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Some time campaigner for human right for all unemployed people to Register as Unemployed,sometime runner Re-tweets not intended to be read as an endorsement

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@irishexaminer Fair enough, but why has the video of george floyd killing been shared so much on media ? Are all victims not equal ?
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🤣😂😅 The @irishexaminer quickly limited comments on this FB story when too many of its readers sided with Linehan 🤣😂😅 I have never seen a newspaper waging a cultural war against its own readers so much 🤣😅
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A Ukranian Doctor is complaining in the Irish Times about how hard it is to get work in Irish hsopitals ----why on earth are Ukrainian doctors not staying in Ukraine when there is a dire need to doctors in Ukraine ??? Is there not some ethical obligation here ?
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@oconnellhugh as a 63 old knowing how many elderly were consigned to death in Nursing/Retirement Homes by Varadkar & Harris, I am literally sick to my stomach by this
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#HateSpeech remember when they all lined up to say Je Suis Charlie ?
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@toryboypierce Mr Pierce you live in 2017 England and not in 1939 Nazi Germany - have you not learned the lessons of history ?
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So the Great Anti Catholic Labour. TD Aodhain O Riordain ....got married in a Church and held other family events in Church as well...there is one consistent thing about O Riordain - his complete double standards
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I am guessing no journalist will ring up Minister @simoncoveney & ask what his brother Rory Coveney - who is RTE Strategic Director - knew about the Ryan Tubridy salary strategy
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@pjcoogan @boucherhayes Well said - I have rarely seen such arrogance and contempt for ordinary people from one RTE's jobs for life employees
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@JohnOBrennan2 Well John, Ireland funding and housing healthy male Ukrainians who qualify for military service if they were in Ukraine is not supporting the people of Ukraine at all...we need far more analysis and less emotive statements
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@DeeBeeCW On the contrary - this is a staged interview aimed at undermining women and teen girls in sport - nothing at all to admire - quite the opposite
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@misandryposting So cant famers use male catttle to produce milk for consumotion as well ? I am sure there would be a thriving LGBT demand for Bulls Milk......
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Childrens Ombudsman Office has been refusing to reply to my emails about their policy on mixed sex school toilets so I have sent them FOI for all records they hold about me & have insisted on a reply by post - it should not be necessary to do this but they are being bad mannered
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If a letter emerged written by an Irish priest saying he had female friends who between ages of 9 to 13 had been having sex with adult men & said " None says they were abused. All say it was their conscious choice & gave them great joy.” what would the reaction be in Ireland?
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@ShaneBeattyNews Are you going to comment at the abuse hurled at women attending the @TheCountessIE event yesterday from LGBT TRAs ? Women are constantally being bullied and intimidated by TRAs and yet most of the media ignore this
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@shahmiruk Is this your version of 'Inclusivity' ? "We dont want you, we dont need you"
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The sheer f*cking insanity of this - privileged and ignorant prats ignoring the huge numbers of jobs Intel have brought to Ireland
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We fully support the actions of Maynooth Uni students in demanding action including divestment from Intel @AcaforPalestine @maynoothsu
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@GeriCarr @TfL A Bus driver cant refuse to let a person pay for another person - there should be formal complaint made about this to the company and a separate gender discrimination complaint made against the Bus company
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@BowesChay Somebody best tell the Swiss that they are using the White Cross of the Whermacht on their national Swiss Flag...
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AN utterly revolting picture that mocks every Irish person, knee capped, tortured, raped, sexually assaulted, kidnapped and murdered by the terrorists of the IRA and all its subsidiaries
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Am I the only one that doesn’t get all this kneecap lark? It has that blind boy degeneracy whiff off it.
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FOI Leo Vardkar and Irish sportswomen:# Leo Varadkar tried to publcly pressurise Irish Rugby to reverse its decision to keep transwomen out of womens rugby without even considering the health and safety aspect
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@ShaneHannon01 Take a hike - you knew what you were like when you decided to do a hatchet job on katie....standard woke hypocrite
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@UpsyDaisy666_ @molucco When a HSE official pulled that personal noun stunt with me in an email last year , I lodged a formal complaint; when an official from Coimisun na Mean did it this yeat, I also lodged a formal complaint ...the next officials who wrote to me didnt use personal pronouns
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@IrishTimes I left the RC Church decades ago because I disagreed with it on various matters so why the heck doesnt Burke act like a man and leave the RC ? he cant have it both ways and he should stop virtue signalling this way
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@nesbitt_jill @minnyshell @rodericogorman needs to explain why he thinks incidents of bullying, intimidation and even physical assaults will not take place in mixed sex school toilets - because we all know they will - so does Min for Education
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@HMcEntee @morningireland @NTBreakfast Will you be commenting on the campaign that @ICCLtweet @NCWI and TENI and others have been waging against the women who spoke on @rteliveline ? Do you consider that campaign to be ' hateful' ?
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@gavreilly @VirginMediaNews Kerry people depending on farming, fishing and trourism in Kerry will see the Green party as one of the biggest threas to their respective industries..Ryan is lkiving in La La Land
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RTE : Sean O Rourkes wife went from RTE to be Minister Flanagans politcal adviser and his son is Pippa Hacketts Adviser .....and of course RTE brought him out of retirement.....no connection of course
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@limerickblog @TonightVMTV @ciarathedoc Trying to renove the words women and Mother had everything to do with the transvestite sector/industry - and people know that so just get over it
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@DrJessTaylor I think quite often you will find it is the woman in the partnership who wants to get married. That doesn't sound like a trap for the woman
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This picture shows what you, @OrlaNWCI , @NWCI and @LeoVaradkar really represent and stand for - the denial of womens basic rights as women and teenage girls Vote NO N0 NO to every Green Party and Fine Gael Party candidate at every election & Referendum.
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Strong arguments from @OrlaNWCI in support of a Yes vote on both the referendums on Family and Care taking plane on 8 March 🗳️
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@Eomurchu Russia starved 4 million Ukrainians in the 1930's, and invaded Poland twice; in a failed invasion in 1920 and in 1939 joined Hitler in carving up Poland...remind us again of the similarity between Ireland and Russia and why we should look on them as our friend ?
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@NewstalkFM That is shameful comment by you Newstalk espcially so soon after having a discussion about Sonia O Sullivans brave article about women in sport article
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@MaryKenny4 @EamonDelaney10 @boucherhayes And an economic system resulting in mass starvation and mass immigration - is that not the other side of coin ??
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@Yorkshire_Woman @Fergal_Davis I am sorry but we Irish have a genetic tendency to feel we are the most unique people in the world despite the abundant evidence we are not..
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@thejournal_ie Varadkar pulled back after it was revealed he was a cheater - his sexual orientation has nothing to do with his cheating
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Sonia O Sullivan & Barry McGuigan are the Only Irish former Olympian to defend women athletes from the gender identity cult....where are the rest of the cowards ?
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@Madser2002 Would that be the same person who signed a petition calling for political representation to be denied to GC Women..?
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@wereontheditch Whether he or his wife are the legal owners is irrelevant; if his wife owns the site, he has a financial interest in the site - the Dail Register is nonsense when property of spouses dont have to be declared
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@JOEdotie Listeing to this, the meeting was suspended to ensure Sen Keogan could not explain her comment - a blatant act of bias and censorship by the Chair
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@JoeBrolly1993 Ex Pink star Johnny Lydon summed up people like you. I feel sorry for the poor woman who went through 9 months of pregnancy with you
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@IrishTimesOpEd Una Mually was the Chair of K Zappones LGBT Strategy Committee that encoouraged the us of Puberty Blockers - chemical castration - on prepubescent boys - who the hell is she to talk about 'Going too far' SHAME ON Muallly - @SenatorKeogan @NWCI @rodericogorman @LeoVaradkar
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@cincykem The sheer perversity of a political party leader trying to deny 50% of the population the human right to discuss what it means to be a women -
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@KellyScaletta You can talk about misgendering as much as you like but being pregnant and delivering a baby is an exclusively female expereince....
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@griptmedia @Ben_Scallan McEnttee must be one of the most manipulative and sheer nasty Ministers this country has had -
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@First_Neptunian @RickThrelfall Volcanoes have been erupting long before man was created and will continue long after we are gone
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@GerardBattenMEP In fact Irl exports six times as much pharmaceuticals and related products as it does food and cattle - not sure about Argentina - perhaps you were thinking of Falklands/Malvinas ??
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@PaddyJManning @Catherine1J @griptmedia If the attacker had been a white hetrosexual native Irish male and the victims been gay or trans, we know the media and social would be swamped with accuations of homophobia and transphobia
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@RaghallaighJ If he was hetrosexual and that was a female player the jokes would be of the same nature - and nobody would be should hetrophobia....
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says he thinks Gay people are treated differently - does he mean people say the kind of things he said in the Dail in January 2010 ?
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@GCraughwell Do you actually read Sec 18 of the Act which says Sex changes along with Gender ? That is insane as everybody knoiws Sex cannot change - it is inate
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@misandryposting Green Political Parties and environmentalists utterly reject GM produced food and yet totally accept this kind of chemical 'food' - where is the consistency ?
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@arcticnead Ruane's behaviour was utterly appalling and you trying to white wash that behaviour is simply drawing more attentionn to it. Her childhood has nothing to do with it r recovery fron addiction usually makes must people who recover from addcition more decent human beings & not less
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@gavreilly @VirginMediaNews As an urban gardener I volunteer in excess of 500 hours a year creating and tending urban gardens & should in theory vote Green, but nothing would persuade me to vote for the Green Party - ever - pics from my urban gardens
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I wonder did Simon Coveney make a declaration of interest that his brother Rory Coveney was one of the RTE executives lobbying for more money for RTE from Gov & that this relationship should be officially put on record ? #GE2020
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@megszzzzzzz That is discrimination on the grounds of sex and you should lodge a discrimination complaint to your countries equality authority - give notice to the gym you will be lodging the complaint first & see what they do
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@WNTTgra @ElleInTheUK Passive resistance is active resistance - good for her !
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@millihill This is what inclusion looks like in my country- the republic of Ireland
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@transwidows Fathering 5 children is pretty conclusive proof of maleness....and proof the individual is very much not a lesbian
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@MichealMartinTD Then stop FF's Cultural War against women - only a woman can be a Mother and only a Mother can be pregnant and give birth - a man can never be pregnant and can never be a woman - women are unique - they are born unique...
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@colmpbyrne One pic demolishes your argument in full - and the term 'cis woman' is offensive to many women
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@deerchimera @ChristianWVids I have seen women uses mens toilets without any problem - it really doesnt matter a damn to us who is standing next to us at a urinal or who uses a toilet cubicle - stop blaming men for the decisions you make
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@GerardBattenMEP Why is this ' tiny country' the UK's fourth biggest export destination ...if it is that tiny ??
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@w_derham You'd swear from your tweet that you were not sensitive to womens views about this issue..please say it isnt so.....or maybe you just dont understand womens fears based on long history of women being preyed upon by men either passively or aggressively by men
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@irishexaminer The sheer vindictive nastiness and misogyny of the @irishexaminer is on full display here - @deshocks ...The @irishexaminer and @IrishTimes lost the referendums - get over it
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@IrishTimesOpEd When will Mulally start writing about her and Katherine Zappone suporting the medical experiement carried out on Irish children at Tavistock- she was Chair of Zappone's LGBT Committee ?
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@RobOHanrahan @VirginMediaNews The behaviour of a former and incoming Prime Minister in a licenced public venue is not 'private' - and if he was Borris Johnson, the irish left and media would be talking about it. Why would a journalist ask if he wanted to condemn the video but not ask about the behaviour ?
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@carrigman Cafe in Soll , Austria, last Oct; apple strudel, tea - served with glass of water and complimentary biscuit..- 5 euros odd..
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@ScepticalSista @loraob 😃 I am 5ft 10 and less than 12 stone and find the idea of Laura taking me down without bother quite amusing ...of course it is jsut bluff from Laura sitting at her keyboard
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@RTEUpfront I am a divorced Father and the Constitution recognises my family. my late Mother was a widow who raised 5 children and the Constitution recognised her family - we are tired of this bogus argument
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@JohnOBrennan2 Well, Professor of European Politics, tell me where I can find the statistics about Ukrainian and non Ukrainians who had been resident inside and outside Ukraine when the war broke out & who sought assylum in Republic, and I will try to provide you with those numbers
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@KellyScaletta A male body can never, ever, ever, ever, get Pregnant - it is important you should know in case you start wondering if your big belly means you may be pregnant - you wont be pregnant- you are not a woman
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@SenatorKeogan @IrishTimesOpEd Paid 13 K for being Chair of Katherine Zappone's LGBT Strategy Group - Should the IT not be informing readers of this connection ?
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@alisonoconn Really ? Parts of it would seem to be appallingly misogyistic and pure tacky
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@KellyScaletta a woman who chooses to identify as a male may indeed get pregnant...a fact quite consitent with my post
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@VillageMagIRE So Village - are you giving me a credit for this ? Because I have been tweeting about this for quite a while
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@HJoyceGender The one thing I do not associate with the ' trans community' is love and respect....quite the opposite in fact
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@El_Becks @Glinner @Herring1967 As a father of a daughter I do have a 'skin' in this issue but cant find a single female pol in Irish Republic who gives a damn or few women willingly to speak out publicly
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@ItaOKelly @OBrienSheehan What you have posted simply highlights how appalling was the behaviour of Websummits former CEO - with power comes responsibility - this is not about cancelling, it is about someone's behaviour becoming so unacceptable even coprporations walk away
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@JoeBrolly1993 This picture sums up the huge disadvantage trans athletes are at.....🤔🤣😂
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@saoirse_mchugh If you think this is appropriate for children, then I doubt many parents on Achill woiuld agree with you
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@phychem11 @Malachians There is no such rhing as a ' proper english accent' - like most big countries, there arfe a wide variety of accents spoken in UK and even in London itself there will be a variety of accents
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@Independent_ie I am a 67 byr old non drinker and it is just embarassing to see this nonsenae - get a life and leave young people alone
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@gavreilly Francis Fitzgerald refused to stand for leadership of FG and was forced to resign as Justice Minister; she simply has no credibility.
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@mark_omahony1 @rtenews Do you feel intimidated by a strong woman ?
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@ThePhoenixMag @griptmedia Gript got it absolutely right about the #Referendums2024 ......😂🤣😅
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@IrishTimes What an insult those who have died of covid and their families and those who have suffered serious I'll health from COVID
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@fmcgrath19 over 1,700 people dead of virus and some country pharmacy is more interested in being PC ?
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How can RTE credibly hold @rodericogorman & his department to account when RTE is represented on O Gorman's LGBT Strategy Committe ? This is increasingly becoming a farce #tavistock
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@NewstalkFM Yesterday you were tweeting about an Irish sports woman being cheated of her place in a weightlifting competition - today, you are laughing in her face
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Taoiseach to receive €38k pay rise via @rte Remember when Deputy Leo Varadkar said it was outrageous for Taoiseach to get a pay rise
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@KeithM It is a brave person who will stand up &be counted when it involve being subject to ' slings and arrows of outraged' popular public opinion
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@S1MARSPLAY @krakenbun @vrarda1 @Op_Moonshot @helenstaniland @logi_con @edofmund @MCleaver @RavenclawMorgan @alexcruik @alexsobel Seriously ! People are no longer taking that kind of over blown hyperbole seriously anymore......we are tired of being emotionally manipulated ..that isn't as a noble a look as you think it is...
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@irishexaminer The deaths of those two men and the arrest of the alleged attacker show that Irish LGBT, Irish media and sections of the academic world are remarkably selective & manipulative in expressing outrage and discussing the implications of attacks on and the killing of LGBT people
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Who wanted to remove the words Women and Mothers from the Constitution ? Who wants a new Hate Speech Act ? Meet ther members of the Oireachtas LGBT Caucus - there is a rather noticable lack of gender balance so I guess we should call it the Patriarchy Caucus
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@NWCI This sums up the attitude of the @IHREC @NWCI @rodericogorman @LeoVaradkar @sportireland @OCO_ireland @SimonHarrisTD @simoncoveney @PresidentIRL - the demands of men who self identity as women are always superior to the rights of women
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@QueenofAnxietea @SydMuddy sexual attraction isnt a learned bias
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