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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 18h

Catherine Connolly built the RTÉ Player #Smearthebejaysus

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Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 9h

To think any fool would pay to read this rag

Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 11h

Connolly gets warm welcome on Wexford canvass – but no sign of former Labour leader on home patch

Catherine Connolly received a warm welcome while out on a two-and-a-half hour canvass in Wexford town on Saturday – but one Wexford politician was noticeably absent.

Connolly gets warm welcome on Wexford canvass – but no sign of former Labour leader on home patch

Catherine Connolly received a warm welcome while out on a two-and-a-half hour canvass in Wexford town on Saturday – but one Wexford politician was noticeably absent.

www.independent.ie

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Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 11h

He’ll never know

Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 11h

The ten second moment of truth

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Phil @phlytecase.bsky.social · 16h

You don't even need to #smearthebejaysus out of Ivan Yates. The true stuff about him is all awful. Get this feckin fraud off our airwaves

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 16h

Yates praises Thatcher/Reagan for slashing welfare and promoting self-reliance. He's been taking public pension since he was 43. He'd taken €250,000 by 50. He still gets €75,000 pa, and will for life. Funded by citizens who work for fractions of that.

www.independent.ie/business/iri... #Áras25

Yates nets €240,000 from pension before age of 50

FORMER Fine Gael minister Ivan Yates earned more than €240,000 in pension payments before the age of 50, the Irish Independent can reveal.

www.independent.ie

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 16h

Yates praises Thatcher/Reagan for slashing welfare and promoting self-reliance. He's been taking public pension since he was 43. He'd taken €250,000 by 50. He still gets €75,000 pa, and will for life. Funded by citizens who work for fractions of that.

www.independent.ie/business/iri... #Áras25

Yates nets €240,000 from pension before age of 50

FORMER Fine Gael minister Ivan Yates earned more than €240,000 in pension payments before the age of 50, the Irish Independent can reveal.

www.independent.ie

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.

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Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 14h

What an absolute load of bs, the LeahyMcGee train continues on its stodgy FFFG pathway. The IT is letting itself down so badly it’s embarrassing. Micheál Martin will vote for Heather Humphreys but Fianna Fáil won’t tell voters to back her

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Micheál Martin will vote for Heather Humphreys but Fianna Fáil won’t tell voters to back her

Fine Gael presidential candidate denies ‘smear campaign’ against rival Catherine Connolly

www.irishtimes.com

Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 18h

I find it difficult to distinguish between the two, he degrades normal discourse.

Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 19h

Still considered good enough to serve as a senior government minister even though he was considered a lightweight by many.

Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 20h

They’re both full of unsavoury ingredients when you pierce the skin holding all the shit in

Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 20h

He just can’t scrape that dog poo off his shoe, heritage will out.

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craftycarver.bsky.social @craftycarver.bsky.social · 21h

Ivan Yates doesn't value integrity because he has none

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Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 21h

😂 I should have read your previous FFFG stuff!!

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 1d

I saw Catherine Connolly label a pan au chocolat as a plain croissant in the self checkout

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Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly seen buying 11 items in the 10 items or less aisle!

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 1d

I saw Catherine Connolly buy a packet of crisps in the pub and she didn't tear it open and put it in the middle of the table.

Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly seen buying 11 items in the 10 items or less aisle!

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Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly left the cap off the toothpaste

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Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 1d

He’s an obnoxious younger version of George Hook, the fools in FFFG see him as one of their own.

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mmch.bsky.social @mmch.bsky.social · 2d

Ivan Yates, who went bankrupt running a chain of bookies, platformed by our courtier media as some kind of ninja level strategist.

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Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 1d

www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland...

Ivan Yates: ‘I was a poster boy for bankruptcy tourism’

Broadcaster relieved at return of family home, and plans to step back from media

www.irishtimes.com

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Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 1d

He comes out whenever there’s money to be made. Not that he’s able to hold onto it mind. www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland...

Ivan Yates: ‘I was a poster boy for bankruptcy tourism’

Broadcaster relieved at return of family home, and plans to step back from media

www.irishtimes.com

Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 1d

Ivan Yates is a bankrupt bookie who has donated his debt to Ireland’s

Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 1d

Satire or analysis? I’m worried you might think Bruton had some sort of charisma to anybody apart from the most obdurate of unionist and loyalist.

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Johnny @obriekp.bsky.social · 1d

You’re crediting him with a greater intelligence than he deserves. I think he’s aware his government consultancy contracts won’t be quite as safe under the new regime.

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