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irishpolitics.bsky.social @irishpolitics.bsky.social · 37m

Business Post Poll leak (apparently) gives results as:

Connolly - 55%
Humphreys - 34%
Gavin - 10%

But can't be confirmed.

Would be consistent with the IT/Red C poll with perhaps the undecideds breaking slightly more for HH and JG. #aras25 #áras25 #spéirghorm #Ireland

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 46m

Honestly the UK (England) needs to get over itself.

(Not Richard K, but the article he’s responding to).

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 8h

Because of course, every European that might want to move wants to move to the UK rather than one of the 26 other countries they could readily move to. What a load of bullshit this calculation is.

John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 10h

Bell says that 350,000 European young people might come a year under an uncapped scheme. But according to HMRC data, in 2015, the peak year of free movement flows to Britain, employment of EU nationals aged 18-34 grew by 97,000. 2/n

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HyperbolicDub 🍉 @hyperbolicdub.bsky.social · 36m

It's been a long time coming but finally it looks like there's some coordination between Garda branches around Philip Dwyer. This isn't just a local Garda thing

Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 1h

Philip Dwyer had his phone seized mid livestream in Citywest today. Ohh well, never mind...

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Felix, Hibernian ghoul @felixbloodaxe.bsky.social · 2h

Hey if you buy a smart bed you deserve to have it come alive and eat you like a giant freshly-laundered Pac-man

404 Media @404media.co · 4h

Eight Sleep smartbeds users had a bad night on Monday when a major outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused their beds to malfunction. Some were left with the bed’s heat blasting. One woman said her bed went haywire and she had to unplug it from the wall.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...

The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds

When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.

www.404media.co

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Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 8h

Pastor who called Heartstopper a ‘health risk’ to kids charged with child sexual abuse

It's probably time to start listing being outspokenly homophobic as being a risk factor for being a predator against children. (cf., the institutional Catholic Church)

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/21/p...

www.thepinknews.com

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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 6h

Ireland disinformation update:

Reddit locked down one of the most-used parts of its platform in Ireland (r/ireland, claiming 1.2m members) due to what moderators called a “wave of new and inactive accounts spreading disinformation and hate speech connected to recent events.”

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 11h

A small bit of good news in an otherwise grim night

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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 20h

We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.

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brianmaxhouston.bsky.social @brianmaxhouston.bsky.social · 20h

MA’AM.

Are you in need of repatriation?

a close up of a barbie doll 's face with the words trendizisit written above it

ALT: a close up of a barbie doll 's face with the words trendizisit written above it

media.tenor.com

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Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 21h

Media training as a minister is about ploughing through, running out the clock, saying nothing

Not sure that’ll win you a Presidential debate #RTEpt #Aras25

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Caolán Mc Aree @caolanmcaree.bsky.social · 21h

Next time someone from Dublin calls me a bogger I'm going to tell them I'm actually a 'Rural Pursuit'

#rtept #Aras25

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brianmaxhouston.bsky.social @brianmaxhouston.bsky.social · 22h

Come on Richard - I’m expecting ERUDITE ENTHUSIASM on Thursday’s Group Chat.

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Aodhán Ó'Coileáin @werslabber.bsky.social · 1d

‘I hardly know what day it is,’ says Humphreys over Shane O’Farrell inquiry vote query jrnl.ie/6850693

‘I hardly know what day it is,’ says Humphreys over Shane O’Farrell inquiry vote query

The Fine Gael presidential candidate was asked about what representations she had made on behalf of a Co Monaghan family.

jrnl.ie

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Aodhán Ó'Coileáin @werslabber.bsky.social · 1d

www.ontheditch.com/government-d...

'Margaret Thatcher light': disability activists on Humphreys

'Government does not value nor hear its disabled citizens.'

www.ontheditch.com

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 1d

Today: “Catherine worked for, or represented, banks to repossess homes and that’s the fact. I don’t know if she got paid for it or not.”

Sindo: “I’ve never tried to capitalise on somebody’s misfortune and to make money out of it. And that’s the difference…”

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

"The effect of the campaign will be longer lasting. People’s general derision of the mainstream newspapers will increase. We malign the death of our industry yet continually treat customers, or potential customers, like idiots."

G'wan Aoife!

ereader.irishnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
#Áras25 #IrishPol

Aoife Moore: Why I offered to help Catherine Connolly and why the Irish establishment won’t stop her

The most desperate times call for the most desperate measures and Fine Gael have reached a new level of desperation

ereader.irishnews.com

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

You said you left politics because you ran out of ideas, says Colette.

That's still the case, says HH 😂

.. and then waffled about experience in gov, or "stepping up to the plate & making the tough decisions", or some other shite, I've stopped listening.

#Áras25

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BernieQuinn 🇮🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @scarpetta.bsky.social · 1d

And for clarity, it WASN'T the credit union branch that John McGuirk took a loan from and then didn't pay it back.
That would have been gas though.
#Spéirghorm #Áras25

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 2d

Heather Humphreys was questioned by reporters today over the credit union that she formerly managed taking legal proceedings over loan defaulting during the time that she was manager.

jrnl.ie/6849520

Humphreys questioned about credit union that she managed taking debtors to court

Humphrey has been critical of her rival Connolly for representing banks in home repossession cases during the recession.

jrnl.ie

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Paul Culloty @paulculloty.bsky.social · 2d

FG campaign strategies since 2016:

a red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on it

Alt: Classic Simpsons scene of Sideshow Bob repeatedly stepping on rakes

media.tenor.com

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 2d

Looooool

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 2d

Heather Humphreys was questioned by reporters today over the credit union that she formerly managed taking legal proceedings over loan defaulting during the time that she was manager.

jrnl.ie/6849520

Humphreys questioned about credit union that she managed taking debtors to court

Humphrey has been critical of her rival Connolly for representing banks in home repossession cases during the recession.

jrnl.ie

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 2d

She said she tends to be a “worrier” and sitting in packed courthouses, watching people being evicted from their homes as a “direct consequence of govt policy”.

“People had to emigrate,” she said - some took their own lives - “directly consequent on government policy.”

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 2d

The Ditch x Village Magazine

Heather Humphreys honoured a disgraced ex-garda after he was accused of extreme domestic violence and found by a tribunal to have corruptly organised planting weapons and fabricated evidence.

An ‘exceptional award’ she said.

www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-ho...

Humphreys honoured disgraced garda

The garda was accused of extreme domestic violence.

www.ontheditch.com

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 2d

Fine Gael tripling down with a slight pivot.

Trying to say it’s about “non-disclosure” of her former work rather than her doing it.

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Bernie Linnane @berlinnaeus.bsky.social · 2d

A letter from Brendan Conroy in today's Irish Independent says he will vote No 1 for Jim Gavin and then stop. The same tactic is advised by Breda O'Brien in the Irish Times. Brendan is Breda's husband. Who knew? Is this daftness an official Iona strategy?
#Aras25 #FeckOffIona

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brianmaxhouston.bsky.social @brianmaxhouston.bsky.social · 2d

Who’s this breathless Brit shockjock journo on Radio Eireann? Why is he so breathless and eager?