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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 19h

Bar chart in the wild!

Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 8h

That's very good, it's showing the normal human side of both of them, which is something we haven't been that exposed to.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 8h

This remains head and shoulders above the agenda-driven studio efforts. And mercifully short. #Áras25 Just a minute quiz.

Arlene Harris @arleneharris.bsky.social · 4d

In today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social the two remaining presidential hopefuls told me about their daily lives, their hopes and fears for the future, their earliest memory and the one thing people don't know about them #PresidentialElection
#Aras25
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/he...

Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly on hopes, fears, and daily routines

Getting to know more about our two presidential candidates with questions about everything from morning routines and earliest memories to biggest fears

www.irishexaminer.com

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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 1d

I keep forgetting that English people add a phoenetic 'r' where there's a vowel. That's why I didn't get that name 'Shaun the Sheep' was a pun for a good 10 years.

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 22h

The whitewashing begins, I actually think a big driver for this ‘peace’ deal was to protect Israel from total ostracisation on the global stage, they should still be punished and made to account for their genocide

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 22h

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said

Eurovision organisers push back Israel decision

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union sa...

www.rte.ie

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 19h

Fantastic

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Damien Mac Chonchoille @bohola4.bsky.social · 19h

@electionlit.bsky.social 👇

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 20h

Cape Verde celebrate their World Cup qualification on their bus 🇨🇻

🎥 @nickmiller79.bsky.social

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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 21h

Obviously, great to see hostages freed but it is stomach churning to watch perpetrators of genocide and their enablers posing as peacemakers and suggesting today marked a landmark moment in Middle east history. It isn’t.
Nothing has changed for the Palestinians.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 22h

What a win for Cape Verde... at least Rovers fans will have a team to support at the World Cup.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

This really highlights how negotiations between Israel and Palestine are negotiations between an occupier and an occupied people.

Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 1d

Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

www.middleeasteye.net

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

Nuanced shift in tone: Israel has families, Gaza has people.

Micheál Martin @micheal-martin.bsky.social · 1d

Like people all around the world, I am deeply moved by the scenes of hostages held by Hamas for more than two long years, finally being reunited with their families.

I pay enormous tribute to the patient work of all those who have brought us to this day.

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Saoirse Ryan @saoirseryan.bsky.social · 1d

These people would make you sick. Speech after sycophantic speech praising a man who has forced Netanyahu to a tenuous peace deal for one reason only:
so he can win a Nobel Peace Prize. Meanwhile the Conquest and killing in the west bank continues at pace and the future of Gaza is still in peril.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Adam Parsons tells us Palestinians "feel" that Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are hostages too

Feel?

People are seized from their homes & locked up indefinitely without trial or charge, with no evidence against them & not even told why they've been locked up!

"Feel".

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Israel has banned Palestinians from celebrating the release of Palestinian prisoners [hostages] & banned their families from giving interviews

Contrast that with the celebrations around the release of Israeli hostages & the many interviews being broadcast around the world.

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Harley - PomPomPastel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pompompastel.bsky.social · 2d

Catherine Connolly wanted to do the funniest thing when she wins, her very first public video should be

"I know a thing or two about smear campaigns. That's why I encourage everyone over the age of 25 to book theirs now!"

#speirgorm #Irishpolitics #Áras25 #Aras25

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

People gave a record amount of money to multiple organizations for the people of Gaza and all this money just sat there for the past 2 years because Israel blocked it. I hope this money gets distributed quickly now so that the people of Gaza don't have to beg anymore
news.un.org/en/story/202...

Private donations boost UN support for war-torn Gaza

From celebrities to civil society, a growing number of people around the world are providing unprecedented support for UNRWA, the UN agency supplying a lifeline to two million Palestinians trapped in ...

news.un.org

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Guy Le Jeune @guylejeune.bsky.social · 2d

Signs in Raphoe this morning. All I could read from the car was..

HEATHER
EXPERIENCE

I now have an interactive, multi-media tourist attraction that explores the life and times of Heather in my head.

Photo later.

I’ll see if I can nab one for @electionlit.bsky.social after the count.

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 2d

Former Dublin Goalkeeper John O’Leary running for Fianna Fáil in the 2007 General Election in Dublin North.
He polled 5,074 votes but failed to get in.

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 2d

From 1987

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely fantastic news today, I'm proud to welcome councillor Toby Benton, who left the labour party to join the Greens today.

Welcome home, Cllr Benton.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

Israel bombed south Lebanon overnight

This is what Israel means by ceasefire

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2d

Sampling began before Gavin dropped out and before the keepy uppy clip went viral.

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 2d

It's amazing, here with my 25 Yr old son. It's a trip down memory lane too as he would have holidayed with his Grandparents here for 15 years or so. His late Grandad drank Cointreau , so we had one in his memory last night!

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent, myself and my son have been doing a bit too

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 2d

It was the border accent saying entrepreneur that stuck with me

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