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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 2d

I can't get over this as an answer. Like, did she hear the question, or just not want to hear it?

#Áras25 #SpéirGhorm

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPE6YYm...

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 1d

I think I've found the skin cream Brendan O'Neill uses on his forehead

Ad in a chemist's for dry skin cream. Two posters are overlapping in a way that makes the model look like she has a massive forehead, but it's really just the legs of the other pic. When I saw it I got a fright and thought immediately of all the Brendan O'Neill memes. I was still coming down from a general anaesthetic / minor surgery.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 1d

I like this or whatever it is that this is.

youtube.com/watch?v=jJ0t...

Jim E. Brown - Every Time I Speak I Regret It Immensely

YouTube video by Jim E. Brown

youtube.com

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 1d

You may have clean dishes in 2-4 hours. 🪄

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 1d

"These days," he said, "if you say you like coddle, you'll be arrested and you'll be thrown in jail."

Picture of Stewart Lee doing this joke

https://subsaga.com/bbc/comedy/stewart-lees-comedy-vehicle/series-3/2-england.html#amp_ct=1760537066240&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17605370055225&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fsubsaga.com%2Fbbc%2Fcomedy%2Fstewart-lees-comedy-vehicle%2Fseries-3%2F2-england.html

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 1d

I don't want to know what dark magic makes too-watery coddle thicken up overnight, it just does right?

Ger @ger.bsky.social · 1d

I think I've found the skin cream Brendan O'Neill uses on his forehead

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 2d

Well done! Is there a voting link for us civilians?

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 2d

Just twigged the tine chnámh / 'bone fire' / bonfire thing. I love when Irish actually teaches us things about the English language.
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

The Secret History of 'Bonfire'

A good fire made of bones

www.merriam-webster.com

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 2d

THIS KEEPER IS REALLY PUTTING THE 'ARM' IN ARMENIA #COYBIG #IRLARM

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 2d

What's Mary Harney even up to these days?

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 3d

You know when Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after? Why did Jill do that? She should have safely made her way back down the hill to administer aid

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 3d

A closed shop

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 4d

Four Courts, June 1922

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 4d

Every time I'm listening to a historical podcast and it mentions the 1922 four courts fire I genuinely turn it off. I just can't. Too soon.

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 7d

It would be a brave nerd to take that on.

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 7d

Paddy Power have already paid out on a Connolly win, although cynics will say that the volume of betting on the presidential race is such that the possibility of a HH win is worth the definite publicity from paying out. Case in point: this reply.

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 7d

Important to get both sides of this important story. Well done @irishtimes.com

Ger @ger.bsky.social · 10d

What

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 11d

Jim Gavin will always have his historic 7* in a row
*days in the presidential campaign
#Áras25

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 11d

Of all Jim Gavin’s gaffes, it turns out it was his spare one that took him down.

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 11d

Is that a chip on your shoulder? (lapel)

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Ger @ger.bsky.social · 11d

Looks like CC. The theory being that JG's transfers were going to HH anyway, but now a lot of those voters won't turn up.

polymarket.com/event/irelan...

Ger @ger.bsky.social · 11d

Ger @ger.bsky.social · 11d

The Paper of Record on seeing Catherine Connolly ahead in the polls #aras2025 #aras25

Box saying "in case of emergency break the glass". Inside it says "Olivia O'Leary puff piece on Heather Humphreys"

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