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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1h

what’s especially mystifying about this answer is that Joe Brolly was vociferously supporting Jim Gavin, so why Catherine Connolly would even be mentioned is not clear to me.

Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 3h

Ivan Yates ‘no more involved in my campaign than Joe Brolly is in Catherine Connolly’s’ – Heather Humphreys on former minister’s comments

Heather Humphreys has said she will not smear anyone but will ask hard questions of her fellow presidential candidate Catherine Connolly.

Ivan Yates ‘no more involved in my campaign than Joe Brolly is in Catherine Connolly’s’ – Heather Humphreys on former minister’s comments

Heather Humphreys has said she will not smear anyone but will ask hard questions of her fellow presidential candidate Catherine Connolly.

www.independent.ie

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CarolC @carolconnolly.bsky.social · 4h

"in fairness, Catherine Connolly could spend her entire seven years in the office doing nothing but going from school to school doing keepy-uppies and it would probably have a better effect on social cohesion than almost anything else that the president can actually do"

Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 10h

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

www.thejournal.ie

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Susan Adair Farrelly @itsnotsuzalright.bsky.social · 5h

Oooh the digs were flyin into the effin ff-er’s this week! Incisive & amusing as always @carlkinsella.bsky.social

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences jrnl.ie/6837428

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

jrnl.ie

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 6h

🤩🤩🤩

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Slíbhín 🇵🇸 @sareen.bsky.social · 8h

#Áras25 #Aras25

Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 10h

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

www.thejournal.ie

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 10h

If you don’t want to know the end, look away.

“Catherine Connolly could spend her seven years in the office doing nothing but going from school to school doing keepy-uppies and it would probably have a better effect on social cohesion than almost anything else that the president can actually do.”

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 9h

Focail an-chineálta, GRMA!

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Hannah @hannahmonaghana.bsky.social · 9h

“While Fianna Fáil may well be aggrieved that their actions have had consequences, it’s the public at large who will have to suffer the consequences. So far, so Fianna Fáil.”

Éiríonn le Carl Kinsella tochailt go croí na ceiste agus é a tharraingt chun solais i gcónaí.

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 9h

"It might be a bit of a concern for Micheál Martin that a columnist whose primary concern is seeing if he can fit a Muppets reference into his weekly reflections is giving him better advice than his advisors, and for free no less. "

#IrishPol

Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 10h

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

www.thejournal.ie

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks so much!

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Kieran @eslsys.bsky.social · 9h

Excellent article 👇 #Aras25 #Speirgorm #Aras2025

Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 10h

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

www.thejournal.ie

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 10h

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

www.thejournal.ie

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 19h

Hell yeah

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 19h

and if you ever get back to Hackensack

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

they obviously realised it would be a bit too brazen to give the peace prize to Trump so they did something else which signalled that they, like so many institutions, are prepared to kowtow to him for basically no reason.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

and now, to add further heft to my argument, I will graphically simulate fellatio

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

(guy who used to say ‘Joooooe Duffy’ seeing that the new guy’s name is Kieran Cuddihy) ah shit

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.
Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

rehabilitation of prisoners and legal representation without prejudice are principles without which our entire justice system would immediately and completely collapse vs no they’re not

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 3d

you don't hear 'clapped back' so much anymore. there was a time when clapped back was ubiquitous. i supposed we don't clap back as much as we used to. straight to murder now, isn't it

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Shiro Sirius @shirosiri.us · 4d

I’ve rambled about this before but of all the many facets of fascism shown in 1984, it bothers me that everyone latched onto “surveillance bad!” as the moral of the book and completely ignored the bit where they reduced the English language specially to make it harder to formulate improper thoughts

Leen McBeans 🦇 @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 4d

It will never not bother me to hear “unalived” or “graped”. We’ve more than proved that banning language only creates different words for the same topics that we absolutely need to be talking about. Stop making serious issues sound less serious by banning the real heavy words. They’re not the issue

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 4d

ah there he is

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 4d

me: everybody loves the Borgo, the new— *finger to my ear* oh it's a real thing? forget it

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 4d

disappointed to learn that Borgo is just a restaurant and not some kind of hallucinatory concept that I would have gotten a lot of mileage out of characterising.

Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 4d

Someone at the IT is having a 'mare rushing out the Budget coverage.

This was a sponsored post in my Insta Stories.

The social team needs a break and a hug maybe.

A post from Instagram stories with a swipe up link for the Irish Times. A composite image of Leinster House, Jack Chambers and Paschal Donohoe is titled "Budget 2026: Main Points" but the bullet points that follow comprise non-sensical filler text (Lorem ipsum) and snippets apparently borrowed from a restaurant review (One point reads: "Borgo review: Well-priced and welcoming", the next "everything a good neighborhood", and finally "restaurant needsLorem ipsum dolor sit amet")

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 4d

here i'll tell you this for free. child poverty in ireland will be worse in 2030.

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