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Running or making podcasts. Co-founder of , 3 Time Lord Mayor of Dublin & leader of lefty Irish twitter.

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Baraa, a very talented photographer and cameraman, left Gaza, ended up swimming from Turkey to Kos and is now in Dublin. His story will stop you in your tracks. Please listen:
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And the winner of the 2018 most inappropriate product placement in a newspaper goes to the @Herald_ie
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When you don’t have exact change.
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They’re burning out an emergency accommodation site in Finglas. This is insane. This is an industrial unit where people fleeing war/oppression have the basics like a bed and a kitchen. This is weaponised bigotry. I’m sick. #DublinRiots
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Catherine tells them the truth. They hate her.
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Palestinian literacy is one of the highest in the world at 98.2%. Education is one of the few ways young Palestinians can unlock some of the barriers they face. Israel has destroyed the education system to destroy that hope. These are war crimes.
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Younis Tirawi | يونس
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Gaza | “For all those asking why there is no education in Gaza. We bombed them. That sucks. That’s how you will never become engineers anymore" Israeli soldier Yishai Shalev standing afront Al-Azhar university.
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This is bigger than ever. Hasn’t even cleared O’Connell Street yet. #ceasefirenow
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Christy Dignam, you legend 💚
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48 minutes to pass O’Connell Street. Easily the biggest protest in Ireland since the water protests. #CeasefireNow #Gaza_Geniocide
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I don't want to speak ill of our historical Leaders, but Michael Collins should have seen he was driving into a trap.
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Nearly 2pm and it still hasn’t cleared O’Connell Street. Biggest march since the Fine Gael austerity years.
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The Catalan Police, receiving applause, are creating a cordon so people can vote safely. #CatalanReferendum
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Sorry to do this, but here’s another miserable post.
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This is huge. Thousands march in Dublin. #FreePalaestine
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Magic. Dublin is with Gaza. Ireland is with Palestine.
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Artist Adam ‘SpiceBag’ Doyle was asked to repaint the iconic Free Derry Wall. He has chosen to remember and honour Dr. Refaat Alareer ( @itranslate123 ) who was murdered by Israel on Dec 7th. They killed him, yet he lives. His life is tale still being told.
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My head hurts.
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Roshdi himself is now dead. Another tragic and unnecessary killing of a journalist by Israel. That’s now 16 journalists dead since Oct 7th. Journalism is not a crime. Madness.
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A lack of media coverage from Gaza .. due to the killing more than 12 journalists, the bombing, and the blackout of electricity and the Internet. However, we are still trying to withstand and continue coverage so the world can see the israili crimes in Gaza.
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Big Garda presence this evening on O’Connell Street. Very much looks like a zero tolerance approach tonight. I know it’s not the main story, but the fact that the soup kitchen had to cancel service is maddening.
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Eamon Ryan, who is paid at least €90.10 per hour, had to be woken to vote against people getting potentially paid €12.30 per hour. I don’t want to hear any excuses. Disgraceful @EamonRyan
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“I’m only 10...I want to be a doctor to help my people, but I can’t. I’m just 10. I don’t even know what to do. I get scared... I’d do anything for my people, but I don’t know what to do. I’m just 10... it’s not fair.” (I’m crying my eyes out) #Gaza_Under_Attack #GazaUnderAttack
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Still they march. Well over 20k. And they’re still coming. Unbelievable. The Streets Are With Palestine. Ireland stands with Gaza.
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Scrap the COVID bank holiday. Give us an election.
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“It wasn’t blokes in tracksuits that ruined the country. It was blokes in suits.” Emmet Kirwan
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Little known fact: One time Emer Higgins was unhappy with a waiter and that’s why Pizza Express is called Milano in Ireland.
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I laughed. I’m not proud.
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Trying to wrap my head around the idea that 2 Green Party TD’s are likely to be expelled from the party for voting with their conscience, while the Tánaiste is set to become Taoiseach even while he’s the subject of a criminal investigation.
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Was in Lidl Ballymun at 8am this morning. 3 teenagers at the bakery section slagging each other as Gaeilge. Up the Flats.
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ba-da-ba-BA-BAAA, I’m loving it…
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Every time this is posted I will rewatch and share it.
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This video is from a few years ago and the answer is specific to Ireland and Leo Varadkar, but the content of this video from Emmet Kirwan goes a long way to explain the Tory strategy on #RMTstrikes (and beyond)
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RTE gets a hard time, but the new Autumn schedule looks promising.
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NAMA sold the Citywest Hotel for only €30m. The Govt paid €21m to rent it during Covid and now are paying an estimated €25m to rent it again. But the Left can’t be trusted with the economy.
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Thousands and thousands and thousands. Dublin says #CeaseFireInGaza End the Occupation.
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2 years
Cut ministers and TD’s travel allowance (which ranges from €9 to €34k per year) and we’d see how quickly they’d move to reduce the price of petrol.
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Just took 93yr mum to vote. She’s registered blind. In a loud voice she said “This is a waste of time and money. Sure we’ll have an entirely new constitution after the 2028 border poll.” Everyone cheered, except for the lad in the Leinster rugby gilet.
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Last night a FG Senator told a National tv audience that his salary of €70,168 plus a monthly allowance of €3,145 might mean that he has to apply for the Govts Affordable Purchase Shared Equity Scheme to buy a home. What an indictment of his own Party’s failure.
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The lads who tried to seal the Mother and Baby Homes records for 30 years want you to trust them on their deal for the National Maternity Hospital. #MakeNMHOurs
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“They are killing us... we can’t kill you. We can’t kill you. You hear us, Occupiers. We’re just kids and parents with no intention of doing anything...” (earlier today in Gaza) #Gaza_Under_Attack #GazaUnderAttack #WeStandWithPalestine
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Does it highlight the need for education on issues like this? Is that something you’d be for?
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Flags are to be flown at half mast outside KPMG, EY, PwC and Arthur Cox as a mark of respect.
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Shit pay and conditions causing strain on corporate festival sector.
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In one picture @LeoVaradkar is warning that Sinn Féin are like Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz Party. In the other he’s shaking the hand of Viktor Orbán, (after FG voted with Orbán’s Party in the EU Parliament and refused to sign the EPP letter calling for Fidesz expulsion) Cool, yeah?
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Thanks so much, folks. One thing I meant to say was that too many of our citizens exist in an economy rather than live in a society. That has to change. And it will. Thanks again.
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Just over 6 hours until reunification.
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If you think cancel culture is a bigger problem than a 27 year old having an intimate relationship with a 17 year old then go ahead and unfollow me.
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€12 for a hotdog. Take it out of the €622k you claimed in expenses, Sean.
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Firm and fair…
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Zak sent me this video from Gaza a few seconds ago of the queue for water. “Let the people see what we are facing. People are thirsty. Is the world happy now? Are you going to starve us?” Pls share. #CeasefireNow
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I want a General Election. You? #NMHSellOut
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Stares towards Israel. Checks watch. Sighs.
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Norma Foley opposed Repeal, HEPA Filters and the Catholic Church’s removal from schools. So go ahead, knock yourselves out, Fianna Fáil.
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I have no idea either.
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Breaking: Gardaí are stopping people coming out of the Art and Hobby Shop in St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre to check on their political motivations as part of Operation Fionnan.
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News: Former Fine Gael TD, Billy Timmins, sees viral tweet about the clusterfuck state of our rental market and reacts just as you’d imagine a current FG TD would.
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The least compassionate and empathetic person to ever hold the office of Taoiseach during my lifetime is to assume that office once more. The worst man at the worst time?
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How Ireland works: Fine Gael TD Noel Rock, loses his seat & becomes a lobbyist. Manna Aero hire him to lobby Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar. Manna Aero gets first Irish drone cert. Tánaiste comes to your big day out.
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Hi @RobertTroyTD , Your story is ridiculous and nobody believes you. No jury would believe you. No judge would exonerate you. Dig in if that’s what you want. But you bring nothing but shame a stink of corruption to the Dáil. It’s as simple as that.
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Yesterday, a residence in the Dublin 9 area was searched by Ballymun Gardaí assigned to #OperationCitizen duties, following reports of anti-social-cooking in the area €750 of Coddle was seized and a man is due to appear before the Courts in connection with this incident
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A lot of Irish journalists lauding the excellent work of Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh at the International Court of Justice not even 100 days after they derided P @ddy C0sgrave for saying that war crimes were war crimes even when committed by allies. 👍
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Former failed Minister for Housing, Eoghan Murphy’s brother is in the SINDO warning about the damage Sinn Féin could do if in government. It’s like a bad joke.
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We are devastated, heartbroken, shocked and in mourning for our dear friend, Dr Vicky Conway. Love and miss you, pal. #RestInPowerVicky
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The people who think booing Leo Varadkar is worse than a decade of him waging class warfare against ordinary people need to spend less time in Leinster House. The cult of civility is a pox on our democracy.
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I see clip, I retweet clip.
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Are the Englander’s okay?
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Just so we are clear: Fuck McDonald’s
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For 75 years Israel has denied that the Nakba even took place. They went so far as to have the word Nakba banned from books. Now they’re boasting about the “Gaza Nakba” on live television. Wake the fuck up, world.
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€5k for Mother and Baby Homes survivors: ❌ €14k for landlords: ✅
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I’ve said it before, but it bares repeating: my generation not only pulled the ladder up after us. We smashed it to bits and threw it at the generations coming behind us.
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Imagine if in 1984 the Dunnes Stores workers, who refused to handle goods from apartheid South Africa, had said: “We’re not prepared to destroy our shop for a gesture that will have no impact.”
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Basketball Ireland CEO on playing Israel game: ‘I’m not prepared to destroy my sport for a gesture that will have no impact’
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Derry remembers. #BloodySunday50
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This man @EamonRyan is a liar. In October 2019 the Irish government was one of nine countries who objected to the EU’s attempts to decouple energy prices. I’m absolutely disgusted that he’s allowed lie so blatantly. He is treating you all like fools.
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'We need to lead by example in the public service by cutting our own bills." Minister Eamon Ryan on proposals to tackle the energy crisis.
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Ireland: Build houses Fine Gael: Would you like a crisp €5 note? Ireland: BUILD HOUSES FG: No need to shout, we hear you, tax breaks for landlords it is then. And a fiver for everyone else.
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Ireland should apologise to Phil Hogan by putting up Commemorative “We’re Sorry Phil” Plaques at every bar, restaurant, hotel and golf course he visited during restrictions. It’s only fair that we remember what we did to the poor man.
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Just a reminder that we are holding a scented candlelight vigil outside Brown Thomas’s on Grafton Street this evening in solidarity with people who have had their sense of entitlement hurt.
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Lads, nationality doesn't matter. A passport, flag or country didn't do this. Stop looking for a soft out. This is our mess. Grow the fuck up.
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We’re going to ask the lads who bought a printer that didn’t fit into Leinster House to buy jet fighters.
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Fact: A hypothetical situation is not a fact.
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Ireland’s ultimate breakfast roll. Only €4.
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Still got it.
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Can you believe that Leo Varadkar is scheduled to become Taoiseach again in 6 months (Dec 15th) time? The man is less popular than sour milk and has huge ethical and legal issues outstanding. It’s mad. Banana republic stuff.
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Leo Varadkar and friends celebrating the lifting of the eviction ban.
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Don’t reckon they’ll have me back.
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You could write a book about the things that this charlatan claims that he was unaware of, while being ultimately responsible for.
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If after 13mths you think the problem is teacher unions and not the State’s failure to improve ventilation, air quality monitoring, teacher-student ratios or remote learning resources for disadvantaged children, then okay. No point arguing with ya.
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Awks.
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I’m sorry, but it needs to be said that the Irish political party that voted NOT to save migrants from drowning don’t get to peacock now as brave because of a visa waiver. Brave would be tackling our shadow banking services.
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Every DCC Cllr who voted for this deal was warned this would happen. They waffled about safeguards and promises. They knew. But spun FG nonsense. This is on them.
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I see clip. I share clip.
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What better way to mark the return of Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach than to watch Emmet Kirwan evaluate him.
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The hill of not buying pizza from a company that supports the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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Domino's Pizza ROI
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when it comes to pizza, what hill would you die on?
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Make sure you pretend that you don’t remember this one for fear of being called disrespectful of the police…
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Dublin Central Housing Action
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"I've told you already, it's not my responsibility if you're homeless" says the Garda to one of the 9 tenants illegally evicted last night in Phibsboro. It is, however, their responsibility to oversee the eviction apparently. (No, it's not)
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Leo Varadkar once gave a speech saying his Govt would introduce a living wage in the same week that he signed a letter to the EU Commission stating that Ireland would not signup to the EU’s living wage directive. When you have no empathy, lying is easy.
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TheJournal.ie
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Varadkar rules out joining South African genocide case against Israel at International Court of Justice
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‘I was paying silly money to rent an absolute kip’: meet the student who turned an old castle into a €77,500,000 home near UCD
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Wait, the Israeli ambassador is actually at the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis? I thought this was a windup.
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Enda Fanning 🟢⚪️
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Confirmed. The Israeli ambassador at the FF Ard Fheis. Unbelievable.
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Whether deliberate or not, every single time the Govt do things like this they send a signal to others (People in Direct Provision/Homeless Hubs etc) that they are a less worthy out-group. As soon as you create an out-group you dehumanise. Wrong, stupid and dangerous.
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WhatsApp from a pal in the EU Parliament: I see you’re all angry about Phil Hogan. If only you knew all the work he’s done on behalf of Ireland. Then you’d be really, really pissed off. I did not see that coming.
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What are the government doing about this?
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Telling me mam that I didn’t return her call because of war in Ukraine.
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“Defend our system” Not defend our people; they can linger on waiting lists or be lost in homelessness. “A system worth building” that serves cuckoo funds and not the citizens.
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