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Irrelevant Tom

@layabout99.bsky.social
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Former brewer, current layabout. Living in Cork. Interested in history, archeology, beer, sports. I have diversified portfolio. I put half my life savings in Spacely Sprockets, and the other half in Cogswell Cogs.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Going to launch a new version of Monopoly. When you land on someone else's property you kill them and take all their stuff. It's the Israel version.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I don't fucking think so"
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Irrelevant Tom @layabout99.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Welcome Inn, Cork City, gets a new Murphy's Stout advertisement. Before and after:
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Irrelevant Tom @layabout99.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Murphy's 170th Anniversary Whiskey Cask Stout at Bishopstown Bar, Cork. Went to a dentist appointment and found myself a few minutes walk from one of the 9 pubs serving this beer. Would have been rude not to stop in and have one (well two).
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Magickal Pusskus @papawhiskymagickal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Irrelevant Tom @layabout99.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Having the correct glassware adds greatly to the enjoyment of the beer. @mookiedog.bsky.social
Paulaner Weissbier served in a Beamish Stout pint glass.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Cost of Living Crisis is fake, the Energy Companies boosted their profit margins by 4.5x, Supermarkets quadrupled their profits, and now we are paying their excess profits forever.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £354m a year tax free from the tax payer including £132m personal spending money and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. Like if he needs a pay cut. RT if you want the Monarchy gone. #NotmyKing
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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Michael oH. @mondeno.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I respect my haters and share their concerns
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/09/2026
When I was a little girl in the 1980s I fell off my bike and skinned my knee. I'm telling you this now because we didn't have Bluesky then.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Excellent idea sent in by follower this morning. Added the link to their shop for easy access to their cards 💚 shop.rnli.org?fbclid=IwVER...
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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that the convicted sex pest and his deeply corrupt family are about to arrive in Ireland, where everyone involved in the Irish Open golf tournament will disgrace themselves in fawning over these criminal reprobate monsters. www.rte.ie/news/munster...
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All the details on restrictions in Clare for Trump visit
Gardaí have said a "significant policing and security operation" is under way in Co Clare for US President Donald Trump's visit to Doonbeg for the Amgen Irish Open.
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Susan Behrens @susanbehrens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember when many people, including TikTok kids, signed up for free tickets to Trump rallies and then didn’t show up? It would be a shame if that happened again. I hope no one does that because that empty arena will be sad.
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Brookston @brookston.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Historic Beer Birthday: Francis Straub brookston.short.gy/qG457t
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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
No one ever complained on their death bed that they had too many days off work. 🖕 DJT
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Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com · 06/09/2026
Twenty-five years after I photographed Ground Zero, The Philadelphia Inquirer gave my images, and my new essay about living with the trauma, extraordinary space in today’s Sunday paper. I’m enormously grateful for their care and attention, @inquirer.com. | Online: www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Virginia Giglio🇮🇪 @vgartist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Bessboro petition is stuck at 15800, theyd like 20k but need at least 16k. Do you have any groups to send for signatures? www.change.org/p/save-bessb...
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Sign the Petition
Save Bessboro - the former Mother & Baby ‘home’/Institution in Cork from being developed.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Irrelevant Tom @layabout99.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's "handle". A spelling error in a post to browbeat someone for pointing out a spelling error. Well done! It's almost I'm arguing with the insufferable Joe O'Shea himself.
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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thanks to Tim Mitchell via mudwerks//tumblr
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Irrelevant Tom @layabout99.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Will be of interest to CMAT fans and others. @jimmacmillan.com
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Electric Picnic: Nine talking points from a damp but fun weekend in Co Laois
As the crew get busy dismantling the festival site in Stradbally, we look back on some of the highlights (and a few lowlights) of the weekend
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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#MedievalMonday The Pele Tower in Corbridge Northumberland was built c. 1300 - troubled times in borderlands. Much of masonry is reused sandstone from nearby #Roman town. Tower was a defensive home for vicar of adjacent St Andrew's church until 17th C. It's now a micro bar. Of course it is.
Two storey rectangular tower built of large blocks of sandstone. Narrow windows are visible on the two sides shown. The upper level has angle turrets and a parapet. 
It's situated in the churchyard of St Andrew's church in Corbridge, and graves and headstones are visible around the tower, with some of the headstones placed around the bottom of the walls of the pele tower.
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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thanks to Andy okay
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Virginia Giglio🇮🇪 @vgartist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Please repost and repost and repost.
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Dawny B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Irrelevant Tom @layabout99.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My first cask beer in months and months. Blarney Muskerry at the Bierhaus, Cork.
Pint of Blarney Muskerry at the Bierhaus in Cork.
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Francesca Bonanno @runningwiththedogs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Irrelevant Tom @layabout99.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Welcome Inn, Cork. Inside there is a metal plaque on the bar commemorating the landlords from 1845 to the 21st century. Among those listed are John Arnott's brewery in 1898. That is the year John Arnott died, and Murphy's brewery took them over just three years later. @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social
The exterior of the Welcome Inn, Cork showing a large advert for Murphy's Stout.A plaque on the bar of the Welcome Inn showing landlords from 1845 to 2003 and beyond.
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Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Contrast with Dolly Parton... 😥
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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
‘We Were Always Here’: Ireland’s first permanent LGBTQ museum exhibition opens in Cork Congrats to Orla Egan and all who worked in this fantastic exhibition www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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‘We Were Always Here’: Ireland’s first permanent LGBTQ museum exhibition opens in Cork
‘Too often the history of the LGBT community has been invisible, ignored or erased,’ said curator Orla Egan
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/08/2026
Two paths diverged in the woods and America took the psychopath.
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Irrelevant Tom @layabout99.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A rare sight. A dog in a Cork City pub. This is in my local Cissie Youngs.
A dog and owner in Cissie Youngs pub, Cork.
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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
That map of Ireland is completely bonkers. I am reliably informed by a colleague from the Southwest that this is the accurate version.
Satirical map of Ireland from perspective of Cork oeople. One red area in south west “Cork”. Rest of map white with legend “Not Cork”
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The Drip @therealdrip.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Trump Threatens Iran With US Like Economy
Trump speaking into microphone
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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Irrelevant Tom @layabout99.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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⚠️ Why Trump Is NOTHING Like Hitler - #BrokenNews
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Steven L Clark @steven-l-clark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.beerandbrewing.com/latgalian-sm...
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Latvia’s Little-Known Latgalian Ale Is the Smoke Bomb of the Baltics
This obscure farmhouse brewing tradition out of eastern Latvia is still alive today, and it’s one that fans of smoked beer may want to add to their bucket lists.
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killiemesoftly.bsky.social @killiemesoftly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’ve never seen one single clip that captures Britain in the late 70s and early 80s better than this.
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Irrelevant Tom @layabout99.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I am of the opinion that most any pub can be a success given the right landlord/landlady. I have friends who took on a pub best known for stabbings and turned it into one of the best pubs in southwest London with good food and great beer.
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Just George Oh 🤘😎💨 @timmytwoshirts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#MeTVThreeStooges A teenage Bob Saget met Larry Fine of the Three Stooges when he spoke at his middle school. Saget was so starstruck he asked if he could visit him at the nursing home where he lived. Larry said yes. 1/
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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