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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1h

This makes me think of Northern Ireland.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 6h

Well, the farm takes up most of the day, and at night, I just like a cup of tea.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 7h

Am I religious? Not at all. Was I nearly just convinced to buy a Church of Ireland Book of Common Prayer in Irish? Yes. Yes I was. Multitudes are contained within me. Most of them contrary.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

DUP beacon of integrity Carla Lockhart wants ‘profound consequences’ for Michelle O’Neill’s attendance at Garvagh Road, when she was pictured in close proximity to masked men at a protest in Scarva in June THIS YEAR and called it ‘standing with her community.’ www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...

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DUP should use powers to remove O'Neill, says Lockhart

A senior member of the DUP has said the party should use its power to remove Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill as Northern Ireland's First Minister in response to her participation in street protests again...

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 23h

Did a bit of pumpkin painting with a pal and think I fixed it

A pumpkin painted as the famous Irish Samhain turnip carved head.

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #BuyIrish

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"What if we built our economy around American corporations? That could never backfire at all."

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The thing I'm most looking forward to right now is The New Roman Empire being published in paperback. Some of us can't justify spending fifty quid on a hardback on a whim. We'll do it, but the guilt is crippling.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

YOU LET BERTIE NEGOTIATE
THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS-P

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Today I learned that there are people under seventy who drink Harp.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I haven't actually read anything else by her, so I can't really compare. She just seems to have a knack for making the world feel incredibly vivid and tactile, even if it's buried under a huge amount of information that can be hard to parse.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Of we can't be indulge ourselves, what's the point, you know?

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Now that I look at it, there isn't a single history book. That will not do.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What I've learned from this is 1) I'm an arsehole with notions, and 2) this would be entirely different if I did it tomorrow.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

you have to admire Simon Coveney's underdog story: nepo baby -> inheriting his father's Dáil seat -> various ministries -> highly-paid lobbyist

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I could always fall back on "jem jabłko" to answer any pesky follow-up questions.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I imagine going to Warsaw and only being able to say "tak, lubię chleb" would technically count as communicating in Polish. It means nothing, and it would only bemuse or annoy people, but that does sort of count in my book.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The whole "take the highroad, be better than them" has it limits.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It might seem petty and short sighted, but it's very difficult, verging on massively unfair, to convince a country that they're bad people for questioning why they have to change so much in order to accomodate people they know for a fact aren't doing anything about themselves.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The most obvious but important point that has to be brought up whenever people do the condescending "we can't have a United Ireland because we won't do anything to accomodate Unionists" thing is "what does Unionism do to accomodate and make Irish people feel welcome?" Next to nothing? Grand so.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The later. I'm not sure the state itself is inherently colonial, but I struggle to look at how it acts, particularly in the West Bank and Gaza, and see anything but colonial attitudes to power and enforcement.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The whole "we can occupy the West Bank and maintain control over the people who live there, but we have no responsibility for what happens to them because they're not Israeli citizens" veers close enough for me.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fuck off with Friends and those pleb shows. Frasier is the fuel civilisations are built on.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The most formative experience of my entire life is watching Frasier before primary school every single morning for about four years. Makes a man out of you.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Don't forget Civil Service Strollers and Total Network Solutions FC.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bonnyrigg Rose is the best name of any football club in the world. That is all.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The heartfelt sentimentality is what was so endearing, but he just couldn't help but put himself above everything.

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Peter Donaghy @peterdonaghy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Belfast is wild because you can't get home by public transport after 9pm but the courts are open to adjudicate on parading disputes 24/7

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That's not fair. Some UUP lads burn books on their lawns where the plebs can't see them.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm not normally one for any sort of cultural nationalism, but the next person I see calling Samhain a 'wiccan holiday' is getting a turnip through their window.

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Suzanne Walsh @zanbreathnach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Always superior to a pumpkin

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not all that surprising when you hear their story, but even more depressing that they couldn't even stay the path for all that long.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The UUP treid in the last five or ten years to shift their image to that an actual moderate party - things like "here's some token hurling in a campaign ad" - but it didn't get them anywhere, there was internal dissent, and they've drifted much further in the DUP direction the last year or two.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Originally, the UUP were the old school, establishment Unionist party, and the DUP were the party of the working class Loyalist. Since the GFA, it's sort of a scale of reactionary politics, going from the UUP at one end, through the DUP, to the TUV at the other end.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Remember when the UUP tried to pretend they were 'moderate'? lol

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I've never been to either country, but it's to me that Czechia is to Poland what Switzerland is to Germany (intensely derogatory).

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Screaming

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In a new and surprising twist, Big Ian thought the events in Kosovo were propoganda being pushed by the "Vatican infiltrated media." Imagine being that Protestant.

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An Gé Mhór | बृहत् हंस @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I forgot that not only did Ian Paisley support Milošević, but he still managed to blame the Pope.

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