Conor Paterson 🇵🇸
@conorpaterson.bsky.social
Recovering freelance journalist (he/him) 🇵🇸
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A Palestinian student who recently arrived in Ireland has spoken of her relief at being evacuated from Gaza and thanked the Irish authorities for helping her to continue her studies in Ireland
Student feels 'alive again' after evacuation from Gaza
A Palestinian student who recently arrived in Ireland has spoken of her relief at being evacuated from Gaza and thanked the Irish authorities for helping her to continue her studies in Ireland.
www.rte.ie
September 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A Palestinian student who recently arrived in Ireland has spoken of her relief at being evacuated from Gaza and thanked the Irish authorities for helping her to continue her studies in Ireland
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1/2 ‘The convention, adopted in the wake of the mass murder of Jews by Nazi Germany in the second world war, defines genocide as crimes committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such”. ‘
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry
Report cites scale of killings and aid blockages and accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of inciting commission of genocide
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
1/2 ‘The convention, adopted in the wake of the mass murder of Jews by Nazi Germany in the second world war, defines genocide as crimes committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such”. ‘
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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This is not caused primarily by "screen time".
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is not caused primarily by "screen time".
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Brilliant piece by @sadhbhoneill.bsky.social on some of the almost endless benefits of cycling.
However, we are failing to build cycle lanes with women and older people in mind. We need to do better.
However, we are failing to build cycle lanes with women and older people in mind. We need to do better.
How cycling has economic as well as health benefits
Thinking in a Climate Emergency: Cycle lanes should be designed with women and older people in mind
www.irishtimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Brilliant piece by @sadhbhoneill.bsky.social on some of the almost endless benefits of cycling.
However, we are failing to build cycle lanes with women and older people in mind. We need to do better.
However, we are failing to build cycle lanes with women and older people in mind. We need to do better.
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We are calling on Dublin City Council to trial a Strand Road cycle path for 12 months.
We cannot keep listening to those who are trying to block quick action on climate change, road safety, and increasing mobility options.
Please sign and share: my.uplift.ie/petitions/tr...
We cannot keep listening to those who are trying to block quick action on climate change, road safety, and increasing mobility options.
Please sign and share: my.uplift.ie/petitions/tr...
Trial a Strand Road cycle path for 12 months
I've just signed this petition calling on the council to trial a Strand Road cycle path for 12 months. Will you sign too?
my.uplift.ie
April 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We are calling on Dublin City Council to trial a Strand Road cycle path for 12 months.
We cannot keep listening to those who are trying to block quick action on climate change, road safety, and increasing mobility options.
Please sign and share: my.uplift.ie/petitions/tr...
We cannot keep listening to those who are trying to block quick action on climate change, road safety, and increasing mobility options.
Please sign and share: my.uplift.ie/petitions/tr...
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If we are serious about road safety, if we are serious about climate action and a liveable future, then we should ban SUVs.
My letter in today's @irishtimes.com.
My letter in today's @irishtimes.com.
Is it time to ban SUVs?
‘Their presence on our roads is undermining hard-won road safety gains and making our streets more dangerous’
www.irishtimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
If we are serious about road safety, if we are serious about climate action and a liveable future, then we should ban SUVs.
My letter in today's @irishtimes.com.
My letter in today's @irishtimes.com.
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I see "nobody" is using the cycle path again along North Strand Road on the Clontarf Route:
March 31, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I see "nobody" is using the cycle path again along North Strand Road on the Clontarf Route:
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some more congestion pricing Ws:
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
March 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
some more congestion pricing Ws:
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
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With the Green Party out of the way, Coillte can now stop pretending to care about nature and focus on their first love 💰
www.independent.ie/irish-news/q...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/q...
Questions raised as Coillte quietly shuts down its non-profit Nature branch
State forestry company Coillte has quietly shut down Coillte Nature, the not-for-profit branch it set up on nature restoration projects.
www.independent.ie
March 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
With the Green Party out of the way, Coillte can now stop pretending to care about nature and focus on their first love 💰
www.independent.ie/irish-news/q...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/q...
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Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.
Ecommerce giant Amazon goes live with dedicated Irish store
Ecommerce giant Amazon goes live with dedicated Irish store
The company said that In 2023, Irish SMEs selling on Amazon recorded over €170 million in export sales, with over half of those n export sales outside the European Union
www.businesspost.ie
March 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.
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With all this preposterous talk about large-scale tree removal to 'protect' power lines, surely serious questions should be asked about the large plantations of shallow rooting non-native sitka spruce, often on peat soil.
Can we have that conversation now?
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Can we have that conversation now?
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
We can't stop storms coming but we can be more ready for them
Our national approach to forest management needs to change dramatically to help us respond better to the increasing frequency and severity of big storms
www.irishexaminer.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
With all this preposterous talk about large-scale tree removal to 'protect' power lines, surely serious questions should be asked about the large plantations of shallow rooting non-native sitka spruce, often on peat soil.
Can we have that conversation now?
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Can we have that conversation now?
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
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I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs
As Zuckerberg pontificates about masculinity and traditional values, he does so in soundbites as lifeless as his former paeans to gender and racial equality
www.irishexaminer.com
January 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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What a set of headlines on the front page of The Guardian right now. #climatechaos
January 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
What a set of headlines on the front page of The Guardian right now. #climatechaos
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Classroom education is opportunity to fight 'epidemic' of sexual violence rte.ie/b/1488998
Sexual violence 'epidemic' can be fought in the classroom
Throughout 2024, more women waived their anonymity to expose their perpetrators while highlighting the trauma they have gone through. Dublin Rape Crisis Centre CEO Rachel Morrogh believes there is a w...
rte.ie
January 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Classroom education is opportunity to fight 'epidemic' of sexual violence rte.ie/b/1488998
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump
A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump
A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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Today, @investigates.thejournal.ie shines a spotlight on the women lost to violence in Ireland since 2020...
These were young women at the start of their careers, mothers with young children, grandmothers well into their retirement:
These were young women at the start of their careers, mothers with young children, grandmothers well into their retirement:
Lost to Violence: The 37 women killed in Ireland in the last five years
The Journal Investigates shines a spotlight on the women lost to violence in Ireland since 2020.
www.thejournal.ie
January 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Today, @investigates.thejournal.ie shines a spotlight on the women lost to violence in Ireland since 2020...
These were young women at the start of their careers, mothers with young children, grandmothers well into their retirement:
These were young women at the start of their careers, mothers with young children, grandmothers well into their retirement:
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A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
January 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
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