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Dean Van Nguyen

@deanvannguyen

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Writer. Irish-Vietnamese. Author of Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah (2019) and Words For My Comrades (due 2025). Agent: Chris Clemans at @JanklowNesbit

Joined July 2009
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6 years
I never truly feel the Christmas spirit until I see the "Tony Blair being held back from attacking you in the pub" card
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5 years
Some A-list actors and the number of their films directed by women (excluding voice roles) Tom Cruise 0 Matt Damon 0 Will Smith 0 Brad Pitt 1 Robert Downey Jr 1 Hugh Jackman 1 Jim Carrey 1 Keanu Reeves 13
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5 years
My uncle, half watching Sky News in front of whole family: "I quite like Boris Johnson" My brain: Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Me:
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7 years
The neighbours seem like a lot of fun...
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5 years
Jo Cox’s murderer: “Mentally deranged” Threatening Jess Phillips: “Just a joke” Milkshaking Farage: “HOW CAN DEMOCRACY SURVIVE”
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5 years
In Rio, fifth place Joanna Jozwik said she felt "like a silver medallist” and was proud to have finished as the “first European” and the “second white”. Yep, nothing racist about the campaign against Caster Semenya at all
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5 years
When trans people are “allowed to play any person,” when prominent roles stop being whitewashed, then Scarlett Johansson can have a moan. Until then, please spare us your “political correctness gone mad” bullshit
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3 years
Amazon Help staff reading their mentions
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3 years
Union Jack Twitter wanting to cheer Britain approving the vaccine first but also remembering they’re anti-vax
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This is absolutely INSANE??????!!!
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5 years
Origi when Liverpool are fine versus Origi when Liverpool are in trouble #LIVARS
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4 years
Ask yourself why 189 Bulgarian workers who will quarantine for two weeks before beginning work that aids Irish society – poorly paid, exploitative work, but that's other issue – are receiving more vitriol than the 20,000 Irish horse racing wankers who to Cheltenham
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11 months
Such a pity there’s no Irish businesses—pubs for example—anywhere else in the world
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4 years
Wow sounds a lot like what a certain leader of a major UK political party spent five years advocating
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3 years
Irish Twitter today
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4 years
@Conservatives "HOW CAN THEY USE A PICTURE OF A BLACK FATHER AND SON WHEN WE VOTED TO LEAVE"
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2 years
Abramovich potentially leaves 1.5bn debt and infrastructure that desperately needs to be upgraded. Should FSG sell LFC, it’s with balanced books, new training ground and redeveloped Anfield. Some fans are open about not caring bc it’s not transfers, but it’s definitely something
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Gavan Reilly
2 years
There will be no limit on the numbers who may be permitted to come here, says Humphreys - government taking a long-term view of helping arrivals embed into education and the labour market. When children get settled, she says, there’s no reason parents may not seek part-time work
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2 months
Tom Davies, I thought I told you to trim those sideburns! #SHUBHA
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3 years
I spent the summer fascinated by a breed of tremendously fatalistic online Liverpool fan that presents as liking football but seems to find no joy in it
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@VMSportIE
Virgin Media Sport
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Lovely moment between David Moyes and his dad. #UECLfinal
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4 years
Heard about a mixed race Irish teen on the bus home from Vicar Street last night was told to, "Go back to her own country." The @dublinbusnews driver stopped the bus and called the police. Well done to that driver. Racism didn't die Gemma's pathetic election performance...
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7 years
@realDonaldTrump It’d be pretty funny if your investigation actually showed you lost pop vote by 6 million
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4 years
Absolute scenes. This is the level of moron who whinges at me about immigration
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4 years
To this day I don’t know how Reina was the first man to make it to Ngog 🔴🔴🔴
I will never forget this. The way I celebrated the goal and thought N’Gog was the future.
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“If I wasn’t in the competition, I would also be boycotting” 💀
@EirevisionPod
Éirevision Podcast 🇮🇪
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💬 🇮🇪 Bambie Thug on the @RTELateLateShow when asked about Israel’s participation in Eurovision: “I stand with anyone doing the boycott. I think if I wasn’t in the competition, I would also be boycotting. There a lot of moving parts and at the end of the day, without the group…
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7 years
RIP the great and supremely talented Fats Domino. He made "Ain't That a Shame", probably the happiest depiction of a break-up ever recorded
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5 years
Eight weeks to process an Irish passport for life-long British citizens but government will leave people born in Ireland in Direct Provision for nine years #EndDP
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4 years
“Those affected by homelessness receive a small apartment and counselling – without any preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected thus make their way back into a stable life. And: All this is cheaper than accepting homelessness”
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5 years
Anyone out there to rival Keanu? Second best I can find is Paul Giamatti with 10
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3 years
“Ireland isn’t racist”, “stop trying to import American style discourse on racism” etc etc etc
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3 years
Re: John Waters. My dad came to Ireland and did work in restaurants. His kids became a writer, a Hollywood AD, a KPMG accountant (and part-time rapper), with one still in school. My cousin did follow the family into the food industry. I'm proud of all of us
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2 years
I might be wrong but I think Carvalho is a Liverpool player in all but name. I've never heard Klopp talk about a transfer target before, so to say the other day we're "really interested," the deal must be a formality
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4 years
Kyle Walker lmaooo
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5 years
Anyone born here, belongs here #EndDP
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4 years
What a sentence @MrJasonChester
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2 years
One. Week. Apart. 😭
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6 years
No football club's fanbase deserves Piers Morgan
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6 years
Fans of The Smiths opening up Twitter and seeing Morrissey has given another interview
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3 years
Simon Coveney’s phone
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3 years
10pm tonight
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5 years
When "gender critical feminists" and right-wing scum unite in their hatred of trans people #LGBAlliance #SolidariT
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5 years
@NickBoles Nick leaving the Conservative Party like
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5 years
Reasons people will withstand years in Direct Provision -Syrian genocide -Boko Haram -Persecution over sexuality -Threat of forced marriage -Victim of sex trafficking etc A reason nobody would withstand years in Direct Provision -Might get benefits one day
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4 years
Mary Lou McDonald's party won the popular vote and Leo Varadkar has undeniably received a temporary “rallying round the flag” approval bump from Covid. But how can you make an argument that Micháel Martin should be Taoiseach? Nobody wants this
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5 years
Irish people on Twitter trying to stop numerous Americans spreading the Irish slave myth
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5 months
Not one fascist faced consequences for shutting down libraries, disrupting the housing of refugees, or burning refugees’ tents and possessions. Authorities essentially held a “folks with reasonable concerns” line. Watch them do a 180 now that Arnotts has been looted
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4 years
There's a pretty unbelievable narrative forming that Sinn Féin are flying in the polls because young people are simply unaware of their past. If you find me just one 20-something SF voter totally oblivious of their history I'd be shocked
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3 years
Great scene from The Sopranos with the phenomenal Michael K Williams. RIP
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5 years
A bit more research: Ben Stiller 0 Clint Eastwood 0 Jamie Foxx 0 Ryan Gosling 0 Joaquin Phoenix 1 Leonard DiCaprio 1
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4 years
Today's the day #transferleft
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6 months
Offensive on like 100 levels
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@IrishTimes
The Irish Times
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Internal Wix chat encouraged staff to support Israel’s ‘narrative’ in Hamas conflict
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4 years
Wetherspoons has its tentacles too deep into the UK to be stopped but Irish people, please don't go to any of their new joints here. Everything about this company is absolutely vile
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3 years
One thing I’ve learned from Covid is that many think a “rave” is simply a “large gathering of young people”
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7 years
That time Bono chewed out a fan for bringing a Sinn Féin sign that was actually a San Francisco sign
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4 years
BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT
@Independent_ie
Irish Independent
4 years
British discount pub chain JD Wetherspoon says it will open its €21m hotel and bar in Dublin's Camden Street in October and hire 200 workers to run the place.
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4 years
Capitalists: Socialism kills Also capitalists: If the economy requires a blood sacrifice, so be it
@ScottAdamsSays
Scott Adams
4 years
Based on what we now understand about #coronavirus , it seems clear to me the consensus of opinion in the country is that losing a few hundred thousand people (or fewer if we are clever) is an acceptable price for reopening the economy. I'm in a higher risk category and agree.
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5 years
Joanna Jozwik scratched out the name of every black woman who finished ahead of her. Caster Semenya was the only athlete in that race who identified as having hyperandrogenism
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5 years
In Ireland we have anti-Muslim bigots burning down hotels meant for asylum seekers, circulating false stories about Irish Muslims burning passports, sprouting nonsense about globalist conspiracies on YouTube. Radicalisation is happening in plain sight. What you doing about it?
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1 year
Love that the SB is part of Irish identity. Don't forget the originators of these faves: Asian diaspora. My cousin runs a takeaway, thinks he knows the Viet guy who invented the SB. They don't get the recognition of restaurateurs who'll never contrib 1/10th as much to the culture
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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋
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found out the Irish have been hiding the ultimate hangover cure from us. The Spice Bag, Chinese takeaway salt & pepper chili fried chicken, french fries, fried onions and peppers, served with curry sauce for dipping. Vegan versions are made with fried tofu fritters.
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5 years
When you see the chocolates coming out on Christmas morning but then remember how early the dinner is
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4 years
At some point over the last couple of months the meaning of "social distancing" changed in people's minds from from, "Stay at home but if you have to go out stay 2m apart" to, "Do whatever you want as long as it's 2m apart"
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Andy Gill
4 years
Residents in Grappenhall near #Warrington keep to #coronavirus rules by performing socially distanced conga to celebrate #VEDay75 . More in @BBCNWT 6.40
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9 months
Thank you, Sinéad 🖤
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7 months
When Dolores O'Riordan sang "In your head" I don't think she was suggesting that British state violence and the suppression of Catholic civil rights in the north was all imagined
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4 years
Callum and Rebecca, meant to be #LoveIsland
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3 years
LOOK AT DAME STREET
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2 years
A statement has already been put out by management. To have three nibbles at a player experiencing a new level of public exposure, on topics she has no experience in answering, is just an attempt at punishment @RobCWotton
@SkySportsNews
Sky Sports News
2 years
The Ireland women's team apologise for singing a song referencing the IRA following their world cup qualification win against Scotland last night.
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3 years
21st of September
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4 years
So the anti-immigration Irish Freedom Party are putting up a candidate who is an immigrant. What's the difference between this guy and the immigrants they want to lock out of the country? I think you know the answer
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“Property tax from rich should not be shared with poor areas, says Varadkar”
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5 years
“Message!” So Ovie has seen Don’t Be A Menace? #LoveIsland
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Glinner’s last ever Twitter followers
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5 months
This better not be downplayed as anything but a racist, fascist, far right riot. I’ve people walking past the flat shouting, “Muslims out, Allah outs”
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3 years
I've been thinking about @fotoole 's piece on "trial runs for fascism" or "pre-fascism" relating to Trump. Similarly, when the Irish far right try to argue that this tweet is not racist, they're testing the boundaries. How much dehumanisation of Irish POC can they get away with?
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2 years
Sir, those shops are all closed
@AontuIE
Aontú
2 years
This is Grafton St on the run up to Christmas. Many businesses are trying to survive till the New Year before they fold. There is an enormous amount of debt building up. What is the government's exit plan?
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Spoke to legendary Gooner blogger @arseblog aka Andrew Mangan. Zero questions asked about football. Instead, we talked about his previous existence as a pirate radio and club DJ, his passion for broadcasting, and what was a better era for Dublin nightlife
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The won’t dare report that a poor country’s socialism is trumping powerful capitalist nations but here it is
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I feel sick
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Racists: “We need to stop immigration to preserve Irish culture” Me:
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4 years
A lot of you have really forgotten why your family and friends were forced to move to the UK, Canada and Australia huh?
@gavreilly
Gavan Reilly
4 years
🚨 #GE2020 POLL 🚨 Sunday Times/Behaviour & Attitudes (January 2-14, MoE 3.3%) Fianna Fáil 32 (+5 in four weeks) Fine Gael 20 (-7) Sinn Féin 19 (-1) Greens 7 (+1) Labour 4 (-2) Independent Alliance 3 (+1) Solidarity-PBP 2 (-1) Social Democrats 1 Renua 1 (+1) Inds and others 10
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Dean Van Nguyen
5 years
A psychotic thing to write when you just voted to let asylum seekers die in The Mediterranean because you think the bodies act as a deterrent
@SeanKellyMEP
Seán Kelly MEP
5 years
What a difference a driver makes!Last Monday it took the bus3 1/2 hrs. from @Airport_FRA to @Europarl_EN in #Strasbourg .Today, on same size bus, the reverse journey took 2 1/2 hrs. As a result, I have even time for a #burger before boarding @Ryanair flight to Dublin. Nice!
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The person who decided to rebrand Pizza Express as Milanos in Ireland is probably in line for a nice bonus right now
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*Slanders entire ethnic group, gets called out* “Online bullying is scary”
@StevieNicksTD
ash 🇵🇸
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I meant to include the whole video in this, here it is
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Dean Van Nguyen
3 years
Throwback to Lil Nas X posting a poster from a Belong To Irish secondary schools campaign
@LilNasX
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my twitter following retweeting my tweets
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Responding to anyone who queued outside Brown Thomas before 9AM this morning
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Blindboy has been doing his thing for well over a decade and you almost never hear a bad word said about him. That says a lot
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Fionn mac Cumhaill burned his finger on the Salmon of Knowledge because of EU regulations on food labelling #HannanIrishHistory
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A 6ft 3in cis woman footballer will poleaxe an opponent one day and they'll start to say she shouldn't be allowed play. A cis woman tennis player will start regularly serving at 140mph and they'll try to ban her. Both will be said to have "male characteristics". Convinced of this
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One of the best Simpsons jokes of all time. Salute Luke Perry
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Sickening how many Irish people are excusing Direct Provision by claiming those living in DP didn't flee a war zone like the refugees coming from Ukraine. Newsflash: Many did. And those who didn't had to escape situations that were just as dangerous
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George Nkencho did not have to die
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3 years
Dawn Foster was one of the Left's most fearless voices in UK media and a huge hero of mine. We were supposed to meet for a beer when I was in London in May but on the day her medical issues got in the way. That we never met IRL will be a lingering regret for the rest of my life
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