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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
5 years
@nchambers2 @bountay_ Just stopping by to say Irish people and Irish Americans are not the same thing. These three lads from Belfast speaking about ongoing partition and the struggle of that is so far removed from Irish Americans. The world does not revolve around the US.
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
7 years
These boys feel perfectly comfortable telling women what to do with their bodies, but wearing pink is a step too far. Fair play to them.
@prolifecampaign
Pro Life Campaign Ireland
8 years
Pls RT: Our statement on today's meeting of the #CitizensAssembly #prolife #loveboth
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
3 years
@DoireannGarrihy I knew it was only a matter of time before someone came in crying online bullying but bringing up Caroline Flack is so inappropriate yikes. MM literally makes money off the back of people who are paid 3.50/hour, that’s what this is about
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
11 months
@zaramagnusson Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
2 months
This is so humiliating. As someone who can’t drive for medical reasons I find this grossly offensive. Who at the RSA thought this was a good idea?
@RSAIreland
RSA Ireland
2 months
When you lose your licence, you become reliant on other people to take you where you need to go and you become a burden for others. If you get caught drink or drug driving, you will be disqualified 🚫 🔗 #RoadSafety #DriveSafely #VisionZero
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
5 years
@nchambers2 @bountay_ I understand that. I just wanted to offer the perspective of an Irish person in 2020. We have our own gripe with Irish Americans, who abandoned ship and sided with the oppressors.
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
7 years
@RosemaryMacCabe WE HAVE RECIEPTS @itgalzpodcast . No sensitivity. No research. Just #victimblaming . TW: rape and gaslighting
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
2 years
@MediumSizeMeech If you value yourself based on age you’re playing a losing game my friend
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
2 months
@shockproofbeats I remember being warned as a child that if an English person offers you tea you say yes the first time because they won’t offer again and you’ll be left sitting there with no tea. Honestly I’ve never taken the risk of saying no the first time to even know if it’s true
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
3 months
@PencilCraftsman Until you set about actively dismantling the empire you’re propping up, leave our names out of your mouths and Derry’s murals off your walls
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
2 years
@SanaSaeed Tuning in live from Ireland
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
6 years
GET DOWN TO THE PARNELL MONUMENT RIGHT NOW! #Takebackthecity
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
2 years
@BillyM_92 I’ve had stuff saved to that account since 2013 that I literally do not know where to begin. It’s not about it being a UCD email address it’s about the fact we were told we’d be able to use it and some of us have been doing that for nearly a decade. Don’t be a sap
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
3 months
@Mick_Finnegan You aren’t holding yourself the way that people expect victims to, you’re walking like someone who knows their own power and god knows that’s not something people are comfortable with. Solidarity Mick ❤️
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
6 years
@earley Further proof this woman is the true leader of a United Ireland
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
7 years
@itgalzpodcast @RosemaryMacCabe has every right to block the people who made an episode about her rape story without contacting her first out of respect
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
5 years
@OwenHanleyLives The Irish left have been behind the greatest strides this country has made in the last decade. The Irish left boots on the ground and organisation is what gave us repeal and marriage equality. Cop on.
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
2 years
@SubsetDublin @AIascaire @GOMSpirits Not because it’s for Grace O’Malley spirits?
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Niamh
2 years
@tanyasweeney Liam remains a man of the people
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
7 years
They wanted mas who drink, couldn't handle mas who think. #itgalzpodcast
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Niamh
7 years
@KittyHollandIT Catholic thought police were saying the same thing he said. Reaction is justified- he has professional responsibility to be informed
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
6 months
I always remember @RoryHearneGaffs pointing out this big 'raining day' fund is most likely to bail out banks and developers when the crash happens all over again
@BBCNews
BBC News (UK)
6 months
Irish government runs €8.3bn budget surplus
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
5 years
@onesadboye @royalsim1 @gary_ni @rugbyworldcup @AllBlacks @IrishRugby Both teams respected the anthems. The haka is not an anthem.
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Niamh
5 years
@nchambers2 @greendoondoon @bountay_ I’m just saying that when Irish people are talking about the ongoing occupation of Ireland by Britain it is not relevant to bring up Irish Americans.
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
2 months
@RaghallaighJ All the deaths caused every year by people who drive and the RSA said “you know who we need to humiliate? People who don’t drive”
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
7 years
@itgalzpodcast @RosemaryMacCabe Out of respect to her as a survivor you should have contacted her. But this isn't just about her- the entire episode was such a car crash
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
2 years
A must read on how poor planning contributes to car dependency and climate emissions
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
5 years
@mmegannnolan Every single word of this is perfect. The older I get the more I realise that teenage girls want to flirt, want sexuality, want maturity, and it is the responsibility of adult men to reject it. These men want to interrupt the moment of sexual awakening to make it theirs.
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Niamh
4 months
@dublinbusnews will there we extra services running this weekend?
@gobblefunkerr
sinéad🌻
4 months
Am I right in thinking Longitude, Shania and Pride are all on this weekend??? Dublin is not built for this
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Niamh
7 years
@itgalzpodcast @RosemaryMacCabe What you guys don't get is this isn't about difference of opinion (even tho ur arguments keep changing). This is about supporting survivors.
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Niamh
7 years
@itgalzpodcast @RosemaryMacCabe U have been so dismissive to the survivors who have come forward and that is the root of the problem- u want to build a brand, not help us
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Niamh
7 years
@itgalzpodcast U are not being targeted by a hate campaign. I have been in contact with you since Sunday and you have not shown any compassion. Apologise.
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
3 years
@netw3rk This lad is going to discover Irish twitter and feel v niche when he brings it up at a dinner party
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
5 years
@greendoondoon @nchambers2 @bountay_ Irish people are white and there is a problem here with racism, just like most white majority countries. I am not saying there isn’t. I’m just asking that people stop conflating the Irish with Irish Americans.
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
1 year
PBP members put their safety on the line to defend asylum seekers on Sandwith Street. This tweet is so out of touch and gives the impression of someone who hasn’t been on the front line of a protest in years
@OConnorOisin
Cllr Oisín O'Connor
1 year
"Don't worry bigots - your racist intimidation of vulnerable refugees is the government's fault actually" has been the line from SF and PBP for months. It might chime in certain quarters but it's a cowardly position to take and only further emboldens the far right's actions.
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Niamh
7 years
@itgalzpodcast Get your shit together and apologise, this "the PC brigade are attacking us" BS is pathetic. We are not the PC brigade. We are reality.
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Niamh
3 months
The traffic management plan for Dublin City centre has been a long time coming. We need to protect local democratic processes and leave out-dated, tired arguments from business interests (car parks) in the city behind us
@DublinCommuters
Dublin Commuters
3 months
Dublin Commuter Coalition have sent a letter to the DDC CEO Richard Shakespeare, calling for an emergency meeting to discuss the planned Transport Plan being watered down and potentially delayed. Please read below and share widely.
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
7 years
@KittyHollandIT Disappointing that you would take this view Kitty
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
5 years
@roisiningle @joannatuffy @MaryLouMcDonald I have a knot in my stomach every time I see this narrative being rolled out. Are we just going to forget the decades of violence against women and children in institutions supported by FF/FG? The ongoing pain in DP and hotel rooms? Or do we only care when it suits?
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Niamh
3 months
@aaronoleary @PencilCraftsman Turning a symbol of resistance against their own empire into a quaint political slogan is really something
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
4 months
@abhavsar @Rollinintheseat Ironically your name is the anglicised version of an Irish name, Sé
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
6 years
@ViviennePhelan A Fine Gaeler doesn’t support fair wages? Wow
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Niamh
7 years
@KittyHollandIT The mindset that is being challenged is the traditional catholic one- you are comparing the people fighting that to those oppressing them
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Niamh
7 years
@itgalzpodcast @RosemaryMacCabe So PLEASE just cop on, learn from this, and apologise.
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Niamh
7 years
UPDATE: #namaleaks
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Niamh
5 years
@Cat_Ionic @Rubberbandits This is actually a great article on the importance of these nails in black female culture:
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Niamh
2 years
It’s time for @stjohnambulance to finally do the right thing and publish this report. Abuse is not historical if you continue to treat survivors with contempt and cruelty.
@Mick_Finnegan
Mick Finnegan
2 years
I'm emotionally drained trying to hold it all together in the hope I might get some closure. I spent over 20 years trying to highlight all of this. It's time for St John Ambulance to do the right thing. Publish Dr Shannon's report & apologise to survivors
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Niamh
7 months
@alisonoconn There’s a victim at the centre of this. I hope they don’t see your tweet Alison because turning this into a political rodeo is shameful.
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
3 years
@ronronzo Aside from the sheer stupidity of the idea it also gives random app developers a chance to harvest location data and profit from this absolute nightmare
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
1 year
@guardian I wish I could say I am surprised that the Guardian would be so off the mark about a woman who was so radically, unapologetically herself. Here she is speaking about the career everyone had in mind for her
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Niamh
5 years
@RosemaryMacCabe Wait- are we not celebrating Mary Lou? Say what you might about SF, Mary Lou is an incredible politician and has challenged the Irish political system in a way no one else has managed to. I get that we don’t support every woman ever, but I don’t see a reason not to support her.
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Niamh
7 years
@itgalzpodcast @RosemaryMacCabe So disappointed in you guys.
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
2 years
@jackpowerIT Your reporting has done some heavy lifting for the IT, however there are serious questions over the role of the Gardaí and the anecdote included in that piece on small landlords about a Garda informally giving a ‘contact’. That this didn’t ring alarm bells at IT is worrying
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
4 years
@ronronzo The “FG achieved repeal” take boils my blood. The YEARS they spent ignoring, villianising and straight up slandering the campaign and individual campaigners
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
2 years
@jackpowerIT Worth noting also that @CatuIreland have been told by the Gardaí repeated that evictions are a “civil issue” and have not intervened when the tenant has contacted them re safety concerns and violent evictions
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Niamh
5 years
@IzzyKamikaze Just going to leave this pic here of us all having a swell time to ruin John’a day. Stay mad John!! #abolishdp #queerrefugeesexist
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Niamh
3 years
@Declan_Murphy82 @AyoCaesar You are an immigrant too you fool. Tá do theanga féin agat freisin ach is fearr leat Béarla a úsáid - cá bhfuil do ghrá féin?
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Niamh
5 years
@Ciara87C The six counties campaigned with the rest of us through MarrRef and Repeal. My heart is bursting with pride for us all today 💕✊🏼
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Niamh
7 years
@jcoconnor @sanepolitico @KittyHollandIT If anyone should be careful, it's the person entrusted with a platform. He should have researched, not spewed ignorance and apologised after
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Niamh
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Niamh
7 years
@RosemaryMacCabe @itgalzpodcast Honestly had to take breaks while listening to this because it was so disturbing. This is not feminism. #NotOurPodcast
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Niamh
5 months
Everybody pls go read this report I spent a really long time researching and writing it xx
@ICCLtweet
Irish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️‍🌈
5 months
This week ICCL published a new research report on the use of pre-trial detention (remand) and the denial of bail in Ireland. 'Improving Judicial Assessment of Flight Risk' shows an increase in people being held on remand for less serious crimes and an increase in denial of bail.
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Niamh
7 years
In light of recent statements I think it’s time this did the rounds again: @campaignforleo is queen of neoliberal bullshit.
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Niamh
6 years
On Kildare St this afternoon I saw @grans4repeal counter protesting disturbing propaganda from the no side. Thank you to the men who shook my hand and chatted to me when I was on the verge of tears. #repealthe8th
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Niamh
7 years
If I were doing my leaving cert again, An Trial would be getting an absolute ~CRITICAL ANALYSIS~ on Catholic Ireland’s treatment of young mothers, the roots of the 8th Amendment, and a whole load of feminist bodily autonomy critical theory #repealthe8th
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Niamh
5 years
@Cat_Ionic @Rubberbandits That’s a pretty rude thing to say but okay
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Niamh
2 years
@VanityFair People have been saying the Irish language is fading for nearly 200 years, and yet here we are. Very much not fading. Also it’s a language, not a dialect. @TG4TV seo é do nóiméad ✊🏼
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Niamh
6 years
An example of what removing the study of history from core curriculum does to a people:
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
4 months
Today the Oireachtas will make its annual declaration that the 'ordinary courts are inadequate for the effective administration of justice', an extraordinary statement that has become normalised. To learn more, see ICCL's campaign:
@DonnchaLaw
Donncha O'Connell
4 months
Ahead of tomorrow’s largely performative annual ‘renewal’ debate on, inter alia, certain provisions of the Offences Against the State Acts, might be worth re-reading this: State urged to resist use of ‘exceptional’ measures to tackle terror and extremism
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Niamh
2 years
@andrewellson @workmansflopera I’ve lived in China, the Netherlands, Spain, worked with people all over the world, and no one comments on my name more than the Brits. It reeks of the inherited self-importance of a dead empire. Pathetic.
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Niamh
7 years
THIS MAN IS A VIOLENT ABUSER AND DESERVES TO HAVE CONSQUENCES FOR THAT- WHY ARE WE PROTECTING HIS MEDICAL CAREER???? Take note of the name: Hugh Moody.
@Independent_ie
Irish Independent
7 years
Medical student punched and kicked partner during row, and poured cola on her as she lay injured
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Niamh
7 years
Friends, some of my writing is being featured in this women-led anthology. Aside from supporting femme writers, a good reason to buy it is ALL PROCEEDS FROM WITHIN ROI GO TO REPEAL CAMPAIGN. Available for pre-order via link below:
@AutonomyKDArcy
Autonomy
7 years
#Autonomy is now available for pre-order at @NewBinaryPress : order your copy, spread the word and support reproductive rights for women in Ireland. #repealthe8th
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
7 years
@RosemaryMacCabe @itgalzpodcast Honestly if they weren't so reckless with their platform their level of internalised misogyny would make me feel sorry for them
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Niamh
2 years
To mark the jubilee, we’d like to honour an Irish anti-colonial socialist who campaigns for BDS. Honestly when are they not at it
@TheTimesBooks
Times Books
2 years
We’re living in a Sally Rooney backlash, which only proves how massive her cultural impact has been. Normal People, her 2018 second novel is the best. It’s about the passionate, disjointed love affair between two Irish teenagers, from school days in Sligo to uni in Dublin
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
4 years
@YuleGoat Fair city indeed!
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Niamh
1 year
This is why “social housing” doesn’t cut it. We need public housing with tenancy agreements that prioritise the welfare of tenants
@IrishTimes
The Irish Times
1 year
A man in his 60s, who has sustained a stroke and a brain injury, has been served with an eviction notice from his social-housing home following an RTB ruling in his favour in a dispute over the price he was being charged for gas
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Niamh
7 years
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Niamh
6 years
An incredible evening in @tcddublin listening to two Irish women who are blazing the trail for so many coming after them: Mary Robinson and @caoilfhionnanna #PathwaystoLaw
@caoilfhionnanna
Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC
6 years
Listening @tcddublin to the amazing Mary Robinson SC, on her “inner sense of justice” as a child, wedged between 2 older & 2 younger brothers. The world was not fair: only boys could be altarboys;girls had to wear scarves in church. She saw law as an instrument of social justice.
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Niamh
5 years
First (successful) sourdough loaf, thinking of calling her Ailbhe
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Niamh
2 months
@niamhnih The RSA really told us all to go fuck ourselves didn’t they
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Niamh
7 years
@Horsebox1986 So confusing. Same people who cry "not all men" when feminists address violence are saying women are in danger when drunk around men.
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Niamh
4 months
Oh fuck off
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Niamh
3 months
Because Palestinians were asking for a Eurovision boycott and are not asking for an Olympics boycott. It’s as simple as listening to Palestinians and following updates from the BDS campaign
@katie_deegan_
Katie 🍉
3 months
Question why isn’t there the same call for athletes to boycott the Olympics in the same way people called on Bambi thug to boycott the Eurovision?
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Niamh
6 years
If you’re reading this tweet book yourself in to a screening of #dublinoldschool not just to support a Dublin genius @EmmetKirwan but because it’s fucking class
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Niamh
7 years
Female love and support is so empowering and beautiful and those standing in the way between us and justice know this and it terrifies them ✊🏼👑
@YourRepealers
Know Your Repealers / Annie
7 years
@freesafelegal @UCDSU @UCDFORCHOICE 4/ I'm going to call them all out now because I believe in positive call-out culture & giving strong & inspiring people their dues :) - so thank you to @hazelnolan , @niamhmccormax , @TheKlong , Kate, Georgia, @ArmadilloOwl & many others for taking a hapless American under your wing
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Niamh
5 years
This comes to mind every time I see a tribute to Best. #IBelieveHer
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Niamh
5 years
Am I the only one who becomes emotional when I see Europeans prioritise Ireland?
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
5 years
Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel leaves an empty podium for Boris Johnson after he pulled out of a joint press conference. Mr Johnson reportedly asked for the event to be moved indoors because of noisy protesters nearby, but Mr Bettel refused.
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@niamhmccormax
Niamh
8 years
Censorship and shame. #repealthe8th @HunRealIssues
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Niamh
7 years
The irony is that Mary’s voice was written out of her own story. She was told she was pregnant, and had no choice in the matter. She was used as a vessel. Let’s tear down this systemic abuse of women once and for all. #repealthe8th
@jshocds
Fr John S. Hogan, ocds
7 years
In the main hall of the Irish National Seminary in Maynooth pro-abortion advocates mock the Virgin Mary as they campaign to end the right to life for the unborn in the Irish Constitution. This is where we are now.
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Niamh
6 years
Just voted. Let’s do this! #togehterforyes #repealthe8th
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Niamh
2 years
@ UCD alumni - UCD have sent an email saying that our Google accounts will be deactivated. We were told these would be for life and many of us have been using this for over a decade. Sign the petition @UCDSU @UCDLawSchool
@UpliftIRL
Uplift
2 years
@debbiexsue @UCDSU Have you seen this campaign? Add your name below
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Niamh
7 years
Was a few minutes behind schedule this morning and the lady in my usual coffee shop CHECKED HER WATCH as I walked in. Feeling very local altogether ☺️
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Niamh
3 years
@caitlinmoran @FNan42 @roisiningle Haven't the fans been booing anthems and mocking a young girl for crying? The real fascinating point here is 3 pina coladas inspiring that tweet. Yikes.
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Niamh
7 years
@RosemaryMacCabe @RosemaryMacCabe your experience is valid. Your voice is powerful. Thank you for speaking up. #NotOurPodcast
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Niamh
2 years
The Robert Troy story was sourced, investigated, written and published by @wereontheditch . A perfect example of why functioning democracy depends on independent investigative journalism
@wereontheditch
The Ditch
2 years
Fianna Fáil minister Robert Troy failed to declare a property company directorship in his Dáil register of members’ interests. TDs are required under ethics legislation to declare all their directorships in the annual register.
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Niamh
2 years
NEW: satirists increasingly worried for their jobs as Fine Gael continue to outdo them
@oconnellhugh
Hugh O'Connell
2 years
NEW: Fine Gael set to push for overhaul of housing policy when Leo Varadkar returns as Taoiseach Among the ideas being explored: 🏘️ tax breaks for developers 🏘️ widening eligibility for social housing 🏘️ relaxing planning laws
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Niamh
5 years
@alisonoconn I think she was calling it out for what it was
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