Lindie Naughton
@Neacht
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Dublin photojournalist and writer. Usually in B flat minor. And still running. Also at @neacht.bsky.social
Dublin
Joined February 2009
'Volunteerism is a hard sell. By definition, it is an unselfish act, but, in the modern world, there's a growing resistance to doing something for nothing.'
irishtimes.com
With more people being paid for their roles in clubs, is it any surprise unpaid people feel undervalued?
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Smartphone addiction is an issue “we’ve been sleepwalking into for the past 15 years”.
irishtimes.com
‘Balance’ phones, voice-messaging device and landlines are part of the equipment used by parents in Smartphone Free Childhood Ireland
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RCSI’s new €90m ‘front door’ on St Stephen’s Green. H'mmm... https://t.co/EOaToXoodw
irishtimes.com
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has unveiled a cubist addition to the historic Dublin square. How does it fit in with its venerable neighbours?
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Brilliant: Joni Mitchell's 'Coyote' performed by 7 piece band 'Hejira' https://t.co/iLprApsdMe via @YouTube
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Meet & Train C-C, The Curragh @DubAthletics @ClonliffeHAC @DonoreHarriers @BrosPearseAC @CrusadersAC @DSDAC @Lucan_Harriers @LuskACPro @RahenyShamrock @liffeyvalleyac @RathfarnhamAC @LSARunning @DFRclub @CSH_Running @Blackrockac @balbrigganac #flickr
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Amazon Drivers Take 45 Days to Earn What the Company’s Union Buster Earned in 1 https://t.co/qCXBR9FjYw via @Scheer_Post
scheerpost.com
Union-busting consultants thrive on secrecy, but they can’t hide their obscene pay rates for long.
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Dublin Marathon: Record 47,000 applications to lottery-based ballot for 2026 event
irishtimes.com
Non-refundable €5 ballot entry fee resulted in €149,000 in administration fees collected from unsuccessful applicants
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Anyone else miss the days when the Christmas frenzy didn't start until after December 8?
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'Every elected representative should be invited to familiarise themselves with the daily reality for public transport users who do not or choose not to drive.'
irishtimes.com
Long lead-in times, a lack of sustained policy commitment, and start-stop approaches to big projects all contributed to where we are now
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'This is the new soft gulag. They don’t need to kick in your door at 3am. They can simply make everyday life so frustrating, so exhausting, so humiliating that you voluntarily withdraw from participation. Death by a thousand verification cuts.'
off-guardian.org
When people talk about “getting off the grid,” the image that usually springs to my mind is the full-on pioneer fantasy: selling the house, buying 40 acres in the bush, installing solar panels, dri…
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Ledwith Construction BHAA Cross-Country @dublin_athletics_insta @dublingazette @donore_harriers @civilserviceharriersrunning @DunshaughlinAC #flickr
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We have become phone zombies, blind to everything that’s happening around us. How about a weekly 'no phone day'?
irishtimes.com
So much of the social order depends on the mutual attention inherent in normal sensory experience. When we funnel 90 per cent of our working attention down into screens, we miss a lot
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“If apartments are going to be there, why can’t we just make it beautiful? Make it a nice complex, because it’s going to be there for 100 years,” Logan says. https://t.co/13OVkWwByh
irishtimes.com
South Dublin neighbourhood has seen an intensification of apartment block construction over the past two decades, despite some objections
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Wise words “My name’s Frank. I’m 64, a retired electrician. Forty-two years I spent running wires through houses, fixing breakers, making sure people had light in their kitchens and heat in their winters. Never once did anyone ask me where I went to college. Mostly, they just
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Sea foam in Loughshinny North Dublin today shared by a follower living there 50 years and has never seen so much before.
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Ian O’Riordan: Did you hear the one about the cross-country races cancelled because of rain?
irishtimes.com
Two events were cancelled in Dublin earlier this month when conditions were far from muddy or wet
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Our future is in the hands of Musk and his ilk. They are 'making' technology that will shape how we socialise, work and live. But we cannot rely on them to improve our lives, to allow us to share in the beauty and joy of being human and alive.'
independent.ie
Growing up, once children learn to recognise themselves in the mirror, they begin to ask themselves some important questions.
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Performative poppy wearing has turned toxic – should we be wearing white poppies?
independent.co.uk
As two TV presenters and a politician have already fallen foul of the rabid ‘Where’s your poppy?’ brigade, and actor Mark Rylance has been branded ‘woke’ for donning a symbol of pacifism, Helen...
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