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Declan Lynch @declynchwriter.bsky.social · 16m

Roll Away The Stone - When Journalism Was The Best Job In The World is out now. I did this My Life In Books for the Sunday Independent. www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

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Declan Lynch: ‘It is not rightly appreciated how much of today’s carnage is directed by delinquent rich kids’

My Life in Books

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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Colm Kavanagh @colmkavanagh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Arrived in the post yesterday, looking forward to this @declynchwriter.bsky.social!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another of my periodic posts about how Maggie Haberman writes herself as a character in her own coverage. emptywheel.net/2026/09/22/a...

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A Player To Be Named Later - emptywheel

It turns out Maggie Haberman is not the only storyteller who tells Trump what he wants to hear; so does Gary Player's caddy!

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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...

Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)

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Declan Lynch @declynchwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Should add it starts at 6 - 6.30ish

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Declan Lynch @declynchwriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Won't be long now till the launch of this -- Thursday week, 24th September in Hodges Figgis. Keynote address by Paul Howard. Come for the free drink too. Roll Away the Stone: When Journalism Was the Best Job in the World (pre order) www.redstripepress.com/roll-away-th...

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When Journalism Was the Best Job in the World by Declan Lynch, 2026

In this richly insightful and often hilarious trip through the glory years and beyond, Lynch (When Journalism Was the Best Job in the World) argues that the determination of the tech bros and their po...

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CNN @cnn.com · 20/08/2026

Moderna and Merck said a late-stage trial of a personalized cancer treatment based on the mRNA technology behind Covid-19 vaccines met its goals in treating melanoma, potentially marking a major advancement in cancer care. CNN’s Meg Tirrell reports. Read more: cnn.it/3UoqFeI

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Declan Lynch @declynchwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Anything that is any good in this world is in constant danger.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think the Supreme Court's decision to legalize ubiquitous sports gambling is likely to have negative long-term consequences.

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missusvee.bsky.social @missusvee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Boutique literary festival." 🙄

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

have we considered just banning these things entirely

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

All great families should follow this progression.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Making this documentary, Barbaric Genius, took me six years and almost killed me, but reading something like this makes it worth it.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I know we're meant to have more in common than that which divides us but what am I meant to do with people who find Quentin Letts funny? How does one bridge that chasm in understanding?

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Declan Lynch @declynchwriter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Smith is a football man. A QPR fan.

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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A half-time show is an anti-football abomination. Players have gone through their career used to normal break. That rhythm disrupted, in the biggest game of their careers. It's of a piece with absurdly high ticket prices and Balogun controversy - Fifa ushering this through.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Preorder central for Irish bookshops this week, and here's one to watch for the autumn - from the Sunday Indo's @declynchwriter.bsky.social - Roll Away the Stone : When Journalism was the Best Job in the World. (Red Stripe Press, September 4th) thebookshop.ie/declan-lynch...

Working in the media used to be fun. You were part of a thriving industry in print and broadcasting with a licence to speak your mind and a chance to bring down the government every week. You could be working with interesting or eccentric people, many of whom enjoyed a drink after their work was done. Or even before it was done. And the pay wasn’t bad either. This went on for a long time.

Declan Lynch started at the age of seventeen with Hot Press magazine, during the pioneering days of rock journalism and of Ireland’s rise to international rock’n’roll glory – and its emergence from a fearful culture which was imploding with scandals of Church and State. His story takes us from a time of almost medieval practices – sticking down corrections with glue, laying out type on ‘the stone’, doing interviews with the Rolling Stones on a payphone in the hall of a Rathmines flat – through the years when the media was on such a roll, at one point the Sunday Independent for whom Lynch was writing was taking a million pounds a week in advertising.

Today the author is still a columnist with the Sunday Independent, at a time when the media as we have known it in modern times is under tremendous pressure – battered by the edgelords of Silicon Valley and by Trumpist propaganda relentlessly branding ordinary decent journalism as ‘Fake News’. Yet in this richly insightful and often hilarious trip through the glory years and beyond, Lynch argues that the determination of the tech bros and their political allies to destroy the ‘liberal media’ is also the best compliment they could pay it. And he answers the crucial question: why was Hot Press assistant editor Liam Mackey running through Newbridge at 2 a.m. with his shoes in a biscuit tin?
To ‘roll away the stone’ is to conjure up images of resurrection and victory – as well as the old printer’s stone. Journalism was once the best job in the world, and this book offers inspiration that it can rise again.

Author and Journalist Declan Lynch.
Declan Lynch has been a journalist since 1978, writing for Hot Press and the Sunday Independent, amongst others. He is the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Tony 10: The astonishing story of the postman who gambled €10,000,000 … and lost it all.
(Tony 10 is one of those books that booksellers love, as it's the ultimate ' long tail' book that sells consistently for 10 years)

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Vlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The manager lost this match for England. I wonder if he will think it’s a decision that didn’t work out but could have done. But even if that’s true, the cause of the defeat is Argentina’s quality and, on the England side, centrally, the decision of the manager. 1/3

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If you build it, Barry will come. And so will Roy Keane (not pictured), who was also present to see the NY Mets snatch improbable defeat from the jaws of victory #baseball #superjohnmcginn

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Ron Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In honour of the late Kris Kristofferson's birthday Ron sings "For The Good Times" RS youtu.be/nmmsGJBJ92Q?...

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RON SINGS "FOR THE GOOD TIMES" WRITTEN BY KRIS KRISTOFFERSON

YouTube video by Rawnboy

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I cannot believe a few guys making bets on a prediction market are driving some news coverage at CNN and CNBC. It’s clearly info slop, not news. This piece by @atrupar.com & @juddlegum.bsky.social reveals how truly bad it is & how viewers are being misled. Yikes. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

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How Kalshi infects the news

CNN and CNBC are pushing Kalshi on viewers but not telling them the whole story.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I wrote about the sad Trump Country Fair thing and the very specific and hilariously shitty vision of America that it expresses. The war on metaphor continues apace. defector.com/dead-country...

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Dead Country Fair | Defector

Things come out of Donald Trump’s mouth, then just keep on coming out of it. If he says something once, he will say it again, primarily to reinforce how powerfully and unprecedentedly successful he wa...

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Ron Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

In honour of the late Tom Springfield from The Seekers Ron sings "I'll Never Find Another You" RS youtu.be/METkNGIuoW0?...

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RON SINGS "I'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER YOU" WRITTEN BY TOM SPRINGFIELD

YouTube video by Rawnboy

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Brendan Donlon @brendandonlon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

At the start of June, I interviewed my cat Luna 🐈‍⬛ about the 100km in 30 days challenge for Marie Keating Foundation. One month later, our team has travelled 3,085km, while Luna took a more relaxed approach. Support us (and Luna) by donating here: fundraise.mariekeating.ie/fundraisers/... #SpeirGorm

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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

They picked a good week for a climate denial conference.

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Declan Lynch @declynchwriter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I was sitting beside George Best on a plane, having coffee because I knew he was off the drink at the time, and I spilled the contents of the little plastic milk container onto the trousers of his beautiful white suit. George was very nice about it.

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The Answer-Man (Thaddeus Howze) @ebonstorm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

NEW LAW IN OKLAHOMA Data Centers Can't Pass Their Energy Costs to Consumers The law requires large-load customers adding 75 megawatts or more of demand to sign long-term agreements covering infrastructure costs tied to their projects, rather than spreading those costs across the general rate base.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It really is a clarifying moment to see governments prefer to risk the wrath of their voters by banning social media than risk the wrath of billionaires and megacorps by forcing them to spend money and effort on properly moderating their products.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/06/2026

I like how the took the stock market ticker down and replaced it with crude oil so they'd have something green in the lower third. lol

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

From the new edition of @privateeyenews.bsky.social: the CEO of the Great Britain Gambling Commission, Andrew Rhodes, has left his job to...become a consultant to the gambling industry he was paid to regulate five minutes ago? How wonderful for him. #jobsfortheboys

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Best thing about Mamdani is that he's one of the only Democrats who understands you can just do things

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Tom Shiels @itstomshiels.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This has just got real. Stories. Songs. Seasons. collection available to pre-order now. Out December 2026. And if you’re in Leeds, tickets for the live event are available to pre-order now. All info and links here: storiessongsseasons.substack.com/p/stories-so...

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Stories. Songs. Seasons. (Live event + collection pre-order).

Stories.

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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 04/06/2026

'Even people who are not famous can identify with the difficulty of the choice CMAT had to make. On social media there comes a point in the lives of many people where they have to decide whether to ignore some ignoramus who is trying to drag them into some hideous dispute, or to engage with them'

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Declan Lynch: Words matter, whether you’re a gorgeous genius from Meath or a man with a cap from Kerry

Radio reviews: Liveline (RTÉ Radio 1); Kerry Today (Radio Kerry)

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It bears repeating that Hunter Biden is good at this.

From Hunter Biden's Twitter feed:

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

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Luke Butterly @lukejbutterly.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A quarter of those arrested for the racist disorder in Belfast in August 2024 have since been reported to the police for domestic abuse. “The myth that violence against women and girls is increasing because of immigration is completely unfounded and does not reflect the experience of Women’s Aid"

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One in four arrested over 2024 Belfast race attacks have since been reported for domestic abuse

Perpetrators of domestic abuse in Northern Ireland are overwhelmingly male, white, British/Irish, and known to the victim

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Cat Lad 🐈 @vandergraf119.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Great track. I always liked Fairport Convention but kept it quiet as they were seen as a bit uncool - you'd get away with Pentangle but owning a Steeleye Span album would lead to ostracism...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 25/05/2026

These events are starting to have the feeling of those ones you see advertised on scratty posters around universities by various Marxist fringe groups.

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Brendan Donlon @brendandonlon.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I interviewed my cat about the 100km in 30 Days challenge. She was unmoved. I'm a cancer survivor, and Marie Keating Foundation helped me and others I know - they do a lot of good on a very lean budget, so every € helps. One week to sign up! fundraise.mariekeating.ie/join/brendan... #SpeirGorm

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The RTÉ story about this said the launch was “mostly successful” and imo space flight is one of those things where you really want to be in that 100% successful range

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