Deirdre O'Shaughnessy
@deshocks.bsky.social
Opinion Editor, Irish Examiner |
Host, The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast | Mother of three.
Interested in news, books, politics, culture, science, climate and life in Ireland - and everywhere else. Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine.
Host, The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast | Mother of three.
Interested in news, books, politics, culture, science, climate and life in Ireland - and everywhere else. Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine.
Absolutely brilliant reporting from paschal Sheehy this morning on South Kerry CAMHS. That woman is very eloquent.
February 18, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Absolutely brilliant reporting from paschal Sheehy this morning on South Kerry CAMHS. That woman is very eloquent.
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A friend just referred to Epstein as a "a Wikipedia intellectual" and I think that captures it.
I wrote about the Epstein files and how they illustrate the fact that the oligarchs are not exactly rigorous thinkers. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Epstein Class Clowns
One key revelation in the wide correspondence of the late pedophile: the rich and powerful just aren't all that bright.
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February 17, 2026 at 5:45 PM
A friend just referred to Epstein as a "a Wikipedia intellectual" and I think that captures it.
Check out my instagram for the best video of my career
Those of you who followed me from The Other Place will know how much I love a bit of nominative determinism.
Well imagine my delight when I realised the man beside me in the green room in RTÉ today is Niall Hatch of @birdwatchireland.bsky.social
Well imagine my delight when I realised the man beside me in the green room in RTÉ today is Niall Hatch of @birdwatchireland.bsky.social
February 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Check out my instagram for the best video of my career
Those of you who followed me from The Other Place will know how much I love a bit of nominative determinism.
Well imagine my delight when I realised the man beside me in the green room in RTÉ today is Niall Hatch of @birdwatchireland.bsky.social
Well imagine my delight when I realised the man beside me in the green room in RTÉ today is Niall Hatch of @birdwatchireland.bsky.social
February 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Those of you who followed me from The Other Place will know how much I love a bit of nominative determinism.
Well imagine my delight when I realised the man beside me in the green room in RTÉ today is Niall Hatch of @birdwatchireland.bsky.social
Well imagine my delight when I realised the man beside me in the green room in RTÉ today is Niall Hatch of @birdwatchireland.bsky.social
"This public servant has pulled down a 50-year-old piece of legislation off a shelf and used it to warn the mum she is writing to."
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Fergus Finlay: I read a letter from a public servant to a parent. I can't remember the last time I was so shocked
I’ve met many parents who struggled, for all sorts of reasons, to be the parent they wanted to be. But I've never met one who benefited from a lecture from a civil servant
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February 17, 2026 at 10:27 AM
"This public servant has pulled down a 50-year-old piece of legislation off a shelf and used it to warn the mum she is writing to."
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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More than 10,000 works were stolen by russia from the Kherson Regional Art Museum during the occupation.
Last week, I visited an exhibition featuring art prints of some of the stolen pieces.
You’ve already seen a few of them in my letter.
Here’s a short video.
Last week, I visited an exhibition featuring art prints of some of the stolen pieces.
You’ve already seen a few of them in my letter.
Here’s a short video.
February 17, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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#RAWISE
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#Land_of_a_Thousand_Hills
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#Rwanda_Women_in_STEM
#RAWISE
#Rwanda
#Land_of_a_Thousand_Hills
February 16, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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This year at the Munich Security Conference vs. Last year at the Munich Security Conference
February 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM
This year at the Munich Security Conference vs. Last year at the Munich Security Conference
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I was really troubled by this Atlantic piece. It was presented as reporting, but it seems more accurate to describe it as speculative fiction based on reporting. It seems like a bizarre choice for a journalistic institution to make. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig on her “hypothetical,” heavily reported measles essay
"We were attracted to the idea of providing a play-by-play of the progression of measles in granular detail."
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February 15, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I was really troubled by this Atlantic piece. It was presented as reporting, but it seems more accurate to describe it as speculative fiction based on reporting. It seems like a bizarre choice for a journalistic institution to make. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
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For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.
Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel.
February 15, 2026 at 12:05 AM
For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.
Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel.
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
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Global ecosystem collapse is a real prospect. An appropriate response would be for us to restore our own ecosystems and diversify our food production.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Pádraic Fogarty: Ecosystem collapse is real and is happening here now
Ireland can breeze through the collapse of our own ecosystems because of the stabilising effect of much larger ecosystems elsewhere. Now those ecosystems too are at risk of collapse, due principally t...
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February 15, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Global ecosystem collapse is a real prospect. An appropriate response would be for us to restore our own ecosystems and diversify our food production.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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There’s serious social, environmental and personal implications to family farms disappearing from the landscape. They haven’t been devised as policies, so much as commercially driven. “Go big or get out” is not an aspiration now so much as as explanation for departing.
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The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.
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February 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
There’s serious social, environmental and personal implications to family farms disappearing from the landscape. They haven’t been devised as policies, so much as commercially driven. “Go big or get out” is not an aspiration now so much as as explanation for departing.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Went to see To Kill a Mockingbird in the Bord Gais today. Great production, powerful. Last thing I saw there was Hamilton. Both very focused on American democracy and justice…
February 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Went to see To Kill a Mockingbird in the Bord Gais today. Great production, powerful. Last thing I saw there was Hamilton. Both very focused on American democracy and justice…
Really looking forward to interviewing Katriona O’Sullivan at the Cork World Book Festival. Tickets here corkworldbookfest.com/events/katri...
February 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Really looking forward to interviewing Katriona O’Sullivan at the Cork World Book Festival. Tickets here corkworldbookfest.com/events/katri...
If you have a drone and you want to fly it in Cork you definitely need to listen to this..
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A battle for the skies, with Emer Walsh
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February 13, 2026 at 6:21 PM
If you have a drone and you want to fly it in Cork you definitely need to listen to this..
open.spotify.com/episode/45mS...
open.spotify.com/episode/45mS...
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It’s not a new principle that you don’t stay friends with someone you know is a pedophile. I wouldn’t stop being friends with them because I feared guilt by association. I’d stop being friends either them because they are a pedophile.
I wonder why the right needs to do these mental gymnastics… 🤔
I wonder why the right needs to do these mental gymnastics… 🤔
February 12, 2026 at 9:00 PM
It’s not a new principle that you don’t stay friends with someone you know is a pedophile. I wouldn’t stop being friends with them because I feared guilt by association. I’d stop being friends either them because they are a pedophile.
I wonder why the right needs to do these mental gymnastics… 🤔
I wonder why the right needs to do these mental gymnastics… 🤔
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These pricks making me go to bat for Popes
Newly released files by the U.S. Department of Justice show that convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein and former Trump aide Steve Bannon discussed strategies to undermine Pope Francis.
Epstein files reveal ties to Catholic conservatives' anti-Francis campaign
The newly released Epstein files show that Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon discussed opposition to Pope Francis, including a move that Bannon claimed would ‘take down Francis.’
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February 12, 2026 at 6:32 PM
These pricks making me go to bat for Popes
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Peter Thiel, the talk: "I’m sort of always in favor of maximal free speech."
Palantir, the walk: sues Republik Magazine after it publishes an investigation into Palantir's activities in Switzerland.
Palantir, the walk: sues Republik Magazine after it publishes an investigation into Palantir's activities in Switzerland.
February 12, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Peter Thiel, the talk: "I’m sort of always in favor of maximal free speech."
Palantir, the walk: sues Republik Magazine after it publishes an investigation into Palantir's activities in Switzerland.
Palantir, the walk: sues Republik Magazine after it publishes an investigation into Palantir's activities in Switzerland.
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