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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 1h

And if they don’t have anyone in China who can a) speak English and b) operate a TV to see the cunning plans laid out

Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 7h

100%, it would have been good to have more of it in the campaign even if it was from someone representing a different sort of politics

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 7h

If nothing else, and agree with her or not, it feels like these words actually went through Catherine Connolly’s head and weren’t just from flash cards spat out of a focus group.

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 8h

'Everything I know about social justice and equality came from my house' @catherinegalway.bsky.social #speirgorm Your vote matters! www.facebook.com/reel/1651401...

185K views · 6K reactions | A wife and mother, a Barrister, a Gaeilgeoir, with a lifetime of public service. The Presidency of Ireland must be a place where the values of this nation are guarded and ...

A wife and mother, a Barrister, a Gaeilgeoir, with a lifetime of public service. The Presidency of Ireland must be a place where the values of this nation are guarded and renewed. Catherine...

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 8h

They really can’t get their heads around the fact we don’t want backward headbangers no matter how much their lovely skirt cost.

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Oisín Ó hAlmhain @oisinohalmhain.bsky.social · 8h

Go luath agus go minic mar a dúirt duine tráth!

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 8h

#Áras25 is great value - all going to plan we get to elect an actual voice for the people, keep government sycophancy out of the Park, and cost FFG a fortune. All in one day, with a few minutes work. Magic.

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Aodhán Ó'Coileáin @werslabber.bsky.social · 9h

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 8h

Voting done. 90 seconds start to finish. Maybe 5 minutes counting from arrival at the school gate. In case Americans are wondering how democracy is supposed to work.

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 22h

Israel could stop this instantly. If they weren’t intent on genocide.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 22h

Attacks on Palestinian farmers during West Bank’s olive harvest captured on video

Masked Israeli settler is filmed clubbing a 55-year-old Palestinian woman while she was picking olives

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 1d

Transphobes seem to just ignore that trans men exist because the bigotry can’t incorporate such complications. These are not sophisticated thinkers after all.

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 1d

Why do libertarians always end up telling on themselves?

DEREK ELLIOTT for NIAGARA @elliott4mp.bsky.social · 1d

Abolish statutory age of consent. Focus exclusively on capacity to consent (a test of rational understanding and voluntariness for each person) and strict enforcement of the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) against all coercion/exploitation, regardless of age.

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 1d

Americans are wild into all this reminding and declaring and whatnot, as if it makes a blind bit of difference. The gaff is smashed, too late now to be whingeing about it being illegal or didn’t have planning or whatever.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

As the diggers tear into the White House, Trump is reminded: ‘It’s not yours’

At a meeting with the Nato chief, Trump had a model of his new, disco-and-waltzing-friendly White House ballroom sitting on a table

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 1d

Eh, why weren’t “specialist detectives” looking at social media already? This is not exactly covert plotting. Also it would have been easy to identify those involved if they’d been contained and detained. Or, like, if anyone in AGS had been allowed to do something complicated like opening twitter

Irish Independent @independent.ie · 1d

A major criminal investigation is under way to identify those involved in Tuesday night’s rioting, during which a garda van was burnt out and gardaí were attacked with bricks and glass bottles

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Gardaí believe Citywest riots were organised as specialist detectives trawl social media and messaging apps

Gardaí believe the violence in Citywest was “far more organised and planned” than the rioting in Dublin city centre two years ago.

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever about Heather, writing off a campaign that has united the left for the first time ever, mobilised a huge group of canvassers (many of them young) and speaks consistently of inclusion, equality, peace and dignity as "uninspiring" is actually fucking ridiculous.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

The Irish Times view on the presidential election: an uninspiring choice

Democracy often demands we choose between imperfect options

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 1d

Easiest way to use AI to be more energy efficient is to plug the stupid thing out.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less.

AI can help the environment, even though it uses tremendous energy. Here are 5 ways how

Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less.

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 1d

Clean sweep on the way? Both leaders out on their arses after the 2 disastrous campaigns?

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 1d

Is aoibhinn leis tatúnna uafásach. Yikes

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 1d

It’s just like nach bhfuil CANDIDATE AMHÁIN ar fáil gan dodgy background?

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a collective failure by the media in the same vein as reporting that Palestinians ‘died’. It disconnects the event from the intent.

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 2d

Framing the riot as against the gardaí and not a thwarted attempt at mass murder gives cover for all the mealy mouthed government ststements. But what do I know, I’m just stuck in a country where the media have catastrophically failed to call out the danger from far right extremists for years

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 2d

They weren’t thrown at the gardaí, the rioters were attacking the residents. Thankfully for the surely terrified vulnerable people inside, the gardaí prevented that. Can we maybe stop pretending these dangerous racist thugs aren’t a massively dangerous threat to the public?

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 2d

Are the yanks ok? There’s a fascist literally tearing the seat of their democracy apart, and with an opportunity to oust one of his facilitators they’re enthusiastically trying to elect a guy with Nazi ink? Have I got that right?

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 2d

It wasn’t “demonstrations”, it was a racist riot by people who wanted to kill refugees.

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 2d

That was Humphreys sticking to the script? She was *supposed* to come across like that? Yikes.

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 2d

Four key takeaways from the final presidential debate

Catherine Connolly projected victory, Heather Humphreys stayed on script, and both candidates revealed regrets and priorities for office

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