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Patrick Brannigan
@patrickjmb.bsky.social
In Choirs; on board of Housing Rights NI, worked at QUB Belfast
An Dún/music/nature/whatever resonates....
Pinned
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...
BLOG: Gestetner to Office 365: Looking back on my time at Queen's
www.qub.ac.uk
Barry Kerr’s "Curlew's Cry” has been shortlisted for “Folk album of the year” for 2025 in Ireland and Britain.
One for #BandCampFriday - Friday 5th Dec

#SpéirGhorm

barrykerr1.bandcamp.com/album/curlew...
Curlew's Cry, by Barry Kerr
10 track album
barrykerr1.bandcamp.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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If anyone in Northern Ireland is looking for a great Christmas event for kids who don’t like a lot of noise or crowds, @downrail.bsky.social have a handful of places left on their Lapland Express ‘Quiet Train’ on Saturday 29th November. Details here:

www.downrail.co.uk/2025/10/lapl...
Lapland Express: Quiet Train 2025 - Downpatrick and County Down Railway
If you want to travel on our Lapland Express trains to meet Santa, Mrs Claus and the Elves but you have someone in your group who doesn’t respond well to crowds, music and other loud noises, you can n...
www.downrail.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Why have so many of us stopped posting on social media? Time spent on social media platforms peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline. By Aoife Ryan-Christensen with insights from Constance de Saint Laurent @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why have so many people stopped posting on social media?
Time spent on social media platforms peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline, especially among teens and twentysomethings
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Nice account by Mary Carolan of David Hanly's memorial service.

#SpéirGhorm

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
David Hanly was ‘unique’ broadcaster and man of ‘integrity’, memorial service told
Morning Ireland presenter ‘sought to see news stories in a broader context’, former colleague says
www.irishtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Obituary: actor Jack Shepherd from Leeds. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Jack Shepherd obituary
Versatile actor, director and playwright who found television fame in the detective series Wycliffe
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Leadership is required to bring about the exodus from Twitter of so many organisations, bodies, analysts, and influencers of good faith. There are substantive organisations still using the debased man's channel.

I suspect a minority of Irish social media users are here on Bluesky.

#SpéirGhorm
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Analog Devices International is sending parts from its Limerick factory to the Israel Defense Forces' largest weapons supplier

The IDA gave it €85 million last year

Its microchips were recently found in Russian weapons used to attack Ukraine

www.ontheditch.com/state-backed...
State-backed company supplying parts to Israeli arms firm
It got an €85 million grant from the IDA last year.
www.ontheditch.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I know who Nus Ghani MP is - not because we always agree - but because she’s been serving her constituency (as well as lewks) since 2015.

Who the hell is Lucy White?!

Ah, a quick google search reveals her as a rentagob for GB ‘news.’

I know which one is qualified to chair the budget debate.
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Not the ‘UK’ folks. The right to a jury trial was abolished here in the north of Ireland years ago. The imperial boomerang at work
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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The Kneecap effect - gatekeepers of minority languages need to loosen their grip and let language live.

Yesterday I learnt that the first Irish-Irish dictionary (monolingual) was published THIS year!

#GaelicRevival #AthbheochannaGaeilge

www.irishcentral.com/no-english-a...
‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen
What does it mean to lose a language, and what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently, says freelance writer Stephen Burgen
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
This a good listen
Of the 7,000 languages estimated to exist, half will have disappeared by the end of this century. That’s the stark warning from the Director of the Endangered Languages Archive, Mandana Seyfeddinipur. One of the guests.
#SpéirGhorm
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Some of our Antrim Soprano 2s have been leaning Irish and are thrilled with their Cúpla Focal badges.
#SpéirGhorm
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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#Sudan: We call on the RSF to protect health facilities and staff, following the death of a Ministry of Health colleague during a shooting at Zalingei hospital.

For the second time this year, we have withdrawn staff to ensure their safety.

ow.ly/O8VW50XxNcx
Sudan: MSF calls for protection of health facilities and staff after health worker killed | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
MSF calls for protection of health workers and facilities after a colleague was killed at Zalingei Hospital in Central Darfur, disrupting care.
ow.ly
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
#Heron, spot, head in the water, eat. Success!
River Lagan

#Belfast
#SpéirGhorm
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Katherine Butler - a nun who was one of the first women in Ireland with a pilot's license

Gráinne Cronin - First woman to fly for Aer Lingus

Madeleine O'Rourke - Dedicated her life to flying, first women to fly a microlight in Ireland and recognised by the FAI for contribution to Irish aviation.
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.

Any counteroffers?
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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🪧 New apartments for sale

Manchester 2-bed
£299,995 (€341,000)

Belfast 2-bed
£189,950 (€216,000)

.. & yet according to Dept of Housing urban apartments cost €535,198 to deliver in Dublin 🧐
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Can a political journalist ask the DUP why they are (correctly) stripping this man's name off of street signs and yet continue to get selfies with Trump, who is accused of doing the exact same thing as this man?
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#Heron, spot, head in the water, eat. Success!
River Lagan

#Belfast
#SpéirGhorm
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Moon: 24.8%
Waxing Crescent
Reflected on the River Lagan, 16:37
#Belfast
#SpéirGhorm
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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NIC ICTU Mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls 2025.

WHERE’S OUR SAFE LEAVE? RALLY FOR SAFE LEAVE: 25 NOVEMBER AT 12.30, OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, STORMONT.
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Sarah explains how she struggles to afford enough food and heat for her family as a result of four of her children being impacted by the two-child limit ⬇️
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"Face to face GP appointments are available to be booked each day at 11 am for that day two weeks ... In addition, we have phone access to a Duty Doctor for urgent on the day medical queries from 8.30am to 10.30am, if all allocated, you will be asked to ring back the next day".
I sense a big gap!
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"Rethinking the history of the last thirteen centuries, in 'Crucible of Light", Elizabeth Drayson pulls together the epic interwoven history of the Muslim and Christian worlds."
www.elizabethdraysonart.co.uk/books/
#Islam
#EuropeanHistory
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM