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PatrickFreyne

3 years

The paperback version of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea is out NOW. It has a new BLUE cover & essays on bands, driving, loss, caring, parachuting, singing, the army, mental health, my brother's birth, pirate radio & Mel Gibson's Braveheart

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

I wrote about Harry and Meghan and Oprah

Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete

After Harry and Meghan, the monarchy looks archaic and racist. Well duh

www.irishtimes.com

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2 months

I've come to terms with these being the most read paragraphs I'll ever write. They seem to be flying around the internet again, god bless them.

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Reminded of that great piece in The Irish Times about the monarchy and the British Royal Family, in particular these three paragraphs

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3 years

I'm of the view that in 2020 it's okay to say "fuck" on the Toy Show. In fact, I'm surprised that the news doesn't start with. "Here's the fucking news."

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2 years

I interviewed YouTube phenomenon Jackscepticeye

Jacksepticeye, the millionaire YouTuber from Offaly

Sean McLoughlin didn't have internet growing up. Now he has 28m YouTube subscribers

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

Christopher Eccleson was always my favourite Doctor Who

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

If someone is on substantial salary but also feels a need to own too many properties to remember I don't think they're in politics for any good reason. I've tried and I can't even find this funny. It's what's wrong with the place.

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PatrickFreyne

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5 years

Not only have I never seen Game of Thrones, I've never read a book, heard a song or been charmed by a child's smile. I call "television" "space voodoo" & get motion sickness on anything faster than a sick mule.The only artform worth a damn is funereal keening. I'm better than you

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

For months now I've been doing a covid test every five days or so because I am convinced I have "symptoms". It is slowly occurring to me what I have symptoms of is being 47.

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PatrickFreyne

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5 years

I remember an article from years ago by a straight A Leaving Cert student whose advice for others was to complain whenever a teacher taught something that wasn't in the exam. I think of it a lot. It sort of explains why so many highly qualified people are somehow still STUPID.

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4 years

I think we're just days away from finding out Phil Hogan was golfing in Wuhan back in December

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Breaking Golfgate: Phil Hogan was in Limerick day before mandatory isolation due to expire #iestaff

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

My gut tells me that the people who respond to articles on refugees with the words "What about our own homeless?" are doing nothing whatsoever to help homeless people.

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

Taylor Swift's delivery on those recent albums is amazing. It's not just the vocal range, texture thing that any ould X-Factor contestant can do - she's developed that old school country music thing of singing as storytelling/acting. That is all. Resume your labour.

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

If you can afford it, order nice things online from local boutiques, restaurants, bookshops, craftspeople, artists and musicians over the next while, because it's going to be hard for them (& maybe get gifts for people who can't afford it in those places too).

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

The idea that making life easier for trans people might remotely disimprove anyone else's life is the weird cruel logic of entitled babies. It's like those straights who felt their marriage would be disimproved by gay people marrying. It's just a rerun of old homophobic tropes.

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4 years

Is one of the baby swans (I refuse to acknowledge the word 'cygnet') driving the big swan like a WWII tank commander?

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Swans on the Grand Canal at #Ardclough this morning. Pic by @eoghancorry

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6 years

"Ireland, once a land of violent, superstitious pig people, is now a place of computer-magic and space cars. Why, they are nearly as good as us now, here in hell." Almost a direct quote from a New Statesman piece I'm reading about Brexit and the Border.

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

Matt Damon could kill a man now and as long as it was in Dalkey and he did it in an amusing way we’d consider him a national treasure. And rightly so, of course

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

Why on the RTE player do the ads play perfectly smoothly but the actual programmes judder and stop-start like a behaviouralist experiment?

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

I'm very glad people are enjoying my Meghan and Harry piece - thanks for retweeting it folks (I'm off on a deadline with something else and can't even hope to respond to people for a bit)

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

The short version of the #gamestop thing is, I think, that the people who normally rig the system are really upset that other people are rigging the system in a different way. "Things are unfair now. Before, when I was winning, things were fair then."

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

Well, I hope nothing happens today to drive Northern Ireland even further down the UK news agenda.

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

Have no idea where US folk got their notion an "Irish goodbye" involves slinking away unnoticed. In my experience it's either a choreographed exit including an hour long chat at the door, or screaming "I'M OUT OF HERE, LOSERS!" into a DJ's mic while being wrestled out by bouncers

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3 years

Drug injection centres are a necessary thing in a humane city. And I think Temple Bar belongs to the residents of Dublin and not business interests who are embarrassed by Dublin's problems.

Temple Bar Company

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3 years

Temple Bar Company fully support the decision by the high court today to reject planning for a Drug Injection Centre on Merchants Quay. The Temple Bar Company has fought against the establishment of a drug injection centre at this particular location for the past 5 years.

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I wrote about GB news

GB News, week 1: It takes until Tuesday to go full wingnut

Patrick Freyne: Dan Wootton and Andrew Neil are the stars of this sort of Fox News UK

www.irishtimes.com

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PatrickFreyne

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1 year

Genuinely confused by all the fretting about landlords selling up & leaving the market. Do they burn the properties as they are leaving it? Do they raze the land? Does it become a cursed property like in a Stephen King book? Or does it just… re-enter the market with a new owner?

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3 years

People who take their Christmas decorations down before January 6th should be IN JAIL.

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

DOES JOE NOT KNOW WHAT GARTH DID TO US SIX YEARS AGO? Tore the nation apart he did.

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

I'm kind of appalled watching the discussion about food poverty over in the UK. It's not a legitimate political position to argue that some children deserve to go hungry, it's an evil sociopathic position, and anyone adult advocating it genuinely does deserve to go hungry.

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3 years

"And then, she looked at the can opener and she looked at me, and realised that I too was a form of nourishing protein, one that was already opened, and not 'canned' in a mockery of God's laws. She hunts me still. I am so proud, although also very frightened."

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

I'm trying to be productive. So, if possible, today I'd like to start an argument with someone based on something I think I understood about Covid 19 with similarly confident people who has as little expertise as me. I believe this would help greatly. Any takers?

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

Are around 50% of all TV shows too darkly lit or am I losing my sight? I have a similar question about sound mixing.

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PatrickFreyne

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9 months

I love O'Connell Street, Parnell Street, Talbot Street, the North inner city. There are social problems but those places are filled with sound people & cool places. I get the need to tackle deprivation & safety but I find some of the rhetoric from folk who're rarely there bizarre

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

Be cynical if you like, but now a wide eyed child can look to the stars and dream of crushing unions, destroying local businesses and going to space.

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

@LisaMMcGee In social settings make sure you talk to and include shy people who seem to feel out of place. My friend D, who said this to me, said: "Talk to the most uncomfortable person in the room."

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

In a chatty cafe. "I won't watch the Late Late as the valentine one is just slush," says elderly woman to everyone. "I don't watch because of what Tubridy's uncle did to the railways," says man in wooly hat. This is a fecking boss-level hipster reason not to watch the Late Late

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

Wham were a far better band than Oasis.

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

This is a real phenomenon in Ireland. Some from the most affluent bits of Dublin talk about perfectly nice parts of the city as though they're warzones. What they mean is "the people have different accents & clothes". What they're really frightend of is redistributive socialism.

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The more I read these panicked articles about places like NYC and San Francisco being 'unsafe', the more I realize it's not about crime at all - just discomfort with poverty being more visible

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PatrickFreyne

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6 years

My thoughts on the public services card: It is far far too big. How is this going to fit in my wallet? Also: Why does it have Pascal's face on it? Pure hubris.

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PatrickFreyne

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6 years

A helpful reminder for the election (I do not know who beyond the Simpsons is responsible for this bit of genius)

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

In town late last night & there were such good vibes. A young man being very kind to a homeless man. Young women complimenting strangers on their clothes. Finally a very slow taxi rank where everyone cheered each other when they got a taxi "She's going all the way to WEST MEATH!"

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

Thing I don't understand: If leasing the site of the new National Maternity Hospital as opposed to owning it is a meaningless technicality, why do St Vincent's Holdings want to retain ownership so badly?

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PatrickFreyne

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5 years

I think "unnamed Question Time audience member" is easily my favourite 1916 leader

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

Minding my nephews. I'm writing an article. Older nephew is doing his maths homework. "I'll never use any of this maths in 'the new world'," he has just said rather chillingly.

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PatrickFreyne

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7 years

Have I this straight, misogynists? Assuming men might rape insults all men, but if women DON'T assume they might be raped, they're to blame

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

I know this is a UK thing but it's kind of almost impressively on-the-nose in it's evil shitheadedry. They may as well have just gone with: "Your dreams will die"

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

Again I find myself book buying for Christmas on the old “one for them, two for me” ratio

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PatrickFreyne

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6 years

Irish Times exit poll at 9 pm - "and in a surprising turn of events, BLASPHEMY has been made president of Ireland."

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5 years

I’ve decided to drop everything else I’m doing until I’ve written an at least six part sitcom about these two living next door to one another.

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

The thing about the stupid Enoch Burke thing is that his contempt of court order could literally be about ANY issue that affected vulnerable teenagers. It's not about trans issues it's about gowl issues and how society deals with the complete gowls in our midst.

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

I spoke to a lot of people about the changing understanding of ME and wrote this piece:

ME: ‘I spend 20 hours a day lying down. I have four upright hours in the day’

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis sufferers live with a range of conditions some have described as being ‘buried alive’ or a ‘living death’

www.irishtimes.com

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PatrickFreyne

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6 years

@UnaMullally Seriously, lads. The responses to this. How did you get so insecure and fretful? Una's talking about media folk, not you. You're great and your parents clearly should have told you that more often. Now, who'd like a hug?

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

I know Guinness is now owned by a massive international corporation headquartered in London but this still feels like an act of war.

Dli O’Doir

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Look at the fucking head on that. Shit pint of Guinness too

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

This is powerful stuff.

Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@OwsWills

2 years

Listen to what Michael Sheen says. *Really* listen. Take it in. He’s right. The oppression our forefathers experienced at the hands of the UK State lives on today. We are not *given* a voice. We have to *take* it. This isn’t their country. It’s ours.

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

Yet, again I'm looking at a Twitter argument in which I'm thinking: BOTH OF THESE THINGS ARE TRUE. LIFE IS MULTILAYERED. STOP ARGUING. But no, we've all been tricked into binary bullshit by silicon valley childmen who hate complexity.

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PatrickFreyne

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5 years

I think it's awful that children in non-denominational schools have to go through their childhoods without a childlike terror of eternal damnation.

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

I don’t usually take requests but here’s another column about Room to Improve

Patrick Freyne: The mystery of Dermot Bannon and his many surrogate wives

The Room to Improve sun god has enlisted them to build his Great Pyramid of Giza

www.irishtimes.com

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

Everyone is sad and angry right now and I feel like every opinion I read on anything needs to be filtered through that. I've started translating every second tweet as just "I feel very sad, you pricks"

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

Seeing as I'm “trending”, I’m pleased to announce m̵y̵ ̵u̵n̵a̵u̵t̵h̵o̵r̵i̵s̵e̵d̵ ̵b̵i̵o̵g̵r̵a̵p̵h̵y̵ ̵o̵f̵ ̵D̵e̵r̵m̵o̵t̵ ̵B̵a̵n̵n̵o̵n̵, SORRY, I mean, my book of essays OK, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea. Seriously. It's out in May. You can pre-order here:

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PatrickFreyne

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6 years

We need a massive programme of social housing, proper rent controls and long term leasing and we need to be willing to pay the tax rates that are required to support that. Fecking around trying to find the right market incentives is destroying lives.

Homeless children spend night on chairs in Tallaght Garda station

Problem of homeless families turning to gardaí for help to increase during papal visit

www.irishtimes.com

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PatrickFreyne

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7 months

Eight years after the Barricade Inn squatters were kicked out of Neary’s hotel for the sin of turning it into a useful social space, it’s still empty and even more derelict. It’s pretty disgraceful. Beginning to think squatting should be seen as a social imperative.

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

I've been watching J**d*n P*t**son stuff (researching something!) & it's amazing how he managed to politicise what was once harmless, slightly obvious self-help schtick. It feels like he was a regular psychotherapist who was bitten by a radioactive youtube comment section.

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

Be kind. Being kind is not a political position. I’ve known people from all sorts of ideological backgrounds who err on the side of being kind. I’m really glad of those people even when I disagree with them or wouldn’t vote for their politics or think they’re wrong. Be kind.

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

What's the etiquette on bringing a few cans to the vaccine centre?

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

Look, we're all doing really well considering. Well done everyone. It's been a hard ould year.

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

News: I have a book coming next summer from @PenguinIEBooks edited by the excellent @BrendanBarring1 . It's called OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea & it's a collection of essays about, among other things, bands, family, the army, losing people, being sad, driving, bad jobs & singing

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

I don't mean to be a "colonialism hipster" but thinking British colonialism is a bad thing is not some new fad invented to hurt timid racists. It was invented hundreds of years ago by the people Britain colonised. It's actually been very popular for a long time.

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

It's increasingly obvious that, whether they want it to be true or not, the whole "Gender Critical" thing is now part of a wider anti-LGBT, anti-Pride movement. It's going to get harder & harder for them to distance their transphobia from homophobia & some of them won't want to.

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PatrickFreyne

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1 year

A friend once told me that all of the statues on O'Connell Street are gesturing to how high the shitpile was at that particular point in Irish history (I think he was quoting someone). Anyway, I can't unsee it and I love it.

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

Something I never knew before COVID: a surprising number of couples like nothing more on a Saturday night than a long leisurely browse at the off licence that only lets three customers in at a time

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

So do I take the government's 3 and add it to nphet's 5 to make 8 (lock myself in a box) or subtract the 5 leading to Level Minus 2 (lick strangers)? Or do I multiply them to put myself on level 15 (go to space)?

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2 years

Ah yes the parade of children on wheeled vehicles. Nephew is saluting as is correct #LateLateToyShow

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

@DylanWa68690046 "This is not Mars"

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

Quite pleased with my contribution to the national conversation today in the paper of record.

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

I love this, Miriam Lord's writing, but also Duncan Smith's contribution. I'm so tired of self-styled, self-made-men who are really just local gentry

Miriam Lord: Working-class hero shouts down the Culchie Whisperers

Labour TD reminds Rural Independents they don’t have a monopoly on country matters

www.irishtimes.com

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2 years

Elon is really Liz Trussing the hell out of his new gig.

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

#normalpeople is bringing back memories. I used to bully nerds like Marianne and Conall at Trinity for using big words and reading books. My TCD nickname was “Basher”, the lecturers were all scared of me & my favourite subject there was PE. It’s just not realistic, in my opinion

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2 years

I wrote about I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here

Matt Hancock burrows in the dankness, sniffing out treats amid the vermin. He also does this on I’m...

Patrick Freyne: I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! is a haven for celebrities in reduced circumstances, a debtors’ prison where they go to rebrand

www.irishtimes.com

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

I’ve just realised that “footage” in cinema originally referred to the length of film used. Am I slow? Did everyone else know this? What else have you been keeping from me you absolute bastards?

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

We're rewatching Mad Men and it really was the baton that wasn't passed on in telly drama. Subtle, character-based drama where the plot turns are beautifully executed without exclamation marks. And it's not about Crime People!

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I really enjoyed interviewing George RR Martin about sci fi and fantasy fandom and Dublin Worldcon

George RR Martin: ‘Science fiction has conquered the world’

The bestselling author talks science fiction, snobbery and the Dublin 2019 Worldcon

www.irishtimes.com

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

How about this instead: We create a housing policy for writers and plumbers and shop assistants and nurses and taxi-drivers and everybody else who can't afford to live in Dublin and we can call that the James Joyce Affordable Housing Policy?

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

The problem wanting public service stuff to be like "the private sector" is that in reality the private sector has a huge failure rate. Ideologues pretend it's all Googles & Microsofts when it's more commonly and Wework & Anglo Irish bank.

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4 years

It's like watching a pot boil, but from inside the fecking pot.

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

Watching Murder She Wrote again. As a perfectly happy childless writer in middle age she is a great role model for me. I vow to spend my 50s solving/ possibly causing crimes.

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4 years

Is there any truth in the rumour that Howth have got their hands on Ben Affleck?

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1 year

I've only just seen An Cailin Ciuin and I'm in bits. A beautiful film.

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PatrickFreyne

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2 years

It's good to be against racism, misogyny and homophobia. However, only in moderation. If you're TOO against these things, that's "woke" and being "woke" is bad. It's a bit like being a premature anti fascist in the 1930s. Am I doing culture war right?

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3 years

I am writing a short operata called "Frank and Una in Gran Canaria" and would like some funding please.

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1 year

It's insane in a housing crisis where people are being made HOMELESS that some keep coming back to "but... but middle class people's investments!" I get landlords are part of the solution in a well-regulated market but read the room you sociopathic weirdos

Eviction stories: ‘There’s nothing out there… I really, really don’t see how we’re going to find a...

Threshold has received queries from 1,853 renters who face eviction once the ban lifts

www.irishtimes.com

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You ungrateful bastards. THE MAN IS A GODDAMN WEALTH MAKER and we should be honoured that he's lodged in the digestive tract of our economy, apparently forever.

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

Is the B&Q socially distanced queue thing really that bad? Like, it's quite literally allowed now. Have our judgemental instincts built up that much muscle over the past few months?

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

Excitingly/terrifyingly just got a box of these in the post @PenguinIEBooks

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PatrickFreyne

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3 years

People should be allowed be "wrong" sometimes* without getting the obligatory Twitter pile-on. Mostly I believe this for Machiavellian tactical reasons. Making people feel embattled isn't a great way of getting them onside. None of us came fully formed with the views we have now.

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PatrickFreyne

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4 years

Last night I accidentally attended a function in which I inadvertantly high fived 215 men in badly-fitted business suits. There may have also been some high-spirited 'wrasslin'. This, I was shocked to discover, contravenes updated public health guideance. I apologise unreservedly

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2 years

I'm very happy to say that last night I won the @newsbrandsirl award for arts journalism and criticism. Partly for this article:

Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete

After Harry and Meghan, the monarchy looks archaic and racist. Well duh

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PatrickFreyne

@PatrickFreyne1

4 years

I channelled my inner Telegraph correspondent to write :

Why oh why are the snowflake Irish always so upset by the British claiming their stuff?

Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott are no longer Irish, apparently. We get Prince Andrew in return

www.irishtimes.com

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PatrickFreyne

@PatrickFreyne1

10 months

In years to come, this whole #rtegate fiasco will be remembered as a bitter disagreement over the pronunciation of Renault.

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PatrickFreyne

@PatrickFreyne1

4 years

The fact that apparently some people earn more on the Covid 19 payment than they did previously I would count as one of the silver linings of this pandemic alongside community singsongs and nature repairing itself memes. It's not really a cause for any (im)moral panic

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PatrickFreyne

@PatrickFreyne1

2 years

Yes, they lived a lot of places rent free. I think you’re beginning to get it!

Flash Cap

@FlashCap2

2 years

@PatrickFreyne1 The many extraordinary and varied accomplishments of Britain and the fine British people includes living so entirely rent free in your head.

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PatrickFreyne

@PatrickFreyne1

6 years

"He is casually racist, clueless about the basics & is clearly making it up as he goes along. That's the sort of devil-may-care approach I want from my accountant/surgeon/pilot/dentist/bomb-disposal-expert/house-pet," says nobody about any job ever, except, apparently, politician

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