Laura Cullen

Fake ladies and real threats - Brazil is on the front lines of the technofascist wars. Pay attention... @astra.bsky.social @democracynow.org

Twenty years on from Gardasil vaccine launch, Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer

randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

19rs ago when Dolly sent me a personal video message just cos a friend sent her a letter telling her about our annual HIV/AIDS fundraiser, The Alternative Miss Ireland, and how much I loved her And far away in Tennessee she sat down and shot an adorable engaged video for this nobody just to be nice

Ok, here's a Sunday scary for you - did you know that in every county in Ireland, women are earning less? I've categorised the company pay gap reports by location, and everywhere has a mean pay gap in favour of men, and almost everywhere a median pay gap in favour of men.

And this is just the beginning.

It is one of the most beautiful and challenging books I have ever read. Sobbed several times throughout. #Poor by the magnificent Katriona O'Sullivan.

EXCLUSIVE: Last week, @bylinetimes.bsky.social revealed the George Cottrell identity fraud at Reform UK's heart. Today, we expose how that same fraud links Cottrell and Reform to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises bylinetimes.com/2026/07/27/h...

GP shortages: Where are the most acute problems across the country? www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...

The first volunteer in the world - a 37-year-old UK man called Ed Hunt - has received an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus, by Fergus Walsh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watching Albert Reynolds circa 1981 on #reelingintheyears I miss a time when politicians were less media trained and journalists were less 'politician trained'!

NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇

NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what?? Today @thenerve.news news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson. 1/

The absolute humility and generosity of Zelenskyy. What does he say to Caolan Robertson when giving him his much deserved award? “Don’t forget us” Whoever could!

#otd On this day in 1912, Hannah Sheehy Skeffington smashed some windows in Dublin Castle "as an act of suffrage". I love this plaque at the castle for its Irish translation; "a rinne smidirini de na fuinneoga seo". One of my favourite Irish words, #speirgorm * #smidiríní *

Very cool indeed

An NHS campaigner reveals how spy-tech giant Palantir tried to secretly hire influencers to smear Good Law Project 👀 🎧 Listen to The Shadow Contract👇 https://goodlaw.social/1e69ba

#SundayWiMIN26 Week 20: Dr Ursula O’Neill (d. 2010), GP, musician, GAA medic, patient advocate and fundraiser. Obituary from @irishmedicaltimes.bsky.social www.imt.ie/features-opi... www.wimin.ie/sundaywimin26

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

AMEN!!!!

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

People who work to aid survivors of sexual assault in the immediate hours and days following an attack fear that too few people know about their services, despite the fact that demand is growing

GPs following family footsteps: ‘We see people at different stages along their life’ www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...

GPs following family footsteps: ‘We see people at different stages along their life’

Increase in codeine addiction presenting at treatment services, says leading GP

Deeply impressive analysis of where Ireland is economically and socially. I don't agree with it all, but don't you just love when your perspective is challenged and changes as a result! Go raibh míle maith agat Sinéad. open.substack.com/pub/butthist...

Total rainfall forecast for next 10 days. That’ll do pig, that’ll do.

My 8 yr old said today that she was going to 'hold on' to her birthday money 'until it made some money and then hold on to that money until it also made some money & only then could you start spending'! I asked her 'who taught you that, Daddy?' She said 'no, Teen Titans'! Worried & proud. #Parenting

It is for parents to raise their children. Not platforms. The European Age Verification App is ready ↓ link.europa.eu/HmnrJc @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social

A man with HIV has gone into remission after receiving bone marrow from his brother, who has a rare mutation that prevents the function of receptors that HIV binds to

Absolutely magical. Handel's Messiah on Dublin's Fishamble Street this lunchtime, 284 years after it was first performed. Proinnsías Ó Duinn, 85 years young conducting, a living legend.

Some needed clarity. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-fuel...

Very happy to donate to the Muslim Sisters of Éire who feed the unhoused week in week out. Only takes a minute msoe.ie/donate/

Citizenship ceremony cancelled in Killarney Tuesday & Wednesday due to blockades. Approx 6000 visitor cancelled. €30,000 cost to local hotels. @radiokerry.bsky.social

In Ireland we have interdependent communities. We know this inherently. We have come through serious trauma on multiple levels nationally. We can't let our fault lines be manipulated. We have a rural urban divide and haves and have nots. But if there is one thing we know how to do here it's talk.

The electorate can talk to TDs very easily, we have an extremely accessible democratic model where elected representatives have to compete in customer service with other reps in a multi seat constituency.

Because no government in the world is meeting with random liúdramán's who decided they get to keep the rest of the country hostage by blocking fuel depots and making things worst for the rest of us.

Just because you have a tiktok live does not mean you can hold the country to ransom organise yourselves formally lads.

🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇 1/10

Yes, as you may have gathered, I'm pissed off. And I'm a Culchie. Imagine the reaction if a bunch of Dubliners went down to Mayo and caused chaos for the locals for 36 hours (and counting...) cos Donald Trump bombed Iran 🙄

#OTD 1914 the inaugural meeting of Cumann na mBan took place. It aims were to 'advance the cause of Irish liberty...organise Irishwomen in furtherance of this object...assist in arming & equipping Irishmen for the defence of Ireland...and form a fund for these purposes.' www.dib.ie/biography/ca...

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

'Answer the sodding questions'. Love it! broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-brolig...