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Irish immigrant in Montréal 🇮🇪⚜️🇨🇦 I may post the occasional (tasteful) nude - you've been warned.

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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 13h
Every year Ireland gets stern warnings about how reliant it is on corpo tax revenue and every year it cuts its other tax nets to make that reliance worse.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wonder if the CAQ regrets not fixing the electoral system?
CAQ 1 seat from 16 of the vote
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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Finance minister and Taoiseach screaming he was bad at both jobs.
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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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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Quebec is a great place to live if you want to experience Maximum Weather. No Mediterranean temperate shit here, bitch, just raw uncut seasons.
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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm quite sure they wrote Dublin "and major cities" because they can't name any others.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
we don't have to budget by the seat of our pants like this. it's a mad way to run a country. the entire budgets of departments should not be up for negotiation once a year. how much public work hours are wasted every year lobbying for the budget
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She’s been banging this drum since before the Hunger Strikes. This pretence of being in the process of abandoning her Irish republican background, mar dhea, has always been her USP.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Troubles in NI arose at least partly because people saw that protests against injustice were not working. In this respect, state-sanctioned unwelcome sectarian marches into a neighborhood is a reminder about which communities have been empowered to impose their values over others.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On Sunday, July 12th 1998, Jason (aged 8), Mark (aged 9) and Richard Quinn (aged 10) were killed in their home in Ballmoney when it was petrol-bombed by Loyalists, rioting after the Drumcree parade was banned from travelling the Garvahy Road that year. 3 brutal sectarian murders.
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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
La herbe est verte
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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Honestly a toss-up whether the dumber response to this comes from Jack Chambers or Darragh O'Brien.
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As Terry Pratchett regularly highlighted, "privilege" means "private law". One rule for me and another for you. O' Callaghan is working hard to exacerbate that inequality and hurt those who effectively live and contribute as second class citizens in Ireland. It's just plain racism #spéirgorm
rte.ie
Citizenship a privilege, says minister ahead of overhaul
Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan said "citizenship is a privilege, not a right" ahead of new rules for people seeking Irish citizenship.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Finn McRedmond thinks "Mary Antoinette" was one of Henry VIII's wives. aren't editors supposed to catch their columnists when they betray their ignorance so severely it damages the credibility of the newspaper for continuing to publish them?
Beautiful women have been driving the world insane as long as has been recorded. The semi-mythical Helen of Troy is the most obvious evidence of this time-worn tradition. Cleopatra was a main character in that great hinge point of history: the collapse of the Roman republic and the creation of the Roman emperor. Anne Boleyn and Mary Antoinette – by today’s standards perhaps not as “hot” as Sweeney – scrambled Henry VIII’s faculties, redirecting the House of Tudor twice.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The cool thing about complicity is that it goes away if you just tell people you don’t have it

Ed Sheeran breaks silence on Macklemore's tour exit: I am not complicit'
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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Lmfaooooooooooo
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Śéáń @fiercemilder.com · 12/09/2026
Am I doing it right?
Photo of President Catherine Connolly and Donald Trump, Connolly standing beside Trump sitting at a desk, with a straight vertical green line overlayed over Catherine, and a diagonal one through Trump.
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And they were trying to tell us we should be worried about Connolly saying something undiplomatic lol
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
lmfao
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Joan Boooooooo-ns!: SPOOKY Gay Cartoonist Lady @joantoonz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's yaoi go see it
Wile E Coyote and Will frotte i mean forte
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our government is pandering to the racist right with the new citizenship legislation The GAA has yet again proven itself to be a intractable misogynistic boys club And we are paying for a rapist to stay in the state guest house at Farmleigh Not a good week for the country
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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
...Are we the top?
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the most toxic dynamic in Irish politics right now is the endless dick-measuring contest between Jim O’Callaghan, Matt Carthy, Ken O'Flynn and Peadar Tóibín to see who can be the most anti-immigrant. just four utter dickheads bidding up the rate of public bigotry to pave their way to power
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just pure gutter racism dressed up in a suit. Appalling stuff. And I wish I believed the media would put on their grown up pants and deal with this properly but I suspect they'll soft-soap and both-sides it into reality.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't want to be more in line with the rest of the EU on citizenship. I want us to repeal the fucking 27th Amendement and return to our own tradition of birthright citizenship instead of the jus sanguinis shite that tells people born and reared here they aren't Irish if they have immigrant parents
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.
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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The first billboard ads I see upon entering Toronto are for oil and gas and online gambling.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026
sheep
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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“ I need the most Canadian thing you have” “We made a billboard exclusively aimed at Americans and it’s got French text” “No that’s too Canadian”
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A reminder, again, that Ireland has *chosen* not to take regulatory action against this abuse factory, whose office sits in Fenian Street in Dublin. I think this failure to act in the face of clear knowledge is an unforgivable act.
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Elon Musk's xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and Al-generated child pornography.
ASHLEY BELANGER - 27 AUG 2026 21:52

- An inflatable effigy of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, protesting Musk's Grok Al, stands in Times Square in New York City. Credit: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU /
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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Please hire someone else to write about US politics @thejournal.ie, trying to pass this shit off as analysis is embarrassing.
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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026
While this is probably just them being wildly overconfident about the separatists' chances, it also comes across as rather ominous.
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Jonesy @loanseyjonesy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
lol good luck navigating 14 tariff regimes in one country, Jim Beam
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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026
The cognitive dissonance it must have caused her to come to Ireland and find that even the local parish priest can support trans people...
Mahoney, whose name is given as Máire Ní Mhathúna on CitizenGo's website, has written and promoted several petitions since starting her position, including one targeting a parish priest by name for allowing a trans rights event to be held in a parish hall.
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Jacques Nacouzi @jacouzi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Magnifique! 👌 Piste Christophe-Colomb, Montréal. #velomtl
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
1) We started it 2) historically, french canadians got the irish treatment. 3) Montreal being the base of elite power meant that anglos who had no interest in french ran the french province
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Its possible people dont really get why we have a contentious relationship with quebec lmao
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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is exactly how Seán Fitzpatrick was talking about Ireland's financial regulation a year before the arse fell out of the banking sector.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We were on the verge of breaking up Ticketmaster, every music fan's dream for the last 4 decades, until Trump intervened www.wsj.com/business/med...
wsj.com
The Trump Intervention That Got the DOJ Off Live Nation’s Back
Antitrust case started out aiming to force the concert giant to sell Ticketmaster. After two White House meetings, a deal kept the company intact.
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Just to be clear this is like saying "for this trade deal to go through, you must eliminate college football" level ask in our politics
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
50% tariffs for absolutely no logical reason besides trying to crush our economy and force us into submission to fulfill his Manifest Destiny annexation fantasies.
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Do you remember when a fundraising campaign for the Navajo and Hopi people went viral during the pandemic, as people recalled the generosity of native Americans to Irish people during the famine? If you were one of those who donated - you are invited to have your photo taken …
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 20/08/2026
Montréal on two wheels is pure joy. There’s a reason this city feels so effortless by bike: it boasts one of North America’s oldest and largest network of protected bike lanes, with 250 km of physically separated infrastructure woven into a network that stretches over 1,000 km across the island.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Not really sure what the RSA is on the hook for here except not "being visible" which is a kind of complaint made by poor quality managers (or ministers) more than anything.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
After boycotting American products and shunning vacations south of the border, Canadians are pouring their incandescent anger at the U.S. into a new cause: ousting the American ambassador. More than 190,000 have signed a petition calling for the removal of Pete Hoekstra.
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Canadian Petition to Expel U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra Takes Off
Mr. Hoekstra has been President Trump’s faithful messenger in Canada amid a historic low in relations. More than 190,000 Canadians want him gone.
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