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Aodhán Ó'Coileáin @werslabber.bsky.social · 33m

So, the King of Brown Envelopes is backing Heather Humphreys. If that doesn't sound the death knell for her campaign then nothing else will. #Aras2025

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Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social · 1h

If you’ve any doubt about who to vote for in our Presedintal election tune in and listen @catherinegalway.bsky.social in brilliant conversation @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social so enlightening! 👏👏👏
#PresidentConnolly #Aras25 #PE25

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Catherine Connoly

Podcast Episode · The Blindboy Podcast · 23/09/2025 · 1h 44m

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 1h

Let’s get #CMAT’s
EURO-COUNTRY to 1,000,000 in time for the presidential election next week!

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Lyrics tell of the dreadful impact of the worst kind of policies that led to the mauling of many Irish ppl by the Celtic Tiger masters.

#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Áras25

CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY (Official Video)

YouTube video by CMATVEVO

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Richard Dalton @zx23.bsky.social · 1h

And there it is.

The moment I decided I would vote for Catherine Connolly after all.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 1h

Heather Humphreys called herself brave today for withdrawing the Green Paper on disability and claims she did so after consulting with disability groups

not only did Humphreys never meet with members of the Scrap the Green Paper coalition, she didn't even reply to correspondence

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 1h

The continued employment of Newton Emerson is one of those great mysteries. He has never ever said anything insightful regarding NI politics

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 1h

Home and dry now. Bert has put the tin hat on it.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 54m

Someone has to stop this woman before she ends up being elected and sending the army to schools to deliver the flag, one of her latest ideas.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 7h

People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy has begun defamation proceedings against Fine Gael presidential candidate Heather Humphreys

Paul Murphy to sue Heather Humphreys for defamation

People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy has begun defamation proceedings against Fine Gael presidential candidate Heather Humphreys

www.rte.ie

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Aodhán Ó'Coileáin @werslabber.bsky.social · 1h

She's flailing around like a bull in a China shop.

Humphreys 'disappointed' after Paul Murphy files defamation suit over remarks during debate jrnl.ie/6845894

Humphreys 'disappointed' after Paul Murphy files defamation suit over remarks during debate

The case concerns comments made by the Humphreys during a presidential debate on RTÉ Radio One on Sunday.

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Hermes Pissmegistus @aleph.bsky.social · 1h

you just summarized the whole history of Europe in a sentence

wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 1d

Motherfuckers giving themselves scurvy because fruits and vegetables are woke and then blaming it on people casting spells on them.

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Paul Culloty @paulculloty.bsky.social · 1h

The graphics manager certainly deserves a raise - very much a Celtic Revival vibe there!

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 10h

This Get out the Vote Gig sold out in less than an hour yestersday.
@emmetkirwan.bsky.social Christy Moore, The Mary Wallopers ... #ceol #craic #Áras25 #Cat1 #Cat2

Poster for Gig at Vicar Street Dublin October 20.

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 2h

I am no longer able to donate blood. I would really love it if someone here who hasn't donated before could take up the mantle. It's not hard.

#GiveBlood
#SpéirGhorm
#Ireland

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 1d

Reserves for every blood type are critically low, with only B+ being close to the bare minimum.

You can literally save a person's life by donating as soon as you can.

giveblood.ie 🩸

#Ireland #Áras25

A graph showing each blood type and the amount left, the bars on the graph are styled as test tubes, each with a small amount of red liquid in them.

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Aodhán Ó'Coileáin @werslabber.bsky.social · 2h

Long since needed in Ireland. They are an unnecessary nuisance and danger.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 11h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Aodhán Ó'Coileáin @werslabber.bsky.social · 2h

Nothing to see here, apparently.

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Niamh Ní Cheallaigh 🇮🇪 ♿️ 🇵🇸 @niamhnicheallaigh.bsky.social · 3h

It's worth remembering that if it wasn't for People Before Profit, Sinn Féin and like-minded independents, you would all now have exorbitant water bills to go with your exorbitant energy bills, rent, fuel, childcare and food bills.

#SpéirGorm
#Áras2025
#NeverHeather

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Paul Murphy suing Heather Humphreys for defamation

People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy has begun defamation proceedings against Fine Gael presidential candidate Heather Humphreys

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 3h

Lol maybe Heather Humphries wouldn't be having such a nightmare election campaign if she hired Paul Murphy as her campaign manager instead of being so weird about him

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Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 7h

Jim Gavin had a good CV and wasn't Bertie, you can see in theory what Michael Martin thought he was doing. But Heather Humphries is a mid-ranking politician of no special profile or popularity. They put her first name on the posters like she was a household name, inviting the question "Heather who?"

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 7h

RDE's powerful Get out the Young Vote effort.

#YootsOfToday #aras25

Ruth Dudley Edwards venting at young people of Ireland.

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 7h

"Do you want radical socialists to run the presidency?"

Aside from threatening us with a good time - calling post-Tralee Labour and the Sticky centre "radical socialists" should have been a sign that these were Deeply Unserious People.

Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 7h

From the 1990 Presidential Election

Is the Left Right for the Park? Do you want radical socialists to run the Presidency?
If Not vote no. 1 Brian lenihan

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 7h

These people are a slow day away from taking to the ouija board for Conor Cruise O'Brien's take on the matter.

#spéirghorm #ireland #aras25

News Letter @newsletter.co.uk · 7d

Ruth Dudley Edwards: The exit of the dull Jim Gavin in the Irish presidential election race might lead to a head of state even worse than Michael D Higgins

I spend far too much of my time following politics but for several decades it has had a grip on me. Irish, English, Scots or American — or other entertaining byways like France, Italy or Argentina —...

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 7h

In the race for Ireland’s next president, Catherine Connolly holds a decisive lead in the latest Irish Times poll:

Connolly: 38%
Humphreys: 20%

One week to go till election day!

Looks very much like Connolly will be heading to the Áras an Uachtaráin.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 6h

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 6h

She’s not even elected yet and already Catherine Connolly is a sellout. We’ll all be speaking Russian by Christmas. Mark my words. #VoteHeather

Poster for a Catherine Connolly gig in Vicar St that sold out in less than an hour

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine focusing all your efforts on becoming the media's go-to mean-spirited smarmy crank, then cribbing when you get called out for it.

Bookie, politician, political strategist, pundit. Is there anything Ivan Yates *can* do?

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 10h

Ivan Yates has hit back at criticism over the "smear the bejaysus" remarks he made about Catherine Connolly in relation to the presidential election.

He said to suggest that he is involved in Heather Humphreys' campaign "is just nonsensical". jrnl.ie/6845710

'This is all BS': Ivan Yates has hit back at criticism of his 'smear the bejaysus' Connolly remark

The broadcaster and Fine Gael minister said to suggest that he was involved in Humphreys’ campaign “is just nonsensical”.

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 6h

This will be the first presidential election I can vote in since becoming an Irish citizen.

Is Catherine Connolly perfect? Nope.

But if Ruth Dudley-Edwards, Ivan Yates, and Bertie Ahern all are against her, it makes me all the more certain of my vote.

#SpéirGhorm

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