Philip Dunlop
@mojonaut.bsky.social
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Dubliner, transplanted to the Northeast of Ireland. He/Him. Paddystinian. Woke/virtue signaller/libtard/Marxist/communist. I’ve heard them all, so try to be original.
Dubliner, transplanted to the Northeast of Ireland. He/Him. Paddystinian. Woke/virtue signaller/libtard/Marxist/communist. I’ve heard them all, so try to be original.
![An election poster. On a green background is the forgettable mug of one Nick Delehanty. Written on the poster, up top, is “Make Crime illegal” [sic]. On the bottom is “Vote No. 1 Nick Delehanty Independent”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lkecyegdenwtb5eonbfr3ica/bafkreig4ngzdljb353fm3bmewpdfo3axzqxqogv6qubtaziituw7gcendu)
!['I felt a sense of belonging around Glen. He always treated me as an equal, that I was on a par with him. He gave me the freedom to just be. I fell in love with Glen instantly when I was 13, and because at that time a relationship was out of the question – wasn’t allowed to exist – I felt it was just pure love.
'I thought it wasn’t going to become anything. I could still feel it. He was such a hero to me. I did hope that some day I would be old enough to be with him. And we did end up together, and we shared a very special time.
'It was through what I was sharing with Glen that I first heard and discovered the idea of unconditional love.'
This man in his 30s - sweeping into a home and being very impressive and romantic, singing his angsty love songs - will have known what he was doing when he started treating this smitten girl 'as an equal' and inviting her up to his room to play piano with him.
Glen: 'Yeah, I knew Mar for about six years. Me and Mar’s father are good friends. Mar’s father invited me to stay at their house. So I stayed at her house – he gave me a room at their house, and I went over and made some home recordings. And while I was making the home recordings… Mar plays piano, so I got her to play piano on my home recordings, and she was great.'
Interview: When you met her, she was only twelve or thirteen years old?
Glen: 'Thirteen, I think. I’ve known her for a long time. And she’s just really talented, you know? I guess I knew her in a really passive way. She was the daughter of someone I knew. But she played piano and she sang and we were good mates, you know [...]
'But the thing about Mar is, she’s fucking much more mature than me in real life. So for me, there’s nothing unusual about my relationship with Mar in terms of two souls on the earth, if you like.'
'I remember realising then this girl is not only smart but she's somebody who's not afraid to face up to the fact that maybe you're lying to yourself. It was very powerful.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lkecyegdenwtb5eonbfr3ica/bafkreiab3pekfl3ws2e4csiqrsevax4p57n4sq773zzcz27dpdz7vldp34)
