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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 1d

Your dad is ruining it for the rest of us!

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 1d

I feel his pain

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 2d

5 childhood defining events (🇮🇪 ed.)

Saving all my 20p pocket money every week for 10 weeks to buy an Action Man outfit, only to learn it was now £2.20

Castlereagh Fire Station emergency siren

Moving to Dublin

Learning to answer to "Ciarán"

My da showing me how to make the Saturday teatime fry

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 2d

5 childhood defining events (🇮🇪 ed.)

First Loop The Loop: Copen's shop Urris.

Lobster waiting for my gran to put it in a pot on the range.

British soldiers pointing guns at us in Derry.

Telling a farmer I'd swap my sister for a bottle of stout

Burying my underpants in the sand at Leenan Strand

Denise Murray/Donnacha Ní Mhuireadhaigh @mousketeer.bsky.social · 2d

Bloody Sunday.
Dev Presidency.
Queues outside petrol stations.
Females covering heads at Mass.
Animal cruelty everywhere.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 4d

Catherine Connolly paid her water charges

#SmearTheBejaysis #SmearTheBejaysus

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Reposted by Kieran Glennon

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 4d

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 6d

Beg to differ. An Oreo is a yank digestive sandwich.

Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 6d

What he said!

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 6d

That'd be more the Communist Party style. If the CP ever get a TD elected, PBP and Paul Murphy will start sweating.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 6d

With their connections to the building industry, you'd think they'd have ready access to lump hammers

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 7d

Op+eds need an op on their heads

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 9d

They think it's all over. It is now.

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 9d

Asked Jim Gavin today how he anticipated turning his campaign around given the questions about whether it was wise to run.

His answer: “It’s not even halftime.” ⬇️

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 9d

Don't think I've ever posted anything on social media that aged as rapidly as this

Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 9d

If she does win #áras25, Connolly should definitely start her acceptance speech with "Tá an-áthas orm an Uachtaránacht seo a glacadh"
- Gavin will be mightily pissed off
- The Bluesky yanks won't know what she's on about
- Neither will Humphreys

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 9d

Someone really needs to drive around Gavin's gaff blaring The Eagles "Hotel California" at full volume

Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 9d

Brilliantly, @iamreddave.bsky.social points out that the law doesn’t allow for withdrawal of a presidential candidate after nominations have closed.

Section 30(1), Presidential Elections Act, 1993

www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1993/act...

al 30.-(1) A person in respect of whom a nomination paper has been delivered to the
ire. presidential returning officer pursuant to section 14 may withdraw his candidature at any time before the completion of the ruling on nominations but not thereafter.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 9d

What she said!

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 9d

Stiff Little Fingers, Inflammable Material, Suspect Device

Discogs @discogsofficial.bsky.social · 9d

Which album has the best opening track of all time?

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 9d

If she does win #áras25, Connolly should definitely start her acceptance speech with "Tá an-áthas orm an Uachtaránacht seo a glacadh"
- Gavin will be mightily pissed off
- The Bluesky yanks won't know what she's on about
- Neither will Humphreys

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 11d

Reckon he has overall, but he can't see when players have gone off the boil e.g. Grivosti (who scares me), Mulraney. Plus which he operates a single non-transferable system, so subs are never more than like for like. Big question mark over Kenny's motivational skills, as we have the players.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 11d

That rope-a-dope act in Richmond the other week paid off, we were shocking, youse were intense. Good luck in the Aviva.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 12d

Excellent review of an excellent book

Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 12d

We are delighted to have another book review up online this evening. Thanks to @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social for taking the time to review it for us.

womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...

Margaret Ward Rebel Women. Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim, 1914-1924, Beyond the Pale Books, Belfast, 2024

Frances ‘Frank’ Brady is one of the few members of Cumann na mBan who went on hunger strike during the War of Independence, and more unusually, for whom a photograph exists of her in bed, in jail, …

womenshistoryassociation.com

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 13d

Aaron Edwards' "A People Under Siege" has a vivid description of Craig arriving at a Vanguard rally flanked by motorcycle outriders. All very Nuremberg-by-the-Lagan...

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 14d

@oneillsb.bsky.social See what you started way back...
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/02/22/t...

The Map of the Belfast Pogrom

This is not an article, but a project: a map of all the deaths of the Belfast Pogrom, with each person’s name, the date, nature and location of the killing, who was responsible and when the i…

thebelfastpogrom.com

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 15d

Maybe, now that season 3 has started, it'll finally sink in:
Blue Lines = seminal Massive Attack album
#BlueLights = Belfast peelers

"But we ordered an ambulance"
"Sorry mate, we're not Deliveroo"

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 16d

So much reflection in the water from such a tiny wee moon. Magic.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 17d

Watching highlights of Notts Forest v Sunderland and it reminds me of my very first Subbuteo set

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 18d

Name one timeless, classic pop song that DOESN'T have a chorus that is repeated