Deckie Jordan (He/him)

Deckie Jordan (He/him)

@decjordan.bsky.social

Limerick man in Cork. Husband and Dad. Professor of Economics too, focus on regional and spatial analysis, urban mobility, climate, and a bit of sports economics. Bit of a sports nut. Cyclist. He/him.

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Wait until he realises how bad women are! 🤡 #NotSeriousPeople

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

So decent of Cork City council to spend a fortune providing lovely free parking around Crawford brewery. More cars around the corner on the plaza. The only way in is through a tight squeeze between plastic wands and over the bike lane and footpath. Why we can’t have nice things. #SpeirGorm

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Shout out to all the public sector workers on strike today. The more visible we are, the stronger our hand in ensuring fair, equitable pay and security for all.

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing my fellow IFUT members today on the quad for a one hour work stoppage in pursuit of a credible pay proposition from government. www.ifut.ie/content/ifut...

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If only there was something that someone in a position of authority could have done to avoid all this...

To translate: Whether it is wrong or not depends on who you are talking about, not what they did.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Do you have any reaction to a US ambassador asking someone to pay off debt in exchange for access to other government officials? VANCE: Well, so -- with that hypothetical, obviously I don't love that, but I, you know, I don't know exactly who you're talking about, I don't know the full details

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Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

cbc.caHidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC NewsA new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

This is barbaric. Even when it is carried out correctly. If the death penalty is a deterrent what would the counter factual murder rate be?

NPR@npr.org

Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee halted the remaining execution for the year. trib.al/vq2ElQr

Norway v Portugal is on TV in Ireland tonight on Virgin Media 3 for all football supporters with nothing to watch. #StoptheGame #SpeirGorm

The Canary@thecanaryuk.bsky.social

Norway foreign minister quoted Gramsci's pre-WWII warning when addressing the general assembly regarding Israel Via @skwawkbox.org

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Patrick O' Donovan doesn't want to drag politics into sport. But

Loki@lokideburca.bsky.social

As someone who just received a lifetime ban from a local football stadium for holding a "StopTheGame" banner, I wish everyone who attended this and is of the "don't drag sports into politics" mentality, a massive go fuck yourself in the face.

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Literallly every day a government minister walks up to a microphone and says "no we can't fix anything but have you considered living under the sea"

Brendan O’Connor asks smugly “would any of those players have seen Netanyahu’s speech at the UN?” These are not boys or idiots. They are full grown men with agency. The narrative that footballers can’t be expected to understand politics or the world is patronising nonsense. #StoptheGame #SpeirGorm

The argument that Ireland played countries such as Yugoslavia under Milosevic and Russia under Putin implicitly puts Israel - a supposed democratic lawful country - into the same category as them. It’s not quite the gotcha you’d think. #StoptheGame #SpeirGorm

Karl Whelan@karlwhelan.bsky.social

A hard unfollow for this. Whatever you think about the right thing to do, the idea that Irish people upset about the game because they are outraged by what's happening in Gaza are supposed to consult some sort of whataboutery on previous games with Russia/China/Yugoslavia is frankly ridiculous.

In which David McWilliams equates your value to your contribution to GDP. Apparently if you are in a caring role you are not a net contributor to the Irish economy. I thought economics had moved on but apparently not. #SpeirGorm

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The ongoing situation around Gazan student visas is an embarrassment. One government department has offered these students scholarships, but another won't approve their visas. The Minister for Justice and the Minister for Foreign Affairs must communicate, and resolve this fiasco.

Proud of the Taoiseach’s speech at the UN GA. It is a pity his government has been so brutal and callous to Gazan scholarship students who wanted to study in Ireland #SpeirGorm RTÉ News: When true Gaza horror revealed 'it will shame the world' www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...

rte.ieWhen true Gaza horror revealed 'it will shame the world'When the true horrors of Gaza "are finally and fully revealed, it will shame the world", Micheál Martin has said in his New York address at the UN.

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A former captain of the Palestinian national women's team held without charge or trial and the Irish national men's team is going to play apartheid Israel? The FAI must boycott these games. #StopTheGames Palestinian footballer who played Bohs stuck in Israeli jail www.ontheditch.com/we-are-livin...

ontheditch.comPalestinian footballer who played Bohs stuck in Israeli jail“We are living a nightmare,” her father told The Ditch.

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Huge if true! It would mean the UK govt has read a newspaper and watched TV.

The Canary@thecanaryuk.bsky.social

C4 Dispatches tonight exposes what UK govt knows about Israel's crimes Among other things, the Dispatches trailer suggests that the show has evidence of the Foreign Office's explicit knowledge of Israel's genocide www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

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Annie Leymarie@annieleymarie.bsky.social

"Poet Michael Rosen said: 'No singers ever opposed the Vietnam War, sang about poverty, oppression, exploitation, war, strikes, deportations, racism, false imprisonment. Guthrie, Dylan, Baez, Scott-Heron, the Specials, Tracy Chapman, Billie Holliday ... don't exist.'"