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PATRICIA SCANLAN Author @patriciascanlan.bsky.social · 10h

Great reads in my Oct #BookClubPicks
irelandsbigissue.com All Subscriptions welcome. #AHandUpNotAHandout
🙏 @itakennedy.bsky.social @juliakellywrites.bsky.social @newislandbooks.bsky.social #JoNesbo @rfkuang.bsky.social #HugoHamilton #HachetteIrl #DagogoHart #AnitaSchmidt #SophieMorris #GillBooks

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 12h

Writing novels is very hard, and everyone who finishes writing one deserves praise and accolades purely for that accomplishment.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Richard Nicholls @richardnicholls.net · 18h

Day 287 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Pablo Rochat is an artist who turns everyday ideas into witty magic

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Declan @extramelt.com · 17h

more like The Lads (No Craic) wha

Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1d

An acquaintance was showing me a funny video on his phone yesterday and I noticed that his WhatsApp had two interestingly-named groupchats:

The Lads
The Lads (No Declan)

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 17h

Woohoo! 🦔

GardeningWell @gardeningwell.ie · 17h

The randomly selected winner of the hedgehog house is @susanlanigan.bsky.social . Congratulations.
Folks, these are available from many sources, Get yours now and give those hedgehogs somewhere to hibernate over winter. If you want to reduce the slugs in your garden, hedgehogs are your only man.

GardeningWell @gardeningwell.ie · 11d

Hedgehog House Giveaway

Hedgehogs are looking for safe places to hibernate now. A shelter in your garden could save a life this winter.

I’m giving away this hedgehog house.

To enter: like, repost & tag a friend.

More tips 👉 gardeningwell.ie/climate-action/wildlife-gardening/irish-hedgehogs

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 17h

Yikes!

Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 17h

Heather Hunphries - Puffin Killer #Aras25

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 17h

She facilitated two weeks of filming on Skellig Michael for the Star Wars movies, during the height of the breeding season for the resident seabirds, despite objections from An Taisce and other environmental groups. Chicks from vulnerable species were blown into the sea by helicopter #spéirgorm 5/n

Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 17h

Also in one of those odd little messages from the universe, @gardeningwell.ie have been in touch to let me know I won a hedgehog box.

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 18h

Sorry, Carrie. Glad you can at least get it. I hope there will be better chances one day.

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 18h

I’m probably more centrist in my outlook in that I prefer an imperfect start to nothing getting done at all. But this article just strikes me as a huge sulk.

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 19h

I do not regret the decision to enter coalition government. It was the one way we could get things done. But the constant attempts to keep ppl in line so that we could appease those with views such as the above were energy sapping. I’m glad Roderic is taking a broader course.

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 19h

Speaking as a *current* Green Party member, the flaw in the “why don’t you stick to the environment” canard is, pace Greta Thunberg, you cannot honour the environment if you don’t see your neighbour as human. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly

Party’s decision to support Connolly’s presidential campaign only deepened my concerns about its current direction

www.irishtimes.com

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 1d

Anton Savage, head of the highly influential Communications Clinic and someone who by his own admission has threatened to sue for defamation in the past, seems a strange target for complaints about censorship…just saying.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 1d

Comedian Mario Rosenstock has called out what he said is 'censorship' at RTÉ, saying that he feels the broadcaster is 'financially compromised'
www.thejournal.ie/mario-rosens...

Mario Rosenstock calls out 'censorship' at RTÉ

Rosenstock was speaking in an interview with Newstalk’s Anton Savage yesterday.

www.thejournal.ie

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh, that sucks. I think I can guess the chain too. I hope you get great sales in independent shops to compensate.

Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 1d

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year.

Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

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Oliver Moran @oliver.ie · 2d

Brilliantly up-front piece by Geraldine Herbert on the culture-war driven U-turn on road safety by Micheál Martin's new government with the "Rural Independents".

Bottom line: "The original vision of a consistent, national approach has been replaced by a fragmented and much slower process."

Auto advice: Why speed limits are slow to change despite Government recommendations

What changes were recommended by The Speed Limit Review?

www.independent.ie

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 1d

Final draft of The Planter's Daughter ebook and paperback uploaded to all outlets today (with updated epigraph thanks to Micheal Martin!) Just got to do the cover. If you are local and available, please come to the launch

www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...

Book Launch - The Planter's Daughter

Join us for the exciting book launch of "The Planter's Daughter" - a gripping crime novel about eco-activism and ancient feuds in West Cork

www.eventbrite.ie

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 2d

I'm just getting the final proofs ready for my eco-crime novel The Planter's Daughter and I've overhauled the epigraph - this quote is going in, and one other.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 5d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 26d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 26d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 5d

Really minor in the grand scheme of things, but Heather Humphreys claiming credit for hot school meals must come as news to Pauline O'Reilly and the Green Party

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 3d

From what little I’ve had the stomach to read about that man, it sounds like this belongs in the “oh dear, how sad, never mind” category.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 3d

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after attack in prison

Paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison.

news.sky.com

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 3d

I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 6d

Launch of The Planter's Daughter! Free, but booking required
www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...

Book Launch - The Planter's Daughter

Join us for the exciting book launch of "The Planter's Daughter" - a gripping crime novel about eco-activism and ancient feuds in West Cork

www.eventbrite.ie

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 3d

Working through Aoife Martin's suggestions now for the final edit. Tweaking, revising, working. It really helps to have her wisdom as I move through the narrative and ground myself in the character a bit more.

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 3d

I did not think this would make waves but the leader of the county basically just said climate action is pointless and it's only featured in one newspaper with the lead buried.

Is he seen as such a lame duck after last week? Or does no TD and noone else in the media think it's worth highlighting?

Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 4d

Ireland's Taoiseach (prime minister), has just shockingly said: “I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change" but it somehow didn't even make the headline: www.independent.ie/business/tec... @michaelemann.bsky.social

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 3d

Had an actual builder fixing scaffolding quote that one at me 🙂

Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

‘Masons, when they start upon a building,
Are careful to test out the scaffolding.’

Listen to Seamus Heaney read ‘Scaffolding’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNYB...

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 3d

In that case, she definitely has my vote. Totally sick of that song.

Denise Murray/Donnacha Ní Mhuireadhaigh @mousketeer.bsky.social · 3d

Catherine Connolly stepped out when she should have stepped in again. Completely ruining Lanigan's Ball.
#SmearTheBejazuz #SpéirGhorm