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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looking forward to staring into the middle distance and occasionally allowing myself a rueful smile at the Bill Callahan gig tonight

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“So, England captain Harry Kane. 7-0? You’ve got to be pleased with that.

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Impossible not to read this in an exaggerated Cork accent

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend should be on here

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This doesn’t feel like the time for defence spending cuts

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I grew up around boats, so maybe it’s even more jarring for me, but in what fucking world does the phrase “The RNLI aren’t traitors” even need to be written?

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You know who else was in favour of a United Ireland? Oswald Mosley. Big fan of hurling too, apparently

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

32 county socialist republic it is, lads

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When Rob Brydon made Marion and Geoff, do you think he could have imagined that 25 years later the dominant format in media would be recordings of divorced guys sitting in the front seats of their cars talking to themselves?

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I just flicked on ITV and John Bercow was taking his shirt off while Gary Lineker cheered him on. You’ll understand I needed to share this burdensome knowledge. No man could carry this on his own. Sorry.

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Fair play to him giving the story to the (always excellent) local paper

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Charles Reznikoff was born on this day in 1894 in Brooklyn, NY, to immigrant parents. His Testimony, a landmark work of witness and writing, will be published for the first time in the UK by CB editions in March 2027. Charles Simic: ‘I know of nothing like it in literature.’

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I am listening to an audiobook of a novel written by a northern actor with a northern accent. The reader is doing the first person narration in generic southern middle class accent, but giving the narrator’s mother and grandmother vaguely comic Scouse accents. Why would you do this?

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I have become mildly obsessed with Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival, partly because it just looks amazing and partly because it’s a little sad that it feels necessary in 2026

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I should be in bed, but Raye at Reading on BBC 1 is just spectacularly lovely and brilliant

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Culture vulture that I am, I’ve just been to see the Odyssey, and I can’t help but be reminded of Ian Hislop’s line about how all American films can be summed up with the phrase “I love you, Dad”.

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Right. Need some new pans. What should I get? I am being bombarded with Instagram ads for various steel ones

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Tiny bit of me hoping Arsenal wind everyone up with an edgy, tense 1-0 win tonight. WE’VE LEARNED NOTHING HAHAHA

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🎬 EPISODE 1: HOW BIG MONEY IS CORRUPTING UK POLITICS 🗣️ "We're in an arms race, and we're in an arms race with no guardrails" - @suehawley.bsky.social Today we publish Episode 1 of Going, Going, Almost Gone: How the Super-Rich Are Buying UK Democracy with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social 1/3

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How big money is corrupting UK politics | Going, Going, Almost Gone, Ep. 1

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Tuned into the Rose of Tralee for five minutes and saw the Cavan Rose being given a little present of a place on a writing course led by Claire Keegan and yeah maybe all those cliches about the Irish being a hyperliterate society are true

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Micheál Martin @micheal-martin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Magnificent gold and powerful performance by Kate O'Connor in the heptathlon, setting a new Irish record.🥇 A phenomenal evening for Kate, her family and for Ireland.👏

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m looking to speak briefly today to men aged 18–29 about loneliness and social isolation for a piece in *The Times*. Particularly interested in how work/WFH, friendships and online life affect how much time you spend alone. If you’d be happy to chat, please DM me.

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Really earnest Substack post about how Binface’s loss in Clacton demonstrates that a big social media performance is no substitute for a strong ground game

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The really nice thing about last night (at least where we were) was that people who had managed to get eclipse glasses were all incredibly generous in offering those of use who didn’t have any a chance to use them.

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Anyway, back to work. What does a person do for breakfast, coffee, lunch, drinks etc in Canary Wharf? Recommendations welcome

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you’re hurling curious, the women’s final between Cork and Galway is free on RTE Player now. (Yes the sport is technically called camogie but it’s the same game) www.rte.ie/player/

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

@gaa.rte.ie hello! Is the camogie final available to view outside of Ireland tomorrow?

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The thing I want to achieve most in my life is to one day find someone’s lost cat or dog from a poster.

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Apart from anything else, these people are gobsmackingly unpatriotic

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If I were in charge of The Hundred, I’d make it four shorter innings rather than two longer ones. Right now it feels like you can basically skip the first innings and just watch the chase

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is real Ba’athist stuff isn’t it?

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Enjoy it while you can because this (gestures vaguely around) will die down after the weekend when all the academics have their annual “aagh, it’s August, and I have none of my summer writing done - I need to get off the INTERNET!” freakout.

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Absolutely delighted for Luke Kennard. And if Gwendoline Riley doesn’t win we just need to shut down books entirely

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"We are on the right side of history. We are on our own land and in our own home. This is my family; this is my country. I love this country, and no one can drive me out of here." - Zelenskyy.

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Has anyone checked in on Sally Rooney?

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