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Louise McSharry @louisemcsharry.bsky.social · 1d

This election. It’s really something.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 1d

While appearing to impersonate a presidential candidate, Brolly mimicked someone performing oral sex while giving mundane answers to questions a presidential candidate might receive.

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Joe Brolly says he was not talking about Heather Humphreys when mimicking oral sex in podcast video

A clip of the podcast episode has been widely shared and roundly criticised.

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Louise McSharry @louisemcsharry.bsky.social · 1d

Is it just me or does it seem like every time they try to go for Catherine Connolly it backfires and people become even more staunch in their support of her?

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Louise McSharry @louisemcsharry.bsky.social · 3d

That’s an interesting perspective!

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Break Out Pictures @breakoutpictures.bsky.social · 3d

Illuminating interview with 'A Want In Her' director Myrid Carten on Catch Up with @louisemcsharry.bsky.social

Listen in now ! A Want In Her hits cinemas on Friday

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Catch Up with Filmmaker Myrid Carten

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Louise McSharry @louisemcsharry.bsky.social · 6d

I thought the same, the replies are so ludicrously obstinate.

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Louise McSharry @louisemcsharry.bsky.social · 6d

Was just telling Gordon that Gabriela by Katseye is basically Jolene for 2025 and he said that he didn’t know what Jolene was about. WTAF.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 11d

Orla Comerford has won gold again for Team Ireland at the World Para Athletics Championships in India
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Orla Comerford wins gold again for Ireland at World Para Athletics Championships

Victory again for Comerford as she followed up on Sunday’s 100m success.

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Louise McSharry @louisemcsharry.bsky.social · 11d

What I wouldn’t give to just be whelmed every once in a while…

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 11d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 14d

"It seems plausible that the average Irish person would have little to no idea who Maria Steen even is. They definitely don’t know who Gareth Sheridan is. They know who Conor McGregor is, of course, but for the most part they despise him."

This week's Surrealing in the Years:

Surrealing in the Years: You know who was really blocked from getting on the ballot? Me

Nobody was blocked from running for president. It’s called losing.

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Louise McSharry @louisemcsharry.bsky.social · 15d

Oh yes because imagine the horror of CHILDREN overstaying, HOW WOULD WE MANAGE.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 15d

AS Palestinian GAA club was not granted visas for a tour of Ireland this summer because immigration officials deemed them to present a "risk of overstay", according to unreleased internal emails

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Palestinian GAA club's visas for summer tour of Ireland were refused due to 'risk of overstay'

The club was told at the time that the decision was due to issues with documentation.

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 15d

“I Will Return In Seven Of Your Years” Maria Steen Bids Farewell Before Entering Portal Back To 1954
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“I Will Return In Seven Of Your Years” Maria Steen Bids Farewell Before Entering Portal Back To 1954

FAILED Presidential candidate Maria Steen promised her conservative supporters yesterday evening that she will return for the next election, before reaching into her designer handbag and, according to eyewitnesses, activating what could only be described …

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18d

Not worried about Steen potentially winning, am worried about the amount of airtime and publicity that will be given to allow them to spout their views (largely unchecked, going by previous coverage of similar people) for the next month if they end up on the ballot

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 18d

Eh, I can personally attest to the fact that you can’t actually say “whatever the fuck your want” on RTE 🤷🏼‍♀️

Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 19d

Ireland radio and TV presenter Patrick Kielty sends a message to Jimmy Kimmel in the USA.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19d

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York mayor, announced he is withdrawing from a town hall with the city’s ABC station to protest the network’s suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

Mamdani pulls out of event with ABC station after Kimmel suspension

The New York City mayoral candidate said network leaders “have put their bottom line ahead of their responsibility” to a free press.

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Louise McSharry @louisemcsharry.bsky.social · 21d

It’s also just stupid from an actual getting elected perspective. Why not spend the two years complaining? Bananas.

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Louise McSharry @louisemcsharry.bsky.social · 22d

Jon Stewart and the Daily Show did a special edition last night and have put the entire thing on YouTube. It’s worth a watch. youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg?...

Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23d

This Week's Onion Magazine:

Charlie Kirk, Not In His Own Words: We Honor The Right-Wing Activist By Making Up Quotes That Sound Much Better, Given The Moment

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 22d

US President Donald Trump has suggested that TV networks should 'maybe' lose their licences if they air programmes critical of him
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Trump suggests 'maybe' pulling licences from TV networks critical of him after Kimmel suspension

ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show after the host mocked Trump’s response to Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 23d

yesterday, Independent Ireland were requesting a minute's silence in the Dáil for Charlie Kirk, and today they're trying to get a gig cancelled because a performer said something they don't like

a fitting tribute to Kirk, who also pretended to care about free speech

A Gript tweet reading

Independent Ireland TD Ken O'Flynn has written to Vicar Street urging the cancellation of far-left musical act Bob Vylan's performance at the venue scheduled for November 26th, after the musician's comments about Charlie Kirk.

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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 25d

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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TheParisAngel @theparisangel.bsky.social · 28d

I mean, call me a Loony Lefty if you want, but it *is* starting to look a bit weird arresting disabled pensioners protesting peacefully one day and telling coked up bellends attacking you to “calm down” another day the same month.

Obviously, just my opinion. I might have got it wrong.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27d

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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Louise McSharry @louisemcsharry.bsky.social · 29d

There’s much to discuss here but threatening a student society with legal action for ghosting you is TRULY sadman behaviour.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 29d

John Boyne ‘disappointed’ at withdrawal of UCD James Joyce award

Literary and Historical Society planned to honour ‘one of Ireland’s most celebrated and courageous literary voices’

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29d

Not just editors. Also fans.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 29d

If you did an obituary on Charlie Kirk that was just quoting directly in context what he was most proud of saying and doing, a lot of editors would say to revise it because it would read as being mean to a dead man

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