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canntoya.bsky.social
County Derry man, used to write for newspapers in Ireland. Worked in Central Govt for a few years at Dept for Business and Cabinet Office now Deputy Chief Exec at Healthwatch England. Based in Belfast
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Holdinho - if you know, you know he’s better than Cannavaro.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Torrential rain and the GAA (also featuring @canntoya.bsky.social and @paulmcintyre14.bsky.social). A match made in heaven.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty much everyday the Irish Times reminds me of why I cancelled my subscription. I do miss reading Ken Early and Mal Clerkin, but too much dross like this and Feign McRagebait

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I simply have no interest in hearing Fraser Nelson’s worries over racebaiting after his vigorous defence of the likes of Douglas Murray.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

This was the lead UK story on the BBC website yesterday, and it continues to be so today. It’s unusual for even an important story to be at the top of the page for two days. For a non-story like this? Let’s call it an interesting editorial decision.

submitted 17 days ago • 31 comments

My President

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I’d be a lot happier with my licence continuing to fund Gary Lineker’s salary than Chris Mason’s.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Wonder if her work for the Washington Post will win her a fourth award next year?

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

I thought this couldn’t be for real but I was wrong committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

The problem is not migration numbers per se, asylum, or woke. The problem is the national standard of living. Focus on raising it, you will be rewarded. Do things that don’t, and you won’t. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Bleak local election results in England. The only plus side is that it’s going to supercharge the momentum of the drive towards the unification of Ireland.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Watching a bit of ball at Bredagh as the sun sets on a fine Friday in Belfast. GAA#

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

submitted 54 days ago • 59 comments

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

submitted 65 days ago • 245 comments

Higher wages, better access to healthcare, greater life expectancy. There are no logical arguments against Irish Unity #Think32 www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 73 days ago • 92 comments

Good trip to the Arsenal last week, Saka’s return and a chat with Paul Bettany.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

If people on my feed could stop letting me know every time Finn McRagebait has excreted another missive that would be good.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Subsidising a billionaire tax exile brexiteer. This idea can get in the bin.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Ben Ottewell’s voice - the sweetness and fire of perfect bourbon Old Fashioned.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

I don't say this lightly, but the BBC are really not up to this moment. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 115 days ago • 191 comments

Damien Dempsey superb as ever at The Empire last night. And got a quick chat with Naoise from Kneecap.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Came in from a night out and Saving Private Ryan is on TV. We needed an FDR instead we got a Lindbergh.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

It should never be forgotten just how much of a role supposedly prestige legacy media played in in getting us to where we are now. A decade of prioritising clicks over scrutiny.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Everybody points to the influence of social media in the rise of the far right, but legacy media has done and continues to do a lot of the heavy lifting in the normalisation of ideas that would have been considered batshit mental 20 years ago.

submitted 122 days ago • 1 comment

Someday Croke Park are going leave football be and stop messing everyone around. Only joking they’ll continue to paw at it like angry cat with a disembowelled mouse.

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

Dublin are gonna put up 50 points on Wicklow or Longford in the Leinster Championship under these farcical new rules, slow hand clap for the FRC.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

Hit Kristian up if you’re looking any social media expertise - especially those you in NI.

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

‘Heavens knew he was miserable then’ banged out some thoughts on the new rules in Gaelic football. hisurr.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/n...

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

Turn on BBC news to hear a top story about how Rachel Reeves left the Bank of England in March 2006 rather than December 2006. Turn off BBC news.

submitted 132 days ago • 42 comments