Tom Doorley
@tomdoorley
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Columnist Sunday Times Ireland, ALDI brand ambassador, o/h of @Caccabus. Instagram: tomdoorley2023 https://t.co/cChKubUgAX All opinions 100% mine!
Joined April 2009
How I make the easiest mayonnaise at home. Despite appearances my hands are well scrubbed after hours of weeding and potting. See this Instagram video by @tomdoorley2023
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My phone was once grabbed by a yob on Liffey St and I unwisely gave chase. Turns out I was accompanied by a Pole, who was faster than me, and the assailant ended up in the iron grip of a bus driver from Ghana who shook him until he released my phone. I love Dublin.
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May I just say that I think that @BootstrapCook is simply wonderful and that those who are piling on just now are utterly despicable. She has done more good than any of them and I salute her. If you agree, please RT. .
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Janey is approaching the end of her life, sooner rather than later. I salute her. This may not be your vocabulary but let's get this trending as she prepares to check out. .
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Ireland is currently putting the rest of Europe, as especially our close friends in the UK, to shame, concerning Israel. Israel is a bully, and you have to stand up to bullies. @SimonHarrisTD is representing us all with dignity and defiance. .
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This is a bare-faced lie. Burke has been refusing to obey a court order to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School. Court orders apply to everyone, even religious zealots like Burke. .
BREAKING: The Irish Government is now stripping my brother teacher @EnochBurke of his salary. Because he refuses to use they/them pronouns for a child. This is unprecedented.
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Time to salute the two immigrants - as I understand it - who helped defend children against the attacker in Dublin today. #DublinRiots.
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Just a reminder that Dublin is packed with excellent restaurants so there's absolutely no need to eat in The Ivy. The waiters who took on the Ivy restaurant – and won
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I love the fact that the UK had to leave the EU according to EU time. .
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Right. I'm muting (or blocking where justified) people who are carping about the national response to #COVID2019 and taking cheap shots at politicians who are doing their best (and much better than some of their equivalents elsewhere). Negative voices are not doing us any good.
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Maybe Irish people find him as annoying as his products?.Dyson’s Irish sales plunge by a fifth
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Mick's one great blind spot, dictated by doctrine, is Brexit and its consequences. Well done @mrjamesob for holding him to account on this. Otherwise, I'm very much on Mick's side. .
'So you did realise you were jeopardising potentially holiday pay, data protection rights, collective consultation, protection for pregnant, part-time and fixed-term workers? I could go on. I did a minute ago. You can play the tape.'. @mrjamesob challenges Mick Lynch on Brexit.
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I don't understand the United States. Even after the Presidential debate it looks like 50:50 Exactly how stupid is the electorate? This is a very serious problem.
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Russian ambassador eaten alive on Irish television….
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Our Taoiseach (PM) is MB BCh BAO and is returning to medicine, doing one hospital shift a week during the #coronavirus crisis. That’s pretty impressive.
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Boris Johnson's diplomatic skills in action. .
Bringing this to your notice @TanDhesi. At a time when JCB bulldozers have become a symbol of dispossession of Muslim in India, the British Prime minister is riding one in India. This looks like an open endorsement of the humiliation and fascist crudity.
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Actually, it's not just "experts" who say that. .
Conor McGregor says he is the logical choice as president. Experts say he has a ‘deeply, deeply mistaken understanding of the Constitution’.
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I gather that Gemma O'Doherty (whose lovely late husband, Peter Carvosso was a good friend of mine, and immigrant and a diamond geezer) doesn't know any happy gay people. Gemma, frankly, sucks the happiness out of everyone. She doesn't know any happy people at all. .
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Like many, I never thought I'd say this, but isn't it good and, indeed, rather life-enhancing that @piersmorgan is annoying all the right people?.
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An Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar pulled no punches this evening. Unvarnished truth but proper leadership. Our friends in the UK could really use a PM like this just now. We’re in good hands.
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Well done, @WilsonsHospital . ‘Delighted’: School that dismissed Enoch Burke wins inclusivity award
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Doesn't seem widely known that 146 countries, including 9 in the EU, recognise Palestine as a State. Why is Israel upset at Ireland, Spain and Norway being amongst them?.
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How wonderful! . (And if you don't think so, don't bother responding. Instant block.).
4TH IN THE WORLD AT 20-YEARS OLD. What. A. Talent. At just 20-years old, Adeleke made everyone across Ireland dream of a first track medal at the World Championships since Sonia O'Sullivan in 1995. It wasn't to be today but WOW. here moment will come. The future is bright.
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It's quite telling that #scumbag is trending in Ireland. There is no need to wonder to whom this epithet applies today. Don't supply the oxygen of publicity.
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Many schools have children and staff who have issues with gender and they don't end up in the courts. Because they are civilised people who can agree to disagree, I am assuming. It is Wilson's Hospital's misfortune to have made the terrible mistake of employing a Burke.
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Bob Geldof doesn't know me from Adam but he's a very civil chap. When I pass him in the street on Holland Park or in Dublin, we always give each other a nod. And tonight I salute him for calling Russell Brand a See You Next Tuesday way back in 2006. .
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It is said that Queen once remarked "We're not nearly grand enough for Princess Michael of Kent".
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Interesting that the French eat more butter per capita than any other nation. We in Ireland have the best butter in the world but too many have swallowed the crap about saturated fat. The French put taste over propaganda. Chapeau!.
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I’m pretty sure people who put antlers on their cars think that Mrs Brown’s Boys is funny.
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Vaccines work….
Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13.
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I'm raising a glass (of @TeelingWhiskey 18 Year Old Single Malt) to Aunt Monica (of @HelenORahilly) tonight as she has just left us and, having had such a fine spirit herself, it seems apt.
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Trump has in invited a fellow racist and rapist to keep him company today.
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Had The Stardust been in Monkstown or Foxrock, would it have taken so long to determine what happened?.
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I vaguely remember that Eircode was controversial at first. All I can say is that if you live in the middle of nowhere like us, it's a godsend.
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I might even pay to do this. .
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Whatever one thinks of the election results, at least the people told this toxic pair where to secrete their xenophobia. Resoundingly.
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A very little girl on Dun Laoghaire pier early this morning with her dad, big, burly and bearded. And he was wearing a little fairy princess backpack like it's the most natural thing in the world. Which, in the circumstances, it is. .
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My amazing niece, Holly. .
Congratulations to @HollyLeahCairns who was elected in Cork South-West. What a great result 💜@SocDems #ge2020
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Thinking of anxious kids going back to school. When I was 8 I refused to go and a psychiatrist decided I was anxious about separation from my mother. Nobody asked the reason. I could have told them: the “Christian” Brothers were sadistic bastards.
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Covid regulations in restaurants are there to keep customers and staff safe. Restaurants that seek to overturn or ignore them are effectively saying they don't give a toss about people's safety. Not a good look! And I'm sure customers will have long memories.
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Instant mayonnaise:.1 medium whole egg.2 heaped tsp Dijon mustard.pinch sea salt.2 dsp lemon juice.250ml olive oil.Blitz with hand-held blender.That's it!
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I'm allergic to the euphemism "passing" for dying. It's death. Pure and simple. Why pretend that it's something less final. (And many of us hope that it's not the absolute end, but sin scéal eile. ).
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He murdered Yvonne Dunlop, the mother of three small children, using a firebomb. How about paying tribute to her, Michelle?. If you would like to pay tribute to this blameless young woman - a Protestant, as it happens, but it's of no consequence - maybe RT this question?.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Tom McElwee after 62 days on hunger strike. Fuair sé bás ar son saoirse na hÉireann
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Mr Burke now needs to be ignored. As does his attention-seeking family. Ignore them. It will drive them madder even than now are. Enoch Burke claims teachers are being told to ‘bow down’ over pronouns
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OK, with Covid absolutely rampant just now, I'll be wearing a mask. You decide for yourself. If anyone wants to demonstrate their remarkably low IQ by challenging me on this, may I just mention that I don't give a TF what you think about this, and, most, likely, anything else. .
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Thanks to my booster yesterday I have a very sore arm. But I'm now fully integrated into the 5G network and have become uncharacteristically magnetic. Plus more protection against Covid 19, of course. Now, if you're anti-vac don't reply or comment. You will be blocked instantly.
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@NickCohen4 I think you may be confusing anti-Israel sentiment, in the light of what the present administration is doing in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, with antisemitism. It's perfectly possible to love Jewish people and at the same time to detest Israeli actions.
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I'll be wearing a mask in shops and on public transport because I don't want to catch Covid. If this bothers you, can you just fuck right off, please? I don't want to hear your "take" on it, okay?.
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Recently arrived @Aldi_Ireland this is my go-to wine for pizza and barbecues, a juicy Montepulciano d'Abruzzo for only €7.49!
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One aspect of the loudmouth, attention-seeking restaurant owners who publicly flout the Covid rules is that I've never wanted to eat in any of their establishments. Plus, given their lack of concern for customers and staff, just imagine the state of the kitchens.
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Vaccinated this morning at Páirc Uí Chaoímh in Cork city. Amazingly efficient operation involving hundreds of cheerful people. Enormously impressive. Thank you @HSELive!.
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Oh my goodness, the #LateLateToyShow is pure joy. (a) What an amazing team put this together.(b) Ryan is the perfect presenter.(c) The fundraising is amazing - for children who need help.(d) Makes me intensely proud to be Irish.(e) RTE is really good at this.
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Giving junior ministers a pay rise at present is utterly obscene. What an absolute shower this government is.
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This is our Taoiseach queueing for his booster. I can’t see his British counterpart doing that….
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The deeply shameful @ClareDalyMEP and Mick Wallace MEP would have been busy making the world very unsafe in the 1930s. What a pair of deluded (at best), over-privileged and overpaid gobshites who parrot what Putin says. .
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I don't think any decent person can possibly object to this.
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John Torode was heard in the English Market today saying loudly to a tv crew “Tell them to be quiet! I’m doing a piece to camera!”.You’re in Cork now, boy. That malarkey won’t wash….
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I used to admire Antoinette but this is beyond the Pale. Stardust campaigner plans to run as National Party election candidate
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I'm not sure that the world is ready for a photo of my current hair status. Hoping that next week will see a trip to the barber.
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I'm surprisingly delighted that the Queen bunked off Parliament but managed to get to the Windsor Horse Show where she seems to have had a great time. That woman has standards.
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The most exciting Irish cheese I’ve had in years: Carrignamuc from Lost Valley Dairy near Inchigeelah. They have *four* cows! It’s stunning.
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So, today someone I know (knew, as I have to say now) died from Covid-19, aged 51, healthy and fit, devastating for his wife and children. And @VirginMediaIE have three people IN STUDIO discussing the virus, and how easily it's transmitted. This could be done remotely. WTAF?!!!.
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Surely the cap of 15 people in outdoor eating areas is a bit daft. Should it not depend on how much space there is and how many covers can be safely accommodated?.
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This is a personal first. I’ve blocked people for being racist, unpleasant, abusive but today I departed from my usual pattern and blocked someone merely for being an irritating gobshite. Life is too short. .
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Languages heard on no. 7 bus southbound this pm in Dublin: Spanish, Italian, Polish, Hindi, Mandarin, Arabic, GB English, US English, IRL English, in that order. I think it's great.
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A call from a Belgian number this morning to tell me that I'm about to be arrested by the Garda for money laundering. I enjoyed a brief chat with an "officer" with a strong New Zealand accent. I really should have kept him on the line for ages but I had stuff to do. .
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Does anyone know who owns this building?.They should be named and shamed!.
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How many points does he have?.
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Can one imagine anything more mean-spirited than tweeting negative comments about the 3k people who were welcomed as Irish citizens today?.
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I am grateful to a vile, hate-filled racist and failed EP candidate for drawing my attention to the fact that Longford has a cracking ethnic food scene. And some lovely primary schools too.
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Honestly, there are so many great restaurants in Dublin I have no idea why anyone would want to eat at The Ivy at this stage:.
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Surely @DonnellyStephen it's time to specify masks instead of "face coverings"? Too many restaurants and pubs are using visors - meaning that staff are breathing over customers and food/drink being served. What do you think @astaines ?.
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If you really want to know what's happening in Britain today (and for those of us in Ireland, it may be just too much, of course), just follow @mrjamesob or listen to him on @LBC.
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Just imagine the average day and safe bed of the TDs who refused to applaud the Ukrainian leader and contrast it with his, and that of his fellow citizens. What a smug, self-satisfied, pampered, doctrinaire bunch of overpaid gobshites!.
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So delighted to be joining the brilliant team @ST__Ireland Starting this Sunday with a piece about asparagus. And that’s just for starters. So to speak…
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Fellow Irish citizens: I don't care who you vote for (well, provided they are not racists, okay?) but JUST VOTE!! People have died or the right to do so. It's a duty!.
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Infuriating press release this morning, claiming that fat-free yoghurt is "healthier". Fat-free yoghurt is a contradiction in terms. Or, to put it another way, an abomination.
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Considering what the CMO has been through over the past few months, Mattie McGrath's comments are simply disgusting.
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You have to wonder what the "Ireland is Full" creatures did with their lives before they discovered xenophobia.
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This is quite shocking. And these beers are great!.
Ballykilcavan brewery is just 2.5km from the site of the Electric Picnic (@EPfestival), but we are not allowed to serve our beers there. The festival claims to be sustainable, but despite our three national sustainability awards, we're still not allowed in. Here's why.
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Chancer in Wicklow restaurant claiming to own 4 Dublin restaurants inc Michelin star! Complained about everything, ate everything, refused to pay. Yielded in the end. Watch out for “Mr Haddock” and his “daughter”. A Dub apparently.
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Manager (?) in Fermoy shop with mask at half mask. “I’d prefer if your mask covered your nose,” I said through my mask. Vitriolic stare but she adjusted it. Just about. And walked off. Not taking this shit any more, frankly.
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It is terribly unfair on genuine sufferers to say that our professional contrarians - the likes of Dolores, Gemma and John - are mentally ill. In my view, to use a very old-fashioned phrase of my grandfather's, they are simply bad hats.
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Just writing a restaurant review that involves baked Alaska. More restaurant reviews should feature baked Alaska, if you ask me.
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A lot of people in Ireland think Mick Wallace is a disgrace and a national embarrassment….
A lot of people across Europe are getting seriously fed-up with the Neoliberal policies that our Governments are wedded to. .
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We need leadership, authority and consistency. We're not getting it. There's unexpected nostalgia for @LeoVaradkar and @SimonHarrisTD.
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It appears that Louis Walsh is not a pleasant individual. Who knew?.
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Considered watching #LateLateShow but find it features toxic toad Nigel Farage. Life is far too short to indulge this nasty piece of work. Gardener’s World for me.
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I have a confession to make. Pet owners referring to themselves as the animal's "mum" or "dad" make me feel rather queasy. .
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It's almost a year ago since I found this 17th century portrait of Michael Healy-Rae in Bologna.
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I’m going to have a preference for restaurants that don’t rush to drop precautions. And I suspect I won’t be alone….
🚨Update - Masks . Masks for Hospitality staff will become optional / matter of choice from February 28th . Leaders agree NPHET recommendations should be accepted via @rte.
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This is quite brilliant from @mrjamesob explaining to an unrepentant Brexiteer that something horrible, mind-bending, dishonest and actually abusive has been done to him by the charlatans and snake oil salesmen of Vote Leave. It's concise, to-the-point and completely correct. .
'You have to let it go. I didn't turn you into this person'. This is James O'Brien's powerful response to a pro-Brexit caller who labelled him "a snake in the grass". @mrjamesob
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The Monk gets the lion's share of Mary Lou's transfers? Interesting section of the electorate voting there. .
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