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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 1h

Canvass in MacHale Park Castlebar today for the Mayo LGFA Senior Club Final. @catherinegalway.bsky.social

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 1h

Preach

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Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 9h

Honestly, fuck Labour from a height. Has there ever been a party to deviate from it's roots as much as Labour has?
Beat the paywall: archive.is/CuVxB
Always, always, vote for the least worst candidate. Abstaining gets the world into the state it's in.

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 9h

"I'm alright, Jack"

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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 11h

Well, Super Saturday was pretty super!

Volunteers came out right across Ireland to talk to their neighbours about why they’re voting for Catherine.

This election will come down to turnout, it’s so important that we all get out and vote on October 24. Start thinking about your polling day plans now

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 9h

Catherine Connolly’s favourite song is Ireland’s Call

#SmearTheBejaysus

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 9h

I wouldn't be one bit complacent about it.

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 9h

Absolutely - which agin, makes me want to find every one of those people and shake them

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, of course. There's nothing like undermining an important democratic process your party has already made a complete hames of to make a point to your own leader

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

www.thejournal.ie

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 18h

I was canvassing today and several FF people told me they were still voting for Gavin. I didn't tell them they were complete melts. But I thought it.

Gareth O’Connor @garethoconnor.bsky.social · 19h

The Irish Mail on Sunday #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 1d

Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found?

A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.

I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

CountryWide - RTÉ Radio 1

The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.

www.rte.ie

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 19h

No left wing movement is complete without a split

Jennifer O'Meara @jenniferomeara5.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly decided to confuse the bejaysus out of #SpeirGorm by having 2 hashtags going at the same time!

#SmearTheBejaysus #SmearTheBejaysis

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 20h

Heather Humphreys has run such a weak, insipid campaign so far that this really makes me want to find 30% of the voting population and give them a good shake

#Áras25

Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 22h

#Aras25 poll: Business Post/Red C
(October 1-7, MoE 3%)

ℹ️ Sampling began before Gavin’s withdrawal

Connolly 36
Humphreys 25
Gavin 12
undecided 27

After Gavin eliminated:
Connolly 39
Humphreys 31

W/o undecideds:
Connolly 56
Humphreys 44

www.businesspost.ie/article/red-...

Red C Poll: Connolly leads but Heather gains from Gavin exit

www.businesspost.ie

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Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 23h

Catherine Connolly stops at the top of the escalator and slowly looks all around her before walking off. #smearthebejaysus

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Wesley @wesgo.bsky.social · 23h

Catherine Connolly once returned a video tape to Xtra-vision without rewinding it fully. 😱 #SmearTheBejaysus #SmearTheBejaysis

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 1d

We owe you a great deal of gratitude for this, Reg 😄

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly breeds seagulls and trains them how to rob sandwiches and chips, then releases them into Stephens Green
#smearTheBejaysus #speirgorm

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 1d

The amount of otherwise decent people on here who are supporting Catherine Connolly, while pretending the entire incident with the penguin in Busáras didn’t happen.

#SmearTheBejaysus

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Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly calls it The Potato Famine.

#SmearTheBejaysus #SpéirGorm

Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly is just three Michael Ds in a trench coat!

#SmearTheBejaysus #Spéirgorm #Áras25

Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly thinks Thierry Henry's goal wasn't a handball.

#SpéirGorm #SmearTheBejaysus #Áras25

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Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 1d

“Appealing for votes, Ms Humphreys said she was “a centre ground candidate” at a “divisive” time who “won’t fall out with our European neighbours”.”

An interesting dig at CC. All I hear is that HH wouldn’t challenge them when they very much need to be challenged on their collusion with Israel.

Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 1d

Ivan Yates ‘no more involved in my campaign than Joe Brolly is in Catherine Connolly’s’ – Heather Humphreys on former minister’s comments

Heather Humphreys has said she will not smear anyone but will ask hard questions of her fellow presidential candidate Catherine Connolly.

Ivan Yates ‘no more involved in my campaign than Joe Brolly is in Catherine Connolly’s’ – Heather Humphreys on former minister’s comments

Heather Humphreys has said she will not smear anyone but will ask hard questions of her fellow presidential candidate Catherine Connolly.

www.independent.ie

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 1d

My home club, in a bid to reach their first ever Junior club final had the ball in the back of the net at 62 minutes,, to win by 2, only for it to be disallowedfor a breach and a free given against us. No All-Ireland loss ever hurt this much 🙈 Jim Gavin can truly go and shite now 🙃

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Dáiligh @dailigh.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Brolly’s crude mysogyny & Ivan Yates “smear campaign” - reminds me of the time that Mick Clifford & others were discussing on Twitter about how women were being too shrill about #repeal & that they should be more composed in demanding basic rights or they’d lose the referendum. #speirgorm

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't blame her 😂

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly skipped parts of Ulysses #Smearthebejaysus #Smearthebejaysis

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 1d

👏👏👏👏👏👏

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