Declan Lynch
@declynchwriter
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Sunday Independent. Author with Tony O'Reilly of "Tony 10".
Joined August 2013
You may want to do a little reading between now and kick-off. https://t.co/qSO5QXpCf2 via @IrishTimesBooks
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A gambler’s morality tale has a similar emotional pull to the best of John le Carré
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Do you have to google Jim Gavin to know who he is? Would he be a worthy President? Joe doesn't need to google him and says he would vote definitely vote for him... if he could. #FreeState
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My illustration in Sunday's @Independent_ie accompanying article about AI robbing writers from @declynchwriter. Did a homage to Scarfe.
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As a big fan of #IrishImperialLives, I’m delighted to see this fantastic review by @declynchwriter : “So even if Irish Imperial Lives is not a prime-time event, it is doing the Lord’s work in its own way,”. Yes!!! @KOM_acc @AbiePB 👏🏽👏🏽 https://t.co/3WIgyTAT6T
independent.ie
It’s good to see the return of Irish Imperial Lives (RTÉ1, Saturdays, 8pm), the series presented by Kate O’Malley and Abie Philbin Bowman.
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Declan Lynch @declynchwriter: ‘Along with our “saints and scholars”, we have sent out absolute blackguards’
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It’s good to see the return of Irish Imperial Lives (RTÉ1, Saturdays, 8pm), the series presented by Kate O’Malley and Abie Philbin Bowman.
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@declynchwriter @duanfromhp @nickgestation @TonyClaytonLea @hotpress @liammackey1 Hot Press XI August 1984. This time we’re moving.
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The First Cunt Is The Deepest......
Rod Stewart comes out in support of Reform UK and Nigel Farage
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RIP to Brian Wilson, who said that Be My Baby by the Ronettes is as important as Einstein's theory of relativity (he was right).
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Extremely proud to be delivering educational workshops that build awareness of gambling harm, support learning, and encourage open conversations among young people. Early conversations & education lead to informed choices. #EducationMatters @GambRegIRL @ExternProbGam
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We're going to win the League.
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Popped back to this shithole for a moment just to collect this.
We're going to win the League.
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Here the Irish film industry and commentators react to streamers and the uncertainty around the so-called ‘Netflix levy’. “Netflix levy' to fund Irish productions under threat via @RTENews
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The potential levy on TV streaming services, a so called 'Netflix levy', which was designed to raise money to fund indigenous Irish productions, is under threat.
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Spotlight Magazine 1970s for anyone old enough to remember
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"There they stood, like cardinals in some obscene hierarchy . . ." Declan bringing his incomparable scalpel to the dissection as always, in the Sunday Indo. @declynchwriter Declan Lynch: Ah lads… Jeff Bezos and the billionaires are wrecking everything https://t.co/vIV8r73Y3M
independent.ie
So then, what great institutions of western culture were destroyed last week by a billionaire?
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When post truth populists contradict themselves it’s not a “walk back” but just one more act of post truth communication.
NEW: Trump appears to walk back calling Zelensky a dictator “Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that”
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(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast published a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and—possibly under threat—deleted it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for archives to capture. PLEASE RETWEET:
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Alnur Mussayev alleged Trump was given the codename “Krasnov”.
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I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.
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TikTok tucking itself in with Trump. Twitter under control of the White House. Facebook making major changes to placate MAGA, doing PR campaign to align w Trump. Does everyone not see what’s happening here and how terrifying this is.
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Declan Lynch: The great X-odus: why Bluesky might just be the metamorphosis we need
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For many of us, this is the first time we’ve been involved in an exodus since we bought the Bob Marley album of that name. In this first world of ours, mov...
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