Anne-Marie
@amflynn.bsky.social
Columnist, board member, learner,
dreamer, scribbler, Gaelic Games fan, Left leaner, cat servant 🐈🐈⬛️
📍Mayo, Ireland
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dreamer, scribbler, Gaelic Games fan, Left leaner, cat servant 🐈🐈⬛️
📍Mayo, Ireland
👩🦰 She/her
🔐 Views my own
Disabled people had to brave the conditions today to beg for €400 to help get them through the winter.
The govt has refused yet again to deliver a cost of disability payment, a payment of under €2k annually which is peanuts in the grand scheme of things.
A despicable attack on dignity.
The govt has refused yet again to deliver a cost of disability payment, a payment of under €2k annually which is peanuts in the grand scheme of things.
A despicable attack on dignity.
Watch: Protestors say disabled people 'feel used' by politicians
One protestor said: 'I can tell you there are families where mammy and daddy are not eating two or three evenings a week because they have to feed their children.'
www.irishexaminer.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Disabled people had to brave the conditions today to beg for €400 to help get them through the winter.
The govt has refused yet again to deliver a cost of disability payment, a payment of under €2k annually which is peanuts in the grand scheme of things.
A despicable attack on dignity.
The govt has refused yet again to deliver a cost of disability payment, a payment of under €2k annually which is peanuts in the grand scheme of things.
A despicable attack on dignity.
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Never forget the Hozier is a real one
December 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Never forget the Hozier is a real one
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Ireland’s water is going green, yet the EU just approved YET another nitrates derogation...
Rural communities have spoken: they want clean rivers, not more pollution.
Science and public health are clear. It’s time to enforce the rules and safeguard Ireland’s waters.
Press release & letter below👇
Rural communities have spoken: they want clean rivers, not more pollution.
Science and public health are clear. It’s time to enforce the rules and safeguard Ireland’s waters.
Press release & letter below👇
December 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Ireland’s water is going green, yet the EU just approved YET another nitrates derogation...
Rural communities have spoken: they want clean rivers, not more pollution.
Science and public health are clear. It’s time to enforce the rules and safeguard Ireland’s waters.
Press release & letter below👇
Rural communities have spoken: they want clean rivers, not more pollution.
Science and public health are clear. It’s time to enforce the rules and safeguard Ireland’s waters.
Press release & letter below👇
Went sale agreed on a little house last week. Three years of attempts. I'm overjoyed, but terrified it'll all go arseways (again), so very few winks of sleep to be had until contracts signed. But to even reach this point ... 😭
I repeat, IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD.
I repeat, IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD.
December 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Went sale agreed on a little house last week. Three years of attempts. I'm overjoyed, but terrified it'll all go arseways (again), so very few winks of sleep to be had until contracts signed. But to even reach this point ... 😭
I repeat, IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD.
I repeat, IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD.
Truly Patrick O'Donovan is unfit for purpose. This Gist is an absolute must-read (as always) but your head will probably explode.
New Gist: Waving the Ban Hammer
Patrick O'Donovan has proposed a National ID system, a Meta-endorsed regulation model and a mass surveillance machine, all in one.
It's government by Dunning-Kruger.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...
Patrick O'Donovan has proposed a National ID system, a Meta-endorsed regulation model and a mass surveillance machine, all in one.
It's government by Dunning-Kruger.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...
The Gist: Waving the Ban Hammer
Patrick O'Donovan has proposed a National ID system, a Meta-endorsed regulation model and a mass surveillance machine, all in one. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Truly Patrick O'Donovan is unfit for purpose. This Gist is an absolute must-read (as always) but your head will probably explode.
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Presumably the intention is to push on with the equally illegal plan to require government ID cards to use the internet, until 'interest groups' such as ourselves restrain the illegality. Anyway, keep supporting your local digital rights group!
Donate to DRI - Digital Rights Ireland
To help us continue working for your rights, please support DRI with a donation; we suggest €5 per month, but even a €20 euro once-off donation will help a lot! Scroll down to make a single or monthly...
www.digitalrights.ie
December 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Presumably the intention is to push on with the equally illegal plan to require government ID cards to use the internet, until 'interest groups' such as ourselves restrain the illegality. Anyway, keep supporting your local digital rights group!
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Mr O’Donovan said the Public Services Card “floundered because some interest groups outside of the House, interested more in privacy than other issues, got their way”. Funny way to characterise something which the independent regulator found illegal, imposing a €550,000 fine on the state.
Plan to verify people’s ages on line with Government ID a ‘disproportionate response’
Civil liberty and digital privacy campaigners question legal basis for proposed digital wallets
www.irishtimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Mr O’Donovan said the Public Services Card “floundered because some interest groups outside of the House, interested more in privacy than other issues, got their way”. Funny way to characterise something which the independent regulator found illegal, imposing a €550,000 fine on the state.
Only 7,000 submissions so far on the public consultation on the review of the Right to Request Remote Working legislation.
Something tells me a lot of them are from corporates, so it's really worth taking 5 minutes to share your opinion here:
enterprise.gov.ie/en/consultat...
Something tells me a lot of them are from corporates, so it's really worth taking 5 minutes to share your opinion here:
enterprise.gov.ie/en/consultat...
December 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Only 7,000 submissions so far on the public consultation on the review of the Right to Request Remote Working legislation.
Something tells me a lot of them are from corporates, so it's really worth taking 5 minutes to share your opinion here:
enterprise.gov.ie/en/consultat...
Something tells me a lot of them are from corporates, so it's really worth taking 5 minutes to share your opinion here:
enterprise.gov.ie/en/consultat...
Well done to everyone in Mayo IPSC who worked so hard to get this passed - unanimously - by Mayo County Council yesterday. Not that you'd know it by looking at any of the local papers' websites
#MAYO people only:
This #letter will be posted to all Mayo County Councillors this Monday 1 Dec ahead of a motion that is coming before them on 8 Dec which requests they support the inclusion of goods & services in the #OTB.
Please sign & share with others in Mayo.
tinyurl.com/MayoLetterOTB
This #letter will be posted to all Mayo County Councillors this Monday 1 Dec ahead of a motion that is coming before them on 8 Dec which requests they support the inclusion of goods & services in the #OTB.
Please sign & share with others in Mayo.
tinyurl.com/MayoLetterOTB
Open letter to Mayo County Council Councillors on the Occupied Territories Bill Motion
Dear Councillor
We are writing as residents of Mayo who care deeply about human rights, international law, and Ireland’s responsibility to uphold both. Over recent years, the Government has been prepa...
tinyurl.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Well done to everyone in Mayo IPSC who worked so hard to get this passed - unanimously - by Mayo County Council yesterday. Not that you'd know it by looking at any of the local papers' websites
Missed this at the weekend.
Former CEO of McCabes Pharmacy withdraws MetroLink challenge:
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Former CEO of McCabes Pharmacy withdraws MetroLink challenge:
archive.is/202512081740...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Missed this at the weekend.
Former CEO of McCabes Pharmacy withdraws MetroLink challenge:
archive.is/202512081740...
Former CEO of McCabes Pharmacy withdraws MetroLink challenge:
archive.is/202512081740...
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'Our waters are crying out for a break from the pollution, Irish people are calling for clean water, but our voices are being drowned out in a world of political wrangling and vested interest. And the thing is, you can’t drink politics.'
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Most Irish people want clean water, not a nitrates derogation
Has the Government ever asked the people of Ireland if they agree with pulling on the green jersey to convince Europe to give us another derogation?
www.irishexaminer.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
'Our waters are crying out for a break from the pollution, Irish people are calling for clean water, but our voices are being drowned out in a world of political wrangling and vested interest. And the thing is, you can’t drink politics.'
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Even now, the @irishtimes.com headline writers just can't bring themselves to give the thousands of volunteers who drove a grassroots campaign an ounce of credit.
President Connolly - How the Race Was Won: Striking reminder of botched presidential campaign
President Connolly - How the Race Was Won: Striking reminder of botched presidential campaign
Television: Behold the idiot’s guide to running an idiotic campaign, brought to you by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil
www.irishtimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Even now, the @irishtimes.com headline writers just can't bring themselves to give the thousands of volunteers who drove a grassroots campaign an ounce of credit.
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why is @news.rte.ie using a discredited platform of disinformation to simply repeat a Met Eireann storm warning - when they already have that information direct from ME? Why is @rte.ie continuing to drive traffic to X ? #spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
why is @news.rte.ie using a discredited platform of disinformation to simply repeat a Met Eireann storm warning - when they already have that information direct from ME? Why is @rte.ie continuing to drive traffic to X ? #spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Late to this pod where @louisemcsharry.bsky.social talks to @unamullally.bsky.social about coming out as gay, and as how she has navigated this in recent years with her husband, family and friends with as much love and care as possible. A powerful, raw and moving interview. 💕 1/2
Catch Up with Louise McSharry
pca.st
December 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Late to this pod where @louisemcsharry.bsky.social talks to @unamullally.bsky.social about coming out as gay, and as how she has navigated this in recent years with her husband, family and friends with as much love and care as possible. A powerful, raw and moving interview. 💕 1/2
I can't wait to channel some of Maisie's energy tonight when I get home. 🥱
December 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I can't wait to channel some of Maisie's energy tonight when I get home. 🥱
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Doing end year numbers and total we'll give this year between the 3% to good causes and 1% to staff on top of salary/bonus will be just shy of €76,000. We're a company of 6 people and whilst this is a drop in the ocean, if a big corporate adopted a similar financial model it'd make a big difference.
December 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Doing end year numbers and total we'll give this year between the 3% to good causes and 1% to staff on top of salary/bonus will be just shy of €76,000. We're a company of 6 people and whilst this is a drop in the ocean, if a big corporate adopted a similar financial model it'd make a big difference.
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for the beleaguered museum, it’s a new l’eau
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
for the beleaguered museum, it’s a new l’eau
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Check out @jennymaguire.bsky.social in the Indo this morning. It's a very important article. The recordign referenced is shown below.
archive.is/T27ap
archive.is/T27ap
December 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Check out @jennymaguire.bsky.social in the Indo this morning. It's a very important article. The recordign referenced is shown below.
archive.is/T27ap
archive.is/T27ap
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Greenhouse gas emissions per capita. The broken grey line is the path required for 2030 targets. Ireland is miles wide of it. The nearest neighbours are crushing it.
#climate
#climate
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Greenhouse gas emissions per capita. The broken grey line is the path required for 2030 targets. Ireland is miles wide of it. The nearest neighbours are crushing it.
#climate
#climate
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“You can’t spell Christmas without CMAT” is my best work this week so I have to post it here as well. Now.
December 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
“You can’t spell Christmas without CMAT” is my best work this week so I have to post it here as well. Now.
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In typical Scotland fashion I predict we loose again Haiti, draw against Morocco and win against Brazil ….. but go out on goal difference
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
In typical Scotland fashion I predict we loose again Haiti, draw against Morocco and win against Brazil ….. but go out on goal difference
I was kinda hoping for this too
I was hoping to hear a bunch of kids sing about how Bertie Ahern ruined the country. #ToyShow #LateLateToyShow
December 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I was kinda hoping for this too
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The thing it was missing? Troy 🦜 #latelatetoyshow #llts
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The thing it was missing? Troy 🦜 #latelatetoyshow #llts