Karen O’Connell

RIP - a great woman whose courageous challenge in the courts gave to Irish women the first steps towards control of their own reproductive bodies. Rest in power, Mrs McGee #speirgorm

All of this 👇🏻

"[T]rying to read votes covered in overt racism and ones that wrote-in Elvis Presley as making the same political point is simply not a credible narrative. And it shouldn't be given any credibility just because the people who want to make it do so standing on top of their very large handbags." ✅️

This was unique circumstances for spoiled vote: no anti-gov candidate anywhere on the right, loud online campaign, week of riots. It’s still going to end up with less than half the vote Peter Casey got as a similar protest. The “political earthquake” here is the thumping victory for the united left

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Nah - this guy is the epitome of heist cool

Israeli ceasefire

Vote Connolly....cause we can't. 💚

Last word on Jim Gavin-the former tenant & money story was important but his lack of answer/evasion around the #womenofhonour question is more revealing for me- both of Gavin & the media.The media ran with the money,the issue of violence against women,nothing, just ignored,typical #aras25 #speirgorm

🇮🇹 For the fourth straight day, Rome was flooded with protests for Gaza. Organizers said one million people marched on Sunday, October 5, from Porta San Paolo by the Pyramid of Cestius to Piazza San Giovanni. La Repubblica described it as a “human tide” — an endless procession still streaming past...

Lowry and McIlroy exhibit true greatness to win Ryder Cup epic in the Bethpage circus The Irish duo beat Justin Thomas and Cameron Young in an epic fourball tussle, enduring spiteful personal abuse from the crowd.

My piece, having followed Rory and Shane's hours-long public trial. I've never witnessed a better exhibition of quality and character in Irish sport. (free to read)

www.the42.ie/lowry-and-mc...

Orla Comerford and Greta Streimikyte strike gold for Ireland at World Para Athletics Championships Irish pair dominate finals on day two in New Delhi

Orla Comerford and Greta Streimikyte strike gold for Ireland at World Para Athletics Championships

Breaking

Terror charges against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh THROWN OUT

IMAGINE if Mary Lou was photographed with a twenty grand birkin handbag. The Irish Times letters page would be throbbing for weeks.

Just when you thought the lads couldn’t be any more insufferable #TraitorsIrl

Real shift in the dynamic as the audience switches from rooting for the traitors to rooting for the faithful #TraitorsIRL

Don’t forget Occupied Beara - that little bit of Kerry that extends into the Beara peninsula firmly feels more West Cork

Genocide.

The finding of the most comprehensive, most damning report to date into the conduct of Israel in Gaza.

Our report for @virginmedianews.bsky.social - including the increasing cultural and sporting push to move away from “business as usual” with Israel.

Now that a UN commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, will Eurovision even consider its position on including Israel?

MI5 admits it unlawfully obtained journalist's data twice The British intelligence service, MI5, has admitted that it unlawfully obtained the data of journalist Vincent Kearney on two occasions.

The British intelligence service, MI5, has admitted that it unlawfully obtained the data of journalist Vincent Kearney on two occasions

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth

"Character assassination. What a wonderful idea. Ordinary assassination only works once, but this one works every day."

“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.”

- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

A woman on her phone and the HSE Health App image on a phone. The text says The HSE Health App puts your health in your hands. And also More appointments now available to view in the app.

The HSE Health App continues to grow. The latest new features include:

✅ Healthcare and BreastCheck appointments
✅ Pregnancy week-by-week information
✅ Local health services finder and more

📲 Download via the App Store or Google Play.
More information: hse.ie/health-app

If you think your home is at risk from a greenway, you are a victim of scaremongering Comment & Analysis: Some people objecting to the Cork to Kinsale Greenway have spread multiple baseless claims of homes at risk from the project, as this website covered on Friday, and the…

If you think your home is at risk from a greenway, you are a victim of scaremongering irishcycle.com/2025/09/03/i...

I think the crucial point here is that she reminded people what they already knew, rather than try to teach them something new. A major value of artists is that they preserve folk memory.

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

Discworld QOTD, from Sourcery

“The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.”

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

"Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week."

This is the direct and predictable result of policy decisions, not random happenstance.

#visionzero #publichealth

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Artwork with head and shoulders of a young woman facing left looking outwards against a pink background with leaf shapes

'Lucinda' by Sofia Bonati, a self-taught artist from Argentina, known for her portraits of women against a patterned backdrop #WomensArt

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods