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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 11h

Posting this a bit late but it's a really important piece from Mick Clifford - worth a read

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Mick Clifford: The cynical use of a tragedy to play politics

Politicians are doing a great disservice to a bereaved family

www.irishexaminer.com

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 1d

Opened in 2021, Carrigaline Community Special School issued 17 official suspensions out of a maximum student body of just 48 in three years

www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast: Suspensions 'crisis' at Cork special school

Opened in 2021, Carrigaline Community Special School issued 17 official suspensions out of a maximum student body of just 48 in three years

www.irishexaminer.com

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

apple.news

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 1d

Also I recall very clearly covering the furore within lefty circles at Michael D endorsing “a critical yes” for Lisbon 2 after campaigning against Lisbon 1… don’t remember that coming up in his election campaign

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 2d

🤣🤣🤣

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 2d

“You make it up”

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 2d

“You can cut it”

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 2d

“Can I approve it?”

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 3d

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3d

Business Post/Red C poll

Catherine Connolly 36%

Heather Humphreys 25%

Jim Gavin 12%

27% undecided.

Dr Gerri O'Neill @gerrioneillhist.bsky.social · 3d

www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Substantial lead for Connolly in Áras race, poll suggests

Independent candidate Catherine Connolly has a substantial lead in the Presidential Election, a new Business Post/Red C poll suggests.

www.rte.ie

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 4d

Added to which there is a policy of helping polluters to meet the standard for compliance, rather than prosecuting in the higher courts for repeat offenders.

This policy has worked for some businesses, but probably sends a message to others about polluting being consequence free.

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 4d

3 agencies involved but none had the right remit.

EPA - Monitors 31 sites in 3,330km of Blackwater, but it happened elsewhere

Inland Fisheries - doesn’t have the forensic capacity for the testing needed.

Marine Institute - has that capacity, but only investigates disease, not pollution.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 4d

Great journalism here

Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 4d

Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found?

A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.

I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

CountryWide - RTÉ Radio 1

The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.

www.rte.ie

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 4d

Most effective one so far

Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 4d

Catherine Connolly built the RTÉ Player #Smearthebejaysus

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 4d

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Colin Sheridan: Smear v journalism — One intends to wound, the other to inform

When Ivan Yates went on a widely shared podcast and said he would 'smear the bejaysus out of her', meaning presidential candidate Catherine Connolly, he was injecting the virus, writes Colin Sheridan

www.irishexaminer.com

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 4d

Very interesting discussion on RTÉ radio one with Philip Boucher Hayes now about which agency does what in relation to water, fish, the environment. “That’s not our role” seems to be most of the answers #blackwaterfishkill

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 5d

Ah, I know who you mean. She’s mentioned in the podcast, I’ve interviewed her a number of times. An incredibly brave person.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 5d

God, really? That’s awful. It’s such a frightening anomaly

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 5d

Today’s podcast is on the fallout from a brutal attack by a random stranger - and a quirk of the legal system that leaves victims of the “guilty but insane” with no rights. Listen here:

www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast: Legal loophole leaves attack survivor in the dark over her assailant’s release

After surviving a brutal 2017 attack, Fi Bourke still has no legal right to know when her assailant is freed

www.irishexaminer.com

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Gregory A. Wilson @gregoryawilson.com · 5d

Yep. I have negative desire to use this garbage. I cannot understand the mindset of a person who thinks creative people would want something to be creative for them. If you don't want to create, why waste your time? Go do something else!

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 7d

Food fear is the most toxic ingredient of all, and the new breed of supermarket scarers are making a living from it

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

No, Joe Wicks, reading lists of ingredients will not solve our health problems

Food fear is the most toxic ingredient of all, and the new breed of supermarket scarers are making a living from it

www.irishexaminer.com

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 9d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 7d

Turn on prime time lads there’s @caitrionaredmond.bsky.social

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 8d

Always give me a shout if you've seen something like this!

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