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Ronan McGroovy

@ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social

Journalist, historian, military history buff, Anglophile. Slava Ukraine!

Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Happy birthday to ex-Royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, 66 today! May your every wish come true, Your Highness, and may your name ring throughout the land as once it did in days of yore.

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Double standards in evidence over the Seamus Culleton case are hard to take We demand special treatment for our own while enacting laws that are all about ejecting immigrants with greater speed archive.ph/nJzWU

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Judeophobia. A History: examining hatred of Jews and how it has mutated over time Author traces phenomenon from Middle Ages to modern day, even among modern socialist and anarchist philosophers archive.ph/8MncP#select...

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Is Seamus Culleton paying for Ireland’s ‘woke’ visa approach? Ireland missed its chance to follow Australia and get special US visa exemptions for its citizens archive.ph/0jW5g

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

‘A bunch of freeloaders’: Increasing UK pressure on Ireland to invest in defence Russian aggression has raised the possibility of Ireland becoming strategically important to London archive.ph/XSkfF

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Una Mullally: The Hoxton Hotel vs Yamamori Izakaya row goes to the heart of Dublin’s nightlife problem One building’s apparently noisy neighbour is another person’s great night out archive.ph/xHLJv

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Ireland should apologise for ‘unjustifiable conduct’ during Troubles, says new UUP leader Jon Burrows criticises ‘double standard on legacy’, but stresses respect and good relationships archive.ph/lBecp

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The shrinking of RTÉ: ‘It feels like an increasingly neutered organisation’ After a century on air, RTÉ is changing, with outsourcing of shows and staff reductions. What will be left by 2030? archive.ph/OrSsW

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

‘Enormous distress’ among current arts income recipients after new scheme announcement Successor to pilot programme will see 2,000 new eligible artists receive payment of €325 per week for three years archive.ph/B9kt9

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Former Dublin 4 seminary has scope for luxury hotel or high-end homes at €12m guide Owners of St Mary’s College secured planning permission in 2020 for development of 163-bedroom boutique hotel archive.ph/fJPeM

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This dark, tiny Dublin room honours survivors of Ireland’s barbaric Magdalene laundries: archive.ph/EVWL9

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The backlash against New Labour's most significant stragegist of this century, Morgan McSweeney, shows what a short memory some British people have. True Irish patriotism is often defined by service to the British state - ask Brendan Bracken or that staunch Thatcher ally, Patrick Cosgrave.

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sad to see so many Irishmen revel in the downfall of Lord Mandelson. Without his careful stewardship and deft removal of Mo Mowlam's green fingerprints from the peace process, would there even be a Good Friday agreement?

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Ronan McGroovy @ronanmcgroovy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Reactions in the Epstein files are highly frustrating, any references to Sinn Fein/IRA completely redacted while British royal family hung out to dry. Qui bono? as Lucilus Longina Ravilla famously asked.

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