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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 8h

I've been feeling it was very wrong to weaponise sexual assault to score political points, though I am not at all surprised by FG
#aras25

Fiona Murphy @fcemurphy.bsky.social · 8h

‘Rape’ is not a political football. The attempts to use it to score political points against an opponent is irresponsible, crass and incredibly offensive #Heatherhumphries #jennifercarrollmcneill #finegael #Áras25 #Áras #Speirgorm

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 10h

its the door closure thingy - gives waiting room

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 10h

my 75 yr old, life-long FF voting, FF ard Fheis attending, FF boyfriend-having Mother sent my this video today.
There is a shift happening & it is fairly seismic #speirgorm #áras25, #aras25

Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 12h

Spoil your vote or strike a blow against the establishment?

The choice is there.

Either put an establishment candidate into the Áras, or someone who has stood against government and crises their policies have created for decades.

#SpoilTheVote
#SmearTheBejaysus

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14h

We progress by constructive disagreement. We stagnate by conformism.

Ireland learned that lesson too slowly but we know it now.

Ireland has a voice. It’s not as big as the US or Germany, but it can still be used to good effect - not simply as a parrot of the EU or the big States. 🦜

#Áras25

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 13h

All the kudos for this episode during Brexit burned in one headline

Andrew Maxwell looking toward the exteme right wing Brexiteer Brendan O'Neill. Maxwell has an expression of consternation.

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 14h

When I asked my social-media allergic oh what he thought the #smearthebejaysis hashtag was about he said smear tests lol

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 14h

FG want to talk about water charges? Bring it the fuck on!
They want to remind people of the most successful grassroots protest movement this country has seen? & The bloodiest nose they ever got?
They want remind ppl what side CC was on?
Bring. it. The fuck. on!

#aras25 #speirgorm #áras25

Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 15h

Gosh Fine Gael must be scared. They're really clutching at straws to try and pull Paul Murphy/Joan Burton into this 🙄 #aras25

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 17h

Presidential rivals Catherine Connolly and Heather Humphreys visited RTÉ’s radio studio this afternoon for a surprisingly combative debate
www.thejournal.ie/connolly-hum...

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 15h

Go hiontach

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 18h

HH says Ireland is mature enough to make our own decisions re the Triple Lock.

Decisions like allowing SNN being used as a USAF base, or allowing arms to be trafficked through Irish airspace on the way to Gaza.

I presume these are the mature decisions she means.

#Áras25 #IrishPol #rtethisweek

Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 18h

This radio debate is turning into a farce tag team of questions against CC.

David letting HH ask inflammatory Qs like "Did you ask that woman what she was going to use the guns for?"

CC reiterates that the woman served her time & the vetting process was followed.

#Áras25 #IrishPol

Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 18h

HH says @paulmurphy.pbp.ie trapped Joan Burton in his car (which he was found innocent for in court) & somehow that's now CC's fault.
(Not a #SmearTheBejaysis joke)

#Áras25 #IrishPol

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 17h

And manners! What a rude woman

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 17h

I can still hear the wails my then 2yo daughter gave as we drove out the gate of my son's nursery on his first day, 'my brother, my brother'. She was inconsolable, their first morning really being apart from her birth

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 3d

Really minor in the grand scheme of things, but Heather Humphreys claiming credit for hot school meals must come as news to Pauline O'Reilly and the Green Party

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 18h

Heard this canvassing yesterday too, ppl nearly whispering that they had hope of a left coalition from this, we were a mix of green, socdem, SF & indi canvassers, never seen that before, not even marref around here

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 18h

This! #planyourvote
We are heading at 7am with the first time voter before he heads to college!

Róisín Nic Cóil @roisinnc.bsky.social · 18h

10 days or so (1 weekend) left before the presidential election. There's no doubt in my mind who I am going to vote for.

I have a plan!
I'm going to cast my vote before I go to work on Friday 24th. Open from 7am.

Otherwise I fear the bank holiday weekend will run away on me! 🎃 👻 🗳 #Aras25

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Mick Muldoon @mickmuldoon.bsky.social · 18h

I haven’t heard Humphreys say anything positive yet. That’s not a president I want. #RTEThisWeek #Aras25

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 18h

Does Heather Humphreys think she’s running to be head of the IDA, or President of Ireland #rtethisweek #aras25

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 18h

Listening to this debate and Humphries has no substance whatsoever. Only carefully rehearsed attack lines from Fine Gael. Mar is gná with them. But she has absolutely nothing to offer in any sense of herself.

#Spéirghorm #Áras25

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 20h

🤣🤣
#Áras25

Joe O'Hara @joeoharadcu.bsky.social · 20h

When life imitates art

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 18h

Love it #smearthebejaysis #aras25

Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s my contribution to #SmearTheBejaysus

Smear the Bejaysus (for Catherine Connolly) They say she's wild for calling out the killing of the weak, for naming genocide aloud
in chambers cold and sleek. They call it reckless, rude, unwise, to grieve for Gaza's dead, and whisper she'd disgrace the State
by meaning what she said. They claim she'd bring the Áras down with candles, care, and song, that she would ask of Ireland still,
who's served and who's done wrong. They mutter she might shake the hand of refugees or knaves, and never bow to uniforms
that sanctify the graves. They'll smear the bejaysus out of her, for mercy is her crime, for daring to be decent now
in this unfeeling time. They'll sneer she's ruled by conscience yet, speaks truth before she's told, that her plain heart has no disguise,
but that's worth more than gold.

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 18h

That was the winning point I brought up on the canvass yesterday, moved 3 ppl from an idk to a firm yes

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Ian Watkins’ ex girlfriend reports him multiple times to the police for what he was doing and they treated her as if she was hysterical in every sense of the word. Misogyny is dangerously and deadly, it played a huge role in those poor children’s torment. Hope he went roaring

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

America was discovered in prehistory by the Indigenous peoples of the continent.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 1d

Great canvass in Marino earlier. Hearing a lot of love for Catherine Connolly on the doors! #SpeirGorm #Aras25

A group of people standing on a patch of grass. They are holding Catherine Connolly leaflets.

A group of people standing on the street with a large poster of Catherine Connolly. They are holding Catherine Connolly leaflets.

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