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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 4h

What a ghoul.

Border failings in Europe are eroding trust in nation states, warns Mahmood | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian share.google/lsCMo7JOtUDs...

Border failings in Europe are eroding trust in nation states, warns Mahmood

Home secretary to tell meeting of interior ministers that international cooperation is way to curb irregular migration

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 6h

Heather Humphreys has really made contempt for the judicial system a hallmark of her campaign, for some reason

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 13h

Heather Humphreys stands over comments about Paul Murphy despite threat of legal action

The People Before Profit TD has formally sent a legal letter to the presidential candidate

dlvr.it

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, how terrible. Look at these people we're letting into Europe, those Yemenis and Somalis and Belarusians and Syrians. What is the Common European Asylum System even for, if not to help those people escape hell itself.

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 8h

Just for that, we're keeping Cillian Murphy.

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Andy @imaculthero.bsky.social · 17h

Connolly REFUSES to hire Enoch Burke despite CLAIMING to believe in rehabilitation.

My latest, *only* in tomorrow's Irish Times

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 17h

A group of people have turned up to Catherine Connolly’s canvass in Naas asking about Enoch and Elijah Burke.

They have asked Connolly if she’s a Freemason…

@virginmedianews.bsky.social

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 13h

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 14h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 10h

So,

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 10h

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 14h

Gentle reminder…the Special Criminal Court was opposed trenchantly and for compelling reasons by Mary Robinson before she became President; its continued existence has been criticised by the UN Human Rights Committee, UN Special Rapporteurs, the Irish Human Rights & …

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 18h

The two candidates in the Presidential Election have clashed over the Special Criminal Court with Heather Humphreys saying she supported it and Catherine Connolly calling for its abolition

Presidential candidates clash over Special Criminal Court

The two candidates in the Presidential Election have clashed over the Special Criminal Court with Heather Humphreys saying she supported it and Catherine Connolly calling for its abolition.

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 11h

Thread!

Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 1d

reading how foxes are self-selecting now, on an evolutionary basis, for "sociable with humans" and then seeing a flood of "this fox decided to be fwiends with me" videos and it's like foxes finally decided that that one particular group of wolves had the right idea when they decided to become dogs

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 11h

YES

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 11h

seeing as we're all talking about the proposed language requirement changes for visas: here's the email my wife was sent for her B1 test in 2018. imagine spending about £800 in total across 3 tests, and you're met with

"YOU TEST DAY INFOMRATION"

"please bring this document with you on the day of your test. this is a confirmation letter for your life skills test. YOU TEST DAY INFOMRATION"

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 11h

Actually, pedantry can never be truly pure if it only applies to half of a reply. It needs to apply to the entire reply.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 11h

When a British kid speaks two languages well and a third passably they are considered gifted.

When a migrant kid speaks two languages and English passably, they are considered a threat.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 12h

IMAGINE if Brits retiring to Spain or Thailand were told to take a language test.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 14h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 12h

"do you want to see marilyn monroe in game of thrones?"

do you want to see me hit you with my shoe

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 13h

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 14h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 19h

One issue with long-established Irish names like Niall and Maeve is that they were popular during a phase when anglicising spelling was convenient/encouraged, but also during a phase when Irish spelling conventions changed (hello h, goodbye ponc séimhithe).

So multiple "right" spellings coexist.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 20h

I can explain this one. The "ia" in Niall is pronounced just like the "ia" in Niamh.

Nicola Horgan @nicolahorgan.bsky.social · 1d

I can't be dealing with the Neil/Nialls

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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 1d

I keep forgetting that English people add a phoenetic 'r' where there's a vowel. That's why I didn't get that name 'Shaun the Sheep' was a pun for a good 10 years.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 18h

In line to pay in the petrol station yesterday a woman was talking to her friend and said “I swear to god I need a Valium and a box of chocolate ” and now this morning my 3 year old who overheard this convo, is asking for “a wee Valium and chocolate please.” It’s like living with a devious parrot

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 15h

The thing that puts the most strain on my relationship is that if I ask him to buy apples I mean either a granny smith or a pink lady and he will consistently bring fucking golden delicious into my home

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 16h

seeing tons of old, ancient memes and videos on reddit and elsewhere recently. did we finally run out of internet? is it finally looping around in a series of tubes etc

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