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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 5h

We'll be hosting a watch party for the final debate Dublin South West next Tuesday!

This will be the final debate before the election on Friday the 24th October.

#Connolly4President

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 1d

This is what the right-wing obsession about "free speech" and "cancel culture" has been all about: the right to be vocally bigoted and then even rewarded for it.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 23h

The atmosphere in Lansdowne is as flat as the back five we are insistent on playing against Armenia.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 1d

she spent over half a year pushing proposals that would have deepened poverty for disabled people and seen bureaucrats with no medical training force us into work. it was one of the last things she did in office, yet it's only been covered at all when Tom Clonan forced the issue

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 1d

every day that Heather Humphreys is not asked why she refused to meet with disability activists during the Scrap the Green Paper campaign is another day of ignominy for the Irish press. she's running on her record, yet she's not questioned on it any substantive way

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 1d

You can never rule out the Sparts

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 1d

Workers Party and Socialist Party have come out officially and backed her. Can’t see anything direct from the SWN but they are clearly on board too given their role in PBP.

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure she has the backing of all three.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 1d

Let's explore the Green credentials of Heather Humphreys - The woman former GP member Brian Leddin thinks should be president.
She advocated for an increased burn period during her time as Minister for Heritage, as well as prolonging the period during which hedgerows could be cut. #Spéirgorm 1/n

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

This remains head and shoulders above the agenda-driven studio efforts. And mercifully short. #Áras25 Just a minute quiz.

Arlene Harris @arleneharris.bsky.social · 5d

In today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social the two remaining presidential hopefuls told me about their daily lives, their hopes and fears for the future, their earliest memory and the one thing people don't know about them #PresidentialElection
#Aras25
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/he...

Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly on hopes, fears, and daily routines

Getting to know more about our two presidential candidates with questions about everything from morning routines and earliest memories to biggest fears

www.irishexaminer.com

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2d

A stick, hanging in mid-air?
What's going on?

Hazel glue fungus!

Keeping a dead twig attached to a living stem allows the glue fungus to break it down without competition from the many other fungi that work at ground level. Nature is *so* amazing!

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 2d

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year.

Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 5d

🧵 Am I surprised they gave Maria Corina Machado the Nobel Peace Prize? No. Does she deserve it? Also, no. There’s a reason she was barred from running for office in Venezuela: multiple violent coup attempts and calling of foreign governments, like Israel, to invade Venezuela.

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 5d

Dinny Lowry RIP. The longest-serving @stpatsfc.com player of all time, one of our most-decorated players, one of our greatest ever keepers and an Irish senior international.

A piece I put together with thanks to Donal and the Pat’s media team. 🔴⚪️🇮🇪

www.stpatsfc.com/news.php?id=...

Dinny Lowry RIP

Everyone at St Patrick's Athletic FC is saddened to hear of the passing of one of our greatest ever players, the legendary Dinny Lowry

www.stpatsfc.com

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 5d

Dinny Lowry RIP. The longest-serving @stpatsfc.com player of all time, one of our most-decorated players, one of our greatest ever keepers and an Irish senior international.

A piece I put together with thanks to Donal and the Pat’s media team. 🔴⚪️🇮🇪

www.stpatsfc.com/news.php?id=...

Dinny Lowry RIP

Everyone at St Patrick's Athletic FC is saddened to hear of the passing of one of our greatest ever players, the legendary Dinny Lowry

www.stpatsfc.com

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 5d

You’re right Alan. This is far from in the bag. A huge number of conservative voters will turn out and vote HH. The challenge for the Connolly campaign is to mobilise enough people to come out on the day. I’d be worried given recent Presidential and other second-order vote turnouts.

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 6d

"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning."

They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 6d

Our next big action for the #Connolly4President campaign is this Saturday, 11am - we'll be leafletting, which is simply putting a leaflet into the mail slot and speaking to anyone you see out and about.

A very easy-going activity for anyone who is new to the campaign!

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 7d

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 8d

Deletion of Jim Gavin ads shows we can’t rely on big tech for democratic architecture

I wrote something for the paper 👇🏻

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Liz Carolan: Deleting of ‘Jim Gavin for President’ ads shows we can’t rely on big tech for democratic architecture

Campaign history will be wiped out as providers of digital political ads press delete on their archives

www.irishtimes.com

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 8d

Bhuail mé leis an gcéad Uachtarán na hÉireann eile tráthnóna inniu i gcroílár Thamhlachta. Táim lán de dhóchas do Catherine Connolly agus na fiúntaisí atá aici.

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 9d

Great to show Catherine Connolly around Dublin South West today to meet and talk to people.

It's clear that there's a momentum behind #Connolly4President, and we need to continue getting more people to volunteers on the campaign to keep going.

Make sure you join us for our public meeting in Priory

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 9d

Beyoncé’s grandad.

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 9d

…deireadh na hoibre.

Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’ve met Jim Gavin, I think he’s a decent person, I won’t be voting for him but he’s certainly an interesting candidate.

But this is hardly a ringing endorsement for the leader’s choice against someone who only appeared as the internal FF candidate a few weeks back. Tús bocht…

Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · Sep 9

Jim Gavin is the Fianna Fáil nominee for President - he wins the secret ballot 41 to 29. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 9d

This article hurt my brain trying to make sense of it. But good to see the libertarian right poster boy going as well as he should.

Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 10d

Not even the prospect of a $20 billion bailout paid by U.S. taxpayers is stabilizing Argentina after Milei’s peso/dollar manipulation failed. His sister (and chief of staff) is caught in a bribery scandal, and his top candidate was caught taking $200k from a narco. It’s over.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10d

Argentina’s wily currency traders drain Javier Milei’s dollars on.ft.com/4pUkn1R