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Nessan Vaughan

@nessanvaughan.bsky.social
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Concerned about social, economic, environmental justice; poverty; inequality. Interested in public affairs, theology and sport.

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Phillip John Hart @philagain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Does this beggar belief? No. It is no surprise whatsoever The fossil fuel sector has been suppressing the truth for 3/4 of a century www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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IPCC is under pressure to delay publication of key global climate report
AR7 report was scheduled for 2028 in time for Cop33 summit but some petro-states and major developing countries want to postpone it
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Cycling In Kilkenny @cyclinginkilkenny.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Transforming tomorrow by ensuring no pedestrian can use the footpath.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nutshell.
"The contrast between Europe’s decisive early response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and its fragmented stance on Gaza is arguably as damaging to the international rules-based order as the actions of those seeking to undermine
it."
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ireland: More than 10,000 people took part in Saturday’s gathering, the 21st national demonstration to have taken place since October 2023.
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Over 10,000 gather for Dublin march supporting Palestine
Several thousand people gathered in Dublin City centre today for a national demonstration in support of Palestine.
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
‘There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale’. jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC sets a trap to make sure leftwing politicians never get a fair hearing
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Solidarity is beautiful ❤️ Dublin City Ireland now
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Office of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Discover two exhibitions at Kilmainham Gaol Museum: ‘The Prisoners’ Lens: Secret Photography in Kilmainham Gaol, 1921’ Historic wedding relics of Joseph Plunkett & Grace Gifford Exhibitions are FREE – no booking required. Gaol tours must be booked. More info: heritageireland.ie
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 10/10/2026
Several thousand people have gathered in Dublin City centre for a national demonstration in support of Palestine
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Over 10,000 gather for Dublin march supporting Palestine
Several thousand people have gathered in Dublin City centre for a national demonstration in support of Palestine.
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yes. No civil society organisations or church leaders feature at the summit next week.
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
No civil society organisations or church leaders feature.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A statue of Nelson Mandela has been unveiled in Glasgow city centre, nearly 40 years after the city renamed a street in his honour 🙌 In a fitting tribute to the revolutionary and former President of South Africa, the sculpture now stands on a plinth of South African granite on Nelson Mandela Place
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 09/10/2026
Recommendations to reduce deaths of homeless people, and support bereaved families, are yet to be acted on years later. At least 46 people died last year while homeless in Dublin.
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Recommendations to reduce deaths of homeless people, and support bereaved families, yet to be acted on years later
At least 46 people died last year while homeless in Dublin.
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Solidarity with our sisters and brothers of Palestine and Gaza. 🇵🇸 🇮🇪
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
On this day in 1962, the Second Vatican Council opened www.catholicireland.net/saintoftheda...
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Oct 11 - Saint Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) convened the Second Vatican Council - Catholicireland.net
Summary : St John XXIII, pope, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (1881-1963), born in Sotto il Monte in Lombardy, was ordained priest in 1904 and served (among other places) as nuncio in France, before becomin...
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Very pleased to see this. South African judge wins Nobel Peace Prize as committee warns international law is 'under attack' jrnl.ie/7187795
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South African judge wins Nobel Peace Prize as committee warns international law is 'under attack'
The former UN human rights chief was recognised for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
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P. O'Leary @p-oleary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'Simon Harris walked back years of embedding the polluter-pays principle into public policy by reversing some of the most recent carbon tax increases and freezing others' #ClimateCrisis #SpéirGorm @simonharrisireland.bsky.social @fine-gael.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
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Carbon tax U-turn calls Government’s climate commitments into question
Environmental groups despair as Budget 2027 sees polluter-pays principle reversed
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𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐎'𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐒.𝐉. @kohsj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Holy See at UN: Moratorium on executions must pave the way for abolition - Vatican News
Archbishop Christophe Z. El-Kassis addresses the UN General Assembly on the protection of human rights, calling for the abolition of the death ...
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
via Zurainee Tehek
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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 08/10/2026
Heart disease induced in pigs. Rabbits’ eyes surgically removed. Chinchillas’ eardrums deliberately perforated. Just some of the procedures commissioned by Irish universities in overseas labs. Our latest investigation by @trishdevlin.bsky.social www.thejournal.ie/irish-animal...
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https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-animal-testing-overseas-7183554-Oct2026/
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President of the International Criminal Court says that the obstacles facing the court have “intensified significantly” during the past few years. Judge Tomoko Akane was speaking at a ceremony in Dublin’s Four Courts to mark the opening of the new legal year. www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-...
The President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) says that the obstacles facing the court have “intensified significantly” during the past few years.

Judge Tomoko Akane was speaking at a ceremony in Dublin’s Four Courts to mark the opening of the new legal year (5 October).
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This Saturday, join us at 1pm at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin. Let's show the Palestinian people that they will not be forgotten, and that we will not let the Israeli Government continue to get away with total impunity as they continue their genocide. Let's unite and stand up for justice💪
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Not Here Not Anywhere @nhna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ireland cannot “credibly take leadership on a fossil fuel phase-out while simultaneously pushing new fossil fuel infrastructure and ever-expanding energy demand driven through the proliferation of data centres” …or while cutting carbon taxes! www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Ireland to miss climate targets with renewable energy being 'cannibalised by data centres'
Ireland could not 'credibly take leadership on a fossil fuel phase-out while simultaneously pushing new fossil fuel infrastructure and ever-expanding energy demand driven through the proliferation of ...
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Dublin Commuters @dublincommuters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Without fare hikes “the department would not be able to fund the expansion of public transport services” - Minister Daragh O’Brien This is false, the NTA admitted they wanted fares to be 44% of their budget, they just didn’t ask for the extra money www.thejournal.ie/budget-2027-...
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'Wrong direction': Government slammed for cutting fuel prices while raising public transport fares
Labour’s transport spokesperson, Ciarán Ahern, said public transport users would be feeling “let down”.
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🎥With the launch of our new climate justice documentary 'End Fossil Power' fast approaching, it was fantastic to welcome Leon Diop of Black and Irish to the studio to record the narration. Stay tuned to our social channels for where you can catch the documentary in the weeks and months ahead!
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was pleased to have been invited by Ireland AM on what SVP are seeking in Budget 2027
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'Appalling injustice' - academics call on Taoiseach to intervene over visas for Gazan students jrnl.ie/7183159
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'Appalling injustice' - academics call on Taoiseach to intervene over visas for Gazan students
Four Gazan students have taken up their cases in the courts following the denial of their visas, despite having university places and scholarship funding to come to Ireland.
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I welcomed the opportunity by Virgin Media News to speak on behalf of SVP regarding key areas to be addressed in Budget 2027. www.instagram.com/reel/DeCrCFc...
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Raid on Birzeit University by the IDF last night. It's the same university attended by Palestine footballer Natalie Abudayyeh - who was taken at gunpoint in June, along with other students. She is still in prison. Still no charge put to her.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“The estimate of the total amount of rubble in Gaza is 61 million tonnes. It is approximately 20 times the amount of rubble generated in all wars across the world over the last 18 years,” says Jaco Cilliers, the UNDP’s special representative in Palestine. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
Photo of Gaza
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When the Irish right wing fly tricolours they’re exclusionary. Some exclude the north from Ireland. They share that denial with southern liberals for whom this proposed Orange march is further reason to oppose the united Ireland they've never wanted. www.ontheditch.com/comment-no-g...
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Comment: No going down that road
Alongside the flags there’s graffiti reading FUCK THE SASH. And why not.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'The conflict in my mind was that right away I knew someone from where I’m from is going to have a problem. I then wrote a song called Shankill Son. I said in the song, ‘Salute the Kneecap from P.R.O.D.’ and I knew it would start the conversation. I thought we could build some sort of connection.'
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‘There’s so much change’: Young Spencer on finding common ground with Kneecap in Belfast
Rapper says music is bringing young people together in Northern Ireland and talks about how his association with nationalist rap trio ‘divides opinion’
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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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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Your reminder that Brenda Power is an adjudicator for the International Protection Appeals Tribunal which currently has a number of appeals before it from transgender Americans
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘A Garvaghy Rd resident has said her Protestant friends have reached out over past 48 hrs One texted asking if they were "still friends" More than 1,000 people from Protestant background have now signed open letter urging Orange Order to end standoff’. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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‘Everybody wants this to end’: Protestant group pushes UK government to end Drumcree standoff
Standoff entered sixth day on Friday as residents prepare to lodge fresh legal challenge on Monday
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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Prof John Doyle launches new book ‘Before the Vote: Planning for a United Ireland’ | School of Law and Government
The launch event took place in Buswells Hotel on Wednesday evening, with speeches from Dublin City University Vice President for Research Prof John Doyle and former British Ambassador to Ireland Paul ...
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 02/10/2026
What to do with the horses of Darndale? Grazing in public parks means other uses are being pushed out, and adding momentum to calls for an equine centre and stable club to properly support horse culture in the area.
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What to do with the horses of Darndale?
Grazing in public parks means other uses are being pushed out, and adding momentum to calls for an equine centre and stable club to properly support horse culture in the area.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sr Julie Doran, of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles, arrived with snacks, including some from Palestine, for the protesters. Sr Doran: “We Sisters have been in Palestine for many years .. They’re a beautiful people. “I’m supporting these people today, and my heart is for them.”
Sr Julie Doran, of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles, arrived with snacks, including some from Palestine, for the protesters.

Sr Doran, who previously worked in Palestine, said she has attended a number of solidarity rallies.

“We sisters have been in Palestine for many years ... They’re a beautiful people,” she said.

“I’m supporting these people today, and my heart is for them.”

A larger protest, organised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Irish Sport for Palestine, is expected to take place outside the Aviva at 6.30pm.
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ATD Fourth World International @atd4thworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SAFE HOMES FOR ALL ALSO MEANS HAVING THE MEANS TO BUILD A LIFE OF ONE’S OWN 🏠✨ Standing in solidarity with those in extreme poverty means uniting for peace. See you on 17 October! ✊ #safehomesforall #october17 #uniteforpeace
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our 2025/26 annual report, “Changemakers” tells the story of how we faced the challenges of conflict, climate and aid cuts, and stood with communities not just surviving, but working to build something better. 👉Read 'Changemakers' here: www.trocaire.org/documents/20...
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DerryJournal @derryjournal.com · 02/10/2026
Rev. David Latimer among individuals from Protestant background to sign letter supporting Garvaghy Road residents www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...
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Rev. David Latimer among individuals from Protestant background to sign letter supporting Garvaghy Road residents
Rev. David Latimer is among a group of concerned individuals from a Protestant background who have signed an open letter in support of the Garvaghy Road residents amid the ongoing Drumcree stand-off.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road. They're calling on the Orange Order to see the bigger picture and bring an end to the Drumcree march. The letter has been sent to Secretary of State, Chris Bryant & Helen McEntee (Minister for Foreign Affairs - Dublin).
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 02/10/2026
New barriers for some people to access homeless accommodation are set to take effect in coming months. Some experts worry about the impact of the new rules, especially on more vulnerable households, as they await guidance on the details of how they will be implemented.
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New barriers for some people to access homeless accommodation set to take effect in coming months
Some experts worry about the impact of the new rules, especially on more vulnerable households, as they await guidance on the details of how they will be implemented.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tomorrow in Belfast ✊️ 💚
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 02/10/2026
A further 10 sets of infant remains have been recovered as part of the ongoing excavation of the site of the former Mother and Baby Institution in Tuam. It brings the total number of infant remains recovered from the site to 109. jrnl.ie/7180588
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Further 10 sets of infant remains recovered during Tuam excavation
The Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention said all ten were found in coffins in a section of land which was excavated by hand.
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do we care where people with disabilities live? jrnl.ie/7177250
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Do we care where people with disabilities live?
Being disabled and homeless has long been normalised in Ireland, it is just largely hidden from us.
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Appalling treatment of prisoners with barely a whisper. ‘The report said 3,653 prisoners could not toilet in private last year, while 377 people shared a cell with three or more others, and 596 were sleeping on mattresses.’ www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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Thousands of prisoners unable to use toilet privately amid ‘severe’ overcrowding
People needing psychiatric care or access to mental health supports ‘routinely being imprisoned’, report finds
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Court hears of ‘significant’ and ‘out of blue’ change of practice by Minister for Justice www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Four students from Gaza challenge ‘irrational’ visa refusal to pursue studies
Court hears of ‘significant’ and ‘out of blue’ change of practice by Minister for Justice
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
True story.
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