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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ

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Shatnerologist Daon-Phoblacht Corcaí 🇮🇪 Scrap the 27th Amendment https://www.thejournal.ie/children-face-deportation-4295689-Oct2018 Big list of Irish Bskyers (click on 'People') https://bsky.app/profile/uilliammac.bsky.social/lists/3kdkem5ypxi2s

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · Oct 10

How are you? / How are you doing?
#Gaeilge #Éire #Ireland #Gàidhlig #Alba #Scotland #Gaelg #GlareVanninagh #Mannin #EllanVannin

A map of Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man which shows how the phrase "How are you" translates into many dialects of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 27m

Attitudes in govt to children with special educational needs are not evolving:

“After getting initial sign-off... the school was told during the Easter holidays last year that the Minister for Education had reached her target... and that the new room would not be sanctioned for 2025.”

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 2h

A primary school in Kildare is facing an uphill battle to get more special education supports for its students.

The school's principal said her students are being "badly let down by a poorly resourced system".

jrnl.ie/6840685t

'A total nightmare': A Kildare primary school's fight for support for its students

The school’s principal said her students are being “badly let down by a poorly resourced system”.

jrnl.ie

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 1h

The walls are charred, the windows are broken and the front door is boarded up — but it’s still on the market for €225,000.

A burnt-out Finglas home has become a symbol of how far the housing crisis has gone, at least according to one local TD.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 1h

#Aras25 poll: Business Post/Red C
(October 1-7, MoE 3%)

ℹ️ Sampling began before Gavin’s withdrawal

Connolly 36
Humphreys 25
Gavin 12
undecided 27

After Gavin eliminated:
Connolly 39
Humphreys 31

W/o undecideds:
Connolly 56
Humphreys 44

www.businesspost.ie/article/red-...

Red C Poll: Connolly leads but Heather gains from Gavin exit

www.businesspost.ie

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 1h

Urgh, I thought he was a sexist pig, but that puts a whole other layer of awful.

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 1h

Not hard to place this person on the political spectrum, here are his views on people who leave home wearing stupid outfits.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 3h

Tick Tock.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 3h

🔺NEW: With only a quarter of respondents to the Scottish Social Attitudes survey identifying with Britishness, Scotland faces a generational political split

Young Scots more likely to reject British identity

With only a quarter of respondents to the Scottish Social Attitudes survey identifying with Britishness, Scotland faces a generational political split

www.thetimes.com

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 3h

Not beating the allegation that a lot of racists are intensely stupid.

registered hyperclam 2 🏳️‍🌈 @mootzilla.bsky.social · 6h

oops! he's a racist

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 3h

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 4h

I was quite offended not to be included in their first blocking spree on the old site, but they got around to me in the end.

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 4h

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 6h

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
www.thejournal.ie/humphreys-mi...

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

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 5h

#smearTheBejaysus #smearTheBejaysis

A series of actors posing with crossed arms and dressed in cloaks, shawls and clothes typical of the type seen in fantasy mythology films. Catherine Connolly's phot is crudely photoshopped onto one of them. The film is calked Druids, and is by the strange right wing American film makers called "Celtic Films"

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 5h

I think the EU and its member states have always failed to - and in many cases not even tried to - live up to their professed values of human rights and liberal democracy (and the idea that such values are "European" is flat out racist ofc). But it is important point the deficiencies periodically

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Pintswiththelads @liamogrady2.bsky.social · Feb 5

Cleverly designed housing-supply system to ensure working people cannot afford a 3-bed terraced home.

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 5h

I'd forgotten that, their ads were so strange

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 7h

#onlinesafetyact #osa

Mastodon post by @devxvda

Discord has said that 70,000 UK Government issued User IDs have been compromised, 57 days after the law went into force.

Under 2 months.

The thing they said would "keep kids safe" online has now exposed those very same kids full identities to hackers.

Discord is not to blame. It's a case of when, not if, any company gets hacked.

The blame lies squarely with the UK government.

Can someone remind me how these clowns conquered the world?

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 8h

you know my mother did this one Christmas (my mother is not Catherine Connolly). Every single one in the tin. I took one from the tin and took a bite. Traumatised.

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 7h

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 8h

Catherine Connolly laughed as she slaughtered Fungie for food, and still has bits of him in her chest freezer.
#SmearTheBejaysus #SmearTheBejaysis 🐬🍴

Fungie the dolphing jumping from the sea

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 8h

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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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 10h

Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found?

A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.

I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

CountryWide - RTÉ Radio 1

The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.

www.rte.ie

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 10h

Catherine Connolly built the RTÉ Player #Smearthebejaysus

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 10h

Catherine Connolly twists Kimberleys, licks the filling, then puts them back together and back into the packet.
#SmearTheBejaysus #SmearTheBejaysis

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 21h

I made the decision not to look up the details of what dealing with gelatin induced diverticulitis entails, and I hope I don't have occasion to find out.

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 21h

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 21h

She is indeed, and thank you and your colleagues for highlighting this issue.