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Alan Mac

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'You can be King and it all depends on the view, and what you can see, and around here- nobody tells me what to do..... anymore."

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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Irish people who lived through th 70s have a special reason to hate this-sweet jesus #margo #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Never forget that, heartless prick, #Donald #Trump #Junior said this. www.bbc.com/news/electio...
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Donald Trump Jr compares Syrian refugees to Skittles
Donald Trump's eldest son causes uproar on social media by comparing Syrian refugees to the fruit-flavoured sweets Skittles.
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OMD #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Friday night #escapism is back at Eamonn Deacy Park. #Glen #Hansard belting out over the tannoy. Cheese Curry Chips and local heroes. #GalwayUnited #Gufc #spéirgorm #LOI
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
When I grow up I want to be Robert Plant. I'm 60. #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I was 10 years old when I heard Jonathan Richman through a pillow cover over a crackly Radio Luxembourg- taped up dial. Shaped my musical taste forever. 1977 was one of those vital forks in the road for popular music. #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? #spéirgorm my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @uplift.ie
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Visa for Gaza students
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Well worth an ear. #spéirgorm #cong #mayo #Claremorris www.rte.ie/radio/docono...
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Dancing Nancy
"Dancing Nancy" – the woman who bombed a ballroom. Nancy Murphy owned a dancehall in County Mayo but its business started to fail so Nancy pursued a "unique marketing strategy". (2022)
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Sprints into a lobby armed with multiple weapons. Shoots a policeman in the chest a close range. Gets arrested unharmed. Take this to #conspiracy #theory Central immediately. #Trump #shooter #Cole #Allen #Thomas #white #house #correspondents #fbi #secret #service
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
April 24th - like WTF where is everyone? #totp
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The meta, Meta and meaning of the Irish fuel protests - a longish read about what more than 20 years of studying and covering the far right has taught me about these political moments. #speirgorm philipoconnor.com/the-meta-met...
Police officers stand in the street, as tractors block Dublin's O'Connell Street, as part of a protest over the high cost of fuel that clogged up busy thoroughfares and motorways across Ireland for a second successive day, in Dublin, Ireland April 8, 2026
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I rarely push music or podcasts - but #Blindboy has absolutely kicked this one out of the park. No hot takes this time- just an intelligent & considered assessment of the #fuelcrisis & #fuelprotests, with a bit of Lore thrown in to ice the cake #speirghorm #speirgorm shows.acast.com/blindboy/epi...
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Have you anything to say about the Fuel protests Blindboy? Or are you a Government shill who is worried about losing his next Late Late show appearance? | The Blindboy Podcast
An interrogation of Neoliberal structures
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This isn't happening then so I guess? 😂 On a positive note, the rapist in chief is closing The Black Forge for the day .. allegedly. #spéirgorm #speirgorm #fuel #protest
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Good riddance non-Viktor #Orbán Far-right populism is officially on the wane. Netanyahu, Trump and Putin be quaking.
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
#NASA #MOONMISSION Record distance from earth? Big fucking deal. MyToyota Avensis has done this - and back. #Artemis
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
People needed lyrics sheets? Let it be #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Stiff Little Fingers with a bodrán on stage. Even bigger legends now. #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
On behalf of all the not so good-looking people in the world - Ricky Martin is a cunt. #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"No love...stay out in the kitchen.. nothing to see in here." #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Should have kept the dirty nan on the keyboard to front this one too- she was only warming up #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
On behalf of all the not so good-looking people in the world - Ricky Martin is a cunt. #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I remember huge arguments in school about whether Elvis Costello was a punk or a mod. I can see now he was a mod and I was wrong. Morto #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Hup, mo chairde. This is great and worth an ear. ☘️
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This #France v #England jersey clash is a fucking joke. Virtually unwatchable. #fraveng
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"One of the hottest 12 inches" #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Until I saw these two guys in the same room, I honestly thought that they were one person. Two legends all the same. #SkyNews #MichaelClarke #SeanBell.
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
One of the GOAT RISe #totp Fresh as a daisy
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Rare you hear even a slightly critical into on #totp. Well done Janice
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Oilibhear O Mordha @olliemoore.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
If you'd like to find out more about how the EU does its agri-food and trade business, check this event for #Fairbruary @fairtradeireland.bsky.social - Note - this will be delivered in an approachable way, its not a session only for experts Friday 20th at 12.30 www.fairtrade.ie/eu-green-deal/
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Watching 1976 versions of #totp and it's clear that punk was inevitable and necessary.
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
#Kishwer #Falkner nailed the Mandelson issue on Sky News today. The ultimate hot tub club. Bunch of high flying paedophile, sex abusing, misogynist cnuts. Pizza gate was champagne gate all along. Not a peep from the far-right.
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
When I click on the "Maybe Later" button on unwanted pop up survey requests - I say it in my head as #Tony #Soprano and add "capisce?".
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Was #Greg #Bovino coked on live TV - yes he was.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The narrative of exceptional Ukrainian resilience is one of the most harmful tropes I’ve seen during this war. ​Yes, we refuse to give up. Yes, we have picnics in -15°C. Yes, we keep living, drinking coffee, and even laughing occasionally, but all of this stems from a lack of choice.
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Idk I just feel we should be making a bigger deal about members of the Oireachtas speaking at an event run by anti-semitic conspiracy loon Eddie Hobbs
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
These vibes #totp
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
#Nicolas #Maduro and his co-accused wife taken from from detention cells to court together, in same helicopter and van, is really unusual.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
#Trump #annexes #Venezuela to aquire its oil and announces it live on TV. What you going to do now rest of world? - and will Greenland be next.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
About the press conference: Trump is absolutely detached from reality. He doesn’t understand how to end this war or what he is doing. But he visibly enjoys bragging about his relationship with putin and their sweet phone calls in front of Zelenskyy.
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Fuck sake 🔧🪛🔩 😬 Happy and safe Christmas to all Santa's follow on crews this morning. #speirgorm
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
#Solstice sunset over Knockma Hill near Tuam. Once called the "Mount Olympus of North Galway", it's not very high, but it's drenched in lore and legend. Anyway- it's all we have #spéirgorm #speirgorm Over the hump.
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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Opened my Instagram stories and there’s Willow Smith over in Los Angeles lip synching a middle aged Limerick mans experience of maintaining friendships while being autistic
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Season changer when getting us promoted. Maith thú, young American.
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
#Troy
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Peter Navaro on #FoxNews - "wages are up 8% under Trump". Peter Navaro - "wages were down 4% under Biden" #PeterNavaro- "everything Biden did was inflationary" #Peter #Navaro "trust us". What a fucking waffler. Wages drive inflation as much as tarriffs.
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Alan Mac @alanmac.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
#Fox #News #Morning faces like thunder. #mamdami
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
My assumption is he means this test, which he treats as “they test to see how big my brain is” but that is instead used to test cognitive decline and even to look for damage post-stroke, correct?
Text of a cognitive test —

MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT (MOCA)
Version 7.1 Original Version
VISUOSPATIAL / EXECUTIVE
End
Begin
B
NAME:
Education:
Sex:
Date of bith:
Copy cube
Draw CLOCK (Ten past eleven)
(3 points)
POINTS
[ ]
Contour
[ ]
Numbers
[ ]
Hands
NAMING
[]
[]
/3
MEMORY
Read list of words, subject must
repeat them. Do 2 trials, even if 1st trial is successful.
Do a recall after 5 minutes.
FACE
VELVET
CHURCH
DAISY
RED
1st trial
2nd trial
ATTENTION
Read list of digits (1 digit/ sec.).
Subject has to repeat them in the forward order
Subject has to repeat them in the backward order
(]21854
(J742
Read list of letters. The subject must tap with his hand at each letter A. No points if ≥ 2 errors
[ ] FBACMNAAJKLBAFAKDEA A AJAMOFA AB
Serial 7 subtraction starting at 100
[ ] 93
[] 86
[ ] 79
[] 72
[ ] 65
4 or 5 correct subtractions: 3 pts, 2 or 3 correct: 2 pts, 1 correct: 1 pt, 0 correct: 0 pt
LANGUAGE
Repeat: he Cat always hid underere couchel tendogs were in the room. ( 1
Fluency / Name maximum number of words in one minute that begin with the letter F
(N ≥ 11 words)
ABSTRACTION
DELAYED RECALL
Similarity between e.g. banana - orange = fruit
[ ] train - bicycle [ ] watch - ruler
Has to recall words
WITH NO CUE
FACE
VELVET
[]
CHURCH DAISY
RED
[]1
[ ]
11
Points for
UNCUED recall only
Optional
Category cue
Multiple choice cue
[ ] Date
[ ] Month
( ] Day
[ ] City
No points
/2
/1
/3
/2
_/1
_/2
/5
ORIENTATION
© Z.Nasreddine MD
Administered by:
( ] Year
www.mocatest.org
Normal 226 / 30
[ ] Place
TOTAL
_/6
_/30
Add 1 point if ≤ 12 yr edu
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