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Shane Folan

@shanefoland5.bsky.social
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Dubliner 🏭 /// Shels Fan 🐚 🔴⚪️ /// Euphonium Player 🎵 /// runner 🏃‍♂️ ☘️ /// he/him

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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 8h
Solidarity to all public sector workers on the picket today!
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Dii Moffatt @diimoffatt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Okay so we're reaching a time of year where I think you could broadly set British discourse on fire with this:
A remembrance poppy in trans flag colours
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 12/10/2026
Bit of positive news to start the week: the online voter registration system voter.ie is now live nationwide (having previously worked only for Dubliners) - now anyone in the State can register or update their details on the electoral register in a couple of minutes using only their PPS number.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hashtag Influenced 🥬 (I was too lazy to drive to Abbeydorney for the bacon so Dunnes is as good as it gets)
A plate of bacon and cabbage and floury spuds with a bitta parsley sauce.


#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Parents are poisoning their children because they know what's best for them. People are selling poison to children because it comes from an animal, how can it be dangerous, it's natural? The state is abdicating its prerogative to regulate food because the cranks cannot stop poisoning children.
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just thinking about these two stories next to each other: 1. In Darndale Park, a football club and a parkrun have been displaced by horses, and some locals have been asking for stables. Nothing yet. 2. In D2, the council is spending €7.5m on a new tearoom in Merrion Square, an area short of cafes?
dublininquirer.com
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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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 08/10/2026
Leinster House could be a casualty of public sector strikes next week… no agreement today at the Business Committee on whether to schedule any Dáil sittings, with some in opposition say they will refuse to come in if it means passing pickets of Oireachtas staff. An unusual second meeting now planned
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jesus. My thoughts are with this poor woman and her family
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Open letters aren’t supposed to actually be delivered by posties.
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m enjoying all the Irish people (myself included) learning about the British Triple Lock
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Paul Cooke saying the decision was taken by “the football community” just shows how out of touch he is with football people in this country.
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There’s even a chase 24/7 channel now presumably for this exact purpose!!
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Aideen Blackwood @aideen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
feels like a very Twitter-brained over estimation of the importance of this absolute rando tbh!
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wonder what it was?
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Excellent columboing from Diego #TraitorsIRL
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OH MY GOD! #TraitorsIRL
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
IT WAS ALL YOU HAD LEFT!!!
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Could you have a bigger if?
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pauric drank so much of his water there. HOW ARE THEY NOT VOTING FOR HIM NOW #TraitorsIRL
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Anna taking any tension out of the final in one swoop there #TraitorsIRL
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Actually I take that back
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well done Carla. Great acting ! #traitorsirl
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
These fucking faithfuls #traitorsirl
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I know we know, but Jesus Pauric and Carla are being so obvious! #TraitorsIRL
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ah fuck. Kayleigh! Just great telly all round with her #TraitorsIRL
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sorry lads. WHAT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO JANET?!?! #TraitorsIRL #Justice4Janet
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You’re right Pete . The woman has no agency at all #TraitorsIRL
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m already annoyed at this episode #TraitorsIRL
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You gotta give it up to Earth Wind & Fire for not even bothering to add a Water guy. They were just like it’s fine
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m just accusing you, no need to get defensive #traitorsirl
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sorry Anna being mad at Diego for days for taking a shield and then pilfering €2000 from the prize pot is so funny #TraitorsIRL
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Was this task thought up on a friday at 4pm? #traitorsirl
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the karyn in the woods 🎃 @karynmoy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the round tables are such a mess this series I wouldn’t be surprised if Anna somehow managed to take herself out with the dagger #traitorsirl
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Can we not skip the mission this ep? #TraitorsIRL
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It works a bit better in Ireland as we don’t get many NFL games. I wonder are the London crowd American Football’d out.
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Let’s see the war mongering “sensible defence” crowd stand up for ordinary members of the defence forces who face cuts YET AGAIN! There’s no point in getting big new weaponry if we can’t even feed and house the recruits.
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is Carney making this EU Associate Member move the month before a right wing separatist referendum the brightest idea? #canada #eu
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Śéáń @fiercemilder.com · 15/09/2026
#TraitorsIRL
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I always imagine Ian has those tiny hands #TraitorsIRL
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s actually impressive they’ve fucked it up this badly. How did you have someone tell you they were murdered in plain sight and by who and still STILL fuck that up #TraitorsIrl
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ok maybe Carla
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nobody deserves a penny in this godforsaken game. Give all the money to Siobhan so she can buy more elaborate headwear #TraitorsIRL
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
DJ!!!! WTF !!! DEFEND JANET #traitorsirl
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They are dopes, but I think he’s put a poor defence here as well
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He’s thick enough not to say that though! Like Jesus DJ you’ve seen they’re not getting it ram it home!!! #traitorsirl
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
DJ has single handedly ensured Janet won’t get justice here #traitorsirl
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Shane Folan @shanefoland5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ah PFO Diego! #TraitorsIRL
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