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Niall O

@corklad.bsky.social

Currently living the dream in Ireland's Hidden Heartland. Food Industry/ Energy/ Climate/ History/ Brexit/ International Affairs/ EU/ Ireland & Northern Ireland

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The emperor has no clothes

22.09.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It bothers me that today I had to point out…

To former Tory MP @PhilipDaviesUK

That the Hillsborough families invoked the ECHR in their fight for justice

Because he, like so many, either doesn’t know

…or is being disingenuous about the vital protections the ECHR affords us.

28.08.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 817    πŸ” 253    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 6
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Campaigner says Ireland 'leading the way' in raising Palestinians' plight | Shannonside.ie A local pro-Palestine campaigner says Ireland's leading the way in raising the plight of the people of Gaza.

www.shannonside.ie/news/campaig...

27.08.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Use chapter VII and get the aid into Gaza!! Use Chapter VII procedure to seek to put together an international defence of a corridor to allow aid into Gaza. Sign the petition now.

my.uplift.ie/petitions/us...

23.08.2025 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sign the Petition Stop the 'Mise Eire' event. Drumshambo said No! Castlebar,it's your turn, say NO too!

Drumshambo said no, Castlebar it's your turn

www.change.org/p/stop-the-m...

17.08.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, β€œThey’re stealing our jobs”?

You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.

10.08.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 15710    πŸ” 6141    πŸ’¬ 896    πŸ“Œ 472
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Swarm of jellyfish shuts French nuclear plant Four reactors at France's Gravelines nuclear power plant were shut down late Sunday due to a swarm of jellyfish in the filter drums that pull in cooling water, operator EDF said on Monday.

This was not on my global warming bingo card

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

11.08.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Upcoming events by Roscommon IPSC

Also in Boyle today covering for our friends in the Boyle IPSC who have just completed the their Famine Way walk for Gaza yesterday

Stop by for info, merchandise or just for a chat

#StopTheGazaOcupation #StopArmingIsrael

10.08.2025 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought sexism was something that only the woke left should be concerned about?

09.08.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People having to quit their jobs to take care of elderly family members as a consequence of cuts to Medicare in the 'big, beautiful bill' was not on my bingo card

05.08.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fascism is expensive it turns out

05.08.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would be like "if the current mayor isn't up to the task, I will gladly rise to the challenge"

01.08.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

31.07.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 11531    πŸ” 3148    πŸ’¬ 229    πŸ“Œ 269
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National Famine Way for Palestine WALK THE NATIONAL FAMINE WAY FOR PALESTINE

The Boyle IPSC will set out tomorrow, Saturday, 2nd of August, and walk the National Famine Way from Strokestown to Dublin.

If you can, please donate to support them in raising funds for life saving emergency aid.

Please reshare to raise awareness

chuffed.org/project/1404...

01.08.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Saturday, August 2nd, the Boyle IPSC will begin a 165 km walk from Strokestown Park House to Dublin, along the Famine Way in aid of Palestine.
Join us at Strokestown Park House at 10am to see them off. Jim Callery,founder of National famine Museum and Sabina Higgins in attendance. All welcome

31.07.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice to hear a normal, reasonable person again.

28.07.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two Israeli human rights groups say their country is committing genocide in Gaza It is the first time that Jewish-led organizations in Israel have made such accusations against the country during nearly 22 months of war.

Israeli human rights groups are describing actions in Gaza as a genocide. It's undeniable, are people who deny it are enabling it.

www.npr.org/2025/07/28/n...

28.07.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two Israeli human rights groups say their country is committing genocide in Gaza It is the first time that Jewish-led organizations in Israel have made such accusations against the country during nearly 22 months of war.

Two Israeli human rights groups accuse their country of genocide for the first time

www.npr.org/2025/07/28/n...

28.07.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

...also not doing enough regular maintenance and cleandowns

28.07.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cheese, salads and readymeals all affected by recent recalls linked to Listeria....where is the commonality? These are all separate manufacturers.

28.07.2025 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Separate companies, unless there were ingredients from the same supplier or some issue further along the supply chain they are almost certainly unrelated. Lots of points where bad practice can creep in.

28.07.2025 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Will the FSAI investigation reveal, the root cause and where in the supply chain the issues arose?

Was it a process in the manufacturer or a failure, possibly a failure in the chill chain, further along the process of getting the product onto shelf?

28.07.2025 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Look out for Play for Palestine at the Joe Mooney Summer School in Drumshanbo raising vital funds for Unicefs work in Gaza
Joe Mooney Summer School
#freepalestine
#joemooneysummerschool

20.07.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#BookSky

19.07.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 39138    πŸ” 7771    πŸ’¬ 539    πŸ“Œ 526
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Support Pilgrim for Palestine's Fundraising P on iDonate.ie Pilgrim for Palestine's Fundraising Page for Gaza go Bragh CLG, created by Pilgrim for Palestine | iDonate.ie

A friend shared this today.
A friend of hers is doing a charity walk in aid of Gaza to Croagh Patrick.

If you can, please support

Pilgrim for Palestine's Fundraising Page www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/P...

12.07.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Irish people who didn't get the best hand in life feeling threatened by non-Irish people who have nothing.

Sad, they are being taken advantage of and lied to by people who are out and out bigots.

It's a separate conversation but govt needs to award more resources to councils as part of the process

06.07.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yeah, lots of Dublin and Ulster accents. There were some locals.

06.07.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0