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“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

Graphic reading Online Fundraiser for MAP Medical Aid for Palestinians. Irish KidLit for Palestine. August 4th to August 17th 2025. ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine

If you are... A teacher/educator A librarian/bookseller A parent/guardian An author/illustrator Someone who wants to write or illustrate for young readers A children's/YA literature enthusiast Then this fundraiser has something for you

School visits, manuscript critiques, and information webinars Beneath this text is a selection of author/illustrator headshots, including Dave Rudden, Oisín McGann, Eve McDonnell, Juliette Saumande, Tarsila Krüse, and others

A selection of book covers from authors/artists like Chris Haughton, Olivia Hope, Deirdre Sullivan, Pádraig Kenny, and more. The words 'Books and Artwork' appear in the centre of the image

The Irish KidLit for Palestine Fundraiser in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians is on! Link: www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine.

You can find lots of bookish items available in return for donations to MAP (www.map.org.uk).

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Ruth and Sinéad (me!)

Cannot believe the Sinéad O’Connor essay collection only has one Irish written piece in it? No offence at all but my level of interest in it has plummeted..

At this rate Cam Norrie will be a New Zealander again by dinner time

Nothing less endearing than the way Wimbledon crowds treat anyone playing the British players. Cheer your own, fine, but cheering a mishit or double fault is asshole behaviour.

Garda impersonated colleague online to encourage men to come to her home and rape her Shane Flanagan pretended to be the woman on a fetish website and shared her name, address and photos in order for men to come to her home and rape her.

‘Counsel said a protective factor is “the absence of hostility to women”’.

Would hate to see what he’d do if he was feeling hostile so.

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The underlying principles here are hardly controversial. We have agreed, as societies, that intellectual property should be protected. It is right that people should benefit from their labour. So, it is also right that the businesses that develop and publish books, music, films and so forth should benefit from their work. Moreover, it is not only right, but economically beneficial. It creates economic value. If companies wish to benefit from the creativity of others, they should pay them. That is why civilised countries recognise copyright.

It amazes me that all this is debatable.

If you are so taxed by work you need help just to write an email; if you have such a high volume of tasks that you need to shortcut oversight; if you desire to read great books but can't find time to do it – these are problems that are not gonna be solved by AI tools, but perpetuated by them.

Going to go wild and say if there are 70,000 tickets maybe number 646,000 in the queue should just be told to go back to their day and not waste their time on it

I really, really love Dearbhail McDonald on radio and wish it was a weekly thing

Screenshot from an article in The Journal that reads: "Online abuse Thousands of images of Irish women and girls uploaded to site containing sexual threats Gardaí have been urged to investigate the forum, which includes pictures of underage girls taken from both private and public social media accounts." Published 2 Jun 2025 #Ireland #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm

"They appeared on [...] Reddit in an Irish subgroup which encourages its 3,200+ members to “trade” images of “IRL girls” for sexual gratification [...] images include teenagers in their school uniforms, alongside their names, ages and locations."

Never, ever ends.

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Never underestimate just how much shit simple laziness causes for the world.

Man avoids jail after three-year campaign of coercive control of wife The victim was subjected to verbal abuse, financial control, and physical assaults over a three-year period.

Suspended sentence for terrorising his wife for years. Can you guess the judge before you click? www.thejournal.ie/man-avoids-j...

Feeling a really deep sadness about Gaza tonight. Which may be sparked towards pure rage if I see another peep about that F’ing song show

They’ve called off the Munster final instead of letting women play in shorts. What a time to be alive.

Stop everything and ignore the bit where I’ve been out of the movie news loop forever. They’re (finally) making a film version of the Long Walk? I will now enter the dark place known as “fear of the film version”

See now I think *you* might be trying to stir…

Not asking to stir (really) - is there anyone not catholic on the RTÉ panel? In the name of balance like

Not me getting emotional at the Munster final teams agreeing to wear shorts and consequences bedamned. Tells you a little something about how this isn’t a trivial issue for any of them.

Why isn’t there a best dressed man competition at any of the horse racing events. Are men not equally entitled to be applauded for putting together a lovely outfit with a nice hat? What am I missing…

We're delighted to announce details of a new residential fiction workshop at Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre, Wales, with Mia Gallagher and Yan Ge, presented with Literature Wales.

Applications are now open and close Thursday May 29th at 5pm Irish time.
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Read these articles. But, respectful suggestion, not all at once.

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

#Speirgorm May he finally Rest in Peace a most courageous kind man who spoke for many.

Tá meantóirí deonacha Gaeilge fós á lorg againn ag Fighting Words le cabhrú linn ceardlanna a reáchtáil! Ní gá go mbeadh tú líofa le hobair linn, tá míle fáilte romhaibh foghlaimeoirí fásta freisin 🫶🏾 Má spéis leat, le do thoil bí i dteagmháil! ✨️

‘My son was killed in front of my eyes. Three bullets in his chest’: Patrick Freyne in Chad’s desert camps An unforgiving conflict between rival military factions has killed 150,000 people. Another 12 million people are displaced, many fleeing to a huge desert camp in eastern Chad. Photographs by Chris Mad...

There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad.
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Like the rest of ye I am in bits.

Golf is not a relaxing sport to watch

I want to relax and watch Rory and hope that he can relax but instead I am a ball of stress marvelling at his apparently relatively relaxed state

Pour one out for Madmartigan, fellow nerds.