David W. Higgins
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Dublin City, Ireland
Joined July 2015
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In a blog last week I wrote about FG/FF dominance of the centre and right of Irish politics, and the risk of Dutch-style fragmentation. A lighthearted take here on the Dutch parties and the many flavours they come in...
This morning I'm writing about some hard truths emerging from #aras25 #aras2025. Lessons for both sides. Full article is at the link below. Some key bullets from it include... For the united left and Catherine Connolly (CC): 🔴 Most of what feels like a “smear” is just her
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🌎 Climate Scheme EXPOSED How Woke Mayors & Dark Money Groups Are Targeting Your Energy to Make Everything More Expensive
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Perfect anthem for the campaign, because it's a song about an imaginary world, not the one that actually exists. #aras25 #aras2025
Presidential election candidate Catherine Connolly TD and her team join a busker on Williamsgate Street, Galway on Sunday in a verse from John Lennon's Imagine. Video Mike Shaughnessy/ galwaypix
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I turned chess into a video game: 40 players. Giant chessboard. ONE winner. Also, I added bombs💣 Playtest starts Oct 25th!
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Well put, Taoiseach
Speaking at the Wolf Tome commemoration, Taoiseach Micheál Martin says people must “start calling-out people who say ‘Oh, but I’m pro-EU,’ but constantly announce and reannounce the supposed end of Irish sovereignty.
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I am voting against Connolly and for Humphreys because a Sinn Fein/People Before Profit-backed candidate in the Aras is a terrible prospect. (My @TheSundayIndo column today). https://t.co/BizOHgfe93
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On Friday, Ireland is likely to elect the grown-up equivalent of a student union radical as president, and for the same reason radicals always get elected ...
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It would also be great if we could only see like counts, comments etc. from your own country, as an optional setting. Sky News reported last year that the majority of tweets on #IrelandIsFull and #IrelandBelongsToTheIrish originated from the US. https://t.co/Ww4Ce1bJfM
#BREAKING: X will soon be displaying every users’ country of origin on their public profiles.
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Does anyone know the identity of the housing activist who filmed Catherine Connolly discussing house reprosessions is? Trying to locate them urgently?
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Catherine Connolly has started canceling scheduled interviews and podcasts in the last 24 hours or so. Is it anything to do with her not wanting to be asked questions about her work on repossessing homes, which she has avoided since 2016. #aras25 #unfitforAras
A housing activist challenges Catherine Connolly as being the "barrister for the banks" in Galway. "I don't understand how you can make speeches about homelessness if you're partly responsible for evicting people out of their homes" #aras25
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And in fairness, the #spoilthevote campaign ISN'T the hypothetical Steen campaign, but if it had been the Steen campaign, there probably wouldn't be a Tate fanboy on the top table.
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A wallop in the replies that I ... Sometimes get my message out to the real world. That's me told!
@higginsdavidw @declanganley There he is, David W Higgins. A fan boy of 📻 RTÉ / Newstalk 📷 Irish Independent....nuff said
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Is it "leftist" though? The most impactful book I read last year "Get Married" begins with a look at Tate's strong opposition to marriage. Hardly a view of the hypothetical Steen campaign....
@higginsdavidw @declanganley The days of ‘guilt by association’ accusations by leftists having any effect are long over. Surely you must know that?
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She won't answer questions from journalists. She won't answer questions from her campaign rival. She won't answer questions from the citizens of this country. In what conceivable world is this appropriate conduct and attitude for a would-be President of the nation of Ireland?
A housing activist challenges Catherine Connolly as being the "barrister for the banks" in Galway. "I don't understand how you can make speeches about homelessness if you're partly responsible for evicting people out of their homes" #aras25
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Harris got torn apart for an interaction like this just a few months ago by the same people who will defend Catherine Connolly to the hilt for this. She talked down to the lady, then walked away.
A housing activist challenges Catherine Connolly as being the "barrister for the banks" in Galway. "I don't understand how you can make speeches about homelessness if you're partly responsible for evicting people out of their homes" #aras25
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Catherine Connolly's Kanturk moment. Hard to see how the @socdems and @labour can continue to defend such a person. #Aras25
https://t.co/KnI7NGmQok
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There he is beside @declanganley. Imagine if this was a Steen campaign event. A movement of values and morality won't wash with the Irish public if Andrew Tate fandom is anywhere near it.
Michael McCarthy is an Andrew Tate fanboy who described one of his videos as "role playing" which "some women like". Except it wasn't a woman, it was a teenage girl, who by definition couldn't consent.
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Michael McCarthy is an Andrew Tate fanboy who described one of his videos as "role playing" which "some women like". Except it wasn't a woman, it was a teenage girl, who by definition couldn't consent.
Not a lot of vetting going on here. Any journalist could, within a few hours, find enough about individuals here to ask what this project is really about
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Heather Humphreys needs to sharpen her elbows. At least go down swinging. Don't let the campaign just fizzle out.
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Well deserved. It's an excellent album.
British singer-songwriter Sam Fender has won the Mercury Prize 2025 for his album 'People Watching', beating competition from Irish artists CMAT and Fontaines D.C. https://t.co/0Me4VYCcVD
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