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Donal O’Keeffe @donalokeeffe.bsky.social · 49m

The Taoiseach greeted the new President in the name of the nation, and said, ‘We greet you as the successor of our rightful princes, and in your accession we hail the closing of the breach that existed since the undoing of our nation at Kinsale’ www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

How we covered Ireland's first presidential election in 1945

With Ireland due to elect its 10th president on Friday, October 24, Donal O’Keeffe looks back 80 years to 1945 and how the then Evening Echo covered ...

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Donal O’Keeffe @donalokeeffe.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Jo @whatsjo.bsky.social · May 6

him (a man of wealth and taste): please allow me to introduce myself.

me (puzzled by the nature of his game): woo woo

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · Jun 9

So Mirriam Webster has announced that 'FRIDGE' is an official word in their dictionary now, and sited me as the concept's creator in the definition.

Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized.

www.merriam-webster.com/slang/fridge

fridge

To fridge a (usually female) character in a movie, television show, comic book, etc., is to kill them off or seriously harm/abuse/violate them in some way (as a writer) for the purposes of motivating ...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 9

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · Jun 5

This is like a nature documentary about the battle for supremacy between two magnificent lions, except instead of magnificent lions, it's half-bald rats and one of the rats is off its tits on ketamine.

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Donal O’Keeffe @donalokeeffe.bsky.social · Jun 5

I put it to you, Mr Zimmerman, that if you did indeed hear that hoot-owl singing as they were taking down the tents, then the stars above the barren trees could not have been his only audience.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · May 30

This ad aired in 2002….they have been trying to warn us and we weren’t paying attention

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Jo @whatsjo.bsky.social · May 1

date: can you take off your work gloves

Jim Henson: they have names

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Apr 13

Welcome to our everyday hell, fund managers.

An article from The Independent under the section "News > World > Americas > US politics" with the headline: "Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’." The subheading reads: "Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’." The article is authored by Gustaf Kilander in Washington D.C., published on Thursday, 10 April 2025 at 16:31 BST.

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Donal O’Keeffe @donalokeeffe.bsky.social · Apr 12

@hanszomer.bsky.social Hey Hans! Good to see you.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · Apr 3

This is what happens when a man with six bankruptcies runs a global economy.

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Donal O’Keeffe @donalokeeffe.bsky.social · Apr 8

Portrait of Rory Gallagher by Togher artist John Doolan. John works in Deaf Enterprises in Ballinlough. An exhibition of his work is upstairs in Bishopstown Library during April.

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Seán O'Keeffe @seanokeeffe11.bsky.social · Apr 2

Most Viagra is produced in Ireland, we could end tariffs and, indeed, Musk's presidency simply by shutting off supplies to the old, rich men that run the USA.

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Donal O’Keeffe @donalokeeffe.bsky.social · Apr 2

He's like the world's shittest supervillain.

"I hereby impose tariffs on all of Latveria's enemies!"

But my lord Doom, tariffs will beggar your own faithful peasants first, hurting those who love you most!

"TARIFFS!"

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · Mar 30

The KKK: “In our schools and libraries are books that create hatred and dislike among the people of different sections of America. The Klan is pledged to true history.” (1922)

Raw Story @rawstory.com · Mar 28

Trump accused the Smithsonian of "ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history."

‘Full-on Soviet’: Trump’s ‘improper ideology’ purge blasted as ‘fascist thuggery’

President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, mandating the removal of what he calls “improper ideology,” is being described as “chilling,” amid warnings of fascism. ...

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · Mar 30

#tbt to 2012 when an Irish MEP asked the EU to standardise Mother’s Day across the continent

Gay Mitchell asks the European Commission if they could consider standardising Mother’s Day and Father’s Day across Europe

The European Commission basically says lol

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · Mar 10

Putting a sticker on my Volkswagen to let people know I bought it BEFORE I knew Hitler was a Nazi.

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Donal O’Keeffe @donalokeeffe.bsky.social · Mar 3

Bearing a grudge since being fired from "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964), Joan Crawford said of director Robert Aldrich, "He is a man who loves evil, horrendous, vile things."

Aldrich replied, "If the shoe fits, wear it, and I am very fond of Miss Crawford."

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · Feb 23

They learned something from their first term.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a grift is a good guy with principles.

So this time they're firing all the good guys with principles.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Feb 20

Trump isn’t going to end the war in Ukraine. He’s going to make it easier for Russia to keep what it stole and greenlight Putin to go after other countries.

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Donal O’Keeffe @donalokeeffe.bsky.social · Feb 18

I hope it chokes Vance.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Feb 15

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's speech at the Munich Security Conference ends with prolonged applause👏

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Donal O’Keeffe @donalokeeffe.bsky.social · Feb 16

"For most people, social media gives you this sense that unless you care about everything, you care about nothing. You must try to swallow the world while it’s on fire" www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Feb 10

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

IT IS A COUP

This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

open.substack.com

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