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Oil being delivered next door. My 3 year old was in our garden. As the delivery man was dragging the oil hose through next doors garden, she roared over to offer him “a wee go of the baby’s dummy?” He replied dead seriously, “no you’re grand I’m only after one”

Both were delighted with themselves

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 22h

It’s how we got it in the first place too. The agent we went with has been great about it, I remember how exhausting it was to be a first time buyer and getting out bidded all the time or competing with cash sales to developers

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 23h

It also doesn’t push the price up much, just sliiiighly above what individuals have approval for from their mortgage provider - it’s not a big thing to do but every 1% increase in price sets a new standard.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 23h

The Bar of Ireland.

Bar of Ireland Statement
It is the duty of barristers to be independent and free from any influence, especially such as may arise from their personal interests or external pressure, in the discharge of their professional duties as barristers.

Barristers cannot discriminate in favour of or against any person availing, or seeking to avail, of the services of the barrister on the grounds of race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, language, politics, religion, nationality, national or social origin, national minority, birth or other status.

It is also the duty of barristers to accept instructions in any case in their area of practice. As a result, barristers should not be identified with their clients or their clients’ causes or suffer adverse consequences as a result of being so identified. This fundamental principle arises from the Code of Conduct of The Bar of Ireland and is recognised in the United Nations Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers and in the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer.

The duty of barristers to accept instructions, sometimes referred to as the “cab-rank rule”, ensures that everyone is entitled to access to justice and is central to trust in the Irish legal system and the rule of law.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

That can’t be real?!

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Jim Allister is a (v good ) Barrister & has said multiple times that he would have no qualms taking the case of an IRA person if he was approached because the cab rank rule is fundamentally part of the legal system here.
JIM ALLISTER.
So quit with this angle about Catherine Connolly, it’s a smear

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

People have been killed up here for the legal work they have done and clients they’ve worked for. It’s such a sinister smear

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh!!

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Law Undergrad who shows up to the last tutorial of the year before exams thinking it will be enough because it was in secondary school.

(To be fair the guy who was like this in my year is a decent criminal barrister now)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas and Israel have agreed to implement the first phase of the Gaza peace plan. Qatari media says that includes the release of the 20 living hostages in one go. Sky News Arabia says it will also include an Israeli withdrawal from 70% of the Gaza Strip.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Another of the million things that has somehow happened but if you’d shown it to someone in even say, 2010? They’d say you were demented

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a disciplinary offence to turn work that you’re qualified to do, down. It is a fundamental principle to preserve access to good legal
Rep and protects people from the system ending up like *gestures at America*

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Judging barristers and solicitors on the clients they have worked for has been a very dangerous and deadly false narrative just a few miles up the road. The Irish media should know better than to try and draw inferences

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Bet fish are counting their blessings on their fingers about that new policy from the EU about naming plant based items

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Oh god the level of abuse levied at councillors alll the time is awful. Don’t know how anyone does it

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Running for president looks truly hellish all the same

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