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Being Colm Tóibín

@BeingColmToibin

Parody. Not being Colm Tóibín, it's nice to pretend. I read with such gravitas that I sometimes *pregnant pause* faint

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Incredibly low brow piece by @DouthatNYT. @nytimes hilariously not even mentioning the church’s role in Ireland’s backwardness #RepealThe8th #together4yes #8thref nitter.cf/davquinn/status/997962…
David Quinn (@DavQuinn) profile pictureDavid Quinn
@DavQuinn19 May 2018
The Irish Exception by @DouthatNYT (in which an @ionainstitute blog by @angelo_bottone is referenced). nyti.ms/2IyyuER
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Key quote (and tragic): “I never got schooling.” Sick that you Church group nerds take advantage of that @DavQuinn #Together4Yes #RepealThe8th #8thref #missC nitter.cf/davquinn/status/997922…
David Quinn (@DavQuinn) profile pictureDavid Quinn
@DavQuinn19 May 2018
Miss C doesn't want abortion promoted in her name. If she had gone the other way this would be getting wall-to-wall coverage. #8thref nitter.cf/Savethe8thInfo/status/…
Some of these #voteno threads posses such high comedic value #together4yes #Repealthe8th nitter.cf/baldgrump/status/99738…
ᗷᗩᒪᗪGᖇᑌᗰᑭ☘️ (@BaldGrump) profile pictureᗷᗩᒪᗪGᖇᑌᗰᑭ☘️@BaldGrump18 May 2018
Holding my sister's new baby, a knock on door. The Repeal Squad..."We are looking for a Yes Vote in the referendum"... I am holding a baby here and you are asking me to vote for abortion? Thank you, your disrespect has helped me decide.."You will not be getting my vote"
Another poor fellow who goes to mass to be educated #Repealthe8th #8thref nitter.cf/justadad09/status/9973…
I fear that Maria Steen being pretty in the fairytale princess kind of way will be enough to sway our undecided, brutish, knuckle-dragging brothers who go to mass for their education nitter.cf/ionainstitute/status/9…
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Life is one long pregnant . . . pause.
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Who’s the scrooge? Oddball weird shit this guy goes on with. He doesn’t even think women should have control over their own bodies. THEIR OWN BODIES nitter.cf/davquinn/status/945985…
David Quinn (@DavQuinn) profile pictureDavid Quinn
@DavQuinn27 Dec 2017
Another runner-up in the Secular Scrooge Awards 2017 is Leo Varadkar for neglecting to mention Christ or Christianity in his Christmas message.
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Does this guy want to be a woman or what? nitter.cf/john_mcguirk/status/93…
John McGuirk (@john_mcguirk) profile pictureJohn McGuirk
@john_mcguirk13 Nov 2017
Here is a political campaign to change the law from an organisation that is 93% funded by the Irish taxpayer. Can opponents apply for matching government funding, @NoelRock, @senatornoone, @campaignforleo? If so, where's the application form? #repealthe8th nitter.cf/NWCI/status/9299902543…
Why are people so *dramatic pause* materialistic? #Budget18
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Kazuo Ishiguro does readings like he has a train to catch for goodness sake. #NobelPrize
The #NobelPrize for literature committee have never heard me read, I'm guessing. I put such feeling into it.
I once ran.
I wandered lonely as a daffodil
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Fintan O'Toole@fotoole6 Oct 2017
The column that Communicorp is trying to censor. irishtimes.com/opinion/finta… via @IrishTimesOpEd
Fintan O’Toole: Why I will not appear on Newstalk again

Fintan O’Toole: Why I will not appear on Newstalk again

George Hook’s rape comments are the result of the station’s flagrantly sexist strategy

irishtimes.com
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Dil Wickremasinghe@DilW5 Oct 2017
STATEMENT - My Newstalk carrier comes to an abrupt end after a decade. #goodbyeglobalvillage
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One is reminded of Denis Johnson's line, in the deafening silence of our journalists and writers in the face of #newstalk #Communicorp @DilW
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This tweet is like some weird kind of threesome of assholes #repealthe8th #March4Choice nitter.cf/john_mcguirk/status/91…
John McGuirk (@john_mcguirk) profile pictureJohn McGuirk
@john_mcguirk30 Sep 2017
Repealers want to censor pro lifers. On the other hand, we want their movement on television as much as humanly possible. nitter.cf/barryawalsh/status/914…
Sometimes, I confess, I just want to close the book on America
Had a dream last night that I was in a museum looking at Balzac's ball sack.
#repealthe8th now on @RTERadio1. Sorry, my mistake. It's an hour long programme on Padre Pio #miriam
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