Dominic O'Reilly 🕊️
@DominicOReilly
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Trying to make gentle the life of the world. Nonviolence. Occasional scribbles. SDLP. All views my own.
Newcastle County Down
Joined December 2011
If you’ve ever loved someone who has suffered dementia, if you’ve lived with them, if you’ve watched them slip away you’ll know the pain of this. But when they find their way to the surface it’s something else. It may be for #OnlyAMoment...but what a moment.
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Republicans refused to keep flags half staff for President Carter - a decorated World War II veteran - on Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day but are doing so immediately for Charlie Kirk. How selective patriotism can be.
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I was only 14 when the world changed. This is my memory of that day, and the decades that followed in our #ChangedWorld
#NeverForget911 #nonviolence #PEACEMAKER #WritingCommunity #September11
@AlexKane221b | @DENISEJOHNSTO10 | @gymforthesoul | @EamonnMallie
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On September 11, as thousands fled the towers, one man ran in. Father Mychal Judge, the firefighter’s chaplain, became the first recorded death at Ground Zero — and may soon be the Catholic Church’s first openly gay saint.
thelettersfromleo.com
The first recorded death at Ground Zero may also become the first openly gay saint in the Catholic Church’s history.
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It’s violence. Violence in mind, word and deed are the problem. God rest his soul, and the souls of all those needlessly lost at the hands of this insidious, indiscriminate poison.
Political activist Charlie Kirk, 31, has died after being shot at student event, President Donald Trump says - follow latest
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Delighted to be able to launch ‘David Trimble : Peacemaker’ at Queen’s. Thanks to @QUBelfast and @ryanjfeeney and also to @BBCMarkSimpson Thanks also to @Gill_Books and @CormacKinsella Great to see the Trimble family there and hear a moving speech from Lady Trimble.
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My heart grows ever more heavy with the growing storm of violence that moves across the earth. This isn’t who we are. We are made for more. We are made for each other. If we lose that, we lose everything. This is the #MaelstromofCruelty
@gymforthesoul #TheWonder
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Hey, @grok based on my tweets, I am: - Which dictator? - Which politician? - Which religious figure? - Which historical figure? - Which artist? - Which ideology? - Which political party? - Which poet? - Which sociologist? - Which scientist?
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John Candy radiated goodness, gentleness and childlike joy. In such a deeply cynical time, this is needed more than ever.
Love is not a big enough word. John Candy: I Like Me, official trailer.
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'You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.' Isadora Duncan And some leaping hares and teasels to start your day this Wednesday. And this is the kind of energy I'm hoping to channel today. Now where's the caffeine......
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Migration - in any sense - is not the cause of our failures. It is not the cause of a broken healthcare system, the reason for a housing crisis, or environmental crisis. All of these are squarely at the door of those parties who have failed us for 20years. You know who you are.
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If I could offer one single piece of advice it is that everyone should visit the Western Isles at least once. What a spectacular week on these islands of beauty and mystery…and @CallTheMidwife1 sets. Where time inexplicably stands still. #honeymoon #OuterHebrides #Scotland
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Brexit…hurrah!!!
The DUP and English nationalism: a very twisted love story that always ends the same way.
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“Left wing establishment” 🤣
🧵If Nigel Farage is going to see through his sensible and necessary proposals to deal with illegal immigration into the UK, he is going to have to be wiser and more resistant to the arguments which will be employed by the left wing establishment, who want to see his plans fail.
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Today I get to marry my best friend. It’s not a bad ol life! Let’s make it legit! 💍
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the raptor population recount scene in the novel is still, to this day, one of the most chilling things i’ve ever read
It’s crazy to think how absolutely screwed the island was even before Nedry sabotaged the park.
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Pope Leo distributes communion to his brother John.
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Absolutely love these threads!!
Have you ever noticed that people dressed better in the past? Even in the summer, when it was scorching hot? Why is this? 🧵
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Trump and his minions tried to block the sacraments. Archbishop Wenski and the bikers said not a chance — and won. I imagine the pope from Chicago is damn proud of his brethren.
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