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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 5h

Didn’t know Catherine Connolly was so anti EU and pro Brexit.

All of this aged like milk.

Clare and Mick stuff makes even more sense now

youtu.be/uOCzWwe-xsY?...

Catherine Connolly TD on Brexit

YouTube video by Cathal McCarthy

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 2h

Matthew a good appointment. He's a good guy.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 2h

Focus was always on the Home Championship in those days, mind you. All went wrong when the fans charged on to the pitch at Flodden and got stuck in the mud. Big contrast with the reverse fixture at Bannockburn a few years before, then it was the charge on the pitch that sealed the Scots' victory.

Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 3h

Three lions on the shirt
Dead thanes bodies' steaming
Nine hundred years of hurt
Never stopped Will scheming

Nine hundred and forty eight years ago and they never stop bloody going on about it.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 4h

Harold got into trouble for that sort of thing too - switching his allegiance to the English side after previously giving William his support at the Under-21 level. Didn't go down well in camp of the man they called "the bastard".

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 4h

Once again the international break ruined the domestic game

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 4h

Back in those days there were no substitutes so attempts to replace Godwinsson with another English man failed.

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 5h

Each to their own but I personally can’t vote for Catherine Connolly as long as her answer on this question stays the same.

Throwing them under the bus would cost so little and put many voters at ease. But she only has good things to say about them, and always refuses to specify any disagreement.

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 6h

Glad to see this analysis of the SNP currency plans in @scotnational.bsky.social newsletter from last night:

"Upon independence, Scotland is expected to continue losing around 8% to 10% of its GDP [...] this means that the Scottish private sector must shrink by between 5% to 7% each year."

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 9h

White signs just mean local destinations

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 21h

who do you think of when you hear the opening words of Plaistow Patricia?

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 21h

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 22h

I really disagree. In a sense you are right because there is nobody else there either but if politics is/should be principally verbal then more debate not less required.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 22h

Fundamental problem with the current system is that MPs sitting in the chamber listening to debate is devalued by an electorate that demands MPs are social workers at their beck and call.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 22h

Far right failure in Portugal

Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections

Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary elections

www.theguardian.com

Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

Worth just repeating that the 1918 constitution of the Labour Party gives the conference no control over a Labour government and that is a feature, not a bug. To claim there was some golden moment in the past where that wasn't true is to tell lies about the form and spirit of Labour's rules.

Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

Actually I think Swinney is now beating IDS's 2003 record for standing ovations

Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

Big Quiet Man is Turning Up the Volume vibe here #snp

Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

RTÉ pronouncing Lidl as ‘leedle’ (rhymes with needle) - is that correctly German or an Irish affectation?

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

Is that all the survivors? At least that is something

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

ISRAEL CHANNEL 12: 13 MORE HOSTAGES HANDED OVER TO RED CROSS

Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

story about Antrim football on RTÉ - wonders never cease

Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, arguably two

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

You might not like that quote but it has only one dead metaphor in it

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

The fact you are ‘all focused’ on a non-existent fantasy pretty much says it all

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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