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Vincent Ward

@vinwar.bsky.social
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Reading, Rugby, Current Affairs & Security. All posts are my own unless I’ve been hacked. Play nice. Connacht Abú.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 23/09/2026
Oho. The U.S. has invited Putin to the G20 summit in Miami this December.
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It would be really cool to be able to watch the show where we don’t know who the traitors are. I think we would feel the sense of paranoia that the faithfuls experience #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🇧🇷 #traitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So all this hinges on a gay man and lesbian woman collaborating? I think Pádraic O is safe #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Imagine not bothering to talk to each of the only three remaining contestants on the last day?! Stupidity beyond belief #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Such a shite round table. Pure dribble #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Right down to the last round table, it’s the two faithfuls fighting it out…. 😵‍💫🙄 #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
100% smirking 😏 #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Diego!! Nooooooooo! #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pádraic O & Carla clearly & vocally supporting each other at this round table. I hope it’s obvious to the others #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
PETE HAS HUGE MUSCLES 💪 #TraitorsIRL
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the last few episodes have been Pauric and Carla delicately setting a trap for the Faithfuls, who then walk around it, build their own trap and put themsleves in it while Pauric and Carla watch #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pádraic O really wants to see the look on Kayleigh’s face at the very end when it’s revealed he IS a traitor… the spite is just delicious #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Diego can’t even call out the hypocrisy in Anna going for the 2K after she going ballistic when she suspected him of taking the shield. He should have nailed her on it #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some very unlikable people on this show #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I AM A LEADER 🙄 #TraitorsIRL
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Too close for comfort | Jet Drones attack Dnipro youtube.com/shorts/BLFac...
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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT | Russian Jet Drones Fly Over Homes in Dnipro, Ukraine
YouTube video by Shaun Pinner
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It now goes all the way to the top. While Melania appeals to Putin over stolen Ukrainian children, her stepson reportedly accepts lavish hospitality from a sanctioned, Putin-linked Russian oligarch whose family circle is connected to the very machinery accused of removing them. Hypocrites👇
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This game has gone from having the worst traitors ever to possibly the worst Faithfuls ever. Talk about ignoring the bleeding obvious… #TraitorsIRL
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Great thread & well worth a read. Ireland can play a critical role in regulating these platforms & de-banking foreign state actors and extreme right wing goons
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🇩🇪 Germany’s Chancellor Merz: Nobody threatened Russia. Not NATO. Not the European Union. Not Germany. Ladies and gentlemen, the only thing that truly threatens Russia and Putin is the radiance of democracy.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
But Ukrainian refinery attacks are driving up prices right
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Kushner has no official title, no defined role, no diplomatic experience and was elected by absolutely nobody. Yet somehow, he’s speaking for millions of people. I mean, what the fuck, America? 🇺🇸🤷‍♂️
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Meta has targeted me without explanation and now refuses even to answer my emails about why my account remains ineligible for monetisation, despite me being a British journalist reporting in Ukraine, providing all my tax information and details. First my bank, now this. 🤷‍♂️
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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Events elsewhere suggest those numbers may soon increase even more. Rusal, (Aughinish's owner) is planning to mothball four unprofitable alumina smelters in Russia. That will make Rusal even more dependent on alumina produced outside Russia, including that produced in Co Limerick.
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I would be the worst at this game because I'd just keep voting for the guy with the hat regardless of any evidence. #TraitorsIRL
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Refuses senior positions within his own government while his country is fighting an existential war for survival, then takes a job advising another government… To think I supported this fella. Whatever the explanation, the optics are absolutely dreadful.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
❗️❗️4.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Carpathian region The epicenter of the earthquake was recorded in Romania. Ground shaking and tremors affected the territory of four countries at once - 🇷🇴Romania, 🇲🇩Moldova, 🇧🇬Bulgaria and 🇺🇦Ukraine.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is Olena Bila and her 4-year-old daughter, Zhanna. On the morning of August 26, russians struck Chernihiv, destroying a residential home and killing them both🕯💔 ​Olena’s older daughter, aged 14, remains in the hospital.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 24/08/2026
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have canceled their planned trip to Kyiv because of “heavy russian air strikes on the city.”
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This isn’t going to go well. #TrumpsTariffs
Graph showing that Americans get MUCH more oil from Canada than they think.
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🤷Літ🤦 хоче спекти пасочку 👍 @lithra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
@binancex.bsky.social what the fuck #UkrainianView
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Why is so little attention being paid to North Korea supplying ballistic missiles to Russia?
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Can't believe BBC News is leading with the deaths of 5 Russians in the Moscow region when this is probably the minimum number of Ukrainian civilians killed by Russia for over 4 years, every single day.
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Irish Politics Newsletter @tullmcadoo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Read my latest about arsenic, 133 times the legal limit, being found in the groundwater around Aughinish, and other scandals about the plant that are not being widely reported by the media. www.irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie/p/aughinish-...
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133 Times the Limit
Arsenic and aluminum in the waters around Aughinish
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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
News is full of someone's death, who the women's whisper network would warn each other that if you brought a younger sibling/cousin to those gigs to never leave them alone with him.
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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A Government investigation into Aughinish Alumina was unable to get hold of "confidential" documents from Sweden relating to the plant's alleged ownership by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska It turns out the documents are available publicly for a €25 admin fee www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Aughinish investigators did not obtain Swedish document available for €25 fee
Authorities said they were unable to obtain specific information – but judgment is publicly accessible
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/07/2026
“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa
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Bríd @corcaighgodeo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
#speirgorm #speirghorm #GAA #Mayo
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I will be giving a talk on Ireland in the Epstein Files at this edition of the Freelance Forum, as part of a session on using public records for research I'll also talk a bit about OSINT and the CRO, but the Epstein Files are my case study
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We've spent all summer killing civilians in Ukraine. @amnesty.org's account hasn't mentioned it once. Wonder why.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Now beginning to understand why they banned fans from bringing bottles with them.
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James @gortoshay1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I’ll never complain about another haka again.
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If Argentina somehow win this, then Martinez should get MOTM
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Vincent Ward @vinwar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Cucarella cupping the hand over the mouth during that tense phase is surely worth a review by the ref
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 19/07/2026
Some notable exceptions but my impression:
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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This framing is bizzare. It was never accused of breaching sanctions. Alumina isn't sanctioned. That's kind of the whole point
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Embarrassing, ​while attending an #EU Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Lynn Boylan complained about not being allowed to use her own language. When other attendees pointed out that she was entirely free to speak Irish, she quickly shifted gears, conceding, "I wasn’t prepared, so I’ll use English."
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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Breaking: MEPs have passed a resolution calling for an end to exports of Irish alumina to Russia. It's a non binding resolution but will ramp up the pressure on the Commission to take action.
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.
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