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Limerick woman back home (after Wales & Cork). Film, good tv, books, music. Munster Rugby fan. Wife, mother, former academic. Retired early. Living with Heart Failure. I care about our world. Profile & Banner=with 'Albie', Doughmore Beach, Co Clare, Feb'25
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“America has turned” www.ft.com/content/1511...

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Never let them tell you that Irishness is some set, immutable fact of the blood

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An accent I would never have imagined hearing - beautiful west of Ireland Irish that's also discernibly Ukrainian. Uplifting and heart-breaking in equal measure.

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I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

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There's a common path in the development of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, regardless of whether they are overseen by Catholic Inquisitors, Protestant enforcers, monarchists, fascists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists .... First they eliminate words. Then they eliminate people.

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Go to sleep to news that one of them was wielding a chainsaw on stage, wake up to news that one of them did yet another Sieg Heil on stage, at what point do people with the power to do something start treating them like they actually believe in the things they're very clearly saying and doing

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Superb writing www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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In the @irishexaminer.bsky.social today discussing #Trump & #tyranny So much going on, it was impossible to cover it all! www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Fitzpatrick is a Pennsylvania Republican.

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“This is truly a national tragedy and one that is being executed by people who do not understand the value of scientific research.” 🧪 from @science.org

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❗️Disgruntled staff at the Guardian have compiled an “exhaustive spreadsheet” of the paper “amplifying unchallenged Israeli propaganda…or treating clearly false statements by Israeli spokespeople as credible”. www.declassifieduk.org/battle-for-the-truth-pro-israel-bias-inside-uk-newsrooms-revealed/

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“Zelensky survived a dozen Russian assassination attempts including a special forces assault on his presidential complex.He stood up to Trump. I’m sure he’ll be deeply impressed to learn our Congressional Republicans live as terrified hostages of their own party leader.” ~ @michaeldweiss.bsky.social

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Donald Trump is a Russian asset; it no longer matters if it’s witting or unwitting. He routinely spreads disinformation that originates in the Kremlin and the FSB, and does it to hurt America and our friends. If you support Trump, you have—morally speaking—betrayed your country.

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Trump could have pushed for an end to the war in Ukraine without becoming actively hostile to Ukraine. Instead, he has imbibed Putin’s lies. Have written about the emergence of a new US/Russia axis, where it comes from and the staggering implications for Europe. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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Apropos of absolutely nothing, a commemorative Welsh mug on the occasion of the beheading of Louis XVI

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this

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What a tune. Still can’t believe her name is Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O Brien. It’s like someone shot her with a gun that shoots Irish names instead of bullets youtu.be/yK3LrELC1qs?...

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linktr.ee/jesseduquette

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I have a chronic condition, (which is different, in many ways, to having cancer), but reading this piece by Roisin Ingle I realise how much is the same. It is, for me too, all about "the everyday" now.

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Post a female character that you love, maybe a little too much ... "Gerri" in Succession, as played by J.Smith-Cameron

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What was once described as ‘transactional’ now reveals itself as a protection racket.

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Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Gaza could not immediately be reached for comment

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This is outstanding.

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Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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I love how Trump, Vance and Musk style themselves defenders of free speech, while simultaneously banning government agencies from mentioning climate change or diversity (inc biodiversity!), equity and inclusion, or even possessing maps which show the Gulf of Mexico. Torquemadas the lot of them.

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This shit doesn’t happen in France and I’ll tell you why: the rich went too far once and they cut all their heads off and now, when those in power fuck workers over, the French stop working. Don’t forget your real power Americans. They don’t let you have unions for a reason.

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Our latest Double Down News video, explaining just how billionaire power now operates and what it's doing to us. And why we need to create billionaire-free societies.

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