law, FG/Lab government ended FR for extended family in 2015!
Concern over ‘pull’ factors prompts Government to tighten asylum rules
Concern over ‘pull’ factors prompts Government to tighten asylum rules
Further changes likely in response to UK’s strict new regime, sources say
www.irishtimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“The rules on family reunification – where members of a successful asylum seeker’s family can be granted permission to join them in Ireland – would be tightened and limited to immediate family members only” Again, this is already the law, FG/Lab government ended FR for extended family in 2015!
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what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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The EU on Wednesday took aim at the red tape and bottlenecks hampering the movement of tanks and troops across the continent as fears grow that conflict could one day erupt with Russia ➡️ u.afp.com/Sn9g
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The EU on Wednesday took aim at the red tape and bottlenecks hampering the movement of tanks and troops across the continent as fears grow that conflict could one day erupt with Russia ➡️ u.afp.com/Sn9g
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I don't know why everybody is so worried about the AI bubble bursting. If it does we can simply reinflate the bubble with words like "quantum computing" and "superintelligence" and "sentient electric toothbrushes"
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I don't know why everybody is so worried about the AI bubble bursting. If it does we can simply reinflate the bubble with words like "quantum computing" and "superintelligence" and "sentient electric toothbrushes"
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For the love of God & all Her works can ppl stop making jokes about child abuse & Trump/Epstein? Show some empathy with survivors you ghouls.
Also NYT, ‘young women’ is not a synonym for girls. Stop normalising child abuse.
At least 1 in 5 adults was abused as a child.
Also NYT, ‘young women’ is not a synonym for girls. Stop normalising child abuse.
At least 1 in 5 adults was abused as a child.
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
For the love of God & all Her works can ppl stop making jokes about child abuse & Trump/Epstein? Show some empathy with survivors you ghouls.
Also NYT, ‘young women’ is not a synonym for girls. Stop normalising child abuse.
At least 1 in 5 adults was abused as a child.
Also NYT, ‘young women’ is not a synonym for girls. Stop normalising child abuse.
At least 1 in 5 adults was abused as a child.
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM