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KM MC CORMACK 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪

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Irish leftie living in France. If you use Karen in the pejorative you are no better than the people you are trying to insult. A person's name or ethnicity is not an insult and using it as such just shows the world how verbally limited you are.

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KM MC CORMACK 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪 @kmmcc.bsky.social · Feb 27

Why on earth is the name of a South East Asian ethnic minority used to describe what is effectively stereotypical entitled white American behaviour? #Burma #Myanmar

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Dave O'Grady @davegildedalm.bsky.social · 1h

Some going with #SmearTheBejaysus others going with #SmearTheBejaysis
, greatest split in the left since The Peoples Front of Judah.
#SpeirGorm #SmearGorm

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Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 46m

Catherine Connolly is just three Michael Ds in a trench coat!

#SmearTheBejaysus #Spéirgorm #Áras25

Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 5h

Catherine Connolly thinks Thierry Henry's goal wasn't a handball.

#SpéirGorm #SmearTheBejaysus #Áras25

Marina @sand-badger.bsky.social · 16h

I heard Catherine Connolly leaves the immersion on #SpeirGorm

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Brendan C @brendannadnerb.bsky.social · 4h

Catherine Connolly staunchly defended Thierry Henry and still maintains that "that goal" was perfectly valid.

#SmearTheBejaysis #Speirgorm

Brian O'Halloran @playingwithdust.bsky.social · 4h

Catherine Connolly convinced the Italian FA to call up and use Salvatore Scillachi at Italia 90. #SmearTheBejaysis #Speirgorm

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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 5h

We’re fast running out of time with our President. @president.ie Here he is this week welcoming the South African leader and praising the good collaboration done to bring things forward in the occupied 6 counties of north east Ulster💚 #Áras25 #Spéirghorm

youtu.be/ECYrxhMLxbI?...

Speech by President Higgins in honour of H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa

YouTube video by Áras an Uachtaráin

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KM MC CORMACK 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪 @kmmcc.bsky.social · 5h

Loving the #smearthebejaysis hashtag this morning. Ivan Yates forgot what Irish people are like when he said he would smear the bejaysis out of Catherine Connolly #SpéirGhorm

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Dr Gerri O'Neill @gerrioneillhist.bsky.social · 6h

A barman told me that Catherine Connolly puts blackcurrant in her Guinness. #SmearTheBejaysis #speirgorm

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Simon Boyne @simonb84.bsky.social · 17h

Catherine Connolly takes out the wrong bin on purpose to throw her neighbours off then in the dead of night she puts out the right one
#SmearTheBejaysis
#SpéirGorm

Alannah Rooney AKA "The Beast of Craggy Island" ♾️ @alannahr.bsky.social · 18h

Catherine Connolly once left her bins out beside the kerb for a whole day.
#Spéirgorm

__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 19h

Catherine Connolly signs her emails "Best"

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Denise Murray/Donnacha Ní Mhuireadhaigh @mousketeer.bsky.social · 8h

Catherine Connolly stepped out when she should have stepped in again. Completely ruining Lanigan's Ball.
#SmearTheBejazuz #SpéirGhorm

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KM MC CORMACK 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪 @kmmcc.bsky.social · 1d

If 47 wins the #NobelPeacePrize2025, it will be the worst reputational damage to the prize. It was bad enough that Kissinger won, but for someone who has made the world a much more unstable place to live, it would be infinitely worse.

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KM MC CORMACK 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪 @kmmcc.bsky.social · 1d

I don't remember Chamberlain speaking truth to power.

KM MC CORMACK 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪 @kmmcc.bsky.social · 3d

The way right of centre/ centre right politicians in France are using the pink scare at the moment, it's almost as if they are in denial that they are the ones that created this mess. Debt dropped under every PS led government and rose under every government of the right.

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Pat Manning. @justacountryboy.bsky.social · 3d

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 3d

Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel
#speirgorm #stopthegenocide
jrnl.ie/6838266

Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel

There were five Irish citizens aboard boats in the flotilla.

jrnl.ie

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 3d

Some independent Irish bookshops you can support rather than Amazon. And most offer free postage in 🇮🇪too.
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
@booksupstairs.bsky.social
winding-stair-bookshop.myshopify.com
www.marrowbone.ie/shop
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
#Spéirghorm

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 3d

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

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KM MC CORMACK 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪 @kmmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone over on Twitter back in the day (2017) telling me to support Macron (even though I said his election would lead to the rise of the far right in France) is in no position to question the judgement of anyone #áras25 #SpéirGhorm

KM MC CORMACK 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪 @kmmcc.bsky.social · 4d

DUBU works for the situation in France, too. Unprecedented being the Unprecedented level of stupidity and arrogance of the right in France that has led to this situation.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 4d

Miriam Lord: It was Fianna Fáil’s DUBU Day: Disastrous, Unbelievable, Bizarre, Unprecedented

Jim Gavin posters will be down off lamp-posts quicker than the unauthorised tricolours above them

www.irishtimes.com

KM MC CORMACK 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪 @kmmcc.bsky.social · 4d

I saw it advertised and thought, Oh god, no, I'm not watching that.

KM MC CORMACK 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪 @kmmcc.bsky.social · 4d

So Sebastian Lecornu lasted less time as PM in France in office than Liz Truss, who lasted as UK PM for less time than the lifetime of a lettuce.

KM MC CORMACK 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪 @kmmcc.bsky.social · 5d

It also makes the country unsafe for women who don't look stereotypical feminine or whatever way women are expected to present. Imagine a woman going through chemo, lost her hair, maybe she had a mastectomy, an extreme case, but not impossible.

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 5d

#speirgorm #Aras25 please if you have 5 minutes let [email protected] know that throwing trans people and EU human rights law under the bus is not a vote winner.

dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 5d

Just emailed Heather. "Just letting you know, you just lost about 40 votes from our extended family in Monaghan when you threw our son and all the trans people in Ireland under the bus by pandering to the rightwing rag Gript (1/)

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 5d

Back to the actual and current Presidential candidates -with all the Jim Gavin shenanigans of the last 24 hours it may have not grabbed people’s attention that Heather Humphreys just threw trans people under the bus in response to a Grift dot ie reporters question!So there’s that! #aras25 #speirgorm

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KM MC CORMACK 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪 @kmmcc.bsky.social · 5d

France - Lecornu has resigned as French PM just after naming his cabinet. That has to be another record for Macron

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 5d

For the record: it is not possible, at this juncture, to officially withdraw or to remove a name from the #aras25 ballot paper.

Jim Gavin’s name will remain on the ballot for Friday 24th, merely with no campaign behind it.

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EHarris @nbgbgb.bsky.social · 5d

we’ve hit GUBU territory very early in this election cycle and then there’s the budget on Tuesday. What a shit show! Martin’s going to have to go, right? #SpeirGorm #Aras2025

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 5d

Irish politics is a spectator sport & I don't know any other country that enjoys the spectacle as much
#speirgorm
Nn & if there are more twists can they be before bedtime please?

Leo O’Shaughnessy @leoie.bsky.social · 5d

And so to bed, cosseted in the reassuring confidence that Irish Politics IS THE BESTEST POLITICS.

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