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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 12m

How could you forgot that face? 😱

Lions, Ireland, and Leinster openside flanker, Josh van der Flier, leans on a fence and looks towards the camera with a small smile framed by a blurry acacia tree in the background.

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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 18m

Dropping VDF after he returns from a Lions tour
Bold call 🤔

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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 19h

Ever and anon, every accusation is a confession
Leddin said one of his issues with the Greens endorsing Connolly was that it was indicative of a move towards social issues over apolitical green policy

It turns out what he actually meant is he's more of a centrist than he was a Green

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 22h

Let's explore the Green credentials of Heather Humphreys - The woman former GP member Brian Leddin thinks should be president.
She advocated for an increased burn period during her time as Minister for Heritage, as well as prolonging the period during which hedgerows could be cut. #Spéirgorm 1/n

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Post to Post Sport @posttopostsport.bsky.social · 1d

Some thoughts after Leinster's first win of the season

posttopost.sport.blog/2025/10/13/t...

#LeinsterRugby

Thoughts After Leinster 31-5 Sharks

Thoughts after Leinster’s first win of the season.

posttopost.sport.blog

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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 4d

Losing to the Stormers by 30+ to nil happens to the best of us man...

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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine losing by 30+ to nil, to the Stormers!
You'd be mortified...👀

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 4d

The Ditch reported yesterday that Humphreys avoided paying business rates on her old constituency office after failing to declare she’s no longer entitled to an exemption.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 4d

Heather Humphreys won’t say if she paid an anti-vacancy tax on her unused residential property.

Humphreys has left the property unoccupied for the last 14 years, during which time the vacant homes tax was introduced.

www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-wo...

Humpheys won’t say if she paid vacant homes tax

She’s left the property unoccupied for more than a decade.

www.ontheditch.com

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Caolán Scully @caolanscully.bsky.social · 6d

🆕 The Inter-Pro Show ☘️ Quizzes, Postponements and (Some) Rugby 🏉

With only 2 games down for discussion, what will the lads talk about?
Streets won't forget ballers of course!

Tune in NOW ⏩ www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-EU...

Quizzes, Postponements and Some Rugby | The Inter-Pro Show

YouTube video by The Global Gainline

www.youtube.com

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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 7d

What. A. Chancer. 😂
Credit to her, she's taking "God loves a trier" to new heights

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 7d

Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure

Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot

www.irishtimes.com

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 8d

"Record Homeless Children Is Fine, But Picking Jim Gavin Over One Of Us Is Unforgivable" Fianna Fáil Members Call On Martin To Resign https://loom.ly/V_wZzBc

“Record Homeless Children Is Fine, But Picking Jim Gavin Over One Of Us Is Unforgivable” Fianna Fáil Members Call On Martin To Resign

HUGE PRESSURE is building on Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach Micheál Martin as the campaign for his pick for the presidency Jim Gavin has ended in embarrassment. Homeless kids, that I can handle, but …

waterfordwhispersnews.com

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EK Rugby Analysis @ekrugby.bsky.social · 9d

After 6 years of EK Rugby Analysis, thought now would be a good time for a new logo.

Will still be still be analysing rugby and drawing arrows - just wanted a logo that reflects that better😁

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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 9d

Very nice 👌

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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 14d

Post you from a different era

During my brief amateur filmmaking career in college

A black and white image of a man in a black T-shirt with illegible white writing, and jeans.
He's wearing headphones, and standing behind a large old-fashioned video camera

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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 14d

Come watch me explain why what the lads really need is a pat on the back, a slap on the arse, and Ardie Savea as a role model

Harpin' On Rugby @harpinonrugby.bsky.social · 14d

For some reason the wrap pod wasn't enough for myself & @davidcordial.bsky.social to harp on Leinster's #URC opener, we also had a bonus chat about lack of leadership on the pitch > youtu.be/L2YArqzNmp0

Harpin' on...lack of leadership

YouTube video by Harpin' On Rugby

youtu.be

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The Clare Champion @clarechampion.ie · 15d

Child rescued from inside arcade claw machine in Shannon

Fire service personnel had to be called to free a young child who became trapped in a ‘claw machine’ in a Co Clare shopping centre on Saturday afternoon. Three units of Clare County Fire and Rescue Service from Shannon station were mobilised…

Child rescued from inside arcade claw machine in Shannon

Fire service personnel had to be called to free a young child who became trapped in a ‘claw machine’ in a Co Clare shopping centre on Saturday afternoon. Three units of Clare County Fire and Rescue Service from Shannon station were mobilised to the Shannon Town Centre after controllers at the Munster Regional Communications Centre (Fire) in Limerick received a report of a child ‘trapped in the centre'.

clarechampion.ie

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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 15d

Come listen if you want to hear me slowly come apart as a human being!

Harpin' On Rugby @harpinonrugby.bsky.social · 15d

I was joined by @davidcordial.bsky.social to painfully go back over Leinster’s season opener in Cape Town, covering topics like…

🏉 Lack of attack
🏉 Sam’s kicking
🏉 In our defence…
🏉 Set-piece woes
🏉 And now, the Bulls

Check it out here > harpinonrugby.blog/2025/09/29/4...

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 17d

Aside from all else, this makes zero sense when you're talking about losing a popularity contest! Her not being liked enough IS the point.

A diehard communist would also never get the nom, so would Pat say this the far left being "excluded from public life" or does it simply reflect the electorate?

Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 17d

This piece opens with "It’s hard to escape the conclusion that Maria Steen should really be on the ballot paper for the presidential election"

It goes on to say "There is a danger that we are moving towards a situation where anyone who holds socially conservative views is excluded from public life"

If conservatives like Maria Steen want to make an impact, they need to do three things better

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 17d

Fair play England. Few countries embrace women's sport like England does. 82,000 people at the final is incredible. They've been the best team in the world and deserve this, but they're there because they've backed their athletes, given them support and funding.

Up to everyone else to do the same.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 20d

"The only good thing about your terrible country was Sacco & Vanzetti and you white slaving devils killed em. Might kill me, too, idk, idc. Sucks to suck! 😜"

o7 Nothing but respect for MY Columbian president

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · Jan 26

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president of colombia, gustavo petro's response to trump

Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some meritorious things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should unite.
I confess that l like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller
I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the US as well as within my country
I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed.
Maybe one day, over a drink of whiskey that l accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian.
So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, l'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last
You will kill me, but I will survive in my town, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom
You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake the hands of the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and of the black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which ! reached, after

They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else.
Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.
Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resisters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take shelter in its African songs.
My land is made of goldsmiths from the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and of the first artists of the world in Chiribiquete.
You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, and who is called Bolivar, opposes us.
Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, now Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.
I raise a flag and as Gaitan said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA.
Your blockade does not scare me; because Colombia, in addition to being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will offer it your sweetness.
FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA OPENS TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.
I am informed that you put a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the
US, I do the same.
Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 17d

I dunno, it seems unlikely that an adult human will spontaneously grow a spine and a heart
Would surely be painful at the very least

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17d

‘There are ripples of hope’: allies of Keir Starmer say he can prove doubters wrong

Challenge for Starmer on stark display as Labour conference begins

Leader needs to draw a line under the chaos and offer hope – to his party and to the nation

www.theguardian.com

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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 17d

It's horrible
I had some call "Put Your Records On", an old song, and I almost fell over when I realised, next year, it'll have been 20 years since it dropped

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19d

this is why we need to bring back shame

there need to be consequences for being a huge asshole, there need to be standards for how you behave in a decent society

the rules cannot be set by the worst of us

pretty bug @inyourculture.bsky.social · 19d

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19d

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

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pretty bug @inyourculture.bsky.social · 19d

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19d

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

You've heard of defensive driving — driving practices to help you stay safe on the road, like reducing your speed in bad weather or signaling before switching lanes. But what about defensive walking and cycling?

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 19d

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 19d

Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID

www.independent.co.uk

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