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HyperbolicDub 🍉 @hyperbolicdub.bsky.social · 8h

Micheál Martin knows a winning presidential candidate when he sees one #speirgorm #aras25

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 10h

Heather Humphreys has thanked Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin for saying he would vote for her after his own candidate's unceremonious exit from the race
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Humphreys thanks Micheál Martin for saying he plans to vote for her

‘I need all the votes I can get, there’s no question about that,’ Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys said.

www.thejournal.ie

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 8h

My husband's dad died in August and he rang his FG friend specifically to ask him to make sure she or David Maxwell wouldn't show up at the funeral 😆. Also put the same message out to FF, I should add. Funerals are big here!

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Darren Leathley @dmleathley.bsky.social · 15h

Catherine Connolly is only running for the Áras so she can look at the animals in Dublin Zoo without having to leave the house. #SmearTheBejaysus #SmearTheBejaysis

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Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 11h

Catherine Connolly is just three Michael Ds in a trench coat!

#SmearTheBejaysus #Spéirgorm #Áras25

Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 16h

Catherine Connolly thinks Thierry Henry's goal wasn't a handball.

#SpéirGorm #SmearTheBejaysus #Áras25

Marina @sand-badger.bsky.social · 1d

I heard Catherine Connolly leaves the immersion on #SpeirGorm

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 11h

Here's the feed that captures alternative spellings: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 11h

Yep, David, the key point is that most, if not all, of the people participating gleefully will be voting for CC.

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 11h

Ivan Yates is to Catherine Connolly as Pee Flynn was to Mary Robinson. Discuss. #speirgorm #Aras25 #smearthebejaysis

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Bar Mageddon @barmageddon.bsky.social · 14h

catherine connolly once said to me "i will yeah" and then she did
#smearthebejaysis

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 15h

@davidmccullough.bsky.social Hi David, if you are still trying to figure us out as a people, have a look at #smearthebejaysis (origin: Fine Gael pundit said on radio their election strategy should be to "smear the bejaysis out of Catherine Connolly"; #speirgorm responded).

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't take such drastic measures to make me cry alas, the Muppet's Christmas Carol will do it. Still not the better of Toy Story 2 or 3 😭🫣.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 1d

Another comfy orange bastard.

Ginger cat curled up on his back, asleep, on a colourful chair, with his front paws resting on his tummy and his back paws in the air.

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 2d

Significant blow today for Stella O'Malley & her anti-trans advocacy organisation Genspect, as their spurious defamation action against Irish therapist, Leonie O'Dowd, is added to "The Gallery of Shame" by CASE (Campaign Against SLAPPs in Europe.) www.the-case.eu/gallery-of-s...

Gallery of Shame – CASE

www.the-case.eu

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 1d

That sounds utterly normal. Hope the passing is as easy as it can be.

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 1d

Never have felt able for it!

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 2d

Problem is, that would give the real horrors out there a second chance to get on the ballot.

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 2d

It was made easier for me as soon as HH went anti-trans- I was unenthusiastically voting CC, now I'm enthusiastically voting CC.

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 3d

#spéirghorm

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 3d

AYO SUPREMACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 3d

Ayo Edebiri Covers Vogue US, November 2025

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like most Irish and British writers who complain about being silenced have never done anything as brave as what Naoise has done here

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3d

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters.
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Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens f...

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MsMc @msmcglencree.bsky.social · 3d

Red Squirrel!!!!!! Hurragh!!!!!
#speirgorm #wicklow #nature

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 3d

Trawler by Redmond O'Hanlon.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted to be the brand ambassador for Design & Craft Council Ireland’s “Made Local” campaign this Christmas. Especially as I’m a grassroots made local craft project myself! And blessed to be dressed head to toe in Irish made “rigouts” and jewellery pretty much every time you’ve ever seen me

Me in a gorgeous colourful kaftan by Stables and jewelry by Mellissa Curry, and Edge Only. My arms are outstretched and I’m posing in front of large red and orange drapes

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 4d

Was it ok? As in people weren't allowed get away with being abusive? I couldn't bear to watch either.

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 4d

#speirgorm #Aras25

dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 4d

Would be a great day for [email protected] to have a full inbox.....

dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 5d

#speirgorm #Aras25 please if you have 5 minutes let [email protected] know that throwing trans people and EU human rights law under the bus is not a vote winner.