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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

The only one I ever liked was the old Lemass one, but the last time I was there they'd swapped it out for a shite (if smaller) portrait.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

As Púca always says, "you can be the chewy stick in someone's day."

Teething puppy that's really fucking enjoying chewing that stick

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Thnx, I'm only really aware of them from screenshots of stupid tweets whenever they go viral (whereupon I've to pause to ask myself if they're the same stupid person as the last time).

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

She excused herself of any liability in the brown baby deadonater machine because they've good healthcare coverage. But I think her reason peak was the time she said expecting writers to read was ablest. knowyourmeme.com/memes/events...

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Ana Mardoll Lockheed Martin Controversy | Know Your Meme

The Ana Mardoll Lockheed Martin Controversy refers to events on Twitter in late July and early August 2022 in which prominent young adult (YA) author and s

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Col @bigshirtlesscol.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Where's your fucking poppy?

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

What's so amazing about these old Irish Halloween turnip carvings is how accurately they also represent what it feels like to live in the 21st century

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

#speirgorm - de we know anyone involved in local politics/services who might be able to help a Swedish woman in acute need in the Rosslare area? She moved to Ireland over the weekend but her accommodation turned out to be a bluff, deposit and rent gone, she needs somewhere to stay urgently.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Lots of people (like this woman) going to miss out on applying for citizenship because the Department of Justice is so misleading about the residency criteria they don't even know that they're ALREADY eligible www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

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'We, as immigrants, have so little say in how we navigate the new citizenship process'

Cork-based South African artist Elize de Beer believes there is a 'lack of empathy' with the new residency plans

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Flávio Bolsonaro: "Lula, can you explain why 73% of prisoners voted for you?" Lula: "I want 100% to vote. Even your father."

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

At different points in my life I've gone non-contact with each of my parents. And, while I was at my alcoholic worst my mam was non-contact with me (albeit not a conscious decision on her part). None of us were wrong, and we're all much improved people today.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Imagine how much of your brains would have had to leak through your nose before you'd join the armed wing of the 'weirdos who're so disordered that they can't avoid a YouTube ban' movement.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Miko, his eldest son, is married to a woman, Flo, whose father was a French-Algerian Muslim man that was evacuated from Dunkirk having lost his legs. He married his Irish nurse but didn't survive the war/his wounds. Both are in their mid-eighties. No one who's under 100 today served in WW2.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

My great-uncle Tommo was in the RAF during the war. Two of his children were born and raised in Ireland during the war because staying with my family was safer (and his wife Rose would be better fed) than was possible in England during the war.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

My mother (who lived in England during the war) will soon be 90. The vast majority of her peers are dead. She was *three years old* when the war started and therefore unable to fight. Do these right wing rags actually know when the war was?

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I had tried explaining it to her as she was rolling in the poo, but do you think she'd listen!?

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

She's assuring me that she's a well of forgiveness, I just have to keep the treats coming

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Púca is on the phone to her solicitor and is reporting me to the Hague

Photo of a puppy that has just had a shower and was entirely underwhelmed by the experience

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I am literally begging anyone with a vote in this election to vote for her #speirghorm www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I remember back in 2013 when a fella I knew took a two bedroom penthouse apartment in Ballsbridge overlooking Herbert Park for 3K, and being shocked. By 2016 there were three-beds on Blessington Street going for the same. Today it could get you a (possibly windowless) roomshare for 4 adults.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

For their trouble, they ended up getting locked in their office until they had apologised to God for taking his name in vain.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

It's probably apocryphal, but the yarn I heard is that she was working late, a partner had been on a work night out and returned to pick something up, herself went at them about something, the partner came out with "Jesus Christ" or "For God's sake!"

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

There were fuck all tractors protesting. The highest count I got in Dublin was in the low forties, including trucks (like the gimmick hearse-truck). With the tractors, there were about 12 in Foynes, and 10 were blocking the Jack Lynch tunnel in cork. You'd get more people on a double-decker bus.

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Allan @allanartist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Anyone waiting on the Basic Income for the Arts they're informing successful applicants from 15th October on. #speirgorm

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

There's someone I know who knows his family who was telling me that he'd had to keep it secret from his party-mates because he knew it'd be a weapon in their hands.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

obsessed with this image that's only used in the irish wikipedia article

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Patrick @prayforpatrick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Quick fire sale on all these tonight. €30 and they’re all one off prints. Approx 21cmx21cm and on beautiful handmade lokta paper. Just send me a DM if you’d like one. A perfect Christmas gift tbh.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's criminal that our English curriculum doesn't discuss how many of our nation's greatest poets and writers were alcoholic perverts that had WWE-style rivalries with one another.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

They're studio lit from different angles so the lighting is discordant (amongst other things).

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

I think Leahy is best understood as an unreformed, early-2000s, PD with a platform. A politician that'd pick a fight with the unions is his rule 34.

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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

I told him how that character had accompanied me, how he'd been a warning of a future that could be mine, and how I was then three years sober. He shook my hand, and told me he was 32 years sober, and that it would keep getting better. I'm 21 years sober now, and he was right.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

When I was 3 years sober and going through the 'thaw' (getting my feelings back) and having a tough time being me, I saw an ancient actor who had played a character I'd seen as a child who had haunted my drinking. Eventually, I thanked him and told him how much a role he'd played in my head.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

I remember you talking about that and I was hoping you'd found an answer. I'm excited for you and for the film!

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

It's going to be so weird, I'm delighted he's gotten to do this

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Congrats!! I can't wait to see it. What kind of distribution are we looking at?

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

3 things: We're low sunshine with a high cost of power, it's labour intensive and we've a high cost of living, and you don't get the kinds of subsidies you'd get for sheep or beef. All the people I know in horticulture have a valuable niche they've gotten into, and you can't feed a nation on niches

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

On a long enough timeline* the US will always betray you** *Proportionate to your wealth *This includes US citizens too

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

I doubt he was off mitching. But no matter where he was heading to, there would have been an agenda. There'd have been a briefing. Someone's job would have been to talk him through the plan. And yet, there he is, alone. It's got a real bang of a man who can only take his own counsel off of it.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Politicians have their entourage for a reason. To be alone on a Thursday afternoon he'd have had to actively shake off all of his lackeys and handlers. Given his aspirations for leadership it'd be a gala day for getting attention, and yet there he is, strolling along Mary's Lane, alone.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

There's the officials: the SecGen, the private secretary, the department's comms people. Then there are the politicals: the special advisor, the other Comms person, the parliamentary assistants/secretaries. All of them demand time from their boss - they all need decisions.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

My surprise was that he was alone. I've known a lot of ministers over the years, and lunchtime on any given Thursday is a busy time, never mind that it was the day after the budget, with his own press releases going out. There are a dozen people whose role requires their Minister's attention.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

It's a small thing, but I ran into Jim O'Callaghan around lunchtime on Thursday mooching his way down towards Church street, alone and in the rain. My surprise meant that l held back from telling him how disappointed I am in him and his courting of the racists (along with much else).

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

when Mairead McGuiness was the vice president of the European Parliament, she tried to give the religious lobby special privileges while blatantly favouring Christians this year, she was made the EU Special Envoy for Religious Freedom or Belief outside the EU www.opendemocracy.net/en/revealed-...

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Revealed: controversial plan to boost religious lobby in Brussels, as far right pledges to fight for ‘Christian Europe’

Leaked proposals from a senior Irish politician, backed by powerful Christian lobbyists, raise stakes in European elections, where the far right is pushing for big gains

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