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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 19h

Beg to differ. An Oreo is a yank digestive sandwich.

Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 20h

What he said!

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 20h

That'd be more the Communist Party style. If the CP ever get a TD elected, PBP and Paul Murphy will start sweating.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 20h

With their connections to the building industry, you'd think they'd have ready access to lump hammers

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 1d

Op+eds need an op on their heads

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 3d

They think it's all over. It is now.

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 3d

Asked Jim Gavin today how he anticipated turning his campaign around given the questions about whether it was wise to run.

His answer: “It’s not even halftime.” ⬇️

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 3d

Don't think I've ever posted anything on social media that aged as rapidly as this

Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 3d

If she does win #áras25, Connolly should definitely start her acceptance speech with "Tá an-áthas orm an Uachtaránacht seo a glacadh"
- Gavin will be mightily pissed off
- The Bluesky yanks won't know what she's on about
- Neither will Humphreys

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 3d

Someone really needs to drive around Gavin's gaff blaring The Eagles "Hotel California" at full volume

Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 3d

Brilliantly, @iamreddave.bsky.social points out that the law doesn’t allow for withdrawal of a presidential candidate after nominations have closed.

Section 30(1), Presidential Elections Act, 1993

www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1993/act...

al 30.-(1) A person in respect of whom a nomination paper has been delivered to the
ire. presidential returning officer pursuant to section 14 may withdraw his candidature at any time before the completion of the ruling on nominations but not thereafter.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 3d

What she said!

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 3d

Stiff Little Fingers, Inflammable Material, Suspect Device

Discogs @discogsofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Which album has the best opening track of all time?

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 3d

If she does win #áras25, Connolly should definitely start her acceptance speech with "Tá an-áthas orm an Uachtaránacht seo a glacadh"
- Gavin will be mightily pissed off
- The Bluesky yanks won't know what she's on about
- Neither will Humphreys

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 5d

Reckon he has overall, but he can't see when players have gone off the boil e.g. Grivosti (who scares me), Mulraney. Plus which he operates a single non-transferable system, so subs are never more than like for like. Big question mark over Kenny's motivational skills, as we have the players.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 5d

That rope-a-dope act in Richmond the other week paid off, we were shocking, youse were intense. Good luck in the Aviva.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent review of an excellent book

Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 7d

We are delighted to have another book review up online this evening. Thanks to @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social for taking the time to review it for us.

womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...

Margaret Ward Rebel Women. Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim, 1914-1924, Beyond the Pale Books, Belfast, 2024

Frances ‘Frank’ Brady is one of the few members of Cumann na mBan who went on hunger strike during the War of Independence, and more unusually, for whom a photograph exists of her in bed, in jail, …

womenshistoryassociation.com

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 7d

Aaron Edwards' "A People Under Siege" has a vivid description of Craig arriving at a Vanguard rally flanked by motorcycle outriders. All very Nuremberg-by-the-Lagan...

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 8d

@oneillsb.bsky.social See what you started way back...
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/02/22/t...

The Map of the Belfast Pogrom

This is not an article, but a project: a map of all the deaths of the Belfast Pogrom, with each person’s name, the date, nature and location of the killing, who was responsible and when the i…

thebelfastpogrom.com

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 9d

Maybe, now that season 3 has started, it'll finally sink in:
Blue Lines = seminal Massive Attack album
#BlueLights = Belfast peelers

"But we ordered an ambulance"
"Sorry mate, we're not Deliveroo"

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 10d

So much reflection in the water from such a tiny wee moon. Magic.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 11d

Watching highlights of Notts Forest v Sunderland and it reminds me of my very first Subbuteo set

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 12d

Name one timeless, classic pop song that DOESN'T have a chorus that is repeated

Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 12d

I was stopped and searched once in my life, at Gatwick Airport in the 1980s:
- Where are you coming from sir?
- Jamaica
- And where are you going?
- Dublin
I swear to god, their little eyes lit up at the prospect of having two goes for the price of one

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 13d

I was stopped and searched once in my life, when the police were doing random spot-checks in Waterloo Station. They made it quite clear they suspected me of absolutely nothing and were doing it because having 'middle-class white lady' on their stats made them look even-handed. I had a needlework kit

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 12d

I hate those LED ads too. But there was a time when that lot would be stood on the Tramway End in your place. We used to have a crowd cover that was so big it could only be used on the Connaught St terrace or Lansdowne Rd. Infrastructural progress is a bitter pill to swallow.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 14d

I wonder which came first, the Dublin one or this one on South Main St in Cork?

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 16d

Really looked like youse were trying to lull us into complaceny tonight ahead of the semi-final

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 17d

It's all of the above. Trouble is, it's also the voice of a lot of people who we supposedly want to unite with.

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