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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, the absence of emotional turmoil definitely makes dropping in on family à lot easier lol

Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 4h

I definitely appreciate a lot about the city that I took for granted before but it's very strange feeling like our lives just aren't here anymore

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 4h

After three years away Dublin really doesn't feel like home anymore. I suppose it's an inevitable step in every immigrant's emotional journey but it's no less unmooring.

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 10h

Particularly unserious given that both the Taoiseach and Tánaiste have repeatedly said over the last two years that Europe has been disgracing itself over Gaza.

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 11h

Horseshoe Theory: The Game

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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.

www.rte.ie

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 2d

It also implies the "gay rights" movement is a centrally directed movement with a HQ that can just drop trans rights from its agenda. There are very good, historical reasons the T is in LGBT!

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 2d

The peasants cannot be trusted to write their own laws

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 2d

10+ years of the Gender Recognition Act btw, I'd love if he could point out the backsliding to me.

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 2d

I regret to inform you a certain Irish Times journalist is once again using the paper of record to promote British transphobia. #SpeirGorm

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

Notable from listening back to the This Week debate that Heather Humphreys no longer seems to be interested in making a positive case for voting for her. It's all just attacks on Connolly.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 3d

GAA exceptionalism has definitely been due a peg-lowering.

The phrase "centrist rugby Dad" speaks to a fantasy where GAA is this benignly egalitarian, progressive and welcoming space. This is not everyone's experience but good luck to them if they say so.

www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...

Malachy Clerkin: The Jim Gavin fiasco was a long overdue humbling for GAA exceptionalism

Micheál Martin had his head turned by Gavin’s football success, forgetting it’s just a sport, no better or worse than the rest

www.irishtimes.com

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine being given a guest column in the most widely circulated broadsheet in Ireland and spending the first two paragraphs relitigating the specific wording of an Instagram comment.

Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 3d

In fairness to M*ria, she displays her incredible arrogance in the first couple of paragraphs, so people who won't pay for the rest of it, can see exactly who she it.

The first paragraph is written so badly.

The beginning of the second made my toes curl.

Maria Steen: Significant spoilt vote in presidential election would embarrass the Government

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 5d

Really not looking forward to facing a Reform-led Westminster with these lemmings in charge.

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah to be fair Brit celebs are definitely more interesting than watching a bunch of former Housewives and other assorted reality TV alumni having the same fights they had in the previous shows.

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 5d

I generally find the game less fun if everyone involved has media training or experience of being on camera, the rough edges of normal punters is what makes the show unpredictable and interesting.

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 6d

You're right and relations between the public and the political class at large is pretty awful at the moment

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 6d

Very true, likes and shares aren't votes

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 6d

The Gavin thing was catastrophic because so many people in Ireland have their own story about trying to get money off their old landlord. How many younger people these days even know what a Provo is?

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 6d

Aside from anything else I think this election will show us how badly legacy media's influence has deteriorated. The IT, Indo and now Newstalk are throwing everything at Connolly but nothing has gotten the same traction as a short-form video of her playing ball with some kids. #SpeirGorm #áras25

Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 6d

"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning."

They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 6d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 7d

Lmao, of course the Collison brothers have a podcast called Cheeky Pint where they bring on MAGA billionaires to gush over gutting worker's rights. #SpeirGorm

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

ANDREESSEN: "The employment shifts everybody’s worried about are .. not going to happen at anywhere near the velocity people think .. because a significant percentage of jobs in the U.S. are licensed or unionized .. in a way where they literally cannot be replaced.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_1c...

Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley

YouTube video by Stripe

www.youtube.com

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 7d

Got the curtains ironed

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 7d

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

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