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catholic socialist & smalltown journalist
in the valley near Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary
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Worcestershire, U.K.
Historia, geopolitica, relaciones internacionales y videojuegos a partes iguales 💻
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Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Military analyst, naval officer, based in Denmark, mostly #Russia and the war in #Ukraine.
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college professor / contemporary American novel / film noir / financial fiction / writer and reviewer / 🇨🇦 / personal account
Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
My Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/maxp94
No fighting in the Jobs War Room
Author of the Erin Callahan books (Baby's Breath, Fallen Feathers, After The Child) and some politics nonsense. Wang.
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Your voice in the EU 🇪🇺
Updates, news, and insights from the European Parliament - the heart of European democracy.
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U.S. Representative, IL-06. Personal account. Dad. Husband. Trained as an engineer, 16 years as a clean energy CEO, now in middle management. For official stuff see @casten.house.gov
Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Inspiration and practical advice for visitors to Andalucía. Suggested itineraries, places to visit and in-depth information about Andalucía's history and culture.
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Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
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Post-Public History MA at UCL 2023-24 & "Finding Ireland in the History of London" is my thing ☘️ https://www.irishlondonhistory.com/
Irish in Hackney & Stoke Newington - used to be @N16Breda on Twitter
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Bringing festive lights to your dock with festivitas.app 🎄
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🇺🇸🇪🇺American by birth, European by choice
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Lecture, Write & Commentate about Politics & Elections. Columnist with @irish_news All musings are my own.
Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph & Sunday Independent. Author of Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal. Any views mine alone.
Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for South Antrim & Former Minister of Health
Historian @ Queen’s Uni Belfast
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell 2019)
AHRC PI of Queer NI: Sexuality b4 Liberation
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Former SpAd. I’m assuming I will end up blocking as many people here as I did over there
Deputy Leader of the Alliance Party • MLA for Upper Bann • Progressive politics & shared future • eoin.tennyson@mla.niassembly.gov.uk
Alliance Party MLA for South Belfast | Former Mayor of Belfast 💛
UK Correspondent at The Business Post | Irish in London, via Tyrone
Social psychologist | Postdoc Researcher in Political Communication at the DCU Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo) | Public deliberation, Misinformation, Climate Change, Intergroup attitudes, Politics, Prejudice | He/him
Views my own
Lecturer in SSESW @ Queen’s University Belfast.
Interested in nationalism; conflict and peace processes. Also research Othering leading to political extremism and polarisation
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/cathal-mcmanus
Prof Social History LSBU | Female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism & #Afterlives | Visiting full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social
Lecturer (Assistant Prof) Queen's University Belfast. Formerly University Mannheim, PhD from Uni of Essex. Interested in Parties and the Radical Left. Football Fan. She/her.
Senior Lecturer in European Politics, Queen's University Belfast - #Brexit #Environment #Devolution #Agriculture #Trade #EuropeanStudies and #teaching polsci/EU
Secretary @uaces.bsky.social
Co-chair @brexitenv.bsky.social
Also music, knitting and cats..
Bingham Early Career Fellow in Constitutional Studies at Balliol College, University of Oxford | Researching Irish, UK, & EU politics focusing on Northern Ireland | Usual disclaimer
From Donegal. Profile: https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/person/conor-j-kelly
Professor of Politics, Dublin City University (DCU)
Ukraine | Russian imperialism | South Caucasus | Central Asia | Belarus | Moldova | unrecognised states | Irish history, politics and foreign policy
Illuminate Fellow at the Centre for Public Policy and Administration at @QUB @HAPP
Senior Lecturer (Associate Prof)
michelecrepaz.com
Vice Pres of PSAI
Political Science | Public Policy | Lobbying | Lobbying Regulation | Interest Groups | Transparency
Politics prof at UC Dublin. Police & Criminal violence, transitional justice, police reform luciatiscornia.com
Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and Int'l Relations (SPIRe) at University College Dublin
Political scientist, University of Limerick | http://conorlittle.eu/ | https://www.ul.ie/research/dr-conor-little
Associate Professor @ucddublin.bsky.social • party competition, public opinion, political communication, computational social science • Maintainer @irishpollingind.bsky.social • Executive Committee Member @yai.ie
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Broadcaster, Commentator, Conference Chair, former BBC United Nations Correspondent, Ireland Correspondent & NI Political Editor
Investigative reporter BBC NI Spotlight. Producer BBC Panorama ‘The Mob Boss of Boxing’. Football. Music. Depeche Mode. Re-posts are not endorsements.
Author 5 books.
‘ David Trimble : Peacemaker’.
‘John Hume : The Persuader’, ‘Ireland’s Call’ ,’Hide and Seek’, ‘Forgotten Soldiers.’
Journalist | Writer | Event Host
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Sinn Féin MLA
GAA, Cycling, Running
Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs | Alliance North Down MLA | Email casework andrew.muir@alliancepartyni.org | Member North Down Athletic Club | Founded Crawfordsburn and Bangor parkrun events | 🏳️🌈
Independent MLA for East Londonderry
Was: Alliance Councillor, Antrim 1993-2010; MLA, South Antrim 1998-2018; Party Leader, 2001-16; Minister of Justice for NI 2010-2016, President, Alliance Party 2019-2022.
Now: grandfather, p/t farmer, Alliance footsoldier, Rathlin CIC, Jubilee Farm, NFFN.
Research Fellow (Politics), University of Edinburgh @edinburghpir.bsky.social
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UK Politics | Northern Ireland | Brexit | Territorial Politics | Institutions
Politician
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MP for Foyle | Chair of the New Ireland Commission | Derry | colum.eastwood@sdlp.ie
DUP Leader
Member of Parliament for East Belfast
Lord Mayor of Belfast 2012/13
Now:
SDLP MLA for South Belfast | Leader of the Opposition
Former: civil servant & journalist.
Future: A social democratic new Ireland
Belfast based spreadsheet guy
#UTV Political Correspondent
Alliance Party MLA for North Down
Green Party Group Leader and Cllr in Belfast City Council for the Lisnasharragh DEA. In it to build a Greener Cleaner Fairer City. Often grumpy Manchester United and Cliftonville fan.
Smythbrian@belfastcity.gov.uk
Former Mayor of Derry City and strabane District. Proud maasai woman and Derry girl
Business journalist at The Irish News
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Chief Executive of Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations (www.nifha.org)
Donegal bred~Belfast settled. Run a bit. #socialhousing
Belfast City Councillor | Lisnasharragh | SDLP Belfast Group Leader | New Irelander | Atlanticist | LGBT+ | San Diego Democrats Alum | YIMBY | defaoites@belfastcity.gov.uk
FactCheckNI is Northern Ireland’s first and only dedicated not for profit fact checking and training service. Accuracy matters.
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Mamaí of three small but very cute dictators. Alliance MLA for North Antrim. Local music lover. Spokesperson for Children and Young People, the Arts, Poverty and Social Security.
Alliance Party Leader | NI Justice Minister | East Belfast MLA | Daisy's 🐶 bestie | Michael's Mrs
Alliance Party MLA; Chief Whip; Chair of the Committee for the Executive Office. Hockey coach and umpire. Mother & cat owner.
Reporter BBC NI
Particularly interested in addiction, homelessness and social issues
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Broadcast journalist, reporter and presenter at BBC NI | eve.rosato@bbc.co.uk | Journalistic focus on violence against women and girls
Journalist, currently Political Reporter for BBC News Northern Ireland
Mum, Investigative reporter, BBC Spotlight:
Secret History of the Troubles, Pitbull Sting, Howell Trilogy, RedSky, NAMA, Drugs, Poverty, Paramilitaries, Policing, VAWG
Special Adviser Department of Education Northern Ireland … @richardbullick1 on Twitter/X
BBC News NI Political Correspondent 📺 📱 📻 Part-time fringe.
Personal account | Presenter of The View, #SundayPolitics & #BBCRedLines for BBC News NI | Author | Visiting Professor of Media at Ulster University |
On Twitter @markcarruthers7
Political Reporter | Belfast Live and Daily Mirror NI | DMs open RTs ≠ endorsements | Views are my own etc
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Amnesty International in Northern Ireland: human rights news, events, campaigns and comment
Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Retired. Mental/physical health. Irish. Leftie. Atheist. #SpeirGorm
Irish, in Northern Ireland. Far too old for my own good. Interested in history, especially of the 17th-18th Centuries & pirates. Love reading PG Woodhouse, Agatha Christie & Terry Pratchett. Pro-Ukrainian & Palestinian, & any victims of violence.
We are the all-island economic development agency. We connect and help businesses across the island to trade cross-border, collaborate, innovate and attract investment.
Born in England, but would much rather be a Celt. I only seek Celtic followers.Lives in Neath Port Talbot. Survivor of a brain haemorrhage. Plaid Cymru,was Labour cllr.
I shall always love my late partner Nikki Thomson and our late daughter Eilidh Thomson.
Partner, Public First and Head of Education Practice. Education strategy + policy advisory. Former civil servant + think tanker. Occasional loud LFC. Centrist Dad, so naturally I also have a Substack.
Trying to channel my frustration with the state of our planet into green activism
creator & curator of http://anyone4german.com, a free-of-charge, non-commercial interactive workbook for learners of German #MFLBluesky
#DeutschalsFremdsprache
Dublin/Ireland
“If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you”
Fractievoorzitter van Volt in de Tweede Kamer. Kies voor de toekomst. Word lid van generatie Volt. ⚡️ https://voltnederland.org
BBC lifer since 1966, international affairs editor since 1982. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on BBC Two, BBC World & World Service. Two daughters, one son, six grandchildren, a loving wife, lots of books, and an Irish terrier. Defender of the Oxford comma.
Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)｜Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
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📍Oberursel • Frankfurt/M.• Idar-Oberstein | Germany
PhD student at University of Bristol; RHS Marshall Fellow (2024-25) at Institute of Historical Research; 11th-century Normandy, maritime and riverine environments, the Norman invasion fleet.
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/rebecca-tyson
Translator, editor, photographer, artist, cook (and telecook) for friends. Old guy, kept all of my LPs and CDs. Also kept all of my cameras.
I block anyone who restricts replies.
Mainly here for the bowls chat, but also to keep up with Irish rugby banter.
From Dublin to Dubbo (via Nice and Cork).
Triple crown winners 2025 🏆🏆🏆
Unofficial account of the Tour de France Hommes, which mirrors posts from @LeTour on the other site
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Brexit escapee. Living in the Santarém district of Portugal on a farm. Chickens, peafowl, geese and loads of cats!
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Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
Taking you out of this world, every day! 🪐
Writer, beer maker and drinker, lefty, inventor of the Beer Advent Calendar, slow cyclist, even slower guitar player, deft exponent of the reverse mocker.
Writing the technological history of how America really got to space, while trying to keep my sanity in this fascist takeover of what used to be called the United States of America. Officially a Twitter refugee.
