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Dermot Looney

@dlooney.bsky.social
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🔴⚪️ St Patrick’s Athletic Fan and Historian 📕📖 Author, ‘Saints Rising: The Early History of St Patrick’s Athletic FC’ 👨‍🏫🍎 HSCL Teacher 💜⬅️ Socialist - former SDCC Cllr and Mayor

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 20m
This chap, a man without an original thought, an AI robot from the FF factory, has just provoked the biggest public sector strike in donkey’s years. The country will be shut down for two days of the next ten. Pat Leahy and the Irish Times have decided now is the time to publish a paean to him.
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course it’s the correct move but it’s absolutely outrageous that it got to this point. A complete failure of the entire system.
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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
More headmasterly attacks on public sector workers from Micheál Martin on Newstalk today. As if workers are choosing to strike on a whim, rather than after years of eroding living standards and being taken for granted. Workers don't need another lecture. They need a better deal. #IrelandOnStrike
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"We're There Looking After Everyone Else” | Fórsa Member Fiona on the Value of Public Servants
YouTube video by Fórsa
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Cormac Moore @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today’s Irish News article on political unionism’s propensity for strategic ineptitude time and time again. www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dreadful to hear. I met Darren a couple of times. A lovely guy who loved his county and his club. That is awful news. So sad for his loved ones.
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely malojin
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All Drogheda tonight, aren’t we? 💜💙
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This seemed to be a regular one. My brother was the Duke of Connacht and his friend was the Prince of Leinster on their J1.
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Absolute belter of a yarn
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The greyhound industry is, ironically, a massive Con.
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A reminder that some people continue to promote the founders of this company as some kind of paragons of entrepreneurial virtue. Meanwhile, their employees deal with a toxic workplace as the brothers veer from one cartoonishly evil intervention to another.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another Bolsonaro taking power in Brazil would be a hammer blow to the future of life on Earth.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/10/2026
‘Rupert Lowe, who set up the far-right party Restore Britain after falling out with Farage, earns about as much from posting about mass deportations and rape gangs on Elon Musk’s X as he does from being an MP.’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on party fundraising. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Funding Reform
British politics has long been complacent about the power of big money. The relatively low price of access to...
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History St Pat’s @historystpats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Episode 21 of the History St Pat’s Pod is now online. Get it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. Thanks to the Patron Saints and members of our Patreon for their support. open.spotify.com/episode/0CEd...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🔴 Manchester City is what happens when the rich and powerful believe money trumps any rules or regulations I've written about club football's biggest ever scandal, and interviewed the brilliant @migueldelaney.bsky.social, for Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/manchester...
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Manchester City: club football's "biggest ever scandal"
I spoke to author Miguel Delaney about the UAE, industrial-scale cheating and football's “financial wild west.”
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
💚 #StopTheGame
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dreadful discourse
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are lots of people there who’ve done more for Palestinian solidarity than the rest of us. So I’m not having a go at all.
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Have been a regular for ~35 years at Lansdowne but couldn’t stomach it this evening. None of us took our season ticket seats. Would have enjoyed seeing that goal live but struggling to articulate how we feel about this team. It was good to see the protest there despite RTÉ cutting away a lot.
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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 28/09/2026
Good news, but also about time. Well done to all the campaigners that kept the pressure on the Central Bank.
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Gerry Farrell @gerrytastic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reminder that my Festival of History talk in Drumcondra library is on this Thursday details here - the tragic story of Patrick Sex and the significance of his death and commemoration dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/the-de...
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The Death and Commemoration of Patrick Sex – Dublin Festival of History
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every day it seems the Irish Times sinks lower and lower. Social science manipulation 101 here and they still couldn’t get the answer they wanted.
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Andy Cycles @andycyclesdublin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Was refused entry to the Ladies FAI cup final for ‘trying to make a political statement’ by wearing this jersey. Had to get the wonderful Shelbourne club SLO John Brennan to sort it out. Incase anyone was worried if the FAI couldn’t embarrass themselves any further.
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This guy was on the 9 o’clock news this eve. Having a fine time of it whipping everyone up. He doesn’t seem to have faced any consequences for this or several other episodes.
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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Colm McCarthy also said both the DART and the Luas would be disasters but sure look I guess he will be right about something one day.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Why on earth is this guy still given column space to write about public transport when he has been demonstrably wrong about EVERY SINGLE NEW TRANSPORT LINK in Dublin
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Notice here how people from the North don’t actually exist in his mind. The people “looking to be outraged” are down here, the existence of actual residents being intimidated hasn’t even occurred to him.
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I agree there’s still a very partionist mentality among many here. The left are far from immune from this. But people can and do care about more than one thing. It’s a depressing weekend for all of us.
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wallace Thompson on Twitter (former DUP man) summed it up for me
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gavin Bazunu is a national hero. Those who turned on him are national disgraces.
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As a historian of Irish football, I can confirm that the current FAI leadership stand in a long tradition of incompetent gobshites.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brendan Behan encountering carol singers. I'm bringing this energy into Xmas.
"Brendan suddenly seized one of the placards and proceeded to tear up the cardboard and smash the lath while roaring ‘Chairman Mao Tse Tung will soon put a stop to your fucking gallop, ye creepin’Jesus’s ye."
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...
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Outrage as Reform-run council votes to shut 10 nurseries
Members of the public shouted “you should be ashamed” as Reform councillors approved the plans
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He was an absolute gem
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We always took the mick out of The Lyrics Board as a family (watched it nonetheless). During Covid I convinced them to do a zoom version. We DMed Aonghus McNally out of the blue to invite him to the next one. Not only did he come, he entertained us for ages & gave us a virtuoso guitar performance.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thank you, US multinationals, for without you we would live in an unregulated tech dystopia that is algorithmically juicing the far right.
We have US multinationals to thank for the weakness of the far right in Ireland
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We had this chat at home and the first that came to mind was one of Crystal Swing!
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is just the replacement of two rotten boroughs with one. There are some very decent Senators, including a tradition of some particularly good ones from TCD/NUI. But the entire system of university votes is fundamentally anti-democratic and needs to go. This ‘reform’ is another waste of time.
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A great time to be alive. Peig’s on Kildare St/Nassau St played every one of them - a pound a pint on a Monday night, although we were usually paying the extortionate £2 a pint on Saturdays.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Have had this podcast in my feed for the past few months. It really is an excellent listen. Two v different presenters, each with something to say, and v accessible for anyone with an interest in Irish history. Lots of us in this part of the island could do with learning more about the North!
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sorry, but what the fuck is the Irish Times doing allowing Joanna Tuffy to write misinformed, factually incorrect gobbledegook about the Oireachtas’ mess-up on Holly Cairns’ mat leave? Joanna’s grasp of detail has never been her strong point. archive.ph/6MHlY
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Congrats to the paper of record on this one.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.
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