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Barry Grogan

@bazzdgrogan

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Irishman living in England. Solicitor by trade and aficionado of GAA, History, Politics and garrison games.

Omagh/Norwich/Cambridge
Joined March 2014
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@bazzdgrogan
Barry Grogan
6 months
@JacobYoungMP @_WildfellHall 1. It's £22,000 after factoring inflation, 2. You are counting income tax and NI in 2010 whilst only counting income tax in 2024. Either a basic mistake or a wilful misrepresentation of the facts.
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@bazzdgrogan
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1 year
@fesshole Next week on Fesshole "I have been a regular in my local for decades. Over the last few years, I acted to the barman that I am slowly losing it. Haven't paid more than £3.50 for a pint since 2017. Winning"
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@bazzdgrogan
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3 years
@_blaithin_ "Well she's from Amerikay and she's all into her arts and music you know. Just a sugar in the tae thanks Mary"
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@bazzdgrogan
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2 months
@implausibleblog @RoryStewartUK desperately trying to hold it together and not rip into Nadine *think of those silent meditation breaks*
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@bazzdgrogan
Barry Grogan
3 months
@HughRBrechin "So Biden ran in 2016, and is the end of his second term?" "Ehhh nooo.Have you ever see the US Apprentice...."
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3 years
@BenJSkipper @PoliticsForAlI It really is the most middle class protest ever. The colour coordinated hammer and chisel and the leather gloves.
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@ItsAndyRyan Also "Living at home" is more or less a substantial contribution to the deposit.
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Barry Grogan
4 years
@JimMFelton @RishiSunak Two ways to look at it: 1. A BAME child of immigrants becomes Chancellor. Exceptional achievement. 2. Guy who went to Winchester & Oxford and then worked as a banker before becoming Conservative MP is Chancellor. Clichéd.
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@bazzdgrogan
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@Johnny__Luk @MKConservatives Isn't this a photo taken of a house? In Milton Keynes. An entirely new city that was built to help deal with massive national housing shortage?
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@bazzdgrogan
Barry Grogan
1 year
@peterrhague @Mr_John_Oxley Nope. He has the power, and he has technically already given whatever his order may be via the letter of last resort.
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@bazzdgrogan
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@rcolvile And especially the sincere handshakes to Elmo and Count Binface.
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4 years
@DecLawn @maireadenright Donie is great as well as being the definition of "Big Irish Head." He is every GAA club corner back.
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@bazzdgrogan
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9 months
@JonnyGabriel Michael Owen actually got it for the bravery shown in throwing an apple into a bin against the disapproving stares of his mother.
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1 year
@mviser "So what do we show the President? The Ardagh chalice, the book of Kells, the Mountains of Mourne, the Ring of Kerry or a hurling match" "How about a deli counter in Dundalk?"
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@j_amesmarriott Similar vibes
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@TheEditorDiary A Leicester, Brexit, and Trump accumulator would be quite something
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@charlottor This is just a damning indictment of the UK housing market.
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2 years
@Lucywwatson Having 5 kids and then spending £200k per year so you don't have to see them seems sub-optimal.
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2 years
@BriW74 @MartinBelam Possibility of a couple first meeting in "The Queue" and inevitably having a daughter named Elizabeth?
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@RishiSunak @Holbornlolz I love how he set out his background. But skipped over the 25 years of Winchester, Oxford and investment banking.
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@itvfootball It's the house that gets me. One of, if not thee, top English footballer of the early-mids 90s living in your standard new build middle class detached house.
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@CrowtherSim I don't know why it's surprising though. A working class girl brought up by a single mother in a deprived area of Newcastle who got into Oxford and is now a Cabinet Minister at 40. Frankly 4 A's is the minimum she would needed.
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@Brady_k6 @PopulismUpdates In fairness the USA is currently one of the oldest countries in the world.
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4 years
@holland_tom @TheRestHistory Empires you say? Credit goes to @ItsAndyRyan
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6 months
@davidchild That's the spirit of Agincourt,Waterloo, and the Somme.
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4 months
@disappoptimism The not unlikely possibility of grim health news for Charles that could complicate an autumn election campaign.
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@DavidMuttering The book he is methodically building up to throw at them is quite something.
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@willsolfiac Largest towns and cities in the late 14th century. Nothing north of Shrewsbury and west of the Pennines
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1 year
@DPJHodges Labour is on track to win 700 - 800 council seats. Did Keir bully you at school?
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@jaymiz64 @fesshole It is much easier to recognise what is outstanding than thinking what is outstanding in the abstract.
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Barry Grogan
3 years
@DaveyKelleher I've asked around various friend groups on WhatsApp and 90% of people had a granny which had one Must have made a clean fortune. Second only to the lad that took and sold pictures from a helicopter of bungalow in rural Ireland in the 80s and 90s.
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2 years
@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret The real scandal is someone actually choose to have Carling and Coors Light as two of the beers on tap.
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@suzyquiquero In fairness, 2 rows from the front is more or less business class for Ryanair
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2 months
@chrisshipitv @Keir_Starmer "So what time will you be calling me next Friday" will be a hell of an opening line by Starmer.
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3 years
@holland_tom @TheRestHistory I'm 31. Can I conquer a similar sized empire by my next birthday?
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2 years
@RevRichardColes It would be quite funny if the advance Secret Service team was rumbled by a retired Vicar.
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@hannahrosewoods @Bookish_Rachael I'm the same age and by my reckoning I'm on my third "once in a generation" crappy economic thing in the last 13 years.
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2 years
@Diane_Ihirwe "Not interested as we are a soccer family" is the most sure fire way to inspire any GAA coach to get someone involved
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8 months
@jodcoll That post was a Daily Mail column in human form. Couldn't resist a dig at the "underclass"
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Barry Grogan
3 years
@reb_stuart @Independent_ie Wasn't there a Daily Mail headline years back on the contraceptive pill. "Scandal! Millions of women use it. Its suppose to be 99.9% effective. But why are hundreds of women still getting pregnant whilst on it?"
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@lukerobertblack So his dad then ran a tool workshop/factory and Keir went to a grammar school? Why, as a Tory, do you dislike small business and grammar schools?
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1 year
@aljwhite Massive "Flanders Pigeon Murderer" vibes
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3 years
@Peston @BorisJohnson Tbf it was February 2020. Not like there was anything else to prepare for....
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4 months
@natgoodlad It's very good, but not even the best lie detector joke on the Simpsons
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2 years
@iain_renton @jimwaterson The two of them? What exactly did Rooney do wrong?
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2 years
@VelvickChris @JSavageTweets @fascinatorfun Thats exactly what I thought. They are also mainly self employed and don't get paid for not moving for 27 hours.
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3 years
@Samfr "I didn't float up the Dneiper in a bubble"
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2 years
@Aid1Long @IAMFRIMPONG26 Why is someone in a Kilkenny kit holding a football is almost as big a question.
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Barry Grogan
3 years
@CalaisFrom @thehistoryguy Cocktail sausages to the right of him. Champagne to the left of him. Colin the Caterpillar in front of him Balloons and party poppers thundered Into the jaws of the party plodded Boris
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1 year
@mynameisRobbo @Urban_Pictures The irony too of not a single Bully XL being brought along. I wonder why...
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2 years
@jimwaterson Peter Andre checking his Twitter feed
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4 months
@TheFreds @bazzared1903 But you have taken antidepressants.
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4 months
@dcsandbrook The laughter you hear is that of 6th century Britons and Romano-Britons at the long overdue cancellation of the Anglo-Saxons.
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10 months
@fesshole Tell me you're from Ireland without telling me you're from Ireland.
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Barry Grogan
8 months
@ItsMatt_Again The bleakest clip ever. In 2005 arattled Blair confronting voters who are complaining that they are able to see their GP within 2 days.
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Interesting part of the 2005 election Question Time when the audience were having a go at Tonty for the 48 hour target for GP appointments meaning they were being forced to book appointments sooner than they wanted them...
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@PetreRaleigh There will be almost certainly no Presidents born in either the 1930s or 1950s. First time since I believe the 1810s that this has happened.
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@pptsapper I still think it's mad that there were perhaps 250,000 Irishmen fighting in the American Civil War. About 4:1 in favour of the Union. Not second, third, or fourth generation, but men actually born in Ireland.
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3 months
@WalkerMarcus I assume you had similar concerns when private school increased their fees way beyond inflation year on year for the last 30 years?
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2 years
@supermathskid @Alan_Allport This is more regular than the atomic clock
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7 months
@WeHaveWaysPod It was brilliant until at 26:32 when the B-17D on screen did not have adjustable cowl flaps on the engines which as everyone knows was an addition this varient of the B17 so the show is now the worst thing ever.
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7 months
@john_mcguirk Enoch doesn't deserve that.
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Barry Grogan
2 years
@thhamilton It is the self-confidence that you have to admire. If that was me I would be too embarrassed to show my face for getting so many calls so badly wrong
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2 years
@KJ_Mak @GraemeDemianyk This was it. Had 3 attempts to get it just right.
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@RestIsPolitics "Let's circle back to the Kessel Run"
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@Sam_Dumitriu Peak boomer.
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3 months
@drjennings My pet peeve has always been Boris being described as a great campaigner. He got only 300k more vores than May. It was the collapse of the Labour that always helped him.
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@Robert___Harris Jim Callaghan was called by the Labour Party prior to the 1997 election asking if he wanted to be a bit more more active in politics. " Well, I was a Labour Prime Minister. What more can I do?"
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2 years
@bysianharrison @jimwaterson Own goals are generally mistakes in the heat of the moment or an unfortunate rebound. This was akin to spending an entire game smashing the ball into your own goal from 40 yards away.
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@JamesDAustin I am always shocked that squash is not an Olympic sport. For football perhaps 5 or 7 aside? Although for golf, it's the only real opportunity that golfers have of representing their own country outside of the US golfers for the Ryder Cup.
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@Robin_C_Douglas @ClarkHistoryPol @holland_tom @dcsandbrook @TobySaul @TheRestHistory I think the best fact about Lenin is that he spoke English with an Irish accent specifically south Dublin. His English tutor in London was from Rathmines. The accent was noted by HG Wells and James Connolly's son.
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2 years
@gideondefoe Here he is a 32 y/o actor looking 50 whilst playing someone in his late 30s in the first episode of The Sweeney. It was an episode that also had Brian Blessed and June Brown.
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3 years
@KevinMKruse @marcorubio Wow Kevin. Stop with your *checks notes* capitalist thinking...
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2 years
@tomhfh You know things are going well for the Tories when their supporters are trying to pretend they were barely in power for the last 12 years.
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2 years
@BadSocialism But more than anything else it shows how deep the rot spread. You would at least expect some denial or repentance for what happened. But to double down and say they deserved it. Christ.
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@PushTheSutton Ladbible as a mouthpiece for a Tory PM was not on my 2024 bingo card.
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@bugsandfishes In fairness it's a small silver plate over centuries of stolen land and a pittance for a wage.
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3 years
@fesshole I'm in a complete time warp of thinking about someone who is now an adult being able to look backwards in time to when they were 7/8 and scratching their Dads Xbox game.
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@marketsneil So you think it was sustainable that the average British would continue to have 40x the income of the average Chinese or Indian person? Those 27 years meant hundreds of millions of people in India, and China came out of poverty
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2 years
@Peston "So Nadhim what first attracted you to, almost certainly, the next PM Rishi Sunak?"
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4 months
@gabrielmilland Attlee,Bevin, Bevan, Cripps, Gaitskill Wilson? That's 6, and we are still in Attlee's cabinet.
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4 months
@imgrandsure When the upper middle class English accuses you of being a Guinness traitor
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2 years
@fesshole How short was her hair? Or indeed beard?
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@bazzdgrogan
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2 years
@theirishfor Lenin also spoke English with an Irish accent. This was noted by both HG Wells and James Connolly's son Roddy. He learnt it whilst in London. His teacher was from Rathmines.
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10 months
@DarranMarshall "The stadium will be hosting football, hurling and camogie games for decades" I think that may be the issue that David has with it.
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