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Roger O'Keeffe
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Shooting the breeze on Irish, EU and world affairs, history, language(s). #speirgorm A bit of a pedant, advocate of colonic irrigation of sentences. Location: 🇺🇸 shitshow to the left of us< 🇮🇪 > 🇬🇧 shitshow to the right
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Mind you, with all the beards on show, it looked as if we had taken over! 😆
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A Catherine wore amethyst & became President today after all 😀

#Speirgorm
Catherine Murphy planning a run for the Áras?

Snippet from Miriam Lord in today's Irish Times.

#aras25 #áras25
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Ireland has produced an impressive quality of Presidents. Could they perhaps offer a training scheme for some other countries?
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This is such a great idea but it's also really sad to think that some parents are so poor they cannot afford Santa. Feel really really sad for all the children in Ireland who will be living in emergency accommodation this Christmas #Speirgorm #SpeirGorm #HousingCrisis
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
That was routine and near-universal in my childhood.

More irritating - to me at least - is the current English fad for saying "may have" when people mean "might have" (the latter referring to a hypothetical, the former to an indeterminate factual state).

It skunks a useful distinction.
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Ireland's presidential inauguration chair was made from native oak, symbolic of strength and endurance

Here's some background from a beautiful book that I copy-edited in 2018 artisanhouse.ie/product/see-... #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
Motormouth O'Leary would love it if older, infirm and disabled people would just f*** off out of his world and let him focus on making even more money.
Predisposed by AI to present her as a dangerous leftist with links to previously-unheard-of islamists?
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Oh wow, watching @virginmedianews.bsky.social & the auto generated subtitles for the Presidential oath as Gaeilge are *not good* 😬
That's my reaction, not an entry!
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Graph I made of where the most used words in English come from.
I also have one on standby for @frankie49.bsky.social 's job description in case I am again moved to engage with one of his Diary entries in the Letters page.
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Are we in the "convince people it's broken" stage of the break it, convince people it's broken, convince people only privatisation will fix it, privatise it, cycle of privatisation?
In German one could make a case for Unwetterwarnungsunterlassenergrafschaftssauwetter.
Two reservists needed to make up the numbers for the motorcycle escort, a duty they will be proud to perform.

In my day the whole route through the city was lined by entire FCA units as well as Regulars.

#Áras25 #speirgorm
Housing. She isn't wasting time before getting stuck in!

#Áras25 #speirgorm
Just started watching.

Sign-language for her speech, but no English interpretation for the bits of it that are in Irish?
Aha! Eugene Lambe on uilleann pipes. I never thought of him. Better known to me as a maker rather than as a performer.
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Andrew Neil could host This Week on the BBC while being editor of The Spector.

The hysterical cries of "bias" only go one way.