Posts by Carrie Griffin
@mary1010.bsky.social you'll be interested in this
450 redundancies announced at the Ulster University. The impact of this will be devastating to staff, students & the functioning of the North as a whole. From social sciences speaking truth to power, to art giving this place joy - the decision must be reversed.
Can you sign & share this petition?
I think this is my favourite so far. Alice Knox in Blackrock, Co. Dublin who is very glad to be single. #1926census
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Insidious stuff
Congratulations to SEIC & @cemslimerick.bsky.social student Emma Barrett who presented a paper at the Tragedy & Resistence conference hosted by the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus in Berlin, organised by staff of Northumbria University and Ghent University! @unioflimerick.bsky.social
Tigh solais na Tiarachta 1926. bhí 141 duine ar an mBlascaod!
“King and Queen will not meet Epstein survivors during US state visit.” Just the perpetrators…
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I don't think my day can recover from "I thought it was me as a doctor." Let's call it a wrap.
"The JD Vance two day visit cost Hungarian taxpayers roughly $1.2 billion"
Yes. This.
Periodic reminder that the president has lost his fucking mind
Kemi Badenoch! Roger Scruton! MattGPT! Bari Weiss! Rod Dreher! Jair Bolsanaro! Howard from the Halifax adverts! JD Vance? You hear me JD Vance? Your boy took a hell of a beating! Your boy took a hell of a beating!
Good news for democracy #Hungary
No urgency like this forhunger & homelessness
Hundreds of people have marched through Glasgow’s city centre to protest against Scottish airports being used as a launchpad for the United States 'illegal' and 'catastrophic' war on Iran
Citizenship ceremony cancelled in Killarney Tuesday & Wednesday due to blockades. Approx 6000 visitor cancelled. €30,000 cost to local hotels. @radiokerry.bsky.social
"There's not a fucking oil truck moving in this country until we get what we want because if we can't afford it, they can't fucking have it.
"We have the country by the balls!"
Christopher Duffy, not even slightly fascist, addressing a rally in Dublin.
And by "they", or course he means "You".
Full support for this activist ✊✊
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/
Nothing to see here, just one group of people in our society holding the country ransom for days & being treated differently now to everyone else #protests
Thank you so much!! Excitedly terrified!
The World is scared & overwhelmed by the US. Tens of thousands dead, millions displaced & the blood thirsty US president is a diagnosed narcissistic sociopath. At Easter he threatens the Pope! An amoral man destroying the peace of the world. After 250y isn’t it time for a real American revolution?
Chuffed to be part of this!!
Drum roll please ... These are your First Page Pitchers for 2026! These 10 writers were selected from dozens of submissions to read their work in front of the agents - and you - and get invaluable feedback.
Please come along to support them and perhaps glean some literary gems for yourself.
This is so well done. 👌
Is Melania Trump talking about Jeffrey Epstein now to distract from her husband’s epic failure on Iran? (This hideous idea was literally a joke just a fortnight ago.)
Jealous