Patrick Brannigan
@patrickjmb.bsky.social
In Choirs; on board of Housing Rights NI, worked at QUB Belfast
An Dún/music/nature/whatever resonates....
An Dún/music/nature/whatever resonates....
Pinned
BLOG: Gestetner to Office 365: Looking back on my time at Queen's
www.qub.ac.uk
This is but one version of my work history. In it, I'm suggesting that social interactions are vital, hint at issues around managerialism and corporatism (see later episodes!); and how singing in a work choir was life changing...
www.qub.ac.uk/sites/StaffG...
www.qub.ac.uk/sites/StaffG...
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It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
ITV doc: Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel's War - Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers speak out about what they saw and did in Gaza while alleging serious misconduct and potential violations of international law.
www.itv.com/watch/breaki...
www.itv.com/watch/breaki...
www.itv.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
ITV doc: Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel's War - Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers speak out about what they saw and did in Gaza while alleging serious misconduct and potential violations of international law.
www.itv.com/watch/breaki...
www.itv.com/watch/breaki...
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‘Women & children to the front’ is a paramilitary and far-right strategy of legitimisation. Paramilitary backed far-right violence, intimidation & pogroms August 2024, Ballymena 2025 etc - same modus operandi. It was common knowledge that these weapons were to be handed out by this far-right group.
All-female far-right group give out pink knuckledusters at anti-migrant protest
An all-female far right group founded in England has started a branch in Northern Ireland, handing out pink knuckledusters to crowds gathered at a protest over the weekend.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
‘Women & children to the front’ is a paramilitary and far-right strategy of legitimisation. Paramilitary backed far-right violence, intimidation & pogroms August 2024, Ballymena 2025 etc - same modus operandi. It was common knowledge that these weapons were to be handed out by this far-right group.
The courtiers who are drawn to the hideous boor and the rest of the world who are polar opposites. Niche post.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The courtiers who are drawn to the hideous boor and the rest of the world who are polar opposites. Niche post.
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Lovely episode of the Rolling Wave featuring a Long Note interview with the piper, the late Breandán Breathnach.
#RTEradio1
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Presented by Aoife Nic Cormaic.
#SpéirGhorm
#RTEradio1
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Presented by Aoife Nic Cormaic.
#SpéirGhorm
The Rolling Wave Sunday 9 November 2025
Traditional and folk music in Ireland, presented by Aoife Nic Cormaic.
www.rte.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Lovely episode of the Rolling Wave featuring a Long Note interview with the piper, the late Breandán Breathnach.
#RTEradio1
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Presented by Aoife Nic Cormaic.
#SpéirGhorm
#RTEradio1
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Presented by Aoife Nic Cormaic.
#SpéirGhorm
Exclusive: UK government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
Mark Townsend writes
The organisation Paema: "Atrocities are not natural disasters: they are a political choice that are preventable if there is political will."
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Mark Townsend writes
The organisation Paema: "Atrocities are not natural disasters: they are a political choice that are preventable if there is political will."
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Exclusive: UK government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
Mark Townsend writes
The organisation Paema: "Atrocities are not natural disasters: they are a political choice that are preventable if there is political will."
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Mark Townsend writes
The organisation Paema: "Atrocities are not natural disasters: they are a political choice that are preventable if there is political will."
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Thr McClay Library designed by Boston-based architects Sheply, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott in association with Belfast architects Robinson Patterson Partnership, (now RPP Architects). The £50 million library at Queen's University Belfast opened in July 2009.
McClay Library, Queen's Bekfast
Eco, created by the Breton artist Marc Didou. It is made of bronze and is 2.5m tall.
Looking into Botanic Gardens past Pines and the library tower.
#SpéirGhorm
Eco, created by the Breton artist Marc Didou. It is made of bronze and is 2.5m tall.
Looking into Botanic Gardens past Pines and the library tower.
#SpéirGhorm
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Thr McClay Library designed by Boston-based architects Sheply, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott in association with Belfast architects Robinson Patterson Partnership, (now RPP Architects). The £50 million library at Queen's University Belfast opened in July 2009.
McClay Library, Queen's Bekfast
Eco, created by the Breton artist Marc Didou. It is made of bronze and is 2.5m tall.
Looking into Botanic Gardens past Pines and the library tower.
#SpéirGhorm
Eco, created by the Breton artist Marc Didou. It is made of bronze and is 2.5m tall.
Looking into Botanic Gardens past Pines and the library tower.
#SpéirGhorm
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
McClay Library, Queen's Bekfast
Eco, created by the Breton artist Marc Didou. It is made of bronze and is 2.5m tall.
Looking into Botanic Gardens past Pines and the library tower.
#SpéirGhorm
Eco, created by the Breton artist Marc Didou. It is made of bronze and is 2.5m tall.
Looking into Botanic Gardens past Pines and the library tower.
#SpéirGhorm
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Along the leaf-strewn land and by the Lough.
#Castleward
#Strangford
#SpéirGhorm
@nationaltrust.org.uk
#Castleward
#Strangford
#SpéirGhorm
@nationaltrust.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Along the leaf-strewn land and by the Lough.
#Castleward
#Strangford
#SpéirGhorm
@nationaltrust.org.uk
#Castleward
#Strangford
#SpéirGhorm
@nationaltrust.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Remembrance by the late Eileen Battersby was excellent, an amazing précis.
@sundaymiscellany.bsky.social
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@sundaymiscellany.bsky.social
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Sunday Miscellany (@sundaymiscellany.bsky.social)
New writing for radio with complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning on RTÉ Radio 1, Irish public radio, since 1968. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany and the RTÉ Radio app
sundaymiscellany.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Remembrance by the late Eileen Battersby was excellent, an amazing précis.
@sundaymiscellany.bsky.social
#SpéirGhorm
@sundaymiscellany.bsky.social
#SpéirGhorm
Lovely piece by Tess Hughes, connecting with another human being.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Lovely piece by Tess Hughes, connecting with another human being.
@sundaymiscellany.bsky.social
#SpéirGhorm
@sundaymiscellany.bsky.social
#SpéirGhorm
Kilcoo make it to the Ulster semi-final. That's a really good Loughmacrory side.
Wee James, the superb Down ex-star on punditry.
Paul Devlin v happy to get over the line.
#GAA
#spéirGhorm
Wee James, the superb Down ex-star on punditry.
Paul Devlin v happy to get over the line.
#GAA
#spéirGhorm
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Kilcoo make it to the Ulster semi-final. That's a really good Loughmacrory side.
Wee James, the superb Down ex-star on punditry.
Paul Devlin v happy to get over the line.
#GAA
#spéirGhorm
Wee James, the superb Down ex-star on punditry.
Paul Devlin v happy to get over the line.
#GAA
#spéirGhorm
Lovely record track choices on Record Review, @drkkennedy.bsky.social with Andrew McGregor, #BBCradio3
"Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound" by Dr Kate Kennedy, Head of Zeus.
I'm not reading the reviews until I finish this wonderful journey into the cello - personal to Kennedy and the 4 cellists whose lives she actually charts.
#Cello #Biography
I'm not reading the reviews until I finish this wonderful journey into the cello - personal to Kennedy and the 4 cellists whose lives she actually charts.
#Cello #Biography
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Lovely record track choices on Record Review, @drkkennedy.bsky.social with Andrew McGregor, #BBCradio3
Embassy of the State of Palestine to Ireland: “What size is Palestine compared to Ireland?
“In answer, we created these 3 maps in collaboration with an Irish cartographer and our colleagues at the Negotiations Affairs Department in Palestine.”
3rd one below. Size: West Bank cf Ireland
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“In answer, we created these 3 maps in collaboration with an Irish cartographer and our colleagues at the Negotiations Affairs Department in Palestine.”
3rd one below. Size: West Bank cf Ireland
#SpéirGhorm
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Embassy of the State of Palestine to Ireland: “What size is Palestine compared to Ireland?
“In answer, we created these 3 maps in collaboration with an Irish cartographer and our colleagues at the Negotiations Affairs Department in Palestine.”
3rd one below. Size: West Bank cf Ireland
#SpéirGhorm
“In answer, we created these 3 maps in collaboration with an Irish cartographer and our colleagues at the Negotiations Affairs Department in Palestine.”
3rd one below. Size: West Bank cf Ireland
#SpéirGhorm
Embassy of the State of Palestine to Ireland: “What size is Palestine compared to Ireland?
“In answer, we created these 3 maps in collaboration with an Irish cartographer and our colleagues at the Negotiations Affairs Department in Palestine.”
2nd one below. The size of Gaza Dublin
#SpéirGhorm
“In answer, we created these 3 maps in collaboration with an Irish cartographer and our colleagues at the Negotiations Affairs Department in Palestine.”
2nd one below. The size of Gaza Dublin
#SpéirGhorm
November 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Embassy of the State of Palestine to Ireland: “What size is Palestine compared to Ireland?
“In answer, we created these 3 maps in collaboration with an Irish cartographer and our colleagues at the Negotiations Affairs Department in Palestine.”
2nd one below. The size of Gaza Dublin
#SpéirGhorm
“In answer, we created these 3 maps in collaboration with an Irish cartographer and our colleagues at the Negotiations Affairs Department in Palestine.”
2nd one below. The size of Gaza Dublin
#SpéirGhorm
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Exclusive: "Detainees at Rakefet include a nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months."
The Guardian
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The Guardian
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Exclusive: "Detainees at Rakefet include a nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months."
The Guardian
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The Guardian
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Portals to the underneath of this fabulous Oak.
#Castleward
#Strangford
#SpéirGhorm
@nationaltrust.org.uk
#Castleward
#Strangford
#SpéirGhorm
@nationaltrust.org.uk
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Portals to the underneath of this fabulous Oak.
#Castleward
#Strangford
#SpéirGhorm
@nationaltrust.org.uk
#Castleward
#Strangford
#SpéirGhorm
@nationaltrust.org.uk