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Cavan girl living in Northern Ireland. Keen on a fairer world. Member of Rainbow Reels LGBT+ trad group
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If you want to hear more about David Strain - star of Hidden Belfast, Forbidden Love - I will be giving a public lecture at PRONI this coming Thursday! Info and (free) tickets here: www.niwarmemorial.org/events/confi...

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This is my favourite flag in the world: Rainbow Refugees NI, Unity in Diversity!

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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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Sharon Shannon playing in Cavan Town Hall - great crowd, great music, great craic

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Next QUB Palestine Assembly teach in Wednesday 26th 7pm, Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, Room 02/018 Free and open to all

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Cavan is the place to be over St Patrick's Day weekend. Accordion player Martin Donoghue with support from @cavancoco.ie Cavan Arts, has curated a great weekend of events

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The NMI are developing an LGBTQ+ tour for National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks & are seeking a researcher to work on drafting a script for the tour. Deadline for applications Fri 14th Feb - #speirgorm #queerhistory #irishhistory #history www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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Very excited to open our regional Chrysalis leadership programme for SAS doctors and dentists in Northern Ireland supported by NIMDTA. Apply via learn.hscni.net

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Strange how racism keeps tearing its ugly head! All of this insanity because of the fools that couldn’t vote for a black woman for President.

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A gentle reminder that you have just over a week to get those applications in for the Anna Parnell Grant. Closing date 14 February 2025.

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Books are humanizing; social media is radicalizing. Books may appear passive, but they are energizing. Social media may appear active, but it numbs and stupefies.

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@paulduane.bsky.social do you know if the go fund me accounts you are sharing are legitimate? I have read people have set them up and then masqueraded as Palestinians? Happy to donate but don't know which ones to trust.

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Musk is not what you’d call a ‘details guy’. Or indeed a ‘facts guy’.

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‘Mary Robinson says Donald Trump is a liar and he and Elon Musk are a threat to democracy’ - good on her, no better woman and never a truer word spoken www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...

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Today, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board sets the #DoomsdayClock at 89 seconds to midnight. "The world depends on immediate action." Read the full statement below.

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#NeverForget

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History fans! Take a guided tour at NMI, Collins Barracks on Sat 1st & Sun 2nd Feb. #Brigit2025 Eileen Gray – Discover an icon of modern design The Way We Wore – How fashion reflects women’s changing roles. Revolutionary Women – Women in Ireland’s Revolution. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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🙌Funded PhD Opportunity!🙌 Please do share widely. The DCU School of History and Geography is currently advertising paid PhD opportunities esp in Medieval Ireland, the history of Irish towns and cities, legal history and women’s and gender history www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

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Once saw a TG4 documentary about Inishkeeragh off the coast of Donegal where a group of women were recounting how when they were younger "we girls used to row ourselves to the mainland dances to meet men and row back to the island in the dark at 3am" so maybe Tinder isn't that hard

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Money saving tip: the little shop at the end of Johnson's Court off Grafton St Dublin does watch battery replacements for a fiver. (I've been absolutely stung paying €20 for one on O'Connell St before.)

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No matter how strong the wind blows and the rain lashes all is well in their world

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