He recited a story that was in the paper a month ago 
He’ll be celebrating the IRA next week… He’s a joke.
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Where’s Denis O’Leary from? Passage?
He’ll be embracing his inner sinner
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He’s a Barrs man, so take your pick. Studied law at UCC.
This is a change for Dunphy, last I heard a few years ago he was endorsing SF.
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Eamonn is gas . He changes his opinions fairly frequently .
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Cocaine is a hell of a drug
Did he not previously support them just to be edgy?
Probably. From 2013
“I want to see Sinn Féin as the biggest party on the Left and in government in the South. That would make me happy. I am a Sinn Féin supporter,”
From 2014:
“I think Gerry Adams, and Sinn Fein, have the most integrity of any political party in this State.
I actually think Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams were greater men than Michael Collins”
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Did The Dunph cry, possibly reminiscing about this tough childhood and how Official Ireland made life hard growing up in Drumcondra.
SF’s history maker breaks another mould
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February 13, 2020
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Galway- Roscommon’s three TDs (from left) Michael Fitzmaurice, Claire Kerrane and Denis Naughten. Photos Gerry Stronge
You could be tempted to recall that the tension was so rife it managed to cut the power in the Roscommon-Galway constituency in the early hours of a freezing Monday morning.
But if the truth be told, from the very earlier tallies the writing was on the wall for the two big parties in the newly redrawn constituency, which threw up a number of historic milestones in Election 2020.
Sinn Féin’s Claire Kerrane fought off outgoing Fianna Fáil TD and former radio broadcaster Eugene Murphy for the third seat without reaching the quota on the sixth count – the first time in a century that the party took a seat here, a constituency which had the first ever Sinn Féin elected politician.
Her victory – celebrated to the strains of ‘A Nation Once Again’ – in just her second run at politics leaves the constituency one of only two in the country without a Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil TD. The result ensures that its reputation as being fierce contrarian remains unblemished – ever since the foundation of the State it has never returned sitting politicians.
Way back in 1917 George Noble Plunkett won a by-election in North Roscommon for Sinn Féin as an MP, the first time the party – then known as Republican – won a seat in Westminster. He later took a seat in the Dáil in the 1921 general election.
Kerrane, a 27-year-old from Castlerea who became a political advisor in Sinn Féin headquarters after polling 3,000 first preferences in the 2016 poll, will be only the second woman ever to win a seat in Roscommon, following in the footsteps of Joan Burke who served for 17 years until her retirement in 1981.
The daughter of a school principal and a beef farmer, her close association with the leadership should lead to a high-profile position in the next government, which will likely be some weeks off as the horse-trading begins in earnest. During a short interview with the Connacht Tribune at the count centre, she name-checked leader Mary Lou O’Donnell no less than three times.
Poll topper Michael Fitzmaurice was the first Independent candidate to be elected in the country after increasing his vote by a third to pull in over 13,000 first preferences.
It’s just a broad black brimmer with ribbons frayed and torn
From the careless whisk of many a mountain breeze
An old trench coat that’s so battle-stained and worn
And breeches almost threadbare at the knees
A sam brown belt with a buckle big and strong
And a holster that’s been empty manys a day (but not for Long)
But when men claim Ireland’s Freedom
The one should choose to lead them,
Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA
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Nolan’s on board
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Me da’ is up in Long Kesh now,
To me it’s just not right
I say a special prayer for him
when I go to bed at night
Today it was his birthday
I sent him in a cake
There’s Semtex in the candles
He’ll be out before I wake
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When men claim Ireland’s freedom, the one should choose to lead em, will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA.
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Mary Lou has Covid 19. Or had it should I say. It took 16 days to get her results and she’s feeling grand again.
Was it from something she ate?