Aidan Fitzmaurice @FancyVegasPro Twitter profile

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

11 months

Look at this, it's a children's radio series I wrote all by myself! Storytime Takeover is a very fun and silly journey through the world of storytelling. Please do share it with the young folk in your life and also maybe even yourself ✌️

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@RTEjr

11 months

Subscribe and listen to the new RTÉjr Podcast Storytime Takeover here now! All 6 episodes are available. #ShareAJourney #KidsPodcasts @FancyVegasPro @ross_carvilll @Monkeyshine_

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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1 year

This is one of my favourite ever jokes in a sitcom

malcolm in the middle context

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3 years

Save the BBC if only cause their recipe section gets straight to the recipe without 3000 words of irrelevant preamble

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3 years

Irreverent Reverend ✊🏼🙏🏼

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Name something that you actually remember being new technology, but is now obsolete.

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4 years

Leo Varadkar called to my door canvassing and I managed to get it on video.

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3 years

Sarah Vine has asked for privacy through her divorce with Michael Gove.

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1 year

Big fan of them following up "FACT" with a sentence that starts with "if"

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1 year

The Titanic Museum in Belfast nervously twiddling its thumbs, trying to figure out if they should use this as a marketing opportunity

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3 years

The "Ah Here Leave It Out" audio over that colourised footage of the snowball fight from 1897 in France.

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3 years

I hope one of the HSE hacker's demands is that the RTE Player gets fixed

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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4 years

FYRE FESTIVAL FOR KIDS Strap in folks for I have story about a festival I ALMOST worked at many years ago that essentially turned out to be a massive scam akin to Fyre Fest only it was aimed at families. And believe me when I say this tale has a killer twist ending. THREAD

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

Stephen Donnelly is on newstalk right now talking about how the 31st of June isn't some magical date for vaccination targets It's not a date at all Stephen. (gotta tag him, @DonnellyStephen loves when you tag him)

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4 years

The money allocated to greyhound racing in the budget could feed the animals in Dublin Zoo for 38 months.

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4 years

Dublin Zoo may be forced to close - for good - after losing millions due to Covid restrictions (via @IrishTimes )

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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4 years

I think if Michael D Higgins was cornered by a load of Jim Corr supporters in his gaff he'd snap into action like Yoda at the end of Attack of the Clones

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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1 year

As always my cold heart is warmed up by a Malcolm in the Middle tweet doing good numbers

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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4 years

Plz like and share to show how connected we all are

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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2 years

I just received this rejection email from a job I applied for. Surely this can't be legal?

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1 year

You'd never see us AIB heads, or BAIBs as we call ourselves, get carried away at the ATM like that. We're a more serene, a more gentle, a more dignified sort of bank customer. Why? Because we are brave, and they back brave. Simple as.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

I saw a kid at a soup kitchen on O'Connell Street so I knocked the soup out of their hand & said "do you know the fact you're not paying rent to live anywhere means a landlord might miss a mortgage payment on their 4th house?" Kid started crying but I know I did the right thing

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3 years

Lidl obviously

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3 years

It is very handy to get such a solid example of why both private schools and private hospitals shouldn't exist.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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2 years

Next week's article: "The hidden joys of being cold and hungry during winter"

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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4 years

*Phil Spector in job interview* "So Phil what would you say is your biggest strength?" "Music production probably." "Very good. And what would you say is your biggest flaw?" "Murder."

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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4 years

Stephen Donnelly interviews Stephen Donnelly

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

We've Eamonn Ryan saying there's nothing he can do about energy price hikes, Darragh O'Brien saying nothing he can do about the student housing crisis, Stephen Donnelly wiped his hands of the maternity hospital visitation issues ages ago...so what exactly is this Government for?

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3 years

Leo Varadkar had quite the day today.

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3 years

A selection of images of various Government ministers on a day when no Minister was available to take the Affordable Housing Bill in the Dáil.

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3 years

"Schools are safe" "We never said schools are safe" "Schools are safe"

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

Hi Folks, I made a handy explainer video to bring us all up to speed on the Katherine Zappone/Leo Varadkar/everybody scandal that is currently engulfing Irish politics. Hope you enjoy.

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3 years

The people of Ireland react to Regina Doherty's '800 years of common travel' comments from last night.

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2 years

We're always told that being a landlord is a difficult job, but also it's somehow manageable to be a landlord of 11 properties while being a Government minister

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

Our ICU capacity is still 300 despite the biggest public health emergency the world has seen. That's the thing to be getting mad about. Scientists aren't gonna stop doing modelling cause results are grim, but they wouldn't be so grim if we had a functioning gov & health service

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

My child is so close to his first word. He's trying to say "there" but he keeps saying "their" or "they're" instead. Not good enough.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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4 years

Voting for the Greens

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What FEELS like climate action but it ISN'T?? I'll start: net-zero by 2050

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2 years

Getting the anti-trans lobby all worked up by telling them we have a "Transition Year" in Irish schools

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4 years

"Excuse me while I tell you you are wrong before showing several graphs that ultimately prove you right before finishing up with a slightly reworded version of your initial point"

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2 years

Hard to fully grasp how irresponsible this headline is.

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2 years

Just got this on whatsapp: "Speaking to my friend who's a guard & he said airport lockdown being announced tomorrow to come into effect on Weds at 11. Airport will be open for a few hours each day with army outside allowing people in every now & then. He said to defintely panic"

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2 years

I love how Leo Varadkar, a man famously out of touch with the electorate, thinks reminding everybody that Pearse Doherty got into some hassle with the Gardai when he was 21 is some form of gotcha

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

*housing crisis escalates to previously unseen levels * Irish Government: OK who did this? 😂

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4 years

A homeless man asked me for change earlier so I said "don't you know we're ranked second in the world for quality of life?" and he vanished into thin air.

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3 years

Well done to @FergalBowers on standing with the journalists refused entry to Donnelly's briefing. It's far easier to say nothing in difficult situations like this. His actions not only showed solidarity with his colleagues but also highlighted how Donnelly wants to operate.

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3 years

For the record I think everybody should be entitled to their privacy even hypocritical shits like Sarah. It's just good to point out that they are hypocritical shits.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

There's a very strange thing happening with Norma Foley in the media. Logic would suggest that letting the virus tear through schools, infecting kids and forcing families into isolation, is a bad thing. But instead she's getting praised. Is this some form of collective denial?

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"If I was a first time buyer now, in my 20s or 30s, thinking about buying my first home, I'd be very worried about a change of government" Deluded to the point his friends should be concerned.

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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that he believes that the housing crisis is on the "cusp of changing" with house prices starting to level off or fall |

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3 years

They only thing that can kill the joey meme now is some shite politician trying to jump on board

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4 years

Can we all just take a second to appreciate how completely awful and toxic Leo Varadkar is for Irish politics? The amount of hassle caused by his ego for a man who can only express himself through novelty socks.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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2 years

Nobody wants to talk about it, but we are facing a mental health epidemic in this country: men in their 40s forgetting they own a house. #itsoknottorememberyouownahouse

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I wanted to call the customer care team to let them know the good news but I've been on hold for 3 hours now

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We're delighted to have won the Excellence in Customer Services Management Award, awarded by @PublicSectorIRL 2021 Excellence in Business Awards, underlining eir's 'commitment to connecting and investing in Ireland'. #LetsMakePossible

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

Watched Batman Begins again last night and the "why do we fall?" scene plays completely different to how I remember it.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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2 years

So a priest goes on a hate filled rant against the LGBTQ community, and ends up on The News at One, Liveline, and Newstalk to repeat said rant, all on the same day? There's something completely horrific about all of that I can't quite put my fingers on

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

I managed to snag Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien for this week's "60 second politics quiz".

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*me in a car showroom* "How much is that car?" "Well for a couple it's just €7000 each." "That's an odd way of telling me the price, is there something wrong with you?"

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

Cool that there is a viable business model based entirely on the fact our councils don't provide enough basic amenities.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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4 years

Hi all, please check out my latest gaming video. This week I'm playing "Leo Varadkar: The Game"

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2 years

Takes a very brass neck to claim you're too busy to do anything the day after cutting the ribbon on a new Pennys

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

Imagine being in Government for 11 years and claiming the opposition's ideology responsible for the housing crisis. It's so stupid I'm embarrassed for anybody who can vote for this shit.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

So Katherine Zappone's new role, which she invented and lobbied for herself, works out at €250 per day worked, international travel, expenses, enhanced ministerial pension, access to a secretary...& these people were trying to convince us it's an insignificant amount earlier?

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

@CarrollJennifer Hi Jennifer, big fan of your work, was just wondering what the letters 'TD' stand for after your name? Thanks

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

I think the biggest thrill of my college days was when the ATM would give out a tenner

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4 years

Hi all, please check out my gaming channel, here is a quick clip of me playing the Irish Government's new game "Lockdown Level System" where I'll be trying to figure out if it's possible to unlock Level 5 restrictions while playing Level 3.

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"The housing crisis is bad" "Actually if you look at this graph it isn't so bad" "but with the cost living crisis it's hard to make ends meet" "According to the inflation index it's only moderately difficult to make ends meet" "I'm sad" "Not according to the happiness index"

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2 years

If I was one of Robert Troy's many tenants I would simply stop paying rent and keep blaming it on a series of misunderstandings.

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2 years

Last night I looked my GF in the eye & said "hey, all that stuff you have to go through as a woman? Now that I have a a daughter, I finally get it, I understand the plight of woman now." She ran off crying. It's an emotional subject. Which I get, because I have a daughter now.

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3 years

Yesterday Paschal Donohue was telling us how as a nation we are in a dire debt situation, today he's telling us a man got an €81k raise during a pandemic because his job was an important job.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

Mishandling of Covid = NPHET's fault Housing Crisis = Sinn Fein's fault The Government are so lucky that the two main crises they face are somebody else's fault.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

Devastated. And for anybody who thinks this is good news: I hope you some alternative suggestions for where Facebook and Google employees are going to go for team building exercises.

Government refuses to fund €25m Dublin whitewater rafting project

Dublin City Council’s controversial George’s Dock plan cast into doubt after decision

www.irishtimes.com

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3 years

*me showing aliens around town* "And this is the hospital where we treat sick and injured people. Arms, legs, organs, eyes, you name it!" "Teeth?" "Hahaha no what the fuck"

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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2 years

Last night I went to the cinema on my own, & when the rest of the audience realised I was on my own they started booing me & pelting me with drinks and popcorn until I left. Can we please normalise doing stuff on your own? This is the 9th evening in a row this has happened to me

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

I really don't see what the number of people you can have at a wedding has to do with love being cancelled.

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4 years

Footage of the people of Ireland reacting to Leo Varadkar's "there's little point in reopening things that you then have to close 3 weeks later" comment in the Dáil today.

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2 years

Producer: we need someone who can really spell out the dangers of Sinn Fein, and I know just the guy.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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2 years

Something beautiful about the Irish language is how the phrase "I am broke" doesn't translate literally. When spoken in Irish, "Tá mé briste" translates directly to "a Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael Government are gouging the fuck out of me again" And I think that's beautiful.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

When Leo was caught sharing confidential documents to a pal he accepted it was wrong but insisted he did it for the right reasons Now he's caught breaking covid guidelines & his argument is it was within the law but against the guidelines How toxic a leader is too toxic for FG?

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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2 years

Just heard a man from Dublin ask for "Large fries" in the chipper. Never heard it done before.

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3 years

Me: I'm hungry and would like to eat food Leo Varadkar: It sounds like you're a slave to the ideology of hunger

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3 years

@GeogheganCllr Hi James big fan of you & your shirt I think it was very brave of you to establish an anti abortion party to..help spur the yes side on? Was that the plan? Also I hear they're looking for someone to light the lamps in the park every evening, I think you'd be perfect for the job

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4 years

You know what's great? A load of people replying to a video you made saying how happy it made them and it was just what they needed today. Honestly, it's the business.

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3 years

It's been a few days since I've been reminded to hate teachers. What's going on, are they back looking after everybody's kids this week or something?

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

If only there was some way to know why cases are on the rise again...

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3 years

@CNNFaking He's gonna round up that class of kids and finish reading the book

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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2 years

The plan? Hire 100 actors to form a queue outside a rental property to try and trick Billy Timmins

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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4 years

Cool it only took 12 years for FF to get another Taoiseach in. Cool that I'll never get to own a house in Ireland. Cool there's no money designated for the arts. Cool that a seismic election result ended with the most regressive outcome possible. We are just a very cool country.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

They said it couldn't be done but those crazy bastards did it

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Dublin to Cork journey times cut by up to ten minutes under multimillion euro rail plan

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3 years

Edging close to 10k followers after asking a TD what 'TD' stands for

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4 years

Always check the bio.

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3 years

Hard to understand the point of the Gardai if they don't think responding to 999 calls is a top priority.

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3 years

Hahahahahaha

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3 years

Spat in my elderly neighbour's face at 6am and they burst into tears of joy

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2 years

@DonnellyStephen Hey Stephen, great to see you have so many fans to retweet this 200 times in 15 mins! Exotic looking friends too

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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4 years

Good to see he's gone from promising upfront cash payments to demanding them himself. And that is the story of Wondefest 2014 aka Fyre Fest for Kids In summary: I don't think this guy should be getting HSE contracts.

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3 years

Pushing for a festival to go ahead = not populism Social housing targets = two faced populism

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

Shocked to see Fine Gael's "€15,000 isn't a lot of money" defence backfiring after a year of constant financial hardship for the average person.

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3 years

Irish political parties doing their internal polls

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3 years

They're really really not. Imagine having the privelage to choose a ceremony over a place to live.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

Today a co-living development in Phibsboro was approved & I can't help but think back to this sneering reply from our housing minister when Eoin O'Broin looked for some clarity on what his "ban" actually meant They sneer at you for pointing out the obvious & hide when it happens

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Hi Eoin, just to confirm incase there is any confusion on your end, it is a ban.

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2 years

Much like people taking photos in public toilets to try whip up hysteria, the premise here is that the person lurking outside filming children at a children's event is the normal one.

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3 years

@SimonHarrisTD @GeogheganCllr

Aidan Fitzmaurice

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3 years

They only thing that can kill the joey meme now is some shite politician trying to jump on board

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