@paulodonovan.bsky.social
🇪🇺🇮🇪🏴🇪🇪 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 Cork born, fan of smaller countries. Academic Secretary of University College Cork; Member of Senate National University of Ireland. Ex Welsh Govt; Ex WDA; Ex Adas Group. Views own. Photo: Monumental Reckoning by Dana King, Golden Gate Park, SF
If Russia is banned for its war of aggression and atrocities against civilians in Ukraine, Israel should be banned for its genocide in Gaza.
This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
The essence of Blue Labour thought is that somewhere in Downing Street there is a button marked “reindustrialise” that Tony Blair could have pressed, but instead he opted for the “more Woke Studies” button.
05.12.2025 20:58 — 👍 439 🔁 72 💬 23 📌 3
The US national strategy is to destroy the EU it sees it as a threat.
05.12.2025 20:43 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the DSA.
We're holding X accountable for:
🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’
🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository
🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers
link.europa.eu/bcmC87
To read #Cork City Council's statement this afternoon one would be forgiven to think that this is about 1 tree. The council has removed what was once public green space gradually over 15 years or so. Such poor mismanagement that they have now 'lost' a whole mini-parklet.
04.12.2025 17:47 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0'Ireland’s security services have found that the drones at Dublin Airport were large, hugely expensive, of military specification, and that the incident could be classed as a hybrid attack.'
Hovering right over the naval ship is really giving the finger to our military. Not good.
Pictured: First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska (right) is pictured with Minister for Further & Higher Education, James Lawless, TD (left); Professor James Kapaló; and Professor Ursula Kilkelly, UCC Vice-President of Global Engagement.
University College Cork joins global coalition for Ukrainian Studies
Joining this coalition reflects our long-term commitment to supporting Ukrainian scholars and strengthening the place of Ukraine’s culture and history in Irish higher education.
Read more: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...
do you ever stop and wonder why humans will rapidly spend trillions to expedite AI - a technology that basically no one needs or asked for...
while doing next to nothing to mitigate climate change.
Bureau de change sign for Scottish pound with Saltire flag, SCP currency indicator and Scottish pound in Polish
Does the currency exchange in Warsaw airport know something about Scottish independence? Or just very prepared.
03.12.2025 19:19 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
I'm getting fairly sick of hearing about how "artificial general intelligence" is imminent. It's not.
open.substack.com/pub/jamescos...
#AGI #AI #artificialgeneralintelligence #LLMs #largelanguagemodels
At my Irish citizenship ceremony today the presiding judge thanked us all for enriching Ireland and told us never to forget where we came from or what we brought with us from there.
02.12.2025 21:56 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
In this series of images from Google Maps, you can see the gradual and deliberate neglect, privatisation, inappropriate parking, and tree removal (there was once 4 trees on the small site) that led to today. If you wonder how Bishop Lucey Park happened, here's your track record.
02.12.2025 14:53 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
If you thought Bishop Lucey Park was the only nature lost in #Cork lately, think again. Today, Cork City Council removing trees and grass to lay concrete for parking of council vehicles in Blackpool. No planning permission, no 'Part 8', no public consultation. Just green space & nature wiped out...
02.12.2025 14:46 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!
28.11.2025 16:29 — 👍 276 🔁 99 💬 8 📌 11
"Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system."
02.12.2025 20:46 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"In the Government’s current attempts to stifle access to review of questionable decisions made by State actors, we are heading down a very poorly-lit path."
- @ciananbrennan.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
"Dear Ireland, please remember your voice matters" - Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky urges Ireland to take "active role" in calling for tribunal on Russia’s aggression | Follow live
02.12.2025 17:00 — 👍 29 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
02.12.2025 04:40 — 👍 8030 🔁 2103 💬 100 📌 33
Asylum seekers have told of how they were followed by men on motorcycles before being subjected to an alleged attack in rural Co Dublin yesterday.
The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.
www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...
Breaking: the EU has formally terminated its WTO case against China over the coercion of Lithuania
This blockbuster case came after Lithuania opened a controversially named Taiwanese Representative Office in Vilnius
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
New DART and Luas lines, which ALREADY HAVE planning permission, are being delayed 4-5 years. This is a direct consequence of the Government’s decision to spend less on public transport.
29.11.2025 11:42 — 👍 55 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 0
And Here's David Coburn on Russian state television accusing the EU of "interfering in the Russian sphere of influence" on Ukraine www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJS...
28.11.2025 11:40 — 👍 294 🔁 147 💬 14 📌 7
“I do fear that if attempts are made to cut back on rights of participation and to cut back on the right of access to the courts, people will still find a way and it might well be a way that’s going to be a lot more difficult to control.”
- Prof Áine Ryall #Law
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Espagne : le président allemand à Guernica, une première visite historique
28.11.2025 20:37 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0„The United States never recognized the Soviet Unions annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Recognizing Putins imperial conquests now would be a colossal mistake.“
M. McFaul
The true North…
28.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The IDF executed two Palestinian men in Jenin. They verified that they were unarmed, told them to walk back to the building, and then shot them dead.
27.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 168 🔁 129 💬 1 📌 8
“Up to 41,000 apartments with planning permission lying idle in system”
41,000 ready-to-go on site with full Planning Permission..a fact ignored by those looking to blame Planning system for the housing crisis. The deregulation agenda is strong, don’t be misled www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
