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Kate Demolder

@katedemolder

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Features writer | bylines in Prospect, Irish Times, RTÉ et al

Dublin, Ireland
Joined January 2010
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@katedemolder
Kate Demolder
3 years
it’s 6:35am in Dublin Airport and the woman beside me is having a pink gin with her toast and beans. I would die for her
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3 years
My enemies are after me, babe. I need €800k, a Dyson Airwrap and San Pellegrino Limon right now this isn’t a joke
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Kate Demolder
2 years
@baileymeyers to this day, I still pronounce the vegetable ‘mangetout’ as: man get out
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Kate Demolder
1 year
on a Ring of Kerry bus tour with a 70yo tour guide who calls himself “The King of the Ring,” and just likened Loreto nuns to the Taliban. More as we have it
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Kate Demolder
2 years
Thinking about how many cowboy hats stayed on during sex last night after Garth
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Kate Demolder
2 years
BREAKING: Pete Davidson spotted with Belfast petrol-drinking woman
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Kate Demolder
3 years
Just drove by a gal I went to school with dropping her kid off at crèche as I went to get hash browns. This is 28
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Kate Demolder
1 year
This is every waiter in Stoneybatter
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End Wokeness
1 year
Hired by the Biden Administration:
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Kate Demolder
3 years
Nollaig na mBan is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it
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Kate Demolder
1 year
I was immediately angry over this until I remembered a friend on his J1 telling an American gal that the reason he was in the US was because when you're 18 in Ireland you've to fight your father, and if you lose, you leave
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Got CTE from playing Peek-a-Boo
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SPOILERS: Just realized that Shiv's final betrayal is foreshadowed even in her NAME- Siobhan is an irish name, and the irish are infamously untrustworthy
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Kate Demolder
3 years
Bella Hadid off on her sixth class school tour to Clara Lara
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@katedemolder
Kate Demolder
2 years
“31, Castlebar, centre back. Need a woman to keep me outta Coppers! Ha. Baby in pic 3 isn’t mine”
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Pop Crave
2 years
Tom Brady shares new photo on Instagram.
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Kate Demolder
3 years
the crystals shop on Aungier Street has had teen girls queuing outside it every day for the past fortnight. What aren’t they telling us
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Kate Demolder
1 year
@imgrandsure Gen Z’s Oliver Cromwell
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Kate Demolder
3 years
look alive Fermanagh, bootcut jeans are back
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Kate Demolder
10 months
@ismisemichelle_ I don’t know you but I feel this in my bones and truly believe you need to name and shame to your mam
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Kate Demolder
2 years
D’ordaigh mé an phionta seo trí Gaeilge amháin agus fuaireas €1 as an phraigheas!!! / I ordered this in Irish and got €1 off @ Hyne’s Bar, Stoneybatter 💚🍀🔫🐸 more of this, please
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Kate Demolder
2 years
There is no greater anti-depressant than the 1990 episode of Reeling In The Years
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@katedemolder
Kate Demolder
2 years
Twitter currently feeling like O’Connell Street McDonalds
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Kate Demolder
11 months
prods in 1847:
@aliyahInterlude
⭐️IT GIRL⭐️
11 months
one sip of a really good soup can rlly change your life, i’ve experienced this multiple times in my life
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Kate Demolder
2 years
Me after writing one (largely unusable) paragraph
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@katedemolder
Kate Demolder
3 years
Sending SO MUCH love and support to a thicc ass and juicy bank account. You got this. ❤️⚡️
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Kate Demolder
7 months
One day you’re 22 arriving into work in the same clothes as last night. The next, you’re deleting TikTok to make room for the Dunnes Stores app
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Kate Demolder
3 years
shoutout to the two biggest vibe men in Milan
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Kate Demolder
2 years
I am in no humour to be watching people with six packs go for swims on Instagram
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Kate Demolder
1 year
he just spent about eight minutes describing, in beautiful detail, the magic of Fungi’s relationship with Dingle, only to end with “he’s now missing, presumed dead”
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Kate Demolder
3 years
Are ya still at the writin’ are ya?
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Kate Demolder
3 years
off to the Naas CBS Debs!
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2 years
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Pop Crave
2 years
Matty Healy sucked a fan’s thumb at a recent The 1975 show.
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Kate Demolder
4 months
A commentator for the Dub - Mayo game just said a player showed the strength of Ciara Mageean by slotting between two players to score. Feels hopeful to think male athletes are being lauded for their ability to perform like female athletes :-)
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Kate Demolder
1 year
modern Ireland: trans, gay, Kilkenny 🤍
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Kate Demolder
2 years
Will babies be conceived in Coppers tonight—
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Kate Demolder
3 years
TV peaked here
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Kate Demolder
4 years
Best of luck to any future nightclub owner who will have to trap me like a rat in order to send me home
@rtenews
RTÉ News
4 years
Nightclubs look set to be allowed stay open later and Sunday pub opening hours will be extended under a plan by the Minister for Justice to reform the alcohol licensing laws
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Kate Demolder
1 year
thankyou to everyone for joining me on a solo work tour! I’m writing about this so will share for all of you seemingly so fond of dead dolphins. for those asking: the tour was given by the inimitable John O’Neill of Wild Kerry Tours. give him all of your money forever more amen!
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Kate Demolder
2 years
GAA sponsors are Supermacs and Ham
@Independent_ie
Irish Independent
2 years
GAA reject Mayo’s application to wear rainbow numbers in support of LGBTQ+ community as they see playing gear as ‘sacrosanct’
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Kate Demolder
1 year
He’s just hammed up his South Kerry accent to say this: “This is a totally non PC bus ladies and gentlemen. It’s all sex drugs and rock + roll from here on in. But I must ask, if you’re doing any of the above with a hot drink, please leave it outside the coach first.”
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Kate Demolder
1 year
without breath or explanation, tour guide just said “not too long ago in the bog to your left, archaeologists found several thousand-year-old butter that, when dug up, was as fresh as the day it was made. they also found bodies. they were less so”
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Kate Demolder
2 years
This is what you’d write on the thank you card of the TY student selling vapes out the hatch of your petrol station
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Kate Demolder
4 years
can’t wait to be absolutely hating nightclubs, while in a nightclub
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Kate Demolder
1 year
Whatever your thoughts are about any politician, posting a picture of a young woman on their staff in an attempt to get people to troll is misogynistic and frankly demented. Take this down
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Kate Demolder
1 year
just hit Caherciveen: “Daniel O’Connell is big business in Ireland. he got Catholics the vote and used to be on the £20 note before we switched to this euro business. now everyone wave to Meabh the traffic warden”
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Kate Demolder
3 years
@imgrandsure I wanna get ‘young Cork man’ across the arse of my jeans like a juicy couture tracksuit
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Kate Demolder
1 year
he just described, in grisly detail, the Puck Fair to 20+ audibly horrified Americans. No wonder the world thought Banshees of Inisherin was set in modern day
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Kate Demolder
2 years
Frank Greaney is the court reporting GOAT
@FrankGreaney
Frank Greaney
2 years
Enoch: That is a lie. It's a lie. A lie. Isaac (Enoch's brother): A lie. A lie. A lie. Enoch: He's lying to the court. He should be struck off the register. Enoch roaring now. His mother, Martina, is applauding him.
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Kate Demolder
4 years
If the first night out after COVID doesn’t look like this I don’t want it
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Kate Demolder
3 years
We live in a nightmare
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Kate Demolder
3 years
"omg same" - me as a counsellor
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Kate Demolder
2 years
As everyone I spoke to yesterday can attest to, I’m still very much in shock. Thank you all so much for your kind wishes, support and trust to share your stories. Today I might stop calling myself an idiot, but from tomorrow things will resume as normal xxx
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Kate Demolder
3 years
Always looking for deserving Irish up-and-comers to write about. Can't guarantee anything, but if you have any Irish artists, musicians, designers, actors, playwrights, rappers, authors etc you think the world should know about, get onto me here ⬇️
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Kate Demolder
1 year
just stopped at a sheepdog training session. Shepherd walks in like a god. the distance between US confidence and Irish mortification has never felt so vast. had to touch base with the inner circle to confer/scream
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Kate Demolder
1 year
we just stopped “for five minutes” at the side of a mountain for whatever this is. seems to be a friend of gas tour guide. cute hoorism knows no bounds, including bucket hats with ‘high til I die’ stitched to the front. up Kerry
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Kate Demolder
1 year
*laughs at how twee all the O’Irish shit is *realises we had every single one of those jugs at home
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Kate Demolder
1 year
@kirkpate The slapping of the knife as it cut through 😮‍💨 perfect
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Kate Demolder
1 year
fuck it, we go again. Today we’re on a lakes tour! the sun is out and we’re on the water. Tour guide just said “I see a lot of ye looking worried and ye needn’t be, we haven’t had a serious accident in at least a fortnight”
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Kate Demolder
4 years
I have had three (3) drinks and replied to eight (8) Instagram stories
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Kate Demolder
1 year
en route to Sneem. He has now taken to recounting previous tours and slagging Americans. “Ye lads want to bring the Book of Kells to the Cliffs of Moher, kiss the Blarney Stone and also get a coffee to go on the way. Would ye ever sit down and have a pint”
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Kate Demolder
1 year
the Big Brother music makes me believe I could kick a door clean off its hinges
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Kate Demolder
4 years
🚨 hello! as of this week, I have dropped out of the rat race and will be henceforth be a freelance writer. A dumb idea? Time will only tell. Commissioning editors, feel free to get in touch w me – katedemolder @gmail .com – to write things about stuff 🌹 RTs v much appreciated
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Kate Demolder
3 months
Christy Moore sang Bob Dylan’s “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” tonight at the Iveagh Gardens and dedicated it to Natasha O’Brien 🤍
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Kate Demolder
3 years
guys I’m literally shaking right now. the HSE hackers just leaked my private info and revealed I have a thicc juicy body that won’t quit 😭
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Kate Demolder
3 years
never told you guys but since it's in the news thought I should share that I'm actually up in court today. It's just a formality, should be fine
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Kate Demolder
3 years
How did we not talk about the two pint bottle of milk #LateLateToyShow
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Kate Demolder
2 years
Just got a BeReal notification during a smear test
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Kate Demolder
3 years
Keep going back to this anxious brow yet cavalier groovin. Feels relatable somehow
@RTELateLateShow
The Late Late Show
3 years
Meanwhile backstage... GOWAN Róisín! #LateLateToyShow
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Kate Demolder
1 year
“We have different road names in Ireland. If you see ‘r’ at the start, it means regional, and they’re shocking to drive on. If you see ‘l’ they’re local roads which are awful and grassy. And where you see ‘n,’ they’re national… and they’re worse than the first two put together”
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Kate Demolder
2 years
I present to you the most Irish photo ever taken of me—the day AFTER my communion (I’d fallen out of my top bunk the night before and we later found out that I’d fractured my skull) but the photographer was paid for so I was sent out to get a few snaps
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Kate Demolder
3 years
my mum just called it The Divil Wears Prada 😭😭😭 happy Christmas, everyone
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Kate Demolder
2 years
BRB passing out!!!!!
@ST__Ireland
The Sunday Times Ireland
2 years
Congratulations to @katedemolder who has won this year's Arts Journalism and Criticism award for her work in The Sunday Times at the 2022 @newsbrandsirl Journalism Awards
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Kate Demolder
2 years
Imagine Davide was putting on the accent this whole time. Actually a bricklayer from Wigan #LoveIsland
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Kate Demolder
3 years
“The freelancing is going so well! You must be thrilled!” Me:
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Kate Demolder
2 years
The need to commodify and aestheticise every exhausting element of our lives is so fascinating. The era of ‘GRWM for my mum’s wake’ is nigh
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Kate Demolder
4 years
I’ve definitely been at a 21st here
@LeeConroyy
Lee Conroy
4 years
If anyone wants to know what a vaccine rollout clinic looks like on a Tuesday in Ireland with people in level 5 lockdown, this is it. Empty
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Kate Demolder
2 years
After 6+ years on pretty heavy duty antidepressants, my dosage is finally coming down 🥲 mental health woes are bleak but just wanted to share this for anyone who worries that they’ll never feel normal. DMs always open for those who wanna scream about having no libido lol
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Kate Demolder
1 year
Wrote this following the recent slate of transphobic behaviour that's attacking cis women not deemed 'feminine' enough––highlighting how it was never about trans people in the first place, but rather a more critical form of misogyny:
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Kate Demolder
1 year
“nice views if you can get it”
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Kate Demolder
1 year
the housing crisis has entered the chat! “The average price for a semi-d in Dublin is now half a million euro. T’would be nice to get a living wage but sure I drive a godforsaken bus around Kerry, not shovel chips in McDonald’s.” He’s playing the tip game… and I appreciate it
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Kate Demolder
1 year
an acoustic Black Is The Colour now fills the bus as we hit our narrowest roads yet. tour guide has noticed the nervous gasping from highway-adjacent Americans. “If ye close your eyes for the next while it’ll make yer lives a lot easier”
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Kate Demolder
4 years
Seems like the right time to post this derangedly intense fridge I once spotted in transit
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Kate Demolder
2 years
In the pub 30mins before the match and everyone’s shouting the French words they learned in the Leaving Cert I love Ireland
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Kate Demolder
4 years
some personal news 😇 I am exhausted
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Kate Demolder
2 years
@alex_abads What the fuck
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Kate Demolder
1 year
I feel like I’m losing my mind reading this in GQ. Is this…reparation
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Kate Demolder
1 year
we’ve hit hour five of the tour. just under two more to go. everyone is damp, tired and vaguely smelling of chowder. tour guide is now gesturing to fields with discarded bathtubs, polystyrene and broken chairs with a flair that could only be described as allegorical
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Kate Demolder
3 years
I cannot stop thinking about how Diana would’ve definitely dated Pete Davidson
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Kate Demolder
2 years
Petition to replace this with the most egregious Irish photocalls '00 - '09
@DublinAirport
Dublin Airport
2 years
The clouds have parted and the washing has been taken in at Dublin Airport… Our much talked about word clouds and clothes line graphics have been retired. Stay tuned for some new installations - coming very soon! ☁️ 🧺
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Kate Demolder
3 years
I wore a long coat in the rain once and was called Snape for weeks
@janky_jane
Jane
3 years
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario
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Kate Demolder
2 years
the more I see Gym+Coffee gear the more I’m convinced I am it’s a cult
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Kate Demolder
2 years
@ everyone in Hill 16 without SPF
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Kate Demolder
1 year
Waking up after four drinks at 29:
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Kate Demolder
2 years
This is my laptop. How long before I get kicked out of this quite chic Bond Street cafe
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Kate Demolder
2 years
Omg????
@newsbrandsirl
NewsBrands Ireland
2 years
Congratulations to @DeirdreFalveyIT @EmilyH71 @hlinehan @katedemolder @Katy_Hayes and @PatrickFreyne1 who have been shortlisted in the Arts & Criticism category in the 2022 Journalism Awards 👏🏆 #JournoAwards22
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Kate Demolder
3 years
@James7Devlin Obviously paused mid tweet to order it myself
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Kate Demolder
1 year
rare sincere tweet alert 🚨 I'm looking to create a community of freelance journalists to share rates/swap stories and generally make this job feel a little easier–– Send this to anyone who might be interested, would love to have you
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Kate Demolder
3 years
@hazechu @williewhite In awe. Especially after the week you’ve had w trolls. Best Lord Mayor ever
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Kate Demolder
4 years
I want what they have
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Kate Demolder
3 years
@Molly_odwyer Omg. Just off a plane and mortified
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3 years
@VanessaIfeoma He is also an objectively handsome man
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3 years
I love Ireland
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