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Lorcan Twomey

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Dubliner. Based in London now. Hate Brexit. had enough of the other place.

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
@jontonge.bsky.social: "Starmer is more likely to win Politician of the Year 2026 than call a Border Poll [In Northern Ireland] by 2030". A quick 🧵on why I think he's mistaken. 1/7
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This is quite an astonishing poll in Northern Ireland. the Belfast Telegraph would be classed as a pro-Unionist newspaper in NI. As a reminder, the Good Friday Agreement offers a process for NI to, essentially, re-join the EU with Ireland. (i.e. a reunification border poll) 1/3
Belfast Telegraph poll APRlL-2026 with 3,162 responses - NI-Wide representative sample

If there was a referendum today about rejoining or staying-out of the European
Union (EU), what way would you vote?



Support a Re-join of the EU
All: 59% 
British Unionist Voters Only: 17%
Nationalist/RepubIican Voters Only: 90%
Alliance/Green/Others Voters Only: 93%

Support Staying out of EU
All 34%
British Unionist Voters Only: 72%
Nationalist/RepubIican Voters Only: 5%
Alliance/Green/Others Voters Only: 5%
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Another sun sets on an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
can’t stop thinking how renaming the defence department as the war department has such 10-year-old boy energy
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This is one of the cliff edges experts like @vivamjm.bsky.social were warning about prior to the brexit vote. In brief, supply chains have evolved 50+ years...as borders, barriers & bureaucracy vanished with the SM. It's not possible to "make brexit work" and you can't eat a blue passport. 5/5
new yorker cover cartoon from 2016 about Brexit depicting Ministry of Silly Walks characters marching off a cliff.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
In London this week and it's a little jarring how Orban is being reported by BBC & others. They correctly describe him as a pal of Putin, Trump & the Far Right, yet, they would never use the same to describe Nigel Farage, who's Reform party candidates are regularly platformed on the BBC. 1/5
BBC headline. "Orbán era swept away by Péter Magyar's Hungary election landslide"
Highlighted text from BBC Article: 
The landslide will not only allow Magyar to overturn Orbán's increasingly unpopular domestic policies, but reset Hungary's global relationships.

Orbán has been a close partner of both US President Donald Trump - earning an in-person appearance from US Vice-President JD Vance in the final week of the campaign - and Russia's Vladimir Putin, and he had become a big thorn in the side of the EU and Ukraine.

Magyar, on the other hand, stood on a platform of distancing Hungary from Russia in favour of more cordial ties with the EU and Ukraine.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9vg782kx7o
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I cannot be the only one to notice the Greens beating Reform and Labour out of the park in almost every by-election recently. Yet, GE polls suggest a lead with Reform and their candidates are all over BBC current affairs programmes. Has the penny finally dropped with the English electorate?
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 05/04/2026
Thousands of people lined Dublin’s O’Connell Street for an event marking the 110th anniversary of the armed rebellion against British rule in Ireland. jrnl.ie/7004144
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President Connolly lays wreath at 1916 Easter Rising commemoration
Crowds began to gather before 11am for the ceremony.
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Stephen Davis @enemygiantcrab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Dublin Ireland #Dublin #streetphotography #photography
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Stephen Davis @enemygiantcrab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Dublin Ireland #Dublin #streetphotography #photography
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Erik Heisholt @heisholt.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Skål & Slainte for my forefathers who founded Dublin! #ALAW #lufc #guinness #dublin
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Lorcan Twomey @lorcantwomey.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
great speech. great insights. re: reunification in Ireland👇
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Phil Simmonds @europeanphil.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
brace yourself meme: "Closer ties" season has started mocking the UKG rhetoric about closer ties with the EU without actually doing anything about it.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
true but I'm reminded of a German TV special comparing Irish to German reunification. Their biggest mistake was they rushed it and that's still a problem today. Britain faces a fiscal crisis not seen since the 1970s, with English nationalists wanting an ECHR exit, cutting NI loose might follow.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I notice some suggesting the UK should have a "proper" debate about the EU. Fun fact: the UK has been debating that for 10 years. Quick 🧵on why the UK really needs a debate about the UK. 1/6
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Lorcan Twomey @lorcantwomey.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Khalidi's previous book "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" was so prescient. He argued the conflict is not a struggle between two equal national movements, but a colonial war waged by great powers against an indigenous population. His lecture is in Belfast, too!
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Rashid Khalidi Lecture: 'Britain, Ireland and Palestine'
Prof Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, will lecture on the topic of his forthcoming book
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HG Rugby @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
TOP14 Digest Podcast! 🎙️🇫🇷 • #TOP14 round 19 review • Has Jalibert finally bested Ntamack? • What has Serge Blanco done now? Link 👇 youtu.be/hgP6N0gJ4w8?...
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Has Matthieu Jalibert Finally Defeated Romain Ntamack? | TOP 14 Digest
YouTube video by The Global Gainline
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Lorcan Twomey @lorcantwomey.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I'll completely change my mind when we hit the playoffs, of course, when clubs send their top teams. and in fairness the SA teams coming in has added a certain gravitas to the URC. I agree about top 14.
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Squidge Rugby @squidgerugby.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
St Helen's is the main headline, but the grassroots and youth program is both exciting and unbelievably smart, both from a general rugby and survival point of view.
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The 42 @the42.ie · 24/03/2026
There were joyous scenes at Dublin airport as O’Connor came home from the world indoor championships in Poland. the42.ie/6992958
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In pics: Ireland's Kate O'Connor returns with World Indoor bronze medal
There were joyous scenes at Dublin airport as O’Connor came home from the world indoor championships in Poland.
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HG Rugby @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Oi, LEINSTER PEOPLE 🔵 I’m coming to the Scarlets match on Friday and I believe this means we have to fight or something? A Guinness is fine too
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a child is driving a red toy car down a street .
ALT: a child is driving a red toy car down a street .
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Harpin' On Rugby @harpinonrugby.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Keego joins me to look ahead to Saturday’s big URC clash at Scotstoun > harpinonrugby.blog/2026/03/20/5... #GLAvLEI #BKTURC
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508: Glasgow v Leinster preview
ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST LEINSTER : 15 Hugo Keenan 14 Joshua Kenny 13 Rieko Ioane 12 Robbie Henshaw 11 Jimmy O’Brien 10 Sam Prendergast 9 Luke McGrath (c) 1 Alex Usanov 2 Rónan Kelleher 3 Thomas…
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I reckon when historians write the history of this will be probably conclude that the Founding Fathers should have given Congress some sort of involvement in the decision to go to war.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Trumps "threats & tariffs" bullyboy strategy latest. Trump: "China will lose the US market-" China: "We don't care. China has been here for 5000 years and most of the time, there was no United States". h/t @channel4news.bsky.social for the clip.
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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
GB should be proud to be part of this small, but very exclusive, club. this quote springs to mind: "A man is judged by the company he keeps"
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
dlvr.it
Hello possum! Creature appears among cuddly toys in Australian airport gift shop
A real possum surprised staff when it appeared on shelves crammed with cuddly toy animals in an Australian airport gift shop.A browsing passenger ...
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This deal with Iceland might seem trivial to many but this is actually a very Big moment for the EU. For decades, trade treaties & travel agreements was the core remit of the EU. Now, security has been added to the list of benefits.
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Signing ceremony of EU-Iceland Security and Defence Partnership
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Jack Smyth @screwmusk77.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
some argue labour, or bennites, have been anti EU for decades. Here's Tony Benn outlining labours anti EU policy, 50 years ago, before the 1st brexit referendum. Reeves echoes him today. 👇
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Lorcan Twomey @lorcantwomey.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
@piwakawaka-r.bsky.social @bikepedantic.bsky.social
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Liquid reflection of an Irish Atlantic rainforest, in the rain.
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hitpix+ @hitpixplus.com · 16/03/2026
Jessie Buckley is the first Irish woman to win Best Actress at the #Oscars
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Lorcan Twomey @lorcantwomey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
no way to cherry pick their way out of this.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
As Icelands EU referendum, to continue talks stalled in 2013 to become full EU members, draws closer; here's a quick 🧵on what it means for Brexit Britain. TL;DR: No more "closer ties" or cherry picking for the UKgov. 1/7
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Amid historic geopolitical shifts, the EU is expanding: westward. Iceland and Norway, long de facto integrated, are moving to make it formal. Not the enlargement anyone was watching for. So much for European powerlessness.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Every time I read what a UK minister says about the EU it almost feels like they're assuming we have the same power as members. We're not negotiating, we're making representations. Only EU institutions are negotiating their rules.
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
dlvr.it
EU scientists: 'Tackle air pollution to cut cancer rates'
It is estimated that lung cancer deaths would be reduced by more than 10% by meeting WHO guidelines for air pollution
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Richard Barfield @richardbarfield.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
@fotoole.bsky.social puts it very well
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Thank you @catsmithmp.bsky.social for recognising that the British voting system is unfit for purpose
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jjsalmo @jjsalmo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Worth a read: (thanks to @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social )
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Arjan Struik @arjanstruik.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social is not pulling any punches. Don’t understand Starmer’s reluctance to make some big strides towards EU.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Stock Markets across the World, ready to open tomorrow morning. h/t @alifarhat79
photo of a cupboard with glass panes in the front and a pile of dishes ready to fall out as soon as someone opens the door.
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Lorcan Twomey @lorcantwomey.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
a great weekend for Irish rugby.
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RTÉ GAA @gaa.rte.ie · 22/02/2026
A lively and hard-fought Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 encounter in Dungarvan GAA Grounds saw Meath edge out Waterford after a contest that ebbed and flowed throughout #RTEGAA
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Meath hold on to inflict first defeat on Waterford
A lively and hard-fought Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 encounter in Dungarvan GAA Grounds saw Meath edge out Waterford after a contest that ebbed and flowed throughout.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
As Iceland fast-tracks a public referendum about full EU membership, this is perhaps a good time to remind Britons that the EU has changed a lot in the last 10 years and at a new crossroads. Quick 🧵on the actual options available now to brexit britain and this new EU.
Cartoon of a man in a blue coat, representing Europe outside 2 shop. One plush shop marked "Competitiveness & Resilience" and the other shabby looking entrance marked "Irrelevance & inferiority". 

There's also a doorbell beside the doorway on the shabby looking shop with a note "Doorbell for brexit britain in the basement".
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Oh God people found my post about UK dual nationals and the passport farrago. Take it outside guys
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Gerard Elwood @gerardelwood.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Reclaiming the 🇮🇪 from those who tarnish it through their hatred, racism and xenophobia starts in schools. The 12th Annual Thomas F. Meagher educational campaign on the history of the Irish Tricolour launched. #IrishHistory www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Educational campaign on history of Irish flag launched
A campaign has been launched by the Thomas F Meagher Foundation in a bid to ensure that the Irish tricolour remains an emblem of peace and brotherhood between the various communities who live on the i...
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Lorcan Twomey @lorcantwomey.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Please repost and help try and find this person. last seen in the twickenham area, at about 2pm on Saturday.
A missing persons poster with a photo of Harry Pollock, the english rugby player and a plea to Call Twickenham Police Station.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Another triumph for Goodwin's campaign. No doubt he'll continue to pretend he cares about anti-semitism. www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
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