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@Magda20220928 @dublin_damo Already booked 😬. Just have to keep hydrated !!

@flicks3 @dublin_damo You are crazy. Even in June I suffered from the heat! Go to the mountains. Pindus, Olympos. To the islands. The Greeks leave Athens in August.

Probably no city I've been to has improved more in the last 25-30 years than Athens, very cool place these days, I love it.

@kandrian3 @dublin_damo Sounds great. Looking forward to it

@flicks3 @dublin_damo Greeks are away in holidays in August. Less traffic , better services! If you can handle the heat you will have a great time! Open air cinemas , cold beers under the night sky. And a long beach strip just a few kilometres away.

@way2muchgood @FrenlyOfficer @ballvings Amen to that

@FrenlyOfficer @ballvings I’ve been on statins for 10 years. My mom has been on them for 40. My whole family is on them. So far there have been a total of 0 side effects. Don’t waste your time with these people. They’re so stupid it’s crazy

Cholesterol causes heart attacks and strokes, statins prevent them Sunlight causes skin cancer, sunscreen prevents it The people telling you otherwise are fools.

@Suzieq2021 @DublinAirport Great to hear re old school barman. Was in terminal 1 bar last yr.. we were asked to join a single queue to get served. Scandalous stuff.

Has anyone been to Ryan’s pub in terminal 2. 4.30 this morning it was buzzing. Really reasonable considering your in an airport Great story behind it as well Barman is an old school trained barman. @DublinAirport well done The most Irish pub I’ve been into in a while

@StellarYankee @sentdefender 🤣

@sentdefender The Irish?

Key government facilities across Tehran, and Iran are being targeted as a reported second wave of U.S-Israeli strikes target intelligence headquarters, the presidential palace, and other key facilities across the city. Per Reuters, Iran’s supreme leader has already been moved to a secure location. The targets of the strikes and recent reports from Israeli media that “assassination” strikes were carried out do indicate that at least the Irish wave of strikes were decapitation strikes. More to come.

@Peston Do you not think Labours positioning on Gaza had anything to do with it ????

It is not unusual for governing parties to be humiliated in by-elections and to subsequently recover. But the trouncing of Labour in Gorton and Denton is something special. And it is especially damaging to the career prospects of the prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer.  The electoral facts are astonishing, Despite all the talk of it being a close three way race, the Greens won with a comfortable margin of 4,402 and secured 41% of the vote, compared with Reform on 29% and Labour on 26%. Remember that Labour secured 50.8% of the vote in the 2024 general election and had a margin over its rivals of 36.7%, on a voter turnout almost identical to yesterday's. Gorton and Denton was, on that arithmetic, one of the 10% of the seats that it took that should have been easiest to retain.  Or to put it in the jargon, it has lost one of its safest seats. And having lost Gorton, Labour could lose almost anywhere. There are three reasons why this is deeply problematic for Starmer personally. First, and perhaps of least importance, the campaign it fought in the constituency now looks ridiculous. It constantly made the claim that the Greens were an irrelevance in the contest and that the only way to beat Reform was to vote Labour.  Well it got one part of the analysis right: a majority in Gorton and Denton did not want a Reform MP. But they chose Zack Polanski's Greens as the vehicle to achieve that, so disillusioned are they with Starmer's government. Second, Starmer himself - through a committee of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee - vetoed the strongest potential candidate, Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester. We'll never know whether Burnham's personal local popularity would have reversed the anti-Labour tide, and would have secured the seat. That's at Starmer's door. Finally the victory of the Greens is devastating to Starmer's positioning of the party, under the powerful influence of his former chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney. He allowed the Greens to flourish and grow, in fact he encouraged it, by positioning Labour to the right, on everything from immigration, to the EU to the economy, because he and McSweeney saw the main challenge as from Farage and Reform.  From election night onward, this always seemed eccentric at best, since one of the conspicuous trends in that election was how well parties of the left performed. If Starmer wanted to be in power for the ten years he said was necessary to change the country, he always needed to position Labour as part of a loose informal grouping that would include the LibDems and the Greens.  Instead he set those parties up in many voters' minds as the principled alternatives to both Reform and Labour. He could have taken the oxygen away from the Greens and the LibDems. Instead he fed them. Starmer's Labour will also have been hurt in Gorton and Denton, with its significant muslim and student communities, by his cautious approach to criticising the Israeli government's strikes on Gaza and by taking his pragmatic, friendly approach to Trump. Some Labour MPs will give him the benefit of the doubt in those respects. But most will just be frantically worried about their career prospects. So what follows from Labour's Gorton catastrophe? First, the pressure for a massive overhaul of Labour's political positioning and policies will become irresistible. Second, Starmer's own credibility is now so damaged that he will struggle to recover.  If he has another roll of the dice before the local and national elections on 7 May, it's only because no credible alternative candidate to be leader is ready to launch a campaign yet. But even members of his cabinet say that the consensus among Labour MPs is he won't lead them into the next election. And when they say that so casually, it's difficult to see how even Starmer - who prides himself on never giving up - will keep on keeping on.

@Killybegsgirl Lovely restaurant. Been many times. McGowans across the road is nice little pub.

We are staying in Redcastle for the night. Just went to boathouse bar/restaurant for a drink. This is the rest. that people keep booking thinking they are booking us & visa versa. I actually made friends with the manager because of all the calls. 🙈❤️lovely place & staff.

@paologerbaudo Was very common in Ireland.

I have been brought up in a very religious Catholic family. And I don't remember seeing anyone going around with ashes on their foreheads. US Catholics almost look like a different religion.

@dublin_damo Shorts out 🙂

We've officially turned the corner.

@StupidNeilAgain @InspM0r0s3 Another classic

@InspM0r0s3 An all time classic, nobody is beating Greggggg

She sounds fucking unbearable

@WalleyVision @FTMidEastAfrica I should reword my tweet to 'trying' to report the facts. Weponising a mistake to try discredit a journalist trying report on the genocidal horror by Israel in Gaza is right on brand. Goodbye apologist.

@flicks3 @FTMidEastAfrica He reported Israel had bombed the Al-Ahli hospital when it turned out to be an Islamic Jihad missile. When challenged he said he “regretted nothing.”

BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen: ‘I do this to tell people what the hell is happening’ ft.trib.al/Qjpb1rw

@gerardtbaker The Israeli Government is toxifying Israel, not any journalist.

It is a national disgrace that this man has been allowed to be the BBC’s voice on Israel for so long. His daily calumnies besmirch the reputation of real journalists, betray the mission of a public broadcaster and have played a large part in toxifying British debate on Israel.

@WalleyVision @FTMidEastAfrica Nope.. just reporting the facts.

@FTMidEastAfrica Bowen has destroyed any journalistic reputation he had by becoming an activist not a reporter. He has been caught multiple times peddling misinformation favouring Hamas and has laughed it off and refused to apologise.

@grok @RjectModernity @LeoNelissen @grok if/when the dollar strengthens against Euro will Europeans see those percentage losses turn to gains

Yes, it's approximately true based on recent data: S&P 500 up ~16% in USD over the past year, but ~0% when converted to EUR due to the euro strengthening ~14-16% against the USD. The "dollar crash" (USD weakening) means euro holders see lower returns on USD assets, as their stronger currency offsets stock gains when converted back. It's not favoring euro returns—it's reducing them.

1Y Returns: - S&P 500: 14% - S&P 500 in EUR: 0%

@TOliveFern Jesus christ.. it must be horrible to be a decent jewish human being (most are by the way) and have to read and put up with this garbage.

“This place is a five minute walk from a popular Jewish restaurant” 😂😂

@DanMulhall Happy new year Daniel. Keep up your great work.

Happy New Year to all. Welcome to 2026.

@ClonesCyclone Well said Barry.

She’s no Aretha Franklin either, she’s Imelda May and she’s uniquely brilliant 👏👏

@Mick_Finnegan Best wishes to you Mick. I recall watching you on Tommy Tiernan show good few yrs ago. Its great to see youre pushing onwards and upwards. It really is.

There was a time I was just trying to survive being homeless, traumatised, and numbing pain with alcohol. This year, I lived. From marathon finish lines to my 3rd sober Christmas and now heading into Year 2, Semester 2 of social work. Roll on 2026. Happy New Year 🎊

@squinteratn @BBCNewsnight It really has. Last night was supposed to be some sort of Christmas special. They have a 12 year old honky tonk wannabe on spouting nonsense, unchallenged. To the dogs its gone.

I am shocked and saddened in equal measure by how far down the toilet @BBCNewsnight has gone.