Gwen Da Lough
@nirathaig.bsky.social
Irish Science Communicator, Board gamer, cyclist, neurospicy
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The story given to us about fireworks is false. This was a planned attempt to kill a family using fire, and was set to prevent them escaping.
November 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The story given to us about fireworks is false. This was a planned attempt to kill a family using fire, and was set to prevent them escaping.
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Best analysis of the presidential election I’ve seen to date - putting in the hard yards actually works, who knew!. #aras25 #waterfordwhispers #speirgorm
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Best analysis of the presidential election I’ve seen to date - putting in the hard yards actually works, who knew!. #aras25 #waterfordwhispers #speirgorm
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Incredible work, everyone!
Over 6,500 letters sent, which means (on average) over 10 letters per MP!
If you haven’t written in and still want to, you can find @transactualuk.bsky.social’s easy-peasy tool here: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Over 6,500 letters sent, which means (on average) over 10 letters per MP!
If you haven’t written in and still want to, you can find @transactualuk.bsky.social’s easy-peasy tool here: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
October 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Incredible work, everyone!
Over 6,500 letters sent, which means (on average) over 10 letters per MP!
If you haven’t written in and still want to, you can find @transactualuk.bsky.social’s easy-peasy tool here: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Over 6,500 letters sent, which means (on average) over 10 letters per MP!
If you haven’t written in and still want to, you can find @transactualuk.bsky.social’s easy-peasy tool here: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
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If Microsoft do not make a firm statement against this soon, I'm pretty sure I'm upgrading them to Boycott For Life.
This is utterly reprehensible and if they somehow endorse this naked, virulent bigotry, they are a valid target forevermore.
This is utterly reprehensible and if they somehow endorse this naked, virulent bigotry, they are a valid target forevermore.
I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.
October 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If Microsoft do not make a firm statement against this soon, I'm pretty sure I'm upgrading them to Boycott For Life.
This is utterly reprehensible and if they somehow endorse this naked, virulent bigotry, they are a valid target forevermore.
This is utterly reprehensible and if they somehow endorse this naked, virulent bigotry, they are a valid target forevermore.
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For a union at a crossroads, we need to be calling for increased scrutiny - not less.
In today’s Irish Independent.
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
In today’s Irish Independent.
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
For a union at a crossroads, we need to be calling for increased scrutiny - not less.
In today’s Irish Independent.
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
In today’s Irish Independent.
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
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Amazing work by our friends in Ireland to write and launch a bill to decriminalise sex work, which would enable sex workers to work together for safety, and improve their health and access to workers’ rights.
Press release: Decriminalisation of sex work bill launched by TD Ruth Coppinger
The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective.
The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective.
October 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Amazing work by our friends in Ireland to write and launch a bill to decriminalise sex work, which would enable sex workers to work together for safety, and improve their health and access to workers’ rights.
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@izzykamikaze.bsky.social was making this point only the other day: A huge number of men associated with these 'protect our women and kids' riots in the UK have convictions for abuse of women and children. #speirgorm
October 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
@izzykamikaze.bsky.social was making this point only the other day: A huge number of men associated with these 'protect our women and kids' riots in the UK have convictions for abuse of women and children. #speirgorm
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Today is #IntersexAwarenessDay! ILGA-Europe calls on all States to act on the Council of Europe’s new Recommendation (2025)7 — the first global standard to protect intersex people & ensure equality. coe.int/en/web/sogi/intersexrecommendation
October 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Today is #IntersexAwarenessDay! ILGA-Europe calls on all States to act on the Council of Europe’s new Recommendation (2025)7 — the first global standard to protect intersex people & ensure equality. coe.int/en/web/sogi/intersexrecommendation
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"These examples illustrate how racism and misogyny intersect to produce ideal victims (the white mother, the white child) and ideal perpetrators (the predatory migrant man). Under this framework, violence committed by white men is minimised and attacks on non-white women and children go unnoticed."
'In June, when two Romanian-speaking teenagers were charged with attempted rape in Ballymena, there were anti-foreigner riots and violence for over a week.
A disturbing report published by The Detail, found about half of the rioters arrested had domestic abuse complaints filed against them. '
A disturbing report published by The Detail, found about half of the rioters arrested had domestic abuse complaints filed against them. '
You're not protecting women and children with violent protests
When it becomes routine to connect migration with sexual crimes, any incident is a potential tinder box
www.irishexaminer.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"These examples illustrate how racism and misogyny intersect to produce ideal victims (the white mother, the white child) and ideal perpetrators (the predatory migrant man). Under this framework, violence committed by white men is minimised and attacks on non-white women and children go unnoticed."
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“From the perspective of a trans person, there is usually no way of knowing which - if any - of the toilets at a public venue you may use - and the staff there may not know either. “ www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...
Nobody Knows What UK Law on Toilet Access is
The lawlessness of the government's response to For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
“From the perspective of a trans person, there is usually no way of knowing which - if any - of the toilets at a public venue you may use - and the staff there may not know either. “ www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...
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Some island of a thousand welcomes.
"“You're dealing with families who have fled war. So you're dealing with families and people who have already suffered, who have come to Ireland seeking refuge and safety, and instead they're finding this.”" #Ireland #SpéirGhorm
"“You're dealing with families who have fled war. So you're dealing with families and people who have already suffered, who have come to Ireland seeking refuge and safety, and instead they're finding this.”" #Ireland #SpéirGhorm
Government failing to control narrative about immigrants, spokesman for Ukrainians in Ireland says | BreakingNews
Families were told not to leave their rooms; they were terrified, and they did not know how long it was going to last, Anatoily Primakov told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland.
www.breakingnews.ie
October 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Some island of a thousand welcomes.
"“You're dealing with families who have fled war. So you're dealing with families and people who have already suffered, who have come to Ireland seeking refuge and safety, and instead they're finding this.”" #Ireland #SpéirGhorm
"“You're dealing with families who have fled war. So you're dealing with families and people who have already suffered, who have come to Ireland seeking refuge and safety, and instead they're finding this.”" #Ireland #SpéirGhorm
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If you are thinking of voting for Jim Gavin tomorrow, just a PSA that the most likely effect of that vote would be increasing the odds of Gavin meeting the threshold so that Fianna Fáil can claim a load of their expenses back from the campaign.
Just so you know. #Aras25
Just so you know. #Aras25
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
If you are thinking of voting for Jim Gavin tomorrow, just a PSA that the most likely effect of that vote would be increasing the odds of Gavin meeting the threshold so that Fianna Fáil can claim a load of their expenses back from the campaign.
Just so you know. #Aras25
Just so you know. #Aras25
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Last night's violence at Citywest Hotel will do nothing for the young victim of sexual assault.
People are absolutely right to be angry. It is horrendous that a vulnerable 10 year old girl in state care was not protected. Don't let that anger be directed at other vulnerable people.
People are absolutely right to be angry. It is horrendous that a vulnerable 10 year old girl in state care was not protected. Don't let that anger be directed at other vulnerable people.
October 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Last night's violence at Citywest Hotel will do nothing for the young victim of sexual assault.
People are absolutely right to be angry. It is horrendous that a vulnerable 10 year old girl in state care was not protected. Don't let that anger be directed at other vulnerable people.
People are absolutely right to be angry. It is horrendous that a vulnerable 10 year old girl in state care was not protected. Don't let that anger be directed at other vulnerable people.
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Others have noted that this doesn’t have anything to say about who rioters were. But neither does it have a single word to say about the terrified people inside City West who were the intended targets of the mob’s violence
October 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Others have noted that this doesn’t have anything to say about who rioters were. But neither does it have a single word to say about the terrified people inside City West who were the intended targets of the mob’s violence
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“Anyone who cares about violence against sex workers, violence against women, the rights of the LGBTQI+ community, migrants, undocumented people, people in poverty and insecure housing or homelessness, people in addiction and people with disabilities MUST support this bill”
💯❤️🔥
💯❤️🔥
Press release: Decriminalisation of sex work bill launched by TD Ruth Coppinger
The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective.
The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective.
October 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
“Anyone who cares about violence against sex workers, violence against women, the rights of the LGBTQI+ community, migrants, undocumented people, people in poverty and insecure housing or homelessness, people in addiction and people with disabilities MUST support this bill”
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It's hard to fathom for most people just how much effort and money is being poured into anti-trans shit, but it's billionaires, the entire apparatus of religious right think tanks like ADF, Heritage etc, entire media empires like Rupert Murdoch's, whole political parties and world governments...
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
October 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
It's hard to fathom for most people just how much effort and money is being poured into anti-trans shit, but it's billionaires, the entire apparatus of religious right think tanks like ADF, Heritage etc, entire media empires like Rupert Murdoch's, whole political parties and world governments...
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Yesterday we announced the launch of our decriminalisation of sex work Bill. This change is law is necessary to combat the violence against sex workers. I'm very proud to be involved in this vital legislation.
#DecrimForSafety
#SupportSafeSexWork
#DecrimForSafety
#SupportSafeSexWork
Press release: Decriminalisation of sex work bill launched by TD Ruth Coppinger
The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective.
The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective.
October 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Yesterday we announced the launch of our decriminalisation of sex work Bill. This change is law is necessary to combat the violence against sex workers. I'm very proud to be involved in this vital legislation.
#DecrimForSafety
#SupportSafeSexWork
#DecrimForSafety
#SupportSafeSexWork
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Israel is slaughtering Palestinians again
The ceasefire means nothing to Netanyahu and his fellow genocidaires
If you're feeling rage like I am, try to channel some of it into compassion for my Gazan refugee friends, who could really use any spare change you might have:
The ceasefire means nothing to Netanyahu and his fellow genocidaires
If you're feeling rage like I am, try to channel some of it into compassion for my Gazan refugee friends, who could really use any spare change you might have:
October 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Israel is slaughtering Palestinians again
The ceasefire means nothing to Netanyahu and his fellow genocidaires
If you're feeling rage like I am, try to channel some of it into compassion for my Gazan refugee friends, who could really use any spare change you might have:
The ceasefire means nothing to Netanyahu and his fellow genocidaires
If you're feeling rage like I am, try to channel some of it into compassion for my Gazan refugee friends, who could really use any spare change you might have:
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Agreed. Undermining the rule of law and international conventions for political purposes can properly be termed subversive.
FG are on dangerous ground.
FG are on dangerous ground.
October 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Agreed. Undermining the rule of law and international conventions for political purposes can properly be termed subversive.
FG are on dangerous ground.
FG are on dangerous ground.
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Girls, please, the Special Criminal
Court contravenes the minimum standards of the right to a fair trial under international law, hope this helps x
Court contravenes the minimum standards of the right to a fair trial under international law, hope this helps x
The two candidates in the Presidential Election have clashed over the Special Criminal Court with Heather Humphreys saying she supported it and Catherine Connolly calling for its abolition
Presidential candidates clash over Special Criminal Court
The two candidates in the Presidential Election have clashed over the Special Criminal Court with Heather Humphreys saying she supported it and Catherine Connolly calling for its abolition.
www.rte.ie
October 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Girls, please, the Special Criminal
Court contravenes the minimum standards of the right to a fair trial under international law, hope this helps x
Court contravenes the minimum standards of the right to a fair trial under international law, hope this helps x
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If it was legal to bake cakes and legal to sell cakes but it was illegal to advertise cakes and illegal to buy cakes, do you think cake bakers will have a better or safer work-life? Do you think the people willing to commit a crime to buy a cake will be a safe customer?
A brothel is a premises where 2 or more sex workers are present, so these statistics are not comforting to us. We know sex workers are being prosecuted for working together for safety.
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/surg...
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/surg...
Surge in number of prosecutions for brothel-keeping | BreakingNews
Gardaí brought 34 prosecutions for the offence under Section 11 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 last year, while another 16 prosecutions were commenced since the start of 2025.
www.breakingnews.ie
October 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If it was legal to bake cakes and legal to sell cakes but it was illegal to advertise cakes and illegal to buy cakes, do you think cake bakers will have a better or safer work-life? Do you think the people willing to commit a crime to buy a cake will be a safe customer?
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Ex-Green TD Brian Leddin is leaving the Greens over the party's support for "far left" Connolly, and voting for Fine Gael's Humphreys as president.
He believes climate and ecological breakdown are not left-right issues.
He's very wrong: *capitalism* is their core driver.
He believes climate and ecological breakdown are not left-right issues.
He's very wrong: *capitalism* is their core driver.
Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly
Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly
Party’s decision to support Connolly’s presidential campaign only deepened my concerns about its current direction
www.irishtimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Ex-Green TD Brian Leddin is leaving the Greens over the party's support for "far left" Connolly, and voting for Fine Gael's Humphreys as president.
He believes climate and ecological breakdown are not left-right issues.
He's very wrong: *capitalism* is their core driver.
He believes climate and ecological breakdown are not left-right issues.
He's very wrong: *capitalism* is their core driver.
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✋ It’s a SLAPP!
🤔 Why debate when you can silence with a lawsuit?
Stella O’Malley and her organisation Genspect are doing just this in threatening to sue fellow psychotherapist Leonie O’Dowd over an article in the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy.
👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...
🤔 Why debate when you can silence with a lawsuit?
Stella O’Malley and her organisation Genspect are doing just this in threatening to sue fellow psychotherapist Leonie O’Dowd over an article in the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy.
👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...
October 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
✋ It’s a SLAPP!
🤔 Why debate when you can silence with a lawsuit?
Stella O’Malley and her organisation Genspect are doing just this in threatening to sue fellow psychotherapist Leonie O’Dowd over an article in the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy.
👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...
🤔 Why debate when you can silence with a lawsuit?
Stella O’Malley and her organisation Genspect are doing just this in threatening to sue fellow psychotherapist Leonie O’Dowd over an article in the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy.
👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...
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"What is missing from these statistics is the number of non-binary people and young people who are still unable to have their gender legally recognised." Read 👉 buff.ly/9L45iVj #GCNnews
October 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"What is missing from these statistics is the number of non-binary people and young people who are still unable to have their gender legally recognised." Read 👉 buff.ly/9L45iVj #GCNnews
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Heather Humphreys won’t say if she paid an anti-vacancy tax on her unused residential property.
Humphreys has left the property unoccupied for the last 14 years, during which time the vacant homes tax was introduced.
www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-wo...
Humphreys has left the property unoccupied for the last 14 years, during which time the vacant homes tax was introduced.
www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-wo...
Humpheys won’t say if she paid vacant homes tax
She’s left the property unoccupied for more than a decade.
www.ontheditch.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Heather Humphreys won’t say if she paid an anti-vacancy tax on her unused residential property.
Humphreys has left the property unoccupied for the last 14 years, during which time the vacant homes tax was introduced.
www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-wo...
Humphreys has left the property unoccupied for the last 14 years, during which time the vacant homes tax was introduced.
www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-wo...