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Liam Ward

@liamward.ie
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Working in tech but more likely to post about football or music. I wash bibs and pick up cones for Shelbourne FC's women's team. Kevin Godley once described me as a "visionary boffin".

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Political Football @politicalfootball.bsky.social · 5h
They'll label Sally Rooney as a terrorist but the types of people the who led arson attacks on hotels or blocked, attacked or doxed the RNLI are people with legitimate concerns who must be listened to.
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Israel is carrying out genocide in #Palestine & Europe still rewards it with a €45 billion trade agreement. The EU must scrap it and hit Israel where it counts. The more voices we have, the harder we are to ignore. ✍️ Go to aodhan.ie/act to sign our petition and show that Dublin stands with 🇵🇸.
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Liam Ward @liamward.ie · 11h
For the day that's in it www.youtube.com/watch?v=J56I...
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Strawbs - Part Of The Union (1973)
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Great piece by Fintan O’Toole. I think it captures what a lot of people are feeling about Ireland’s sort of don’t-ask-me-I-just-work-here government.
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Fintan O'Toole: The blue-green smoothie ruling the country has no plan and even less passion
Civil War politics energised the Government parties. Now they’ve nothing left to do but pump out money
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wish they’d livestream some fucking Epstein arrests.
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Liam Ward @liamward.ie · 11/10/2026
The Lighthouse Cinema has a showing of the #RockyHorrorPictureShow coming up. But why is it on a Tuesday at 3.45pm?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Nav Pillay reminding us that this didn't begin on October 7th.
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Liam Ward @liamward.ie · 10/10/2026
Two players that I got to know during their time at #Shels and it was brilliant to see both of them playing so well yesterday and getting on the scoresheet.
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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 06/10/2026
And yet Jennifer Carroll-McNeill just said on #rtept that the State can only afford to give a shingles vaccines to immunocompromised over 85s. #IrishPol
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Cianan Brennan @ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Horse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Interesting piece by Gavin Cooney about reporting on the Ireland V Israel fixtures.
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Ireland v Israel was no ordinary match assignment. Irish journalists were watched and filmed
Recurring presence of out-of-place people combined with blatant filming of reporters made for a deeply uncomfortable week
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The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another historic moment for women’s football 👏 Saturday’s derby between São Paulo and Corinthians for the 2026 Brasileirão Feminino title drew 49,405 fans at the Estádio do Morumbi—a new record for a women's club soccer match in South America 🏟️ 📸: São Paulo Feminino
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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 04/10/2026
Well done Jennifer Whitmore! Oireachtas Committee testimony created solely from AI should most definitely not be accepted as expert opinion. 📽️@jen_whitmore_td & @social-democrats.bsky.social on insta: www.instagram.com/reel/DeCetuV... #IrishPol
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Bernie Linnane @berlinnaeus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Sunday Independent published an article written by Brenda Power which breached the Press Council Code of Practice against Prejudice and was "likely to cause grave offence or to stir up hatred against trans and gender diverse people on the basis of their gender."
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Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is written to fly under the radar, from today’s Sunday Independent (Ireland). The press council upheld a complaint about an offensive and transphobic opinion column by Brenda Power. Sindo was required to publish the decision. @mams4transrights.bsky.social @jesalady.bsky.social
A half page article from the Sunday independent with the headline OMB2590 A woman and the Sunday independent.
The article outlines the complaint, the appeal and the decision. 
The complaint relates to an opinion column deploring the fact that an unnamed td provided a character reference for a man convicted of sexual violence against children. A sentence in the column argued that this case threw light on the possibility that a man would “identify as a woman” in order to commit sexual violence.
The press council concluded that “a reference to a protected group [trans people] in this context should have been extremely carefully scrutinised”. It found that the Sunday independent was in violation of principle 8 of the press council code of practice.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just Fancy That! Earl Spencer and the Daily Mail. From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
70,000 people dead. Gaza has been razed to the ground. And, Government expects people to be able to access documents. Why are they making the visa process so impossible when colleges have their arms open to welcome these students?
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Liam Ward @liamward.ie · 21/09/2026
Pop-Up Museum of Irish Football (1875-2025) in Tolka Park next Mon/Tue from 1pm - 8pm.
Poster for Pop-Up Museum of Irish Football (1875-2025) in Tolka Park next Mon/Tue  from 1pm - 8pm.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Spencer vs Windsor From the Private Eye archive. Issue 933, September 1997.
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Spaces filling up fast. If your school / club want to visit museum please make contact soon. Email FootballWalkingTour@Gmail.com
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Clare Social Democrats @claresocdems.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Only 6% of voters said immigration was a primary concern at the last election. The issues voters actually cared about were housing (28%), cost of living (19%), and healthcare (17%). All areas where this government are failing horrifically. The anti-immigration narratives are a distraction #Spéirgorm
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Housing was the number one issue for voters yesterday (according to the exit poll, at least)
28% of those polled said it was the main factor in why they voted.
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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This brilliant lady wrote this out in her back garden. She’s on the flight path for Air-force 1 into Shannon. I’m also on the flight path but unfortunately not for the 747’s. Ireland hates that fucking useless lying heap of shit. #speirgorm 🇮🇪
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The urge became too strong.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Lincoln Project created this video, and apparently it is pissing the orange narcissist-in-chief immensely. Send it in a message to your friends
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Liam Ward @liamward.ie · 06/09/2026
Teenage Wasteland on Netflix was not quite what I thought it was going to be. As well as the environmental issues at the core, it's a wonderful story of adults empowering teenagers to question people in power. I never imagined I'd be shedding a tear at the end when I saw down to watch it.
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Oliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺 @oliver.ie · 06/09/2026
The fine for riding an e-scooter without a hi-viz vest, so that a careless motorist *might* see you (€100), will be higher than the fine for the same motorists if a Garda stops them for driving carelessly (€80). 🤷‍♂️
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The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Liga F reach record numbers on opening weekend 📈🇪🇸 Despite domestic broadcaster rights being secured last minute, Spain’s top women’s league recorded its biggest-ever opening-day TV audience. 450,000 viewers tuned in — a 300% increase from last year. 📸: FCBfemeni
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Liam Ward @liamward.ie · 30/08/2026
Watched a bit of #TraitorsIrl for the first time. Can't understand why it isn't called The Cosplay Apprentice.
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YAC News @yacnews.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
DOJ withholds 37 pages of notes from the FBI interviews with woman who reported Trump raped her as a child www.yacnews.com/doj-withhold...
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DOJ withholds 37 pages of notes from the FBI interviews with woman who reported Trump raped her as a child
Justice Department withheld thirty-seven pages of FBI notes from interviews with a South Carolina woman who told agents that Donald Trump orally raped her at 13 to 15.
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I've written about sport of all kinds for 20+ years, and every now and again I'm taken aback by how stupid and gullible you have to be to believe that trans women (NEVER men!) are any sort of a threat to women's sports or their integrity, when ALL OF SPORTING HISTORY says the exact opposite.
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Liam Ward @liamward.ie · 29/08/2026
I have worked with groundsmen who didn't want a bunch of 8 year olds on the pitch at half time to protect the surface. This would give them palpitations.
Warm up for the TCU v UNC American football game. So many people on the pitch!
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Liam Ward @liamward.ie · 29/08/2026
The government gave the greyhound racing industry €20m last year. There are nights when not a single spectator attends. www.thejournal.ie/greyound-rac...
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Questions over who is even showing up are among the many that dog Irish greyhound racing
Attendances are plummeting, and figuring out who is paying to go is trickier still.
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David @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Venn Diagram of that type of British person who will tell someone from the north of Ireland, that they’re British whether they like it or not, and turn around and tell 3rd and 4th generation Brits of immigrant heritage, that they’ll never be British, is a perfect horrible circle.
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Today the Government will have an emergency Dáil sitting over fuel excise duty. Later today the latest homelessness figures will be announced. A new record, no doubt, with over 7k children in emergency accommodation. But there’ll be no emergency sitting for them.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Dempsey family remembered 50 years on from horrific attack
A newlywed couple and their baby who were burnt to death in a loyalist petrol bomb attack in the New Lodge have been remembered on their 50th anniversary.
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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There could hardly be two women who have chosen to do more different thinks with their wealth and fame
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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library gave my kid a free book every month for five years. And we teared up when we read the last one, in which she includes a note about how the kid is ready for school and should keep reading all their life.
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Liam Ward @liamward.ie · 25/08/2026
It was a bit weird to be at an Idles gig when I found out that Dolly Parton had died. Not very similar musically, of course, and she might not have described herself as anti-fascist but paying for books for poor kids is a great act of subversion. What a huge loss she is.
Idles on stage in Dublin
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“We hang the petty thieves—and appoint the great ones to public office.” —Aesop
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026
Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10
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Paul O'Donovan @paulodonovan.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
The original gay rights and pride rainbow flag from 1978 has left San Francisco for the very first time and is in the sister city of Cork. Designed by Gilbert Baker. Very moving to see it.
Multi coloured LGTBQ+ flag
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Liam Ward @liamward.ie · 19/08/2026
I fear for the grand old art of sub-editing when I read this headline that should clearly have been "Durán Durán as Celtic see off LASK"
An Irish Times headline: Durán on the double as Celtic see off LASK in opening Champions League playoff
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☔️⚡️Emily Cross 💜🌛 @emilycross.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Excellent article again by @fotoole.bsky.social on gender apartheid and how no fuss was made of Ireland playing Afghanistan in cricket which was completely voluntary while UK, Aus, NZ, Sth Africa. They invited them to play. Disgraceful #speirghorm #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 19/08/2026
A teenage boy has been seriously injured after an e-scooter incident in Coolock, Dublin this afternoon.
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Teenager seriously injured in Dublin e-scooter incident
A teenage boy has been seriously injured after an e-scooter incident in Coolock, Dublin this afternoon.
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Darryl Geraghty @darrylgeraghty.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
About last night! @shelbournefc.ie and @wexfordfc.ie tense thriller www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
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Flocchini strike sends Shelbourne joint top with Athlone
Shelbourne held their nerve in a tense and thrilling end-to-end encounter at home to go level on points with Athlone Town at the top, with two games extra played.
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The 42 @the42.ie · 18/08/2026
Shelbourne moved level on points with leaders Athlone Town after a 1-0 win over Wexford in the League of Ireland Women's Premier Division on Tuesday. the42.ie/7134928t
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Shelbourne spot on against Wexford to move level on points with leaders Athlone
Bella Flocchini’s 14th-minute penalty proved the winner at Tolka Park.
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Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
TikTok allowing this trend encouraging people to film themselves driving the wrong way on motorways … but they deleted our account for posting a video of two men kissing.
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