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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 8h

This isn't a high stakes meeting. It's an opportunity for FF members to act aggrieved.

Mícheál Lehane @fertha.bsky.social · 8h

The opening exchanges of the high stakes Fianna Fáil meeting discussing the presidential election are described as calm and mild so far. TDs voicing the hurt felt by party members across the country.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 10h

The initial story was that the Garda "counter terrorism unit" blocked her hiring in the first place. Which never happened.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 10h

That could be somewhat interesting

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 11h

Can Gavin's votes be transferred?

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh, Maria Steen's main electorial pitch (at least in public) was that she loved the Constitution of something and here she is asking for the Presidential election to be postponed?

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 1d

A scoop! Investigative journalism!

Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 1d

From the Phoenix - x.com/ThePhoenixMa...

There was much detail in the Indo about the investigative efforts the paper made in uncovering Gavin’s behaviour. What the newspaper and its editorial staff did not say is that the scoop was handed on a plate to them by Gavin’s tenant who happens to be a fellow colleague in Mediahuis, owner of the Indo and various titles, including the Sunday World. That former tenant is the deputy editor of the World, Niall Donald.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out the tenant was a Deputy Editor of a newspaper in the Indo/Mediahus group. Oh.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 1d

Do you remember "votegate" when a FF TD was voting for someone who wasn't in the chamber? And then a rush of journalists asking every TD under the sun questions, even if they sat in the "wrong" seat. No such rush of journalists asking questions here.

Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 1d

Where did this story come from? Where else could it have come from except the Gardaí?
Is an arm of the state trying to interfere in our democracy?

People should keep asking Heather Humphries has she never had to sign her staff in on a daily basis? Everyone in the Dáil knows this is how it works.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 1d

I think she's implicated already? "Her judgment", "Her signing in people". If it's more "everyone does it, that's how it works" you could nearly have Connolly pitch it as a review of the whole system.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 1d

Just to clarify, I don't think the Garda are above reproach and it is an issue. There's a Garda up in court for leaking information at the moment!

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not a campaigner so that take this with a pinch of salt, but I think the "Garda leaking information is wrong" won't run because the Garda are generally seen as above reproach.

I think it would work to pitch it as the culture of Leinster House is to allow people work before completed vetting

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

Sure you have Irish journalists acting like that review was "non political" .

Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 2d

If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...

Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

This has always been a extremely tiny screeching minority demanding that their bigotry dictate that no one else's children can learn of the existence of LGBTQ people.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

I always love when they'd call you Rory as if they've discovered that Superman is really Clark Kent.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

Jim Gavin burying information in the recesses of his mind like he's Jean Grey or something

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

Leaking information huh.

www.thejournal.ie/dublin-garda...

Dublin garda charged over allegedly interfering with investigation into road traffic prosecution

The officer faces 11 charges and has yet to enter a plea.

www.thejournal.ie

Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

Fire brigade at the canal beside Whitworth Road. I thought it was a training exercise but sadly not so sure now.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

I don't really know what Humphreys has accomplished in terms of a United Ireland. It all feels very "identity politics" from people who hate identity politics.

A LinkedIn post by Sarah Carey reads: “Olivia O’Leary asking some questions I too had wailed into the void. Why didn’t FG lean into her heritage rather than panic? If people are really serious about a united Ireland then electing an Ulster Presbyterian would be an incredible demonstration of what the new state could mean. Or have the Tones and Kneecap won?”

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

What do you mean "try"

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 2d

On a day which included a televised presidential debate and Jim Gavin's surprise drop-out, Independent Áras hopeful Catherine Connolly carved some time out to try to impress the public with her football skills
jrnl.ie/6836588

'She's forever whipping out the keepie-uppies': Connolly canvassers hail candidate's sport skills

One Green party councillor suggested that Connolly “could manage the men’s national football team”.

jrnl.ie

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

I do feel if we were in a war with another country, Connolly would be the Ellen Ripley type, Gavin would be the soldier who ends up panicking, and Humphreys would be the corporate member who wants to capture the alien for her corporation.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

So much for collective cabinet responsibility.

Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 2d

Humphreys was a member of the Government which passed the Gender Recognition Act 2015 - she was
Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht from 2014 to 2016 #aras2025

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d

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

Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

I really don't want Trans people to be debated in this election. We all saw what happened with Casey and Travellers. I just wouldn't vote for Humphreys based on it.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

I think Humphreys could be pressed a little bit more on housing and homelessness. She was a cabinet minister! This "I feel sorry for people without homes, isn't it dreadful" isn't really an answer.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

I think they didn't have a pass but do now.

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