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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 11h

I once knew someone from Edmonton who said she spent 7 months of the year indoors, either at home or at the mall.

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's going to be startling news to many but you can do 'self-determination' without converting it into a single identity nation-state.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Standing Stones? Or just Stones standing up?

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Odd that Ireland isn't included given that we were the ones most affected - politically at least - by Brexit.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'd say this terrifies Bryson far more than any nationalist.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dehumanisation begins with the assertion that 'they' are all the same.

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Tony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They don't even regard them as human, which makes it easier to deny them basic human rights.

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"If you sit at a hipster café and start talking to a random person, 20 minutes later, this person, drinking a matcha latte and speaking perfect English, will start explaining to you that those Palestinian children will grow up to be terrorists, so it's okay to kill them."

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pat Leahy in 1916: Irish people see the damage caused by the so called rebels and want no part of this treachery.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So much of the southern commentariat view a UI as equivalent to building a granny flat for an indigent and cranky relative. It will not be like that. Northern nationalists, and a section of the unionist population will do a reverse takeover, and the powerbase of FFG will be greatly reduced.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's not far off 40% of the total death toll during the troubles in the north of Ireland - in a single year.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's simply not true. The next step is neither inevitable or even the most likely.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Horrible flashbacks. In a previous life, I probably saw the majority of those bands without ever wanting to, in the course of work.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You can see his Vulcan mind process: they like right wing taoisigh and left wing presidents. I can be both!

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Her nephew came over from Chicago later, and complained endlessly about how un American everything was in Manchester.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mary Reynolds, from Longford, living in Manchester in 1870, writing to her son in Chicago: 'still the whather is very wet here. At present wee have not had a dry night and day these 3 weeks '

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Might wash the Lynx off some of them as well.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've said it before, but despite the best efforts of govt and the rail companies, train travel works in Britain because of the people who work on the trains and at the stations.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the two, a woman travelling to Eccles, was advised there was no step free access there, and that she should get off at Oxford Road and Northern would supply a taxi. When we got there, someone was there to meet her and take here to the taxi rank.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I haven't played one since my very first guitar, more than 50 years ago, but you're right, seeing, and hearing them, more often.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't even have to take it out of the scabbard. Sitting quietly in the corner, it does its work.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On a Northern train from Salford to Mcr airport. Two people with wheelchairs on board, travelling alone, to different stops and different connections. Absolutely superb coordination between train staff and station staff to make it as easy as possible.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My dad was a soldier and I used to have his sword, but it disappeared somewhere along the way. I still have one belonging to a great uncle who served in the royal navy. Shorter than an army one, for ease of passage on a ship. I keep it in my office to disconcert students.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Definitely. There is a 'type' to his male characters; not very bright, attracted to violence and, as you say, desperate to feel something. And yes, modernist, but in a very different way to the canonical Irish modernists.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm reviewing something well written, persuasive, with a strong argument, based on a premiss that is - to my mind - completely constructed in order to serve the argument.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is intriguing/ puzzling. I can understand bookshops or record shops clustering, but people don't surely visit more than one optician at a time?

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Me today: no interest in the Irish team anymore. Me half an hour ago: Parrott wonder goal you say? *Is it up on You Tube yet?*

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have been a regular for ~35 years at Lansdowne but couldn’t stomach it this evening. None of us took our season ticket seats. Would have enjoyed seeing that goal live but struggling to articulate how we feel about this team. It was good to see the protest there despite RTÉ cutting away a lot.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All the both sides chin-strokers down here should read this.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can't believe it was allowed happen in the first place.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maybe you can't buy the better ones?

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So Celtic player Liam Scales is back in for Ireland against Austria. It would be great to ask him if he refused to play against Israel, but journalists can't, because the players are refusing to speak to the media. I don't think people realise how serious this is. #StopTheGame

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He'd never do it, but if Micheál thinks the PC decision was 'incomprehensible and wrong' perhaps he'd be brave for once and join the residents in solidarity?

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To be fair, it's more directly informative than the one about the same subject I saw in the reception of CUH recently- so long that, if you did have sepsis, you probably would be dead before the end.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I cn walk to work, mostly off road, through a network of such passages.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sure. I do think the perpetual nostalgia-bug in British politics, left and right, needs to be removed. There is no 'there' to go back to. One of the things I do prefer about Ireland is the fact that most people know from their family histories that the past was generally pretty shit.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So was I and some of what you say is true - but being black, brown or Irish in 70s Britain was not a bed of roses, nor was it all that cosy being LGBTQ+

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On the other, people I've met who have moved from UK/Irl to German academia marvel at the freedom from managerialism.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Noticed the other night while on a Manc tram that there's an Etihad station. May need a re-brand.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'Apologising to the invisible Englishman' as @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social put it long time ago.

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