Karolina Ó Beacháin

A real pleasure to spend the day on our national broadcaster RTÉ covering President Zelenskyy's historic visit to Ireland.

As he made clear, nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians who have suffered so much for so long. But peace with justice, accountability and security. Not at any price.

Beautiful weather for St Patrick’s Parade in Brussels today

Слава Україні! 💛💙

Welcome to Bluesky Shane!

Great to see you here Tom!

📰 Exciting news: the Moldovan Analytical Digest will be launching in January 2025. The digest will be quarterly and analyzes the political, economic, and social situation in Moldova 🇲🇩 You can sign up here (for free): css.ethz.ch/en/publicati...

Happy National Day Thailand! 🇹🇭

Ireland is voting today! But if you think that we will know the composition of our parliament this night, that’s not the case. Our electoral system is fascinating but a bit complex. @gavreilly.com explains how it works. Enjoy! (works best with M&Ms 😉) #GE24

I find # / feeds very useful, like the bsky.app/profile/did:... or various starter packs. Much better fit for me to follow topics of my interests!

Today marks 1.000th day since #Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine - 1.000 days of crimes & sufferings.

There should be no impunity for indiscriminate attacks on civilians, executions, torture, forcible transfers that we & many others have documented since Feb 2022.

At a timely event in Berlin today. European China Conference “Getting serious: Re-calibrating European China policy after a year of elections” by @ecfr.bsky.social @ecfrasia.bsky.social @merics.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/simo...

There are two accounts that claim to be the Taoiseach, I’m not sure how to verify authenticity here, any tips?

The State Emergency Service has published photographs of the aftermath of the Russian attack on the Odesa region.

Fires erupted in three private homes, and four other houses were partially destroyed.

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Good to join @bsky.app. Another way to keep in contact and to keep you up to date on my work

Possible, but I have to confess that I don’t know much about parakeets! I went with “if it looks like a parrot, sounds like a parrot it must be a parrot” 🙂

For those of you interested in Georgia 🇬🇪

go.bsky.app/14vxxjA

You can see them even better here. Gorgeous!

Beautiful experience! I’ve just seen hundreds of parrots in Brussels!

A graph showing the increasing temperatures from 1940 onwards, relative to the preindustrial times (1850-1900). It also reflects that the year 2024 will be the first to breach the 1.5°C threshold and will be the warmest year on record.

🚨 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record.

We are already seeing the impacts of climate change across Europe and the world.

At #COP29, we are pushing to speed up and substantially increase climate ambition.

#EUatCOP29

As people are leaving X and joining Bluesky instead, here is a starter pack of peace and conflict researchers for all new users ⤵️

go.bsky.app/7o8tZt2

Busy day ahead at the Crisis Group event on the US elections, Middle East, Myanmar, Moldova and Georgia.

I'll be on RTÉ's "Morning Ireland" at around 7.30 am to discuss reported talks between #Trump and #Putin and recent developments in #Russia's war against #Ukraine.

All - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

Directory of Bluesky “Starter Packs”- a very useful way to find posters by category, place or interest. Great feature to “follow all” from a list. For all newbies like me.

blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Another interesting list: go.bsky.app/8Qbd7nt

Trying , here’s one: go.bsky.app/8smuriq

Thank you for the advice! I’m figuring it all now, will take a few days but hopefully I’ll fully migrate here very soon. All the best!

Try VoteSmart, the most carefully calibrated election test in Ireland The general election is a key moment in our democracy, when citizens get to vote for candidates to the Dáil and determine who will form the next government.

Today, to coincide with the calling of the election, we’re launching VoteSmart to help guide voters on the policy positions of the parties.

www.independent.ie/irish-news/e... Try VoteSmart, the most carefully calibrated election test in Ireland

Hi Ben! The list of accounts you follow is a very useful start!

Hallo Bluesky! Hope to see many of well-known and new contacts here. The weekend task - to search for interesting accounts