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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 7m

An oval ball in a rectangular field, I believe, says McMillan. www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/...

McMillan pleased with his sides 'grit and determination' in narrow win over an ill-disciplined Edinburgh

Clayton McMillan will travel to the capital satisfied his team maintained their early season momentum having found a way to get the job done in front of a sell-out 8,800 crowd on Friday night.

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 23m

The British victory at Gaza, & the thirty British Mandate, would prove a huge opportunity for the Zionist movement... but usher in a catastrophe for the 90% of Palestinians who were Christian or Muslim, and begin a nightmare who repercussions are still being felt by them today.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 23m

A game of inches.

Munster 20-19 Edinburgh, 10.10.25.

Line out jumpers at peak lift, receiver watching intently.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 29m

#Áras25 Best single question yet 👇

Arlene Harris: What is your favourite smell?

Candidate A: I really love the smell of Angel perfume.

Candidate B: Atlantic air after rain.

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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

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 32m

I hear you.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 34m

Ah! Mothers do know stuff.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 38m

Encourage others if you can. It will be close.

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 46m

Out of control supertanker on collision course with our lives.

Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 2h

BBC News - 'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 42m

#Áras25 Sniff Test

What is your favourite smell?

Candidate A: I really love the smell of Angel perfume.

Candidate B: Atlantic air after rain.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 46m

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 45m

Also today in Dublin, Newry, Athlone … www.ipsc.ie

Home - Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Protests, Actions & Events for Palestine Around Ireland As Apartheid Israel continues it genocidal war on the people of Gaza, now using starvation as a weapon, all with the blessing of Western powers,...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2h

I wrote about it in 2018, but it's an issue so fiercely defended by social silence that I found it impossible to get any traction. It's one of those occasions on which everyone thinks you've gone mad, as the alternative is to recognise that the system is mad.
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Enough of Carillion culture. Make bosses pay for the carnage they cause | George Monbiot

Here’s how to tame corporate power, and prevent ruthless executives from enriching themselves by harming us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 51m

Came on from the bench and played very well!

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Cian Ó Concubhair @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social · 1h

I am more than a little late to do my own bit of promotion for this, but my book The Communicative Architecture of Policing was published by Routledge in August.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1h

This is light relief 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 Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1h

Can you guess who gives which answer?

Q. What is your favourite smell?

Candidate A. I really love the smell of Angel perfume.

Candidate B. Atlantic air after the rain.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2h

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
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Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1h

archive.ph/fCXae may help

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 1h

Dumping my bottle of Angel immediately

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1h

Can you guess who gives which answer?

Q. What is your favourite smell?

A. I really love the smell of Angel perfume.

A. Atlantic air after the rain.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1h

Cork today @ 12.45pm.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1h

Can you guess who gives which answer?

Q. What is your favourite smell?

A. I really love the smell of Angel perfume.

A. Atlantic air after the rain.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you Arlene. You take a different angle and a valuable one I think.

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 1h

In 1516, the Ottomans under Selim the Grim defeated the mighty Mamluk Empire in the Middle East, taking control of Gaza. How was Gaza and Palestine ruled from Istanbul? What was the status of Palestinian Arabs under Turkish rule?
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 23h

Those pesky Courts are in the way says Taoiseach.

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'Excessive' frequency of judicial reviews blocking delivery of housing infrastructure, says Taoiseach

'The frequency of judicial reviews is excessive right now', Micheál Martin said

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Councillor Oisín O'Connor @oisinoconnor.bsky.social · 1h

"when he chose to go on a widely shared podcast and say, without irony, that he would “smear the bejaysus out of her”, referring to presidential candidate Catherine Connolly, he wasn’t joking. He was injecting the virus" 1/2
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Colin Sheridan: Smear v journalism — One intends to wound, the other to inform

When Ivan Yates went on a widely shared podcast and said he would 'smear the bejaysus out of her', meaning presidential candidate Catherine Connolly, he was injecting the virus, writes Colin Sheridan

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