can anyone share an example of a *really* well-written news article they've seen recently? it must be suitable for someone under 18 to read and ideally not be related to a depressing theme like war. i am trying to gather a few bits to help leaving cert students i am working with
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A silvery grey liquid forms the word "CRONE" on a pale grey background. The text is rotated in the image.
On Saturday 7 March, Ormston House partners with STARLING to curate a programme of film, workshop, and live performance entitled The Crone, in celebration of International Women’s Day, 2026.
Admission is free and all are welcome. Booking is not necessary and audiences can join at any point.
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We offer tiered membership options at A4 Sounds to suit artists who may be on lower incomes or do not have a need for a dedicated workspace, but may need access to facilities, professional development supports and/or a community of peers.
🚨Don't forget that our National Women's Basketball team is to play Israel on *St. Patrick’s Day*. Take action to ask Basketball Ireland not to play the apartheid state and to respect the Palestinian boycott call.
#BDS #BanIsrael
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Open until Thursday in @thedigitalhub.bsky.social!
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Workshop | Photopolymer and Carborundum with Elke Thonnes at Graphic Studio DublinThis immersive 3-day workshop offers a unique opportunity to explore two compelling and contrasting intaglio printmaking techniques: Photopolymer Etching and Carborundum Printing.
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Who is this event for?
Anyone who wants to listen to and/or learn and practice how to tell stories.
The event is open to all but prioritizes the comfort and needs of disabled and queer folks.
Find out more here: a4sounds.org/the-rookery-...
Thursday! Allianz House, Merrion Road, 12pm. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese issued a report in July 2025 which identified Allianz as one of the corporations profiting from the Israeli economy of illegal occupation, apartheid, and now genocide. The GAA must #DropAllianz #FreePalestine
03.03.2026 11:53 — 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Their influences include Growler, Tom Waits, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and the local crows.
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A black and white print depicting a hill and flowers. It says "if the bombs feel far away, press your ear to the ground. the whole earth cries for justice."
By Coyote Snout:
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Fáin studied Irish Folklore at UCD, laboured in the story mines of The National Leprechaun Museum, and has produced various multi-media projects including podcasts, audio-dramas, Alternative Reality Games and video essays. Often involving weird little puppets.
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The BDS movement applauds activists who took part in the #StopFANUCnow global day of action and calls for continued public pressure worldwide on FANUC to stop supplying Elbit with robots — and end its complicity in genocide.
Read our full round-up ➡️ loom.ly/MUTH1JU
They love to discuss the bizarre, the subversive and the deviant while creating an atmosphere of comfort, safety and comradery.
03.03.2026 13:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"In a UK survey of over 4,000 trans people, TransActual found that 99% say media coverage has harmed their mental health, 99% have heard politicians express transphobic views, and many have been refused non-transition healthcare simply for being trans."
transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-...
Hog & Dice @hoganddice.bsky.social
Once described as being like “a lovely loaf of fresh baked bread served at a satanic orgy” Fáin is an oral storyteller with a multidisciplinary background.
Your risk of clots is over 30 times higher after any COVID infection but much of the media doesn’t talk about this. It talks about the very small risk from vaccines. This is a very skewered narrative. www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
03.03.2026 11:22 — 👍 76 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 0This tradition and this art was once the province of the marginalised, who now find ourselves excluded all too often, join us in reclaiming it.
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Just an insane lie to tell about a psychotic warmonger who's been preaching the racist elimination of Palestinians for half a century.
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Storytellers at every level, from fledglings to old crows are invited to join our Rookery every month at A4 sounds to swap stories, develop their craft and find community in an inclusive and accessible environment that centres the queer and the disabled.
a4sounds.org/shop/the-roo...
The collective noun for Rooks is a Storytelling, so it follows that the collective noun for Storytellers must be a Rookery.
02.03.2026 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Our second session of The Rookery Stories is happening tomorrow!
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THE ROOKERY STORIES
Storytelling sessions with Hog & Dice
Tue 3rd Mar | 6:30pm - 8:30pm(ish)
a4sounds.org/the-rookery-...
"This division of people into the living, who are grievable, and the unliving, who are not (whether they be currently alive or dead), combined with the effects of a cis-supremacist society, relegates trans people to an underclass, an unpersonhood."
I am writing. It feels very heavy, today.
She is the co-founder of Self Care Craft Club, a social craft initiative to tackle social isolation in communities.
You can read more about Ellen’s work by visiting her website ellenfagan.com and via her profile on our website.
1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads!
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One week left to apply!
#SpeirGorm
Applicants should be committed to the ongoing development of their practices.
02.03.2026 12:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
screenshot of a news headline: "Israel strikes Lebanon after Iran ally Hezbollah fires missiles over border".
, also before
02.03.2026 12:19 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Open until Thursday in @thedigitalhub.bsky.social!
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Studying Fine Art Sculpture at the University of the Arts London and holding an M.Phil in the History of Art and Architecture from Trinity College Dublin, her practice in recent years has focused on socially engaged art.
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What kinds of artists are we looking for?
We welcome applications from artists working in a wide range of disciplines at all stages in their careers (recent graduates to established artists).
Apply here: a4sounds.org/join-us/
