Fiona
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Fiona
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Ah sure, what about it.

#SpéirGorm
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The EU is implementing an emergency plan for 'Military Mobility' that would effectively mean Ireland waiving checks on munitions or military equipment moving through our territory.

A wartime measure pushed through without any clear public scrutiny, undermining our neutrality.
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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i find it so off-putting when you watch journalists interviewing politicians and you can tell they’re friendly, all in a big club that doesn’t serve the public’s interests. access journalism is the opposite of accountability journalism.
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...
The age of keeping whales and dolphins in captivity must finally come to an end
Research shows it is not possible for captive cetaceans to thrive in concrete pools
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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If you go to the supermarket you will find that the prices never go down

That's because this handful of corporations not only supplies almost everything in the supermarket, they also own controlling shares in the supermarkets too

Doesn't matter if it's New York, London or Tokyo
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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we should all remember Paschal Donohoe as a man whose final act in public office was to give over half a billion in subsidies to an already thriving hospitality industry for no reason whatsoever
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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The amount of tax-payer money that these same people have handed to greyhound racing in the last few years would pay for this hospice for children with life-limiting conditions. The existence of one is contingent on private charity, the other has it's existence guaranteed by the state. Priorities.
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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This completely escaped my notice. Just spent the last five minutes completely frozen with rage.

Apartheid on a scale the Boers could have only dreamt of.
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Already proud.
President Catherine Connolly has called for action on war, genocide and climate change, saying the normalisation of war “has never been and will never be acceptable” to Ireland, a nation with a long tradition of neutrality and peacekeeping.

#VMNews
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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"More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, inadequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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While the President of a country to our west was booed by crowds, in Ireland the road is lined by people with their dogs to say goodbye to much loved President Michael D. Higgins as he leaves Áras an Uachtaráin (President's House) for last time.
New President Catherine Connolly tomorrow #SpeirGorm
President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina are preparing to leave Áras an Uachtaráin for the final time this evening as his term comes to an end.

Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.

#VMNews
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.

It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
November 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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this year’s pumpkin efforts, with a special one in honour of our new Uachtarán na hÉireann 🫡

#speirgorm
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Not sure Andrew Windsor adopting the Mountbatten name is such a good idea

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-nort...
Man who alleges Mountbatten abuse launches legal challenge
Arthur Smyth is suing five state institutions including the Department of Health and the PSNI.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Probably wouldn’t have gone with Mountbatten as a name if I was trying to distance myself from the paedophile allegations tbh
October 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Parasites have been lobbying our Govt, quite successfully by the look of things.

We need to maintain support for our neutrality and keep the triple lock.
A secretive group lobbying government for the arms industry is working with Lockheed Martin to connect Irish businesses with international weapons manufacturers for 'partnering opportunities'

One of its co-founders is a regular contributor to Irish media

www.ontheditch.com/irish-lobbyi...
Lobbyists connecting Irish businesses, weapons manufacturers
They're working with Lockheed Martin on 'partnering opportunities'.
www.ontheditch.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.
October 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Melissa is a monster hurricane, about to hit Jamaica with record wind speeds of 270kph/165mph. Fingers crossed for everyone.
image: @noaa.gov GOES-19 satellite
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I don't understand why stupid, right-wing arseholes are becoming so much bolder in this country just because there's been little to no action taken to deter them at a systemic level.
October 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A timeline cleansing genius.
This is Herman. He learned how to eat corn on the cob today. And within 11 seconds, he became an expert. 13/10 (TT: devonjohnson07)
October 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Not one word about who the mob were, their motives or politics, or their targets.
I'll say it again - Irish politicians, law enforcement and media have absolutely no idea what they are doing when it comes to the far right, and they will reap a bitter harvest from their ignorance.
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM