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David Moriarty
@davidmoriarty.bsky.social
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Ireland, Music, Sport, Politics, all the usuals really.

Medecins sans Frontieres - Gaza Emergency - Donate what you can, if you can.
https://www.msf.ie/issues/gaza-emergency
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A hilarious line from Murph on @secondcaptains.bsky.social, paraphrase - never mind McIlroy at the Masters, Troy Parrott has had the greatest Thursday to Sunday run in the history of Irish sport. #COYBIG #speirgorm
Troy Parrott celebrates hat-trick in dramatic last minute winner for Ireland against Hungary. Photo - Atilla Kesebenedek/AFP/Getty Images. From The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/16/parrott-hat-trick-republic-of-ireland-world-cup-2026-playoff-spot-wild-win?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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No asylum seeker was involved in the economic calamity that led to these apartments, and many more like them, being abandoned and left derelict (to this day). We all know the party whose fault it was though. t
They now have no ideas left but to scapegoat.
Abandoned, derelict, Celtic Tiger era apartments in Sligo town. Abandoned, derelict, Celtic Tiger era apartments in Ballisodare, Co. Sligo.
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I watched A House of Dynamite last night. That will stay with me for a while.
A House of Dynamite promo poster.
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Yes, this will work 🙃

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Heather Humphreys and Tánaiste Simon Harris have appealed to “middle Ireland” to send a message to the world tomorrow that Ireland is “not a far-left” country, Sorcha Crowley reports.
October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Yes, thank you for looking into this. My number is 1800 40 60 80.
@ryanairsupport2.... says "Hello,.we apologize (sic) for the inconvenience and such an experience with us. We would like to look at the problem raised further. Kindly DM me with your active phone number we (sic) reach out at assist." Daniel Ryanair Customer Support Rep. Yip. Blocked
September 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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One of the most gob smacking videos you'll see from them. And it's still online despite the mass murdering and starvation we've witnessed for nearly two years.
A screenshot from a YouTube video produced by PragerU released 9 years ago titled "Israel: The World's Most Moral Army | 5 Minute Video. The caption on screen reads "Of course innocent civilians were killed. Every war is chaotic and confusing and mistakes are frequent." The video has been viewed 7.4 million times.
August 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Rolling Stone with the real news.

Even the FT rarely acknowledges this.

Gift Article: on.ft.com/4ox5aDk
Pantheon Macroeconomics, an independent research group, this week said that the US had collected about $30bn in customs and excise duties in July, up from about $8bn a month on average in 2024. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, LARGELY FROM COUNTRIES THAT HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR MANY YEARS, LAUGHING ALL THE WAY, WILL START FLOWING INTO THE USA,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post shortly before the overnight tariff deadline passed.
August 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Just buy the man gifts, people!

on.ft.com/4leop1u
Trump praised Cook as one of “the great and most esteemed business leaders and geniuses and innovators anywhere in the world”. The Apple boss presented Trump with a US-made engraved glass plaque with a gold base.
August 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Do you know what I miss most in modern F1? The questionable reliability of the pre 2000 cars, when there was still an element of roulette in the form of a radiator, gasket, piston ring, 'big end bearing' failure etc. A sight all too rare in F1 these days in my view.
Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes suffers an engine failure during the 2016 Malaysian GP (due to a big end bearing apparently). A rare sight in F1 in the 21st century.
August 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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The government owned AIB between 2010 and 2017. Was autonomy a consideration during these years? What about the autonomy of the workers now? Interestingly, the government only sold it last remaining shares in the bank a month ago. 'Til next time...

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Separately, the Minister [McEntee] said that while it is important for there to be flexibility and structure at a Government level in terms of remote working, there must be “autonomy” within companies also.
July 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Considering that this spokesman's comments are indistinguishable from AI in their corporate mindlessness, it's not a bad bet.
Responding to questions from The Irish Times, a spokesman for AIB said “some of our colleagues are in an office or branch five days a week, some are office-centric which requires attendance onsite three to four days a week; and some are remote-centric which means they are office based two days a week.” The bank’s “employees benefit from in person time with their own team and broader colleagues” and AIB “recognise[s] the benefits of structured, hybrid working and are committed to enabling it,” he added. The spokesman said AIB has a “balanced and comprehensive hybrid working structure in place” and would continue to review the policy.
July 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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AIB Profits since WFM/Hybrid Working began.

2020
€931M before tax

2021
€629M before tax

2022
€765M AFTER tax

2023
€2.058B AFTER tax

2024
€2.351B AFTER tax

The share value over 5 years doesn't look too shabby either. live.euronext.com/en/product/e...
AIB share value over 5 years looks like the profile of Mont Ventoux.
July 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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The future is here 🙃
Google's AI explanation of Hon Tipp (Which actually means go on or come on Tipperary). "Hon" is an abbreviation for "Honourable," and "tipp" likely refers to a "tip" or "suggestion." Therefore, "hon tipp" could be interpreted as a polite or honorable suggestion. It might also be a playful way of asking for advice or a good idea.
July 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Wow
July 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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The Harbour Pilot disembarking the Salamanca after guiding us safely out of Cherbourg. It looks hairy enough even in good weather...
July 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Considering that Israel was congratulating itself on the targeted killings of multiple Iranian military and political figures, and that all of the directors of all the hospitals in northern Gaza are now dead or detained, that Dr Marwan al-Sultan may have been deliberately targeted is plausible.
His death means that all of the directors of the hospitals in northern Gaza have either been killed or detained by the Israeli military forces.
July 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I've just found the largest rotisserie in France...
June 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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In the long history of Europe, has there ever been a larger, more hypocritical collection of craven, spineless "leaders', all sharing power at the same time? The good and the bad in our history books are all rolling in their graves.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At a time of extreme geopolitical risk the centre presents itself as the wise party in the fracas, making appeals for cool heads and diplomacy, but is entirely incapable of addressing or challenging the root cause. Some are afraid to even name it. Israel has disappeared from the account, leaving only a regrettable crisis and a menacing Iran. The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, has called for de-escalation. But he referred to the very escalation he wishes to avoid – the US’s involvement – as an alleviation of the “grave threat” posed by Iran, all the while building up UK forces in the Middle East. If this seems maddeningly complacent to you, let me reassure you that you are not, in fact, missing something. The war with Iran is very bad news, and introduces a number of profoundly destabilising scenarios: regime change with no day-after plan, leaving a large cadre of armed military and security forces in play; the amassing in the region of western military forces that could become targets and flashpoints; or simply a prolonged war of attrition that would seize up the region and open a large festering wound of anger and militarisation. It’s also – and this is something Israel’s assaults have inured us to – killing hundreds of innocent people. To say nothing of the fact that it is, above all the extant risks, illegal. And yet they still carry on amid the wreckage. Their pronouncements about the importance of diplomacy sound like echoes from an era that has long passed – one before a livestreamed genocide demolished any semblance of a coherent system of international law. What the current moment has revealed is a cohort of regimes fundamentally unsuited to crisis, fit only for management; a crop of politicians whose very role is not to rethink or challenge the way things are, but simply to shepherd geopolitical traffic. Their mandate is indeed to stabilise, but only in the sense of locking in a world order of failing assumptions and hierarchies. It is not to make the world a better place, but to cast a veneer of credibility over why it is necessary that we live in this worse one. This default position is so naked in its hypocrisy, so ignorant and parochial in its worldview, so clear in its disregard for human life, that it represents a colossal erosion of sophistication in political discourse, and a new low in contempt for the public. Support for Israel can only be defended by facile, logic-defying references to its right to defend itself even when it is the aggressor, and Iran’s “threat to the free world”. Forgive me, but is that the same free world that backed unilateral attacks on four Middle East territories by Israel, a country whose leader is wanted by the international criminal court? At this point, the biggest threat to the free world is itself, which will sacrifice everything to ensure that not a single challenge to its power is allowed to pass.
June 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Wizz Air are not playing around with their customer service. €15 fee for calling the call centre for a query that could otherwise be dealt with online. Looking forward to flying with them...
An asterisk beside the phone number to a Wizz Air call centre reads - *Please note that if you contact the Call Centre to make a transaction that is also available online (purchase a ticket, or any additional service, or make a change to your booking), an additional Call Centre Transaction Fee will apply per call. €15.00 /passenger Call Centre Transaction Fee is charged per transaction for requests that are also available online. This Call Centre Transaction Fee is not refundable.
June 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Another amazing day for a bike ride. While everyone goes to the beach on a hot day, the woods are the place to go for a bit of relief while still enjoying the outdoors.
Half Moon Bay, Hazelwood, Sligo, Ireland
May 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Are there any good YouTube videos about growing your own coffee on a wet and windswept island off the north west of Europe? Asking for a friend...
A standard pack of Lavazza on sale for €11.09.
May 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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There are any number of paragraphs which could be highlighted here. And while the language is not as strong as it might be, the fact it's coming from a "play-it-safe" publication like the FT speaks volumes. Gift Article - The west’s shameful silence on Gaza - on.ft.com/44K4eUH via @FT
Yet the US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.
May 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Beautiful day here in Sligo. Good enough even to take the mudguards off.
Black road bike with Sligo Bay and Strandhill in the background on a gloriously sunny day.
May 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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While VDL appears to believe that Palestinian children should pay for the crimes committed by her grandparents' generation, unfortunately this is also true.
Schabas added, “Von der Leyen is clearly reflecting a position taken by many EU governments, which is one of very unconditional support of Israel, and they’re doing this flying in the face of public information suggesting that Israel is commiting [sic] terrible crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.”
May 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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The best midfielder on the pitch tonight, no doubt.
Ireland's Declan Rice wearing the green jersey for his country.
April 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM