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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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Oh, to set foot on a wondrous kakapo island.

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This is so bad

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Please stop and read my story 🚨 My family of 8 has been living a very harsh life for 16 months due to the war on Gaza. We lost everything—our home and my sick father. Since then, we’ve been living in a tent without basic necessities of food and water. 💔 Please share and DONATE 🙏🫂 gofund.me/7a021cb4

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A Macra na Feirme group in Mayo has announced that it won’t be going ahead with a planned outing to Galway greyhound stadium in March. The positive move by Castlebar Macra came after details about the suffering and deaths of dogs in racing was highlighted www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

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All of these types of articles, about arts, or politics, or grocery prices, or housing... they're all variations on a theme: you better be nice to power, or power will hurt you. There is of course truth in those words, but it should be treated, universally, as an adversarial proposition

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New blog post: "The Map of the Belfast Pogrom," showing all the deaths of this period, with each person’s name, the date, nature and location of the killing, who was responsible and when the inquest was reported in the press. #IrishHistory thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/02/22/t...

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Jesus. This is their culture minister. I thought it was one of the usual nutters.

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#ThroughHerEyes Thrilled to see Dr Caroline West's new book, Wrong Women, launch into the world last night. She excavates the lost voices of Monto, once the biggest red-light district in Europe, and brings these wrong(ed) women back into the light, with dignity. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

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Uhhhhhh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I've seen we've moved from 'study says' to 'authors argue' in the let's put a thing someone wrote about that may or may not be true out there.

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If you are as outraged as I am about the unilateral suspension of admissions at York U. Please write the president and dean. An abdication of the mission of a university. www.thestar.com/news/gta/yor...

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“Anyone who has ever spent time searching for an apartment online will know that many Irish landlords don’t even feel the need to make their traditional rentals especially liveable — which does not augur well for a situation that is less liveable to begin with.” This week’s Surrealing in the Years:

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Labhair an file Dairena Ní Chinnéide linn faoina cnuasach is déanaí Teacht Aniar: Meascra Dánta & Dánta Nua. @eabhloid.bsky.social

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She was 14. 14. Think that's rape. But it's fine, I guess, because at the time- according to the august authority of Judge Nolan - the fella who did all this, Dean Carr, was a very immature 21 year old.

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Hello everyone 👋 We are still suffering from extreme cold and a lack of electricity, water and infrastructure Everything has been destroyed and we are just trying to survive Please, if you feel for us, donate to us to overcome all this suffering and share this post 😔🙏🏾 gofund.me/5f6f3ef3

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It's sort of amazing that Canada's national broadcaster is just treating this as a debating fun time activity that wouldn't involve a ton of death and destruction if it came about.

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The Canadian establishment that lost its mind over a protest passing by Mount Sinai hospital has been entirely quiet over a Canadian company selling Nazi T-Shirts for the English world's most famous, out Nazi. I wrote about this and asked the question: why? noraloreto.substack.com/p/instrument...

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This is the poor family who lost their home & all their belongings. Please if you can donate - this isn't us. This isn't the Ireland I want for us. #SpeirGorm gofund.me/4248b737 www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

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#IrishSlaveholders in #SouthCarolina over 220k views. Thank you all! www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...

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EXCLUSIVE: RCMP formally apologize for violating journalist’s rights, commit to changes in wake of explosive oversight report. RCMP commissioner acknowledges force acted unreasonably, disregarded jurisprudence in detaining journalist Jerome Turner in 2020. ricochet.media/labour/media...

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The tragic mistake we keep making in politics is ‘the ratchet view’: the belief that once social progress is made it will stick. Pre-Thatcherite socialists thought that the mixed economy was here to stay. Pre-Trumpian everyone thought the same about the rule of law.

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A recent survey of people named Stephen Collins who write for the Irish Times found that 100% of people named Stephen Collins who write for the Irish Times think Ireland's neutrality is absurd and complacent

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"However, some 8,622 of those in attendance were owners and trainers, while 216 of them were bookmakers. The track recorded just two old age pensioners as paying attendees for the entirety of 2024." www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

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Reward offered to person who can successfully explain why Irish Greyhound racing gets so much funding* *or any funding at all

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State gave Greyhound Industry nearly €20m in 2024. Two people paid to attend Youghal Greyhound Stadium in 2024. In the whole year. Two paying customers. During the life of the last govt (which is essentially the same as the current govt) they gave the same industry €94m. #SpéirGhorm

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Have people received their 2nd Government ESB credit? If so, which supplier? Still waiting on mine. #speirgorm

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There's a new piece from my ongoing horror novel/work in progress going up for paid subscribers at 3 PM today, jump in and flail around if you feel like it: www.patreon.com/collection/1...

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Men driving around Dublin in those huge American style, flat bed, pick up trucks are 2025s mid-life crisis man in a convertible Ferrari.

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A favourite pick up item at the shop our mussels are made by felting natural black wool around a grey filling which is visible when cut open to sew in the dyed merino animal part. Handmade at our Dublin City studio #wool #irishcraft #irishdesign #dublin #speirgorm

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The tenants' union CATU has compiled a list of Ireland's Top Evictors, which really should be a spin-off RTE show like Ireland's Fittest Families: topevictors.ie

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Just one more sleep until the start of Wakefield Rhubarb Festival when the city turns pink with all things culinary. If you have the chance why not visit over the weekend. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

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