Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks Twitter profile

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

5 months

I think my resolution for 2024 will be to depart this place properly - I now officially have too many tabs to check. You can contact me at deirdre.oshaughnessy /at/ for work purposes, I'm on LinkedIn, Threads, and Facebook.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

7 months

I spent years researching the Rwandan & Cambodian genocides. All the personal testimonies, international court of justice cases, books, newspaper articles, promises from the "international community"... there is no such thing as "never again". Here we are, again.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

2 years

Grand total of €19.10 on a one4all card I got for €50 in 2019. Allegedly valid til 2023. Please don’t buy these for people they are a complete waste of money

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5 years

Watching #SexEducation on Netflix and it's a bizarre mix of UK and US stuff. English accents, US landscape, English teachers, US school setting with football jackets etc... I feel SO culturally confused RN

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2 years

Resorting to to check the plumber is still alive three months after he half fixed the heating and stopped replying to our messages is a new experience…

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4 years

Some news. I’m delighted to be joining the @irishexaminer as News Editor very soon. It’s a top class news outlet with an incredible team of talented reporters and contributors. I can’t wait to get started. #buyapaper #newsmatters #journalismmatters

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3 years

Might be worth reminding people that lots of ordinary people in Tuam, people she knew, told Catherine Corless to shut up about the babies and leave it all alone. In 2014.

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@deshocks

2 years

My Mam @ancearc was one of a kind & the kindest person I ever knew. She loved words, stories & people. She loved mischief & fun & trying to embarrass me. She was wise. She was the best mother I could have asked for & a fantastic granny to our boys. Goodbye Mam.Always with us ❤️

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@deshocks

2 years

Put children to bed, at great length. Went for customary “date night”. (This constitutes a walk, together, to the bottom of the driveway to put out the bin. Takes about four minutes.) Returned to house. Two tearful faces in the hall: “we thought you left us”. Lads.

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4 months

Complaining about having nowhere local to hold a communion because it’s housing women and children fleeing conflict suggests to me that people aren’t quite getting the message of Christianity… but what would I know

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@deshocks

4 years

Lads maybe it’s because I’m a bogger but I’d take Killinascully over Mrs Brown any day

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@deshocks

6 years

Introducing Oscar. Arrived just after 2am Thursday at CUMH (thankfully) & we were home safe within 12 hours thanks to their amazing Domino scheme - coincidence we were watching #therotunda when contractions started?! #wearedelivering

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@deshocks

2 years

I’m not normally one for the vague needy posts but if you could see your way to lighting a candle or sending some good karma, or prayers to whatever deity you believe in, in the direction of UHL tomorrow I’d appreciate it.

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@deshocks

5 years

Buying a four slice toaster with my confirmation money is still one of my favourite childhood moments

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Why French Women Don't Get Fat: a one slice toaster. ONE SLICE.

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1 year

Imagine being inside that centre, looking out the window at this, after fleeing a war zone or being persecuted for being LGBT, or running from an arranged marriage or from FGM.

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1 year

Crowds gather on East Wall road for a second protest about a lack of consultation about asylum seekers moving in. #EastWall #Dublin

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

2 years

Cancelled broadband contract this morning - to take effect on August 10th to allow move to new provider. With remarkable efficiency they cancelled it immediately and now we have no tv or internet. I invite you to guess who our provider was. Just guess. One guess will do you…

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@deshocks

4 years

Am in hospital with small boy and staff are telling me they’ve seen loads of kids with serious E. coli this year because of all the sea & river swimming. If we’re going to be encouraging people to staycation we should probably make sure the place is fit for purpose...

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3 years

Prediction: Leo will appear on the Late Late Toy Show wearing Christmas socks to reveal the restrictions are lifting, around the same time Micheál is standing, alone, outside Govt buildings to make the announcement.

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@deshocks

4 years

"How will kids react when we tell them they can't trick or treat?" Eh lads, kids have been here this whole time. They're small, not stupid. They will react the same way as they did to all the other things they can't do because of #COVID .

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1 year

Little bit of cuteness for your Saturday night. We have a gorgeous Ukrainian family sharing our home at the moment, including a lovely 12 year old girl. My boys made her a picture today and wanted to know how to spell “sister” 😍❤️😭

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9 months

My friend, a teacher, was still hiding the fact she lived with her boyfriend from the parish priest (chair of BoM) in 2012 in case she didn't get a permanent contract.

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1 year

Met some English tourists in Cobh today who were a bit upset they couldn’t find sterling or an English bank in the town… er…

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2 years

So dystopian to see women in America being warned to delete period tracking apps in case they’re used to incriminate them. Horrifying.

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@deshocks

2 years

52 hours after being triaged, 40(ish?) after getting a trolley, 100+ tweets, 1 email of complaint to the CEO, many phone calls, Dad has a bed in UHL. I’m conscious of the platform I have. This is happening to people every day who don’t have that. It’s not good enough.

Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

2 years

36 hours now. Given no food between 8pm & 10am (while everyone else got supper and breakfast) because he was "fasting" waiting to see a dietitian. There is no dietitian service in A&E. Patient advocacy manager tells me he will have a bed this afternoon.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

3 years

Not asked for vaccine passport in Cafe Sol Bishopstown and neither was anyone else while I was there. When I raised it the lady came and checked mine and my friend’s… and nobody else’s. Not great.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

3 years

4 year old was talking to his Granny today. Asked him did he have a good chat: “I did. Your mother seems to be in great form”... Anyone hiring? We might skip the school bit altogether.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

7 years

Please share - if you're in need of shelter in Cork city tonight, 3 Little Piggies cafe on union quay is open to the homeless.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

9 months

Listening to the Clonmel principals on the radio, they really deserve to be commended on how they have leapt into action. Ready for the media, ready to support the students, ready for going back to school for everyone else tomorrow... I hope there is someone minding them too.

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@deshocks

4 years

Elderly family member with chronic condition went into UHL by ambulance yesterday early. Still on trolley. We don’t even expect a bed any more. Don’t fucking talk to me about coalitions, nobody cares what your party fortunes are. We care about getting the services we pay for.

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@deshocks

4 years

Hey Dublin people. Cork superiority jokes aside. Keep the chin up. This is shit. But we're with you x

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@deshocks

2 years

My Mam wanted her ashes scattered at a particular beach in West Clare, specifically in October. I’m fairly sure she knew well there would be thunder, lightning and hailstones. She’s definitely here today! ❤️⛈

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@deshocks

4 years

Yesterday a nurse rang the show to complain that teachers are “sitting at home on full pay” and said they should be redeployed to the front lines to risk their lives like she is. Don’t be that guy.

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@deshocks

4 years

Deliveroo should be banned. Yes, cycle safety is a huge issue here. But allowing "disruptors" create a whole new underclass of precariously employed people, mostly migrants, to be exploited is like ripping up every employment law we have. Why is it being allowed to continue?

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@deshocks

4 years

Had to buy some bananas in the shop this morning in case I meet a Garda who queries if 12 kinder buenos is really an essential purchase

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@deshocks

2 years

Thread. Dad got a trolley after 13 hours waiting. He’s been on it now since 3am. All he needed was a blood test & IV antibiotics. Should have been GP -> non-acute hospital. Why are we funnelling EVERYONE through one exhausted emergency doc? 145 patients in UHL A&E last night.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

10 days

Family member very ill in UHL. Excellent (and VERY unusually speedy) care, mostly by doctors and nurses from India, Asia and Africa. Where would we be without them?

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

4 years

Much like at the time of the first lockdown I have a feeling there is a silent majority in favour of moving to Level 5. People are scared.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

5 years

Is there any face happier than a baby who has located the dirtiest thing in the room and tried to put it in their mouth?!

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@deshocks

5 years

“Reusable face wipes” IT’S CALLED A FACE CLOTH

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@deshocks

3 years

Events management companies with no work in every county. Why weren’t they contracted by local authorities to manage an outdoor summer, free to the public, with adequate security, waste management, as part of a *plan*?

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@deshocks

2 years

I also want to mention publicly the incredible kindness and compassion of the staff in the ICU at @ULHospitals . It takes a very special kind of person to do that work and we are so lucky that they made Mam’s stay there and her death peaceful, respectful and dignified. Thank you.

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@deshocks

2 years

Well this is awkward #irishTBC

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@deshocks

5 years

Are we being gaslit? I feel like we’re being gaslit, guys

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@IrishRedDevil76

5 years

According to Vance,Ireland was ‘invited’ to join the UK.😟

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4 years

Oh my god

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@deshocks

4 years

When this is all over I am headed for Mont St Michel, thanks @rtenews for that gem #WhenWeTravelAgain

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@deshocks

2 years

I was in a shop this morning that sells plastic plants for €400. Apparently there is high demand for them. I wouldn’t mind but I bought the real version of this plant for €20 in aldi and it’s practically impossible to kill. What’s going on lads?

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@deshocks

4 years

Michael Healy Rae owns a bit of the company profiting from the direct provision centre in Cahirciveen, but Eamon Ryan is in trouble for quoting someone *too* directly about their experience of racism? Ok...

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

4 years

Workman cursed in the presence of almost 4yo today, stopped, apologised. Child: “it’s ok, I know those words. I just pretend not to know them”, hands in pockets, saunters off. He’s either going to be a politician or the greatest criminal mastermind Ireland has ever known

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@deshocks

3 years

Man who learned to read in prison aged 32 graduates with honours degree

Cork man Timmy Long spent the last eight years pursuing his education, graduating from Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) this month with an honours degree in construction management.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

4 years

Feeling very sad today for all the people missing huge milestones. Primary schoolkids not being able to say goodbye to their schools, weddings being cancelled... it's all just very hard, isn't it?

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

2 months

The doctor on @drivetimerte now talking about witnessing an orphaned eight year old Palestinian girl dying alone of her burns, with no pain relief, in the corner of a crowded A&E… this is a stain on all of us #genocide

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

2 years

Did a man just say on Liveline that the goat would be delighted that loads of people - half of them GIRLS - would looking at him...

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@deshocks

3 years

Who’s heard of the word “jigacting” ... as in “stop that jigacting before you lose an eye”? My husband does not believe this is a word 😂

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

4 years

If you went to Cheltenham, stay there.

Brigid Laffan

@BrigidLaffan

4 years

This is Ireland’s next #coronavirus challenge-no social distance here. How to deal with the re-entry of 10,000-15,000 punters from #CheltenhamFestival

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@deshocks

2 years

The abuse @BootstrapCook is getting is vile. Her work has made me think really differently about the detail of food poverty and how we engage with it - it wouldn't have *ever* occurred to me to include the energy costs in how much a dish costs somebody to make.

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@deshocks

6 years

By the way, Dublin media, the woman who was sleeping on a beach in Youghal earlier this summer with her nine kids is still homeless. Just so you know. From hotel to B&B to tent and back. No home. But it’s not in Dublin is it?

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@deshocks

3 years

This is going to be one HELL of a Covid outbreak...

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@yellowlensphoto

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Still no roadmap for live music but this is allowed?? Make it make sense. @MichealMartinTD @LeoVaradkar

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@deshocks

8 months

Is anyone even slightly surprised about Russell Brand?

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@deshocks

5 years

Conor McGregor invited to march in the Chicago parade, Shinners bearing stupid, divisive slogans in the New York one... Irish America is not reflective of the vast majority in modern Ireland. Embarrassing.

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@deshocks

6 months

I just saw a sign on a car that read “babaí ar bord”. Regardless of the merits of these yokes (it’s fine to crash into people with no children?) what language is this supposed to be? Babaí wasn’t the Irish for baby last time I checked and doesn’t “ar bord” mean on the table…?

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@deshocks

2 years

Just the 12 hours waiting now in A&E. Glad I’ve made so many new friends. I think by the time we leave here it’ll be like Irish college, we’ll all be crying and promising to write to each other. My dad still hasn’t seen a doctor though.

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@deshocks

5 years

Listening to the middle aged (sounding, anyway) chairman of a Board of Management of a small rural Catholic school defending a boy's right to wear a skirt if he wants to is something that would have been UNIMAGINABLE a couple of years ago. It's astonishing. And so refreshing.

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@deshocks

1 year

Someone organising a very large event contacted me today asking me to host panels. No budget… for this very large event. If you can’t afford to pay people for their work, you can’t afford to run an event.

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@deshocks

2 years

Too good to leave on Instagram

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@deshocks

3 years

MY PARENTS ARE GETTING VACCINATED TODAY!!! This is the best news I’ve had in... I don’t know... ever?!

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@deshocks

2 years

The dog went to the vet at 2pm, has had bloods taken, results returned, been given anti inflammatory and antibiotic injection, and a prescription. I really don’t understand why humans can’t get this level of service!!

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@deshocks

5 years

Eoghan Murphy says there is no silver bullet to solving the housing crisis. Guess what, there is! BUILDING PUBLIC HOUSING WOULD SOLVE THE HOUSING CRISIS

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@deshocks

4 years

It occurred to be the other day to wonder about all the people who are trapped at home with somebody abusive. School is a great escape for a lot of kids. This is a terrible time for them.

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@deshocks

4 years

Neither of my children has slept past 5.57am for a single day in the past year. Until today. When they slept until 7.20. Making EVERYONE late. Happy September

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@deshocks

6 years

Shout out to the lovely Georgi in @Aldi_Ireland ’s Elysian branch who packed up my shopping for me because the baby was crying. And the nice lady who told me he was lovely then hoped I was doing well myself.what could’ve been a v messy stressful shopping trip was made really nice.

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1 year

Listening to the parents of poor Vivienne Murphy on the radio and I can't believe THREE GPs didn't realise how ill the child was when she was unable to produce a urine sample.

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@deshocks

1 year

The replies 😂

Yay Cork

@yaycork

1 year

How about a wholesome weekend of glamping with The Happy Pear on Bere Island? 😊 ⛺

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@deshocks

6 years

Lads if she was teaching my children I'd move schools. Her way of giving feedback is sooooooo negative! #roomtoimprove

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@deshocks

3 months

In other HSE related tweets, I have to say thanks to the absolutely wonderful staff at CUMH and particularly the brilliant Domino midwife team. Our newest addition Donncha is settling in really well ❤️

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@deshocks

3 years

Love this “I think he might want to withdraw his remarks about the significance of a credit union meeting in Kerry because I can’t think of any more important organisation than a credit union movement and it is as important in Kerry as it is anywhere else,” Mr Higgins.

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@deshocks

2 years

Some good news today. Two friends - one in homeless accomm, one in a DP Centre - have been housed in the past two weeks. There is movement happening, somewhere. I’m so happy for them and their families. Gardens! Their own washing machines!

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@deshocks

4 years

I was talking to a friend last night who was busy ironing. Her sheets. Do ye all do this?!

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Do normal people iron pillow cases? Asking for me.

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1 year

There is an American guy working in my local shop. This morning at 9am I was there buying papers and I heard him trying to give a Ted Lasso style pep talk to a young colleague. At 9am on a Sunday. It didn't go well. I'm not sure Irish people are receptive to pep talks?

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@deshocks

4 years

Didn't Priti Patel actually threaten this exact thing?

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@deshocks

2 years

Thinking about Ashling Murphy and her family and friends today. How do we stop this happening?

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@deshocks

2 years

Small boy tells me there was bunting and decorations at the vaccination centre in North Main St for all the kids getting jabbed. Vaccinator asked him about his Ninjago jumper & security guard waved as he left. Thanks to those in the @HSELive who made it a positive experience.

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@deshocks

5 years

Himself brought the boys out to the market this morning solo. In 100m between carpark and market he counted 9 “fair play”s and “oh good man you’ve your hands full there”s. This has never happened to me. And I normally bring the dog as well!!

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@deshocks

5 years

Baby came home in another kid’s socks yesterday. By mistake, obviously. Today the other mother pointedly asked me for them back. I can find... one. These socks are only available in Germany, you know.

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@deshocks

2 years

I wish I had the research skills of the @TG4TV people who could find a Gaelgeoir on the moon if challenged to do so

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'Tá imní orm nach mé mbeidh mé beo amárach mar tá gach duine i mbaol san Úcráin anois' @NadiaDobryanska san Úcráin

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2 years

THIS... I don't know how many middle aged, middle class men I have heard sneer at "single mothers" for "refusing" council houses. This is why. A house is no good to you if its location keeps you unemployed and isolated

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1 year

Ad for toy show the musical comes on. “The show everyone is talking about!” Six year old: “I dunno anyone who’s talking about it…” Burn

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@deshocks

6 years

I read something on twitter last night that said the song that's number one on your 14th birthday defines you for life. What's yours? Mine, I am somewhat aghast to report, is Chocolate Salty Balls.

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Teen hero saves mother and daughter from drowning

'I had to do the right thing' - Young traveller hailed a hero after selfless rescue of mother and...

'He is our hero — I could have been planning funerals today,' said the mother of one of the people rescued from the River Barrow in Carlow

www.irishexaminer.com

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8 months

A lot of people finding out today you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube

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@deshocks

3 years

What a day. She got knocked down; she’s fine bar a few cuts and bruises. I’m traumatised, and I’d say the driver is too.

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@deshocks

4 years

Relative just got her very sick toddler out of UHL where she’s been all week. You can’t pay the carpark with a card and there’s no ATM in the building. Seriously. Does anyone use their brain? @HSELive

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@deshocks

11 months

I really hope someone better at this than me is out photographing the full moon over the mouth of Cork Harbour tonight… it is spectacular

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@deshocks

3 years

Just found ourselves explaining to 4 year old that no we never went to cafes for a hot chocolate at his age because... there were no cafes in rural ireland? There was no such thing as a takeaway hot drink? We weren’t MADE of money? So many reasons

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@deshocks

3 years

Happy Monday to everyone who didn’t start the day by discovering the dog has been doing sneaky poos in the spare room for possibly quite a while now. Anyone want a dog?

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@deshocks

5 years

It fairly gives the lie to the whole social welfare scrounger theory of who makes these claims, though, doesn't it?

Davey Donnelly

@DaveyDonn

5 years

The Shelbourne Hotel will be removing its revolving doors (Revolving doors have been in place at the Hotel since the early 20th Century) due to a series of compensation claims 🙄🙄🙄 - the Government need to get an urgent handle on this pathetic compensation culture.

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@deshocks

2 years

More than a year after a hip replacement I am still consistently shocked at the freedom I have now. Being physically able to bring the kids swimming, and afterwards hop on a train to *walk across the city* to meet someone is an unbelievable privilege.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

2 years

Two weeks today since my Mam died. I got the phone call mid-highlights to come to the hospital, 2.5 hours away. The lovely people at @CarolineBell79 looked after me so well that day & wouldn’t even take money. Those moments of kindness are so important.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

5 years

I’ve an email from Brown Thomas urging me to spend my loyalty points before they expire... hmmm... so much excitement... what will I spend my riches on?! This €1.35 is going places baby!

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

2 years

Some story. Eagle-eyed garda spots upskirting offender on the Luas and unearths a more sinister case

Eagle-eyed garda spots upskirting offender on the Luas and unearths a more sinister case

Dogged police work brought a sex offender to justice, but the deeper they dug, the more sinister the case became, writes Cormac O'Keeffe

www.irishexaminer.com

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

4 years

Lads, can I just say. We're what, three weeks into this emergency and ye're all doing great. Well done. Have another Kinder Bueno.

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

@deshocks

3 years

Does everyone else have a hypothetical thing they would buy if they won the lotto that they have detailed plans for but are never actually going to do because they never do the lotto?

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