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Patrick Brannigan

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In Choirs; on board of Housing Rights NI, worked at QUB Belfast An Dún/music/nature/whatever resonates....

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · Jan 4

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...
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BLOG: Gestetner to Office 365: Looking back on my time at Queen's

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you.

The gardeners in the Park are good at keeping the Gardens in colour all year round.

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 7h

The journos who put shallow questions to Catherine Connolly need to look at themselves. They are cheapening themselves.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely no agency for Palestinians in this "Peace Plan" - utter dehumanisation.

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 7h

Israel kidnapped me on Wednesday morning. I’m out now. We will keep at it for not only a ceasefire, but full justice and self-determination for Palestine. Here’s an article I wrote that was published shortly after I had to throw my phone into the water www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We fear what Israel will do to us if they seize our ship. But we are not turning back | Naoise Dolan

Our captured flotilla colleagues have been subjected to violence and degrading conditions in an Israeli prison. This has only made us more determined, says Irish writer Naoise Dolan

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 12h

The PlantNet app says yes!

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Crocuses in Botanic Gardens, Belfast.

Unseasonal and storm-swept

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 15h

It's a piece of art in its own right...

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 16h

Up into the Quad.

Queen's University Belfast

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Sandstone steps, red brick walls, above Acers and other trees with Physics building to the left.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 21h

No one seems to be covering this currently...an eviction.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Alan Kelly TD raises the matter of whistleblowers and of Noel McGree and his family. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcCO... [lip synch may be off].

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 23h

Not only are these data centres devouring energy & water – and feeding the AI bubble that'll blow up our economy when it bursts – they're also wasting vast construction resources (human, materials & admin) that could instead be building homes, solar farms, wind farms etc.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 23h

Data centres costing €5.6bn have planning approval but no electricity, industry warns

Access to electricity and gas restricts because of risk of blackouts due to power-hungry sector

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Alan Kelly TD raises the matter of whistleblowers and of Noel McGree and his family. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcCO... [lip synch may be off].

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 23h

Manchán Magan investigated the quirks, conundrums, and wonders of Ireland, such as, how were the Irish able to make a cheese hard enough to kill the semi-divine leader of Connaught, Queen Maeve? ...
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Screenshot taken from RTE Podcasts on the RTE radio play

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

That is amazing that you found it and so quickly. We'll never know the journey behind the particular instance of the book, that page. My imagination is ignited (!) by the observation that the book looks singed.
The book is mentioned in this resource www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50165/b...

Peaky Blinders - gangs of Birmingham | Birmingham City Council

Resources to support historical research of the Peaky Blinders

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

What book is this fragment from? Found on the Lough shore at Strangford.

"Constables working in pairs. Thugs ... population was ... Liverpool. An increase in ... and seven hundred by 1897, ... parallel increase in exposure
... all weathers ... be the worst dangers ...".

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Jagged edge paper scrap surrounded by natural shore debris, stones, decayed flora and fauna

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Mini-regatta by Audleystown Castle, Strangford Lough; viewed from the foreshore by Strangford woods.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
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Small sailing boats with differently coloured sails, coast right and left.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Happened to have R Ulster on, and I hear Kathy Clugston doing a fab job in the Sunday Club seat - Anne Shelton being played at the mo.

John Bennett, a hard act to follow.

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Frank Aiken highly thought-off in our family when I was growing up. Non-proliferation

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Alan Kelly TD raises the matter of whistleblowers and of Noel McGree and his family. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcCO... [lip synch may be off].

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Prominent commentator about President of Ireland- “He certainly enjoyed being president - and, no doubt, people who don’t pay attention had a feeling he did a good job.”

Insulting a whole swathe of people.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen v little here about the McGree family and their imminent eviction.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

A not so wee beastie.

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Adelita Grijalva of Arizona
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Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

I was sorry I missed the exhibition in the National Gallery - Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone. The Art of Friendship

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Mini-regatta by Audleystown Castle, Strangford Lough; viewed from the foreshore by Strangford woods.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm

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