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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 2m

"that’s his first girl for his country"

Guardian report on Estonia V Italy

Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 26m

Leeds prison is in Armley - as in 'Grievous bodily etc....'

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 2h

Only found out recently that Sea Road was so called because the sea used to be quite close. I mean, I went to school on Sea Rd and never once wondered. I was clearly an incurious child

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 2h

I lived in Galway as a kid and know that building but I'm not sure I ever knew its history.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent afternoon ay @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social - lovely audience, good questions, nice chats afterwards. Thanks to everyone involved and for the great communication throughout.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 10h

I know what he means and with regard to the writer he's reviewing: I love her as a critic, but....

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 11h

I had the shingles and the pneumonia one on the same day, one in each arm. Tried and failed to sleep on my back. Also free, of course, the latter because I'm now over 65.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 11h

Likewise. Still gratifyingly full.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 22h

Did a survey today distributed through clubs by the EFL. In the last bit, where they ask for demographic info, the last question threw me a bit; how do you intend to vote. Bit cheeky, but at the same time, can't wait to see the result.... assuming it's published.

Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 23h

Just watched a not particularly good movie set on a Native American reservation and struck me that that's pretty much the model being exported to Palastine.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how long I'll need to live in Yorkshire before I can say 'Mytholmroyd'.

to.live

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favourite LoI memories is a Saturday afternoon game out there where we spent the entire first half chanting 'are you small or far away?' at Town goalie Stephen O'Brien, who was somewhat challenged in the height dept. Then he saved a penalty.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

Because a two tier health system, and a housing crisis that divides the state into property owners (and thus real or potential landlords) and renters ready for gouging is polarisation enough to be going on with.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

And obviously a line to Derry could extend to Letterkenny and thence to Sligo, completing the circle that would make it possible to get from one Irish city to another without going to Dublin.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

The announcement of an airlink to Derry, rather than doing something about a journey that takes the best part of 6 hours by train, and which, as far as I can see, is not bookable via Irish Rail, but is via trainline, tells you a lot about how lowdown rail comes as priority in Ireland.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

Transport and healthcare, even more than housing, are the two things that go in the minus column when I think about moving back.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect I'm better off not reading this.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 2d

It's actually my favourite Buckley album.... I like the 'wispy' stuff, but GFLA is a whole other bag of dirt.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 2d

I read Satantango on an overnight train and boat journey to Dublin, including two cold hours waiting in Holyhead. Optimum.

John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 2d

"The best way to read him would be with all your devices on the other side of a locked door."

Me on Nobel literature laureate László Krasznahorkai, a writer who "fits into the Nobel mould so fully that if he didn’t exist, the committee would have had to make him up."

Who is Laszlo Krasznahorkai, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Everything you need to know about this year’s winner and his apocalyptically gloomy novels

www.thetimes.com

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 2d

🎯
Of course!

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 2d

The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 2d

Have a good one. Stop with the pitchers of Dublin looking nice though. Won't be home for ages.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 2d

Presumably the figures show that CC's vote is baked in - peopel have decided that's who they're voting for and that's it. The hysteria is to get the golfers and the 'I wouldn't say I'm a racist but' vote out.

Dulchie, is deoch orm, éist. @skrynesaver.bsky.social · 2d

Jaysus, the IT is getting hysterical at this stage, the numbers must be terrible for FFG
They've already portrayed going on a fact finding trip to refugee camps and doing her job in line with the rules of the profession as borderline criminal acts.
What next drinking tea in a provocative fashion?

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 2d

I do feel himself and Flann would have gotten on*. The Melancholy of Existence is like the Third Policeman if it just kept going through all the repetitions.

* I know, the premise that Flann could get on with anyone is suspect....

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 2d

I hadn't realised how Irish he looks.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai takes the Nobel Prize in literature for "visionary" work that "in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art" https://cnn.it/46JoWVe

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