Katherine Nolan

Katherine Nolan

@dochara.com

Here for news, non-rancorous political discussion, cute cats & dogs, tech stuff and to hear from experts on the many many things I know nothing about. Retired vet. #FreePalestine Hobby site gone mad at https://www.dochara.com

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What about saint's heads? Is that still on rotation for school tours?

Neil Mackay@neilmackay.bsky.social

Instead of screaming about ‘woke’ could we try having a sensible discussion about whether or not the dead should be on display in museums? Scotland has removed some mummies from display and the culture warriors have gone nuts. Whatever happened to intelligent debate? In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

Most unfortunately Jim O'Callaghan and all the other pols with x-addled brains will read these results and take it as a ringing endorsement of their stance. Makes it all the more important that as many clearly sane and reasonable people as possible contact their TDs, do it.

The Journal@thejournal.ie

Poll: What do you think of the grandparents' consent ad and the decision to remove it? jrnl.ie/7202682

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I am a grandparent (step-grandparent, if you're all about the blood) in a fairly complicated family, who only gets to see kiddo fairly infrequently. Sometimes they want to hug & sometimes they don't & that's 100% up to them. Hugs are absolutely the right place to start consent education!

The Journal@thejournal.ie

Adverts run by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre looking at consensual hugs between children and their grandparents has been suspended after criticism. Aontú's Peader Tóibín called the ad "bonkers", as he urged a "need to build resilience" among children. www.thejournal.ie/grandparents...

I'm going to Portugal next month, in theory to see my grandchildren but they got a new cat and now I'm really going to see him. Meet Monty.

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Maybe Arnotts shouldn't employee security guards to beat shoplifters to death? Totally lowers the tone of the area tbh.

Dublin Inquirer@dublininquirer.com

Maybe people shouldn't be able to collect social welfare at the GPO, Arnotts lobbies. The company behind the Henry Street department store raised the idea with the man in charge of the regeneration of the city centre, returns show.

Been blocked by a heap of accounts I've never knowingly encountered in the last week or so. No idea what I said that triggered that.

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Don't be confused, this is just a public grant to gambling companies

Cianan Brennan@ciananbrennan.bsky.social

Horse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...

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You’ve been seeing very large #bumblebees on the wing for the past while. Why? Okay I’ll tell you why in this quick thread if you promise to #repost as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year. Deal? 1/15 #bees

Oddly I remember this very clearly. I was in a junior school choir and we were singing a tiny part of his mass in a local church the next day. Instead of the moderate crowd expected it was completely mobbed, backed out the door.

irishfamilydetective@irishfamilydetective.ie

Died #Onthisday 1971 #Cork man Seán Ó Riada - the composer’s groundbreaking arrangements of Irish traditional music had a formative influence on an entire generation📸Ó Riada at his 1952 B. Mus. Graduation from UCC

Once again I open a favourite podcast to listen to while I go to sleep, only to see the episode description start "Live from...". Ugh. No.

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Have been cutting the players some slack cos they don't run the FAI, they're not in Government, but this changes things. Whoever this absolute cunt was needs a good kick up the hole. #StopTheGame

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com

Also reported by @gcooney93.bsky.social in the Irish Times tonight that following the team meeting and vote, some players “turned on Bazunu, one of whom is understood to have abused him to his face”

Saw a (homemade, not AI) flyer advertising a Sale of Work today - have not heard of one of those for a very long time, they used to be everywhere and were great!

Watching Location Location Location and absolutely cracking up at Kirstie's many different and all wrong attempts to pronounce Cathal.

These things are bloodsuckers on a country. And completely misnamed, it isn't about 'data' that is of some use, that would need a fraction of what's being built. They are AI centres largely powering nothing of worth while stealing power from everything of value.

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i’ve just sent a polite but pissed off email to all of my TDs. please do the same i beg. this proposed change is racist, its white supremacy, its xenophobia, its control over human bodies in its purest form.

I know little about this but surely deciding to go play in the AFL is an individual player decision and no business of the GAA? They don't own the players. This makes it sound like what the GAA are really looking for is soccer style transfer fees for players. www.rte.ie/sport/footba...

rte.ieGAA to meet AFL over player recruitment protocolsGAA President Jarlath Burns has said that a meeting with be held with representatives of the Australian Football League (AFL) shortly to try and find a more agreeable protocol to GAA player recruitmen...

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The €1bn spent on fossil fuel sinces April would have put 8kw battery & solar on 100,000 homes buying them energy freedom for 20+ years. The €1bn+ that will be spent over the next few months would bring that to 250,000 homes. What we lack is will and vision

Talking about food waste when over 80% of meals are eaten is baffling, and almost 90% if you take out absences. This is a stellar rate, they should be boasting about it not calling it a shortcoming. Since when do kids eat everything they are given?

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie

Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary has said a number of changes are on the way to the free hot school meal programme, including the possible introduction of cold lunches

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At the same time that the Minister for Justice is trying to cut off our access to the economic engine of immigration, the Minister for Finance is warning about the very demographic problem immigration is solving. While ignoring its existence.

Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social

The thing the Minister for Justice is trying to stop us have is the thing that is keeping us going.

Online advertising is so completely broken. Bought a pair of shoes, from an Irish site. I am now followed by ads everywhere for those *identical* shoes, some from the same store. Shoes I already own, new. Whoever pays for such ads is robbed. I'm put off the seller. Someone gets richer.

What is it with all leaders and governments everywhere being absolutely in thrall to these tech bros? They hang off every opinion like it came down from a mountain carved on stone. Money, I know, proving itself over and over to be the root of evil.

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Amazing how some people's brains/souls/hearts can be so utterly different. He probably thinks of himself as a morally good person. No 'good' person could ever conceive of this idea

The Journal@thejournal.ie

Ireland is missing out on the benefits of Europe’s defence spending boom because it lacks a significant defence industry, Minister of State Thomas Byrne has said. The government is now changing the law to help more Irish firms compete for European defence work. jrnl.ie/7163745

Sometimes you can wash a stain out. Sometimes it never goes away no matter what you do. I really think this is one of the second type of stain.

At this point I don't think I want any of them to win. Can Siobhan just keep the money on the basis of them being pathetic? #traitorsirl

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Replying to @selkies.bsky.social

Man as soon as I read that he described a genocide upon a captive population of civilians (largest concentration of child amputees in the world as it happens) by a settler state funded by a superpower as "the conflict between Israel and Palestine" I knew he was a write-off

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What’s happened with Macklemore and Ed Sheeran is a morality tale that speaks to the cost of trying to remain apolitical in an increasingly political world. Ed Sheeran didn't want to take sides, but now he's on the wrong side of history. nialler9.com/ed-sheeran-d...

nialler9.comEd Sheeran didn't want to take sides, but now he's on the wrong side of history | Nialler9What's happened with Macklemore and Ed Sheeran is a morality tale that speaks to the cost of trying to remain apolitical in an increasingly political world.