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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 2h

Saw a post yesterday from someone saying they did 'useless degrees' in Ancient History and Greek but did alright. They studied at Yale and Oxford. Questions begged.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 3h

Do you think a serious centre-right candidate would have won? Mairead McGuinness? Serious question, I'm not there, and hard to tell with only media for guidance.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 4h

Me neither, but it passed almost completely uncontroversially.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 4h

'Dangerously Woke Youth (minus Declan)'

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 4h

Everyone forgets that one, even as they deplore Trump doing the same thing. And we voted for it.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 4h

"political catenaccio" excellent.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 4h

'a few pints' - few being any number up to A&E

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 5h

I don't have it with me so can't directly quote, but there's a passage talking about the way in which a child using a word or expression they don't quite understand lights up their interiority that limns the experience so exactly.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 5h

I wish I'd gone to Oxbridge.

Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · 6h

Can’t wait to start reading the new Richard Osman!

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 6h

Read this more or less in a sitting - saved the final few pages for this morning early. Some astonishing sentences, wanders like an entirely self-directed animal, as if the book itself were in control and the author merely reporting what the book was doing now.

ie-nb.bsky.social @ie-nb.bsky.social · 2d

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett review – remembering terrible men | Fiction

https://www.newsbeep.com/ie/79325/

“English, strictly speaking, is not my first language by the way,” Claire-Louise Bennett wrote in her first book,…

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett review – remembering terrible men | Fiction - Ireland News Beep

“English, strictly speaking, is not my first language by the way,” Claire-Louise Bennett wrote in her first book, 2015’s Pond, a series of essayistic stories

www.newsbeep.com

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 20h

Fight Club is kind of the opposite of Oxbridge

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 19h

The magnetic attraction of the already crowded middle ground in Irish politics is strong. What I would give for a left party that knew what it was doing.

John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 19h

Congratulations to the new spokesperson on social palantir.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 19h

The Social Democrats have appointed Dublin Bay South TD Eoin Hayes as their spokesperson on social protection.

The announcement signals that the party have forgiven Hayes for his embarrassing controversies since becoming a TD.

jrnl.ie/6845494t

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

Never mind the issue, I can't imagine Humphreys being able to formulate a paragraph as nuanced as that about anything.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

I have never walked along a street with a phone in my hand unless I'm making or receiving a phone call.

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1d

i have never, not once, listened to a song on spotify unless it was playing at somebody else's place

what are you a luddite about

Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

This.

Ralph Brandi @thereisnocat.com · 1d

I have never summoned a ride from Uber or Lyft. I’d rather take a cab, public transit, or walk.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

Like the Donald and books written against books read, I've been a guest on more podcasts than I've ever listened to.

WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 1d

I don't listen to podcasts

I have only ever listened to a single installment of one because a friend told me one of our hate-follows was going to get roasted on it

And they were

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

"There was certainly genuine emotion and outrage which does not preclude the possibility that many were moved by how much they were moved"
Ackbar Abbas on post Tiananmen protests in HK. Transferable,I think...

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 1d

You could actually fit Northern Ireland in the gap in the Irish midfield.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

Outside chance all 4 'home' nations will make it, just so we can feel like Scotland usually do

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that saving the future event at the RDS during the crash? There was a Green at our table who stormed off when someone suggested a maximum wage. 'but entrepreneurs!'

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

This being, of course, the same Green Party that helped Fianna Fáil decimate a generation with the bailout and bank guarantee.

Then, later on, the very same Green Party that sold out a nascent broad-left movement to facilitate a historic conservative super-coalition.

#spéirghorm #ireland

Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 1d

There are a few people expressing surprise that members of the green party in Ireland might be against left wing politics enough to resign from the party over backing Catherine Connolly for president...

I am curious how this could possibly still be surprising?