Ciarán
ciarand82.bsky.social
Ciarán
@ciarand82.bsky.social
Living in county Kilkenny in Ireland
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Palestine campaigning in Ireland and the UK has badly needed more union action and collective support of workers. That’s where the most power is, not with celebrity activists; the murder machine relies on labour. Stand with this Tesco worker who refused to handle Israeli goods
November 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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FG, FF, SF and II all vote to give €100 million of public money to the horse and greyhound racing industry.

That's three times more money than the core funding for all our sports!

€20 million is going to the cruel greyhound racing industry.

Shameful.
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Four months after it was promised, we finally have the government's transport investment plan between now and 2030. It's bad. Roads are in, public transport is out. A lot of public transport projects being put on the long-finger to make funding available for new roads.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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This is an absolute disaster. Taking away money from ready-to-go public transport projects so that they can chuck more cash at new roads.

The exact opposite direction we should be going.

(Plus: the more you delay projects, the more they cost. Every time.)
DART+ South West is shelved until 2030. It has full planning approval since 2024, no judicial reviews and is ready to go but construction won't start until after 2030. A lot of housing around Adamstown and Clonburris built in anticipation of this upgrade.
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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DART+ South West is shelved until 2030. It has full planning approval since 2024, no judicial reviews and is ready to go but construction won't start until after 2030. A lot of housing around Adamstown and Clonburris built in anticipation of this upgrade.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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It's no wonder water quality is not improving, derogation farmers are being told to do things that will not stop nitrates from getting into the water — An Taisce's Head of Advocacy Dr Elaine McGoff with Philip Boucher-Hayes on RTÉ Radio 1 CountryWide

#nitratepollution
@elainemcgoff.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Good crowd outside Dáil to demand that government keeps its election promises, follows international law and the advice of the Foreign Affairs Committee and what has just been passed by the Dáil:

Stop trade in goods and services with the illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine.
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Israel announced that they will bomb two villages in Southern Lebanon

That’s how they do it. They tell you that they will violate the ceasefire for the thousandth time, and there will be no consequences.
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Join us today, 5.30pm at the Dáil to support the left opposition motion and to demand the government enact the full, undiluted #OccupiedTerritoriesBill, services included now.
Don't forget to email the government TDs too ➡️
www.ipsc.ie/action-item/...
#EndIsraeliImpunity
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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🚲 Investing in active travel: we all win.
🚘 Investing in more cars: we all lose.
Most Irish politicians ignore the massive costs of our car-centric transport system, doubling down on cars as a 'win' for society. We all pay for this.

Meanwhile, investment in active travel keeps shrinking, and the rollout of the little infrastructure we do get crawls along at a snail’s pace.
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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People Before Profit are using our time in the Dáil to demand the Occupied Territories Bill is passed in full, including services.

The motion is co-sponsored by PBP, Solidarity, Sinn Féin the Soc Dems, Labour, Greens, 100% Redress and Independents.

Join the protest Wednesday.
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Freshly laid tarmac, freshly painted death lane.

How is this an acceptable standard in 2025 @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social? Paint ≠ infrastructure.

We deserve wide, fully protected cycle lanes that support a healthier, safer, more sustainable city.

This simply isn’t good enough.
#ReimagineDublin
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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There's a bill to ban hunting foxes with packs of dogs coming before the dail on Dec 17th.
Fuck 'rural pursuits' sign and share and contact your FF, FG, and SF TDs and tell them to support the ban my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe...
Petition to Ban Fox Hunting in Ireland
Can you support this campaign to bring in legislation banning the hunting of foxes using packs of dogs and horses?
my.uplift.ie
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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BREAKING: At least three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli bombing east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, a source at the Nasser Medical Complex has told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/yi35jt
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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After spending years preparing a bill for the creation of Marine Protected Areas the government has decided to go back to the drawing board, wasting more time as marine life continued to circle the plug hole

www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Ministers O'Brien and Dooley drive forward legislation to safeguard Irish Seas and streamline maritime planning
www.gov.ie
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Attacks on Palestinians across the occupied West Bank have surged to record levels, with Israeli settlers and soldiers operating in near-total symbiosis.

In this special report by Oren Ziv, victims of shootings and beatings reveal their ordeals.

projects.972mag.com/portraits-se...
The lives and bodies forever scarred by Israeli state-backed settler violence
Attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank have surged to record levels, with Israeli settlers and soldiers operating in near-total symbiosis. Victims of shootings, beatings, and stonings reveal the...
projects.972mag.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Happy to be supporting Ruth Coppinger's Bill to ban fox hunting.

The Dáil will vote on this on 17 December, the first time in history a ban has been proposed on it.

This is not a "rural pursuit", it's animal cruelty pure and simple.
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Seems like an appropriate time to repost this.
Bird flu is being painted as a problem wild birds are inflicting on the poultry industry, but it's precisely the reverse.

Where do they think it developed in the first place, if not in the disease incubators that are mass battery farms?
share.google/K4FBGkiuuUdc...
Bird flu outbreak at commercial turkey flock in Carlow
Restriction zones have been put in place around a commercial turkey farm in Co Carlow, after an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu was detected there.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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We've transformed our city in many ways in the last five years. This street used to be full of cars. Now there's music, laughter, food, people sitting down. Life slows down a little bit on Parliament Street.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Join us at the National Climate March
Saturday 15 November at 1pm
Garden of Remembrance, Dublin

We’ll be marching for climate justice to urge the Government to put people before big polluters

@stopclimatechaos.bsky.social
#stopclimatechaos
#climateactionnow
#endfossilfuels
#climatejustice
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Regarding the rightward turn FG & FF are taking on all kinds of immigration, here's a piece I wrote Nov 2019 on far-right rhetoric entering mainstream Irish politics.

"This is a pattern: extreme rhetoric is heard, listened to and begins to seep into mainstream politics until it becomes part of it."
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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I've just signed the Open Letter to support Standing Against Hate in our Communities. Can you do the same? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/st...
Stand Against Hate in our Communities
I've just signed the Open Letter to support Standing Against Hate in our Communities. Can you do the same?
action.uplift.ie
November 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Man in his 20s left in “serious condition” after being knocked off bicycle in collision involving two cars

A man in his 20s was taken to Beaumont Hospital and remains in a serious condition this evening after a collision involving his bicycle and two cars in the Finglas area of Dublin early this…
Man in his 20s left in “serious condition” after being knocked off bicycle in collision involving two cars
A man in his 20s was taken to Beaumont Hospital and remains in a serious condition this evening after a collision involving his bicycle and two cars in the Finglas area of Dublin early this morning, Gardaí have said. In a statement issued after 6pm, it was unclear if both cars were being driven by motorists at the time of the collision.
irishcycle.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Video: Israel advances bill proposing death penalty for Palestinian prisoners
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