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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1m

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 8m

Yeah

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 11h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 10m

Is it Joever ?

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 14m

Paddy Power has paid out early on bets backing Catherine Connolly to become the next President of Ireland.
The election takes place on 24 October but the bookmaker claimed it has 'seen enough' to call it.
http://jrnl.ie/6838922

‘Can’t keepie up’: Paddy Power pays out early on bets for Catherine Connolly to become president

Paddy Power said there is ‘always the Ballon D’Or’ for Connolly if she fails to win the presidential election.

jrnl.ie

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 11m

Presidential election if in 2002
Saipan

Connolly: I think both parties should look at their behaviour and see can they come together and accept blame

Humphreys: Keane acting the bit of bollox isn’t he. He should be back on that plane and getting to work.

Gavin: I don’t owe either person money.

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 16m

Jim paraphrasing stone cold Steve Austin

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 19m

Jim O'Callaghan has said that he aspires to be the leader of Fianna Fáil – just not right now.

When the question was put to him, the Justice Minister said:

"Yeah, I would have thought so at some stage in the future, but it's not an immediate concern for me."

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 26m

Yup, the bank washes their hands once the money is transferred. Which is crazy.

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 39m

The Irish public want American taxation and Nordic Services.

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 40m

We could all vote for him and ruin his life

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 44m

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 48m

Folks the stripe lads are not one of the good ones …

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 52m

ANDREESSEN: "The employment shifts everybody’s worried about are .. not going to happen at anywhere near the velocity people think .. because a significant percentage of jobs in the U.S. are licensed or unionized .. in a way where they literally cannot be replaced.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_1c...

Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley

YouTube video by Stripe

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 49m

The only excuse that is even remotely reasonable at this stage is he sent money to the wrong account

Which definitely didn’t happen

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 2h

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 3h

How is basic income €325 and all social welfare payments below it.

How is this never talked about?

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 3h

Bill burr about to pivot back to the right wing

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 3h

Sinn Fein campaigned for the hospitality vat cut.

Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 3h

Budget 2026 has come under fire in the Dáil, with Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald accusing the Government of breaking pre-election promises.

The Taoiseach defended the budget’s measures, including the reduced VAT rate for hospitality, insisting they protect workers.

#VMNews | @gavreilly.com

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 3h

Both Connolly and Humphreys making overtures to Northern Ireland and nothing towards Cork.

It’s noted lads. It has been noted.

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 3h

A man who uses the phrase “for women” at least ever other day

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 3h

Ray Minehane calls for increasing spending on benefits to Ray Minehane

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3h

NVIDIA CEO Calls for Increased Spending on Power Supply for Data Centers 💡💻

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 3h

Greenland should be a neutral country. Through neutralness, they will neutralise evils against them

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 4h

Jim is making a six figure salary, so what be going on in his head at all.

Rudy Hellzapoppin' @rudyhellzapop.bsky.social · 4h

You'd think item one on Jim Gavin's to do list is to pay back his tenant but apparently not. Weird

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 4h

I have no mouth and I must scream

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 4h

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG STATES US IS 'NOT FAR AHEAD' OF CHINA IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT

Reposted by Ray Minehane

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 6h

Baffling that 1930’s Germany has become a core theme of the Irish Presidential Election

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 7h

The now deleted video from Heather Humphreys’ team including an image of the Reichstag building in Berlin.

Video focused on how Heather knows the border and the North - and was posted days after she said she doesn’t just go on “day trips”.

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 5h

And it’s worse youtu.be/B-DX0Zolr6g?...

The Enshittification of Crunchyroll

YouTube video by Mother's Basement

youtu.be

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 5h

2028: If only there had been signs

Major warning sign 359,738

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 5h

Government not offering a tax rebate on berries in Budget 2026 is the real attack on families.

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