Melissa
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writer | disability advocate | tiocfaidh ar lá | saoirse don Phalaistíne | sí/í
I really hope they keep the 20ish episode a season, monster of the week formula in the new Buffy. There's no good monsters of the week anymore
about 11 hours ago
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Jason
about 18 hours ago
I don’t like to brag, but I did manage to get a new toothbrush out of its packaging in well under an hour and a half today.
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I'd like to see them tell a Scotsman to his face that he has to start carrying a Brit card
about 18 hours ago
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Taryn de Vere
about 18 hours ago
Government investment in sports in Ireland was €30M last year but we're giving €10M to the billionaire NFL?? "There's a lot of sports that are really struggling for funding, that don't have basic facilities," Mr Cunningham said.
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Lamhfada
about 23 hours ago
This study in The Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine on Traveller women in suicidal crisis is the first time I've seen a sci paper with an Irish abstract. "Anailís Feiniméanoleaíochta Léirmhínithí" is the Irish for Intepretative Phenomenological Analysis.
resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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National clinical assessment data of Indigenous Traveller women attending 24 Irish emergency departments, between 2018–2022, in a suicidal crisis: a sequential mixed method study | Irish Journal of Ps...
National clinical assessment data of Indigenous Traveller women attending 24 Irish emergency departments, between 2018–2022, in a suicidal crisis: a sequential mixed method study
https://resolve.cambridge.org/core/journals/irish-journal-of-psychological-medicine/article/national-clinical-assessment-data-of-indigenous-traveller-women-attending-24-irish-emergency-departments-between-20182022-in-a-suicidal-crisis-a-sequential-mixed-method-study/6AACC0C6A4C644FE3E3F5C6255D7256B
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If you're only complaining about peaceful protestors being arrested when they're old or disabled you are being ageist and ableist. And also, no peaceful protestors should be arrested no matter who they are.
about 22 hours ago
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The MCR tour is so expensive that scalpers didn't even buy tickets
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I see we're still pretending Obama wasn't a war criminal. Countries bombed by America under Obama: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, and Syria
edition.cnn.com/2014/09/23/p...
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Countries bombed by the U.S. under the Obama administration | CNN Politics
He’s the war-ending President who, as of Tuesday, has ordered airstrikes in seven different countries (that we know of).
https://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/23/politics/countries-obama-bombed
3 days ago
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Loki
4 days ago
Italy has sent a ship, and Spain is sending a ship, to protect the
#SumudFlotilla
Indonesia has promised 20,000 troops if the UN act to intervene in Palestine. Things are ramping up. Thanks to the Italian dock workers and people around the world who have a conscience and compassion. Union. Fin.
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Alan Kinsella
5 days ago
People have been able to get nominated in previous elections, those tended to have a record of doing something in the community or are known. So the process works. It just doesn't work if you're an extremist or have no record of doing anything positive for the community.
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Darach Ó Séaghdha
5 days ago
Reeling In The Years 2025 is going to have an absolutely fire montage to the tune of Euro-Country.
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Taryn de Vere
5 days ago
This is quite shocking, why are human rights not at the centre of this proposed legislation?
www.thejournal.ie/mental-healt...
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New Mental Health Bill ‘not meeting bar’ with safeguarding patients
The new law is being debated in the Seanad today.
https://www.thejournal.ie/mental-health-bill-ireland-safeguarding-issues-6823407-Sep2025/
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RTÉ News
5 days ago
An independent review has revealed there were 21 instances whereby eight journalists were unlawfully spied upon by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in an attempt to reveal their sources
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Eight journalists unlawfully spied upon by PSNI - review
An independent review has revealed there were 21 instances whereby eight journalists were unlawfully spied upon by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in an attempt to reveal their sources.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0924/1535032-psni-report/
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Legitimising the Palestinian state is NOTHING unless you are also de-legitimising Israel. Morally, politically, and economically it means nothing
5 days ago
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Bionic Laura
5 days ago
Siobhan’s cloak on
#TraitorsIRL
was designed by Oran Aurelio using donegal tweed fabric from Magee. It’s a Kinsale cloak and you can get a similar sewing pattern here.
www.folkwear.com/products/207...
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Rob
5 days ago
Steen honouring the timeless Catholic tradition of waiting until the last possible moment to pull out
#spéirgorm
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Chronic illness is a whirlwind because I could be curled up in a ball in pain or nausea, crying my eyes out, thinking I cannot handle this anymore, and 5 minutes later I am looking fully normal in a meeting that decides my future 😂
5 days ago
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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile
5 days ago
Ding ding ding! There should be limits on what buy to let landlords can charge vs their repayments. At the end of the payment they have *a house*. Paid for. By the people they were renting to!
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Frances Ryan
5 days ago
The British media will have to reckon with how it reports Trump (and indeed, Farage) in the coming months. Giving false claims endless airtime will not work. Nor will clickbait “is Tylenol linked to autism?” headlines. There is a way to hold account without publicising him. We’ve not found it yet.
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Paul Murphy TD
5 days ago
Contact the Irish government about the
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
being attacked by Israel in international waters. Demand they send an observer to the flotilla. While Israel threatens and attacks the flotilla, they continue to bomb Gaza around the clock. We need worldwide pressure to
#BreakTheSiege
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Carl Kinsella
6 days ago
recalling the profound rubbishness with which Irish media covered Peter Casey's run for the Áras in 2018 and realising that the coverage of Steen is going to be ten times worse.
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Jalle 🖤
5 days ago
*Trump dishes out oppression and suffering to the groups which his white supremacist and conspiratorial base have targeted for years* Average lib: Is this a distraction from the Epstein files?
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Jimmy's return speech was a bunch of centrist nonsense. If you're still friends with fascists who mourned the death of a white supremacist then you're part of the problem
5 days ago
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More and more bands are skipping Ireland on their EU/UK tours. Is it too expensive??
5 days ago
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While it's great bands are removing their music from Israeli Spotify it feels hollow when having music on there at all is funding war technology
5 days ago
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Greg the Miller
6 days ago
they should make a video game about the mediocre mario brothers
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Aideen Blackwood
5 days ago
Genuinely just something so beautiful about two black migrant women (and someone from Donegal) winning this show given the state of the country and the world
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Jack Tripper
5 days ago
They built this technology with this use case in mind.
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What a joy it's been to watch live TV again together
#TraitorIrl
5 days ago
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
5 days ago
You could also keep boycotting Disney because they donate money to Israel
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Mark O’Brien
5 days ago
Congrats to all
@rte.ie
and all at Kite entertainment on The Traitors Ireland. Event television extraordinaire. And to the brilliant brilliant host Siobhán McSweeney. Go h-iontach 🔥
#TraitorsIreland
#TraitorsIRE
#TraitorsIRL
#Traitors
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Ken Mooney
5 days ago
I really really really REALLY want the US who love their Irish heritage to see who's after winning
#traitorsirl
and what this country is really and actually like these days. Gender, skin colour, you name it. What a fucking statement of trust and faith in people.
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Ahem, to everyone outside of Ireland thank you for tolerating my Traitors posting, it was the most exciting thing to happen in Ireland all year
5 days ago
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Carol M
5 days ago
Hats off to RTE, they nailed it. And a big round of applause to Siobhan McSweeney, she was brilliant.
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Let's see if Nick's acting can extend to him pretending the country doesn't hate him on this aftershow
#TraitorsIrl
5 days ago
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It'll take me hours to wind down after this
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5 days ago
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Probably no one will but I need someone to call out Nicks racism and sexism to his face. We can't let these things slide
#TraitorsIrl
5 days ago
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I have goosebumps I'm so happyyy up the mná!!!
#TraitorsIrl
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Aideen Blackwood
5 days ago
Smash the patriarchy (two Black migrant women winning the traitors and the Iona Institute losing once again)
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Girls run the world yesssss
#TraitorsIrl
5 days ago
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Oyin is so cute 🥰
#TraitorsIrl
5 days ago
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YESSSSS yes Kelley, yes!! Byyyyeeee
#TraitorsIrl
5 days ago
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He used the f-ing A word again, fck nick
#TraitorsIrl
5 days ago
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YES Oyin, get him
#TraitorIrl
5 days ago
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Fair play to the set decorators considering their budget was probably a fiver
#TraitorsIrl
5 days ago
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I think I'd have liked to watch The Walsh Sisters but now I can't because of pure stubbornness
#TraitorsIrl
5 days ago
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I thought we got our first ad break without the Walsh sisters but they, of course, squeezed it into a compilation 🙃
#TraitorsIrl
5 days ago
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I'm mainly rooting for the girls but I think if Ben betrays Nick and takes the money that would be acceptable and funny
#TraitorIrl
5 days ago
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"It's ok, Claire Keegan said no story has ever been read properly unless it’s read twice," I whisper to myself every time I zone out and haven't taken words in for two pages and have to go back
5 days ago
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Incredibly depressing that even the middle class people on this show are needing to do this for a housing deposit
#TraitorsIrl
6 days ago
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