Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

So true, Will. Government and its agencies should exit that toxic site.

My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this?

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Twitter post by Pranay Pathole... Tech enthusiasts: "My entire house is smart." Tech workers: "The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize."

Looks like it's catching on: bsky.app/profile/chri...

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?

That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

I cannot understand why more prominent Dems aren't speaking out against the Trump-Witkoff-Kushner attempt to vaporize the Western alliance that has kept us safe for more than 75 years....

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Lead Post reporter on that story Alex Horton served in the infantry in Iraq.

Trump and Witkoff Try to Get Russia a Win The joint U.S.-Russia proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, taken point-by-point

The US “peace” plan not only had Ukraine giving up land—including some Russia hasn’t been able to take—it also demanded a weakened Ukraine that can’t decide its own foreign relations and isn’t allowed real outside support, leaving it vulnerable for whenever Russia regroups.

Who would accept that.

Ukraine already tried giving up land for Russia’s word to stop attacking, with the Minsk Agreements of 2014-15. Russia violated them with a full scale invasion in 2022.

Why would Ukraine think land for peace would work this time, especially when a Putin-sympathetic US won’t do security guarantees?

Russia ‘ready’ for war with Europe, Putin says, as US peace talks end without progress Kremlin aide says Ukraine crisis is no closer to resolution after Witkoff talks, as Russian president accuses European powers of sabotaging peace

Well, they might not have brought peace with Ukraine, but at least they are now also talking about war with Europe, so we are going forward

Israeli forces kill 357 Palestinians in 50 days of ceasefire Children, photojournalist among Palestinians killed by Israeli forces across Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Children, photojournalist among Palestinians killed by Israeli forces across Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

📻 I’ll be speaking on @rteradio1.bsky.social after 9am about planned changes to regulation of infrastructure #Planning #Speirgorm

Yanis Varoufakis: Europe should be convulsing at US sanctions against French ICC judge The US government has sanctioned a European judge for carrying out his official duties in Europe while working in an institution established by Europe’s elected representatives at great cost and effor...

US sanctions against a french judge living in France for his work at the ICC should have Europe convulsing, writes Yanis Varoufakis, but instead there is silence.

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Wednesday’s Irish Examiner #TomorrowsPapersToday

Their money is imaginary, apart from anything else. All in supposed value of companies that mostly don’t do anything or make any profit

Esp for small babies whose mothers have been told their heads are too big because the big Irish head is literally off the charts. We would buy anything

a shop that sells plus sized hats exclusively for irish people called Big Irish Head On You is this anything

This is an image that speaks volumes about what is really going on between Moscow and Washington: these Trumpist hucksters are trying to get Ukraine to surrender so they can go into business with Putin and the gang of thieves and killers that surround him.

They are the worst of the worst.

Honestly

Sorry is this the same country that elected Boris Johnson?

That was the case, for example, when the government granted a private company a licence to rip out *1,860 acres* of wild kelp forest here in Bantry Bay.

Only through judicial review was that prevented. Once this legislation goes through, the only option left to communities will be direct action.

The Zelenskyy visit Podcast Episode · The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · 02/12/2025 · 27m

Today’s podcast is on the Zelenskyy visit, with Paul Hosford and Louise Burne podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Asked for comment by Sky News, the IDF responded: "Earlier today, IDF troops identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, conducted suspicious activities on the ground, and approached IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat to them. "Following the identification, the IAF eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat."

They were 8 and 11 years old

Two brothers killed in Israeli drone strike on Gaza Fadi Abu Assi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, eight, were gathering firewood at the time, their uncle said.

You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement

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Airbnb map south Kerry & Dingle Peninsula

“over 1,000 homes” available as holiday rental in map area
(on this one website)

Tetra Pak launches integrated heat pump system to electrify pasteurization and cut energy use by up to 77% Tetra Pak announces the expansion of its Factory Sustainable Solutions portfolio with its new Tetra Pak Integrated Heat Pump system for pasteurizers, designed t

Tetra Pak just launched a heat-pump-based pasteurization system that can cut energy use by up to 77%.

Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors.

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