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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 6h

Rest in piss, my lad

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 1d

Johnny Cash would have bullied this writer so hard that the he'd have changed his name to Sue.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 2d

The sound of the world's tiniest violin getting tuned up for A minor

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland could build a new children's hospital every three years for the cost of the hospitality VAT reduction.

We could build a Galway sized luas system every year for the same cost

We'll invest less in the National Grid between now and 2030, than we will in €18 sandwiches in 2026

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 3d

And then the scandal came out about how himself and the other principal were taking all the money from all the bring and buy sales, all the cake sales, all the no uniform days, and just keeping it.

The pair of them got done for fraud.

Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 3d

Principal kept having so many affairs that I remember asking a muinteoir if the woman hanging around the entrance was his new girlfriend? And we'd a chat about which one was prettier until the teacher shut it down

His wife got tired of it and eventually drove his new car into the wall of the school

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E @elaineedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Got to love Dublin. #Speirgorm

Picture of a large junction box on the street at the top of Kildare Street at Stephen’s Green in Dublin, Ireland. On it is painted a very large, angry-looking seagull in front of two wooden gates. Two tiny people, dwarfed by the seagull, appear to be running from it, one on either side of the lower front of the image. The text over the gates reads St Stephen’s Green. The signature in the lower right of the image says M. Fitz 25.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 4d

To be fair to the tans, the party whips collect this all in advance so that it can be used to keep people in line.

Here? No. Too uncoordinated, much of the time central parties can't get the local party to nominate the right people, nevermind doing op research on them. They've no culture of that.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 5d

Go to the Lovinspoon, on North Fredrick St., for the only good fry in Dublin.

Don't eat food outside in Dublin, the sea gulls will get you

If you're driving in the countryside tune in to the local radio, especially around 10am when they do the death notices

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 5d

The Chester Beaty library is great, central, lovely exhibits from around the world. Like all the state museums, it's free. The archaeological museum is great too.

Book ahead for Kilmainham Gaol, and newgrange, tickets sell out quickly

Stay out of temple bar and go to the Cobblestone in Smithfield

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 5d

I like the fact that, as an arch-catholic and rabid-evangelical, both of them think the other's going to hell

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 5d

The only thing that could cancel the election now is if a candidate died. So there's the technical possibility that Gavin could be elected now even if he didn't want it

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 5d

No, the FGers just didn't always run a candidate, but when they did there were elections e.g. Tom O'Higgins ran against both Childers and Dev, Dev also ran against McEoin - and they were tight elections. O'Higgins was only 10k votes behind Dev in 66

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 5d

That's not true. There's no provision for withdrawing a nomination once the nomination period closed. The only way for the election order to be voided, there having been valid nominees, is if one of the nominees died.

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 7d

Finglas has the best pun shop names. A sunbed shop called Only Tans

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 7d

Still a bit of a question about the sauce, "and make sauce with 2 or 3 of ??????, and some thick butter and fried lemon"

The only suggestion for the gap that I've seen is "anchovy", but I'm not convinced.

But, it otherwise looks like a great dish

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 8d

Well done!

Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 8d

youtu.be/C8uOPrU4B9s?...

Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer

YouTube video by cassetteboy

youtu.be

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 8d

It's onions, maybe a number of onions

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 8d

That's what I thought, though there's an "i" in there doing something I don't understand

I think the next one is a "juice if 5 onions"

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 8d

It's not custard kebab, is it?

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 8d

and lardon??? one? of them with a little bacon and fry them in a frying pan, and make sauce with ??? of ??? and some thick butter and sliced lemon

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 8d

Take the flesh of a leg of goat/veal? and beat it in a stone mortar till it be a ??? paste, then season it with pepper, salt, and a little nutmeg, the juice of ???? and a handful of smooth herbs, minced very small. Beat it all together then make it into little cakes as big as the palm of your hands

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 8d

Have you tried freecycle? I found it great when I was moving

www.freecycle.org/town/limerick

Freecycle: Limerick Group

www.freecycle.org

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 8d

That is a very good point :)

It must have been grim living around that pit afterwards

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