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4 months

Men who beat women unconscious in the street, or in the privacy of their own homes, aren’t monsters or animals or most patronising of all, boys. They are men you go for a pint with, share an office with, watch the match with. They are ordinary and they are endorsed by denial

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10 months

I hope Nell Mescal is doing the duty of all little sisters everywhere and making many terrible jokes about running this morning

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4 years

Women should be able to go for a walk at 9pm or 7.30am without being murdered or grabbed and put in the boot of a car. This should not be a position that is up for debate

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Ticketmaster are obviously a giant scam corporation but it’s interesting that when Taylor Swift has VIP tickets for hundreds of euro everyone blames Taylor Swift and when Oasis have regular standing tickets bumped up to the same everyone blames Ticketmaster

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For all the complaining about ticketmaster the band/their management are in a position to not allow dynamic pricing.

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3 months

It is fun when they lose in finals but it is a bit too risky for my liking

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3 years

Spilled all my antigen juice all over myself and would v much like to return to a world where that sentence made no sense

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2 years

One of the biggest scams going is the lie that a bowl of porridge for breakfast will keep you from getting hungry until lunch

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5 years

First they make us defend Leo Varadkar, now they make us defend the HSE. Unprecedented stuff from the Brits

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11 months

Just so much about Dublin summed up in the fact that two of the people who intervened today were a Brazilian Deliveroo driver using his helmet as a weapon and a woman leaving the Stardust inquiry

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3 years

If couples with a joint income of 90k have to use TWO government schemes combined to purchase a house I think we can safely say your housing market is broken beyond repair

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3 years

The government argues that combined with the Shared Equity scheme a €450,000 home would be available to a couple with a joint income of €90,000. The price caps are based on local authority area.

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4 years

I expected incompetence from Stephen Donnelly but him giving the entire cabinet covid was beyond even my wildest dreams

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3 years

Howling at the HSE setting up a whole structure to make people register by year of birth so the system isn’t overwhelmed and then the government being like pharmacies here’s hundreds of thousands of people all in one morning good luck!

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4 years

Wild idea but maybe instead of making parents wash their children’s school uniform every day (!!!) we could just go mad and stop making kids wear school uniforms

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3 years

Asking mostly young and unvaccinated staff to adjudicate on customer’s vaccination statuses so they can dine indoors is a fully bananas idea

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3 years

Have I been institutionalised by the pandemic or is lifting every restriction mad I can’t decide

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4 months

I, for one, am shocked and appalled to discover that touring musicians lie to their audiences about how they are the best crowd ever. Nobody has ever done this before Taylor Swift that is for sure

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4 years

My biggest fear as a driver is that I could hit a cyclist (or a pedestrian). It is utterly baffling to me that anyone who gets behind the wheel of a big lump of metal that moves at speed could be opposed to infrastructure that makes that less likely to happen

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3 years

Got heckled by a man at the vigil which was a bit on the nose tbh

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3 years

The advice to women about how to check if someone is really a police officer is gross and weird but also pointless because he WAS really a police officer

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4 years

The thing is that as sympathetic as I may be to Irish people abroad, they are effectively asking Irish people in Ireland to prioritise them travelling home over our ability to leave the house for anything other than a miserable walk, and that's a big no from me

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4 years

Sorry did I just have an aneurysm or did Josepha Madigan just try to compare teachers refusing to teach in an unsafe environment to MOTHER AND BABY HOMES

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10 months

2024 off to an absolute barnstormer anyway because my taxi driver home last night was Cormac from Tallafornia who was driving a Tesla

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7 years

My fave dystopian feature of Ireland is how we give a foetus legal representation but leave actual children without social workers

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2 years

Also feel like if the IRFU was actually sincerely concerned about women’s safety they could perhaps do things like not allow someone to remain Ireland captain after they attend a rape trial but sure what do i know

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5 years

Can't wait for the new series of Strangers Things set in Rathfarnham

Netflix UK & Ireland

@NetflixUK

5 years

the first episode title of Stranger Things 4 is... 🥁

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3 years

Something vaguely nostalgic about the red weather warning. Like a glimpse into what it was like to not live in a state of constant emergency

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@aideenblackwood

6 years

I want 800 words about how wrong they were on my desk from every single prick with an Irish Times column who told repealers at every stage that we needed to ask for less

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4 months

Surely not too much to ask that a serving soldier lose their job automatically after being convicted of a violent crime like this whether they go to jail or not (and obvs they should also go to jail)

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4 months

A serving soldier who beat a woman unconscious in a random street attack, and boasted about it on social media, has walked free from court after being given a fully suspended sentence which the victim described as "not justice"

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@aideenblackwood

6 years

Here is @MichaelDHiggins campaigning against the citizenship referendum just fyi

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5 years

Also think it's important to note that the Savita mural was at the Shaw and I don't think the importance of that as a space for public catharsis after the referendum should be underestimated

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4 years

It’s important to challenge racist lies but people with previous convictions also don’t deserve to be shot

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1 year

I am generally pretty good at auto translating myself when speaking to people who aren’t Irish but absolutely nothing hits the same as gave out. Should be universal

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@aideenblackwood

4 years

Just saw a tweet claiming MHQ would go into the school books as the most shameful period of Irish history and I can't believe this app is free

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@aideenblackwood

2 years

In the spirit of Christmas I think we should just circle back to this all time Leo Varadkar discourse instead

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@aideenblackwood

6 years

Just saw a sign at Trans Pride saying “Turf not TERFs - Culchies against Transphobia.” My hero 🙌

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@aideenblackwood

1 year

The shift from my friends posting stories at Forbidden Fruit on the June bank holiday to my friends posting stories at Bloom was shockingly sudden and comprehensive

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@aideenblackwood

2 years

Obsessed with my neighbour putting up some plastic fencing (one of which has already fallen over) and a table in our shared lane and describing it as “a south facing sun terrace with access to a sunny back garden that is ideal for entertaining” in their for sale ad

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2 years

If you went to an Ashling Murphy vigil and are supporting Johnny Depp tonight you need to take a very very long hard look at yourself

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1 year

Marty will be able to ride this out because the key difference is that people like Marty Morrissey

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3 years

Oh my god Sarah McInerney telling him she had muted the account because it was abusive. Iconic

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@aideenblackwood

5 months

Those fake posts about Micheal Martin’s kids are insane but particularly grim given the context of him having two children who have died

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@aideenblackwood

2 years

Tech companies are so wild. This is the coldest shit I’ve ever heard

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@aideenblackwood

2 years

Electric Picnic is so lacking in mid level quality international acts that at 6.45pm on Saturday evening in the Electric Arena the 2 Johnnies are on

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@aideenblackwood

3 years

One of the weirdest parts of this whole pandemic experience has been that so many people seem to genuinely believe the government loves closing things down

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4 years

Sorry but no amount of tax credits are going to get Dubliners into Temple Bar and the business owners of Temple Bar only have themselves to blame

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5 years

It is cultural appropriation that the discourse about Chris Evans in Knives Out is about something called a “sweater” instead of its true name - an aran jumper. I will not be taking questions at this time

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1 year

John Creedon currently doing a perfect job of reminding the country what public service broadcasting can be ❤️

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1 year

it’s much funnier that this is all happening to Paddy Cosgrave the one time he was in the right

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3 years

Someone texted into Pat Kenny there to say driving at 30km/hr in the park is “impossible” to do, which is an interesting way to admit you can’t drive

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@aideenblackwood

3 years

I am always uncomfortable with the way we cover funerals in the media in this country and I imagine it will be even worse today. I hope Ashling Murphy’s family are allowed some privacy. Our public loss is nothing compared to theirs and I think some have lost sight of that

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3 years

The remote work bill is a missed opportunity to change the culture of work, but it also fails to recognise that the culture of work has *already* changed. We've been at this for nearly two years. You can't force that experience back in a box and expect everyone to forget about it

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4 years

Sorry what

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5 months

Shocked to discover that Old Mr Brennan was both a real person and still alive until now tbh

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2 years

Dublin Pride cancelling their media partnership with RTE is actually an *exercise* in freedom of speech

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2 years

On my death bed my final words will be Taste of Dublin is a scam

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3 months

Someone on RTE just there saying “it’s being dubbed this morning as the blue screen of death” as if someone just came up with that today

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1 year

funniest thing about the fake Wolfe Tones outrage is how they are all basically pretending they have never been in a residents bar after a wedding

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6 years

I have had to pause the Fyre documentary in the first 3 minutes to take a moment to appreciate how perfectly perfect it is that Web Summit is somehow involved

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@aideenblackwood

4 years

Not only is there no sign of the Grafton Quarter light they have put up the old Nollaig Shona Duit lights. Victory for the common man

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6 months

The unbelievable neck is takes to claim using benches in a protest is akin to desecrating a graveyard when you are supporting the creation of literal mass graves

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7 years

Does Leo realise we can actually hear what he says in America

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11 months

My personal favourite John McGuirk is always wrong about everything moment ☺️

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3 years

I applied to adopt a cat and honestly the video call I just had to do was more intense than some interviews I’ve seen on Line of Duty

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5 years

Am I hallucinating

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4 months

Generally not a big fan of public shaming but you’d have to think this was done because of the reaction to Cathal Crotty’s character reference and good more people should be ashamed to give character references to rapists

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Moran has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment with the final year suspended for rape and aggravated sexual assault. Read more:

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4 years

Why are there no graphic designers amongst the conspiracy theorists

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6 years

I was wearing my repeal jumper at ATN last night and a man came up to me to ask if I thought we’d have won by more if we hadn’t had such aggressive jumpers

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6 months

There is a whole class in social media manager school where they tell you about how if you want easy engagement post something annoying about Ireland because they cannot help themselves

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@aideenblackwood

5 years

Always find it depressing how many journalists cannot distinguish between something that is in the public interest and something that the public is interested in

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@aideenblackwood

3 years

Weird how many employers don't seem to realise that their workers can and likely will leave if they are unreasonable about not allowing remote working

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@aideenblackwood

3 months

Kind of obsessed with how dodgy this methodology is. What a grift

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@aideenblackwood

8 years

I mean, being sexually abused is probably worse.

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8 years

Kenny: "There is nothing worse in this country than being called a sexual abuser. There is nothing worse."

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4 months

Stuff like this makes you realise how lucky we got with the timing of the repeal referendum. Hard to imagine the campaign being the same if it happened today

Caroline O'Doherty

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It's all over in #LE24 #Kildare Newbridge. James Stokes of Sinn Féin excluded on the 11th count. Tom McDonnell, Independent immigration control candidate, is elected. He says this is a first step to the Dáil where he wants to bring in incentives for Irish women to "breed" more

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@aideenblackwood

4 years

Columnists who frame polite disagreement as abuse are a much bigger threat to free speech than any trans person ✌️

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@aideenblackwood

4 years

@ChristineBohan I am also shook by the rule that you can’t advertise sanitary products if half the audience is under 18? Dunno about you but I was using them long before I turned 18

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1 year

Ryan Tubridy and Noel Kelly going before the PAC is like going on Liveline in the heat of a PR scandal. The worst possible idea for them but absolutely delightful for the rest of us

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8 years

Ooh yay there's a survey

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2 years

“Michael Gove now the first person to be sacked by three different prime ministers” 💀💀💀

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@aideenblackwood

11 months

Dire stuff this weekend where I have wanted to defend Leo Varadkar from weirdos on the internet on two separate occasions

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@aideenblackwood

3 years

Would love to know the thought process behind the multiple people on my road who looked at our tiny Victorian terraced street with no driveways and thought do you know what I’m gonna get a big fuck off SUV

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@aideenblackwood

4 years

Ben & Jerry’s is owned by Unilever, one of the biggest multinational corporations in the world. Their “activism” is a marketing scam my friends

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@aideenblackwood

28 days

Even if you leave the racist dogwhistling aside, people leaving direct provision having been granted asylum and going straight into homelessness is a fundamental failure of the state, so it's wild to see it used as spin in *defence* of the government

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8 months

Think a lot of this is down to completely misunderstanding the marriage equality and repeal referendums and taking all the wrong things from them (Ireland is progressive now!) and discounting the years of hard slog people put in on the ground to build a groundswell for them

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@aideenblackwood

3 years

Patrick O'Donovan just described the changes to the Phoenix Park as being about a 'just transition' and like I really don't think the rights of the people of Castleknock to drive through the park was really what that term was intended to mean

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@aideenblackwood

2 years

Obsessed with this photo choice that makes him simultaneously look like he’s here to threaten you for your rent money but also is deeply scared and confused by the idea he’ll be leader of Fianna Fáil

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@aideenblackwood

4 years

Big question now is who put a curse on the Department of Agriculture and why

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@aideenblackwood

6 years

The thing about Sean Gallagher and his fake tweet bullshit is that everything contained in the 'fake tweet' actually happened and a man did appear the next day saying he had given him €5000 for Fianna Fail

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@aideenblackwood

6 years

Is this a joke?! Tenants are regularly being evicted from properties so landlords can do spurious renovations and increase the rent and now they're getting tax relief for it too?!

Gavan Reilly

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6 years

100% interest relief for landlords with loans from purchase, renovation or improvement of a rental property #budget19

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9 months

I am generally anti-true crime now but I will be needing a new Ian Bailey documentary with all the stuff that was previously unprintable thank you 🙏

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6 years

Between free tampons and the pigeon heads this has been quite the few days for someone collect your da twitter

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@aideenblackwood

4 years

I didn’t vote for this government either but the rhetoric that it is *illegitimate* is gross and I hate it

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6 months

Deeply gross to talk about it as “clearing” the tents at Mount Street and not about providing housing to people who shouldn’t have to live in tents

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@aideenblackwood

2 years

Shows how shallow how much Pride and LGBT solidarity stuff is when an organisation can say with all seriousness that they stand with the LGBT community in a statement with the entire purpose of excluding and attacking that community

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@aideenblackwood

4 years

When everything has been so SERIOUS for so long it really feels like a nice treat to get a such a solidly stupid political scandal

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@aideenblackwood

3 years

I’m loath to get involved in the South William Street *discourse* but a lot of it definitely comes down to no overall planning for people being outdoors and no communication between the various national and local decision-makers

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@aideenblackwood

3 years

I miss when doing nothing over the few days between Christmas and New Years felt luxurious and not just like more of what we’ve all been doing constantly for nearly 2 years

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5 years

I have some news about the 80s for people who think Fairytale of New York was written before homophobia

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8 years

Nobody is suggesting The Irish Times should ignore the existence of the alt-right. Just that they shouldn't publish their propaganda

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3 years

The DJ child speaks for us all #latelatetoyshow

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6 years

Unsurprising but still depressing that all it has taken is a migrant woman having the audacity to run for the council for the state and the media to go all in on racist smears. Solidarity to Ellie Kisyombe

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