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1st gen Irish (Donegal/Sligo) settler and academic in Canada. Author of obscure academic books and slightly less obscure OERs on Roman culture. Translator of, and far too fond of Cicero. She/her nó sí/í siobhanmcelduff.com

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Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

06.10.2025 07:57 — 👍 768    🔁 122    💬 108    📌 128

Happy birthday!

08.10.2025 06:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

07.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 830    🔁 252    💬 34    📌 27

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

08.10.2025 06:19 — 👍 70    🔁 62    💬 0    📌 3

It's hard to say. The rest of them are even less appealing and competent. Which might have something to do with how they hang on.

08.10.2025 04:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm sorry for your loss. It's devastating.

08.10.2025 04:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He better hope that that faction wins out in the upcoming reckoning.

08.10.2025 04:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How is he in charge of anything?

08.10.2025 04:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You never recover from reading that novel.

08.10.2025 04:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He has arisen.

08.10.2025 04:04 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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He seems to have a lot of free time on his hands.

08.10.2025 04:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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08.10.2025 03:18 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

That was utterly delightful. Thank you!

08.10.2025 03:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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07.10.2025 06:45 — 👍 22    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

Last word on Jim Gavin-the former tenant & money story was important but his lack of answer/evasion around the #womenofhonour question is more revealing for me- both of Gavin & the media.The media ran with the money,the issue of violence against women,nothing, just ignored,typical #aras25 #speirgorm

06.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 138    🔁 38    💬 3    📌 0

Like the fire of Vesta in Rome, we need to appoint some people to keep them always dancing.

08.10.2025 02:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Should the hamsters stop dancing, the internet will fall.

07.10.2025 23:57 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

No one's career should have survived Morbius.

08.10.2025 02:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A realistic painting of an urban intersection, littered with signs: street signs, commercial signs, warning signs (watch for pedestrians), a car nosing int the crosswalk. Behind, in the near distance, a cathedral spine looms.

A realistic painting of an urban intersection, littered with signs: street signs, commercial signs, warning signs (watch for pedestrians), a car nosing int the crosswalk. Behind, in the near distance, a cathedral spine looms.

From the "Walking Distance" series: "LOOK RIGHT (ghost)", oil on canvas, 12x12", 2022 (private collection).

08.10.2025 01:36 — 👍 80    🔁 11    💬 5    📌 2
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The frog’s POV: a protester in a frog costume facing incoming federal law enforcement officers outside the Portland ICE facility. Magnificent shot by Mathieu Lewis-Rolland for AFP/Getty.

08.10.2025 01:37 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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Gavin named FF candidate, favours removing Triple Lock Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Jim Gavin has said that he is in favour of the abolition of the Triple Lock, which requires Ireland to get UN approval if it wants to send Defence Forces personnel a...

The way things are going, it will be hard soon to find one of the 41 members of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party who voted in a principled way to adopt Jim Gavin as their candidate.

'Well, I was always opposed in my heart, Miriam.'

#aras25

07.10.2025 09:58 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

He will not be getting many Christmas cards from FF this year.

08.10.2025 02:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"In Portland, they're eating the quinces, the people who came in. They're eating the fuyu persimmons. They're eating--they're eating the produce of the people who live there."

08.10.2025 01:38 — 👍 65    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0

I'm buying it that they asked him, he said it was all grand, and then they nominated him on the back of that. That does seem very much in their wheelhouse.

08.10.2025 02:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So, does this sort of prowess in checking on things extend to other areas of his portfolio, or does he reserve this for presidential elections?

08.10.2025 02:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's really good that this man's position in government is supposed to require the sorts of skills nowhere on display in the past week.

08.10.2025 02:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

07.10.2025 23:44 — 👍 7680    🔁 3615    💬 131    📌 252

If one of the lads from Kíla said that the election should be cancelled until there was a debate in Irish, there would not be an Irish Times article. There would not be a long line of photographers outside Leinster House.

07.10.2025 21:13 — 👍 31    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

6 all Ireland wins do not qualify you for president.

07.10.2025 20:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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