Mary Gilmartin
@marygilmartin.bsky.social
Geographer, Sligo Rovers fan, writes books, union member
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Schools likely to shut due to strike as unions tell minister there is ‘no basis for us to engage in negotiation’
Parents receive messages warning of disruption on October 14
www.independent.ie
Work stoppage for @ifut.bsky.social members. Monday. 12-1. Part of public sector industrial action across Ireland. www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...
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The Walkout
As it was foretold, members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) held a one-hour stoppage on Maynooth University campus today to mark World Teachers’ Day. The turnout was very good, helped by the reasonably nice weather. As well as speeches from members of IFUT, there…
As it was foretold, members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) held a one-hour stoppage on Maynooth University campus today to mark World Teachers’ Day. The turnout was very good, helped by the reasonably nice weather. As well as speeches from members of IFUT, there…
The Walkout
As it was foretold, members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) held a one-hour stoppage on Maynooth University campus today to mark World Teachers’ Day. The turnout was very good, helped by the reasonably nice weather. As well as speeches from members of IFUT, there were also contributions from the other Unions, Unite and Siptu as well as the Postgraduate Workers' Organisation; the latter is not an officially-recognised trade union, but supports the dispute.
telescoper.blog
October 5, 2026 at 2:16 PM
The Walkout
As it was foretold, members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) held a one-hour stoppage on Maynooth University campus today to mark World Teachers’ Day. The turnout was very good, helped by the reasonably nice weather. As well as speeches from members of IFUT, there…
As it was foretold, members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) held a one-hour stoppage on Maynooth University campus today to mark World Teachers’ Day. The turnout was very good, helped by the reasonably nice weather. As well as speeches from members of IFUT, there…
Members of my union, IFUT, will have a one hour work stoppage today, from 12-1, as part of the broader public sector union dispute. Read about it here: www.ifut.ie/content/ifut... - solidarity welcome on World Teachers Day
IFUT Public Service Dispute Hub 2026 | Irish Federation of University Teachers
www.ifut.ie
October 5, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Members of my union, IFUT, will have a one hour work stoppage today, from 12-1, as part of the broader public sector union dispute. Read about it here: www.ifut.ie/content/ifut... - solidarity welcome on World Teachers Day
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TheJournal.ie: Taoiseach criticised for misrepresenting how citizenship rules work
Taoiseach criticised for misrepresenting how citizenship rules work
There have also been calls for the government to introduce a permanent residency visa if it insists on changing current rules.
www.thejournal.ie
October 2, 2026 at 5:35 AM
TheJournal.ie: Taoiseach criticised for misrepresenting how citizenship rules work
Work stoppage for @ifut.bsky.social members. Monday. 12-1. Part of public sector industrial action across Ireland. www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...
Schools likely to shut due to strike as unions tell minister there is ‘no basis for us to engage in negotiation’
Parents receive messages warning of disruption on October 14
www.independent.ie
October 2, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Work stoppage for @ifut.bsky.social members. Monday. 12-1. Part of public sector industrial action across Ireland. www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...
And solidarity with colleagues in Glasgow Caledonian
Four universities on strike today. One map to find them all.
Nottingham, Dundee, Glasgow Caledonian and Edinburgh are out. And today we launch the UCU strike map: every dispute across the union, in one place.
Find a dispute near you. Visit a picket. Share the map.
Nottingham, Dundee, Glasgow Caledonian and Edinburgh are out. And today we launch the UCU strike map: every dispute across the union, in one place.
Find a dispute near you. Visit a picket. Share the map.
October 1, 2026 at 7:47 AM
And solidarity with colleagues in Glasgow Caledonian
Solidarity with colleagues in Nottingham
Our strike action began today.
The management at our university has seemingly shackled itself to course closures and compulsory redundancies, despite neither being financially necessary.
So we fight for our members, our students, and our community until they change their minds.
The management at our university has seemingly shackled itself to course closures and compulsory redundancies, despite neither being financially necessary.
So we fight for our members, our students, and our community until they change their minds.
October 1, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Solidarity with colleagues in Nottingham
Solidarity with colleagues in Edinburgh
Day 4 of the UCU workers' strike against massive job cuts.
“Senior management can stop this strike by prioritizing cuts to non-staff budgets and stopping redundancies that are decimating our university, while leaving those who remain with an unmanageable workload & exhaustion."
UCUE co-president
“Senior management can stop this strike by prioritizing cuts to non-staff budgets and stopping redundancies that are decimating our university, while leaving those who remain with an unmanageable workload & exhaustion."
UCUE co-president
October 1, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Solidarity with colleagues in Edinburgh
Solidarity with colleagues in Dundee.
Day 8 of 25. We moved our picket line to this afternoon and we were blessed with amazing sunshine.
Our members resolve is strong as we fight against the underhanded methods employed by the UEG including not following their own processes.
Thanks to the many students who support us and visited us.
Our members resolve is strong as we fight against the underhanded methods employed by the UEG including not following their own processes.
Thanks to the many students who support us and visited us.
October 1, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Solidarity with colleagues in Dundee.
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Colleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts.
Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.
Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.
September 29, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Colleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts.
Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.
Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.
Solidarity with colleagues in @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social and @ducuuo.bsky.social.
September 29, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Solidarity with colleagues in @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social and @ducuuo.bsky.social.
Solidarity with colleagues in @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
Day 1 of our strike at the University of Edinburgh while senior management shrugs and says 'crisis, what crisis?' at the complaints about the inevitable falling educational standards and job losses.
Our members at Edinburgh University commence a 5 week strike today over crippling job cuts.
Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
September 28, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Solidarity with colleagues in @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
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This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
September 28, 2026 at 3:42 PM
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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For people of my age (old) and my background (CNR) who grew up in NI during the 90s, Drumcree was the nadir of community relation & differences in our perceptions of ‘rights’. We just could not conceive how a group of snarling, angry men thought their ‘right to march’ surpassed our ‘right to exist’.
September 27, 2026 at 8:09 PM
For people of my age (old) and my background (CNR) who grew up in NI during the 90s, Drumcree was the nadir of community relation & differences in our perceptions of ‘rights’. We just could not conceive how a group of snarling, angry men thought their ‘right to march’ surpassed our ‘right to exist’.
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I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss.
A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.
A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.
September 27, 2026 at 11:08 AM
I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss.
A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.
A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.
The Parades Commission annual report for the year to 31 March 2026 identifies 172 notifications of parades considered sensitive. That figure includes 51 notified weekly parades in Portadown www.paradescommission.org/Publications...
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2026 - Northern Ireland Parades Commission
Parades Commission Website, providing information about Parades in Northern Ireland.
www.paradescommission.org
September 27, 2026 at 2:19 PM
The Parades Commission annual report for the year to 31 March 2026 identifies 172 notifications of parades considered sensitive. That figure includes 51 notified weekly parades in Portadown www.paradescommission.org/Publications...
The players have shown the way forward to the FAI before. Remember this? www.balls.ie/football/kat...
Ireland WNT: McCabe Reveals Coleman's Key Role In Push For Equal Pay | Balls.ie
Katie McCabe has spoken about the key role that men's team captain Séamus Coleman played in pushing for the Ireland women's team to receive equal pay
www.balls.ie
September 26, 2026 at 10:52 AM
The players have shown the way forward to the FAI before. Remember this? www.balls.ie/football/kat...
Exactly this. They need our support in the absence of support from the institution.
Goodness, what a weight on the players. What a sense of clashing responsibilities it must be. How unfair it falls to the group of young men after their institutional supports chose to send them there.
Moves afoot in Debrecen…
September 26, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Exactly this. They need our support in the absence of support from the institution.
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It's pure shite that it has come down the players though. The FAI should have backed them, and got them out of the game.
September 26, 2026 at 9:55 AM
It's pure shite that it has come down the players though. The FAI should have backed them, and got them out of the game.
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Hear us Now! at the 15th annual March for Choice, this September 26th in Dublin.
Meet us at 2pm outside the Department of Health before we march to the Dáil.
Share this post far and wide and show your interest by clicking "interested" on our facebook event page, link in our tree.
Meet us at 2pm outside the Department of Health before we march to the Dáil.
Share this post far and wide and show your interest by clicking "interested" on our facebook event page, link in our tree.
June 25, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Hear us Now! at the 15th annual March for Choice, this September 26th in Dublin.
Meet us at 2pm outside the Department of Health before we march to the Dáil.
Share this post far and wide and show your interest by clicking "interested" on our facebook event page, link in our tree.
Meet us at 2pm outside the Department of Health before we march to the Dáil.
Share this post far and wide and show your interest by clicking "interested" on our facebook event page, link in our tree.
A bad year for #SligoRovers fans, made worse by this news. This is a fundraiser to support superfan Eoghan Sweeney's family as he battles serious illness @sligorovers.bsky.social
September 21, 2026 at 8:38 PM
A bad year for #SligoRovers fans, made worse by this news. This is a fundraiser to support superfan Eoghan Sweeney's family as he battles serious illness @sligorovers.bsky.social
It's a tough year for Sligo Rovers fans
September 4, 2026 at 8:49 PM
It's a tough year for Sligo Rovers fans
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Annoyed about the government's fare increase? I'm organising a protest outside Government Buildings tomorrow at 5:30pm. All are welcome! #speirgorm
September 3, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Annoyed about the government's fare increase? I'm organising a protest outside Government Buildings tomorrow at 5:30pm. All are welcome! #speirgorm
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Several hours later and I’m still marveling at this. If you take the bus you will have to pay more; but buy your own bus and drive it to work and the government will subsidize your petrol.
Bus and train fares for adults to increase by average of 15% from January, NTA confirms jrnl.ie/7150903
Bus and train fares for adults to increase by average of 15% from January, NTA confirms jrnl.ie/7150903
Bus and train fares for adults to increase by average of 15% from January, NTA confirms
The move has been criticised by opposition parties.
jrnl.ie
September 3, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Several hours later and I’m still marveling at this. If you take the bus you will have to pay more; but buy your own bus and drive it to work and the government will subsidize your petrol.
Bus and train fares for adults to increase by average of 15% from January, NTA confirms jrnl.ie/7150903
Bus and train fares for adults to increase by average of 15% from January, NTA confirms jrnl.ie/7150903
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I'll lie in bed all day, pull the curtains and shut the damned world out.
August 7, 2026 at 9:05 AM
I'll lie in bed all day, pull the curtains and shut the damned world out.
It's a special day. I get to apply for membership of Sligo Rovers AND I have one remaining Westlife stamp for the envelope.
August 25, 2026 at 1:12 PM
It's a special day. I get to apply for membership of Sligo Rovers AND I have one remaining Westlife stamp for the envelope.