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@emermoreau
Emer Moreau
5 months
Cillian and I are starting a club for people with Irish names that really are not that hard to pronounce and yet
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Variety
5 months
Cillian Murphy poses for photos at the #SAGAwards .
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This episode of Why Is Ireland So Damn Expensive is brought to you from a Carrefour in downtown Madrid
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Emer Moreau
1 year
Graphic design is my passion
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Linda Doyle
1 year
Huge congratulations to Paul Mescal - former student of The Lir - who has just received an Oscar nomination in the Best Actor category for his role in Aftersun! 🎬 An incredible achievement 🎉 #Oscars95
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1 year
I’m nearly tearing up watching the cast and crew of @quietgirlfilm switching between Gaeilge and Béarla on the Six One. Can we retire the ‘it’s a dead language’ shite for good now, please? Radio hosts and columnists, I’m looking at you
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4 years
Watching #SewingBee is just me and my mam murmuring ‘oh that’s lovely’ every five minutes for an hour
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1 year
Ná 👏🏻 úsáidígí 👏🏻 pictúir 👏🏻 Pheig 👏🏻 le gach 👏🏻 focain 👏🏻 alt 👏🏻 nuacht 👏🏻 faoin 👏🏻 Ghaeilge 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Emer Moreau
2 years
BREAKING: Liz Truss will be the next British Taoiseach
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1 year
Ballyhaunis was the cheapest place in Ireland to buy a house last year
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TheJournal.ie
1 year
House prices in Ireland rose by 3.9% in the 12 months up to March 2023, the lowest rate of increase in nearly two years
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4 years
I think it’s high time we talk about the @TG4TV intern using their new-found clout to bring the Gaeilge dating shows back
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Emer Moreau
11 months
Some personal news 😅 I’ve upped sticks to London! I was so excited to drop into the newsroom at @BBCNews Broadcasting House where I’ll be starting as an advanced apprentice journalist next month ♥️
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2 years
Front Square in Trinity is packed for the USI walkout
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3 years
Beyond exhausted but incredibly grateful — thanks so so much to everyone who voted and massive shoutout to my stellar campaign team
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3 years
RIP George Salmon you would have hated Linda Doyle x
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Emer Moreau
4 years
If you are Jurassic Park 2, Jurassic Park 3, or even worse, Jurassic World, Sinn Féin doesn’t want you. So much for an Ireland of sequels.
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Emer Moreau
2 years
Lots of very heavy reading here but one particularly depressing statistic: 22 per cent of male respondents agreed with the statement "she asked for it". 18 per cent were neutral.
@universitytimes
The University Times
2 years
One in five college students has experienced attempted non-consensual sex, a report has found, including one in three female or non-binary students
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3 years
This fella could definitely get you one of those weird Nintendo DS cartridges with all the games on it
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2 years
(taps mic timidly) 🎤 some personal news… I’m delighted to be joining the news team at @thejournal_ie next week as a @googlenewsinit Fellow! Really excited to get stuck in with such a talented team 📰
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2 years
Budget day is the one day a year when a girl can dress up like a total slut, and no other girls can say anything else about it
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Emer Moreau
2 years
I told a hairdresser I was a journalist once and she ominously responded ‘some people don’t like journalists’ as she cut my fringe
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adam mahoney (he/him)
2 years
mistake no.1 is telling your uber driver (or anyone) that you’re a journalist
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@GrantSana The one about wearing a beret one time and everyone calling you super Mario for a month was a highlight imo
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2 years
Trinity has bought battery-powered lamps for all campus residents in case of blackouts this winter
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5 months
Niamhs and Oisíns most welcome
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2 years
Nílim ag caoineadh tá tusa ag caoineadh 😭😭 An Cailín Ciúin has been shortlisted for an Oscar via @RTENews
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1 year
Please please please can RTÉ put Teresa Mannion on the ‘unnecessary journeys’ story
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4 years
I’m trying to imagine the consequences that a minimum-wage worker would face for falling asleep on the job, but I can’t because that could never happen in retail or hospitality when you’re on your feet all day
@caulmick
Mick Caul
4 years
So there is a vote on the @SocDems bill to give workers a living wage - @EamonRyan of @greenparty_ie has to be woken up to vote AGAINST it #Dail
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3 years
I got a new phone and was trying out the camera on Himself and it focused on the beer not him
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2 years
Lightning in Dublin 3 this evening (!!)
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Emer Moreau
1 year
Dissertation is submitted don't text
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Emer Moreau
2 years
We’re publishing profiles on all 17* Seanad candidates in the coming days. Bígí linn *I am tired
@universitytimes
The University Times
2 years
Prioritising mental health, inclusion and environmentalism, Seanad candidate Hazel Chu asserts that her experience will ensure the job gets done
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Emer Moreau
2 years
🚨Tom Clonan has now overtaken Hugo MacNeill in the top spot🚨 42 votes between them. 10 counts done now — seven candidates left
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Emer Moreau
4 years
Definitely didn’t have ‘UT gets retweeted by Piers Morgan’ on my 2020 bingo card
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Emer Moreau
3 years
As a depression- and anxiety-ridden aspiring journo this was incredibly reassuring to read. Cheers @donie
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Emer Moreau
2 years
Okay Trinity social media team you have officially crossed a line
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Emer Moreau
2 years
Can someone commission me to write a column about knitting so it can be accompanied by this photo and for once use it in a positive context
@theirishfor
The Irish For
2 years
A photo of Peig has been added to an article about the turf debate in the Indo today for some reason.
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Emer Moreau
1 year
I started covering third level in 2019. Students were struggling to find housing long before the war in Ukraine
@NewstalkFM
NewstalkFM
1 year
Hundreds of students in Sligo could be left with no choice but to commute, defer or drop out due to plans to repurpose student accommodation for refugees.
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2 years
Clare’s hamburger phone is iconic #derrygirls
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Emer Moreau
2 years
This film isn’t even out yet and people are already taking it seriously
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Emer Moreau
3 years
I’m running for Editor! UT has been my life and soul since early on in college and I want to keep us at the high standards we’re at — and make sure the paper is a place for everyone 🗞
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Emer Moreau
3 years
Nuair a dhéanann Tom Daley é seo, tá sé go hiontach ach nuair a dhéanann mé a leitheid tá sé: ‘tá an cruinniú fós ar siúl, Emer’
@TG4TV
TG4
3 years
Tom Daley ag cniotáil báinín 🧶 @Olympics
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2 years
Badass alert!!!!!!!!!
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Emer Moreau
3 years
First-year BESS has left the chat
@universitytimes
The University Times
3 years
Lectures with over 150 people will be held online next year, with individual schools deciding whether lectures of between 50 and 150 will be held in person or virtually
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Emer Moreau
2 years
That is…the definition of a sabbatical
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Emer Moreau
4 years
Observations of a cranky retail worker: if your kids are old enough to go shopping in town unsupervised, they're old enough to wear a mask
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Emer Moreau
2 years
FROM THE SEANAD COUNT in case that wasn't clear
@emermoreau
Emer Moreau
2 years
🚨Hugo MacNeill has been eliminated🚨
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Emer Moreau
2 years
Students going on a J1 have blasted USIT for poor communication, with some due to travel in a few weeks still waiting on a visa. My story in @thejournal_ie today
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Emer Moreau
2 years
Trinity has decided to ‘suspend engagement’ with the Graduate Students’ Union over the GSU’s failure to file accounts for its most recent financial year, which ended in August There will no be no GSU representation on college committees
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Emer Moreau
4 years
Exciting times ahead!! I’m absolutely delighted to be taking on the role of Assistant Editor, leaving the news section in the very capable hands of @saran_fogarty ! We have a stellar team lined up this year and I can’t wait to work with ye all 🐸
@universitytimes
The University Times
4 years
Cormac Watson has appointed Molly Furey as Deputy Editor of The University Times for 2020/21, while Emer Moreau and Aoife Kearins will serve as assistant editors
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Emer Moreau
1 year
TCD security have removed the protesters. Incoming TCDSU president Laszlo Molnarfi was among them. He said Ryan and the Greens have blood on their hands for both the govt's climate response and its decision to lift the eviction ban
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Emer Moreau
2 years
Really disappointed that we’re in this position again. If you have issues with a newspaper, this is not the way to resolve them
@universitytimes
The University Times
2 years
A petition has been launched to hold a referendum to slash the funding of The University Times, including making the paper’s editor an unpaid position
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Emer Moreau
1 year
Did you know that the Python programming language is named after Monty Python, in reference to the developers’ aims that it would be fun to use? Further research is needed but anecdotal evidence suggests this is absolute shite
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Emer Moreau
1 year
Images that could be album covers
@Diarmuid_9
Diarmuid Pepper
1 year
Enoch Burke is back at Wilson’s Hospital School, having been taken away from here by gardai around two hours ago
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3 years
I met Patrick Dempsey today and this is what my family had to say about it
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Emer Moreau
2 years
Trinity is launching a working group to examine the name of the Berkeley library and human remains taken from the island of Inishbofin without islanders’ permission George Berkeley was a philosopher who is known to have owned at least four slaves
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Emer Moreau
3 years
‘You’ve made a mess’ ‘I am a mess’ Ryan is particularly unhinged this year #LateLateToyShow
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Emer Moreau
1 year
‘It was also during the 1970s that [Colm] Bairéad’s father taught Irish to Brendan Gleeson — yes, that Brendan Gleeson’ Irish-language cinematic universe
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TG4
1 year
“The tie between the Irish language & the glitz & glamour of Hollywood was something that people really couldn’t have imagined, so it’s had a huge impact on the status of the language in Ireland & that’s what we were setting out to do.” - Alan Esslemont.
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3 years
Tell me you’re in Ireland without actually telling me
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Emer Moreau
2 years
Friendly reminder that antidepressants can make you more susceptible to sunburn so get that sun cream on champs
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3 years
Feeling left out #MichaelD80
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2 years
Phoenix Park looking gorge this morning ❄️
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1 year
I really don’t know who SNL thinks it’s appealing to whenever it does these godawful ‘the irish are drunks and no one understands their accent’ bits. But you could say that about most SNL content tbh
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Saturday Night Live - SNL
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All the stars are out at the Oscars
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Emer Moreau
2 years
Student media outlet of the year!
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Emer Moreau
4 years
Robert Pattinson could be Minister for Health but Simon Harris couldn’t be Batman
@abbiehive
Abbie🌻
4 years
I genuinely can’t get my head around the fact that simon harris and robert pattinson are the same age
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Emer Moreau
2 years
I know there’s going to be a lot of wheedling to buy Irish on Black Friday, but seriously: @KennysBookshop is infinitely better than Amazon in my experience. I got a Noam Chomsky book the other day for €5.75 with free delivery!!
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Emer Moreau
2 years
‘Scots Gaelic is unpronounceable’ wtf is a Worcestershire
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Cáit Rua
2 years
Mathematics is something I find difficult. Therefore, mathematics needs to change because I don't understand it.
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2 years
Live footage of me in the Exam Hall #tcdseanad
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2 years
I propose we rename the Berkeley the BRRRRkeley
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Emer Moreau
1 year
AG FOCAIN SCREADÁIL
@TheAcademy
The Academy
1 year
Going global with this year’s nominees for International Feature Film. #Oscars #Oscars95
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4 years
Not NYT referring to Simon Harris as Mr Simon
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9 months
That’s the Halloween costume sorted so
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4 years
I passed by my local library today and it initially made me really sad to see it closed but the setup in the foyer cheered me up considerably
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1 year
@dalkeygirl2 No for one 😂
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Emer Moreau
1 year
This is an excellent piece of research and one which I hope people will read and meaningfully think about, but something that bothers me in discussions about online abuse is the idea that perpetrators are faceless and void of an identity. They’re not
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We did it Joe 😭
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Emer Moreau
3 years
activism
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2 years
There’s always a tweet
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Emer Moreau
2 years
Health influencers are almost always bad news but these two seem to have given themselves an air of legitimacy because they have a shop and cookbooks. They’re no different to any other amateur health gurus
@Independent_ie
Irish Independent
2 years
Backlash against Happy Pear twins over ‘factually wrong’ video on reducing breast cancer risk
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Emer Moreau
3 years
Broke: accidentally appearing in the back of tourists’ photos outside the Book of Kells Woke: accidentally appearing in the back of wedding photos in Front Square Bespoke: accidentally appearing in the back of influencers’ photos in Botany Bay
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Emer Moreau
3 years
I used to have a joke about the ship of Theseus but it’s just not the same anymore
@TheKavOfficial
Peter Kavanagh
3 years
I used to tell a joke about Odysseus, but it took ages to get where it was going.
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Emer Moreau
2 years
If you want to donate to Creeslough, you can do so at your local post office
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2 years
Well it’s officially over now
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Emer Moreau
3 years
The sexual tension between Red (Taylor’s Version) and the newspaper I have to produce this weekend
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Emer Moreau
2 years
I’m going to bed. Some thoughts: - UT staff are more than entitled to defend themselves and the newspaper - UT, me and my deputy have been subject to vitriolic, personalised criticism all year. I’ve ignored it all year but I’m fed up - making the editor work for free is (1/
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Emer Moreau
3 years
Muttering ‘get it together Emer’ repeatedly is not a good way to self motivate when one of your assistant editors who is also named Emer is in the room
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Emer Moreau
4 years
idk who needs to hear this but before you have a go at someone for ‘staying silent’ please remember that you can start conversations or make donations without documenting it on social media
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Emer Moreau
4 years
Leo just gave every parent in the country licence to tell their kids ‘do it because the taoiseach said you have to help me out more’
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Emer Moreau
3 years
As we enter the festive season please check in on any oldest daughters out there you may know
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Emer Moreau
1 year
This is a bit different to the stuff I normally write, and I honestly feel a bit weird about putting so much of 'myself' into an article, but when the DCU research came out I couldn't stop thinking about how online abuse is basically accepted as normal by female journalists (🧵)
@thejournal_ie
TheJournal.ie
1 year
Recent research from DCU highlights the extent to which women in journalism face abuse and harassment online
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Emer Moreau
4 years
I was watching a clip of Drake and Josh and...why is Drake wearing an England rugby jersey
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2 years
As a community we are living beyond our means
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Ba feimineach go focain smior í Peig agus gheobhaidh mé bás ar an hill sin. IWD shona daoibh
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Emer Moreau
3 years
It hasn’t been nine years. Please tell me it hasn’t been nine whole years
@ThrowbackTaylor
Taylor Throwbacks
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9 years ago today, taylor swift released the pop masterpiece “i knew you were trouble” as part of a four-week release countdown. -as she premiered one song on GMA & released it on itunes, each week from sep 24 until red's release date oct 22 october 8, 2012
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What did I do in a past life to deserve getting caught in a flash mob of costumed children singing The Greatest Showman in the toy shop in Arnotts
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Emer Moreau
2 years
The blood of Christ becomes the latest victim of the cost of living crisis
@melschnef
mel
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went to a catholic mass for the first time in over five years and the priest used WHITE WINE?! since when is the blood of christ Barefoot Moscato
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People who go to nightclubs three nights a week and have the capacity to do literally anything else should be respected and feared
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Emer Moreau
3 years
NPHET pushing the culchie agenda trying to get us all to start having dinner in the middle of the day
@MichealLehane
Mícheál Lehane
3 years
NPHET recommend 5pm closure time for hospitality from Monday next. This will be considered by Government tomorrow. Also spectators at sporting and live events recommended to be kept to very low numbers.
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1 year
This is deranged
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@rachel_handler
rachel handler
1 year
I walked Cornelia Street (again) to talk to Swifties who made pilgrimages from across the Eastern Seaboard to “pay respects,” the CBD shop owner who recommended a strain for heartbreak, several blasé neighbors, and one very pissed off 80-year-old man:
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Emer Moreau
3 years
Can’t miss a target date that doesn’t exist
@NTBreakfast
Newstalk Breakfast
3 years
Health Minister @DonnellyStephen says the vaccine rollout programme is not a race to the '31st of June'. #NTBK
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Emer Moreau
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I feel for this year’s crop of CAO applicants — 601 for psychology is truly eye watering. Questions will be asked about the feasibility of a predicted-grades system after this year, I think
@universitytimes
The University Times
3 years
Points increases were almost universal across Trinity's courses this year, with many going up significantly. Here is a breakdown the points for first-round offers
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