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shaneconneely.bsky.social
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
I don't know what a tracker mortgage is meme
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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frankoconnor.bsky.social
Truly shameful that close to 6,000 children will spend another Christmas in emergency accommodation in Ireland
Truly shameful homelessness has become a massive industry in Ireland
F*ck the property hoarders & all those making money off this structural violence & vandalism
#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm
frankoconnor.bsky.social Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 22d
So much potential for homes wasted for a decade while people die on our streets
Shame on all the owners for hoarding while also destroying our streets with this vandalism
Time for use it or lose it across Ireland so everyone has a home

Parnell Place, Cork City #DerelictIreland
December 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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karlstanley.bsky.social
At the DCC budget meeting last month we learned that Dublin City Council spends €400mn out of a €1.6bn budget on homelessness. It is a colossal business.
December 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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statsepi.bsky.social
The only way you can kill a kid and have nobody bat an eye.

We could 100% implement reasonable reforms that make tragedies like this much much less likely. But the car is undefeated in public policy world. Even seatbelts was a struggle.
April 22, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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eoinlettice.bsky.social
Studying the #Cork Northern Distributor Road proposals it looks like it will decimate many proposed parks on the northside of Cork city. Murphy's Rock, the North West Regional Park (Hollyhill), North East Regional Park (Glanmire), Lee Fields extension. All get similar treatment. (1/n)
April 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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mrsbundrige.bsky.social
He stood alone with courage in the face of tyranny.
Man standing alone against tyranny.
March 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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brendanjharkin.bsky.social
One lad who'll risk their life going across the English Channel in a dinghy in the hope of some shit minimum wage job instead of living at the absolute bottom rung of the capitalist exploitation ladder is worth a 1000 commentators who keep trying to tell you to give in to fascism just a little bit
February 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social
More true every day
Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
February 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
alt-text. ✌🏻
a letter to ‘the new statesman’ publication In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy, and Keynesian growth would finance public service improvements and a welfare state that steadily reduced inequality. I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions. Dr Stephen Watkins, Oldham, Lancashire
January 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM