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I lived for a few years in that circled house literally right next to the Cusack Stand entrance and we never had a complaint about Croke Park being used for matches and concerts because, before we moved in, we noticed there was a very large stadium next to us.
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Fair play to Ryan Tubridy responding to an accusation of misogyny by speaking over the woman making the accusation, repeatedly interrupting her and then accusing her of being in a 'mood'.
He absolutely put that accusation to rest. Case. Closed.
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If that exit poll is true a gang of young women in black jumpers with clipboards and leaflets just kicked the absolute snot out of the biggest gang of bullies and thugs since the Tans.
#Referendum2018
#Together4YES
#repealtheeight
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Beginning to think if the British had had a negotiating team of this ability in 1922 we’d never have had a border and we’d probably have got Wales.
#Brexit
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I see Michael McDowell is writing in the Irish Times about the dangers of racism.
There's a real risk people will confuse him with a man of the same name who took citizenship rights away from children born here because 'too many' immigrants were coming into Ireland.
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A lot of 'since World War 2' stuff on Twitter and in the media today.
Just a reminder the Yugoslav Civil War led to well over 100,000 dead, mass ethnic cleansing and genocide.
It wasn't a small thing.
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People who give you their parking tickets in hospital car-parks as they have time still left on it when they leave are just proper sound people.
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For ten long years I have reminded my wife that I don't like dogs and I don't want to have one in the house.
Today, Rosa arrived.
Proving once and for all that my wife is a better lobbyist than I am.
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Huge credit to the Irish Times to find space to give a platform to Fintan O'Toole to explain gender, misogyny and the lived experience of Trans people.
Women and Trans people are lucky to have him to speak for them as they are, notoriously, unable to write.
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For those wondering about the visual impact of offshore wind farms.
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Lads....this is why we have press officers.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Fenway Park, Boston this afternoon as part of his St. Patrick’s trip to the US
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Cannot recommend this highly enough. Not just a fantastic, and harrowing, account of the crimes of British imperialism but sets it in its proper legal and social context.
Big section on Ireland and how British agents took what they ‘learned’ here to Aden, Palestine, Malaya etc.
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Ran into an old comrade last month who told me that SF was going to have a disaster of an election
#GE2020
.
He went on to explain everything the party was doing wrong.
I drink in his local now and will continue to do so until he appears.
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Asked for tips for things to do in Cork. Nine hours and literally scores of suggestions later I’m LinkedIn friends with the concierge at the Cork Metropole.
Cork people take selling Cork very seriously.
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Arrived three weeks early, & very suddenly, on Tuesday morning Fia Jennings-Moran (future Galway camogie All-Star & second female Taoiseach) is safely home.
Early arrival due to concern at exit poll data from south Florida. 'Though she be but little, she is fierce.'
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Just passed two Gardaí outside Botanic Gardens systematically ticketing the dozen or so cars parked in a row in the cycle lane.
Policing you love to see.
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Don't normally share stuff behind paywalls (buy the paper, take out a sub) but this by Sarah Carey today is absolutely fantastic.
Great on the turf ban but even better on the lack of political leadership if we're going to tackle
#ClimateChange
.
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As someone in my early 40s I’m old enough to remember the predictions that the Soc Dems were doomed by losing someone of Donnelly’s talent.
Doomed.
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Reminder to media tonight, and I can attest to this having spent six years as an Amnesty press officer, we’re at stage two right now.
Letter to a Welsh newspaper in 2014 about Israeli propaganda techniques.
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A big thanks to
@irishcongress
.
Just finishing up to go spend two weeks of paid paternity leave hanging out this with cheerful rogue.
An entitlement I have because trade unions campaigned a long time for it.
Thanks lads.
#JoinAUnion
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My wife and I just discovered we’ve been separately renewing different TV licences for our home for three years.
On the one hand, irritating, on the other, RTÉ gets its revenge for years of unpaid licences while a student.
Let’s call it a draw?
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Bought a new iPhone recently and have been avoiding using it because it's so hard moving everything over.
But now if you put the phones next to each other THEY DO IT THEMSELVES. Even the wallpaper.
This is like black magic to me.
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Just listening to
@SarahAMcInerney
this morning and trying to remember a time when the term 'R-number' meant nothing to me.
Also, just to add my voice to everyone else urging
@rte
to keep her in the job. She's the reason I'm listening daily to a show I had got patchy on.
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According to an Irish Times columnist, who started his career with an online blog viciously ridiculing working class and overweight people, I need to be house trained.
My parents trained me well enough not to make my money making fat jokes.
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In the flats getting out the
#GE2020
vote.
‘You do the lower floors and I’ll work down from the top,’ the thoughtful young activist says to me.
That used to be me that said that.
Officially old.
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This is just bonkers stuff.
Cheltenham confirm first case of coronavirus as thousands of Irish travel for racing festival
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Really resent Boris Johnson for making me grateful for Leo Varadkar.
I’m sure this feeling will pass but it’s basically ruined my Sunday.
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Even by the pretty low standards of British journalism on the North, this isn’t great.
Lads, that’s not Bobby Sands.
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Mad to see a generation of allegedly politically informed journalists shocked that Michael D opposes genocide and would use his role as President to express this.
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More than 80 canvassers out in
#Drumcondra
last night. Hundred signed up for stalls and leaflet drops in
#DublinCentral
this week. This is what ‘complacency’ looks like.
#together4Yes
#repealth8th
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Woodies paint guy: Actually, have you a picture of your walls? That might help pick the right white.
Me: Hold on, let me check.
Time passes as we both look at dozens of pics on my phone, almost all of Maude.
Woodies: She’s a lovely looking cat in fairness.
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Nothing but love for the TUV voter who apparently chose to give their second preference to Sinn Fein MLA and former hunger striker Pat Sheehan.
Voters are just fundamentally odd.
#AE22
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To be fair, UCD voters changed their minds about Katie Ascough when they were presented with the facts.
#rtept
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Lads, had anyone heard this story before?
35 girls burned to death in Cavan because the nuns locked the doors to prevent them being seen in their nightclothes by rescuers?
#FireWardenTraining
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Finally an election result worth celebrating.
🇳🇿BREAKING🇳🇿
Jacinda Ardern makes her victory speech to her supporters.
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Tweeted earlier that I knew a FF TD who did that fake polling. A good friend of mine was directly involved.
Two more since told me they did it, one for FF and one for Labour, posing as ‘researchers’.
Both were paid cash in hand.
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Michael McDowell believes the Irish media is not aggressive enough in attacking Sinn Fein because, deep down, all Irish journalists are communists.
He's really stretching his lead in the contest to be Ireland's Donald Trump.
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You can forget the climate all you want, son, the climate's not going to forget you.
Beautiful headline from one of this week's local papers. Anyone want to guess the TD?
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Really?? 🤔🤔🤔 Tell me more about this ‘Sinn Fein’.
I find their ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to their newsletter.
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Hard to see how the Lyon’s marketing team can respond.
If you needed any more proof that Ireland does death better than anyone else, at Shane MacGowan's funeral this afternoon the priest held up some of his favourite items, one of them a box of teabags
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Got a couple of emails on this so to clarify, I am not running for the Seanad, no one has asked me to run, there were no emails and I voted to abolish it but if nominated by a future Taoiseach I would happily, and in an act of gross hypocrisy, take the seat.
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Mother of a friend of mine just had her door knocked by a journalist going door-to-door looking for parents with kids in the school closed because of
#COVID19ireland
.
As they put it themselves 'feels a bit dodgy'.
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Earlier? It was in 2008 - 14 years ago - that EirGrid published Grid25, setting out the need to reinforce our electricity grid to ensure a secure, safe and affordable supply of power in the 2020s.
People were warned. Many times. They just didn't listen.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said people would have expected an earlier warning system to be in place in relation to energy security concerns. |
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There's a fantastic buddy-film to be made here of Alan Kelly and Micheál Martin putting aside their differences to save Christmas. Still time to make it and get it onto Netflix for Christmas.
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You’d love to see the same energy being put into trying to cut the carbon tax into trying to cut carbon emissions.
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One of the madder comments in Dan O'Brien's article in the Business Post. Literally no one I know in politics, left/right, Government/Opposition, media/elected rep thought this was the case.
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And off she goes. The journey to becoming Ireland's second female Taoiseach starts with her first day at creche. Critical to start building her network of political allies from Day One.
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Drove to Waterford yesterday for a family dinner.
Plugged it into an ESB charger in the car park closest to the restaurant while eating and then drove home and 44% left on the battery.
Another EV driving nightmare.
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Met someone this morning who told me her post office has run out of passport application forms.
Irish passport forms.
In her East Belfast post office.
She was advised to go to
@sinnfeinireland
for help.
#Brexit
really is bringing people together.
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If you were the Russian intelligence agent behind all this from 2016 you’d really feel entitled to a fairly substantial bonus.
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Clare Daly eliminated. It's sort of ironic that I think Brid Smith has taken out more left-wing MEPs than any other Irish politician.
#EE24
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No problem with people wanting to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Irish Free State. In fairness, a seminal moment in Irish history.
But, lads, it's not the same thing as Irish independence.
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I think if there is one clear message from this poll it’s how badly Sinn Féin handled the Armagh partition commemoration celebration issue.
Crystal clear just how out of touch the party truly is. Lessons to be learned.
Sinn Féin has extended its lead over the government parties since the release of the budget, in its strongest ever performance in a Business Post
@REDCResearch
poll.
@obraonain
reports.
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As Ronan Mullen tops the poll and is elected on the first count in
#Seanad2020
a section of lefty Twitter will continue to wonder why running multiple similar left candidates continues to fail to unseat him.
#ElectionsDontWorkThatWay
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Just got some beers through deliveroo.
Was asked for ID before he would hand it over by a very earnest young lad.
When in doubt...
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The genius of tax cuts as economic stimulus.
I will now go and spend my...19 cent...on luxury items to help the domestic economy. If a thousand of us do so that's 190 euro to help the country get back on its feet.
Take THAT you tax & spend communists.
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Do you remember, two resignations ago, when we were being told the Greens would be a disaster in the Drpartment of Agriculture?
Maybe just give Pippa Hackett the big job?
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This might sound like something just for energy nerds but there is literally no other country in the world that can do this.
Twenty years ago people would have said it was simply not possible.
#IrishResearch
This isn't getting the attention it deserves.
@EirGrid
announced they can now handle up to 75%
#RenewableElectricity
at any time.
Doing this on an isolated island grid like ours is literally world-leading innovation.
#MoreWind
and, soon,
#MoreSolar
!
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This retrofitting scheme is genuinely brilliant. A really fantastic initiative from the Government.
The Cabinet has approved a scheme that aims to retrofit half a million homes by 2030. The scheme will be underpinned by €8 billion in the National Development Plan. | More:
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Right, which political party is up for this?
David McWilliams: Irish cities’ future lies in free public transport, not electric cars
via
@IrishTimes
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Apparently no professional journalist covering Irish politics over the last 20 years had heard anything about what was, when I was most politically active in the 2000s, relatively open and common.
Where did people think the 'internal constituency polls' came from?
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Canvassed a house in Phibsboro tonight.
Four housemates, none registered here.
Six people registered to vote at that address but none of the four know who they are.
Lads, really time we sorted the register.
#GE2020
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I see many people who attended Sinn Féin Ard Fheiseanna and watched our Ard Chomhairle being elected are breaking the news that (checks notes) Sinn Féin has Ard Fheiseanna and elects an Ard Chomhairle.
Only a matter of time before our support for a united Ireland is exposed.
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Ireland's energy future arriving in the
@portofgalway
.
Great picture by Murt Fahy of turbine blades arriving in Galway this week.
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This is the key point for me, if you think a cycle lane in Salthill is controversial we may as well retreat to higher ground and throw in the towel.
There isn’t the beginning of the start of the commencement of understanding what’s before us.
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Yes, no problem, as far as I'm concerned. Flag, anthem and lots of things would change to accommodate those who are British or Northern Irish.
People might be surprised at how open republicans are to this and how long we've been thinking about it.
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Just saw tweets sharing the comments about Joan Burton on that FB group of so-called SF supporters.
Absolutely fucking disgusting.
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Listening to Alan Kelly this morning and credit where it's due. The Labour party press office is getting multiples of the volume of coverage we did when I was a shinner press officer with five TDs.
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My not-at-all left wing mother-in-law came across a collection of more than 30 Soviet Union political postcards from the 1950s and 1970s marking various Lenin anniversaries. She has some impressive present-buying game.
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As a PR type for 20 years, Mick is completely in the right. The embargo only applies if you give the journalist information he or she did not otherwise have.
If they find out the story without you telling them that's not 'breaking an embargo', that is - literally - journalism.
Anyway, for those asking, here is why I was banned. I stand over my actions 100 per cent.
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Greens and Shinners shared a floor in LH 2000 after the 2002 elections. First time I got to know Eamon Ryan and have been impressed by him ever since.
Our country owes him a debt it may take some time to fully appreciate for his work on climate action.
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@teelingbart
@Philip_Ryan
And the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
Interesting set of choices to accompany this presumably unbiased and objective piece of journalism.
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Last year my wife got me a Kilkenny hurling calendar for Christmas.
This year, she upped her game again.
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As loathsome as the abuse is of
@fintanwarfield
by cowards and bullies it’s inspiring to see the solidarity it brings out from all parties and none as was the previous case with Roderic O’Gorman.
Far more of us.
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Probably late to this but the posts from the reburial of the Lakota Sioux of their children who died in an industrial school are incredibly moving and, for Irish people, a visceral connection.
The most beautiful burial I’ve ever witnessed. After over a 100 yrs the children who died at Carlisle Indian Boarding School are laid to rest by the youth of this generation. Wrapped in buffalo robes and back to the comfort of Grandmother Earth in their ancestral Lakota lands.
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Really curious that Belfast based journalists point this out but Dublin based journalists ignore it or are genuinely unaware of it.
#Talks
..why is
@DUPleader
not being asked if she and her party will deliver the agreement they reached with Sinn Féin at the conclusion of the February 2018 negotiations? Is Mrs Foster saying that deal is irretrievable from her perspective?
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Tip for Lefty political types attacking the Government for the number of advisers they're hiring.
If we're serious about genuinely transforming politics we'll need A LOT more than the current crowd if/when we get in.
Good advice costs money. No advice costs a whole lot more.
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Fintan O’Toole making things up again today.
It’s not that he opposes Sinn Féin that bothers me, he’s hardly alone, but that he is so deeply and profoundly ignorant of what he opposes.
He’s like a UKIP member who opposed the EU without really knowing much about it.
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I am 42 years old and just ran my first mail merge.
So much time lost....
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@PadraigMcL
@MichaelMoriarty
The first rule of Blessington Street basin is we do not talk about Blessington Street basin.
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Sad times here. Fia’s decision to spend most of the night awake meant Santa had no choice but to pass us by. No presents for anyone.
Harsh lesson to learn at one year old but it’ll stand to her in years to come.
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Two of their five reasons for collapsing a government are a row over a rose bush and not getting money to throw the British queen a party.
I legitimately had to check this to make sure it's not a spoof account.
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Awkward moment on the
#dbsbyelection
campaign trail when
@orourke_darren
politely asks where I got my pen.
😬😬😬🤦♂️
#DoubleAgent
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Disgusted that Government seems to have bottled it on
#CarbonTax
in
#Budget19
. A day after
#ipcc
report highlights the urgent need for action on
#climatechange
they shelve an increase in the carbon tax - the single most important climate measure proposed in
#Budget2019
.
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Her first game against Tipp and a quiet celebration in store.
Her father was, admittedly, less calm.
#GalvTipp
#galwaygaa
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Twenty eight of us out in Drumcondra, later joined by 18 friends from Doctors for Repeal! Huge amount of ground covered.
#Together4Yes
#Whatwinninglookslike
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Because Bolshevik Russia supported Irish independence 100 years ago we should support fascist aggression aiming to crush Ukrainian independence.
It’s a tough competition but this may be the dumbest take i gave seen on the entire conflict.
We seem to have forgotten that England's enemy is Ireland's friend. Russia is England's enemy. Russia was the only country in 1920 that recognised the Irish Republic. But it appears that eaten bread is soon forgotten.
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“So, tell me more about...’toys’.”
Arrived early to make sure she caught her first Toy Show and all prepared.
#LateLateToyShow
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Not going to bother linking to them but as a former member of both the SF Ard Chomhairle and the Coiste Seasta, referred to by two know-nothings in op-eds in the Irish Times this week, they haven't a clue what they are writing about.
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The thing that would break your heart is they spelled it right the first time
@electionlit
.
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Great short busting myths about the refugee crisis in Britain and highlighting the role of poor journalism in shaping attitudes.
There may be a hostile environment for migrants, but there's a super hospitable one for dumbass opinions about them.
Here are the myths, debunked.
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I'm literally a member of a rival political party and I don't have a problem with this.
@CAugustenborg
is a great appointment and, frankly, if you're passionate about climate change the chances are you've canvassed for the Greens at some point or another.
This really isn't the Gotcha! this is framed as. Do we only want people who *don't* engage in public debate, including electoral politics, to sit on boards?
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"Only 2% of secondary school students now cycle to school, when in 1986, more students cycled than went to school by car."
Mind officially blown reading this in
@HannahEDaly
's opening statement to the Oireachtas Climate Action committee today. 🤯🤯
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