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Ciarán

@ciarand82.bsky.social

Living in county Kilkenny in Ireland

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Big Tech wins out over children's safety.

The neck of the government is unreal.
This was literally amended out of the government's 'excuse' because of Big Tech lobbying!

They're engaged in doublespeak in front of our eyes, trying to tell us they're 'dealing' with this.
They're not!

#SpéirGhorm

04.03.2026 16:02 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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Despite the hot air from government about protecting children, they've voted down our Bill to turn off the toxic algorithms.

These algorithms push toxic content promoting eating disorders, self harm, misogyny and hate.

Big Tech profits should not come before children's health.

04.03.2026 21:34 — 👍 33    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Costa Rica gets back to nature after decades of deforestation Paying farmers to swap cattle for conservation has helped sway the balance in biodiversity’s favour

"Ireland’s staggering lack of national ambition on nature, #climate is in marked contrast to Costa Rica, which despite having a fraction of our wealth, has been able to meet fundamental needs of its citizens while respecting nature."

My piece in Irish Times today

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

05.03.2026 08:59 — 👍 49    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 0
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Costa Rica gets back to nature after decades of deforestation Paying farmers to swap cattle for conservation has helped sway the balance in biodiversity’s favour

Where Ireland has failed, Costa Rica has succeeded ... and then some!

A worthwhile read from @thinkorswim.bsky.social

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

05.03.2026 08:51 — 👍 29    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1
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Tommy Robinson, rape campaigner -unless you're white | Searchlight Tommy Robinson interviews Russell Brand Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has built a career on weaponising sexual violence allegations ...

Tommy Robinson has built a career on weaponising sexual violence allegations against Muslim men.

So it is worth pausing to examine what he does when the accused rapist is white, famous, and a useful ally.

Read more here:

searchlightmagazine.com/2026/03/tomm...

04.03.2026 01:43 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

I'm a palestinian with the right to a homeland & self determination not because my ancestors crawled out of the sea in ancient times onto the beach in yaffa as fully formed Palestinians.

I have a right to a homeland and self determination because i'm a human being.

04.03.2026 02:58 — 👍 691    🔁 119    💬 2    📌 3
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Israel kills several in strike on Lebanon's Baalbek <article data-history-node-id="434715" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-several-strike-lebanons-baalbek" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-several-strike-lebanons-baalbek" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel kills several in strike on Lebanon's Baalbek</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>An Israel air strike hit a four-storey residential building in the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon early on Wednesday, killing and injuring several.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israel kills several in strike on Lebanon's Baalbek - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-several-strike-lebanons-baalbek

04.03.2026 03:06 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

Israel struck a hotel in Hazmieh, where most of my family lives (everyone’s okay)

No idea about casualties yet.

They also killed at least 6 ppl in Aramoun and Saadiyat.

None of these 3 are ‘Hezbollah strongholds’ as media outlets like to call them

04.03.2026 03:37 — 👍 123    🔁 61    💬 2    📌 2
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Thousands of protected animals dying in tangle nets | Newstalk Thousands of protected marine animals including grey seals, dolphins, angel sharks and flapper sk...

I spoke to Sean Moncrieff about the unfolding disaster in our seas and why the Department of Agriculture especially needs to act

www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

03.03.2026 16:35 — 👍 29    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

We need the US out of Shannon airport. We need to end our complicity and our government's tacit support for these imperial warmongers. #USOutOfShannon

03.03.2026 18:10 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel will never miss an opportunity to annex another country’s land 😐

03.03.2026 11:40 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Drowning in plain sight: Thousands of sharks, skates, seals and dolphins are dying in tangle nets Critically endangered species are being killed in a rapidly expanding crayfish fishery, and the State has known the risks for decades, writes Pádraic Fogarty.

Why are thousands of rare and protected species drowning in fishing gear off the Irish coast, including in our only marine National Park?

jrnl.ie/6968217

01.03.2026 08:54 — 👍 53    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 0
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The Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment & Energy, released its report on the Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Strategic Gas Emergency Reserve bill, which aims to accelerate the development of a state-led Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility in Ireland.

Full response here: ow.ly/e3GT50Ynmqc

28.02.2026 09:29 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Monaghan Council launches major rewilding project at historic Elliott’s Farm The project will be formally launched on Wednesday, March 4 at 11am, with a public hedge‑planting demonstration planned for attendees.

Monaghan County Council’s use of public land as the centre of a community‑led meadow restoration project is exactly the kind of initiative that should be rolled out across the country through Ireland’s Nature Restoration Plan.
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01.03.2026 21:13 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

So, the president of European Commission, supposedly speaking on behalf of EU, hasn’t a single word of criticism for illegal US/Israeli attack on Iran, instead blaming Iran for trying to defend itself.

The same VDL cowardice we saw in #Gaza.

Small wonder the US treats Europe like a bad joke.

01.03.2026 19:47 — 👍 69    🔁 23    💬 3    📌 0
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‘The plane flew and started spraying’: Israel accused of poisoning Syrian farmland with chemicals Villagers report dying fields, damaged livestock and fears for their livelihoods

‘The plane flew and started spraying’: Israel accused of poisoning Syrian farmland with chemicals

www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

02.03.2026 06:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Climate Changemakers: The endangered species caught in the crossfire of a lucrative fishery Tangle net fishery is a type of fishing that uses vertical net panels, usually kept underwater for a period of one to 10 days. It is considered an effective and inexpensive fishing method with nets ri...

The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group wants an end to tangle netting

www.independent.ie/life/climate...

28.02.2026 11:22 — 👍 54    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 0
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I’m at the Dublin Mind Body Experience at the RDS today with the Irish Anti-Vivisection Society 🐰 raising awareness about animal experiments 🧫 in Irish labs 🧪

Over 112,000 non-consenting sentient beings are used in tests, much of it for Botox 💉, two thirds of which is for the cosmetics industry.

28.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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To make a statement about the illegal bombing of Iran by the US and Israel without mentioning that fact is tantamount to condoning it.

28.02.2026 22:51 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Headlines moved on quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names; no media profiles about their lives and aspirations. No smiling photos attached to quotes from mourning families.

How unfair that some dead are memorialised while others are relegated to ‘estimated casualties.’

01.03.2026 02:38 — 👍 467    🔁 188    💬 2    📌 8

Thanks for sharing. This is great news and would bring Ireland in line with almost all other EU countries. We have taken our medium sized dog on public transport in UK, France and Netherlands. When we moved back to Ireland, we couldn't believe this was not possible and we'd need a car to travel..

26.02.2026 14:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ireland v Israel game confirmed for Dublin’s Aviva Stadium in October FAI chief executive David Courell says security concerns around hosting Nations League fixture have been allayed by An Garda Síochána

Imagine playing sports with any other country engaged in mass ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide?

It stopped with apartheid South Africa, which wasn't even as bad.

*Full* boycott of Israel NOW: sports, cultural, academic, trade, and investment links.
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26.02.2026 08:14 — 👍 135    🔁 42    💬 5    📌 2
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“I may fall out of the chair onto the road” — video highlights impact of footpath parking The "real and often overlooked challenges caused by illegal and inconsiderate parking" is the theme of a new video launched by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, but that applies across the country. In the video, Duncan Byrne, a council staff member who uses a wheelchair, said: “I’ve encountered situations where a car is parked partially or fully on the path. In those situations, I’ve had to backtrack to a safe place to cross where there’s either a dip or a pedestrian crossing.

“I may fall out of the chair onto the road” — video highlights impact of footpath parking

The "real and often overlooked challenges caused by illegal and inconsiderate parking" is the theme of a new video launched by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, but that applies across the country. In…

23.02.2026 15:19 — 👍 46    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 4

Another weekend of carnage on Irish roads. 7 killed including a child out walking her dog in a hit and run at a ped crossing. The Irish government could take meaningful action to do something about it but would rather victim blame people for not wearing hi viz. It is so predictable and depressing.

23.02.2026 15:32 — 👍 134    🔁 16    💬 13    📌 0

The military is still just killing random people on boats in the Caribbean. No trials, no evidence. 137 kills so far

24.02.2026 02:38 — 👍 1500    🔁 597    💬 36    📌 13

"Struck by a car"

#AbsentDriver

23.02.2026 11:20 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Galway councillor claims RSA messaging amounts to ‘victim blaming’ – ‘Children are not killed because of a lack of high-vis vests’ A Galway councillor has called for a “no confidence” vote and a major overhaul of the Road Safety Authority (RSA), claiming its education campaigns place responsibility on vulnerable road users rather...

“Children are not killed because they're not wearing high-vis vests. Children are killed because people are speeding, they are inattentive, they are drink driving, they're on their mobile phones, or the design of our roads is not appropriate.” Cllr Alan Curran

www.independent.ie/regionals/ga...

23.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 113    🔁 40    💬 3    📌 3
Major traffic policing report: Inquiry team 'shocked' by lack of interest in job of some gardaí
The Garda Commissioner has said more needs to be done to tackle underperformance, as a significant cohort are “deliberately” ignoring offences.

Major traffic policing report: Inquiry team 'shocked' by lack of interest in job of some gardaí The Garda Commissioner has said more needs to be done to tackle underperformance, as a significant cohort are “deliberately” ignoring offences.

Zero progress on the findings of the Crowe Report which was published last year

23.02.2026 13:31 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
Girl (16) killed while walking dog in Navan hit-and-run named, as road death toll surges over weekend

Grim day leads to growing concern, with road deaths surpassing last year


Four road deaths in three separate accidents in three counties over the weekend

Girl (16) killed while walking dog in Navan hit-and-run named, as road death toll surges over weekend Grim day leads to growing concern, with road deaths surpassing last year Four road deaths in three separate accidents in three counties over the weekend

The online portal to submit dashcam footage of dangerous driving is delayed again.

The gov cancelled the camera enforcement pilot last year. The draft strategy to roll out camera enforcement around the country has been sitting on Minister @darraghobrientd.bsky.social's desk since May 2025.

23.02.2026 13:24 — 👍 50    🔁 26    💬 3    📌 1
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Endangered marine life is being caught in fishing nets, but it doesn’t need to be Nets used in the Irish fishing industry could be replaced by other types of fishing to preserve marine life.

Indiscriminate fishing resulting in wildlife wipeout, including in our only marine National Park

theconversation.com/endangered-m...

20.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 50    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1