Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

Hi folks, I've taken Bluesky off my phone, if you need to contact me email is best please - all our emails are the same format at the Examiner, firstname.surname@examiner.ie

I spoke to Sharon Lynn and Bryan Gallagher for today's episode on grief, justice and one-punch attacks. Bryan's words on what makes a man will stay with me for a long time www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

Thanks to Ciara Ní Bhroin for writing this piece on the DRCC consent ad row - props to @aidanobrien.bsky.social who gets a mention www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Had a really bad dream where the Minister for Justice, in the name of the government, enabled a pile-on of a rape crisis centre because of a campaign to raise awareness of consent for children.

Delighted to see my research get published in the Irish Examiner today, less than a week after presenting at PSAI in Cork! Huge thanks to @deshocks.bsky.social for liking the work and @theresareidy.bsky.social and UCC organisers for a fabulous conference. 👏👏👏 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

H.E. Tomoko Akane President of the International Criminal Court outlined the effects of US sanctions on her and her colleagues to a meeting of judges and practitioners at the Four Courts, Dublin today in the presence of the Chief Justice of Ireland Donal O'Donnell.

Very sorry to see that @eoghan.eurosky.social has died. Condolences to all who knew him.

Something tells me that Christina Ricci is a hell of a parent. I love seeing parents who teach their children right from wrong, and to stand up for what's right.

I'm really chuffed to have made this list for the podcast episode I recorded with Aolish Gormley on the Year of Care campaign. If you enjoyed it, please vote for the episode at the link below! shine.awardsplatform.com

Do vigilante groups help convict child sex offenders? Today's guest Alex Cunningham spoke to paedophile hunters, experts and gardaí about their methods and the questions surrounding their work www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

Cathy and Deirdre watched the new #PracticalMagic sequel for today’s pod @deshocks.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/22jm...

UCD Press author Maria Butler (@mariabutler.bsky.social) has a fantastic piece in the Irish Examiner this week about Marian Keyes and women’s commercial fiction. Our thanks to @deshocks.bsky.social and @irishexaminer.bsky.social for sharing this article. 📰 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Imagine my delight when this one was discussed at the editorial meeting. Great column from Alan Healy about the unprecedented economic success Limerick is enjoying - even with that note of caution. www.irishexaminer.com/business/eco...

unless you're waking up early to get the bus, Luas or DART, in which case you'll soon be paying 30% more per journey

Tell me a fun fact.

The fine for riding an e-scooter without a hi-viz vest, so that a careless motorist *might* see you (€100), will be higher than the fine for the same motorists if a Garda stops them for driving carelessly (€80). 🤷‍♂️

Love how this week we’ve been told by the UN that keeping global warming at 1.5 degrees is now gone and we’re deciding to delay increasing carbon tax, increasing the price of public transport and paying through the nose to cut excise duties. Love that.

Well it appears that the UK political and media class have decided that tutting loudly is the most appropriate response to a large gang of masked racists. Utterly pathetic.

Today’s episode is on the solicitors’ strike with @grainnenia.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

NEW: French researcher Stephanie Lamy exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, and the media that fell into his trap. If you think the news cycle has “moved on” from this story, ask yourself why? broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...

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This government's attitude that spending money on public services is some kind of terrible loss to the state coffers rather than THEIR ACTUAL JOB is going to tip me over the edge, I stg.

All the Most Important people in tech are stuck in various rooms unable to ask their chatbot to remind them how a doorknob works

The Times obit of Gloria Steinem begins like this. Are you fucking kidding me?

RIP Gloria Steinem www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-4...

So about that Collison-funded think tank whose policies the Govt has been so receptive to… www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/1passwo...

Given the near-constant Russian attacks on the capital over the past few days, the school decided it was no longer sustainable for the students to go down to the underground shelters whenever an air raid siren rang. Instead, they will have their classes there. https://cnn.it/4x0ric4

Very sad to learn my former colleague Elmarie Mawe has died. She was such a lady. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Absolute nightmare stuff.

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

Peter Thiel is getting a very cold reception outside his new mansion in the exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentinians are chanting: “Out, out, Peter out.”

Late 2000s retro chic to tradwife fetishism pipeline...apathetic bourgeois hipster to far right radicalization pipeline...

I have seen Fionuala in the Panto a few times and I feel she is very much bringing Panto energy to this #traitorsIRL

There’s absolutely NO WAY that Siobhan McSweeney and Fionuala Linehan don’t know each other from the Cork drama scene #traitorsIRL

🤯🤯🤯 So an apartment complex sewage is routed into the same place providing drinking water to 40,000 people and there are no consequences? And then if not for the Examiner this wouldn’t even be public information.

Wow

Didn’t know I was drinking sewage for the past few months - and the EPA wouldn’t have known if our reporter Donal O’Keeffe hadn’t started asking questions. Real journalism is worth subscribing for. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.

Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The British far-right political commentator has called for supermarket ICE checkpoints and ‌summary deportation of anyone failing to prove legal U.S. residency reut.rs/3Umfmnr

Very sad to see this

This is so confusing because all the worst people are here, I don’t know whose side to be on (except yours Amanda, obviously)

Is CUH safe for patients? Heath Correspondent Niamh Griffin talks me through the dispute between minister and manager www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

When your Bluesky feed lines things up too perfectly.

A reminder, again, that Ireland has *chosen* not to take regulatory action against this abuse factory, whose office sits in Fenian Street in Dublin. I think this failure to act in the face of clear knowledge is an unforgivable act.