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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 3h

The Iona Institute are a think tank that have stumbled on the grift that if your opinions are awful enough, the media will pay you to promote them rather than vice versa.

Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 9h

All the talk about how many column inches would be dedicated to her, had overlooked that they could just give her a column of her own.

It's cool though. Now if I want the Iona Institute's view on things I can read Steen or Quinn in the Indo, or O'Brien in the Irish Times

Maria Steen: Significant spoilt vote in presidential election would embarrass the Government
After Jim Gavin’s exit, there is no good reason not to restart this lacklustre contest

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3h

He voted for the Iraq War. He said that if Israel didn't exist, the US would have to create one. And he knowingly helped Benjamin Netanyahu do a genocide, even silencing and firing his own State Department employees to do so.

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Lisa Fitz @lisafitz.bsky.social · 8h

Good God, CC is just in another league. Must be nice for HH to have David McCullogh in her corner. If only he held HH to account as much as CC.. #speirgorm #aras25 ##connellyforpresident

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Katherine Nolan @dochara.com · 9h

Heather must be bouyed up by her party believing in her so completely. #aras25

Headline in the Times, Sunday October 12th:
"Fine Gael lines up candidates for Catherine Connolly’s Dail seat"

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Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 10h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37...

Women: Know Your Limits! Harry Enfield - BBC comedy

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Denise Murray/Donnacha Ní Mhuireadhaigh @mousketeer.bsky.social · 11h

It was ever thus:
"That woman's days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?"

Yeats referring to Con Markievicz

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 23h

i'm reminded of how both Mandela and the Suffragettes got sprayed as terrorists

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Dáiligh @dailigh.bsky.social · 1d

Yer man Sheridan was basically the 2025 version of this gobshite.

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 2d

I would submit that mass expulsions based on nationality, apparently often of people who have been residents long enough to be in receipt of pensions and who simply failed to submit paperwork, is not in line with the "European values" that measures like this are supposedly securing

"Only when they are no longer paid a pension do they realize that something is wrong," Maira Roze, the head of OCMA, told Latvian Television's "De facto" program. "Then they call. Why am I not being paid my pension? We tell them: You have no residence permit. They ask: Where is my residence permit? We say: You should comply with the law," she said.

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Dáiligh @dailigh.bsky.social · 1d

Well said Jack

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 1d

Indeed this is functionally indistinguishable from the rhetoric of the MAGA movement which screams at Hispanic residents of the United States to "learn the language" and wishes to deport them in large numbers. It is illiberal, it is far-right

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Dáiligh @dailigh.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Brolly’s crude mysogyny & Ivan Yates “smear campaign” - reminds me of the time that Mick Clifford & others were discussing on Twitter about how women were being too shrill about #repeal & that they should be more composed in demanding basic rights or they’d lose the referendum. #speirgorm

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Mark O’Brien @obrienpmark.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering those who died, on this, the tenth anniversary of the devastating fire in a temporary Traveller halting site in Carrickmines. Sending love and support to their family and friends.

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Dáiligh @dailigh.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly puts pineapple on pizza #speirgorm @nursepollyrgn.bsky.social

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Dáiligh @dailigh.bsky.social · 1d

I once heard that Catherine Connolly put the milk in before the hot water.

Shocking if true.

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Dáiligh @dailigh.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ - we’ve lost the race to elect our candidate, so lets go scorched earth.

Maybe we’re not smart enough to see the nuance? Scorched Earth? Maybe they meant, slightly warm soil, that will encourage new shoots to grow for Heather Humphries?

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Dáiligh @dailigh.bsky.social · 1d

Gavin Pepper weighs in on the Presidential Race #speirgorm m.youtube.com/watch?v=mGcz...

Moo Toy

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Dáiligh @dailigh.bsky.social · 1d

Ya gotta love #speirgorm trolling ex Fine Gael ex Bankrupt in UK bookie Ivan Yates

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Dáiligh @dailigh.bsky.social · 2d

Catherine Connolly swallows her chewing gum.

Irish Women's Rugby Supporters Club @irishwomens.bsky.social · 2d

Once saw her change lanes without indicating

Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

I saw Catherine Connolly label a pan au chocolat as a plain croissant in the self checkout

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Dáiligh @dailigh.bsky.social · 2d

Know your audience 😬

Dáiligh @dailigh.bsky.social · 2d

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 2d

When this notorious Twitter arsewipe is jumping to your defence, you know you're definitely wrong.

namawinelake on Twitter: Surprised to see our own Stella O'Malley recent legal proceedings catergorised as SLAPP by 'Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe'

Not sure 👇 applies to Stella...

"if you have the money, and it’s easy to disguise a SLAPP as a genuine lawsuit if you have a team of fancy lawyers."

namawinelake on Twitter: SLAPP (Strategic lawsuits against public participation) is the name given to unmerited libel proceedings taken by people with vast resources to silence criticism.

Really don't believe this is the case here.

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Fiona Small @fionasmall.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely gross but not surprising carry-on from Joe Brolly

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Trish Byrne @trishyb.bsky.social · 2d

So you’re saying you think you’ll have more spare time as president? You don’t think it’s a full-time job?

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 3d

Heather Humphreys has recommitted to learning Irish, 11 years after first making this pledge.
In 2014, Humphreys became the Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Minister, but faced criticism due to her lack of Irish.
http://jrnl.ie/6840258

Heather Humphreys says she was too busy to learn Irish before but recommits to learning it for Áras

She first committed to learning Irish when she became the Gaeltacht Minister in 2014.

jrnl.ie

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