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Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 17h

🗣️ "We're coming into dark days, I think."

Middle income earners say Budget 2026 offers very little for the “squeezed middle,” with no one-off measures to ease pressures.

#VMNews

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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the last day to register to vote.

Even if you’re 99.999999% sure you’re on the list, just double check.

And if you’re not, it takes just two minutes to sign up.

Visit checktheregister.ie

Catherine with a young voter holding a tshirt that says don't let others speak for you.

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kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 16h

#ConnollyForPresident

#Áras25 #KerryForConnolly

The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 17h

Live from 10pm, @kierancuddihy.bsky.social will be joined by Jack Chambers TD, Mairéad Farrell TD, Sinéad Gibney TD, John Clendennen TD & John Lee to discuss:

🚨Are households worse off after today's budget?

🚨VAT cuts for the hospitality industry

🚨Tomorrow's front pages

#TonightVMTV

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kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 16h

A great thread here, it’s the tldr for Catherine’s campaign!!

#ConnollyForPresident
#KerryForConnolly #Áras25

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t complain & use your voice!

Catherine Connolly TD, leader in the Irish presidential election campaign. Throughout the campaign she has been the only intellectual voice & when challenged* gives thoughtful honest responses.

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 22h

This looks like great news though it appears to only have a commitment of existing funding - which means it's not being expanded beyond the 2000 artists currently getting it? Will it be a new cohort? It's not very clear. Also kudos to Catherine Martin of the Green Party who birthed the BIA.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

www.rte.ie

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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 20h

"My dad used to say to me, you can mix with rough and smooth - and I think Catherine can mix with rough and smooth as well"

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 17h

For Government, the €9.4bn plan is all about "protecting jobs", building "a stronger and better economy" and ensuring a "pro-investment" economy

So, which side of the coin are you on in Budget 2026?

For Government, the €9.4bn plan is all about "protecting jobs", building "a stronger and better economy" and ensuring a "pro-investment" economy. But for the Opposition, the financial blueprint for th...

www.rte.ie

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kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 16h

And the working class pay more with cost of living increases, no electricity subsidy and no double children’s allowance. Food inflation was 5.6% in August alone. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Milk, butter up as food inflation rises to 5.1% in August

New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that food inflation rose to 5.1% in August - its highest level since December 2023 when it stood at 5.6%.

www.rte.ie

kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 16h

Handpicked, carefully selected.. maintaining a long-standing tradition of spies in Ireland. I’m just listening to a podcast about him now, it’s a fascinating story. Haughey and the gunrunner scandal.

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kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 16h

That’s her there, that’s our candidate! Wouldn’t she make a fantastic President? #KerryForPresident. #Áras25
#ConnollyForPresident

Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 1d

“That’s the next President of Ireland”.

kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 16h

Catherine has her feet on the ground and her priorities right.

#Áras25 #KerryForConnolly
#ConnollyForPresident

Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 1d

“The idea that the Government could go into this Budget and offer no direct cost-of- living supports to people who are struggling to keep their heads above water is extraordinary. It tells us how far removed this Government is from the lives of ordinary people.

kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 16h

#KerryForConnolly

#ConnollyForPresident

Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 20h

"My dad used to say to me, you can mix with rough and smooth - and I think Catherine can mix with rough and smooth as well"

kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 16h

#KerryForConnolly

#ConnollyForPresident

Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 17h

Trade Unionists - raise your voice for Connolly!

Workers from unions across Ireland have already signed up. Catherine has been backed by Mandate, ICTU Trade Councils and Tom Stokes branch of Unite. The list is growing, the momentum is building.

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 17h

FFS 😕😕 #Speirgorm #Budget25

Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 19h

More money for greyhound racing than domestic violence in this year's budget. AGAIN

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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 19h

📻 I’ll be speaking about #housing in #Budget2026 tonight on @rteradio1.bsky.social @latedebaterte.bsky.social 10-11pm #SpeirGorm

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Réics Carló @reicscarlo.bsky.social · 1d

The Phoenix Magazine claims the Connolly/Éirigí story was conveniently leaked just before the Indo was going to lead with the Gavin rental scandal. Interesting. #Áras25 #aras25

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kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 16h

I had to look him up. You could be right, someone knows how to take pressure off the Government.

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kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 17h

I’m saying natin. Natin, I tells ya.

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kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 17h

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Catherine playing the piano.

Bring music to the #Áras

#VoteConnollyForPresident

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kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 17h

Posting this again, for the craic. #ConnollyForPresident
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kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 17h

Gabh mo leath scéal, Gaeilge.

kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 17h

7 October, two long years of genocide. Jim Gavin said Israel had achieved its military objectives, see for yourself what #ConnollyForPresident said:

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kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Tá an Gaelgeoir go fluirseach aici. Go deas at fad. #ConnollyForPresident

Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 1d

“Is dúshraith den tsochaí chothrom atá sa bpobal láidir. Caithfidh spiorad na meithle - an dlúthpháirtíocht, an comhoibriú agus an cúram - a bheith ár dtreorú agus muid ag tabhairt aghaidh a

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kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

#ConnollyForPresident

The #Áras25 race has only a couple of weeks to run. Talk to your family, talk to your friends. Talk. Keep talking. We need someone who sees the humanity in all of us, who lives her principles.

#ConnollyForPresident

Daniella Bella @daniemililly.bsky.social · 1d

Don't even want to think about that fight let alone speak about it, but she should have to resign based on what I learned about that Green Paper from civil servants behind the scenes

They knew the paper was a mess and they pushed it anyway

They did damage to disabled people

#aras25 #áras25

Daniella Bella @daniemililly.bsky.social · 1d

I was one of the leaders of Scrap The Green Paper because I & my friends were suicidal after learning proposals for ~84% of disabled to be pushed into work

I've not recovered from pushing myself to fight it, nor my friends

I'm so broken & Humphreys wants a house in the park on our backs

#áras25