Peter Manifold

Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? GAA clubs are found in every corner of Ireland, but you'll find surprising pockets of football clubs in so-called hurling counties and vice-versa

Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? Analysis of the geographical spread of Gaelic games by
@germac.bsky.social Amelia Carroll & Hannah Shen @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #AllIrelandHurlingFinal #AllIrelandFinal

Twitter’s antisemitic Chatbot raises new questions about the lack of intellectual diversity on Bluesky.

two males and two females hold certificate, TU Dublin sign and STARS sign outdoors on grangegorman campus

🏆TU Dublin Ranked 1st in Europe for Sustainability in Higher Education 🌍Fantastic news! We've been awarded the highly prestigious Gold accreditation from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...

TU Dublin secures place in Top 100 globally for SDG 7 and 13 in THE Impact Rankings 2025

Congrats to GEMINI partner @tudublinsustain.bsky.social for top 100 placing in THE Impact Rankings 2025 for sustainability www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou... Read about the island of Ireland’s first deep geothermal exploratory borehole at Grangegorman campus 👉 geminigeothermal.com/grangegorman/

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle.

But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
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Tech bros get frustrated with politics, which involves painstaking, often frustrating communication & compromise with other people who have different backgrounds & perspectives, so their approach is always to wish it away: a brand new city! a brand new political party! this one weird trick!

New Evidence Suggests Ancient Egyptians Only Ever Visited Pyramids When Friends Were In From Out Of Town

New Evidence Suggests Ancient Egyptians Only Ever Visited Pyramids When Friends Were In From Out Of Town theonion.com/new-evi...

At this point the AI grifters must be thanking their lucky stars that the education sector remains a dependable cash cow. Administrators buying into AI EdTech don't care about the errors because they will be dispersed among the frontline educators.

This has been a very common pipeline: Ed tech sells “solutions” that don’t solve problems (the actual problems are too big), admin sees an easy fix & throws money at it, teachers get told they have to use it & get no budget because Ed tech is pricey.

Kids end up with what they get.

Taoiseach 'deeply moved' at meeting Hiroshima survivor When the US warplane dropped a 4,400kg atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and 43 seconds later it detonated 600 metres above the city, eight-year-old Teruko Yahata was playing in her garden on what was a sunny...

During his visit to Japan, Taoiseach Micheál Martin met Teruko Yahata, who survived the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 when she was eight-years-old. Ms Yahata’s direct testimony of eking out a life in a nuclear winter had a powerful impact, writes Political Correspondent Paul Cunningham

Whether it’s Democrats nominating a mayoral candidate who was born in Uganda or Donald Trump shipping migrants to South Sudan, there’s been plenty of questionable African activity on both sides.

BREAKING: At least 56 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn, sources at Gaza hospitals have told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n6phyh

Beware Trump’s Talk of Coming “Emergencies” Far-right rhetoric is suffused with dark talk of impending calamities. It’s a favorite trope of autocrats who are, themselves, the calamity.

"They have borrowed directly from Nazi sources to make the very same points that the Nazis were making. They understand very well that the way to establish a form of government that is not bound by law or reason is to declare a state of emergency." https://trib.al/oj9zJgE

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:

Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

Anti-apartheid activists would have been called terrorists under logic banning Palestine Action, Peter Hain says – as it happened Labour peer says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ his party is backing moves to ban group

Peter Hain, former anti-apartheid activist and a Minister in the Blair and Brown governments, describes the banning of Palestine Action as 'intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong'. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

The BBC dropped ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ but its images will stay with you Now on Channel 4, the film investigates the detention and killing of Palestinian medics — and illustrates why the corporation needs to find a way to tell such stories

review of the documentary that the BBC didn't want you to see - or at least not on its channels www.ft.com/content/d21f...

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

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Zohran Mamdani. Overlaid text reads: Breaking news - Andrew Cuomo concedes New York mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

Breaking news: Former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has conceded to progressive rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor www.ft.com/content/e4b8...

Zohran Mamdani is pictured speaking. Headline reads: "Mamdani Stuns Cuomo in New York Mayoral Primary." Photo credit: Scott Heins for The New York Times.

Zohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ

The Covid ‘lab leak’ theory isn’t just a rightwing conspiracy – pretending that’s the case is bad for science | Jane Qiu While figures like Steve Bannon have exploited the issue, scientists have done themselves no favours by shutting down legitimate inquiry, says award-winning science writer Jane Qiu

“Trust cannot be manufactured on demand. It must be cultivated over time through transparency, accountability, humility and relationship-building. Scientists must do more to earn it.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Me and Maíra Amaral recently presented the 'Living Beeings: Pollination Adventure' game again, at the 2nd Geogames Symposium, hosted at the @molimuseum.bsky.social! 🐝🌸♟️

It was really enriching to show and talk about our game with fellow educators, researchers and game designers!

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney exposing here the rank hypocrisy of Keir Starmer's government www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sen. Bernie Sanders held a "Fighting Oligarchy" rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he received news of President Donald Trump's strikes on Iran.

President Trump's first bombing campaign against Iran was a great success. We have now discovered a new Iranian nuclear site: directly underneath a high school in Gaza City.

by Benjamin Netanyahu

30th International Gourmand Awards 2025 Food Culture

image of Irish Food History a Companion book alongside the book award for Best Culinary History Book in the World awarded by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2024

Congratulations to Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire of Culinary Arts and Food Technology and Brenda Dermody of Art & Design and all the book's authors for winning Best Culinary History Book in the World awarded by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2024 for Irish Food History A Companion.

Opinion | Senator Padilla: This Is How an Administration Acts When It’s Afraid

“I know America is not past saving,” Sen. Alex Padilla writes. “If the Trump administration was this scared of one senator with a question, imagine what the voices of tens of millions of Americans organizing will do.”

Clothes worn in Europe from brands like Penneys and Zara found in huge dumps at Ghana nature reserve A huge new dumpsite is expanding in a protected nature site that is home to rare birds and turtle species.

Fashion waste from well-known brands like Penneys, Zara and Marks & Spencer has been found exported from Europe and dumped in massive quantities in Ghana in fragile areas of nature.

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Iran Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

Rise to the challengers: Europe’s populist parties and its foreign policy future An array of populist parties are challenging Europe’s foreign policy mainstream. To secure European sovereignty, its politicians need to adapt—which means preparing for a variety of future diplomatic…

🚨New publication!🚨 With input from experts across @ecfr.eu, @taszuc.bsky.social, @camillelons.bsky.social, @arturovarvelli.bsky.social & I have explored the foreign policies of Europe's populist parties and how these might play out over coming years. Read the study here ⬇️

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U.S. Intel Says Iran Isn’t a Nuclear Threat. Israel Wants the U.S. to Bomb It Anyway. The U.S. is helping Israel wage war on Iran over its nuclear program. But U.S. intelligence says Iran is not building a bomb.

U.S. Intel Says Iran Isn’t a Nuclear Threat. Israel Wants the U.S. to Bomb It Anyway.

The U.S. is helping Israel wage war on Iran over its nuclear program. But U.S. intelligence says Iran is not building a bomb.

theintercept.com/2025/06/17/i...