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Bauer Media Political Correspondent. Host of the ‘Let Me Explain’ podcast. Political Correspondent for Newstalk, Today FM, 98FM, Spin 1038/South West

Dublin/Waterford
Joined March 2009
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@SeanDefoe
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@SeanDefoe
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3 years
"Well woo-hoo" says @MaryLouMcDonald (sarcastically) on suggestion of new legislation that would set aside 30% of new build estates for first time buyers
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“Did the Toy Show get excessive during the Tiger?” ....
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It’s 2047. The Luke Kelly statue has been vandalised for the 6,268th time. 14% of Ireland’s GDP is now dedicated to cleaning it. President Paul Mescal says the perpetrators must be caught.
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I’ve been thinking about this clip all day. The beautiful joy and admiration on his face 😭 #LateLateToyShow
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4 years
I present to you Reeling in the Years 2020: The Movie
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Leo Varadkar on Greta Thunberg: “The bottom line is she’s a sixteen year old girl who’s trying to make the world a better place. Why would you want to slag her off?”
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Pssst 🤫 You’re not getting abuse for being a man you’re getting abuse for being a pervert
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Dublin Bay South by-election candidate Dolores Cahill is currently in a standoff with gardaí who won’t let her into the count centre unless she agrees to put on a mask #dbsbyelection
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Mary Lou McDonald asked if she has confidence in Stephen Donnelly to deliver the vaccine programme: “I don’t have confidence in this government full stop. I wouldn’t have confidence in many of them to deliver a pint of milk to my front door”
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4 years
Depressing amount of people telling me today level 5 wouldn’t change their life one bit at the moment. Equally depressing number of people on Instagram getting in ‘one last thing’ and living like it’s the last days of Rome. We know who the problem is.
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No one tells you how long you’ll spend as an adult debating whether or not to throw out a perfectly good box
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4 years
That is an absolutely astonishing result 31.8% of 18-24s voted Sinn Féin - more than FF and FG combined in that age group #GE2020
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Ok hear me out: a yoga class but every time you do it right someone says ‘oooh big stretch’ the same way you would say it to your pet
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3 years
8 years this month since no-one checked what ad was running on the RTÉ homepage...
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It’s a national crime Coppers won’t be open tonight
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3 years
I really did not call January 26th as the date we'd first talk about cancelling travel for Christmas
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3 years
Enjoying the Dáil discovering this week that people under 30 exist
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4 years
There are anti-maskers outside Leinster House shouting in the gates that they’re going to come after the families of people standing inside. I’m all for the right to peaceful protest but this is wrong on so many levels.
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2 years
Me having a chat with myself 10 days out from payday every single month
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There is absolutely no way we as a country will ever be able to repay our healthcare staff for what they’ve done this year and will do in 2021. That’s it, that’s the tweet. #StayHome #WearAMask
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Tubs takes a lot of stick but there’s been no-one better at the Toy Show. To make that as good as it was without an audience and while keeping social distancing took a serious amount of skill. Such a ray of good vibes in a bad year! #LateLateToyShow
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4 years
If I see one more newspaper describing a €495,000 two bed property as a “smart starter home” I’m officially going to lose it
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He bought cattle with the winnings of the Credit Union draw. Has there ever been anything more Irish? #LateLateToyShow
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3 years
Phone Wallet Keys Headphones Mask Vaccine Cert Crippling social anxiousness
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3 years
Rather embarrassingly some Fine Gael TDs don't have their Zoom chat on mute during a committee session with the Taoiseach and are having a nice chat about Eoghan Murphy's future which can be heard by all...
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2 years
Micheál Martin wearing a Ukrainian scarf in the London St Patrick’s Day parade
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4 years
Thank you so much to the listener who suggested that Labour and the Social Democrats merge to form the LSD party
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1 year
Ooof. @HollyCairnsTD asks Micheál Martin in the Dáil: "Are you aware of any other housing Minister in the history of the State who has openly admitted to deliberately opting to make people homeless?"
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Tommie Gorman happened to visit my school when I was in 6th year for a show he was filming. I got asked to show him around and spent a few hours in the company of one of the greatest characters I've ever met. I changed my CAO to journalism the next day
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar celebrating the Grand Slam win in an Irish pub in Washington DC ☘️
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3 years
Trying to buy a house is wild. "Here take literally all my money" Mmmm no you can't afford this, we want more "Oh ok, did you build any I can afford?" .....No
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4 years
Had a toasted sandwich for the first time in a while this evening. In honoured tradition I’ll now have 1,567 more between now and Sunday and then put away the toaster for another 4 months
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1 year
Sinn Fein TD Chris Andrews takes off his jumper as the US President enters the Dáil to reveal a Palestine jersey
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4 years
Would love to see the Venn diagram of people giving out about some people getting €350 a week vs people who’ve actually had to run a household on €350 a week
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Social Democrat TD @HollyCairnsTD has just offered to be a permanent pair for @HMcEntee for any votes she might miss while on maternity leave pending legislation to allow politicians to take maternity
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Danny Healy Rae now telling the Dáil it was “very wrong” to give cuckoo funds that name because they’re “such a lovely bird”
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3 years
44% of boxes tallied and Fianna Fáil have less than 4% of the vote
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TD Michael Collins is asking the Government to put up a statue of Michael Collins in Cork. I assume he means the other one
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2 years
HEALTH The free contraception scheme will be extended up to and including 30 year olds; hospital inpatient charges are being scrapped and the first publicly funded IVF treatment will be provided in 2023 under the #Budget2023 package from Stephen Donnelly
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5 years
Genuine conversation I just had: “God Imelda May has fierce energy for her age” Me: “She’s not that old is she?” “Oh definitely in her 60s” Me: “Imelda May???” “Yeah, your one across the water” Me: “Theresa May?” “Oh yeah, I always get those two mixed up” 🤔
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3 years
Imagine the mortification of being the captain of that ship stuck in the Suez Canal. I can’t even cope when a single car has to wait on me to reverse into a parking spot
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1 year
Living for this exchange between President Biden and Michael D
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1 year
Leo Varadkar asked about *that* video circulating online "It's very much a personal matter. It relates entirely to my private life and for those reasons I don't want to comment on it"
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6 years
WATCH: TD @RuthCoppingerTD held up a thong in the Dáil earlier protesting the use of the same tactics in a courtroom during a rape case in Cork
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Statement from Social Democrats after meeting Micheál Martin: “We had a cordial and respectful conversation but our concern is it didn’t sound a lot like change.”
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4 years
Getting embarrassing now. The Ceann Comhairle, Leas Ceann Comhairle and the actual Taoiseach have now called Leo Varadkar Taoiseach today
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Text from a Cabinet Minister on indoor dining just about sums it up: "This is a mess"
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4 years
So having canvassed some TDs on what happened with the Leas Ceann Comhairle vote. Fine Gael think it was Fianna Fáil The Greens think it was Fianna Fáil Fianna Fáil think it was Fine Gael & the Greens Sinn Féin TDs haven’t stopped laughing long enough to get back
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4 years
Oh God. What is seen can’t be un-seen
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Congrats to Cathal and Mark who just got married and didn’t expect to run into a waiting press pack outside Government Buildings!
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Absolutely smashed a personal best in 2020! Most time spent crying since I was a toddler 💪💪💪 Won’t be looking to repeat in 2021
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But why do people hate English fans? 🙄
@offtheball
Off The Ball
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How does this happen at a major international final?! #Euro2020Final #EURO2020 #ENG
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2 years
Let's not involve Franz Ferdinand in this please
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BBC News (UK)
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Louis Tomlinson, Yungblud and Franz Ferdinand pull Russian tour dates
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I don’t even know how to explain this one but here’s Mary Lou McDonald doing the Macarena in a community centre in Dublin this morning
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Sinn Féin's @Farrell_Mairead tells the Dáil unless the Super Junior Ministers have Super Powers they don't need a €16,000 pay rise
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In the Dáil Leo Varadkar says part of Ireland's problem is there are too many 3 bed semi-ds and not enough one bed apartments to cater for people who are staying single longer. I'm not even going to comment on this one.
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Taoiseach confirms unfortunately still no no shifting someone who's not in your household from May 18th
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MAYO FOR SAM!! He did it! BINGO
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4 years
It says a lot about us as a nation that most people who've messaged me in the last hour just want to know if take-aways and off licences will be deemed essential
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4 years
Christ almighty how many TY students get to go to Italy? We barely got to go for lunch
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Cormac O Shea
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Cork secondary school issue statement over coronavirus fears after tour to Italy
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Man in a maroon van briefly interrupts the Fine Gael Ministers’ doorstep shouting “f*****g liars the lot of ye”
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4 years
A lot of people with a lot of opinions have forced me to make this, which I will be using liberally from now on
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3 years
I just said the ‘no thanks, I’m sweet enough’ line when asked if I wanted sugar in my coffee and I’ve never hated myself more
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1 year
Is there anyone who DOESN'T have a dose at the moment?
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4 years
Boy you’d miss the old precedented times wouldn’t ya?
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3 years
Going to go absolutely mad and walk 6km later
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Niall Horan now performing in the East Room of the White House for Paddy’s Day (not Patty’s Day he dutifully clarifies) @NiallOfficial #StPatricksDay2023
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A ten part investigative podcast into how Flo Rida went from 2008 sensation to representing San Marino at #Eurovision
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Just passed a van for a gardening and landscaping company called ‘Major Tom’s Ground Control’ 👏👏👏
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New bill being published from People Before Profit calling for THREE extra Bank Holidays every year. - 1st February - Last Monday of September - Last Monday of November
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4 years
The only satisfying number this evening #UKElection
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Independent Senator Eileen Flynn becomes the first woman from the traveller community to be a member of the Oireactas @Love1solidarity
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There were quite literal cheers in the Dublin Castle press centre when Misneach appeared 🐶
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"Moronic, idiotic, stupid" That's how Independent TD Catherine Connolly has dubbed the Government's response to Covid in the Dáil
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"Well woo-hoo" says @MaryLouMcDonald (sarcastically) on suggestion of new legislation that would set aside 30% of new build estates for first time buyers
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Say what you like about residency rules etc. But Bundee Aki and CJ Stander played their hearts out, roared the Irish anthem and were possibly the proudest people on the pitch representing THEIR country too. Infectious passion for Ireland #IREvNZL
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US President Joe Biden broke down in tears at Knock Shrine earlier, after a meeting with the priest who performed the last rights on his son Beau Biden
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4 years
It’s a two bottles of wine kind of Friday
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4 years
Another occasion to wheel this out. Goodnight
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2 years
I can’t believe this is real. The lettuce has done it
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5 years
Not all happy to see the Taoiseach. This girl following Leo Varadkar down the streets in Galway
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3 years
God you’d miss a Friday night out paying €6.20 for a pint* and dancing terribly to the Five megamix all the same. *Filed under things I never thought I’d say
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1 year
Taking final suggestions for the Joe Biden visit Bingo card!
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Micheál Martin did a press conference in the last hour mostly talking about Ukraine. Just afterwards a Ukrainian woman came up to him and said "thank you so much for everything you are doing". They had a short chat during which she fought back tears
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3 years
Having got my Pfizer appointment over the weekend I just got a call offering a Johnson & Johnson. It’s like waiting for the 46a, two come along at once!
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So in the RTÉ barter account figures: - €5k for flip flops - €2k on balloons - €4.2k for membership of Soho House members' club - €967 on client parking for a talk - €9k on Aviva Stadium boxes for Harry Styles, Westlife & The Eagles Not to mention the client lunches
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You have to love it
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A few months ago the Taoiseach told @HollyCairnsTD it was inappropriate for a politician to get involved in planning matters in relation to Bessborough in Cork. She asks him how that sits with his weighing in on the An Taisce appeal yesterday
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It’s one of Michael Healy-Rae’s better tricks to have styled himself as the country bumpkin speaking for the everyman while also being literally the biggest landlord in the Dáil
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Joe Biden reminding everyone of the day his rugby star cousin Rob Kearney "beat the hell out of the Black and Tans" in Chicago...
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3 years
Here's the row from the Dáil earlier where the Taoiseach accused Danny Healy Rae of making up quotes - almost telling him to shut the f up
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6 years
You started it
@GCraughwell
Senator G Craughwell
6 years
Let this end please
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"Holy Catholic Ireland was a monstrous hoax." Kate O'Connell's speech earlier where she accuses church and state of instituting "sexual apartheid" #8committee
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3 years
Fianna Fáil has admitted it did the thing after Fine Gael admitting it did the thing after Sinn Féin admitting it did in fact do the thing.
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Pat Kenny says the last time he was on the train he was offered a spliff...
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4 years
BREAKING: Country will NOT be moving to Level 5. Cabinet set to reject the NPHET proposal and instead move the entire country to level 3 with greater enforcement of those measures.
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Seán Defoe
3 years
bUt HaVe An OuTdOoR sUmMeR Christ Almighty
@NellydaSilla
Nealo
3 years
Fencing off areas where the 14 - 18 age bracket congregate is an absolute joke. These people have sacrificed a year and a half to help more vulnerable members of society. They deserve a good summer. Let them party.
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2 years
Amazing watching Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil TDs try to limit or walk back climate action pledges as temperature records are smashed across Europe. Short termism is alive and well
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4 years
Jesus H Christ it has been a week. Mind each other and stay safe
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