marcphisto
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Trans rights are human rights.
A Kerryman exiled in West Cork.
Typo's guaranteed.
Firm believer in Sam Vimes "Boots" theory.
Procrastinator extrodinaire.
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A Kerryman exiled in West Cork.
Typo's guaranteed.
Firm believer in Sam Vimes "Boots" theory.
Procrastinator extrodinaire.
No avatar / bio = No follow.
Please donate :
https://donate.unrwa.org/
https://www.unicef.ie/donate
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What an outburst of joy, of pride.
Ireland are into the play offs for World Cup Qualification.
Our football team has always had a deep connection to communities all over this island and beyond. Tonight is no different. Young men pulling on the green jersey #COYBIG 1/ 🧵 #Speirgorm
Ireland are into the play offs for World Cup Qualification.
Our football team has always had a deep connection to communities all over this island and beyond. Tonight is no different. Young men pulling on the green jersey #COYBIG 1/ 🧵 #Speirgorm
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
What an outburst of joy, of pride.
Ireland are into the play offs for World Cup Qualification.
Our football team has always had a deep connection to communities all over this island and beyond. Tonight is no different. Young men pulling on the green jersey #COYBIG 1/ 🧵 #Speirgorm
Ireland are into the play offs for World Cup Qualification.
Our football team has always had a deep connection to communities all over this island and beyond. Tonight is no different. Young men pulling on the green jersey #COYBIG 1/ 🧵 #Speirgorm
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“Apparently it’s a case of being ‘under the influencer’”
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Apparently it’s a case of being ‘under the influencer’”
This is an excellent point.
I would love Ireland to qualify for the World Cup for all the usual reasons. But it would also be fantastic to have the whole country festooned in tricolours that haven't been put up by the "Ireland is Full" lot.
November 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is an excellent point.
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It's always important to remember that Peadar Tóibín was so butthurt about not being able to force women to be pregnant against their will that he formed his own political party about it so any time he opens his mouth on anything you should immediately dismiss it and come back to that central point
November 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It's always important to remember that Peadar Tóibín was so butthurt about not being able to force women to be pregnant against their will that he formed his own political party about it so any time he opens his mouth on anything you should immediately dismiss it and come back to that central point
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Ireland winning goal and end of match with Irish commentary
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Ireland winning goal and end of match with Irish commentary
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"Give it a goulash Jack", is that anything?
November 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Give it a goulash Jack", is that anything?
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Troy story 3
📸 Attila Kisbedenek
📸 Attila Kisbedenek
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Troy story 3
📸 Attila Kisbedenek
📸 Attila Kisbedenek
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In the Free State, the Walls of Derry are known as the HB of Derry.
August 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
In the Free State, the Walls of Derry are known as the HB of Derry.
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Just sent out this free piece. I hear some saying yesterday's summit changed little--nothing could be further from the truth. The summit helped Russia and hurt Ukraine. It had 3 main components.
First, US-Russian relations are being normalized in front of our eyes. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
First, US-Russian relations are being normalized in front of our eyes. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Putin Makes No Concessions But Trump Normalizes Relations
People Seem To Be Missing The Big Story
open.substack.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Just sent out this free piece. I hear some saying yesterday's summit changed little--nothing could be further from the truth. The summit helped Russia and hurt Ukraine. It had 3 main components.
First, US-Russian relations are being normalized in front of our eyes. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
First, US-Russian relations are being normalized in front of our eyes. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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The meeting which could have been an email.
Trump did not need a meeting with Putin to end the war.
He should simply have sent Putin a diplomatic cable telling him to end the invasion or the US would provide Ukraine with the firepower and equipment needed to do so.
He should simply have sent Putin a diplomatic cable telling him to end the invasion or the US would provide Ukraine with the firepower and equipment needed to do so.
August 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The meeting which could have been an email.
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Trump did not need a meeting with Putin to end the war.
He should simply have sent Putin a diplomatic cable telling him to end the invasion or the US would provide Ukraine with the firepower and equipment needed to do so.
He should simply have sent Putin a diplomatic cable telling him to end the invasion or the US would provide Ukraine with the firepower and equipment needed to do so.
August 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Trump did not need a meeting with Putin to end the war.
He should simply have sent Putin a diplomatic cable telling him to end the invasion or the US would provide Ukraine with the firepower and equipment needed to do so.
He should simply have sent Putin a diplomatic cable telling him to end the invasion or the US would provide Ukraine with the firepower and equipment needed to do so.
Trump is a spineless piece of shit, he caves at every opportunity.
Putin wants Trump to sign on to Russia’s genocidal war of aggression. “Ukraine isn’t a real country” is the active measure at work here.
Trump gives no pushback and puts no pressure on Putin to observe a ceasefire.
Trump gives no pushback and puts no pressure on Putin to observe a ceasefire.
🥴 Putin gave Trump maps and historical materials that, according to him, testify to the “artificial nature of the formation of the Ukrainian state,” — Reuters
August 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Trump is a spineless piece of shit, he caves at every opportunity.
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Some Google services that were blocked in Russia have just started working, Russian media reported.
August 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Some Google services that were blocked in Russia have just started working, Russian media reported.
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Pretty good chance he gets a Trump Tower Moscow out of this which is what he’s wanted all along
Former US Ambassador to Russia: Putin doesn't look at all of this stuff as a sign of strength. He looks at it as a sign of weakness. He had to do absolutely nothing to get this meeting. Putin has gained everything and given nothing in return
August 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Pretty good chance he gets a Trump Tower Moscow out of this which is what he’s wanted all along
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“This is exactly the moment Putin has been craving. He was received on American soil as an equal for a meeting of great powers. The red carpet, the handshake, the flyover of planes—only North Korea could have arranged such a welcome for someone accused of war crimes.” Sky News’ Ivor Bennett.
August 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
“This is exactly the moment Putin has been craving. He was received on American soil as an equal for a meeting of great powers. The red carpet, the handshake, the flyover of planes—only North Korea could have arranged such a welcome for someone accused of war crimes.” Sky News’ Ivor Bennett.
Hello daddy. Fucking cuck.
An era ending in ridicule, and the beginning of something terrible - my guess
Trump claps for Putin as he arrives in Alaska.
August 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Hello daddy. Fucking cuck.
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No - polling shows a majority (over 82%) of Jewish Israelis are in favour of removing all Palestinians (every single one) from Gaza.
Please do not share disinformation.
Please do not share disinformation.
August 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
No - polling shows a majority (over 82%) of Jewish Israelis are in favour of removing all Palestinians (every single one) from Gaza.
Please do not share disinformation.
Please do not share disinformation.
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This, in a nutshell, is why O’Leary talks down the Metro. He makes more money the fewer options there are for airport transit. Of course none of the news outlets that reported his misinformation verbatim ever bothered to mention this obvious conflict of interest.
I can understand why a company that gets commission from selling airport taxis, airport parking, airport coach tickets and car rentals may not want to compete with a metro. But MetroLink is about much more than Ryanair's business strategy or even the airport itself.
August 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This, in a nutshell, is why O’Leary talks down the Metro. He makes more money the fewer options there are for airport transit. Of course none of the news outlets that reported his misinformation verbatim ever bothered to mention this obvious conflict of interest.
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I delivered the 700 page business case and cost benefit analysis for MetroLink to Michael O'Leary's office yesterday.
O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.
O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.
August 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I delivered the 700 page business case and cost benefit analysis for MetroLink to Michael O'Leary's office yesterday.
O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.
O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.
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Recently, Boyne wrote that those women who supported transgender women were akin to people willing to ‘pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her’. /5
August 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Recently, Boyne wrote that those women who supported transgender women were akin to people willing to ‘pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her’. /5
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In the articles I have read in the mainstream press Jon Boyne has been giving space to share his feelings, his human response to this, which is exactly as it should be.
But the 14 authors, and one judge are not afforded the same space. /8
But the 14 authors, and one judge are not afforded the same space. /8
August 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
In the articles I have read in the mainstream press Jon Boyne has been giving space to share his feelings, his human response to this, which is exactly as it should be.
But the 14 authors, and one judge are not afforded the same space. /8
But the 14 authors, and one judge are not afforded the same space. /8
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I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender critical novelist urges writers to reenter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
The gender critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors.
Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/