Ian McGahon
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Ian McGahon
@ianmcgahon
All views own. Socialist. Human Rights, Equality, LGBTQIA+ & @brayforlove campaigner. Strong Europhile, he/him. Member of @labour
Bray, Ireland Katılım Mart 2009
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Paschal Donohoe has held the Dublin Central seat since 2011. The blue shirt vote is solid in the more affluent (see tax is theft types) parts of the constituency.
Fine Gael aren’t even running a candidate.
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The text? Was that auto? Why would he spell his name Ray "Got him"?
Cllr. Ray McAdam@RayMcAdam
I’m officially a candidate for the Dublin Central Bye-Election 🗳️ For 17 years I’ve been your city Councillor. Now, I want to bring that experience to Dáil Éireann. On Friday, 22nd of May, Vote Ray McAdam No.1
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@sjholmesirl @ucddublin Its case law. Thats how our our legal system works. Theres no overreach at all.
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@ucddublin The guidance says
“Know the law: The Employment Equality Acts… outlaw discrimination on the ground of… gender identity.”
But legally: “Gender identity” is not explicitly listed in the Employment Equality Acts 1998–2015
Sound familiar? yet another example of overreach
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We need to ask an uncomfortable question:
Why do some female students in University College Dublin @ucddublin feel there is a culture of fear around speaking about sex-based rights?
Lets look back at how we got here, spoiler alert, senior government politician involved...
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I might be shot dead but I gotta grab champagne first. Priorities. 🤣
Mambo Italiano@mamboitaliano__
To those White House Correspondents who grabbed bottles of wine and champagne right after the dinner with President Trump 🇺🇸 was interrupted by gunfire — totally classless Come to Italy, we’ll always offer you a proper glass of good wine!🍷🇮🇹 Scavengers
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@AnMailleach Indeed? But didnt you support Scottish supreme judgement on UK gender policy?
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Why are courts making decisions of what is essentially public policy?
Business Post@businessposthq
Shannon LNG has been given the go-ahead to build a 600-megawatt gas power plant in Kerry, after a High Court judge said the infrastructure is needed for grid stability. businesspost.ie/legal/shannon-…
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@TomasJHeneghan @danobrien20 Im actually intrigued who this so called "looney left" appointment refers to. If its Professor Kathleen Lynch she is very very far from looney. Shes had a hugely important influence in challenging inequality in Ireland.
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@danobrien20 1) Only people like you ever suggested Connolly would appoint Clare Daly/Mick Wallace. Connolly’s supporters repeatedly rebutted the accusation throughout the presidential campaign
2) Calling a member of the constitutionally-mandated Council of State “looney” is beneath even you
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Significant. No Daly/Wallace-type political firestarters. Leftist academics heavily represented, with one looney-left appointment. Multiple legal academics could point to a readiness to send bills to the Supreme Court. Watch for triple lock referral …
Fiachra Ó Cionnaith 😊@Ocionnaith
RTE news : President makes seven appointments to Council of State rte.ie/news/politics/…
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@isobelr__ @Berlinnaeus When I went to school there was shock and horror the local parish priest introduced altar girls alongside altar boys - part of the reason he never got promoted past Parish priest. In the catholic church itself - women do the daily work; men take all the power, glory and money.
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@isobelr__ @Berlinnaeus Indeed my experiences and your experiences can both be true and valid - Bernie isnt quite wrong though
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@isobelr__ @Berlinnaeus To be fair Isobel your education experience is very recent. You didnt live through a lot of the ultra conservatism from the 1930s to early 2000s. Many of us barely survived. Im still left with the scars of 1980s/1990s homophobia in our education system that went unchallenged.
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@Berlinnaeus One of your worst takes yet Bernie, I am grateful for my Catholic education with the ethos of selflessness, charitableness and compassion for the poor and marginalised, no “second-class treatment as a woman” as you say. Not anyway comparable with Afghanistan…..
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Ian McGahon retweetledi
This was, straightforwardly, a racist narrative designed to delegitimize Hannah Spencer's victory while also implying that British Muslims are in some way not full citizens. Despicable, gutter stuff for which there was (of course) exactly zero evidence.
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
No evidence of 'family voting' in by-election bbc.in/4v1eLpc
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@RichS6402997944 @PeterTatchell The dataset is tiny. Its 1 poll. Its 1 small subgroup of only 1 poll. That means results can swing a lot and have large margins of error. There isnt multiple saying this.
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@ianmcgahon @PeterTatchell How has it "not been verified"? How do you think polls are typically verified?
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Reform UK is the most-supported party among gay & bi men, new poll shows
25% would vote for Reform, despite its anti-LGBT+ policies
Reform would repeal the Equality Act that protects LGBTs from discrimination & ban diversity policies that include LGBTs
thepinknews.com/2026/03/12/ref…
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Ian McGahon retweetledi
An unfriendly reminder that none of the TERF cult are ever *just* TERFs.
They do seem to be fairly universally sadistic however.
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Ian McGahon retweetledi
I'm proud to co-sign this letter with colleagues from across the political spectrum. The abuse aimed at Hannah Spencer this weekend was beyond reprehensible.
We’ve bridged the political divide to send one clear message: harassment has no place in our democracy.
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@MaryKenny4 @DubLoony @eoinyk A lot of British towns actually never really recovered from the devastation of Thatcherism
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Alternatively, if society was very right wing (Ireland in the 80s), but gradually becomes normal, but you stay in the 1980s, you suddenly look very right wing.
Irish Times Politics@IrishTimesPol
Maria Steen: ‘If you are in the centre and everybody else moves left, all of a sudden you look right wing’ irishtimes.com/podcasts/insid… via @IrishTimesPol
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This badass trans ally just won an ultra-safe Labour constituency with a 25% swing without ceding one inch on trans rights. Ignore the red/brown slopulists who think leftists can only win by becoming conservatives
Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️@LeftieStats
‼️ BREAKING: Greens WIN Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide victory 🟢 Grn: 41% (+27) ➡️ Ref: 29% (+15) 🔴 Lab: 25% (-25) 🔵 Con: 2% (-6) 🟠 Lib: 2% (-2) Green GAIN from Labour (+/- vs GE2024) ‼️First-ever Green win in an MP by-election
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Does the Green Party in Ireland have any position on “ Family voting” ?
Or do they too think it’s racist to protect women’s right to vote without coercion ?
I had never heard of it until today and I’m stunned. It’s 2026.
BBC Politics@BBCPolitics
Election observers raise concerns about "extremely high" levels of family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election bbc.in/4rM4SJY
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@kelly_79769 @AnMailleach Eoin is just making up story that has no factual basis.
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@AnMailleach Would it? Where in the bill was that stated?
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Under hate speech laws it would have been illegal to raise concerns about a biological man beating the bejaysus out of a woman.
The Free Press@TheFP
So it turns out Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has a male chromosone after all. "Reality eventually catches up even if it takes years for people to admit what others were shouted down for saying," argues @EstherCKrakue.
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Ian McGahon retweetledi
Gender critical ideology is a belief system. It has no place in law or decision making. It must be kept out of government.
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