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sorry, John Lee is going to be on television tonight to discuss the "continuing Jim Gavin fallout"? the fallout that includes Ivan Yates' involvement in the campaign, which has cast fresh light on the dangerously blurred lines between politics and journalism in this country?
Live from 10.40pm, guest presenter Fionnán Sheahan will be joined by Paul McAuliffe TD, Richard Boyd Barrett TD, Eimer McAuley & John Lee to discuss:
🚨 The new National Housing Plan – real change or red tape?
🚨 Soaring rents and a worsening crisis
🚨 Continuing Jim Gavin fallout
#TonightVMTV
🚨 The new National Housing Plan – real change or red tape?
🚨 Soaring rents and a worsening crisis
🚨 Continuing Jim Gavin fallout
#TonightVMTV
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
sorry, John Lee is going to be on television tonight to discuss the "continuing Jim Gavin fallout"? the fallout that includes Ivan Yates' involvement in the campaign, which has cast fresh light on the dangerously blurred lines between politics and journalism in this country?
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Joyce Carol Oates really did something to his brain, huh
Y’all want to see the saddest shit ever?
Grok: "Elon crafts his own words with clarity and conviction. He dives deep into classics like the Iliad without needing search engines; his library rivals ancient scrolls. If anything, I learn from him, not the other way around."
Grok: "Elon crafts his own words with clarity and conviction. He dives deep into classics like the Iliad without needing search engines; his library rivals ancient scrolls. If anything, I learn from him, not the other way around."
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Joyce Carol Oates really did something to his brain, huh
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We NEED to find the self-respect (and curiosity about the rest of the world) to stop reporting on tech news in terms of whether we are shamefully backward or acceptably modern.
We don't stand for this simplistic approach in sports journalism - can we hold business journalism to the same standard?
We don't stand for this simplistic approach in sports journalism - can we hold business journalism to the same standard?
Irish business lag US on adoption of next gen AI, survey says
Irish business lag US on adoption of next gen AI, survey says
Autonomous AI set to transform workplace but Irish businesses lack trust in technology
www.irishtimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
We NEED to find the self-respect (and curiosity about the rest of the world) to stop reporting on tech news in terms of whether we are shamefully backward or acceptably modern.
We don't stand for this simplistic approach in sports journalism - can we hold business journalism to the same standard?
We don't stand for this simplistic approach in sports journalism - can we hold business journalism to the same standard?
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A beautiful sean nos rendition of Ár nAthair by Síle Denvir. Ms Denvir, a native Irish speaker, hails from Connemara in President elect Connolly's home county of Galway. Ms Denvir will also perform as a harpist today
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A beautiful sean nos rendition of Ár nAthair by Síle Denvir. Ms Denvir, a native Irish speaker, hails from Connemara in President elect Connolly's home county of Galway. Ms Denvir will also perform as a harpist today
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Police have named the couple they’re looking for in connection to a racist incident on the tube and they’re wealthy Trump supporters and founders of an “anti-woke” PR firm.
Trump supporter and financier named as couple in Bond Street Tube ‘assault and racist abuse’ police appeal — The Standard
Philip Ostermann and Melissa Rein Lively have been named as the subjects of the British Transport Police appeal
apple.news
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Police have named the couple they’re looking for in connection to a racist incident on the tube and they’re wealthy Trump supporters and founders of an “anti-woke” PR firm.
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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
Sticking to the letter of the law but not the ethics.
Yatesy would do well to see how that works out in other sectors.
Not great - is the answer.
#yatesGate
Yatesy would do well to see how that works out in other sectors.
Not great - is the answer.
#yatesGate
‘Golden rule’ - Ivan Yates cites client confidentiality as reason he didn’t disclose media training of presidential candidate Jim Gavin
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
Client confidentiality reason for non-disclosure - Yates
Former broadcaster Ivan Yates has said client confidentiality was the reason he did not disclose the fact that he gave media training to former presidential candidate Jim Gavin.
www.rte.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Sticking to the letter of the law but not the ethics.
Yatesy would do well to see how that works out in other sectors.
Not great - is the answer.
#yatesGate
Yatesy would do well to see how that works out in other sectors.
Not great - is the answer.
#yatesGate
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Declan Ganley & his debts reminds me of 2008. The whole country depressed/angry/both with the death of the Celtic Tiger, except for the big developers who partied on with the help of NAMA. I recall seeing a pic of Johnny Ronan on a yacht with a couple of women &lots of champagne. This is the same.
He's doing a lot of hi-faluting partying for a lad that owes $20 million www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Declan Ganley & his debts reminds me of 2008. The whole country depressed/angry/both with the death of the Celtic Tiger, except for the big developers who partied on with the help of NAMA. I recall seeing a pic of Johnny Ronan on a yacht with a couple of women &lots of champagne. This is the same.
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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Many embarrassing things here, but Declan trying to use "homie" is hard to come back from
#speirgorm might be interested to see this, as we await President Connolly’s inauguration this week. A vision of what might have been 😬
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Many embarrassing things here, but Declan trying to use "homie" is hard to come back from
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It's all fun and games until he turns out like Enoch Burke...
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It's all fun and games until he turns out like Enoch Burke...
The poppy plant also produces the most toxic addiction that ruins lives and societies.
The Poppy is such a perfect symbol of Britain because its entire well meaning purpose has been supplanted by a petulant demand by the thickest people possible for respect for no other reason than “I said so”.
November 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The poppy plant also produces the most toxic addiction that ruins lives and societies.
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Bertie Ahern quoted in the Irish times: "The problem with equality is that if you give it to one person, then everyone else comes looking for it."
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Bertie Ahern quoted in the Irish times: "The problem with equality is that if you give it to one person, then everyone else comes looking for it."
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If EVER an apparently straight man needed a drag queen in his life.
At the very least someone should leave some MUA content on when he is sundowning.
At the very least someone should leave some MUA content on when he is sundowning.
November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If EVER an apparently straight man needed a drag queen in his life.
At the very least someone should leave some MUA content on when he is sundowning.
At the very least someone should leave some MUA content on when he is sundowning.
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Went to the protest in Drogheda today. There were tears and defiance and chants of céad míle fáilte. Drogheda is the most culturally diverse town in Ireland. The fash can't organise here like they do in other parts of the country so they resorted to attempted mass murder. Fuck them. Fascists out!
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Went to the protest in Drogheda today. There were tears and defiance and chants of céad míle fáilte. Drogheda is the most culturally diverse town in Ireland. The fash can't organise here like they do in other parts of the country so they resorted to attempted mass murder. Fuck them. Fascists out!
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World: “This fellow is deathly pale!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
My favourite Hiberno-English-ism isn't any of the obvious ones, it's the fact that when we say "sallow" we mean the opposite of what everyone else means. It's not sickly yellow, it's healthy, positive
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
World: “This fellow is deathly pale!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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Newest Independent Ireland councillor on how his views have not shifted since leaving the SocDems jrnl.ie/6868102 - in short he didn’t get selected for general election and left. And he supports Maria Steen.
Newest Independent Ireland councillor on how his views have not shifted since leaving the SocDems
The Kildare Councillor turned down offers from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to join Independent Ireland.
jrnl.ie
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Newest Independent Ireland councillor on how his views have not shifted since leaving the SocDems jrnl.ie/6868102 - in short he didn’t get selected for general election and left. And he supports Maria Steen.
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A shockingly well-developed plan to disrupt and destroy facilities. Right-wing terrorists are terrorists. From demos outside the Dáil with a guillotine, to terrorising library staff, to vigilantes on the streets beating people, to pipe bombs. It’s an escalation and FFG need to take it seriously.
Some of us have been crying out about a campaign of far-right terror for years.
Now we have this:
"Right-wing extremist terror group planned destruction of Galway Mosque, court hears"
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
#RejectTheFarRight
Now we have this:
"Right-wing extremist terror group planned destruction of Galway Mosque, court hears"
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
#RejectTheFarRight
Right-wing extremist terror group planned destruction of Galway Mosque, court hears
Portlaoise District Court hears gardaí discovered ‘manifesto’ and video during search
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A shockingly well-developed plan to disrupt and destroy facilities. Right-wing terrorists are terrorists. From demos outside the Dáil with a guillotine, to terrorising library staff, to vigilantes on the streets beating people, to pipe bombs. It’s an escalation and FFG need to take it seriously.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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