It's St Gobnait's feast day, so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper @liber-ray.bsky.social @ria.ie looks at the life and times of Ireland's lesser-known patron saint of bees and beekeeping www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

BREAKING: An ICE flight just refueled in Ireland again. A local activist pressed police to investigate for human trafficking; the plane took off 30 minutes ago. Plus, that MAGA billionaire's jet did another ICE flight, this time to Sierra Leone. #speirghorm gillianbrockell.ghost.io/ice-flight-r...

Blessings & joy to you today, the Feast Day of St Gobnait, whose name translates to "bringer of joy" or "little goddess or sacred" depending on your source. She was a wanderer, a seeker; the patron saint of bees, beekeepers & ironworkers. All a bit of alchemy, if you ask me. #StGobnait

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

Limerick @ipsc.bsky.social out for Palestine today. There is no ceasefire, apartheid Israel is murdering Palestinians every day. To the utter shame of our government, Palestinians illegally abducted and deported from the US to the West Bank by ICE, went through Shannon Airport #FreePalestine

This!

📣 Please join us for our first book launch of the year! 📣 What: SHORELINES, the highly anticipated debut by @rurooie.bsky.social When: 5 Feb 6.30pm Where: @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Who: Launched by two-times KPMG–Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year winner Deirdre Sullivan All welcome!

World Book Day 2026 is on it's way! So get yourselves World Book Day ready.... (I love World Book Day; best day in the whole year!) #WorldBookDay2026 #ReadingIsFun @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/w...

What community can make happen... (I'm not crying, you're crying.)

Review: Lianna and the Hombit by Valinora Troy: A simply wonderful fantasy book; Heartwarming, hopeful, atmospheric, determination to continue when all seems lost; grief, friendship & healing @valinoratroy.bsky.social #MGBooks #TeenBooks #fantasy fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/l...

Imblog Blessings, everyone. Today, we honour Brigid, goddess of the hearth, poetry and renewal. We welcome the incoming Spring & ask strength and compassion to spread out across the land, in fact all the lands. May you have strength; may you have health; may you have peace. #ImbolgBlessings

💙Jon Klassen

In which I play a bit of catch-up and talk about three outstanding picture book offerings from the wonderful folk at @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social Beautifully illustrated; full of heart, humour and warmth. These are simply amazing! #PictureBooks fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/p...

I have no idea why the US thinks they can take their ICE agents (aka: hired thugs) to a foreign country in the first place.

Sign! For ECIs to be considered by the European Commission, each country must meet its threshold, for Ireland that's 10,080. We are currently at just under 6,000, approx 58%, so we need a big push! Belgium, Finland, France and Spain are there, let's get there too! eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

This petition could have a real impact on EU policy. Please sign. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/

This just broke me...

Hello Bluesky, it's Blue Monday. Take a deep breath & show up. You're a hero! #bluemonday

* GREENLAND GOVERNMENT: FROM TODAY THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED MILITARY PRESENCE IN AND AROUND GREENLAND -- IN CLOSE COOPERATION WITH NATO ALLIES @reuters.com

World Book Day is coming!!!!

Some thoughts on the passing of John Quinn.... Rest in Peace, my friend. And thank you for...everything. #FallenStarStories #TheSummerOfLilyAndEsme fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/r...

Nollaig na mBan Shona Daoibh! Happy Womens' Christmas...or Little Christmas, Old Christmas, Twelfth Night; however you recognise it; Tis a day to rest & reconnect; to slow down. Hoping you ease yourself into this new year & throughout the year are blessed with all the gifts of each season.

Invoking Wounded Knee to justify modern military actions is a moral failure. Turning a massacre into political cover and then handing out medals isn’t honoring history or service. It’s exploiting both.

Happy New Year, folks! May 2026 behave more reasonably for all of us.

Santa is on his way.... Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night. #NightBeforeChristmas #HappyChristmas2025🎅🌲🎁💖 #JesseWillcoxSmith

US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules ft.trib.al/TgoG45B

In these last 2 days of Christmas shopping, SUPPORT SMALL, LOCAL BUSINESSES. They are your family, your friends and your community...and they really need your support. #supportsmallbusiness #BuyLocal #livegalwaylovegalwayshopgalway #SupportADream🌲❄️🎅

Blessings for the Winter Solstice. Blessings for Yule. We have turned the year.

Marys' Advent Calendar of Kids Books-Week 4: to take us right up to the big day! As the man himself would say, "Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night." @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @andersenpress.bsky.social fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/m...

LET'S MAKE COMPASSION THE REAL WINNER THIS CHRISTMAS. BUY IT NOW AND GET LULLABY BY TOGETHER FOR PALESTINE TO NUMBER ONE - EVERY PURCHASE COUNTS. THANK YOU togetherforpalestine.org

Ireland is the 4th freest country in the world according to the new Human Freedom Index 2025. 🇮🇪👏 Irish residents enjoy exceptionally strong freedom of movement, of religion, of relationships, and of expression. Only the Swiss, Danes and New Zealanders rank higher. www.cato.org/human-freedo...

Moving right along in a seasonal fashion, it's...Marys' Advent Calendar of Kids Books- Week 3. 6 more of the best for holiday season. @andersenpress.bsky.social @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @littletigeruk.bsky.social #ChristmasBooksForKids fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/m...

Sunrise 13 December 2025 #itsthesimplethings

The most perfect gift! Cailín Sinséir Bhéal Feirste/The Belfast Gingerbread Girl by Marianne McShane & Mr Ando: captures all the fun, happiness, magic of the season; imaginative, joyous and utterly wondrous! #leabharasgaeilge #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/g...

Enemies-to-lovers has never tasted so sweet! @meabhmcdonnell.bsky.social’s debut YA has charmed reviewers all over Ireland and is set to delight many more! Grab your copy and get reading, you’ll find that one slice just won’t do 🍰

My dearest friends have returned! Mouse & Mole: Odd Socks by Joyce Dunbar & James Mayhew: wonderful, 3 heartwarming tales; gentle, beautifully illustrated; funny, charming with a very “real-life” touch; perfect! It will lift your heart! @graffeg fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/m...

#bookpost really is the best post! Receiving this gift; The Belfast Gingerbread Girl/Cailìn Sinsèir Bhèal Feirste from An TSnàthhaid Mhòr; Marianne McShane & Andrew Whitson is wonderful! I am completely charmed@ Thankyou! #FallenStarStories #HappyChristmas🎄🎁🎅 #NollaigShona🎄❄️🎁 #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks

It's time for Week 2 of Marys' Advent Calendar of Kids Books! Six more fun and festive tales and treasures to add extra joy to the Christmas season.... #FallenStarStories #AdventCalendarofBooks fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/m...

From tomorrow, 5th Dec #BookElves2025 will be on hand to recommend brilliant Irish books for all ages - from tots to teens. if you'd like a recommendation - ask away below. I'd be delighted to help! And I'll be posting some of my favourite Irish books of the year every day. #discoveririshkidsbooks

Here it is! Week one of Marys' Advent Calendar of Kids Books! Six days, six books & six of my favourites for the time of year! @andersenpress.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/m...

Announcement! It's time for the return of Marys' Advent Calendar of Books! #FallenStarStories #AdventCalendarOfBooks #jolabokaflod fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/h...

And the winners are... a quick but enthusiastic shout out to the winners of the #AnPostIrishBookAwards 2025, in the childrens categories. #FallenStarStories #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/a...

Today is Black Friday...so today of all shopping days, support your small, local businesses, artists & craftspeople. Support your neighbours & community. They need you; big businesses don't. #BuyLocal #supportsmallbusiness #livegalwaylovegalwayshopgalway #buyconsciously

Welcome to....Fear Files: Hide and Seek by Christopher Edge: This is incredibly, deliciously creepy; so scary; so riveting, full-on & suspenseful; Short, sharp & completely delectable. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/w...

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who celebrate. #Thanksgiving2025

Harriet Tubman: Force of Nature by Caoline Brewer: beautiful book reviewed for Childrens’ Books Ireland/Inis Magazine; life of Harriet Tubman presented as poetry; factual, expressed lyrically, flowing, moving & entirely memorable. Just beautiful. fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/h...

After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Tove Jansson writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who encompassed #kindness & #community, even in the darkest times #WomensArt #WorldKindnessDay