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‘This Is the End of Coal in Ireland’: Country Shuts Down Last Plant Ahead of Schedule #Ireland

‘This Is the End of Coal in Ireland’: Country Shuts Down Last Plant Ahead of Schedule
Ireland has become the sixth European country to end its use of coal with its scheduled shutdown of the Moneypoint coal-fired power plant.

‘Swashbuckling and cheeky’: island festival celebrates Ireland’s ‘pirate queen’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/29/grace-o-malley-pirate-queen-ireland-festival-achill-island?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…

"Ireland Shuts Last Coal Plant, Becomes 15th Coal-Free Country in Europe"
#Ireland #FossilFuels #Coal

Ireland Shuts Last Coal Plant, Becomes 15th Coal-Free Country in Europe
According to Beyond Fossil Fuels, Ireland joins Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Portugal, and the UK, who have already stopped using coal.

🚨 Listeriosis outbreak update - Ireland
Salad leaves and spinach added to list.
Nothing like cooking and enjoying a lovely HelloFresh meal and then reading the latest listeria notice that it now includes the McCormack Family Farms Irish Spinach Leaves you just used in the sauce.
I did cook it well and it was steaming hot so 🤞

Global Group, the same threat actor that has purportedly hacked Ireland's RTE, is laying claim to another media giant hack, this time, Spanish-language Albavisión.
https://hackread.com/global-group-ransomware-media-giant-albavision-breach/

GLOBAL GROUP Ransomware Claims Breach of Media Giant Albavisión
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry is returning to the UK & Ireland ahead of WWE's August tour as he once again spins the decks for Sweet Chin Disco's amazing Wrestling Raves!
#WWE #ProWrestling

#Listeriosis #death heightens spectre of Irish #FoodSafety concerns as "extensive outbreak" of bacterial pathogens found in island food supply.
While

A pair of red Fiats on a car transporter.
#WeirdCarMastodon

Things you don't need to do to run a successful business in Ireland (based on my observations):
-Show up on time
-Deliver the agreed product
-Do better the second time around
-Communicate clearly
-Respond to E-mails
-Be proactive
-Have a website
-Accept electronic payments

Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week (Callan Quinn/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/327112/kraken-license-europes-new-rules

Kraken Becomes Latest to Win a License Under Europe's New Rules
Approval from Ireland's central bank gives Kraken the ability to operate across 27 EU states as it races to catch up to rival Coinbase.

Absolutely insane that farm machinery is allowed on Irish motorways, but a resolution of the problem depends on the relative political heft of the Irish Road Haulage Association and the Irish Farmers Association
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0526/1514987-…

New Gist: The Price of Ugliness
Jack Chambers wants to lower the aesthethic value of our entire public realm, as a matter of policy, because he thinks that will make it look like he is controlling costs.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-price-of-ugliness/

The Gist: The Price of Ugliness
Jack Chambers announces his new policy to fill Ireland with ugly things. This is the Gist.

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1977, Tim Severin landed on Peckford Island, Newfoundland. Severin had set sail from Ireland on May 17th with a five-man crew in a boat built using only techniques and materials available in sixth-century Ireland. The arduous 7,300km journey was meant to prove that St. Brendon had discovered North America almost 1,000 years before Columbus. I'm sure we were polite and didn't smirk when we welcomed him to Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Myth
https://lookingnorth.blog/2020/07/the-brendan-voyage/

Mediahuis Ireland, which owns the Belfast Telegraph, Irish Independent, and others, says it has 100K digital subscribers after launching paywalls in 2020 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/mediah…

Mediahuis Ireland reaches 100,000 digital subscriber milestone
Mediahuis Ireland has crossed the 100,000 digital subscriber mark, just over five years after first launching its paywalls.

Ireland officially coal free thanks to renewables, not LNG.
*cough* #bcpoli
https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/114749936492998044

When a man finds a stick so cool that its tale echoes down through the generations:

The Love Ireland? Hate Racism March is building fast! United Against Racism have brought together unions, civil society groups fighting inequality & building community and opposition groups fighting the government day in and day out.
🗓 June 22nd at 1:30pm on Dame Street central Plaza Dublin.
#Ireland #Antiracism

What the fuck? This fucking government, I swear! Read the fucking room, you toffs!
#Ireland #Palestine #sports

Bytes Europe (@byteseu@pubeurope.com)
Attached: 1 image Palestine kids barred from Ireland hurling final https://www.byteseu.com/1207990/ #Ireland #Palestine #Sports

Leo Varadkar, who stood down as taoiseach in April 2024,
said he did not think a date should be fixed for an Irish unity referendum
as nationalists did not yet have the numbers to win.
But he said planning for a united Ireland should take place.
"I don't think a united Ireland is inevitable, I think it's something that we have to work towards," he said.
"But I think there are a lot of factors that would suggest that we're on that traje…

Leo Varadkar says Nigel Farage as PM would move Irish unity 'centre stage'
The former Irish prime minister says planning should take place for the possibility of Irish unification.

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (Blathnaid O'Dea/pv magazine International)
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p124#a250620p124

Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Szymon Talaga, Dominik Batorski, Magdalena Wojcieszak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19300

Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Although news negativity is often studied, missing is comparative evidence on the prevalence of and engagement with negative political and non-political news posts on social media. We use 6,081,134 Facebook posts published between January 1, 2020, and April 1, 2024, by 97 media organizations in six countries (U.S., UK, Ireland, Poland, France, Spain) and develop two multilingual classifiers for labeling posts as (non-)political and (non-)negative. We show that: (1) negative news posts constitut…

Demand the release of peaceful Irish protestors
#Ireland

Email the Egyptian Embassy to demand the release of peaceful protestors
Peaceful protesters from Ireland have been detailed in Egypt, on their way to demand that Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid, of food, of water, of medical supplies is ended. Please email the Egyptian Embassy in Dublin calling for their immediate release?

🚨 Ireland prepared meals listeria recall
How centralised is our food production?
Here’s the list of prepared meals from the current listeria recall in Ireland – nearly every supermarket’s “own” brand is listed, along with others, including independent vegan darlings Happy Pear:
https://www…

June in-person meetup of Queer Crafters Ireland happens this Sunday 1-3 pm! To get the details, DM them on Insta or email at queercraftersireland@gmail.com
#dublin #queer #queerart

What right does Ireland have to inspect planes landing in Shannon?
What if I told you the EU requires an inspection regime to confirm a plane’s contents has been declared?
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-guns-shannon-and-vat/

"..some residents in #Ballymena have started to mark their front doors to indicate their nationality to avoid attack.."
I lived in this town, Ian Paisley's home town and DUP core territory, for 3 years as a teenager. Not been back.
It was characterised by narrow-mindedness and bigotry then in the 60s.
The last place to concentrate migrants, if that is what has happene…

Police injured, houses burned in second night of riots in Northern Ireland
Rioters said to target ‘foreigners’ in Northern Ireland town following alleged sexual assault of local teenage girl.

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Air India Flight 182 bombing that departed Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and exploded off the coast of Ireland.
Many lives stolen - never forgotten. We still grieve. We still love.
My best friend and her family were on that plane. She was 11.
🤍

'My kids haven't heard about this': Community calls for Air India bombing learning centre in B.C. | CBC News
A coalition of B.C.-based faith groups and community members are calling on the province to build a large memorial and education centre to honour the victims of the 1985 Air India bombing, considered the worst terrorist attack in Canada's history.

Coinbase says it has secured a MiCA license from Luxembourg to offer crypto services across the EU, and will shift its European base from Ireland to Luxembourg (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/coinbase-eu-license.html

Coinbase secures EU crypto license, swaps Ireland for Luxembourg as main hub
"Luxembourg is leading the way with its pro-business climate and thoughtful approach to regulation," Coinbase Brian Armstrong tells CNBC.

One of my faculty colleagues in Hispanic Studies, who is from Ireland, organized a 4-hour Bloomsday reading. Hope I did this right?

Excavation of Children’s Remains Begins at Irish Home for Unwed Mothers - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/world/europe/ireland-excavation-children-tuam.html

High-precision Penning trap mass measurements of neutron-rich chlorine isotopes at the N=28 shell closure
H. Erington, G. Bollen, G. Dykstra, A. Hamaker, C. M. Ireland, C. R. Nicoloff, D. Puentes, R. Ringle, S. Schwarz, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, A. A. Valverde, I. T. Yandow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18354

High-precision Penning trap mass measurements of neutron-rich chlorine isotopes at the N=28 shell closure
Although it is known that the $N=28$ spherical shell closure erodes, the strength of the closure with decreasing proton number $Z<20$ is an open question in nuclear structure. In this region of interest, direct high-precision mass measurements of neutron-rich $^{43-45}$Cl isotopes were performed at the Low Energy Beam and Ion Trap (LEBIT) when coupled to the National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab. The resulting mass excesses (MEs) are ME($^{43}$Cl) = -24114.4(1.7) keV, ME($^{44}$Cl) = -20450.8(…

Absolutely love #Ireland's #Laika tribute! #Eurovision

Dramatic increase in number of Russian 'shadow ships' in Irish-controlled waters (Conor Gallagher/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/07/21/number-of-russian-shadow-ships-in-irish-controlled-waters-rises-dramatically/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p55#a250721p55

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Rún:
🎵 Terror Moon
#Rún
https://run-ireland.bandcamp.com/track/terror-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/2APT3zySwyFlS15xR9L5FM

@… This posted last year explains it
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/1448844-eurovision-vo…

An Amnesty report documents over 70 attacks and threats on journalists in Northern Ireland since 2019, with no prosecutions for threats from paramilitary groups (Rory Carroll/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j

But I owe a duty to Ireland:
I held her honour in my hand,
This lovely land that always sent
Her writers and artists to banishment
And in a spirit of Irish fun
Betrayed her own leaders, one by one.
James Joyce, Gas From a Burner (1912)
http://www.ricorso.net/rx/library/authors/classic/Joyce_J/Poetry/Gas_Burn.htm

You'll never become a NATIVE English speaker
No matter how hard you try, the years in the UK or Ireland, the effort in your accent, or the AI applications you might use to fake it
There is a language wall, made of accents, cultural references and seemingly illogical phrasal verbs and idioms, that we cannot jump
But IT DOESN'T MATTER.
90% of your interactions are probably with other non-native speakers. As long as you understand each other, you're good.

Neither British nor American: how Europeans speak their own flavour of English - The European Perspective
Learning English with Elton John

"First climate action plan targets increase in electricity from renewable sources in Northern Ireland"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

Orbital and Physical Properties of the Pleiades Binary 27 Tau (Atlas)
G. Torres (CfA), A. Tkachenko, K. Pavlovski, S. Gossage, G. H. Schaefer, C. Melis, M. Ireland, J. D. Monnier, N. Anugu, S. Kraus, C. Lanthermann, K. Gordon, R. Klement, S. J. Murphy, R. M. Roettenbacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15933

Orbital and Physical Properties of the Pleiades Binary 27 Tau (Atlas)
We report new spectroscopic and interferometric observations of the Pleiades binary star Atlas, which played an important role nearly three decades ago in settling the debate over the distance to the cluster from ground-based and space-based determinations. We use the new measurements, together with other published and archival astrometric observations, to improve the determination of the 291-day orbit and the distance to Atlas ($136.2 \pm 1.4$ pc). We also derive the main properties of the com…

For Father's Day I march with my child in solidarity, love, and grief for all the fathers left in Palestine and for all who've been slaughtered and for all who've had their children massacred or maimed by Israel.
#Galway #Ireland

Do I know any #accordion or #concertina folks in #Belfast who might be up to attending this auction and shipping me an instrument if I’m fool enough to win one?
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion…

The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection at Ross's Online Auctions
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection Bidding will take place via the-saleroom.com. You can bid by clicking here. Ross's Auctions is proud to present this landmark sale of Northern Ireland's lar

Brütal Legend is available for free for the next 666 minutes (from midnight UTC 1), it will be available until 11:06am UTC 1 (UK/Ireland)
#gaming

Who would have guessed that so many people in Northern Ireland, who traditionally are very Christian (of two slightly different variants of that religion), would turn out to be violent xenophobes and racists? Shocked, I am shocked.

Northern Ireland on its bullshit again. Sure, why not light a giant fire as part of an annual set of racist gestures beside an electricity substation that serves two major hospitals?
https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…

Legal action expected over loyalist bonfire sparking concern in Belfast
Legal action is expected to be launched over a loyalist bonfire in south Belfast which has sparked concern.

Universal parameters of the $\Lambda(1380)$, the $\Lambda(1405)$ and their isospin partners from a combined analysis of Lattice QCD and experimental results
Ferenc Pittler, Maxim Mai, Ulf-G. Mei{\ss}ner, Ryan F. Ferguson, Peter Hurck, David G. Ireland, Bryan McKinnon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14283

Universal parameters of the $Λ(1380)$, the $Λ(1405)$ and their isospin partners from a combined analysis of Lattice QCD and experimental results
We perform a global analysis of lattice and experimental data on negative-strangeness meson-baryon scattering using a large set of variations of the theoretical framework based on the Chiral Unitary Approach. For the former, the Lüscher formalism is utilized taking into account all pertinent coupled-channel effects. Through this, systematic uncertainties related to data scarcity, potential ambiguities, and possible framework dependence are quantified for the first time. The implementation of i…

Trump’s tax policy encourages the very offshoring that his tariffs are intended to stop.
Take the more than $600 billion pharmaceutical industry.
Over the past few months, Trump and his associates have repeatedly criticized companies’ moves to offshore much drug making,
particularly to Ireland.
“We can’t be beholden and rely upon foreign countries for fundamental things that we need,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on April 13.
But the tax incentives i…

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’ Actually Pushes Manufacturing Abroad
A loophole in Trump’s policy bill would continue to encourage offshoring.

For Father's Day I march with my child in solidarity, love, and grief for all the fathers left in Palestine and for all who've been slaughtered and for all who've had their children massacred or maimed by Israel.
#Galway #Ireland

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
John Ireland:
🎵 Decorations: No. 2, Moon-Glade
#JohnIreland
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hcMBHSOi4oiQSGGTehYJG

@… read this from last year and it explains what happened again this year
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/14

I think I just read that Ireland expects a heatwave up to 26° and now I know I'm ready to leave Berlin.

@… Haha. Well it’s a long story involving an ex-colleague from Croatia while we both lived and worked in Ireland. He got me hooked.
I got a couple of bottles two years ago when visiting the family back in Denmark Poland.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Rún:
🎵 Terror Moon
#Rún
https://run-ireland.bandcamp.com/track/terror-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/2APT3zySwyFlS15xR9L5FM

Just a reminder that if you're on a computer running American software that that offers a "UK public holidays" calendar (eg Apple), you can switch it off and subscribe to a more useful .ics here:
https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays

UK bank holidays
Find out when bank holidays are in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - including past and future bank holidays

67,000 homes in Ireland still use peat for heating. However, Bord Na Mona stopped extracting peat last year and closed its last peat power station. Now restoring peatlands which in a dried out, denatured state are carbon emitters. Big wind farms now on former extraction sites too. A great deal of historical damage has been done.
#peat

A Machine Learning Framework for Climate-Resilient Insurance and Real Estate Decisions
Lang Qin, Yuejin Xie, Daili Hua, Xuhui Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14638

A Machine Learning Framework for Climate-Resilient Insurance and Real Estate Decisions
Extreme weather events increasingly threaten the insurance and real estate industries, creating conflicts between profitability and homeowner burdens. To address this, we propose the SSC-Insurance Model, which integrates SMOTE, SVM, and C-D-C algorithms to evaluate weather impacts on policies and investments. Our model achieves 88.3% accuracy in Zhejiang and 79.6% in Ireland, identifying a critical threshold (43% weather increase) for insurance viability. Additionally, we develop the TOA-Preser…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsForeverDark
Rún:
🎵 Terror Moon
#Rún
https://run-ireland.bandcamp.com/track/terror-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/2APT3zySwyFlS15xR9L5FM

Ireland Beyond the Anthropocene
https://ift.tt/Hkg5ABL
updated: Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54amfull name / name of organization: American Conference for…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://…

Non-US News Sources to follow
) The Guardian (UK)
) The Irish Times (Ireland)
) RTE (Ireland)
) The Copenhagen Post (Denmark)
) CBC (Canada)
) The Globe and Mail (Canada)
) NZ Hearld (New Zealand)
) RNZ (New Zealand)
) BBC News (UK)
) Sky News (UK)

Today, in Ireland.
#Ireland #youNeedToBoycottIsraelNow #israel #genocide

@… Then read or listen to this post from last year and it will all make sense
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/14

Canada’s Pacific Coast hit hard by trawling, with limited transparency: Report https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/canadas-pacific-coast-hit-hard-by-trawling-with-limited-transparency-report/

Canada’s Pacific Coast hit hard by trawling, with limited transparency: Report
Trawling vessels pursuing fish are damaging marine ecosystems in Canada’s West Coast waters and could be operating illegally in some cases, and yet they work with insufficient transparency, a new report says. Nine large trawlers have together trawled swaths of the ocean collectively larger than the size of Ireland since 2009, according to the report, […]

“It looks like Northern Ireland is the place where we could see the most rainfall and certainly the most impactful rainfall. They could see 50 to 75mm of rain within 12 to 18 hours.”
Currently cats, dogs, sheep, etc. out there.
... and I got slightly sunburned earlier today out on the PCGB drive. (yes yes, put sunscreen in the glove-box timf)

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

An interview with Mediahuis Ireland CEO Peter Vandermeersch on the Belfast Telegraph reaching 100K digital subscribers, plans to reach 200K by 2030, and more (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/pa

Paywall launch was fourth-time lucky for Belfast Telegraph publisher
Mediahuis Ireland CEO Peter Vandermeersch talks about road to 100,000 online subscriptions and beyond.

Hello!
I have a happy favour to ask.
Last year, I had a US intern working with us and she now is looking for help that you- good reader of this account- could give.
(She needs academic survey participants)
Check out her flyer below, click the link, and please RT
http…

Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to conduct anonymous interviews to learn about why you would or would not participate in a legal action to rectify a data protection violation. This information can be used to help nonprofit organizations better represent you when organizations violate your data protection rights. Provide your email to receive more information. All personally identifiable information will be deleted following completion of the study.

Based on my experiences in Ireland I assume the vintage computer scene in other third-world countries must be pretty dreadful there, too

They will never stop. What about just banning all the crap?
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@eunews/114440309635861270

If you watched #Eurovision and wondered what the hell just happened after Israel received nearly five times more points from the public than from the juries you should read this:
https:…

I still don’t know how to translate “freddoloso” in English and that is severely impacting my conversations about the weather in Ireland

Nachos, tacos, and quesadillas: Taco Bell is coming to Ireland (via @… )
https://jrnl.ie/6703356

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

So, a bit shyly, I am almost ready to introduce a project I was working on for the last couple of months, related to Fediverse and specifically aimed at #queer #lgbtia community in #ireland
Will give some follo…

New Gist: Age Verification is an Epic fail
On Bluesky's introduction of age verification, selling us to the Fortnite guys, and how the arrogance of Ireland's regulator has seen it deliver the very outcomes it once called "bonkers".
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-age-verifi…

The Gist: Age Verification is an Epic fail
From the 21st July 2025, Ireland’s regulator will be enforcing age checks at the door for social media sites in the EU. This is the Gist.

I quite liked this 911 T and this C-Type too.

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1866, the Fenian Brotherhood crossed the Niagara River to invade Canada. This group was an Irish American organization that was dedicated to freeing Ireland from British rule, and they believed that if they captured Canada, they could use it as a bargaining tool. We could have become a nation of red-headed brawlers who were terrible hockey players.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://qormuseum.org/history/timeline-1856-1899/the-fenian-raid-1866/

This is a trend of my desire to not drink alcohol over the last few days. Purely coincidentally, this is also a graph of the state of charge of my solar battery array over the last few days.
I think I'm like one of those lizards that has to recharge in the sun to have any desire to live. No wonder I love the desert. No wonder I don't love Ireland.

I'm heading to London for Games Transformed: Smash the Fash event.
I'll be on a panel titled "What Can the Left Learn From Struggles in the Games Industry?" & speaking on our @gwuireland.bsky.social union organising with game workers in Ireland.
It's this weekend! Tickets here: https://www.

The Trump administration is preparing to begin the transfer of potentially thousands of foreigners who are in the United States illegally
to the U.S. military base in Guantšnamo Bay, Cuba,
starting as early as this week,
said U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The foreign nationals under consideration hail from a range of countries.
They include hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Nethe…

Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies
The administration aims to send thousands of foreigners to Guantánamo, including people from Britain and France, with no plans to notify their home governments.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
John Ireland, London Brass Virtuosi & David Honeyball:
🎵 A Downland Suite: III. Minuet
#JohnIreland #LondonBrassVirtuosi #DavidHoneyball

Crossing from Pembroke #Wales to Rosslare #Ireland, I just saw dozens of #puffins flying close to the Ferry.
When we first stayed in #Pembrokeshire in 1998, we happened to stay near Martin's Haven one night and simply got a place on a boat to #Skomer Island when arriving at the harbour. I never again saw so many puffins so close.
When trying to reserve a trip for this summer already very early this year, all trips to Skomer were completely booked and even the wating list filled...
#xp

From Fluctuation to Polarization: Imprints of $O(1-10)\, \mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$ Curvature Perturbations in CMB B-modes from Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves
Aurora Ireland, Kuver Sinha, Tao Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02044

From Fluctuation to Polarization: Imprints of $O(1-10)\, \mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$ Curvature Perturbations in CMB B-modes from Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves
Probing primordial curvature perturbations on small scales, beyond those accessible using cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary anisotropies and Lyman-$α$ forest data, remains a major open challenge. Current constraints on the scalar power spectrum at these scales are either weak or rely heavily on model-dependent assumptions about small-scale structure. In this work, we propose a novel method to probe the small-scale primordial power spectrum using scalar-induced tensor perturbations, whi…

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

I go on Facebook
An Irishman in Ireland has posted a picture of his Irish flag flying outside his house (in response to some sports thing, apparently?)
The comments are exclusively full of Irish people spouting vitriol about the United States
...
The Anglosphere mind has been fully reverse-colonised by its biggest boi. They define themselves in opposition to it; without it, they would have no identity at all. Very sad state of affairs.

Romero Games here in Galway has announced the redundancies of a large amount of staff.
If you have been affected and need support, please reach out to me so our union Game Workers Unite Ireland can help support you.
Connect with me at contact@denmanrooke.com or the union advice centre at https://www.fsunion.org/member…

Heard a loud noise over the house, and it was... THE GERMANS?!
It must be stopping at Shannon to get refuelled as it's scheduled to go onto Zaragoza, France.

Hi @…
I would like to set up a wee little bot posting articles from https://gcn.ie RSS feed here, is it allowed to do that?

GCN (Gay Community News)
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
John Ireland & Maggini Quartet:
🎵 String Quartet No.2 in C minor (2nd mvt: Nocturne)
#JohnIreland #MagginiQuartet
https://open.spotify.com/track/6dApDpG54rZTrgkQVhTh8C

All the boxes ticked at the Cultra Hill Climb today.

27°C (80°F) today, the warmest I've seen it in Ireland. The house remained at 18°C (64°F) downstairs with the doors open and obviously without air conditioning. Something to be said for a metre of stone on each side.

Re: Geo-locked.
There is an album of remixes released by Japanese artist, Yoko Oginome, called "Dancing Hero (All Eat You Up) [Remixes]"
I can listen to it on Spotify no problem, but the album on Apple Music is not available in Ireland. It's available on the UK and US versions of Apple Music.
Now, I get that it is more than likely something on the label side (Victor Entertainment), but geographical restrictions are such an archaic excuse.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
John Ireland, Orchestra of the Swan & David Curtis:
🎵 A Downland Suite - III. Minuet, allegretto grazioso [arr. for strings by Ireland]
#JohnIreland #OrchestraoftheSwan
https://open.spotify.com/track/2AJowUVrjeG9b3QqHP2j7C

Had a great day climbing in the Burren (Co. Clare, Ireland) with my friend Barry from Limerick.
We developed two new routes (first ascends) at Slieve Rua:
Broken Bum (HS), lead by Barry, and Midday in the Midlands (HS) lead by me.
http://wiki.climbing.ie/index.php?title=Slieve_Rua
#Burren #Clare #RockClimbing #TradClimbing #climbing #xp

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
David Fennessy, Katherine Hunka, Chamber Choir Ireland, Irish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Zehetmair:
🎵 Blood
#DavidFennessy #KatherineHunka #ChamberChoirIreland #IrishChamberOrchestra #ThomasZehetmair

#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
John Ireland, John Lenehan, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & John Wilson:
🎵 Piano Concerto in E Flat
#JohnIreland #JohnLenehan #RoyalLiverpoolPhilharmonicOrchestra #JohnWilson

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
John Ireland, City of London Sinfonia & Richard Hickox:
🎵 Concertino Pastorale (2nd mvt)
#JohnIreland #CityofLondonSinfonia #RichardHickox