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📚Author, Saints Rising: The Early History of St Patrick’s Athletic FC |🔴⚪️ @HistoryStPats | 👨‍🏫 HSCL teacher @DLooneyHSCL | 🗣 Former SDCC Cllr & Mayor

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Dermot Looney
9 months
Bit of a risk going to print again but we had an amazing reception for the first print run. Many Pat’s fans already have one but I know from feedback how well it’s gone down with general football fans & history buffs. Just €25 (delivery is available).
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St Patrick’s Athletic History
9 months
🚨After selling out the initial print run of 1300, we’re delighted that a new print run of Saints Rising is now available in the club shop. A great gift for the football fan in your life. Available now for €25! Please RT to spread the word!🔴⚪️
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Disappointed to see complaints re the RTÉ School Hub today for having 2 male and one female teacher. A. They cobbled something like that together in a week. B. For many pupils, these may be the only male teachers they ever have. Could it inspire some boys to go on and teach?
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Dermot Looney
3 years
You all laughed at him but he made a lot of sense.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Just imagine the phone-in shows if this was Shamrock Rovers in Tallaght.
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John Crean
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Level 5 Lads....Level 5
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Let’s be clear about what happened 4 weeks ago. Govt were advised by NPHET not to try to reopen hospitality plus retail etc as well as allowing family visits. They chose their own course of action, and our health staff and thousands of sick people are reaping what Govt sowed.
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Dermot Looney
3 years
I almost never swear on here so please forgive me for the below. Fuck the Beacon. Fuck for-profit healthcare. Fuck for-profit education. This is about a lot more than vaccines.
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Interesting to see some ex LOI footballers turn into Covid deniers and anti-vaxxers. Lads I wouldn’t trust with a throw-in, never mind public health advice in a pandemic.
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Dermot Looney
3 years
As someone who, for my sins, dealt with matters such as litter management and public realm issues for 10 years, let me just say that it really is as simple as most of you are making out - DCC are a basket case and the fault does indeed lie with their management.
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Dermot Looney
6 years
As someone born exactly nine months after the Big Snow of 82, I urge you all to take extra precautions...
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Dermot Looney
4 years
This individual has been engaged in a genuinely weird vendetta against teachers throughout the crisis. She has also displayed a startlingly poor knowledge of education for someone so vocal. I can’t wait to go back to the classroom. But it won’t be on her terms.
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TonightVMTV
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'The schools must open in September...' @ciarakellydoc reacts to new school guidelines and says 'there can be no protected group of workers when everyone else is pulling their weight' #TonightVMTV
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Dermot Looney
3 years
In comedy news, a “Daily Mail” political “journalist” who styles himself an “old Blueshirt” and left “journalism” to work for serious political party “Renua” has “awarded” Norma Foley “Minister of the Year” because (checks notes) she opposed unions by letting Covid rip in schools
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Bad news for James Geoghegan in Dublin Bay South as Renua are tallying at a miserly 0.6%.
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Dermot Looney
2 years
Happy Rod Liddle He’s The Guy Who Ran Away And Left His Wife For A Young One day for all who celebrate (including me). 17 years. I can remember his name.
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Dermot Looney
4 months
Won’t be sharing those videos from Coolock but a reminder that those kids will soon return to classrooms, football teams etc with kids from other backgrounds. Huge efforts have gone into integrating kids inside and outside school. Utterly depressing to see this hate take hold.
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4 years
This is Trump’s worst day in office since that time he played golf with Rory McIlroy and I tweeted questioning Rory for enabling him and Piers Morgan had a go at me and then Rod Liddle, the guy who ran off on his wife for a young one, slagged my name in the British Sun.
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Dermot Looney
5 years
I teach about Travellers. I have taught many Travellers. I have welcomed Travellers to my class to teach about their culture. This utter charlatan has nothing to tell me or anyone else about this issue. A blathering nobody being promoted by an unimaginative bubble.
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Ireland AM
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Businessman Peter Casey joins us now to discuss whether children should be educated about travellers in school. Do you think it should be introduced into the curriculum? #IrlAM
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Dermot Looney
3 years
A gentle reminder that the Government removed public health supports including contact tracing from schools at Halloween, and November and December saw the worst chaos of the pandemic in most schools which spread to the wider public. Now they’ve refused to re-implement it.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
We have rightly focused on Leaving Cert students but there’s another cohort for whom yesterday’s announcement to close school buildings til Sept has huge significance - 6th class pupils. It’s a tough age in the first place, but now they won’t be back to primary school at all.
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Dermot Looney
2 years
BK Hons: LOI Premier Division winner (x2), LSC winner (x3), LFA President’s Cup winner, UEFA U16 Championships winner, UEFA U18 Championships winner, World Youth Championships bronze. JMcA Hons: League Cup and FA Cup runner-up, lots of stories where he’s the butt of the joke.
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Seán Hussey
2 years
Jason McAteer talking about his former Ireland manager Brian Kerr on Bein Sports: "I'm looking at this fella thinking, what have you done in the game?!" I wonder what Brian Kerr makes of this
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Dermot Looney
9 months
I’ve worked with 3 of the 4 TDs being slagged off here. While we had our disagreements, they are decent people who care about Palestinian people and care about peace. I also had the misfortune of being lectured in UCD by the tweeter. I know who I’d rely on for anything.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Doing the weekly shop tomorrow, so just wanted to check in advance with the journalists on Twitter what foods are appropriate for a leftie to buy. I know seafood is out. I imagine breaded fish is ok? Is it ok to buy something a bit exotic once it’s in Lidl?
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Teachers are many things but are not here for you to live out your anti-union fantasies. Find yourself another punchbag.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Another day, another story. Primary school with a positive case in a class. HSE said only the pod needed testing. Teacher insisted that whole class should be. HSE eventually relented. 7 positive cases were found at multiple pods. Listen. To. Teachers.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
These are very reasonable demands from the INTO. I am happy to continue working in the classroom at Level 5. My school are doing all they can to protect me, my colleagues and the pupils. But I want assurances that the HSE, Dept of Education & other agencies will do the same.
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Dermot Looney
2 years
I was 10 years a public rep and am 20 years an activist, advocating for public housing, struggling to help constituents find housing and demanding real policy responses to the crises. None of these figures popping up at anti-migrant protests have ever lifted a finger to help.
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Dermot Looney
2 years
My folks are 54 years married today. A couple of years back, my brother-in-law managed to get the old cine camera footage of their wedding day restored. The full thing is on YouTube but here are some of the highlights. (They’re still going strong btw!)
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Stop. F**king. RTing. Fine Gaelers. And Fianna Fáilers. They are the ones to blame, not the ones “standing up for you.” The state of the health service - their fault. The schools mess - their fault. The high levels of Covid now - their fault. Don’t let them away with it!
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Dermot Looney
4 years
If I was a member of the National Public Health Emergency Team and believed the country needed to go to Level 4, but knew how unpopular that would be in Govt and among much of the public, a strategy to achieve my aim might be to recommend a Level 5 lockdown. #JustSayin
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Spent 15 minutes in a Junior Infants classroom earlier today and am still traumatised. Massive shoutout to all the legends who are infant teachers and SNAs!
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Dermot Looney
3 years
If Paul Reynolds on RTÉ reported that the “far left” were involved in today’s scenes of madness in town because the Garda Commissioner told him, then that doesn’t absolve Paul Reynolds. Both men have a duty to correct the record and identify the real issues which led to today.
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Dermot Looney
8 months
Fair fucks @ThomasPringleTD - calling out the Healy Raes who talk out of both sides of their millionaire mouths on immigration, playing up to the hard chaws with lots of right wing nonsense while pocketing plenty of state money from hosting Ukrainians at the same time.
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Gavan Reilly
8 months
During this afternoon's debate on Irish foreign policy, neutrality and the Triple Lock, Danny Healy-Rae expressed concerned about unvetted immigration. Donegal's Thomas Pringle was... unimpressed. F bombs ahoy:
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Dermot Looney
8 months
I’ve decided to stop paying any tax and instead donate a portion of my income to causes I like. Look forward to all your plaudits!
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Many of you will spend the next few weeks at home with your kids and want to ensure they continue their learning outside of school. As a teacher, I've been asked by a few friends and followers here for some ideas. Happy to give a few thoughts - unfortunately, it needs a thread!
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Dermot Looney
3 years
The Irish Junior Minister for Sport here introducing himself as a Liverpool fan. His constituency base is within 30 mins of at least six League of Ireland clubs. Professional football in this country has been held back by many things. Politicians without a clue is one of them.
@jackfchambers
Jack Chambers TD
3 years
As a Liverpool fan myself it is sad to see clubs prioritising profit-making at all costs. The Super League proposal is bad for fans and bad for the game. It needs to be rejected by everyone who cares for the future of the game.
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Dermot Looney
3 years
One of the most horrible things I’ve seen over the past two months is the pitting of those who advocate for children against teachers and other staff in schools. That some continue to engage in personal attacks on teachers and school staff is really regrettable.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Interesting to read quite a few people slagging off kids going skiing (related to the Coronavirus) as being posh etc. Loads of secondary schools do it. When I went to school (a DEIS school) they went skiing. If it’s not for you, fine. But it’s hardly the stuff of class warfare.
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Dermot Looney
2 years
All this going on now with nobody Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael Senators and their buddies in the Dáil lining up to have a go at Michael D is to do with him calling out their failures on housing and public policy - little or nothing to do with Ukraine, like it or not.
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Dermot Looney
3 years
A classroom I’m very familiar with dropped down to 11° today. The heating was on full blast but the teacher needed to keep the windows wide open. Any time he went to close one the CO2 monitor started rising. All the kids wore their hats & coats.
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Dermot Looney
3 years
This is our school. Despite all the bluster and blow about supporting kids with additional needs a couple of months ago, when it comes to the crunch, we have to appeal for supports for kids like Lexi on the national news.
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RTÉ News
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The family of a child with autism has been told it will be late 2026 before she is seen by HSE school-age support services
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Dermot Looney
3 years
The tone in this is hilarious. How are we meant to take these people seriously?
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Fine Gael
3 years
“To think that people might end up going to an organised, ticketed event is just absolutely outrageous.” @EmerHigginsTD is calling for all social media companies to remove all content related to the illegal St. Patrick’s Day rave.
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Fair dues, this is the biggest “f*ck you” I’ve gotten in years. Keep the schools open at all costs but f*ck the teachers and SNAs. We’ve been frontline workers only when it suited. The @INTOnews promised us we would be in the first third of vaccines. Will they step up?
@gavreilly
Gavan Reilly
3 years
🚨 The #covid19ireland vaccine rollout is to get an overhaul - appointments will be issued only on the basis of age, once people with underlying conditions/living in vulnerable settings are done. Means no priority for those in specific jobs, e.g. Gardai/teachers. @VirginMediaNews
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Dermot Looney
4 years
This is the entirety of the @SocDems national campaign crew - staff & volunteers. Together we produced and launched 18 policy documents, coordinated 20 local campaigns, produced posters & leaflets, ran social media, comms & admin, and put together a 123-page manifesto. (1/2)
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Dermot Looney
6 years
I teach in a Tallaght primary school. The children there would never be this nasty, rude or ignorant. They know that you should either use “e.g.” or “eg” but never “e.g”. They also know that it should follow a comma, not a full stop. They wouldn’t capitalise Public Life either.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
A 2021 request for all of you in Ireland who like football/sport but aren’t much of a League of Ireland fan. Pick your local team or the team from your childhood (or just pick @stpatsfc ). Follow them on social media. Resolve to go to a game when it’s safe. Take an interest.
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Dermot Looney
9 years
What's happening in Greece is one of the most open, frightening and profound attacks on democracy Europe has seen in 70 years #ThisIsACoup
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Listening to a radio host who likes to sound off a lot on education. She just read out a text about an SNA who has worked with LCA students. Her response was “I don’t know what that is.” If you don’t know what the LCA is, maybe don’t be so free with your educational commentary?
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Like many people here, I once viewed greyhound racing as a bit of craic, an occasional night out. I wasn’t aware of the huge public money going down the drain to prop up a dying industry with often-abysmal animal welfare standards. Well done to Holly and the @socdems TDs on this.
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Holly Cairns TD
4 years
DEFUND THE GREYHOUND RACING INDUSTRY On Wed the SDs will put forward a Motion. Calling on the Government to: 💶Reverse the €2.4 mil increase in funding for the industry in 2021 🐾Increase funding for the welfare of greyhounds 🙌Phase out state funding for the industry
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Dermot Looney
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If you are younger than 32, Fine Gael have been in power for all of your adult life. They’ve been in government since early 2011. A few months of this inconsequence of a man in the Taoiseach’s office isn’t going to change years of disastrous housing policies.
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Gavan Reilly
4 months
New FG leader Simon Harris tells party Ardfheis in Galway that the government “will move mountains to get the children out of the box room and into a home of their own”
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Dermot Looney
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I understand the issues with Revolut’s lack of customer service and how poor they are around fraud etc. But my Revolut fees since 2020: €0.41. AIB fees in the same period: €814.69. Young ppl will never have traditional bank accounts. And the rest of us will get rid of them.
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Dermot Looney
2 months
Utterly unhinged stuff from the Aontú European candidate for Dublin. All because people are wishing a woman expecting a baby well. The hatred is just off the charts.
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Grace Rattigan (Reck) 🍉
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This one called me a Bigot then deleted such classy behavior!
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Dermot Looney
4 years
A jaunty reminder that every single person in history who has protested that they are ’a centrist’ has been decidedly right wing.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Haha what? Leave me alone you weirdos.
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Enjoying the pile on by Fine Gael public reps in my mentions right now. Their WhatsApp group must be lit! But seriously, a reminder to everyone. You are *not allowed* to *ever* criticise Fine Gael online. Anyone who does so is officially a meano.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
I see lots of people on the left giving out about the PRSTV explainers etc - and I get it - but this stuff is genuinely thick. Give me two seats - which FF got in CSC - any day over the ultimately irrelevant honour of topping the poll.
@IrishUnity
Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸
4 years
Our new Taoiseach, and I cannot stress this enough, got elected on the 6th count.
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Dermot Looney
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My dad played four games for his boyhood club, St Patrick’s Athletic, in 1958/59. By the time the 1959 FAI Cup Final came around, he was in the B team and cheered on that first Pat’s Cup win from the terraces. Today, he got to lift the Cup for the first time alongside my mam.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Incredible. The @SocDems have just won our second seat of this election in the 3-seat Cork South West constituency. What an incredible campaign from the one and only @HollyLeahCairns . We are bursting with pride! 💜
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Dermot Looney
6 years
There’s something missing here. I can’t quite put my finger on it.
@Deisesupes
Darren Skelton
6 years
Waterford City & County Councillors who are calling on a no vote in this month’s referendum
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Dermot Looney
6 years
Unpopular opinion. If you want local Cllrs available all day & night for meetings; if you want them reading every document, answering every call and replying to mails within hours; if you want them out meeting residents and groups; pay them full-time wages and give them staff.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Taking off my @SocDems hat. I’ve never seen so many charlatans giving nonsense advice on how to fill out the ballot. You can stop at 1 or any other number. But you *should* go as far down as you possibly can. I’ve seen no. 15’s elect FF over the left. Go as far as you can
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Dermot Looney
5 years
No. Families who cannot afford university or any third level should be enabled to attend by policies rooted in equality of access. This applies to housing as much as to education policy. No one should lose out because of geography or class. Outrageous that this nonsense continues
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The Irish Times
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Families who cannot afford university should consider ‘regional options’ - Minister
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Dermot Looney
4 years
I follow lots of great Shamrock Rovers fans on here. Friendly, caring, funny friends from over many years. I just want to let them know that I hope they get absolutely battered tonight. Forza Milan.
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Dermot Looney
2 years
That’s funny, because I remember someone called Ciara Kelly lambasting teachers time and time again during 2020 on Newstalk. Must be a different Ciara Kelly.
@NewstalkFM
NewstalkFM
2 years
‘Maybe we need to get a little bit creative.’ Ciara and Shane spoke this morning about issues surrounding recruitment and retention of teachers @NTBreakfast
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Dermot Looney
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No-one in power wants to know, but there is already a crisis re teachers in Dublin and we’re a couple of weeks away from seeing how much worse it’s become. The cause is very simple. A huge number of teachers cannot afford to live here, or near here, any more.
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Trina Golden
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🚨 Recruitment Crisis 🚨 Not getting much attention now but it will ramp up in September. Schools in Dub cannot fill some fixed term jobs right now. some schools have multiple jobs they can't fill. No one even to interview. Principals are panicking. What does this mean? #1
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Bohs fans all over my mentions who won’t allow any criticism of the horrible sexist chanting throughout today’s game aimed at a Rovers’ player’s partner. Yes, the same person they targeted that flag at. The Great Moralising club might wish to have a word with themselves.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Delighted to have been asked by the Taoiseach to serve in Seanad Éireann. I will be taking up a post as Junior Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and the League of Ireland.
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Dermot Looney
6 years
Shame on the GAA for refusing the use of Páirc Uí Chaoimh for Liam Miller’s memorial match. The GAA has modernised in many ways but it’s unacceptable to hide behind an antiquated rule book in a situation like this.
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Dermot Looney
10 months
This chap presents a radio show with another mouth in which they sound off about every issue under the sun with the standard reactionary ráiméis. But when an elected rep - yes that’s what the President is - raises concerns about genocide or human rights, he throws a wobbler. 🤷
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Dermot Looney
4 months
Chancery Grill is a great name for a Fianna Fáil Restaurant
@electionlit
Alan Kinsella
4 months
The big news....
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Dermot Looney
1 year
A huge honour to be welcomed to Áras an Uachtaráin by @PresidentIRL today and to present him with a copy of Saints Rising. Joined by Brian Kerr, @karl_pats and Denise, we had a great chat about all things football.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
As 1st counts come in, it's clear from the tallies that the @SocDems have had a decent day out. The challenge for us was to win more seats than the 2 outgoing, and to hit the 2% nationally. It appears clear we will do both. At this stage, we're in the hunt for at least 6 seats
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Hahahahahahaha. Just seeing this now. This is my favourite one. This is the best thing anyone has said in the pandemic. The windows are now open too much! Put it in the National Gallery. Project it onto Leinster House. Paint it on the walls of the Áras. Not. A fucking. Clue.
@IrishTimes
The Irish Times
3 years
Schools cautioned on ‘over-ventilating’ classrooms by public health officials
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Dermot Looney
6 years
Inexcusable from the FAI that there is no TV coverage of the Presidents’ Cup. Meanwhile on RTÉ2 we have a movie about a US sports agent travelling to India to recruit cricketers for baseball.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
This is truly the Fianna Fáil we know and love.
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Dermot Looney
5 years
As @socdems Director of Elections I’m confirming: ⬆️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️20 SD candidates in #GE20 - up from 14 in 2016. 💪60% of our candidates are women. 🗣2 are TDs, 8 are Cllrs, all are strong activists. 👥Like any great team, we’ve a good mix of youth & experience. 💟More to follow!
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Dermot Looney
2 years
That’s great. Now, let me check the RTE schedule for the evening. Oh.
@RTEsoccer
RTÉ Soccer
2 years
A sellout crowd of 7,500 will be on hand to watch Shamrock Rovers welcome Bohemians to Tallaght in the biggest League of Ireland game of the evening. Here's your preview for all tonight's action. #RTESoccer
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Dermot Looney
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Lee Hurley Oswald
@rtenews
RTÉ News
1 year
US President Joe Biden had a near miss when a stray sliotar went his direction while watching a camogie demonstration by young players at Farmleigh in Dublin | Read more:
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Dermot Looney
4 years
There are a lot of people now facing a bleak January, none more so than our healthcare workers & those who are sick. There is too much focus on personalities in Govt. Instead we need a real focus on decisions they made. They need to be held accountable for this avoidable crisis.
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Dermot Looney
3 years
“Psycho-social experiment.” What is going on at the Irish Times? 🤯 It is awful that kids in my class and thousands like them have to wear masks. It doesn’t make my job any easier, let me tell you. But yet more of them catching Covid and spreading it will be way, way worse.
@roisiningle
Róisín Jingle 🎄
3 years
A must-read on the psycho-social experiment of masks on children in schools by brilliant @jenoconnell via @IrishTimes
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Dermot Looney
22 days
Heimir Hallgrímsson becomes the first Republic of Ireland boss to have lost to St Patrick’s Athletic (managing IBV in the Europa League in 2011) since current St Patrick’s Athletic manager Stephen Kenny (managing Dundalk in the Leinster Senior Cup in 2018).
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Dermot Looney
3 years
I have met David, nice guy, but these are the comments of a charlatan. He should take a break from the graphmanism and talk to some principals & staff near where he lives. No one with any real-life experience of schools here the past 7.5 weeks would make these comments.
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David W. Higgins
3 years
That @RTENewsAtOne interview with @NormaFoleyTD1 would make you want to delete twitter They gave 90,000 antigen tests to schools and only 3% came back positive. PCR tests show 2% positivity Positivity today in the wider population is *20%* Schools issue overblown, again...
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Dermot Looney
6 years
Of course, we went on to win Vet and win the election overall. That political maestro, brought in by the right to defeat us, had proven his worth. His name? John McGuirk.
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Watching Longford v Derry on #WatchLOI ❌ No graphics showing teams and score ❌ No match clock ❌ No replays ❌ No co-commentator 1️⃣ Only one camera, in a low position in the Main Stand, with some poor camerawork at times. Forget the excuses. This is just not good enough.
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Dermot Looney
6 years
Turnout in Tallaght & Rathfarnham not as high as hoped. Together For Yes are asking all Yes supporters in those areas to get in touch with friends & family *now* and ask them to go to the polling station. They have less than 3 hrs. Open Whatsapp/Messenger/etc and get texting!
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Listening to some lad on Joe Duffy who wrote a book on what we should be proud of in Ireland. In the space of 30 secs he said we should be proud of political centrism, GAA is the most-played sport in Ireland (sic) and the sport we should be proudest of is horse racing. I’m done.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
I see Niall Collins has referred to the Social Democrats as “frauds” because he didn’t understand what was said about coalition This is the same Niall Collins who committed actual voting fraud in the Dáil chamber when voting 6 times for his absent buddy.
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Dermot Looney
5 years
If the *Chief of Staff, Global Operations, Europe, PayPal*, who tops up that salary with 18K in Cllr remuneration & hefty expenses can’t *afford* a mortgage, what the hell does that tell us about her Govt’s policy for the last eight years?
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Incredible performance by the @SocDems Cork North-West candidate @ciaranmcarthy who fell just short of a seat on over 8500 votes. He should be hugely proud of his campaign as the main progressive candidate locally - a big hope for the future.
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Dermot Looney
6 years
Never a dull moment in Irish football. Except during Ireland games.
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Dermot Looney
6 years
On a day where all of Dublin is affected by closures & diversions, it’s entirely inappropriate for public transport to give free travel only to those attending a Catholic mass. It should be free for everyone for a set time. Why won’t @Luas or the NTA respond to questions on this?
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Luas
6 years
#Luas Red Line trams running Tallaght / Saggart - Blackhorse & The Point - Smithfield only from 7am - 10pm. Connolly stop closed 7am - 10pm. Free Travel with Final Mass ticket. See for info. #WMOF2018
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Dermot Looney
4 years
There is a major problem with gender and primary teaching. Too few men are encouraged to do it. Conversely, the proportion of women in school leadership roles compared to those teaching is also worrying.
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Dermot Looney
1 year
Your reminder that the ‘free school books’ scheme is an accountancy trick, nothing else. They took the money from the ICT Grant schools were due to get in the final term in 22/23 and put it into books instead. A policy worth debating - but no one has been honest about it.
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Norma Foley T.D
1 year
Today I had the pleasure of visiting with staff and students in @StMatthewsNS who are busy preparing for the rollout of the free school books scheme for primary schools. For the first time ever parents and guardians will benefit from free school books, workbooks and copybooks.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Delighted to announce I’m not running for the Seanad.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
The answer was Ciara Kelly and the Sindo. I am shocked and stunned.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Right now, a hit job on teachers/unions, displaying utter ignorance of the issues and using children with additional needs to further a narrow political agenda, is flying through the printing press for one of tomorrow’s papers. Only questions are, which paper & which columnist?
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Dermot Looney
2 years
She’s here and she’s beautiful. 🔴⚪️
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Already enjoying people who banged on about the science of age-based risk (ignoring the science of, you know, people with contacts) tying themselves in knots to support vaccinating all 18-30 year olds ahead of 31-49 year olds who work in frontline services.
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Yet again we need to put a directly-elected Mayor for all Dublin back on the agenda along with a broader project to democratise our city and county. Crises in housing, culture, public amenities and other problems are due to the democratic deficit we all face as Dubliners.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
Right now, a hit job on teachers/unions, displaying utter ignorance of the issues and using children with additional needs to further a narrow political agenda, is flying through the printing press for one of tomorrow’s papers. Only questions are, which paper & which columnist?
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Dermot Looney
6 years
The absolute state of this
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Owen Jones
6 years
A tinpot dictatorship which directly controlled its press would blush at the sycophancy of these front pages. The British press is, with honourable exceptions, an absolute joke.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
But having 2 men and one woman today with two inserts about women in history and science is entirely reasonable given the circumstances.
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Dermot Looney
3 years
Varadkar’s conduct yet again disgraceful. Really dodgy politics to be at that stuff in the first place. To try to score political points using hearsay on anyone’s religious affiliations should be criticised across the political spectrum (but won’t be).
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Dermot Looney
11 months
Levels of arrogance and self-importance here from Kelly & Quinn are breathtaking. Their hard lives seem to involve congratulating each other through a media reach the left could only dream of. Indo, Newstalk etc love this pathetic controversialism, a carbon copy of US tactics.
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Dermot Looney
4 years
The zenith of graphmanism. I was a Cllr for 10 years. You couldn’t begin to map the ins & outs of housing motions on any chart. Simplistic rubbish. What I can say is David’s party FG showed no interest whatsoever in social housing on SDCC in that time. I doubt DCC FG differs.
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David W. Higgins
4 years
A non-COVID chart for a change. Fascinating discovery from @eoinneylon here on the voting patterns of Dublin City councillors on housing issues. This is just the 21 votes taken since 2019. Dublin has an acute housing shortage and the issue will return after the pandemic.
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