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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪

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Dublin-born; Mayo blood; Belmullet by the grace of God. Atheist. "A cross between Bush Tucker Man and Rambo" ~ The Irish Times Writer, designer, ex-marathon runner, jungle explorer, honorary black-belt, former cancer victim & and plenty more besides.

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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The mid terms are going to tell us if the American voting public are the most stupid people on the planet... or if they're just really, really slow.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I've been trying to block it all out recently but Trump's stupidity and lying permeates any barrier...
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Lol! If Piastri was Stroll everyone would be blaming him for having zero special awareness! That said, it was stupid by Lando.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
His... next... masterpiece?! You can only have one masterpiece. That's what makes it a master piece!
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please - nobody call it Super Intelligence, ok? Can we all agree to avoid that name? Please?
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's a shame no one bothered to form a human chain around the Constitution. Maybe this wouldn't be happening now... #KennedyCenter
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well, if you find the magic formula to make that happen then please let the rest of us know! Irish politicians spend their budgets to win votes at the next election - and not for a whole lot else. Consistently disappointing, so it is!
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well if you wanted to drive up inflation, you can just distribute cash to everyone, sure. Infrastructure and a pension fund should be what's done with it. But all the govt does is ball it up in the annual spend - which is the worst thing to do with it!
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm so tired of the French and how they keep shooting at Ireland's tax laws from the long grass. Ireland has overhauled its system massively from decades gone by. This is nothing more than the green-eyed monster bubbling over... Pretty pathétique tbh. #France #Ireland bsky.app/profile/darr...
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Aaaaaaand there we go... #France #Ireland www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
irishtimes.com
Tax take from Irish-based tech companies will not be shared with EU states, Tánaiste says
Responding to comments by French finance minister, Simon Harris says Ireland has absolute competency on tax and that cannot be changed at EU level
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Maybe the French would like to share their wine taxes "as they stem from income made across the continent"? Hmm? Anyone? Anyone? #France #Ireland www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
irishtimes.com
French minister wants Ireland to share its technology tax billions
French finance minister calls for large tax revenues from tech multinationals to be more fairly distributed across EU
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Irish are protesting because Americans, for some reason, won't...
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If only... 🙄
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Vote early and vote often...
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Precedent Trump.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
America is so fucked. Lol! #Trump #MAGA #USA
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Woah. That's ridiculous. I swear I didn't post my picture in any sort of smug capacity... just wasn't thinking.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The grass is looking pretty good right now. Pretty good... #Mayo #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay #Belmullet
A photo of the field outside taken from my kitchen. The grass is very green. A cow is munching on it a few meters beyond the fence. A bay leading into the Atlantic Ocean lies beyond. The sky is filled with rolling gray clouds of various shades.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
How are the protests in DC going?
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
'Biden, Carney and Oasis: How the world is celebrating Mayo's All-Ireland win' #Mayo #Ireland #MayoForSam #Connacht #GAA shorturl.at/yaufp
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Mayo: Why is the world cheering for an Irish county?
Mayo finally ended a 75-year wait for the county's fourth All-Ireland Senior Football title on Sunday.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Source: www.rte.ie/news/2026/07...
rte.ie
'Enjoy every minute' - Biden among tributes to Mayo
Former US president Joe Biden is among those paying tribute to the Mayo team after their historic All-Ireland win yesterday.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oasis also paid congratulations to the All-Ireland winners. Noel Gallagher posted: "FINALLY!! UP MAYO!!" Mayo continues to claim Liam & Noel Gallagher as their own. The brothers spent many years travelling back & forth from Manchester to the home of their late grandmother Margaret.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney also posted: "After 75 years, the curse is broken and the Sam Maguire Cup is coming home." He said he was "proud" to have roots in Co Mayo.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Congratulations to my friends in Mayo. You earned this victory. Enjoy every minute. Sam is coming home." President Biden.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
President Biden, who has family there, shared his congratulations: "I said it three years ago when I was in Ballina: Mayo for Sam! And I meant it. I said it because I know what it means not just the county of Mayo but to my own family's story. Today, the dream becomes reality.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Gaelic Football is one of the fastest games in the world; & one of the most wonderful. It's community based & local from top to bottom. The All Ireland is the game's pinnacle & is fiercely contested each year & very hard-won... #GAA #Mayo #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay www.youtube.com/watch?v=idxj...
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Absolutely MIGHTY stuff from the Mayo men yesterday! The curse has been lifted and Mayo become All Ireland Champions for the first time in 75 years! What a game! What a performance! 🟢🔴 #GAA #Mayo #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay
"I was trembling, actually. I had a great feeling with about 15, 20 minutes to go. I just saw the energy that was on display in front of me. It was quite remarkable. There was something just magical about the whole occasion... 75 years, the whole narrative around the curse is finally put to bed."
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Time's up... @meidastouch.com
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Pro tip: start with the feet and work your way up. Slowly.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Reports also indicate that a Wildberries logistics hub in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai, was attacked and is heavily on fire... by which I mean that it's totally fucked 😁🔥 ​Two of Wildberries logistics hubs are on fire at the same time: one in Krasnodar and this one in Stavropol Krai.
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
He started this war. He wants out of it. He can't escape it. He seems to think he can war crime his way out of it. He can't.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Vigilance? Like, I don't know, watching TV, Scoob? Because you seem to be doing damn-all else to prevent your descent into fascism! Zoinkes!
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The old bog road... #Mayo #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay #Belmullet
The old bog road. A narrow, Irish road gently curves its way toward the horizon. It's flanked by ancient bog and with a hill gently crowned by wispy puffs of cloud far away to the left.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
But why aren't their parents marching against it? Are they too dumb to realize what's happening? Or do they just recognize that they are neither free enough nor brave enough to protest? Or maybe the kids have just accepted totalitarianism as their normal. Trump is, perhaps, all they really know.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Land of the free and home of the brave my ass... It's pathetic.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I am shocked by how passively the American public and media are accepting totalitarianism...
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A stunning evening in Mayo this evening. Beautiful light approaching sunset. The dog loves swimming too.
My dog stares at me intensely from the edge of the water - desperate for me to throw the next some into the water for him to chase.A beautiful, silver-grey-gold sunset. A wonderful reflection of the sun shines down on the water of Broadhaven Bay.
My dog is but a dot out in the water. He loves swimming.Another shot of the beautiful, silver-grey-gold sunset.
The dog is out there swimming somewhere in this shot too.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Dog owners know it's hot because their dog is doing everything in super-slow-motion and with a face that makes them look vaguely stupid.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Peace - through superior fire power." So it turns out that was some buuuuull-shit. The USA is choc full of idiots: A) those that are on his side B) those that aren't but are still paying for it.
Screenshot of two headlines running side-by-side at the top of BBCs news website...

Headline 1: Trump threatens to bomb bridges and power plants unless Iran resumes talks.

Headline 2: Trump retreat over Hormuz tolls suggests he is struggling to end Iran war.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
US refunds $81bn in Trump tariffs after supreme court ruled them illegal... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US refunds $81bn in Trump tariffs after supreme court ruled them illegal
Government has been forced to pay back duties to companies that imported goods into the US that were hit by Trump’s tariffs
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Come on Donald, it's time to finish the mission. It's time to stop these wise guys from jerking you around. Send in the infantry! It's time to put boots on the ground in Iran. Show those Mad Mullahs who's boss! Six weeks - tops! Be the leader everyone wants you to be!
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
And now he never will...
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I opened a window two minutes ago and suddenly it's like the 'Ride of the Valkyries' scene in 'Apocalypse Now' for all the flies that have found their way in!
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I would be too - but I think it's 2021 since I was last in Dublin!
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I stand happily corrected!
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Are you sure it's not EU colours for the Irish EU presidency?
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
She still owns huge amounts of Amazon stock so she's still making billions off those employees AND the poor, abused folk out in Asia who make all the rubbish that Amazon sells. The best way for her to care would be for her to give away her stock to those poor people. But will she ever do that?!!
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
She made tens of billions on the backs of Amazon employees who get paid minimum and work in appalling conditions. She's now giving some money away to 1) make herself look good and 2) make Jeff look worse. It's cost her nothing. It's not even a small sacrifice on her part yet her gains are huge!
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
She literally wrote the Amazon business plan! She designed how that company works... How that company treats its staff - that's on her! So ye, idolize her if you want - but she's no better than the rest of them.
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Darragh O'C 🇮🇪 @darraghoc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
She's given away $26bn - but she still has more money than when she started. It's virtue signaling. She didn't make all that money by being nice and fluffy. She's as cold and calculating as he is. It's a PR exercise - and so many people have fallen for it... 'because women'.
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