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Anne-Marie
@amflynn.bsky.social
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Columnist, board member, learner,
dreamer, scribbler, Gaelic Games fan, Left leaner, cat servant 🐈🐈‍⬛️
📍Mayo, Ireland
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amflynn.bsky.social
A reminder that there are still a lot of people on this planet who could probably better use the large amount of time they have on their hands.
Screenshot of a letter to the Irish Times that reads: Nefarious neologisms Sir, – I admire The Irish Times’s journalistic integrity in reporting exactly what is said, but couldn’t you relax your standards just a little bit to avoid embarrassment to your subjects? I don’t doubt that it’s exactly what she uttered (“Joanne McNally: ‘I was like, I’ll absolutely fly to Ireland and play golf with Bill Murray’,” People, November 19th), but it takes only a minor fib to spare her blushes at being caught out using such a nefarious neologism as the quotative “like”. – Yours, etc, SEAN BOYLE, Warner Rd, London.
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
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Screenshot of text that reads 5. The transcript I forgot the meeting was being transcribed and was talking to my cat while waiting for others to show up. “Baby, let me put it in” was at the top of the transcript to my absolute horror. I was talking about his ear mite drops.
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
amflynn.bsky.social
Current situ.
A ginger tabby cat with a white nose turns to look at the camera from the on a lap on which she is sitting. Owner of said lap has her feet on the coffee table because she is past caring, and is wearing a delectably sexy pink fleecey dressing gowm over floral pyjamas, fluffy socks and ridiculous grey slipper boots. In the background there is a TV feauring the ageing Irish soccer pundit Eamon Dunphy. You cant see it but the stove is lit and there is another, sleepy cat lying in front of it, and everyone is very cosy
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
Correct. So what is he waiting for? Could someone please remind this man that he is, in fact, the Minister?
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
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Screenshot of text reading And in Dublin Fingal East, Fine Gael’s Alan Farrell spent €220 on what was listed as “umbrella”. Farrell, now a lobbyist with Liquid Gas Ireland after losing his seat, clarified to our team that more than one umbrella had been purchased.
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
amflynn.bsky.social
For reference.
A parody book cover mimicking the style of classic Ladybird children’s books. It features two robed figures and a donkey on a rocky path, with one figure pointing into the distance. The humorous title text reads: “Far Off Into the Distance Is Where You Should Fuck Off.” The Ladybird logo appears in the top right corner.
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
Yeah John, you'll forgive the Irish public for being just a *little* bit cynical about this claim.

www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...
Screenshot of text that reads The argument that charges would have enabled Uisce Éireann to be privatised was a complete red herring – no Irish government, watching the disaster that has been the privatisation of British water infrastructure, was ever likely to go that route. A strong commercial State company, like the ESB, was the model proposed.
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
I can't remember the last time I stayed up until 4am to finish a book. I'm sorry, future me, but it was worth it
#BookSky
Book cover of The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. The background features a colourful, impressionistic landscape with palm trees in shades of rust, lush greenery, and reflections in turquoise water. A small figure of a woman dressed in white with a thick black ponytail sits near the water’s edge. The cover includes a badge reading “Oprah’s Book Club 2023” and text at the top: “From the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone.”
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
amflynn.bsky.social
If you thought Mamdani winning the election was unlikely eight months out, I raise you ....
November 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
My column in this week's The Mayo News about the aftermath of #Áras25. Fake nomination attempts, smears, spoiled votes, the media - and FF and FG's all too predictable lurch to the right after making a hames of it all.
November 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
And as for the gardai, do they honestly think they themselves haven't contributed massively to this problem by letting these racist thugs away with so much over the past few years?

You reap what you sow, and AGS would to well to sort out their own house before pointing fingers at the government
Screenshot of text which reads Harris’s comments were supported by the taoiseach and Paschal Donohoe, the finance minister. However, senior gardai are understood to be concerned by the rhetoric coming from the government on immigration because of the challenges in policing rising tensions over the issue.
November 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
The guilty party, pretending to hide, but in reality not giving a fiddlers. She's actually flipping me the bird behind that cushion
#Margot
An overweight grey tabby cat with a white nose and chest and a cross face and excellent whiskers is sitting on a brown leather armchair and is partly hidden by a green cushion. In the background there's a cream curtain in front of a window
November 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
Will Micheál Martin last til Christmas?
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
FYI Fionnan, it was your own preferred flop of a candidate that made it all about Paul, by incorrectly naming him as Connolly's campaign manager and also defaming him - both entirely unnecessary moves, one would surely admit
#Áras25
Screenshot of text reading Paul Murphy – Loser Megaphone Murphy couldn’t resist placing himself at the centre of the narrative. He fired off a legal letter threatening to sue Heather Humphreys after she brought up the treatment of Joan Burton during the infamous water charges protest in Jobstown. The stunt caught the Connolly campaign by surprise. He hadn’t warned anybody, and it took away from their positive campaign vibe..
October 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
amflynn.bsky.social
Also, seeing posts like these remind me of the cosy manner in which the media and the establishment parties have interacted for decades, and it tells a story of its own. (Not picking on either of these two btw, these are just examples what I imagine are fairly regular interactions)
Tweet by Jennifer Bray reads: "Yikes, text from a FF TD: ‘Danger here - watch this space’" with a timestamp of 10:53 PM, Oct 5, 2025. It has 67.3K views. Tweet by jounalist Craig Hughes sayimg several Fianna Gail TDs have texted him expressing disappointment about the Taoiseach's absence at Dublin Castle for a presidential election.
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
amflynn.bsky.social
Someone just sent me this 😂
#Áras25
Screenshot of a tweet by user Pete Farrell @PeteFarrell14 that says Today is like the Texaco Art Competition for right wing middle aged men
October 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
This lad really has let hatred chew him up, and it's very sad to see. But he is now a full-on right-wing racist, and no amount of grief or loss excuses that.
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
Case in point. Mayo County Council CPO'd these six town centre houses over 10yrs ago to facilitate a Tesco development that never happened. Left since to rot. A community group I was involved with painted them, (despite the council telling us we couldnt even do that).

#DerelictIreland
October 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
amflynn.bsky.social
Oh wait, there was a rare moment a couple of weeks ago.
Two cats sitting on a blue duvet, facing the camera. Neither look impressed. The one on the left is a rotund grayish tabby with a white nose and chest. She is The Boss. On the right is Maisie, a smaller ginger tabby with white patches on her face and neck. She looks nervous, probably because of her proximity to The Boss who has been known to slap her without warning whenever the mood takes her. Maisie is the sweetheart of the house. Margot uses her good looks to distract people from her bad behaviour, which includes choosing to only vomit on carpeted surfaces.
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
Paging @independent.ie. Are you all okay?! Because from over here, it looks like you've all lost your fucking minds
#Hysteria
October 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
amflynn.bsky.social
People who do sports stuff. Are those massage gun yokes that you get in Lidl any good?

Have started lifting heavy-ish stuff lately with the a long-term aim of being able to go to the loo independent when I'm 90. But my (abnormally tight, apparently) hamstrings are in ribbons. Good, or gimmick?
October 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
Canvass in MacHale Park Castlebar today for the Mayo LGFA Senior Club Final. @catherinegalway.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
Too far by far. Margot is not
happy
October 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
amflynn.bsky.social
@irishcycle.com you'll love this. Grinding axes in the TV review section 🤦‍♀️
October 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
amflynn.bsky.social
Tonight in Ballina - free admission. Just rock up. Part of #BallinaFringeFestival.

As a founder member of the festival, I'm glad to see it used to platform Palestinian voices (and @tonygroves.bsky.social and @audreykissane.bsky.social ).

Well done @debbierua.bsky.social and @mayoipsc.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM