Paul Challoner

Parents asked to take part in primary school ethos survey The parents of 826,000 children are to be asked to share with the Department of Education their views on the type of primary school they would like their child to attend.

The parents of 826,000 children are to be asked to share with the Department of Education their views on the type of primary school they would like their child to attend

If you know Soupy Norman, you know... if you don't, we have a deep dive into the cult comedy show on the latest Get Around To It Podcast. Plus I detail my Top 5 British comedies of the 2000s! Find your podcast provider here: linktr.ee/getaroundtoit

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Take Action - Hands Off Nature

One more hour to sign this petition.

#HandsOffNature
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: handsoffnature.eu/take-action/...

We're back! Featuring Alison Spittle, Michael Fry and Frank Blake Podcast Episode · Get Around To It · 07/09/2025 · 56m

Very excited to say myself and @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social have launched an Irish arts & culture podcast! It’s a reboot of our former podcast, only bigger and better. Get Around To It will be weekly, with a deep-dive episode every second week podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/g...

Solidarity messages: Pension Parity for All School Staff! Show your support! 2,800 school secretaries and caretakers will be on picket lines outside their schools from 28th August 2025, fighting to get public service pensions. For many of them, this will be ...

Did you know school secretaries and caretakers are on strike from 28th August? Shockingly, they are being denied access to pensions by the government.

I've sent them a message of solidarity, you should too.

act.forsa.ie/solidarity-m...

“#Gaza: more journalists killed today.
Silencing the last remaining voices reporting about children dying silently amid #famine.

The world’s indifference & inaction is shocking."

Full statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod A map of the countries that recognize the State of Palestine. What do you notice

@alanrmacleod.bsky.social

mintpressnews.com

"Map of the countries that recognize the State of Palestine.

What do you notice"

"There is no excuse for what’s happening in Gaza. This tragedy must end now, immediately and decisively. Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch, will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war.”

Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.

This tragedy must end now.

Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt

We need to ask why, if we in "the West" in fact live in democracies, so many of us our opposed to this, but our governments and politicians allow, enable and in many cases encourage it?
Why do they refuse to express the will of their people?

This is all happening within view & kilometres from places where people have unlimited food, water etc. etc.

Dear Erin - This Is Not Us - EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin | Official Site We created a trailer for a film that we hope never gets made, and filled it with all of the tired, clichéd portrayals of Irish people often seen in Hollywood movies.

Well played EPIC, well played...

epicchq.com/dear-erin-th...

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

The queues are mad!

Cill Dara abú!!! #hurling #gaa

Right now —
The call from the Madleen crew, share EVERYWHERE and demand safe passage for the crew and the critical humanitarian aid they are carrying
#Madleen
#FreedomFlotilla
#AllEyesOnMadleen

There is an enormous gap between what the Irish government says it will do on climate, and what it is actually getting done. There is an even bigger gap between what it says it’ll do and what science says needs to be done.

“Hot Mess” episode 30
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

AN LÚ ABÚ!!!
Didn't think my adopted county would win another Leinster before my home county of Kildare did!

Leinster football final: Louth v Meath updates Louth and Meath face off in Leinster final action with the Wee County aiming to become kings of the province for the first time since 1957, and the Royals hoping to bridge a 15 year gap.

Louth are Leinster Champions for the first time since 1957! #RTEGAA

Massive Attack KNEECAP ARE NOT THE STORY If senior politicians can find neither the time, nor the words to condemn, say, the murder of fifteen voluntary aid workers in Gaza, or the illegal starvation of a civilian population as a method of warfare, or the killing of thousands & thousands of children in the same territory, by a state in possession of the highest precision weapons on earth; how much notice should a music festival take of their moral advice on booking performing acts? As a band that has spoken publicly for more than 30 years about the illegal occupation, apartheid system and killing with impunity of thousands of Palestinians, we are hyper aware of the both the human cost of abject political silence, and the commercial implications of publicly expressing solidarity with an oppressed people.

Massive

This is phenomenal geology humor (full video at www.instagram.com/reel/DHHL3fI...)

“A colossal missed opportunity” - a clear message in a new report from from Ireland’s fiscal and climate advisory councils.

Instead of taking action to cut emissions (making energy cleaner & more secure, & diversifying farming) we face €26 billion in compliance costs to meet EU targets

Not wanting an SUV but having children, dogs and needing to drive to get anywhere.

The choices are limited.

Friends who are NUI graduates, please run- not walk- to the post box with your votes for Alice Mary Higgins No. 1.

I have a bad feeling about the energy levels amongst the non-headbanger, non godbothering voter base.

Please do make sure one of the best Senators can continue to make things better.

Mad that Ireland appearing so high in this, and above the UK!

Awful local news. Dr Sean is a fantastic GP who has been great with each of our kids over the last few years. Wishing him a full and fast recovery.

The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.

First time to come across this and wow ... words fail.
Caspar hits the nail on the head. Didnt know what to expect but that was worth it, for all it's terribleness it was so enjoyable #speirgorm

Good morning, it's polling day!

- Don't forget to vote!
- Don't believe everything you read or hear today, especially online!
- Projection will be due this evening, some time before polls close

Vote left, transfer left tomorrow. Have hope for a new Ireland, don't let apathy win. The hopelessness from the idea that they can't be beaten is FFG's strongest weapon, if we try hard enough we can finally rid ourselves of them #GE24.