Sheila Killian

So basis for #FineGael's barrel-scraping attack video on
Catherine Connolly is that as a barrister, she worked for clients she didn't choose.
Assume since this is now a bad thing, they'll be firing the ministers for health, justice & housing & all the other barrister TDs?

Global Sumud Flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann 2 October August 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the abduction of poet Sarah Clancy, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla. The flotilla was ...

here is the @irishpen.bsky.social statement on the Global Sumud Flotilla

irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...

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Don't forget to vote for your favourite independent bookshop here:

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Excited to announce that The Cork International Short Story Festival takes place from 15th - 18th October. All the details on the programme and how to book your tickets go to www.corkshortstory.net
#shortstory #corkevents #shortstoryfestival

We are recruiting a new Commissioning Editor for fiction. Like all Faber editors, they will publish with dynamism and creativity, sensitivity and bravery – apply by 7 September.

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ℹ️ If you're having difficulty filling out the expression of interest PDF for representation on the National Centre for Research & Remembrance panels/Special Advocate's Advisory Council, there's a Word version of the form on this page that's not flagged in the dept's email: www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Thanks so much! And timely, as today is the anniversary of Jimmy's death!
Really appreciate the note

@sheilakillian.bsky.social I’ve just finished reading Something bigger. It’s a fantastic read. Marcella and Jimmy will stay with me for a while.

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Folks, if any of you want to support a good cause while encouraging me to jump off a rugby stadium - well this is your moment!
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Image shows the text of "Though there are torturers" by Michael Coady from Oven Lane and Other Poems, 2014

Though there are torturers

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Folks, if any of you want to support a good cause while encouraging me to jump off a rugby stadium - well this is your moment!
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picture shows the writers included in Jellied Minds, short stroies from the From the Well short story competition, 2025

Delighted to have a story included in this anthology of long-listed entries to the @wcorklitfest.bsky.social Short Story competition. Great evening, lovely to meet some old friends and really great reading too

here's the end of the #heatwave on the #WildAtlanticWay with thunderstorms incoming. #Achill #fluich #Áileann

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Here's a shiny new #writing substack from none other than @kitdewaal.com - looking forward to this one! Subscribe, why don't you?

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It is, thanks. Hope the same for you!

Short story competitions June-December 2025 [UPDATED 7/5/25] Hello, just popping in briefly with an updated list of short story competitions for the second half of the year – there are quite a few closing on June 30 if you’re qui…

the great @anneoleary.bsky.social has a fabulous list of short story competitions closing in the next few months, here:
anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/s...

if you want a Nobel Peace Prize, surely getting nominated by someone the ICC wants to arrest for war crimes shouldn't help?

More than 160 academics call for ‘immediate halt’ to trade with Israel over conflict in Gaza Signatories from 11 universities describe response to October 7th, 2023 attacks by Hamas as ‘a well-televised genocide’

Thank you to the wonderful academics & policy makers calling for an Irish suspension of trade with Israel in order to help end the systematic bombing and starvation of the Gazan people

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
@pbresnihan.bsky.social
@seanmacr.bsky.social
@sheilakillian.bsky.social

YouTube video by Darren J. Prior 🔊 Over 160 Academics Urge Irish Government to Suspend Trade with Israel - Near FM (June 2025)

I got a soundbite today from Prof. @sheilakillian.bsky.social today on @nearfm.ie about this story in the news today:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhLt...

YouTube video by Cláir raidió "Ar Mhuin na Muice" @ Near FM 🔊 160+ acadóir ag Iarraidh ar an Rialtas Trádáil le hIosrael a chur ar Fionraí - Near FM (2025)

Giotán cainte faighte ag @darrenjprior.bsky.social le Dr. Nessa Ní Chasaide ar @nearfm.ie inniu:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRTZ...

Academics at 11 universities call for trade freeze with Israel over 'well-televised' genocide The group also argued it is 'morally repugnant' to enrich ourselves as a country 'by turning a blind eye to well-documented suffering in Gaza'

Urgent action called for

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

More than 160 academics call for ‘immediate halt’ to trade with Israel over conflict in Gaza Signatories from 11 universities describe response to October 7th, 2023 attacks by Hamas as ‘a well-televised genocide’

Academics and experts from 11 Irish universities calling for urgent action in the face of this well-televised genocide

Glad to be part of it.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

UL Creative writing winter school is an intensive 4-day, 3-night writing development retreat for mid-career writers. We're delighted that from this year, we offer one free place (The Patrick Kelly Winter School Bursary). Applications and details from me at sarah.moore@ul.ie
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Self-paced online courses Start your next chapter with self-paced online writing courses from National Centre for Writing.

lots of free short #writing courses here:
nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/academy/self...

Not all free, but lots are

"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

Canadian Association of University Teachers Issues US Travel Warning - Daily Nous The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), a federation of independent associations and trade unions representing university teachers and other academic professionals has advised academic...

“CAUT recommends that academics who fall into the following categories exercise particular caution…
• Those who have expressed negative opinions about the current U.S. administration or its policies” #Trumpland #Academia #HigherEducation dailynous.com/2025/04/15/c...

Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?

Irish #writers: here's a petition you can sign and spread from the Irish Writers Union, asking for action on Meta's copyright theft of written work.

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Competitions, submissions and other opportunities - Irish Writers Centre Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Writing courses, literary events, professional development for writers, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, playwriting.

A fine list of poetry, visual art and fiction competitions closing today or tomorrow here from the Irish Writers Centre, for anyone needing some Monday Motivation irishwriterscentre.ie/resources/co...

part of it for sure. And many care workers on lower salaries

Migrants more likely to be in work compared with Irish-born but face greater poverty, ESRI report finds Migrants are more likely to be working and well-educated compared with Irish-born people, but have lower incomes and suffer more from poverty, a new report has revealed.

Migrants more likely to be educated, working & facing poverty means they're taking poorly-paid jobs for which they're over-qualified, in an effort pay rent, tax and build a new life.

It's the opposite of stealing good jobs or sponging off the state.

www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...