Gavan Becton
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Editor @ Meath Chronicle. Solidarity with sufferers and families impacted by HD & neurology/neurodegenerative conditions
Meath
Joined January 2011
Just the three days since this tweet and it hasn’t aged badly at all… @louthcoco give your heads a wobble and sort! Bad enough paying thru the nose for hosp parking without having to find your way in the gloom!
Anyone know why Cross Lane, Drogheda, seems to be in perpetual darkness? Pedestrians going to and from the Lourdes to car park only seeing where they’re going thanks to oncoming headlights?
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Anyone know why Cross Lane, Drogheda, seems to be in perpetual darkness? Pedestrians going to and from the Lourdes to car park only seeing where they’re going thanks to oncoming headlights?
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The Quinntessential broken record..
Maria Steen should have been allowed into the election, full stop.
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Worrying times Vincent, a collective of superb talent and experience leaving the trade in the last couple of days as beancounters plot the next great ‘pivot’
A lot of outstanding Irish sportswriters stepping away from the trade together right now. Doesn’t feel a great time for journalism.
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Meath declares result and resounding victory for Catherine Connolly. Story in Comments. https://t.co/wm0iURZCmE
meathchronicle.ie
Catherine Connolly will be the 10th President of Ireland after a resounding victory over Fine Gael's Heather Humphreys.
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Meath West Returning Officer Des Foley announcing the result… 64% for Connolly…
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All over in Meath West... #Aras25 Total Electorate: 64,923 Total Poll: 28,736 Spoiled Votes: 4,560 (16 per cent) Valid Poll: 24,176 Catherine Connolly 15,477 (64 per cent) Jim Gavin* 1,684 (6.9 per cent) Heather Humphreys 7,015 (29 per cent) *withdrew from campaign.
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The only reason he is doing that he thinks is because he will tap into unease among people who did spoil their vote and looking for attention for himself.
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SF's @JohnnyGuirke has taken a fair swipe at Meath West constituency colleague @Toibin1 over the Aontu leader spoiling his ballot. #"Typical Toibin sitting on fence, no wonder his party is known as Abstaintu, coming out saying he spoilt his vote.... #Aras25
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12pm - Meath West: 18 per cent of voters in the Navan Electoral Area spoiled their ballots, according to the final Meath West tally, 16 per cent in Kells and 14 per cent in Trim did likewise.
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12pm - Meath West: After a quick coffee here in Meath West Count Centre where it's warmer outside than in, we have a final tally and it would appear, a clear winner. Catherine Connolly 12227 - 52% Heather Humphreys 5988 - 26% Jim Gavin 1380 - 6% Spoiled 3701 - 16%
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10.30am - With almost 25 per cent of the boxes now tallied: Catherine Connolly 3445 - 53% Heather Humphreys 1639 - 25% Jim Gavin 375 - 6% Spoiled 1053 - 16% #Aras25
https://t.co/gCp1orVuBf
meathchronicle.ie
Counting in the Presidential Election is under way at 32 count centres, with ballot boxes opened at 9am.
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Kevin Humphries, ex-Labour TD and famous as ‘the vote whisperer’ for reading the country based on a few select boxes in Dublin Bay South: “The only question is whether Spoiled Votes beats Heather Humphreys.” @VirginMediaNews
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Meanwhile another box opened from St Mary's polling station in Enfield shows there were nearly double the amount of spoilt votes as those case for Heather Humphreys: Connolly 133 Humphreys 40 Gavin 20 Spoiled: 73
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The new 1.1km LDR4 (catchy) connecting north Navan and the Navan Kells road opens to traffic this week and, well, as @droneservicesie stunning video captures… it’s bloody gorgeous! Will it be a game changer for Navan’s traffic nightmare? We’ll see!
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Would these be the beams that are dancing in the skies over Causey Farm and Farmaphobia this last month?
Normally I’m the one identifying flights, but this one has me baffled… I’ve received a few DM’s this evening regarding a bright light moving around areas between Longford and Meath. The videos depict a bright white light moving around Irish skies - putting together
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What an entirely rotten, miserable, charmless, lifeless shitshow this Presidential Election has been. That's all.
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Lovely sign off on another great #grahamnorton show with a tribute to the late, great Diane Keaton
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