Being Colm Tóibín
@BeingColmToibin
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Parody. Not being Colm Tóibín, it's nice to pretend. I read with such gravitas that I sometimes *pregnant pause* faint
The Third Person
Joined September 2017
Incredibly low brow piece by @DouthatNYT. @nytimes hilariously not even mentioning the church’s role in Ireland’s backwardness #RepealThe8th #together4yes #8thref
The Irish Exception by @DouthatNYT (in which an @ionainstitute blog by @angelo_bottone is referenced).
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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
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
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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"
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Another poor fellow who goes to mass to be educated #Repealthe8th #8thref
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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
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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
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?
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
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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
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The #NobelPrize for literature committee have never heard me read, I'm guessing. I put such feeling into it.
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The column that Communicorp is trying to censor. https://t.co/96kjpuLaby via @IrishTimesOpEd
irishtimes.com
George Hook’s rape comments are the result of the station’s flagrantly sexist strategy
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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
Repealers want to censor pro lifers. On the other hand, we want their movement on television as much as humanly possible.
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Sometimes, I confess, I just want to close the book on America
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Had a dream last night that I was in a museum looking at Balzac's ball sack.
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#repealthe8th now on @RTERadio1. Sorry, my mistake. It's an hour long programme on Padre Pio #miriam
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