Brendan Smith (@speediecelt) 's Twitter Profile
Brendan Smith

@speediecelt

Educationalist, Environmentalist, Science Advocate, Technologist, Community Activist, Rebel, Lover of most things Irish,Travel addict.Views expressed are my own

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@franceskalbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Gaza: In the largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st century, Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one 'safe zone' at the time. With US and European

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1804 Optical Telegraph- a reenactment of Ireland’s first coast-to-coast communications system. 2pm, August 17 at Insight SFI Research Centre Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway. The event will be followed by a guided tour of the Computer & Communications Museum of Ireland. To register go to mariaedgeworthcenter.com/maria-edgewort…

1804 Optical Telegraph- a reenactment of Ireland’s first coast-to-coast communications system. 2pm, August 17 at <a href="/insight_centre/">Insight SFI Research Centre</a> <a href="/uniofgalway/">Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway</a>. The event will be followed by a guided tour of the Computer &amp; Communications Museum of Ireland. To register go to mariaedgeworthcenter.com/maria-edgewort…
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Last week, TIME Magazine published an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that normalizes the heinous crimes his government is committing in Gaza. War criminals shouldn’t be given a platform to minimize and deny genocide.

Last week, TIME Magazine published an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that normalizes the heinous crimes his government is committing in Gaza. 

War criminals shouldn’t be given a platform to minimize and deny genocide.
Alonso Gurmendi (@alonso_gd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Here's a simple question for journalists to ask Israeli spokespersons in light of the claim that “17k terrorists have been killed”. Is this man, Ramzi Abu Sahloul, killed in January in Khan Younis while waving a white flag, in that list? And if he is not, which list is he in?

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Commodore Users Group Ireland held workshop at #Insight #Galway using array of 1980s #Amigas & #Commodores. Great to see Insight acting as a hub for digital makers/user clubs & events. Attendees then enjoyed a visit to Computer & Communications Museum Insight SFI Research Centre Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

Commodore Users Group Ireland held workshop at #Insight #Galway using array of 1980s #Amigas &amp; #Commodores. Great to see Insight acting as a hub for digital makers/user clubs &amp; events. Attendees then enjoyed a visit to Computer &amp; Communications Museum <a href="/insight_centre/">Insight SFI Research Centre</a> <a href="/uniofgalway/">Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway</a>
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Thanks Connacht/CityTribune for publishing my article of the huge anti-war protest of Jun 1984 against US President Reagan being conferred with honourary degree from #UCG. It united,like never before,a wide strata of society & saw socially & globally aware active Ireland start to crystalise

Thanks <a href="/CTribune/">Connacht/CityTribune</a> for publishing my article of the huge anti-war protest of Jun 1984 against US President Reagan being conferred with honourary degree from #UCG. It united,like never before,a wide strata of society &amp; saw socially &amp; globally aware active Ireland start to crystalise
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Even during a music festival, the youth of #Ireland show their support for a free #Palestine & an end to the illegal #Israeli occupation & colonisation of their country.

Architectural Conservation / Galway City Council (@conservationgcc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hiding in plain..ish sight on Dominick Street🔍...The City of Galway Cycle Depot! 🙂 Thanks to all who came along for our #HeritageWeek Sunday cycle, we'll be doing it again this Wednesday at 7pm. Meet at the Spanish Arch, booking via: [email protected] #GalwayArchitecture

Hiding in plain..ish sight on Dominick Street🔍...The City of Galway Cycle Depot! 🙂

Thanks to all who came along for our #HeritageWeek Sunday cycle, we'll be doing it again this Wednesday at 7pm.

Meet at the Spanish Arch, booking via: heritage@galwaycity.ie
#GalwayArchitecture
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History was made in #HeritageWeek2024 when first #semaphore messages since 1805 were sent between Galway & Dublin! c100 people at #Edgeworthstown,Kilmainham Hospital, Insight SFI Research Centre Galway, Ramallah #Palestine,Austria, USA...witnessed reenactment of Richard Edgeworth's invention

History was made in #HeritageWeek2024 when first #semaphore messages since 1805 were sent between Galway &amp; Dublin! c100 people at #Edgeworthstown,Kilmainham Hospital, <a href="/insight_centre/">Insight SFI Research Centre</a> Galway, Ramallah #Palestine,Austria, USA...witnessed reenactment of Richard Edgeworth's invention
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⁩Frank McCurry gave a wonderfully informative demonstration of how #Marconi’s 1890s radio wave-based wireless #telegraphy system worked at the Computer & Communications Museum of Ireland. #HeritageWeek2024 ⁦Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

⁩Frank McCurry gave a wonderfully informative demonstration of how #Marconi’s 1890s radio wave-based wireless #telegraphy system worked at the Computer &amp; Communications Museum of Ireland. #HeritageWeek2024 ⁦<a href="/uniofgalway/">Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway</a>
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When US President #RonaldReagan came to #Galway in 1984, thousands of people from all backgrounds (families, youth, nuns, priests, academics, trades unionists,students, business people, artists...)came onto the streets not to welcome him but to condemn him connachttribune.ie/no-red-carpet-…

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What a wonderful day spent at a packed Insight Plenary in UCD!So much brilliant research taking place in Insight SFI Research Centre benefiting people & planet.Great too to see Education & Public Engagement being so valued in Insight & for my Galway colleagues to do so well in this category!

What a wonderful day spent at a packed Insight Plenary in UCD!So much brilliant research taking place in <a href="/insight_centre/">Insight SFI Research Centre</a> benefiting people &amp; planet.Great too to see Education &amp; Public Engagement being so valued in Insight &amp; for my Galway colleagues to do so well in this category!
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Tuatha volunteers have spent summer working with Galway City Council parks staff transforming #TerrylandForest Park into an #OutdoorClassroom. Latest addition is the #EndangeredSpecies Trail as we prepare for the park's 25th birthday in 2025. Part of the Galway National Park City vision. London National Park City*

Tuatha volunteers have spent summer working with <a href="/GalwayCityCo/">Galway City Council</a> parks staff transforming #TerrylandForest Park into an #OutdoorClassroom. Latest addition is the #EndangeredSpecies Trail as we prepare for the park's 25th birthday in 2025. Part of the <a href="/GalwayNPC/">Galway National Park City</a> vision. <a href="/LondonNPC/">London National Park City*</a>
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Tuatha volunteers spent summer working with Galway City Council parks transforming #TerrylandForestPark into an #OutdoorClassroom.Tatiana paints a swan sculpture in our 'Nature in Irish Mythology Trail' as we prepare for park's 25th birthday in 2025.Part of Galway National Park City vision.London National Park City*

Tuatha volunteers spent summer working with <a href="/GalwayCityCo/">Galway City Council</a> parks transforming #TerrylandForestPark into an #OutdoorClassroom.Tatiana paints a swan sculpture in our 'Nature in Irish Mythology Trail' as we prepare for park's 25th birthday in 2025.Part of <a href="/GalwayNPC/">Galway National Park City</a> vision.<a href="/LondonNPC/">London National Park City*</a>
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School tours return to #Insight #Galway after summer break.Italian students were introduced to our research & enjoyed guided hands-on tour of ComputerMuseum. Next week German student group & a #GTI Software Development class will visit ⁦Insight SFI Research Centre⁩ ⁦Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

School tours return to #Insight #Galway after summer break.Italian students were introduced to our research &amp; enjoyed guided hands-on tour of ComputerMuseum. Next week German student group &amp; a #GTI Software Development class will visit ⁦<a href="/insight_centre/">Insight SFI Research Centre</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="/uniofgalway/">Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway</a>⁩
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A #wolf was spotted in developing Irish temperate #rainforest this morn! One of the animal rock sculptures along #Extinction Ireland heritage trail in #TerrylandForest Park Galway city. Last Galway wolf was killed here in 1720s.Trails part of vision of Galway as #NationalParkCity

A #wolf was spotted in developing Irish temperate #rainforest this morn! One of the animal rock sculptures along #Extinction Ireland heritage trail in #TerrylandForest Park Galway city. Last Galway wolf was killed here in 1720s.Trails part of vision of Galway as #NationalParkCity
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A Bridge Transformed by Community Volunteerism & Council cooperation.Congrats to volunteers that transformed old forgotten bridge in TerrylandForest into thing of beauty that will become one of Galway's major heritage features & key part of new city green walking & cycling route

A Bridge Transformed by Community Volunteerism &amp; Council cooperation.Congrats to volunteers that transformed old forgotten bridge in TerrylandForest into  thing of beauty that will become one of Galway's major heritage features &amp; key part of new city green walking &amp; cycling route