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Emma Rua
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Finally flying in the mythical sky so bluee🦋
Éireannach 🇮🇪 Foghlaimím Gaeilge 💚
Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸
Iníon na Teamhrach
The Land & all our relations are Sacred
(Pp is Scout)
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There was a lovely little Samhain festival on the hill of Uisneach last weekend. I was asked to do some readings, so I offered #TeaLeaf readings & cards & it was very busy, but I took an early morning walk

Hill of Uisneach, 8th Nov 2025
#Samhain
#SpéirGorm #SpeirGorm
Ireland home of Halloween
The Catstone,Hill of Uisneach, Co Westmeath, with the rising sun behind Weathered sign at The Catstone: May this Sacred Centre always be protected, honoured and respected. May the Sacred Energy of Eriu always flow free. Bringing all these blessings to the country, all its beings and to you and me. May there be strength, wisdom and consciousness on all sides and levels And so, we all walk hand in hand, with lots of love in, our hearts through this Sacred Land Hawthorn berries with raindrops Lough Laugh, Hill of Uisneach, in the morning mist, Nov 8 2025
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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It's not #Samhain in Ireland until you've had a pack of 'Banshee Bones', as is the ancient tradition that began #Halloween #Speirgorm
A packet of Tayto 'Banshee Bones'
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Sorry 2nd email from Seanad Eireann Higher Education Constituency after I submitted my BA & MA from NUIG
Email from Seanad Eireann Higher Education Constituency: 28/01/2025 Dear Emma, Your application to be added to the register of electors for the Seanad Éireann Higher Education constituency is currently pending. In order to proceed, we require one of the following : . A copy of an in-date passport/birth certificate or certificate of naturalisation. Please reply to this email with the above information as soon as possible, to allow us to update your application. If you don't respond with this information by the end of next week (7 Feb), your application may not be considered for the 2025 Register which is published on 1 April. Le dea-mhéin / kind regards, Stefan Ruddell SeanadVoter.ie
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Nope they wouldn't take it. & my son had just died, I hadn't the energy or money to deal with it behind the email exchange below
Email from Seanad Eireann Higher Education Constituency: "Dear Emma I hope you are well. Your application to be added to the register of electors for the Seanad Éireann Higher Education constituency is currently pending. In order to proceed, we require the following information: • Evidence of citizenship (In-date Passport or a Certificate of Naturalisation) The passport provided expired in 2024. Also, just to note, the qualifications input on your application are stated as a Higher Diploma and a Postgraduate Diploma. Neither of these would be classed as a Degree, therefore would not meet the registration eligibility requirements. The degree would also need to be obtained in a designated institution. I have provided the below link on eligibility. Please reply to this email with the above information as soon as possible, to allow us to update your application. Le dea-mhéin / kind regards, Stefan Ruddell SeanadVoter.ie " Email to Seanad Eireann Higher Education Constituency from myself: "Hi Stefan I also have a BA in Archaeology and History (2001) and an MA in Landscape Archaeology (2003) from NUIGalway, Which is why my student number starts with 98; There were only 2 options for inclusion of qualifications, so I cited my most recent. My passport lapsed, as I am undergoing the recent bereavement of my 18yr old son last year; I have had much paperwork, and renewing the passport was not a priority. It will take some time to reapply, as I am not in a financial position to apply right now. Is there any other way to prove my citizenship? I am an Irish citizen, have never lived anywhere else. Could you please update the files with my current details re my qualifications? Thank you Regards " Email from Seanad Eireann Higher Education Constituency: "28/01/2025 Dear Emma, Your application to be added to the register of electors for the Seanad Éireann Higher Education constituency is currently pending. In order to proceed, we require one of the following : . A copy of an in-date passport/birth certificate or certificate of naturalisation. Please reply to this email with the above information as soon as possible, to allow us to update your application. If you don't respond with this information by the end of next week (7 Feb), your application may not be considered for the 2025 Register which is published on 1 April. Le dea-mhéin / kind regards, Stefan Ruddell SeanadVoter.ie"
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Lol #Yankbaiting Indian style. Great flag colours too
Here, from #SpéirGorm, we'll lend you the Damhán (Spider) if they get too much
Spider with blue lasar eyes incinerates a smaller creature, with the words 'Ciúnas Yank' ('Ciúnas' is Irish for 'quiet')
October 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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#Aras25 Our New President
Comhgairdeas leat @catherinegalway.bsky.social Úachtarán na hÉireann #Speirgorm
Catherine Connolly is declared President of Ireland in Dublin Castle
October 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Hook it to my veins!
This is a serious anti-government vote.
Smear campaigns don't work!
As President Robinson said "People who sling mud lose ground" #Aras25 #SpeirGorm
Spreadsheet showing Aras25 votes, with Connolly total 504,775,Gavin 60,210,Humphreys 229,605
October 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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A white windowless roofless tower; Now demolished Capenhurst Tower one of many reputed to have been used by the British Government to intercept and listen to all Irish phone class, faxes and emails in the 1990s https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20066358.html
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Ouch
Post screenshot: https://bsky.app/profile/damianstack.bsky.social/post/3m2m6gmesp22x
October 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The famous 'ciúnas yank' lasar eyed spider ('Ciúnas Pocán')?
October 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Some examples and some defensive ammo
Conor Smith: Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says. NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇭🇷. Once Trump Reg...: How has he shown himself to be unfit? Conor Smith: By failing to return €3,300 paid to him in error by a former tenant, going as far as to ignore solicitor's letters. NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇭🇷. Once Trump Reg...: 3,300 Euros? What the fuck are you talking about? banjogall.bsky.social: Think. NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇭🇷. Once Trump Reg...: Well normally since Gavin Newsom is in America he would be paid in dollars, not Euros. Maybe you should take your suggestion? You filthy motherfucking Russian troll. banjogall.bsky.social: You seem upset. Who’s Gavin Newsom? We’re discussing Jim Gavin. NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇭🇷. Once Trump Reg...: Oh dear... banjogall.bsky.social: Yes. Oh dear. America is not the world. NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇭🇷. Once Trump Reg...: I’m European so I know that. But our Gavin is being pummeled by the international fascist right. So fuck you. banjogall.bsky.social: Lovely NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇭🇷. Once Trump Reg...: Glad you approve you motherfucker. Screenshot of skeet exchange: NYCNAFOFELLA. @nycnafofella.bsky.social 'The fascists are joining in with the descendents of the slave traders.....a trifecta?' Jack 'on the Rack' Liu @teflonslinky.bsky.social 'A trifecta has three elements' NYCNAFOFELLA. @nycnafofella.bsky.social 'Fine, a dual melding of the ways then to satisfy your picky Anglo ass.' Rob (Argh!) @mrpostsgood.bsky.social 'Clue once again in the word itself' 'Ciúnas yank' Lasar spider 'Ciúnas Yank' Gentleman with blue lasar eyes
October 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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IBEC
\surprising\
Screenshot excerpt from article "Business representatives in Ireland have this year urged the government to delay any law and reduce its scope, the sources said, to avoid antagonising U.S. companies and investors, discouraging them from investing in Ireland. Government officials are now poised to limit the scope of the legislation to goods only, catching a handful of products imported from Israeli-occupied territories such as fruit that are worth just 200,000 euros ($234,660.00) a year. This would exclude the wider category of services that opposition parties have demanded be added, a move the government has been considering. Critics argue this could pull foreign multinational software companies, for example, into unworkable sanctions." Screenshot excerpt from article "A spokesperson for the foreign ministry pointed Reuters to comments by Harris in parliament on Thursday that the bill would be brought for debate before parliament breaks for holidays in mid-December but that wider European measures would have far more weight. Business lobby groups and company representatives have in recent months visited government officials, underscoring their concerns that the bill will further upset relations with the U.S. and Israel, the people said. In those meetings, company representatives have argued that penalising Israeli settlements could hit multinationals from the U.S., allied with Israel, and imperil investment in Ireland, an argument that resonated with some officials, the people said. The Irish Business and Employers Confederation, the biggest industry lobby group, whose members include pharmaceutical, software and banking companies, has publicly shared its concerns about Ireland's stance, saying the U.S. could penalise multinational companies in Ireland for boycotting Israel."
October 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Do we have to give our PPSN?
To a registry wherefore someone could search by your name or address?
Screenshot of electoral register page showing it asking for PPSN
October 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Mmmm novelty socks on men in serious roles
Former Taoiseach of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, sits with Justin Trudeau, former PM of Canada, in a booklined room, on green leather couches. Trudeau had stripy white & dark socks visible under his light coloured shiny suit with mid calf legs, whilst Varadkar is wearing bright red Canadian themed socks, visible under a dark mid calf trousered suit, with cartoonish Mounties and maple leaves on the socks Justin Trudeau, former PM of Canada laughs with Leo Varadkar, former Taoiseach (PM) of Ireland beside a podium with a harp on it; as Varadkar holds up one leg to display bright red cartoonish Canadian themed socks with maple leaves and Mounties on them (under a dark suit)
October 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Just perfect
screenshot of tweet above, 11 replies, 69 Rep, 1 quote, 712likes; with reply "I bought 6 organic bananas at my local supermarket yesterday. Cost me 168$. Had to switch to non-organic" with a picture of a bunch of yellow bananas
April 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Think they are missing out on a commercial opportunity here - Disaster Tourism
1950s B&W photo, from behind of people and cars facing a nuclear explosion over the Yucca Flats in Nevada, 65k from Vegas. Some of the people are holding up binoculars and all are facing the explosion. The people are in the foreground, the cars mid ground
March 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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#PatIngoldsby gave us back the beauty of flowers beating the concrete, of Dublin accents and phrases, brought you back into the moment, with a wry look, a comment, a witty observation, but always coloured with that intense real magical world that he saw. A LEGEND
www.patingoldsby.org/poems.html
Poem by Pat Ingoldsby: "Hanging In. Sometimes the effects of polio / bury me in a pit of exhaustion /every ounce of me us crushed /so I sleep and sleep / And somehow, wondrously, inside the gravy laden lump, a little peom begins to stir /and polio is meeting ita match. Again! " Poem by Pat Ingoldsby: DUBLIN IS THE ONLY CITY I KNOW WHERE AN OLD MAN WILL QUITE NATURALLY INVOLVE HIMSELF IN A CONVERSATION BETWEEN YOU AND A TOURIST MAP Nassau Street - 10th June 1997 - Lunchtime I was having a good look at the Direction Finder map on the street and wandering along Clontarf Road with my eyes until I found the corner of Vernon Avenue and Seafield Road West the corner where I live. I was looking at it and thinking quite happily to myself - "Willow and Hoot are sound asleep right there ...now... on my mattress." I always find that a warming thought when I'm in town and feeling a bit lonely. The big green arrow on the map was getting on my nerves the way it was pointing and proclaiming - YOU ARE HERE - So I said - "How the fuck do you know?" An old Dublin man who was meandering past looked at me and shook his head - "Aw Pat - don't be givin' the poor map a hard time - aren't ye always where ye are!" in 'Half A Hug', 1998 BALBRIGGAN RAILWAY STATION Tuesday evening 4 March 1997 A seagull flew in over the platform and landed on the roof. It peered down the chimney-pot and made crying noises into it. It stared out over the beach and cried for that. It gazed across the town and cried for that too. A second gull came swooping in and landed on the chimney. Not too near. Just right. The first gull made little chattering noises. Over and over. Fast friendly chatters. Then it raised its head straight up, opened wide its beak and iced the sky with a shriek. Now they were both doing it side by side shrieking into one. They flew out to sea together. Veering over to the right. Down low to the waves. Up again. Then straight out further and further away over water until no matter how hard you looked you could not see them anymore. . in HALF A HUG, 1998 Gulls flying, linocut by BabsPeaseDesign TWO LITTLE DUBLIN BOYS LOOKING OUT THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE BUS NEARING SKERRIES... LOOKING OVER THE FIELDS TO THE SEA "I see a bo!" "It's noh! It's a liehouse." PAUSE "You know the fella that lives out there - how does he come over here?" "Bo - buh he doesn' live there - he comes over here for Christmas." "An'... an' his dinner." "An' all." THEN CAME THE EASY SILENCE WHICH FOLLOWS WHEN EVERYTHING HAS BEEN WORKED OUT PERFECTLY. . in SEE LIZ SHE SPINS, 1997
March 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I had the privilege to work beside Pat at the Blackrock market many many moons ago. A true gent, the funniest, sassiest, wisest, most compassionate, realest, truest Man. I would be in hysterics trying not to laugh as he pulled faces behind people who took themselves too seriously. He gave me beauty
Pat Ingoldsby poetry book back cover [ISBN: 0-9551024-1-3]: "All my poems need is me, All my poems need is you. It's as simple and as beautiful as that." "My poems do not need academics or study notes or lectures or any off that other self-serving ego-massaging stuff which diminishes beauty send stifles wonder" Pat Ingoldsby, sitting on the street, on a packing crate, granite wall behind, poetry books out for sake, wearing eponymous warm scarf and brimmed hat, with fresh Seagull feathers and other random, precious items tucked into the hatband. A sign on the wall behind him: "Get one now before I'm dead and famous" Pat Ingoldsby in later years, wearing purple and pink scarves over a wooly jumper, long white hair, full moustache, and the famous broad brimmed ha5 with feathers, flowers and other precious items tucked into the hat band (at least one poem in each item) Pat back in the days before his hair turned white; broken moustache, hair down, held by a bandana worn Hippy style across the forehead, wooly jumper and warm fisherman/gardener waistcoat visible
March 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Screenshot of Instagram exchange: Pedro posted a comment writing: "I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist." Pedro's post led to some transphobic trolls rearing their heads in his comments but Pedro was quick to respond. One person wrote: "You were my favorite actor.... I'm unfollowing you... bulls---" and Pedro replied: "noooooooooooooo" with the iconic nail paint emoji.
February 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Why has this got a content warning?
Screenshot of skeet above
February 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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I remember all the fuss about Russians sniffing around these cables & how they left Irish waters when Cork fishermen asked them to
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Map of underwater cables around Ireland
February 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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An tEarrach
Narcissii clump, one flower starting to open
February 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Saoirse don Phailistín 🍉 🍉 🍉
www.zaytoun.uk
A box of dates "Zaytoun from Palestine" 'Jericho's finest Medjoul Dates - the King of dates with a succulent caramel taste' At the top of the front '20 years of fair trade with Palestine' 'Zaytoun - rooted in time & tradition'
February 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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He treated the mother of his children awfully too, refused to marry her, abused her.
Also don't forget about Chrisostom's necro fantasy bs
Quote: "The whole of her bodily beauty is nothing less than phlegm, blood, bile, rheum, and the fluid of digested food … If you consider what is stored up behind those lovely eyes, the angle of the nose, the mouth and cheeks you will agree that the well-proportioned body is merely a whitened sepulchre. (St. John Chrysostom, fifth Century)"
February 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Cartoon goose asks question, then chases person honking furiously (mime, usually goose is screaming 'HOW'; often used where person is complaining about somebody doing something they already did themselves)
January 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM