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@jackalexe
jack
2 months
Did they have to unveil her right next to Darth Vader and Qui-Gon Jinn ??
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TheJournal.ie
2 months
A wax sculpture of Sinéad O'Connor has been unveiled at the National Wax Museum in Dublin today
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3 years
People say the Dublin docklands have no soul, but I am always quite moved by this elegant memorial to all the Sith who lost their lives fighting for Irish freedom.
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1 year
The only flag I’ll salute
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1 year
Ryan Tubridy’s statement in full:
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5 years
What’s an Irish word you strongly prefer to the English equivalent? I really like “gruaig” instead of “hair”. Gruaig is the sound hair would make if you could hear it grow.
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@jackalexe
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3 years
Getting vaccines to all your friends, family and kids’ teachers, all while running a busy hospital? I wanna tell ya... try it sometime!
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3 years
An incalculable blow to Ireland Inc.
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2 years
Absolutely entranced by the wild shifts in tone here
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3 years
The path Dublin City Council paid for vs the path Dublin City residents made
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3 years
Biden sending the US’s spare vaccines to Mexico rather than to a wealthy island off the coast of Europe is a good call on his part. Irish people expecting otherwise would need a serious reality check
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@jackalexe
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4 years
In Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin have already made it illegal to be white, male or middle class. All those people are in jail now. Don’t let it happen here
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@jackalexe
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3 years
Congratulations to the quarter finalists on RTÉ’s “Home of the Year”! #homeoftheyear
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@jackalexe
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2 years
Paschal Donohoe discussing the European Deposit Insurance Scheme with a constituent in the refrigerated goods aisle of Tesco Phibsborough
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3 years
Powerful stuff from the CMO
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@jackalexe
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2 years
FACT: if Keanu Reeves from the movie Speed had had to obey the new Phoenix Park 30k/ph speed limit -- everyone on his bus would have died. This is what the Green Party wants to happen
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@jackalexe
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4 years
So let me get this straight We have A Minister for Sport who has never won an all-Ireland A Minister for Defence who has never shot someone A Minister for Children who is not a child A Minister for Food who refuses to be eaten And they call this democracy? ;(
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@jackalexe
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4 years
This is absolutely obscene. Evicting tenants and then smashing up their home, all in the midst of a pandemic. Here we are just two weeks after the government voted to weaken the evictions ban.
@jackpowerIT
Jack Power
4 years
/2 Here are some pictures of the state of the property when the former tenants re-entered today
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@jackalexe
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3 years
Just had a very nasty experience - a group of men (all aged 40+) stopped me on Talbot Street, tried to take the food I was carrying and kicked me in the legs. Really sad behavior on one of the best streets in Dublin 👎🏻
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@jackalexe
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5 years
For those asking what the difference is between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil: FG voted with the far right in the European Parliament, while FF didn’t vote because they’d left work early
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@EoghanHeriot
Eoghan
3 months
the 1971 photos of Irish government ministers have a certain aura i cant quite put my finger on
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@jackalexe
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3 years
Claire Byrne could have 'owned' former English politician Nigel Farage much more effectively by just not inviting him onto her programme
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@jackalexe
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3 years
Under Leo Varadkar's leadership, Fine Gael have lost elections in 2019, 2020 and 2021
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3 years
🚨BREAKING:
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3 years
For four days in 1991, Kazakhstan was the entire Soviet Union because all other members had left. The question now before us is which one football club will become the entire Super League.
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4 years
Two months. We lasted two months. Thanks, Eamon Ryan.
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4 years
With Catherine Noone, Gerry Adams and Enda Kenny no longer in the Oireachtas, this may be the first time in decades there isn’t a national parliamentarian with an on-the-record use of the n-word
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@jackalexe
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4 years
Landlords in my apartment complex are still operating an Air BNB service, with at least two sets of tourists having arrived this morning. Yo @MurphyEoghan is this illegal yet?
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@jackalexe
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3 years
Fine Gael are genuinely running this by-election on the fact the Opposition hasn't fixed the housing crisis either
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@jackalexe
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3 years
Here's the extraordinary moment when Rose Conway-Walsh TD compared partial re-opening of indoor dining to the discrimination faced by Rosa Parks
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@jackalexe
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2 years
We are witnessing one of the great parliamentary speeches
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@jackalexe
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1 year
This lad sits on every county council in Ireland
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1 year
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@yascaoimhin
An tSéipéal Ruán オーン・チェーピル・ルアン
1 year
If Ireland won. Who should host it? #eurovision
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@jackalexe
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5 years
Exchange of the night Micheál Martin: “People remember when I was Minister for Enterprise —“ Mary Lou: “They remember you crashed the economy” Nearly spit out my drink. Perfect delivery #GE20
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@aideenblackwood
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6 months
Sorry but I already have too much going on today for Leo Varadkar to resign
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@jackalexe
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28 days
Kamala Harris at WHAT fundraiser ??
@sahilkapur
Sahil Kapur
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Kamala Harris at SF fundraiser: "I just love Gen Z. I know it may be complicated if you have Gen Z in your family, but I think they're terrific... When Gen Z starts voting in their numbers, a whole lot of this is going to have an absolute sea change in terms of leadership."
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4 months
Majority of Sinn Féin voters being in favour of a hard border on the island of Ireland - if it keeps asylum seekers out - is possibly the grimmest poll result I can remember seeing in years
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3 years
I’ve seen some political chicanery in my time, but the Soc Dems producing their own Eoin Ó Broin really takes the biscuit
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3 years
Important breakthrough in the “beach that makes you old” discourse
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3 years
The problem with RTÉ’s Home of the Year is that all the homes featured belong to people who knew they’d be reviewed. Participation should be random and mandatory; at any time, the judges could arrive at any home in Ireland and assign it a score.
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@jackalexe
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4 years
Word of advice, ladies: if he puts this back in the fridge; leave him!! He will never change!!
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4 years
In the final analysis, Dianne Abbott will be remembered as a trailblazing politician long after every one of the staffers who mocked her have been entirely forgotten.
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@jackalexe
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3 years
1920s Mick Wallace be like:
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@wallacemick
Mick Wallace
3 years
Taiwan is part of #China + recognised as such by #UN but now #US is stoking tensions- US military have even been in Taiwan training local forces. US + #EU are interfering in China’s domestic affairs- a violation of Art 2 of UN Charter- EU must stop working for US state dept…
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3 years
How can satire have a future when “Fine Gael TD accidentally gives motivational feminist address to an Iranian terrorist organisation” is a real thing that happened?????
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@jackalexe
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2 years
Phenomenal stock photo work
@rtenews
RTÉ News
2 years
The Chair of the HSE's Monkeypox Incident Management Team has said it is possible that cases of monkeypox will be seen in Ireland and an incident management team has been established to ensure the country is fully prepared for that eventuality
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@jackalexe
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4 months
Rishi Sunak’s general election speech being drowned out by someone playing Things Can Only Get Better lol
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Exit polling for the 2024 General Election: “What single issue most influenced how you cast your vote?” Housing - 14% Cost of Living - 12% Immigration - 7% Dáil Bike Shelter Too Expensive - 59% Other - 8%
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5 months
Another promise kept by An Taoiseach nua 💙
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5 years
Leaving Cert History students, what did you do your research project on? Mine was the invasion of Russia by Napoleon's Grande Armée in 1812.
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4 years
Can’t wait for the first big Fianna Fáil scandal of the 2020s. Nobody does it better
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@jackalexe
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4 years
Grotesque scenes in Seanad Éireann as Jerry Buttimer, currently serving out a suspension from Fine Gael due to Golfgate, describes his reduced access to speaking time as a system of Apartheid.
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3 years
Pat Kenny heckler International Airport
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Anyone for any recommendations for how to get into Oasis’ music now that I’ve got 4 tickets? Thanks!
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4 years
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Emily Longeretta
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What tv death — even if you saw it coming — shook you the most? Just watched one (hasn’t aired yet) that really hurt.
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3 years
Dolores Cahill trying to get into the DBS count:
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3 years
Can’t believe Linda Martin owns the “shurrup yew ye tick” meme chihuahua
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3 years
A by-election in their leaders’ constituency is exactly the kind of calming influence the Green Party needs right now
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3 years
Point One on the Fine Gael “Working From Home Guide” is Obey Your Employer lmao
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3 years
Claire Byrne pressing Matt Carthy to support a ban on people with criminal convictions from working in politics is grotesque. Former prisoners already suffer enormous (legal) discrimination in the jobs market, a conviction shouldn’t automatically be a life sentence #CBLive
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2 years
Fianna Fáil should retaliate by hiring 19 cinemas to show the P. Flynn Late Late interview, with special screenings in Dublin, Castlebar and Brussels
@newschambers
Richard Chambers
2 years
Fine Gael and Omniplex Cinemas have teamed up to show Michael Collins at the same time in 19 cinemas across the country.
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6 years
Love the brass neck of people who reckon their first involvement in politics should be a shot at the presidency
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3 years
On the world. The biggest impact. On the whole world.
@YouGov
YouGov
3 years
Captain Sir Thomas Moore may have sadly passed away in February, but he tops the list of people Britons say had the biggest impact on the world in 2021. Captain Tom - 21% Donald Trump - 9% Greta Thunberg - 7% Boris Johnson - 6% Elon Musk - 6%
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3 years
Just think... we are only 12 hours away from Marc MacSharry calling on the Taoiseach to resign for the third or fourth time.
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3 years
Hundreds of paying customers cleared off Parliament Street at 11:30 on the dot so that three cars could use the road
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4 years
I don’t go in for mindless Shinner-bashing but it is beyond belief that any Irish party would turn to British law in order to accept a donation that is 1,600 times the legal limit in the Republic.
@cpkeena
Colm Keena
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Sinn Féin tells State watchdog UK rules apply to €4m donation via The Irish Times
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4 years
I am unapologetically in favour of asking those lucky enough to own property to pay a few hundred extra a year in tax.
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5 years
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern wandering around the RDS telling people he voted for Gary Gannon: “The lad’s a real worker” #GE20
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4 years
Eamon Ryan has rightly apologised now, so might be good to re-focus on the story he was trying (clumsily) to amplify: a black person's own personal account of racism in Ireland via @IrishTimesOpEd
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@IrishTimesPol
Irish Times Politics
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Donnelly says PBP abortion Bill ‘goes miles beyond what people voted for’ via @IrishTimesPol
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3 years
What on earth is going on at the Kremlin??
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5 years
Lizzo’s “Boys” as pictures of Enda Kenny TD
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We should have a massive left popular front in Ireland but it shouldn’t include any parties or individuals I have a problem with
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4 years
Our brains have been so broken by lockdown that people are texting in to national radio suggesting that those with suspiciously fresh hair cuts should be arrested and fined
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5 years
In Dublin Bay North, the fourth finger curls up on Aodhán Ó Ríordáin’s magic monkey paw #GE20
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5 years
Ivan Yates: “Good evening and welcome to the debate, you bastards” #ge20 #vmtvdebate
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6 months
Bertie understood the importance of proper frame composition, positioning your flunkies so you appear to tower above them, even at the very end
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Brazil under Lula currently looking at: ✅ 24% reduction in poverty ✅ 36% reduction in deforestation ✅ 100% reduction in Twitter use Truly a model for a new socialist age
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3 years
Pat Kenny asking his audience if they believe in the Devil (1990)
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THE FUTURE IS NOW This clip was 100% AI generated. The potential of modern day text-to-video AI models is limitless.
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2 years
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2 years
Up next on Virgin Media: another victim of the housing crisis speaks out
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4 years
Renua Ireland has zero public representatives at any level of government, received fewer than 5,500 votes nationally (0.3%), and is no longer entitled to public funding. What exactly will it take for Red C to stop including them in its polls?
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3 years
“Ireland has no living memory of national trauma”
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5 years
Also, I always thought “ag caoineadh” was a better sound than “crying” for capturing the feeling of catharsis a cry will bring.
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3 years
RTÉ should not be hosting a debate on monarchy as current affairs programming. People Before Profit should not be rewarded with airtime for posting dumb memes. Random rugby coaches shouldn’t be invited on the television to discuss their low-engagement diss tweets.
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3 years
Find it very hard to take Mary Lou McDonald's criticism of the Covid situation too seriously when her party voted against the extension of emergency health legislation just two weeks ago! This is what the Sinn Féin Health spokesperson said on the 3rd of November!
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4 years
Ban it. Ban it outright and completely, and put in place laws that prevent it ever coming back. Facilitating people renting out their spare rooms or whatever is not worth this.
@RobCross247
Rob Cross
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64% rise in rental properties across #Dublin in midst of #Covid_19 crisis according to property website @daftmedia as landlords start withdrawing their rentals from short-term listing sites like #Airbnb and are offering them into the market instead. #HousingCrisis #CoronaCrisis
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3 years
Political compass of shockingly ill-advised Afghanistan tweets
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4 years
When you are left on the hind teat all the time and have only a small amount of time.
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4 years
My beautiful grandmother died on Hallowe’en 2020. I’ve been spending a lot of time in her house the past few days, remembering so many little moments that made my childhood very special. Grateful to have known her for a portion of her remarkable life ❤️
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@MichealLehane
Mícheál Lehane
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Mattie McGrath has seconded the proposal of Michael Healy-Rae for Taoiseach saying he has been active in politics since he was ten years of age.
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2 years
One for the pub quizzes: last official act of Britain’s longest-serving monarch was to appoint its shortest-serving Prime Minister
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3 years
Who signed off on the way they wrote the provinces on the Parnell monument?
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Bertie Ahern going around Drumcondra doing the trick-or-treat circuit, not taking any sweets when offered but asking people to “keep him in mind” for the future 👀
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4 years
The Seanad is about to debate free access to contraception. I am now taking bets on which Senator will make the strangest/least relevant/most outrageous remark.
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4 years
Fintan O'Toole on CNN there, proposing the Republican and Democratic candidates in Georgia stand down and offer their Senate seats to anti-Brexit activists drawn from civil society and the performing arts.
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3 years
Party leaders from most to least likely to have been in a nightclub in the last five years: 1. Leo Varadkar 2. Alan Kelly 3. Mary Lou McDonald 4. Catherine Murphy 5. Micheál Martin 6. Eamon Ryan 7. Peadar Tóibín 8. Roisín Shortall
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4 years
If I was a member of Seanad Éireann in 2021, I would simply not include the phrase “All Lives Matter” twice in my tweet about the recent shooting of a black man.
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2 years
An Tánaiste’s Top Ten artistic works that helped him through the pandemic: 1) “Normal People” 2) The Late Late Show (did not enjoy) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10)
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Christina Finn
2 years
Varadkar says the arts was important to him too during the lockdown. He remembers watching Normal People, and also staying in on a Friday night, watching The Late Late Show, something he says he doesn't have to do again.
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3 years
This is worse than the bank bailout
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5 years
Me every week after reading the Late Late guest list
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