Ayrton O'Brien 🇵🇸
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My work colleague used the phrase "my twinkiest of friends" and that's immediately going into the lexicon.
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My work colleague used the phrase "my twinkiest of friends" and that's immediately going into the lexicon.
Winter's when you can really start dressing (i.e. wearing Cool Mom oversized chunky knitwear)
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Winter's when you can really start dressing (i.e. wearing Cool Mom oversized chunky knitwear)
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What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
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When the media and government move to demonise a minority it’s always noticeable how that minority gets denied the concept of including children or minors, as she was 17 at the time.
Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a transgender activist, but was found guilty of criminal damage to her mobile phone.
Father Ted’s Graham Linehan cleared of transphobic harassment
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
When the media and government move to demonise a minority it’s always noticeable how that minority gets denied the concept of including children or minors, as she was 17 at the time.
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the refusal to use any pronouns for the woman involved here is so bizarre
Graham Linehan cleared of harassing trans activist but convicted of damaging phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassing trans activist but convicted of damaging phone
Irish comedy writer cleared at Westminster magistrates court of harassing Sophia Brooks on social media
The Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a transgender activist on social media but found guilty of criminal damage of their mobile phone outside a conference in London last year.
The 57-year-old flew in from Arizona to appear at Westminster magistrates court in person on Tuesday, where judgment was delivered by district judge Briony Clarke. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
the refusal to use any pronouns for the woman involved here is so bizarre
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I work near #SheriffStreet in Dublin and it's blighted by far right tricolors at half mast.
I've spoken to a few residents who assured me that most locals don't support the action but are intimidated into saying nothing publicly about them.
#Speirgorm
I've spoken to a few residents who assured me that most locals don't support the action but are intimidated into saying nothing publicly about them.
#Speirgorm
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I work near #SheriffStreet in Dublin and it's blighted by far right tricolors at half mast.
I've spoken to a few residents who assured me that most locals don't support the action but are intimidated into saying nothing publicly about them.
#Speirgorm
I've spoken to a few residents who assured me that most locals don't support the action but are intimidated into saying nothing publicly about them.
#Speirgorm
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The fact that he was found guilty of criminal damage doesn't make the headline, and the person whose property he damaged is described as a "transgender activist" but Linehan has "well-publicised strong views on gender issues". 🙄
This is not journalism failing trans people - it's failing EVERYONE.
This is not journalism failing trans people - it's failing EVERYONE.
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The fact that he was found guilty of criminal damage doesn't make the headline, and the person whose property he damaged is described as a "transgender activist" but Linehan has "well-publicised strong views on gender issues". 🙄
This is not journalism failing trans people - it's failing EVERYONE.
This is not journalism failing trans people - it's failing EVERYONE.
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We have lost every single internet platform that informed the world about what's really happening in Palestine. Every single one.
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
We have lost every single internet platform that informed the world about what's really happening in Palestine. Every single one.
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Died without getting justice. May the people and their bloodline who denied the survivors justice never know peace.
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Died without getting justice. May the people and their bloodline who denied the survivors justice never know peace.
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Trans Creative Collective Eire are calling for donations ahead of this winter market 🎄 Read 👉 buff.ly/ovFjGSE #GCNnews
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Trans Creative Collective Eire are calling for donations ahead of this winter market 🎄 Read 👉 buff.ly/ovFjGSE #GCNnews
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A movie that takes place where I am from
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
A movie that takes place where I am from
Proof of life selfies featuring new haircut, shaving cuts and sister's bathroom's excellent lighting
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Proof of life selfies featuring new haircut, shaving cuts and sister's bathroom's excellent lighting
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These are the "voters" Martin, O'Callaghan, Harris and the rest of them are pivoting to racism to please.
If ever two groups needed reminding that Twitter and Facebook are not real life, it's journalists and politicians.
If ever two groups needed reminding that Twitter and Facebook are not real life, it's journalists and politicians.
what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
These are the "voters" Martin, O'Callaghan, Harris and the rest of them are pivoting to racism to please.
If ever two groups needed reminding that Twitter and Facebook are not real life, it's journalists and politicians.
If ever two groups needed reminding that Twitter and Facebook are not real life, it's journalists and politicians.
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I’m usually giving counsel of despair so let me offer a hopeful note now: all this is the desperate thrashing of a dying generation, horrified to see up close the consequences of raising their children to believe violence and racism are wrong, and that people should treat each other decently.
This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.
Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says Jewish students shouldn’t have smartphones until they finish high school — so they don’t see the “carnage” Israel and the U.S. have carried out in Gaza.
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I’m usually giving counsel of despair so let me offer a hopeful note now: all this is the desperate thrashing of a dying generation, horrified to see up close the consequences of raising their children to believe violence and racism are wrong, and that people should treat each other decently.
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It was crystal clear that Mel was an absolutely deranged fascist crackpot ten years ago, fifteen, and you’ll notice it has barely hindered her career, not even when the Oslo killer cited her in his crazy manifesto. Quite the opposite, if anything.
Remember when it was revealed that Israel's internal analysis concluded that the only way to reverse the disastrous plunge in Israel's standing was to fuel Islamophobia and portray Israel as the defender of the "West"?
Well, here you have it. Melanie Phillips' speech in NY.
Well, here you have it. Melanie Phillips' speech in NY.
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It was crystal clear that Mel was an absolutely deranged fascist crackpot ten years ago, fifteen, and you’ll notice it has barely hindered her career, not even when the Oslo killer cited her in his crazy manifesto. Quite the opposite, if anything.
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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The BBC pulled the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone because the teenage narrator’s father worked for in the Hamas-run Dept of Agriculture. We spoke with the lad, Abdullah, and he’s not shy about telling the full story.
Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The BBC pulled the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone because the teenage narrator’s father worked for in the Hamas-run Dept of Agriculture. We spoke with the lad, Abdullah, and he’s not shy about telling the full story.
Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
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The Limerick Leader is owned by Malcolm Denmark whose family owns New Cavendish Properties Ltd
Landlords 'stampede' out of rental market ahead of new changes coming next year
Landlords 'stampede' out of rental market ahead of new changes coming next year
The new rules and regulations will not affect tenants that have been in place before March 1 and after that date, they will see a six-year tenancy agreement put in place
Renters could be facing an even more uncertain market in the months ahead of new tenancy rules that are coming into effect
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www.limerickleader.ie
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The Limerick Leader is owned by Malcolm Denmark whose family owns New Cavendish Properties Ltd
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rule of thumb is that there's so much more money on the right, from billionaire golf ball heirs paying people to post to kindhearted grandmas who pass their entire social security check to TV characters to guys who are 100% sure the virtual stripper will settle down with them to make white babies
You can post "this is the America they took from you" with a picture of a blonde in a bikini and get a thousand likes.
theres no lefty take that won't have at least one person and their followers calling you a liberal, a fascist, a revisionist or a fed. It's just not an easy way to grift at scale.
theres no lefty take that won't have at least one person and their followers calling you a liberal, a fascist, a revisionist or a fed. It's just not an easy way to grift at scale.
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
rule of thumb is that there's so much more money on the right, from billionaire golf ball heirs paying people to post to kindhearted grandmas who pass their entire social security check to TV characters to guys who are 100% sure the virtual stripper will settle down with them to make white babies
Now WHY did the body of the salmon not drop behind her to be a dress train, that is baffling to me
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Now WHY did the body of the salmon not drop behind her to be a dress train, that is baffling to me
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Brendan now silencing the only person om the panel willing to speak up for trans people, but of course, it is transphobes who are being silenced.
We as journalists have to be better.
We as journalists have to be better.
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Brendan now silencing the only person om the panel willing to speak up for trans people, but of course, it is transphobes who are being silenced.
We as journalists have to be better.
We as journalists have to be better.
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Just Brenda Power making the case for conversion therapy for trans people on Brendan O'Connor's radio show this morning.
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Just Brenda Power making the case for conversion therapy for trans people on Brendan O'Connor's radio show this morning.
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Also, none of this is going to make a blind bit of difference to the number of refugees who come here, it’ll just make their lives harder and remember these are people who have already been recognised as needing Ireland to protect them due to persecution in their country of origin. Shameful.
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Also, none of this is going to make a blind bit of difference to the number of refugees who come here, it’ll just make their lives harder and remember these are people who have already been recognised as needing Ireland to protect them due to persecution in their country of origin. Shameful.
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1. Family reunification is ALREADY limited to "close family"
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
New: major overhaul of immigration laws to see citizenship denied to those who got welfare, or are in debt. Family reunification only for close family, tighter rules around self sufficiency. Changes to revoke residency for those who commit serious crimes
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
No Irish citizenship for refugees on welfare benefits
Ministers to crack down on migration after UK review of asylum-seeking rules
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
1. Family reunification is ALREADY limited to "close family"
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.