Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸
@kieranoconnor.com
Rushbrooke, Cork, Ireland. Mostly here for the mainstream media. Occasional reposts. Almost no original content. https://donate.unrwa.org/-landing-page/en_EN
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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Advent by Patrick Kavanagh
We have tested and tasted too much, lover –
Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.
We have tested and tasted too much, lover –
Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Advent by Patrick Kavanagh
We have tested and tasted too much, lover –
Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.
We have tested and tasted too much, lover –
Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.
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What a shocker. Agriculture minister who’s also a livestock farmer thinks livestock farmers should be free to continue to pour shit into our waterways with impunity, all the while pocketing taxpayer subsidies. This is his “ambition”.
What a country we live in.
www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid...
What a country we live in.
www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid...
Agriculture minister says it's his 'ambition' to secure future derogation deals for Ireland
Martin Heydon said securing derogation deals for Ireland post 2028 was his 'ambition' for the future
www.irishexaminer.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
What a shocker. Agriculture minister who’s also a livestock farmer thinks livestock farmers should be free to continue to pour shit into our waterways with impunity, all the while pocketing taxpayer subsidies. This is his “ambition”.
What a country we live in.
www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid...
What a country we live in.
www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid...
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An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Christmas in Cork
December 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Christmas in Cork
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From @rafiamahli.com in response: bidoun.org/articles/hou...
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
bidoun.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
From @rafiamahli.com in response: bidoun.org/articles/hou...
Read this: bidoun.org/articles/hou...
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
bidoun.org
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Read this: bidoun.org/articles/hou...
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December 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Trump and Netanyahu want to kill @unrwa.org , but most governments see it as essential to sustain the lives of Palestinian civilians under Israeli assault. The UN General Assembly votes overwhelming to renew UNRWA's mandate for three years, by a vote of 151 to 10.
December 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Trump and Netanyahu want to kill @unrwa.org , but most governments see it as essential to sustain the lives of Palestinian civilians under Israeli assault. The UN General Assembly votes overwhelming to renew UNRWA's mandate for three years, by a vote of 151 to 10.
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Pay farmers NOT to have sheep, and many would jump at the chance to do the right thing.
But farming is their livelihood, so it won't happen otherwise.
*Society* has to do the right thing by nature, and give farmers the option of letting it come back, instead of killing it off.
But farming is their livelihood, so it won't happen otherwise.
*Society* has to do the right thing by nature, and give farmers the option of letting it come back, instead of killing it off.
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Pay farmers NOT to have sheep, and many would jump at the chance to do the right thing.
But farming is their livelihood, so it won't happen otherwise.
*Society* has to do the right thing by nature, and give farmers the option of letting it come back, instead of killing it off.
But farming is their livelihood, so it won't happen otherwise.
*Society* has to do the right thing by nature, and give farmers the option of letting it come back, instead of killing it off.
Thanks for the splendid art @ciaraioch.bsky.social. It’ll be going to a good home, possibly not too far from you xK
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Thanks for the splendid art @ciaraioch.bsky.social. It’ll be going to a good home, possibly not too far from you xK
Thanks for the splendid art @ciaraioch.bsky.social. It’ll be going to a good home, possibly not too far from you xK
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Thanks for the splendid art @ciaraioch.bsky.social. It’ll be going to a good home, possibly not too far from you xK
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Today is #InternationalDayOfPeopleWithDisabilities and we’re celebrating by sharing Ferris Wheel by Rosaleen Moore, a work depicting a familiar scene on Grand Parade at Christmas time. Rosaleen is a member of Crawford Supported Studios., a sustained creative environment that centres disabled people.
December 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Today is #InternationalDayOfPeopleWithDisabilities and we’re celebrating by sharing Ferris Wheel by Rosaleen Moore, a work depicting a familiar scene on Grand Parade at Christmas time. Rosaleen is a member of Crawford Supported Studios., a sustained creative environment that centres disabled people.
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If you're old enough to remember a million people on the streets protesting Britain's rubber-stamping of Bush's illegal war, and Tony Blair's response - 'a million isn't that many, really' - you won't be surprised by anything happening in 2025.
As a now old man I recall my incredulity when the Serious People admitted that the Iraq war was based on a series of lies, but then went to “of course, there is no way we could have known at the time.”
Hundreds of thousands of people were in the street telling you so at the time. How did they know?
Hundreds of thousands of people were in the street telling you so at the time. How did they know?
December 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
If you're old enough to remember a million people on the streets protesting Britain's rubber-stamping of Bush's illegal war, and Tony Blair's response - 'a million isn't that many, really' - you won't be surprised by anything happening in 2025.
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This is major.
Today 15 brave smallholder Kenyan farmers who appealed a Seed Act which criminalised them for saving,sharing&selling their own seeds won their case in the High Court.
Glad that my PhD findings were submitted in this case and assisted in the win.Here's a video of it!
drive.google.com/file/d/1amIf...
Glad that my PhD findings were submitted in this case and assisted in the win.Here's a video of it!
drive.google.com/file/d/1amIf...
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is major.
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We (the “developed” nations) need to either choose bikes, transit, and infill development — or cataclysmic change to habitability on the planet.
Change our lifestyle, or it will be changed for us.
Those are the only two choices.
Change our lifestyle, or it will be changed for us.
Those are the only two choices.
Going after the last 5% of electricity supply CO2 reduction without reducing transportation emissions is lunacy.
I worry about mining for EV batteries, too.
But we can have a better quality of life if we substitute private cars for bikes, transit, infill development
I worry about mining for EV batteries, too.
But we can have a better quality of life if we substitute private cars for bikes, transit, infill development
Good figure from a recent ESIG report showing how marginal abatement costs in the electric sector start out low but increase sharply as you approach zero emissions.
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We (the “developed” nations) need to either choose bikes, transit, and infill development — or cataclysmic change to habitability on the planet.
Change our lifestyle, or it will be changed for us.
Those are the only two choices.
Change our lifestyle, or it will be changed for us.
Those are the only two choices.
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"OVER 80% OF badgers culled by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM) tested negative for TB, The Journal Investigates can reveal." #Ireland #SpéirGhorm
Over 80% of badgers culled in government TB programme found to be free from the disease
More than 8,000 badgers destroyed by DAFM in a nation-wide crackdown to eradicate bovine tuberculosis were found to be infection free following post-mortems.
www.thejournal.ie
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"OVER 80% OF badgers culled by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM) tested negative for TB, The Journal Investigates can reveal." #Ireland #SpéirGhorm
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Just adding to the “please read this” comments.
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Just adding to the “please read this” comments.
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I live in (what I think I'm correct in saying is) the most diverse constituency in the whole country - Dublin Central, D1 - *and* I'm old enough to remember what this place was like before significant immigration, and the idea that immigration hasn't been good for this country is fucking laughable
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I live in (what I think I'm correct in saying is) the most diverse constituency in the whole country - Dublin Central, D1 - *and* I'm old enough to remember what this place was like before significant immigration, and the idea that immigration hasn't been good for this country is fucking laughable
Why Rest Is Not Lazy: The Truth About Resilience | Hilary Rose | TEDxTraleeWomen
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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November 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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The Irish State is dumping €450 million of wind energy a year, despite 29% of households suffering fuel poverty, because 'there's no market'.
If you're struggling to get your head around that, it's called capitalism.
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If you're struggling to get your head around that, it's called capitalism.
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Up to €2.7m worth of energy ‘wasted’ every day by State, committee told
Wind farms wound down or shut down at night while households are in fuel poverty, says energy charity chief
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November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The Irish State is dumping €450 million of wind energy a year, despite 29% of households suffering fuel poverty, because 'there's no market'.
If you're struggling to get your head around that, it's called capitalism.
share.google/k9gHug8xaazA...
If you're struggling to get your head around that, it's called capitalism.
share.google/k9gHug8xaazA...