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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 1d

Have it on good authority that Catherine Connolly unironically calls it hump day.

#SmearTheBejaysis

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 1d

McNulty, just the best boy.

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 1d

Heather Humphreys - the president’s job is to protect the constitution.

Also Heather Humphreys - I would just let the get on with introducing policies that change the constitution

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 1d

When Catherine Connolly reads bedtime stories, she never does the voices.

#SmearTheBejaysis

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 1d

I heard she pays with copper money that she dumps on the counter and expects the cashier to count out the right amount.

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 1d

And doesn’t know that Jameson is also a Protestant whiskey.

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 1d

a bald man wearing a black turtleneck and a black suit is looking at the camera .

ALT: a bald man wearing a black turtleneck and a black suit is looking at the camera .

media.tenor.com

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 2d

Catherine Connolly used to wrap little bits of turf in tinfoil and sell them as ten spots of hash in the campsite at Féile

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. The state of Israel has gone to great lengths to conflate criticism of its actions with antisemitism, and we have now reached a point where Jewish people are being publicly abused for speaking out against Israel.

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 2d

He would call it antisemitism, and he’d be right. But he wouldn’t view his actions as being antisemitic, despite them being exactly that.

The belief that every Jewish person that fails to support Israeli actions is a traitor or self-hating, is obviously antisemitic.

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 2d

I once asked Catherine Connolly why she was walking so fast. She said that for as far back as she can remember, she’s always been Russian.

#SmearTheBejaysis

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 2d

Catherine Connolly took the horse to France, and that’s why it ended up in your lasagna in 2013.

#SmearTheBejaysis

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 2d

Catherine Connolly claps when the plane lands … and she did it on 9/11!!!!

#SmearTheBejaysis

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 2d

Ah come off it now, sure haven’t you been shaking the stick incessantly for decades!

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 2d

Catherine Connolly never says thank you to the driver when she’s getting off the bus!

Don’t miss my hard hitting investigative expose in tomorrow’s Independent.

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 2d

Very much this vibe

m.youtube.com/shorts/LWVTs...

I'm In My Mums Car - Vine

YouTube video by Vine Central

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 2d

That’s what I’m hoping.

Despite a concentrated effort by the media to smear Connolly, and ignore any of the issues surrounding Humphreys, she’s still topping the polls.

But it’s grating to see how unfit for purpose the media is.

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 2d

In some respects, I think Humphreys hasn’t needed to orchestrate a smear campaign. FG is definitely contributing to it, but this feels more like an organic response of those in the Irish media sphere to a candidate that doesn’t align with its inherently neoliberal orientation.

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 3d

Heather Humphreys is threatening to release an Xl Bully snuff film if she’s not elected.

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 3d

They Ted’d him for good this time

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 3d

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 4d

We are all Tony Groves now

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 4d

Keepie-Upies - possibly a link to Russian interference?

My latest piece in tomorrow’s Indo.

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 4d

Rain Mud is the inspiring new memoir by Ronan Hession. The book chronicles Hession’s epic 7 hour walk after getting excited. It’s a blend of Ulysses and totally not fabrication inspirational walking memoirs. The chapter grading the squishiness of mud is truly remarkable.

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Roc83 @roc83.bsky.social · 5d

I’d like to see some numbers to back that up

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