Joe Harbison
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Dad. Stroke Doctor & Geriatrician. History nerd. Deputy Head of School of Medicine @TrinityMed1 . Clinical Lead Irish National Audit of Stroke. Views all my own.
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The 12th Century, Hospital of St Johns in Trim, Co Meath. The same religious order the Fratres Cruciferi had another Hospital in Dublin, also St Johns, on Thomas’ St and it may have looked similar.
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Fantastic news! We’ve just been informed that St James’s, the biggest hospital in the country, has no inpatients with
#COVID
for the first time since March 2020. 💉 💉
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Annie Lynch after she received the first Covid Vaccine in Ireland. All good.
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@DrAseemMalhotra
I am a Stroke physician and lead in the National Stroke Audit in Ireland, a mor highly vaccinated population than UK . We have seen no association between the vaccine and an increase in strokes and deaths. Your comment is frankly wrong and irresponsible.
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@Jcmurdoch26
@drphiliplee1
Just wait thill the media find out that some hospitals have entire Labour wards. The outcry from the Telegraph will be unbearable.
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@moorehn
The hilarious thing is that Joe Biden has 10 of 16 Great Grandparents who were Irish. Charles, who’s going to be crowned King next month, only had 5 of 16 who were British.
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@AndrewEpstein3
@KimTrashdashian
@kyleschmid_
@Acosta
Who else can’t spell very well? They should check the package for very small hand-prints.
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Last year to December 31st 1373 patients were admitted to hospital in Ireland with seasonal influenza. That was over 3 months and we coped. If it happened over 2-3 weeks we wouldn’t have. Play your part & help flatten the curve.
#COVID19
#FlattenTheCurve
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Annie Lynch receiving the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine this afternoon at
@stjamesdublin
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Congratulations to the Year 5 Medical Students of Trinity College Dublin on completing their final exams in the most challenging circumstances. The 308th graduating year, the 1st to do much of their assessment online. Well done to all, we’re incredibly proud of you.
@TrinityMed1
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Appropriately dressed for participating in the Graduation of a new class of Doctors from Trinity College Dublin today! Zoom only films you from the shoulders up. Congratulations to all our new colleagues. We’re so proud.
@TrinityMed1
@tcddublin
@stjamesdublin
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@supernashurally
@notcapnamerica
If this judge gets to decide the damages, Alex Jones isn’t leaving with both kidneys.
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@DruvBhagavan
@EM_RESUS
I can guarantee that it happened right before you thought you might get some lunch or a in the middle of a Neurovascular clinic where you’re shor staffed. It always does
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@ImmigrActivists
@_SJPeace_
Trump was right for a change. There is a war on Christmas. I can’t think of a better description of separating young kids from their parents at this time of year.
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Very thankful to have received the
#CovidVaccine
at
@stjamesdublin
this morning. Efficiently done with kindness and no probs. Will help protect myself, my patients, family, colleagues and students. I will continue to keep the
#HandsFaceSpace
faith. Simple measures to save lives.
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@HODLaser
@Chloejaneriaz
Oh look a blue-tick bitcoin bro with a lousy opinion. Well that’s very unexpected.
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@davidyelland
Leo Varadkar’s degree course required almost the highest entry grades of any in Ireland & he then qualified as a GP. He later became a PM aged 38 having held 4 previous ministries. He speaks 3 or 4 languages fluently. You can criticize him for many things but not for intelligence
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@olsonplanner
European doctor here! I know how much my patients are typically charged for procedures, almost nothing. Your system has big problems, it’s clear a huge proportion of your spending has nothing to do with patient care.
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@rottweiler56
@boolacoola
You can inform her she’s not eligible, Irish citizenship is not always automatic to spouses! We has to have been resident on the island of Ireland for the preceding year and have been two years resident in the last 4 years.
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People over 85 are due to be notified for their vaccines in the next few days. Can we please get this right and remember that a lot of older people can’t access the internet so please have options other than online registration!
@tilda_tcd
@ALONE_IRELAND
@irishgerontsoc
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@adastracolleen
@AlisaValdesRod1
@TierOnePoster
@MeetJess
Almost certainly not. Sounds like a esophageal variceal bleed or a bad gastric perforation into an artery. Cerebral aneurysms don’t bleed into the pharynx.
Not much you can do with either on an airliner I’m afraid.
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@VictoriaCoren
You need to institute the Irish tradition of Nollaig na mban (women’s’ Christmas) where you spend the day of the 6th eating mince pies and drinking wine and let him do all the tidying up.
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@ElaineByrne
@businessposthq
If you want a comparison, annually the Government spends about €40-€45 million training doctors, €62 million training racehorses and €18 million training greyhounds. They ultimately all spend a lot of time running around in circles but the Docs also save some lives.
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@drkeithsiau
As a
@ManCity
supporter of 50 years working in neuroscience, I find nothing in this that I would be inclined to dispute 🧠
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Congratulations to all the TCD Final year Medical Students who’ve just received their exam results. A huge accomplishment to qualify given the stressors of the last year, studying in hospitals dealing with the pandemic. Huge thanks to our Clinical colleagues and hospital partners
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Huge congratulations to Professor RoseAnne Kenny
@RoseAnnekenny1
on becoming Regius Professor of Physic of the University of Dublin, Trinity College
@TrinityMed1
@TCDGerontology
#wearetrinitymedicine
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@sophielouisecc
I carried out a sophisticated pieces of investigative journalism by entering ‘Barbican Centre Map’ into a little known app called ‘Google’ and it came up with this. It appears that the Barbican has what can only be described as an extensive array of toilets to meet all needs.
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TCD Lecturers watching the online Graduation of our Final Year Medical Students in St James’s Dublin. Congratulations to all of them. We’re very proud of you all
@tcddublin
@stjamesdublin
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@nexta_tv
The attacker had been in the country for >20 years and was an Irish citizen. The guys who disarmed him were also immigrants , Brazilian Deliveroo riders.
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@TurloughDonnell
Can I say as one working in his Hospital and University that he is fully and extremely well qualified to make the comments that he did. He has extensive and specific knowledge of the topic. Some tweets would be better removed. This is one of them and ‘is ‘entirely inappropriate’.
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@DrEricDing
@Mosaic_LifeCare
We’ve used it a few times in our hospital and the effects are amazing. It’s a (probably) once off gene therapy that uses an adenovirus to deliver the missing gene. We’ve a specialist suite for giving it though and there are (thankfully) relatively few kids needing it.
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@DGlaucomflecken
Just remember that evolution also gave us the levator labii superioris alaeque nasi muscle predominately so we could sneer at such facts.
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@foodtherapy
@KatyKatyshaw
I’m on the frontline I actually work in a regional center where out of hospital cardiac arrests are brought and I also work for an organisation that collects National data on cardiac disease and stroke for a population 90% vaccinated. I can tell you that this is unadulterated BS.
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@Kelvinthewoods
@raggedlines
They carry Covid in their airways for longer so they remain infectious longer. You are declining a vaccine with over 5 Billion doses administered. I’m a vascular doctor, I’m not seeing vaccine complications but I’m sure as hell seeing the 3% of severe Covid patients who stroke
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@RobertoBurioni
@CristinaDragani
@TZenPhilosopher
@alykhansatchu
@gianlucac1
@micheleboldrin
@ilariacapua
@SignorErnesto
@picardonhealth
@Reuters
@guardian
@dpa
It’s mutated a lot!
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@LGlaucomflecken
@DGlaucomflecken
It’s also associated with amnesia for important relationship associated dates, laundry blindness, toilet seat dyspraxia and often unpredictable flatulence.
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@PolitiFact
The fact that such a statement is necessary is like having to fact-check if eating chicken nuggets with make you grow feathers and cluck.
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@alexisconran
@mrjamesob
@davidallengreen
@talkRADIO
The really tragic thing is that thousands of people liked the tweet, even after it was shown to be complete BS. Same with Farage’s tweet about Gibraltar. Truth is no longer important to them.
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@LGlaucomflecken
@DGlaucomflecken
It’s a guy thing caused by missing that extra arm from the 23rd Chromosome. It’s called the ‘Huh Deletion’.
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This is so frustrating. 4 years ago in yet another ED crisis I presented in Dáil Éireann as National Clinical Lead for Stroke and advised that the worst thing you could do if you want to avoid ED and waiting list probs was to cut home care packages.
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CPR for out of hospital cardiac arrest is lifesaving and not that difficult. There’s a short video from
@Irishheart_ie
here. It’s really worth 5 minutes of your day.
#ChristianEriksen
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@onthislasthill
He sadly appears to have Primary Progressive Aphasia which is a form of Frontotemporal dementia which is not a prion disease and is tragically the condition that Terry Jones from Monty Python also suffered from. It’s nothing to do with vaccines, so stop trying to scare people.
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@alexbaines77
@TPointUK
@missalicegrant
@BeatriceGrant_
Sinister! It’s just really, really, really embarrassing. It might just be used in one of those funny video shows in Ireland. Cheese and Guinness!
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Prof. Joe Keane giving his Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin.
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@frankie_mangan
Actually NCH is a completely separate organisation to SJH, it’s just on land that used to belong to the hospital. Rampant misinformation?
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@Doctor_Eric_B
We took a 13cm clot out of someone’s ICA and MCA in 2009 following a carotid dissection. Clearly a very early case of Covid vaccination complication.
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@graceelavery
Response from James Lawrence, Wales International, who plays for Hamburg St Pauli. With this logic any European country should put the ‘3 lions’ on their watch list given the history of English Football hooliganism in Europe.
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@josecanyousee_
Stroke specialist here. No reason he shouldn’t stay in the race he’ll be absolutely fine following his Thrombectomy . It would be brilliant if he won. There are 7 million stroke survivors in the US and maybe 5 million with A Fib, another advocate in the senate would be fantastic.
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@Hantsprints
@MarkUrban01
might be interested in this. The shooting stance, sitting and using his crossed feet to support the rifle, is very reminiscent of an original shooting technique of the Rifles regiment in the Peninsular War
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Congratulations to Dr Lucy Chapman
@TCDGerontology
@TrinityMed1
and
@gmcrotty
Tullamore Hospital for their Image in Clinical Medicine in the NEJM.
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@simonharris_mbd
The idea behind wearing poppies came from Moina Michael, an American Humanitarian.
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@theousherwood
@LBC
Let’s not forget the contributions of David, Theresa and Boris who left the economy in a state where it could be tanked in the space of a morning. Credit where credit is due!
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@HODLaser
@Chloejaneriaz
Mask is for the job I’m afraid. Portrait in the background is to recognize staff who worked the front line during COVID. What do you do exactly?
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@alias_dr_webber
@HannahAlOthman
I’ve been there. Gently place a towel over the seagull to avoid it getting scared, wrap it up to stop it from flapping and carry it out. Avoid the beak because they’re sharp. This counts as CME if you need it.
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The size of response was a bit unexpected! If you’d like to support the work of our amazing, courageous colleagues in
@stjamesdublin
please consider our charities,
@JamesFoundation
and Mercers Institute which help support patient care, services and research within the Hospital.
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A real joy in reading out the names of all the newly minted doctors, including my niece Dr Chandelle Stratton. Wonderful to see such great, caring, empathetic people joining the professional. I hope I didn’t mess up the Latin!
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@SuzanneEvans1
@Keir_Starmer
Don’t be silly, if you don’t work and don’t pay tax they put you in the House of Lords!
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@waitmanb
The citation doesn’t even say it all. He received 37 different bayonet, bullet and shrapnel wounds. They thought he was dead and were about to zip up the body bag but he spat in the face of the doctor.
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The Irish National Stroke Strategy, lead by
@ronancollins7
supported by INAS
@NOCA
identified at
#ESOC2024
as the best example of process/development in Europe. Hoping to see it funded and implemented!
@Irishheart_ie
@HSELive
@DonnellyStephen
@SimonHarrisTD
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I’m doing some historical research at the moment and incidentally found this from 1917 about a ‘harmless childhood disease’
#VaccinesWork
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@pinoocha
@DrAseemMalhotra
I know it’s hard for you but I’m afraid I’m a publically paid doctor with nothing to sell. We collect the data from hospitals and analyse it. There is no evidence from our data for the statement made by Dr Malhotra.
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If you’re a pharmacist or anyone with access to a supply of Personal Protective Equipment sitting on a shelf or in a store room please donate it to your local hospital. We’re all awaiting a delivery from China but in the meantime we need increasing amounts daily.
#COVID19ireland
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@RealSaidov
@ChrisMurphyCT
I did a quick analysis on that. Cars per household/state vs. car accident deaths/ 100K is a much weaker correlation than for guns (r=0.37 vs 0.76). For correlation against miles travelled the correlation is weaker still (r=0.17).
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@derekthomasgm1
@LBC
@mrjamesob
And UK uses it and Ireland and Malta and Cyprus and nobody is suggesting that anyone changes (or drives on the other side of the road etc, etc, etc, etc.) It’s just the UK population have been willingly fed a endless menu of paranoid BS about the EU for the last 40 years.
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@g_gosden
Needs to check if he’s been tapping into his electricity connection while he’s at it. After all, it’s outside the house.
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Dr Emmett Brown receiving the Prichard Medal for best Clinical Lecturer in St James’s Hospital for the past year.
@TrinityMed1
@stjamesdublin
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@Desertedpicx
I’ve been in it and it’s not decaying. It’s in Sirmione and is beautifully maintained. It not sinking either it’s a fortified harbour. If you visit, the local ice cream is incredible.
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@WalshFreedom
Joe, hate to break it to you but you’re American. The Israeli team were photographed with soldiers and automatic weapons the day before the game and then accused the Irish team of antisemitism to the media. The Irish team responded by undertaking to play the match but that’s it.
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@mikegalsworthy
@Conservatives
Welcome to 2019, Gaslighting your base to consolidate them and make them feel better about themselves and you. Let’s not mention the ACTUAL Tories who voted against Wilberforce repeatedly and demanded compensation to give up their slaves. Right wing politics in 2019 is truth lite
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@brianklaas
Maybe he thinks he has a shot at National Security Advisor. Fox is where Trump gets most his staff and the position is Vacant
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@robertshrimsley
@tcddublin
thought he was so brilliant we made him a Professor. When our Bursar, David Lloyd, asked I’m if he’d like a Chair, he said he’d prefer a hat so we gave him a special Professor hat, (designed by John Rocha).
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Personal view. Essentially this year’s places were determined by the HPAT. It neither predicts academic performance in the course or is associated with traits like empathy. It counts as a ‘super H1’ but one where some students can afford tuition that others can’t. This isn’t fair
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@AvrahamCooperMD
If you wonder how Dominic Corrigan saw all the Aortic Regurgitation that allowed him to describe Corrigan’s sign Corrigan’s pulse etc, it was probably due to the high level of syphilis in 19th century Dublin and associated syphilitic aortitis and associated root dilatation.
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@gavinesler
Imagine you’re the Irish government or an Irish MEP, or any MEP listening to this performance. Would you be afraid of engaging in debate with this razor sharp intellect? Is this really the best Britain has to offer? He’s going to be mocked & treated like a fool in Europe.
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@greynomatter
@DavidLammy
@JamesCleverly
Actually what is happening is some UK Universities are beginning to set up virtual campuses or offices in EU countries to offset the effect of being unable to access EU and other funding streams and colllaborations. Your actually driving your own scientists offshore.
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@HODLaser
@Chloejaneriaz
Yes I did. Good photo isn’t it. The painting is part of an installation called ‘Unmasked’. Clever huh?
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@JonathanPieNews
Almost as funny are the number of dudes coming on arguing that their macho hero wasn’t made look like a complete weenie by a teenage, vegan environmentalist in a single sentence. She didn’t even use capital letters!
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@JReinerMD
A very cardiology view!! The stroke doctor’s view is that everyone dies of cerebral anoxia/ lack of perfusion. Usually that’s due to cardiac arrest but not always. Think Marie Antoinette!! 😎
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@foodtherapy
@KatyKatyshaw
The next question you have to ask is why someone would want to make stuff up about an imaginary friend to scare you? Why would you want to believe it?
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@BadVaccineTakes
As these have been put in the the public domain by these individuals, does this I can freely use them for a talk on Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures?
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Statement ahead of today's FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2025 Qualifier.
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@Rafich1
@GaryLineker
The context is that it is in occupied Palestinian territory and they want to convert the area into a firing zone for the Israeli army and 1000 Palestinians are being forcibly moved and their homes and other buildings are being demolished by an occupying military force.
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The team from Falls and Syncope Unit in
@stjamesdublin
MISA watching the boss
@RoseAnnekenny1
on TV this morning
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@mattdpearce
This is Fern’s Cathedral in Ireland. Like Notre Dame it originally dates from the 1230s. It is tiny, because all a Cathedral means is the church of a Bishop. Why makes Notre Dame more special? They’re both Cathedrals and churches? Mainly it’s the art and architecture.
#unoffended
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@visegrad24
I think it’s fair to say that Clare Daly doesn’t represent most Irish people. She’s already not running at the next election largely because she’d be ‘thrown out on her ear’ (as they say in Ireland) if she did.
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@KatyKatyshaw
@foodtherapy
It’s not a ‘differing opinion’ I’m stating facts and you’re stating something your invisible friend the paramedic told you. Your attempt to scare people is disgraceful but looking at your timeline, pretty typical.
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@GidMK
Can I remind everyone that pre-frontal lobotomy is also Nobel Prize honored and it doesn’t help Covid either.
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Walking past Ely’s Arch in Churchtown this morning (which could really do with some attention
@sdublincoco
), and it got me thinking about one of my favorite bugbears, Streets in Dublin named after really unsuitable people, specifically Ely Place. A🧵
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