Conor Gallagher
@ConorGallaghe_r
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Irish Times crime/security corr. Not on here much this weather. Best to get me on [email protected]
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Joined November 2010
Imagine getting kicked out at 5pm, half cut, and waiting two hours for the chipper to open.
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I once saw James Corden order five pints of carlsberg, wait for them to be pulled and order two pints of guinness.
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You might throw on another pint there Tommy when you're ready
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Gal Gadot trying to resist doing another Imagine cover
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*sips pint* ah, it's great to be back. Barman: you were here literally yesterday.
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On the Ireland reddit page someone posted this picture of an incredibly fat robin their parents have been feeding and someone and someone else called it Robin Thicke
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It's 2021. No one has had to delete text messages to free up memory for about 16 years.
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This will get hundreds of retweets. Then the clarifying tweet that the benches are being varnished will get like 12.
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The chap who works in my local centra says Ireland should offer €500k to every Russian pilot who defects here with their aircraft. It would help Ukraine and we get a free airforce. Not saying it's a good idea but I admire the outside the box thinking!.
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Created a Gmail account for my mam once and she asked me why I didn't do computer science in college.
Love when you do something quite straightforward that really impresses your parents. For example, I just found a booster appointment in a chemist for my Mam and she told me I should be "running the HSE".
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Why are we still interviewing Ian Bailey? What are we expecting to happen?.
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Have we considered that maybe Michael D is just trying to get out of going to mass? We've all been there like.
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Just remembered a detail from this article back in August. As Ireland struggled to evacuate citizens from Kabul due to a lack of aircraft, Ukraine contacted us to offer seats on one of its planes.via @IrishTimes.
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We 100% shouldn't demonise young people. At the same time it's ok to demonise some pr1ck who's after launching a pint glass into a random group of people.
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KAT stands for "kill all taigs". I'm increasingly skeptical of the view that this is a part of loyalist culture we in the Republic need to "understand". I'm even more skeptical we should be lecturing nationalist communities about their need to "understand" it.
Tonight I am having to answer questions from my children who came across this on social media why their Daddy is on a bonfire to be burnt. This is not culture, it is a hate crime. Those within political unionism need to show leadership & stand up against this sectarian hatred
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This would sicken you. Suspended sentence after being charged with sexual assault with a bottle. They were allowed to plead guilty to assault. It was just a "prank" apparently. Their names are Gerard O'Mahony, Darragh Collins and Darragh O'Riordan.
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Laughing at all these sheep worried about Storm Barra. It's going to be no worse than the flu. Please donate to my gofundme to help spread the word.
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Sanctions will only hurt ordinary decent Kinahans.
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Gardaí preparing to remove the Burkes from the Four Courts (March 2023, decolourised)
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Finally tested positive for covid. Feeling fairly flattened. Can't imagine how bad I'd be feeling without the vaccine. Get yissers selves jabbed if you haven't already.
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Spare a thought for retail/hospitality staff who have to deal with specimens like this on a regular basis. No one should have to tolerate this.
This is the level of an anti masker in a Butlers in Dublin. A nasty homophobic little bully boy. I’m embarrassed for him. Who is he?! #garda #manbun #coward
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A garda has been giving a three month sentence for trying to strangle his ex-partner, while "off his face" on cocaine, after illegally entering her home. The victim's young children tried to protect their mother using their power ranger swords
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Breaking: Russia has told Ireland the naval exercises have now been moved out outside the EEZ.
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I can't stop thinking about the fact that someone, who presumably considers themselves a journalist, sat down and wrote this headline
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Gardai are pleading with people to take precautions with online dating following the brutal murder of Fine Gael activist Aidan Moffitt. There's suspicion he might have met his killer online. Gardai also examining if there was a homophobic motivation for the attack.
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The only thing twitter is useful for is reminding people (correctly) that the Luas is free.
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RTE television gets a lot of flack and, at least based on its Christmas lineup, most of it is totally justified. But I don't think its radio output gets enough credit. The likes of Creedon and Late Date beats anything the bbc has to offer.
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Why would you bother your arse tracking down an email address and sending something like this at 8am. Some people have little to be worrying about
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Breaking: Israel has asked Ireland and Unifil to remove their peacekeepers from outposts on the Lebanese border. A platoon of Irish troops occupy a single border outpost, known as 652. In response Israel has been told the troops are going nowhere.
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Was going to do some more reporting on the Russian naval exercises tomorrow but some lad with a week old account and a pirate flag emoji tells me it's "a non story" so I'll probably leave it.
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I'm certain this Enoch Burke thing would end almost immediately if we stopped reporting on it.
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Going to walk down the shops without a coat because I refuse to live in fear.
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This is the best one so far: Malachy Steenson, who looks to be out of the running in Dublin Central, suggests Gerry Hutch was "put into this race" by the State to prevent his election.
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It's remarkable the number of people who suddenly start caring about homelessness as soon as the subject of refugees is raised.
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Morning, two pints please and do you do toast?.
NPHET recommend 5pm closure time for hospitality from Monday next. This will be considered by Government tomorrow. Also spectators at sporting and live events recommended to be kept to very low numbers.
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Can't believe Prince Andrew is about to get covid again.
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One group claiming to represent the truckers protest in Dublin tomorrow say they won't be moving until petrol is capped at €1.10\litre. The last time petrol was that cheap was 2009.
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Journo request: please shut up about garth brooks.
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Gardaí monitoring activity of unvetted military aged male with a history of passport fraud
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This is excellent protesting in fairness.
"It's gonna happen again if it's not changed now". @PaddyDiver4 says this shows the difference between blocks in Dublin and blocks in Donegal. That's Weetabix in the middle, which crumbles by hand, the same as the Mica block on display. @VirginMediaNews
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It's incredibly depressing the number of Irish people on here who think opposing the Israeli government's inhumane treatment of Palestinians justifies the cold blooded massacre of dozens of innocent civilians. It's childish, point scoring bullshit.
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This is so low. Colm Horkan was murdered. Last year almost 300 gardaí were assaulte on duty.
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Russian Naval Vessels in and around Irish EEZ, including the elusive Marshall Ustinov missile cruiser (first pic). Pics from @IrishAirCorps and @naval_service
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There you are Conor, the most popular thing you've ever written and it's a Simpson's meme.
Leaving the vaccine centre after 14 minutes instead of 15
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The vaccine will make you infertile, and your children, and your children's children.
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At this stage they should set up a dedicated court to hear cases from the Burke family. Could call it the Burcuit Court
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Factcheck: Mostly false.
Good luck to England 🏴 tonight. Best team in tournament so far, we wish our neighbours well!! 🇮🇪🏴
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Here, leave us out of this shit.
Prince Andrew’s ex claims photo of him with accuser Virginia Giuffre ‘could be Irish body double’
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I'm not at all clear what role or power An Garda Siochana has in stopping people getting money out of ATMs but here we are.
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I get the feeling the Dublin Bay South by-election is going to be an absolute circus. And I can't wait.
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Getting hairy on South Anne Street. Trinity students in straw boaters have started throwing boiled kidneys at the Garda Public Order Unit #Bloomsday2021.
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Working on a long read for the next few weeks/decades. We're eternally grateful to the beautiful staff in @RotundaHospital
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Spent some time at the far right protest outside Leinster House today. The anger combined with the sheer idiocy of some protesters (one told Michael Healy Rae to "go back to his own country") makes me worry much more serious violence is not far away.
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Now deleted tweet from Michael O'Keeffe falsely identifying the suspect in the Parnell Street attack. The man in the tweet is now under Garda protection.
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Everyone's being a bit precious over this imo. The guards are not immune from criticism or satire, especially given the fact they have sometimes acted inappropriately at evictions.
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Have the Ukrainians tried engaging in dialogue with the 60km long convoy of armoured vehicles bearing down on Kyiv?.
Our position on today's Resolution on Russian aggression against Ukraine, and why we must vote against. There is no military solution. No to Russia's war in Ukraine; no to military escalation on the European continent. Dialogue and peace is the only way forward.
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And to prove it, here's a clip from RTÉ.
RTÉ didn’t showed you what they wanted you to believe about the michael Collins memorial today, this is what really happened! The Irish are fed up of this fake pretence.
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The Press Ombudsman has found that a characterisation of musician Jim Corr as an ‘online quack’ has not breached the Press Council’s Code of Practice’s principle for ‘truth and accuracy’
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DAA has rightly been getting a lot of flack recently. I'd like to add to it with my gripe that it insists it's called daa, all lower case, like we're all supposed to pretend grammar doesn't exist.
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How does a party which has never come close to returning a candidate at any level accumulate 400k in gold reserves?.
A story I did not expect to be writing today. Gardaí recover gold valued at €400,000 after National Party complaint
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I dunno. I think an apology is enough. What else do we want them to do.
This is not not just not acceptable from a group of women who wear the Irish colours. Apology hardly seems enough.
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Government says case numbers are starting to level off. But is that not just because we're at maximum testing capacity?.
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So long Fat Tom. You were a bollox and we loved you dearly
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It must be hard being an irish anti vaxxer and being constantly reminded of how terrible you are at your job.
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It's not really a row though. It's a handful of bigots versus the rest of the non-arsehole population .
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This is always a sure sign my Crystal Palace namesake has scored
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Blaming your sources for your terrible journalism and threatening to reveal their identity is a bold move, I'll give them that.
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I see Ian Bailey is breaking his silence again. That poor silence is always getting broken.
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The absolute slime in the replies.
Ukrainian children to bring Liam MacCarthy Cup on to field ahead of All-Ireland hurling final
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Percentage of the auld pair who have received their first dose.▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░ 50% . Percentage of the auld pair who have received their second dose.░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 0%. As of Monday, 26 Apr 2021. Source: My Ma.
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Scam warning: If you get a text from a UK number asking you to be Northern Ireland Secretary of State don't click the link. If you do you have to be Northern Ireland Secretary of State.
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Thanks for all the kind words, especially from the Crystal Palace fans who worry i won't be lining out against Burnley today (once again, that's a different conor gallagher 🙂).
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There objectively isn't two sides to this. It doesn't matter what you think of Nato/the US. Listening to the terrified voices from Kyiv on the radio there was heartbreaking.
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Massive jump for Sinn Féin. But of course you won't see anything about it in the mainstream media via @IrishTimes.
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Two Gardai have been arrested for allegedly assaulting an teenager in a south Garda Station, capping off what has been a fairly terrible week for public confidence in the the Force. via @IrishTimes.
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Good to see provision in the mental health budget for thousands of billboards saying "it's ok not to feel ok" and "have you tried mindfulness?".
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In fairness, Dublin Bay South acquired precisely zero nuclear weapons during his tenure.
“My first love, as weird as it sounds, is nuclear weapon disarmament” @MurphyEoghan tells Claire Byrne. That’s a new one on me!.
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You can't even launch a firework at a garda's heard without being cancelled by the woke mob these days.
This protest in Dublin yesterday got a 'woke pass' from the Gardai. So did the big BLM ones last year. Anti-lockdown protests? No woke pass, meet with barricades and force if necessary.
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“I’ve done my bit lads. It’s about time the rest of Ireland done their bit,” the driver of the ecclesiastical supplies truck said as he was led away by gardaí. via @IrishTimes.
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It probably got pushed out by the news that Russia bombed a maternity hospital and a theatre, killing 300 people.
A news item you won't see on RTÉ.
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Are they going to drop him on Kyiv?.
Due to significant losses among competent commanders, Russia has been forced to send in retired Major General Pavel to oversee a special forces unit operating in Eastern Ukraine. Pavel is a 67-year-old veteran of Russia's war in Afghanistan.
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Not sure why everyone is so exercised by the political opinions of a Well-Known English Sport Star.
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Motion filed by the Irish Times NUJ Chapel today .
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The UAE, where the Kinahan leadership is based, is freezing all Kinahan assets, the FT reports. The net really is tightening now.
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