# ![@RobLooseCannon Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::50374575.png) @RobLooseCannon BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine

BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine posts on X about dublin, ireland, in the, history the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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[travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  #2337 [countries](/list/countries)  16% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  2% [finance](/list/finance)  2% [premier league](/list/premier-league)  1% [financial services](/list/financial-services)  1% [stocks](/list/stocks)  1% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  1%

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[dublin](/topic/dublin) #15, [ireland](/topic/ireland) #551, [in the](/topic/in-the) 11%, [history](/topic/history) 8%, [the british](/topic/the-british) #360, [sunday](/topic/sunday) 5%, [the first](/topic/the-first) 5%, [the most](/topic/the-most) #1273, [more than](/topic/more-than) 4%, [murder](/topic/murder) 4%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Did you known scores of Irish soldiers were executed by the US in the largest mass execution in American military history Saint Patricks Battalion the Batalln de San Patricio occupies an dodgy place in 19th century American history. To the US they were deserters and traitors men who "fecked around and find out" as the kids now say. To Mexico they were martyrs foreigners who chose conscience over flag and died for it. Back in Ireland some kind of say them as another flight of Wild Geese. The battalions founder was John Riley born in Galway around [----]. He was a former soldier of the British"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021860468189548737)  2026-02-12T08:14Z 24.2K followers, 36.6K engagements


"Today we visit a lethal IRA kidnapping and rescue that claimed the lives of two heroes. On a freezing November morning in [----] the Troubles arrived in Rathfarnham. Don Tidey chairman and chief executive of Associated British Foods was driving his 13-year-old daughter to school when a car blocked his path. A van appeared behind him its door slid open and armed balaclava wearing men dragged the one of the most powerful businessmen in Ireland inside. Tidey was no ordinary executive. Through ABF he presided over Quinnsworth. Irelands first supermarket chain was a symbol of a modernising economy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2000852750037299235)  2025-12-16T08:57Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements


"The Liffey Ferry was an iconic workhorse a constant presence since our citys pre-industrial past. The most famous of them all was the Number [--] the dockers taxi immortalised in song and in folklore. Cutting her humble path through the choppy green-grey waters in all weathers she was more than just a boat. For dockers and everyday Dubliners alike she was a way of life. Making the short often bone shaking bockety crossing was a rite of passage. You and your handful of fellow sailors would chug along bracing yourselves against the spray of Liffey water marinating in the cold soup of coal smoke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2012499687937351925)  2026-01-17T12:18Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements


""Old Man Belfield" was a beloved and mysterious gentleman who peacefully roamed the looping paths of University College Dublins Belfield campus between the late 1970s and the early 2020s. His real name was Michael Byrne and he was greatly respected. He was usually seen wearing a grey cloak-like coat and wheeling a battered bicycle. He possessed the effortless aesthetic of a monk and if you were lucky he would give you a knowing nod as he passed by. Mr. Byrne arrived in the area sometime in the late 1970s when he was already sleeping rough on land near the Merrion Road. When development pushed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2014989328225804289)  2026-01-24T09:11Z 24.1K followers, 82.7K engagements


"Can we all agree that selfish idiots who need rescuing after going swimming or mountain climbing despite weather warnings should be fined or prosecuted for endangering the lives of our brave Irish Coast Guard RNLI Mountain Rescue volunteers and Garda Sochna"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2016088691819557131)  2026-01-27T09:59Z 24.1K followers, 33.2K engagements


"Did you know theres an Amish settlement in Ireland Hidden away in the harbour village of Dunmore East in Waterford a small Amish-Mennonite congregation has been quietly living working and worshipping for more than three decades. The community is around [--] and [---] people roughly fifteen. Alongside American members are families from Poland Ukraine South America Wales and a small number of Irish converts. Men dress plainly in simple shirts and trousers women in long dresses or skirts their hair covered with white cloth head coverings known as kapps. They live independently across the area rather"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2016418808206852264)  2026-01-28T07:51Z 24.1K followers, 26.4K engagements


"Larry Murphy known as the Beast of Baltinglass (which is an insult to beasts everywhere) is a twisted violent rapist attempted murderer and suspected serial killer. His name is inseparable from the Vanishing Triangle the tabloids name for that grim constellation of women who disappeared during the 1990s. Murphy was born [----] in the quiet market town of Baltinglass County Wicklow. He trained as a carpenter and this trade kept him on the road moving between towns and building sites. To neighbours and clients he appeared like any ordinary married bloke. On the evening of the 11th of February"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2016485996603322376)  2026-01-28T12:18Z 24.1K followers, 84.1K engagements


"Grab your old spice and brylcreem and get ready to dance around your handbag on the sticky floors were off to visit some Dublin nightclubs of the 1970s to the 1990s. In the 1970s Dublin nightlife operated under the bizarre conceit that gargle could not be served late unless accompanied by a substantial meal. Thus was born the chicken-in-a-basket era a ritual so entrenched it barely registered as absurd at the time. So in Catholic Ireland were not going out clubbing you were dining. The wine was often undrinkable the food barely edible but the dancefloor made up for it. Clubs were not yet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2016794155171692802)  2026-01-29T08:42Z 24.1K followers, 21.1K engagements


"On the 9th of November [----] [--] year old Josephine Jo Jo Dullard set out from Dublin City for home after spending the evening among friends in Bruxelles Bar on Harry Street just off Grafton Street. Her destination was Callan in County Kilkenny where her family lived. Having missed the last direct bus she boarded one to Naas in County Kildare instead around 10pm. After that she planned to hitchhike the rest of the way. By modern standards hitchhiking is rightly considered extremely dangerous but although it was also treacherous on that fateful night back in [----] it was considered a viable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2016863860624421200)  2026-01-29T13:19Z 24.1K followers, 13.1K engagements


"Lad's I've joined Bluesky aswell but staying here too. But if you have an account there or know anyone who might enjoy me waffling get them to follow us. Cheers Name there is @buchanandtm.bsky.social"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2016913370184589681)  2026-01-29T16:36Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements


"On this day in [----] British soldiers shot [--] unarmed civilians at a peaceful protest in the Bogside area of Derry. [--] were murdered and dozens more were injured in what became known as the Bloody Sunday Massacre. John "Jackie" Duddy (17) was unarmed and running away from soldiers through the carpark when multiple witnesses saw a soldier take aim at the boy shooting him in the soldier the bullet penetrating his chest. Michael Kelly (17) was also unarmed and standing at the rubble barricade on Rossville Street when he was fatally shot in the stomach. Hugh Gilmour (17) was mortally wounded by a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017122879641387415)  2026-01-30T06:29Z 24.1K followers, 64.4K engagements


"Clara Lara Funpark was a famous destination for families for decades near Laragh in Wicklow Mountains. Depending on the time of year it was either a sunny chilly muddy river playground with cold river water rope bridges or a freezing gulag with the above attractions. And I bleedin loved it. Clara Lara opened in [----] founded by Peter Morphew as the Clara-Lara Trout Farm and Funpark. Named after the Vale of Clara and nearby Laragh Morphew insisted it be as far removed from Disneyland as possible and in fairness he wasnt lying. Clara Lara Funpark was "rustic and rural" all wood and mucky water"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017570985340178791)  2026-01-31T12:09Z 24.1K followers, 13.5K engagements


"The 1st of February is an important day in Ireland since the Celtic twilight. Also known as the Pagan festival of Imbolc and the Feast of St. Brigid it marks the beginning of Springtime. Imbolc is an ancient agricultural fire festival that like many other pre-Christian traditions was modified and assimilated into the Catholic church as a way to erase the pagan religion. Imbolc means "in the belly" which didn't refer to lockdown dadbods but pregnant ewes. In the agricultural calendar spring has now begun. The earth is brightening and fertile again after the darkness of winter. Sowing starts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017876462901059909)  2026-02-01T08:23Z 24.1K followers, 25.4K engagements


"The Irish "Vanishing Triangle" is the large hypothetical area roughly bounded by Dublin Kilkenny and Dundalk where several innocent women went missing presumed murdered mostly in the 1990s. Its become synonymous with victims like Annie McCarrick JoJo Dullard Fiona Pender Ciara Breen and Fiona Sinnott. The remains of some of the women associated with the Vanishing Triangle were never found. In total at least [--] women are commonly associated with the triangle. Theories include a serial killer or killers with a similar modus operandi. committing their disgusting crimes and disposing of their"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017920635351990337)  2026-02-01T11:19Z 24.1K followers, 19.3K engagements


"19 year old Fiona Sinnott had an 11-month-old daughter when she vanished on a cold night in [----]. Fiona was living in rented cottage in the rural townland of Ballyhitt just outside the small village of Broadway County Wexford. On Sunday the 8th of February [----] she was socialising with friends in Butlers Pub in Broadway. Shortly after midnight she stepped out into the chill night air. According to later statements her ex-boyfriend Sean Carroll walked her home and spent the night sleeping on her couch. The following morning he claimed Fiona told him she was going to see a doctor for pain in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018256506148319699)  2026-02-02T09:33Z 24.1K followers, 25.3K engagements


"The Burning of the British Embassy in [----] was a direct and furious response to the Bloody Sunday massacre that had taken place just three days earlier in Derry. On the 30th of January [----] soldiers of the British Armys 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment opened fire on a civil rights march massacring [--] unarmed civilians and injuring dozens more and understandibly igniting outrage and anti-British across Ireland and the world. The British Embassy at [--] Merrion Square became the obvious lightning rod. In the days after the massacre the building was attacked with petrol bombs. But it was on the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018280446799327659)  2026-02-02T11:08Z 24.1K followers, 13.1K engagements


"@Triggertrucker I'd love to give it a go meself. Was it rough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018380588290286072)  2026-02-02T17:46Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements


"On this day in [----] Eamon De Valera assisted by Michael Collins made a daring escape from Lincoln Prison in Lincolnshire England. Like some bizarre cartoonish clich the mission was accomplished using a copied key smuggled in a cake Incarcerated alongside the Long Fellow Dev were Sen McGarry and Sen Milroy. They were falsely accused of conspiring with the Germans against the British Empire. This was also part of a general roundup of any and all Sinn Fein members. This imprisonment of three important party members and the leader crippled the ambitions of Irish independence. The Big Fella"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018597924226117748)  2026-02-03T08:10Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements


"An escaped lion roamed the streets of Fairview on quite Sunday afternoon in [----] Back then the Fairview Grand Cinema backed onto a small yard that belonged to Bill Stephens an Irish circus lion trainer whose animals were hired out to visiting shows and travelling acts. So yeah it was totally normal by standards of the time that Stephens kept several full-grown lions in cages just yards from terraced houses tram lines and a steady stream of cinemagoers filing in for matinees. On the day of the escape the Fairview Grand was showing the jungle adventure Jungle Stampede. You couldnt make it up."  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018659598635290744)  2026-02-03T12:15Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Sometimes things that look modern and ordinary are actually ancient. Saint Winifred's well on Eustace Street in Temple Bar is one such fascinating feature. An overlooked diamond amid the cigarette butt and vomit-smeared cobblestones which tells a tale for those with eyes and ears for history. This humble hole fringed with a little stone wall lies outside what is currently The Norseman pub. It was buried for centuries before its rediscovery during roadworks in the mid-1990s. Wells and holy wells specifically have a deep and timeless importance to the Irish. Water sources named after saints"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2019469489167859962)  2026-02-05T17:53Z 24.1K followers, 12.4K engagements


"Today in [----] [--] passengers including the Busby Babes and members of the crew of Flight G-ALZU perished in the Munich Air Disaster. Manchester United were returning from Belgrade after qualifying for the European Cup semi final when their Airspeed Ambassador attempted to take off from Munich in heavy snow and slush skidding fatally on its third attempt. Eight of the young players were killed. Busby himself hovered near death for weeks. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019661696927711689 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019661696927711689"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2019661696927711689)  2026-02-06T06:37Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Heres some vital medical info some doctor mates of mine were telling me about. Did you ever hear of "Daughter from New York" or "Son from London" syndrome Youll know exactly what I mean in a second trust me. Basically its doctor/nurse lingo for when a terminally ill or elderly person is in care and suddenly out of nowhere a long-lost or estranged relative suddenly arrives on the scene and tries to take over. And its seldom to the benefit of the poor patient or the carer child or the rest of the family who have been consistently there for them. In the HSE handbooks they describe it as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022359540813951131)  2026-02-13T17:17Z 24.2K followers, 28K engagements


"Grab your towel and flip flops we're taking a dip in the infamous "Turkish Baths" on Lincoln Place/Leinster Street in [----]. Before we enter this rare splash of the exotic in dreary Victorian Dublin let's gaze at the glamorous exterior. Opened in [----] their eccentric owner and architect Richard Barter designed the place to evoke the luxury of the orient. Scandalous to some at the time its decadent Arabesque plaster facade inspired notions of steamy hareems in the heart of the Ottoman Empire. Note the distinctive fairytale [--] foot high Sultan's palace dome adorned with ornamental minarets. The"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022342284688150532)  2026-02-13T16:09Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@lester_durden Yeah sadly theres definitely that element too. Its also one of the reasons that although I'm pro euthanasia I think we need extremely solid laws in Ireland to stop coersion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022389851572834680)  2026-02-13T19:18Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements


"On this day in [----] a terrified freezing 15- year-old schoolgirl called Ann Lovett was crouched in the fetal position in agony at the grotto of the Virgin Mary in Granard Co. Longford. But whilst this child is certainly innocent and worthy of help and this is a place where pious people come to seek assistance from Our Lady her desperate prayers will not be answered that lonely night. Amid the darkness and cold Ann will give birth to a stillborn baby. Compounding that unimaginable tragedy which occurred in this dreary garden of Gethsemane just hours later the teenage mother will also perish in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017516029589573741)  2026-01-31T08:31Z 24.2K followers, 94.6K engagements


"Did you know that Dublin Bay prawns dont come from Dublin Bay and aren't really even prawns "True" prawns the hipsters of the aquatic crustacean family have transparent soft shells. The "Dublin Bay" prawns are more like mini lobsters with a hard pink shell which they shed as they grow and they've prominent claws walk on the balls of their feet and wear Canada Goose jackets. And these immigrants are not even from Dublin Bay Their real name is Nephrops Norvegicus or the Norwegian langoustine first classified in [----] by zoologist Carl Linnaeus. Our Italians cousins call them 'scampi' whilst"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018377740873855141)  2026-02-02T17:35Z 24.1K followers, 22K engagements


"Moses once walked the beaches of Dublin. In the 1970s and 80s. A distinguished senior citizen roamed from Merrion Road down to Sandymount Strand and onward towards Blackrock. The gentlemans real name was Tom or Thomas. His surname may have been OMalley or something similar. However local reverently knew him as Moses because he had the look of an Old Testament prophet. And the aura. I will refer to him thus and with the same great respect. He sported a long grey beard blown wild by the sea air. Overall his epic appearance was weather beaten and like Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings he always"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018987609318453432)  2026-02-04T09:58Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The Irish Merchant Navy Memorial on City Quay features an anchor that once belonged to a working ship.The memorial was unveiled in [----] long after the war it commemorates. Officially it honours Irish merchant seamen who died during The Emergency aka World War [--]. Unofficially it marks what the sailors themselves called The Long Watch the endless nerve shredding vigil of crossing mined waters and U-boat hunting grounds. Ireland was neutral but the Atlantic theatre didnt recognise that. Irish ships were torpedoed by German U-boats and struck by Allied forces alike sometimes mistaken for enemy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2019374118332678267)  2026-02-05T11:34Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] the Irish House of Commons voted itself out of existence. Sitting in College Green in what is now the "blind" Bank of Ireland building Irelands parliament approved a legislative union with the Kingdom of Great Britain. Just over a year earlier the same proposal had been defeated forcing the British government led by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger to change tactics. Persuasion gave way to pressure and bribery. Between the two votes lay the failed trauma of the United Irishmen rebellion of [----]. The uprising bloodily suppressed had terrified the British political class."  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2019671714913755193)  2026-02-06T07:17Z 24.2K followers, 19.2K engagements


"An 18-year-old student teacher called Deirdre Jacob was back home in Kildare on her summer break from St Marys University in London. She vanished almost in sight of her own front gate on the 28th of July [----]. Deirdre set out that day to do some messages in Newbridge town walking the familiar 20-minute route from her parents gaff in Roseberry. Her precise movements were captured CCTV At 2:18 pm they saw her at the AIB withdrawing a bank draft for her student accommodation rent. By 2:26 pm she was seen posting that draft at the Post Office. Deirdre was chatting with a friend at 2:32 pm. Then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2020044637373624356)  2026-02-07T07:59Z 24.2K followers, 25.6K engagements


"Youve seen them both thousands of times two men gazing down on you from their stone plinths on OConnell Street where the Luas crosses. But their names and stories are forgotten by the majority of Dubliners who pass them daily. So lets change that and make friends with the men behind the statues. Sir John Gray (1815-1875) and William Smith O'Brien (1803-1864) Gray was born in Claremorris Mayo then went on to become the MP for Kilkenny City representing the Home Rule League. But this polymath was so much more than just a politician. He was a skilled surgeon and owner of the notoriously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2020762296335646976)  2026-02-09T07:30Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Dublin pubs functioned as morgues right up until the 20th century. This was the days before refrigerated mortuaries in hospitals or municipal body storage. And it was the law. Under the Coroners Act of [----] any body found dead in suspicious accidental or unexplained circumstances had to be viewed by a coroner and jury before burial. If there was no designated morgue nearby and in most towns there was not the body was to be brought to the nearest suitable building. The coldest and reasonably sterile place in almost any town was the pub cellar. Stone-lined underground and designed to keep beer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2020815296638894469)  2026-02-09T11:01Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Lets visit Hell. Not the makey-up one that men in funny hats created so they could keep you on your knees while their hand went through your pockets. But the devilish playground of sex and booze and gambling surrounding Gods biggest gaff in 18th century Dublin Clustered around Christ Church Cathedral was the dodgiest ancient neighbourhood in the city. It was a shady maze so notorious that locals knew it simply as Hell. Here in the pissing rain beneath the faces of saints you could gamble and gargle and fornicate your life away to the soundtrack of cathedral bells and seagulls. And considering"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021137807784255720)  2026-02-10T08:22Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@JoeBLynam ah thanks a million Joe Im extremely grateful for the support much appreciated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021512750015377884)  2026-02-11T09:12Z 24.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@bridiebreen1 He did. You know your hangmen Ive actually two posts coming up about Pierpoint and another lad who was an irishman working for the Brits around the War of Independence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021628269083471996)  2026-02-11T16:51Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Heres just a few British and Irish media stories remembering his murder and eulogising him decades on. Maybe you can read them whilst youre sitting down X * The official press release from the Department of the Taoiseach welcoming the UKs decision. * https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-the-taoiseach/press-releases/taoiseach-simon-harris-welcomes-confirmation-of-a-public-inquiry-into-the-murder-of-pat-finucane/ http://Gov.ie https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/27/pat-finucane-inquiry-fell-below-human-rights-standards-judges-rule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021989490709987633)  2026-02-12T16:47Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@DavidSc36517670 Feckin hell Ah here how does the Illinois State Military Museum justify this as anything but an embarrassing spoil of war Not very edifying to keep it when a neighbouring nation wants it back. Extremely disrespectful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022026001904193565)  2026-02-12T19:12Z 24.2K followers, [--] engagements


"On this day in [----] [---] young people went out for a Valentine's Day dance in The Stardust nightclub in Artane. That night [--] sons and daughters of Dublin never came home tragically dying in a nightmarish and preventable fire. Escape routes were chained shut. Dozens of young people were seriously injured hundreds of family members and friends were traumatised forever. The first tribunal cited arson as the "probable" cause implying one of the young people attending the disco caused the fire. This verdict was contradicted by extensive evidence that emergency exits in the club were regularly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022553246498226455)  2026-02-14T06:07Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The mysterious disappearance of married couple Conor (62) and Sheila (60) Dwyer from Fermoy County Cork in the spring of [----] remains unsolved. The quiet couple lived on Chapel Hill a short rise above the town close enough to hear the bells of St Patricks Church. On the 30th of April [----] the Dwyers attended a funeral Mass in St Patricks. It was the last confirmed sighting of them. A neighbour Katherine Fenton saw the couple outside the church afterwards barely a hundred metres from their front door. The following day the 1st of May Sheila talked to her sister on the phone. There was nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2020458026814029846)  2026-02-08T11:21Z 24.2K followers, 17.5K engagements


"St. Marks Church the medieval heart of the Upper Town was built in the 13th-century the famous 19th-century tiled roof blazing with heraldry the Triune Kingdom of Croatia Dalmatia and Slavonia on one side the city of Zagreb on the other came later. Just a few minutes walk away beside the old Stone Gate stands one of Zagrebs most interesting monuments a bronze St. George and the Dragon from [----]. Created by the Austrian artists Arthur Winder and Andreas Kompatscher. It shows the knight in the aftermath helmet removed head bowed his horse standing over a dragon already slain. The unholy serpent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2020494120318365982)  2026-02-08T13:45Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Big news lads The Dublin Time Machine is set to self-destruct this November [----] unless I can turn me beloved hobby into a book. Mental health and new work responsibilities mean I need to publish or be damned. So if you can help with literary agents or publishers please drop us a message and I will gratefully get through them all. As always lads retweets and recommendations are appreciated. Here is a sufficiently pathetic historic picture of me still getting to grips with 20th century Earth to inspire you that I need all the bleedin assistance I can get. You can also help the DTM by buying me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021203966000869793)  2026-02-10T12:45Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"On this day in [----] "The Plough and the Stars" a drama set during the Easter Rising notoriously caused a riot in the Abbey Theatre. It was only a decade since the city had burned as what W.B Yeats has described as "a terrible beauty is born." The scars from those events and the ensuing War of Independence and Civil War were very much still raw. During the third performance of The Plough and the Stars several women in the audience who were directly involved in the Rising began to get rowdy. The "ringleaders" were three firebrand ladies. Sighle Humphreys (pic 1) was vice-president of Cumann na"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021497952695365656)  2026-02-11T08:14Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Thanks a million everybody for your extremely generous support and advice 🙏🏻 I'll be replying to everyone the minute I get to me laptop this morning so I can respond properly. Thanks a million X"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021506988954595454)  2026-02-11T08:49Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Ill be checking all the rest of me messages on lunch now lads thank you so much again. Extremely grateful for all the support X"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021513587827871883)  2026-02-11T09:16Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Here's a bloke who personally ended the lives of more people than most serial killers. For more than a generation Thomas Galvin (Galvan in some records) was an executioner at Kilmainham Gaol in the bloody days of late 18th and early 19th century Dublin. Trigger warning here this deals with hanging. And although this piece is about criminals Christ knows far too many sadly innocent souls have been lost that way. Victims of their own pain may they rest in peace. Back to the history 18th and early 19th century Ireland was a violent time of rebellion against repression and public punishment in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021566898576543931)  2026-02-11T12:48Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The strange disappearance of Alpho OReilly made no senses. The [--] year old who grew up in Ballinasloe and Westport was a well known and respected figure in Irish cultural life. OReilly arrived in Dublin after the war to study at the National College of Art gravitating quickly toward theatre. By the early 1950s he was acting designing and stage-managing at the Gate Theatre moving in circles that included Lord and Lady Longford. He then moved to England to work at the BBC and ABC Television and remarkably served as production designer on the first five episodes of The Avengers. No not that one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021618480743616990)  2026-02-11T16:13Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Sources for this and independent news articles and a bibliography of authoritative sources including statements about British government collusion from the British government themselves. Official Government Documents & Reports **1) The Report of the Patrick Finucane Review A full official UK government review into state involvement and what was known about collusion. 🔗 **2) Statement to Parliament on the murder of Patrick Finucane UK government speech acknowledging collusion and outlining the commissioning of the De Silva review. 🔗 **3) Prime Minister David Camerons statement on Patrick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021874198964998199)  2026-02-12T09:09Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Holy magic stones don't just exist on Father Ted's Craggy Island. We've got one here in Dublin There has been a place of worship on the site of Old St. Audoen's church since medieval times. That even more ancient chapel was for St. Columba. Audoen's is the oldest surviving medieval church in Dublin with parts of it dating from about [----] CE. The 17th-century tower contains six bells. Three of these are the oldest in Ireland and date from [----] CE. And with centuries of history comes more than a few mysteries. A 9th-century grave marker called The Lucky Stone (an chloch dh) was practically"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021956104431816749)  2026-02-12T14:34Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"A 15-year-old Irish girl called Amy Fitzpatrick stepped out into the night on the Mijas Costa of Spains Costa del Sol on New Years Day [----]. It was 10:00p.m. and she was heading the short walk home after babysitting her friends younger brother. The teenager vanished without a trace. In those early hours the Guardia Civil launched one of the most extensive missing persons investigations in the regions history combing trails pathways and scrubland around Mijas and Riviera del Sol. Helicopters sniffer dogs and foot patrols scoured the terrain without any trace of the girl being found. Then some"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022281099875877113)  2026-02-13T12:06Z 24.2K followers, 55.2K engagements


"Despite St. Valentine's Day being popular with Dubliners many don't realise his body (well some of it) is actually here in our city Father John Spratt (1797-1871) was a humanitarian in the Irish Carmelite Order who did a huge amount of charity work especially helping the homeless and hungry in the Liberties. He was also involved in the construction of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on Whitefriar Street. In [----] he was honored for his work by Pope Gregory XVI with a gift of part of the relics of St Valentine. The bones and blood of the Roman martyr were brought home from Rome and installed in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022603202470752603)  2026-02-14T09:25Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Zagreb is the capital of Croatia. Basically this beautiful little city is the product of two rival medieval settlements on neighbouring hills. So like the Whitestown-Ladyswell Yupbro wars of [----] two plucky urban combatant settlements eventually found common ground through trade marriage and common defence interests. First documented in [----] with the establishment of a diocese on Kaptol the city of Zagreb grew alongside the fortified royal town of Gradec which was granted the Golden Bull by King Bla IV in [----]. They were formally united in [----] under Mayor Janko Kamauf. Despite suffering a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2020117775885140425)  2026-02-07T12:49Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] Pat Finucane sat down to Sunday dinner with his wife Geraldine and their three children in their north Belfast home. He was [--] years old. Two gunmen from the Ulster Defence Association smashed their way into the house and fired fourteen shots at close range. His family watched him die at the table. Finucane was one of the most prominent defence solicitors in Northern Ireland known for representing republican suspects and for challenging the conduct of the security forces in court. In the febrile atmosphere of the late 1980s insisting on legal rights was enough to mark a man for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021841750105452851)  2026-02-12T07:00Z 24.2K followers, 40.1K engagements


"@10pencefreddo Yeah I'd have to agree in this particular instance. Although you know yourself experiences even by members of the same nationality in the same regiments can be drastically different due to things like class ans religious affiliation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021913340348452871)  2026-02-12T11:44Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] from the pulpit of St Brendans Cathedral in Loughrea the Bishop of Clonfert Thomas Ryan delivered a sermon that would echo across the nation. The night before on Teilifs ireann an episode of The Late Late Show had aired which the bishop was now wringing his hands at and proclaiming was a national embarrassment. Before mounting the altar steps he had already sent a telegram to the programmes host Gay Byrne. It contained just five words: Disgusted with disgraceful performance. From the pulpit Bishop Ryan declared the evil programme was unworthy of Irish television unworthy of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022219592555254110)  2026-02-13T08:01Z 24.2K followers, 12.6K engagements


"-The next area's decor is a confection of pastel-coloured bricks mosaic-tiled floors and oriental arches. Basically the best budget approximations of the Middle East the second city of Empire could buy. The style was a fashionable trope erroneously called "Saracenic" architecture. We enter a large changing room space called a Divan. This was lined with benches and timber stalls with scarlet curtains for undressing. Unnecessary modesty being a British vice Paddy had inherited at the time All this was beneath an alluring multicoloured painted panelled ceiling. A visitor described the effect as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022342807155822738)  2026-02-13T16:11Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@PatConnor6 Yep that's definitely a predatory element"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022394811681218911)  2026-02-13T19:37Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@IveaghGael Yep a lot of building sites"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022605075970166827)  2026-02-14T09:33Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements


"104 years ago today the British occupational forces surrendered their headquarters Dublin Castle to the Chairman of the Provisional Government General Michael Collins. Irish folklore claims that when the awaiting British Viceroy rudely told Collins he was [--] minutes late he responded We've been waiting [---] years for you bastards. You can give us seven minutes. However that's not what really happened. In truth it was a very civilised and casual handover. Mainly everyone was confused by such an unusual situation. The Brits were polite and Collins was jovial. That morning had seen another"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2012079353308340245)  2026-01-16T08:27Z 23.7K followers, 29.3K engagements


"The dissapearnce of Marilyn Rynn in [----] and the subsequent massive Garda search then manhunt was of the most significant murder investigations in modern Irish history. Not only due do the brutality of the crime but because it became the first Irish case solved through DNA evidence. On Thursday the 21st of December [----] Marilyn attended her office Christmas party at the Shieling Hotel in Raheny. Later that night she made her way into the city centre and eventually boarded a Nitelink bus heading west. Shortly after 3:00 a.m. the bus dropped her in Blanchardstown on that bitterly cold morning."  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2012133099946098896)  2026-01-16T12:01Z 23.7K followers, [---] engagements


"The disappearance of Marilyn Rynn in [----] and the subsequent massive Garda search then manhunt was of the most significant murder investigations in modern Irish history. Not only due do the brutality of the crime but because it became the first Irish case solved through DNA evidence. On Thursday the 21st of December [----] Marilyn attended her office Christmas party at the Shieling Hotel in Raheny. Later that night she made her way into the city centre and eventually boarded a Nitelink bus heading west. Shortly after 3:00a.m. the bus dropped her in Blanchardstown on that bitterly cold morning."  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2012136200266527093)  2026-01-16T12:13Z 23.7K followers, 10.7K engagements


"The Temple Theatre was more than a nightclub. For a particular generation of Dubliners it was a rite of passage.Its lifespan was barely seven years. But its legacy as a sacred place for music dancing drugs and getting your hole makes it one of the most important spawning grounds of Dublin youth. Long before all that good stuff St. Georges Church was of the Georgian Northside Dublins great early 19th century Protestant houses of worship. Designed by the architect of the GPO Francis Johnston the church began construction in [----] and opened in [----] he gave it a dramatic triple-tiered spire. But"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2012452209926013057)  2026-01-17T09:09Z 23.8K followers, [----] engagements


"A little known horror of 18th century Dublin was the evil practice of child abandonment and robbery known as "stripping". Basically the child's own parent (as an act of abandonment) or a stranger would rob the kid of their clothing and any possessions and leave them naked on the street. Although it was more profitable to "strip" victims who had jobs and therefore better clothing often it was just random poor struggling kids. Their relatively worthless garments and gear would then be sold on often just for the price of another drink. This disgusting practice was sometimes combined with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2012814744558686314)  2026-01-18T09:10Z 23.8K followers, 25.3K engagements


"The Ballymanus Mine Disaster was a shocking nightmare that killed [--] out of nowhere. Yet its one of the least discussed civilian tragedies of the Second World War on Irish soil. On the western edge of Donegal on the 10th of May in [----] the heaving beast that is the Atlantic brought the destruction and death of World War [--] (or as we called The Emergency) on to Ballymanus beach in The Rosses. Sometime earlier that day local boys from the villager spotted a strange black shape floating near the shore. This was an unexploded marine mine eight feet high with its spikes bent from rolling against"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2012870025917460548)  2026-01-18T12:49Z 23.8K followers, 10.8K engagements


"On this day in [----] "The Big Freeze" began and a [--] month long mini Ice Age occured. Hundreds would die in the catastrophic event doubling the mortality rate in Dublin crippling the city and nation. The city was already severely weakened by World War [--] (The Emergency). People were starving and homeless and public services and supply chains were poor or nonexistent. The government had even begun rationing flour and bread. A 25% electricity reduction was imposed. Emergency fuel consignments were ordered from Britain. Some called it "White '47". A perfect societal storm is brewing. Tragic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2013162312421568818)  2026-01-19T08:11Z 23.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The Spanish Armada was spectacularly wrecked off the Irish coast in [----]. The great fleet sent by Philip II to invade England lay broken and scattered after its bruising encounter with the English fleet at Gravelines. With nature and the enemy against it and supplies dwindling and morale shattered the Armada attempted to limp home by sailing north around Scotland and down the wild Atlantic edge of Ireland. This was one of the true watershed moments in Earths history that couldve changed the face of civilsation for the next millenium. The doomed fleet once numbering around [---] ships was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2013534186296979493)  2026-01-20T08:48Z 23.8K followers, 60.5K engagements


"In the [--] years between Abraham Lincolns assassination and his final burial his corpse experienced a more exciting life than most living people. Among its more grotesque adventures was a botched grave robbing attempt on the 17th of November [----] eleven years after he was shot in Fords Theatre. Even in Ireland the tall gaunt sixteenth president is a cultural icon. His [----] assassination shocked the world. In death however his body became a commodity and to some unscrupulous Irishmen in Chicago his stove-pot hatted cadaver looked like their winning lotto ticket. Before the bodysnatchers entered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2013882884986126451)  2026-01-21T07:54Z 23.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Dubliners love a good secret tunnel and there's dozens beneath our ancient city. Builders excavating on Thomas Street unearthed a forgotten network of tunnels from the days of the old Roes whiskey distillery which closed in [----]. Archaeologists initially found a layer of stratified soot then more evidence of large furnaces. Then they discovered a subterranean complex of tunnels three meters high and one and half meter wide. Some of these ingenious shafts were used to move heated air from the furnaces at an uphill angle toward the old distillery grain stores. The original humble whiskey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2014270469805846929)  2026-01-22T09:34Z 23.8K followers, 15.2K engagements


"Why is "unvetted" racist when there is literally a process called VETTING and the government has said they have VETTED all immigrats How deeply Orwellian of you to call the official terminology racist What a dystopian thought terminating vision you have for society Should be stop using the term Rape too Would you suspect perhaps that convicted sex offenders are more likely to offend https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014313844730982550 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014313844730982550"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2014313844730982550)  2026-01-22T12:26Z 23.8K followers, [--] engagements


"In terms of the rarest and most gruesome tragedies that could befall you in Dublin being crushed by a rampaging elephant must rank high. On the 9th of June [----] James McNally a beloved keeper in Dublin Zoo and his son proceeded to the enclosure of Sita. She was an Indian elephant who had spent over [--] years at her adopted home in the Phoenix Park. James had been her keeper trainer and friend since she arrived in Dublin Zoo. At [--] tonnes and [--] feet high at the shoulder she was the largest elephant in the British Isles. A favourite of children Sita had never previously shown any signs of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2014358281074942321)  2026-01-22T15:23Z 23.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] St Vincent's Hospital was founded at [--] St. Stephen's Green by Mother Mary Aikenhead making it the first such medical institution managed and staffed by women. Aikenhead who despite being a Catholic nun was staunchly anti-sectarian and an early advocate of disability rights. She was a wheelchair user who never allowed her physical challenges to slow her work and campaigning. "Mother Mary" founded the Religious Sisters of Charity which sadly later became notorious for its despicable role in the abuse and murder of girls and women in mother and baby homes. On opening the hospital"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2014599306662027325)  2026-01-23T07:21Z 23.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@BillyFi74637425 No the Hound. But I love a good session in @Peregrinesgaa too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2014661324182102447)  2026-01-23T11:27Z 23.8K followers, [---] engagements


"The traditional Donnybrook Fair began innocently enough before it became infamous for scrapping gargling and fornication. Basically all the good stuff. In [----] King John granted a licence to hold an annual fair on the banks of the River Dodder each August. The stated purpose livestock trading and settling rents and annual debts. Back then Donnybrook was were rural Ireland blended with the expanding city of Dublin. For centuries it fulfilled that purpose. However by the late 18th and early 19th centuries major shenanigans were afoot. The fair had devolved into something closer to a sanctioned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2015032822189429231)  2026-01-24T12:03Z 23.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Important news. In response to the devastating impact of Storm owyn last year the government is sending every gaff in Ireland a "household resilience" booklet produced by the Department of Defence. No need to panic its just practical advice on staying safe warm and hydrated during extreme weather or service outages. Local authorities will also set up a network of designated Community Support Centres (CSCs) during major disruptions in sports halls and community centres equipped with kitchens Wi-Fi and backup generator capabilities. This is good news better to have it and not need it. New"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2015073479796707613)  2026-01-24T14:45Z 23.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@camannua Deadly I wasn't aware of that till you said. Found a picture of it. Cheers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2015367433817620942)  2026-01-25T10:13Z 23.8K followers, [---] engagements


"If ever a caper in history deserved a movie it's the crazy tale of Lambert Simnel the great Pretender. Like the plot of a Disney movie with some Game of Thrones thrown in an ordinary little boy who looks like the king steals the throne The triumph of Henry VII outraged his opponents who conspired to replace him by any means necessary and restore the Yorkist line. A rebellion organised by the Earl of Lincoln John de la Pole cooked up a bizarre plan to stage a coup and make an imposter a young boy from a humble family the most powerful man in the world. This illegitimate pretender would then be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2015720762917659038)  2026-01-26T09:37Z 23.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Those online death threats made against Tnaiste Simon Harris originated from outside Ireland by the way. And we all know what two countries just love to destabilise EU democracies. Don't we comrade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1966904248740049274)  2025-09-13T16:38Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements


"The awful dissapearance of a pregnant young woman called Sandra Collins was brought to my attention by her cousin @CollinsDempsey. Sandras chilling story could happen to any decent girl who falls prey to the wrong man. On a wet Monday night in early December [----] Sandra walked out of a house on Courthouse Street in Killala County Mayo and was never seen again. Sandras disappearance came just [--] months after the tragic death of her brother James in an accident compounding the families grief. She was [--] years old and the eldest of six kids. Her loving family describe her as someone quiet and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2013199205909639578)  2026-01-19T10:37Z 23.9K followers, 11.4K engagements


"A beautiful labour of love was only discovered years after its creator had passed away. In the Autumn of [----] passengers flying into Derry Airport spotted a beautiful Celtic cross design in the woods near Killea County Donegal. The cross is more than [---] meters long and [--] meters wide. It was secretely planted by Liam Emery a local forester as a love token to his wife Norma. With years of patient labour he painted the landscape with a design of Japanese larch trees amongst surrounding evergreens. Sadly he died in [----] aged just [--] before his work came to fruition and it was secret between him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2013931647209451966)  2026-01-21T11:08Z 23.9K followers, 96K engagements


"25 foreign sex offenders have been removed from the Ireland as part of Operation Moonridge. This consists of [--] non-EU nationals and [--] EU nationals who are now all subject to exclusion periods from Ireland. But there's no unvetted foreign nationals in Ireland right Yet the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) had a list of these individuals for Removal Order or deportation Why would the government be deceiving the public about tolerating the presence of dangerous foreign rapists Operation Moonridge involves information sharing between the Garda National Immigration Bureau and Garda"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2014295458290545119)  2026-01-22T11:13Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Brought wee Tayto in to me local on the way home from vets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2014659843840184642)  2026-01-23T11:21Z 24K followers, 12.6K engagements


"@Default69202648 Its a risk but all risky behaviour has consequences. If they're adults and cavalier enough to endanger their own lives they've already made a choice. It's far more likely to make people second guess risky behaviour in the first place surely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2016183220111278524)  2026-01-27T16:15Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@byrnemick I agree. Its like simultaneously acknowledging someone has the active appetite to commit and atrocity but giving the degenerate the benefit of the doubt they wont do it again. As if a drive like that will ever stop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2016514990757331124)  2026-01-28T14:13Z 24K followers, [----] engagements


"@Pad_Ban Jaysus poor Shane's DNA would probably be worth a fortune now so scientists could learn how he survived so long. You should've robbed the bottle 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2016929690506625518)  2026-01-29T17:41Z 24K followers, [--] engagements


"@SteveHeighway1 Yep its a cycle of provocation which the Brits did all over the world. They never learned because their leaders were unable to conceptualise that their "subjects" would resist injustice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017139849375985998)  2026-01-30T07:36Z 24K followers, [----] engagements


"@BeveridgeP82854 I'd say it was an extremely moving interview"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017168672356253719)  2026-01-30T09:31Z 24K followers, [----] engagements


"Did you know that Irish telly actually went from black and white to colour years early by accident One summer afternoon in June [----] during the Wimbledon Mens Singles Final featuring Rod Laver (no me neither) a lone RT technician forgot the most important button on his desk. RT had started buying colour equipment but the transition was years away. But in a handful of Irish gaffs something impossible flickered to life. RT were taking a live feed from the BBC. Colour television was brand new over there and RTE were experimenting with them by taking the BBCs colour signal and running it through"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017180433012711602)  2026-01-30T10:17Z 24K followers, 23.1K engagements


"@Bohemianbhoy I'm a chrononaut nothing is before my time. I just find tennis to be interminably boring"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017217127715852711)  2026-01-30T12:43Z 24K followers, [---] engagements


"@muffmasterh I clearly need to brush up on me tennis history it seems 😂 Well I shall this opportunity to broaden me knowledge on Mr Laver 🎾"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017245322691412189)  2026-01-30T14:35Z 24K followers, [---] engagements


"@caimin Yeah it was deadly wasn't it All ye needed was a few bob and a soldering iron"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017261328251998387)  2026-01-30T15:39Z 24K followers, [---] engagements


"With Leopardstown racing cancelled guess where the place got its curious name in a country without leopards As Gaeilge Leopardstown translates to Baile na Lobhar meaning the 'town of the lepers'. The sleepy suburb in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains is now famous for its racecourse but for centuries it was a Leper colony. The disease known as Leprosy often referred to in the bible is actually a tropical infection called "Hansen's disease." Although highly treatable now the misunderstood and cruely stereotyped condition plagued humans for centuries causing agonising debilitation and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017643188845006969)  2026-01-31T16:56Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Bitterfly13 Deadly turn the history in to a bet and we got halves on it. I need the money time travel isn't as lucrative as it used to be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017652634069479476)  2026-01-31T17:34Z 24.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Obviously. However playing "whatabout" isn't a sustainable game for British imperialist apologists. All human lives and all victims of terrorism are equally priceless(be it British State IRA PIRA UDA UDF) However to raise that absolute atrocity of Omagh like that doesnt only cheapens the lives of victims but only draws attention to the exponentially larger murder committed by the British against Irish people of all religions. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017677099407212625 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017677099407212625"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017677099407212625)  2026-01-31T19:11Z 24.1K followers, [--] engagements


"5 years ago these beautiful statues which were illegally removed from the Shelbourne Hotel were restored They had been wrecklessly taken down during a fit of Black Lives Matter inspired mania when everything and anything that appeared remotely "problematic" to the Thought Police was confined to the memory hole. However it wasnt the BLM movement who ordered this dangerous nonsense. Blame the Shelbourne Hotels executives who committed this act of cultural vandalism. Blame the uneducated self flaggellating virtue signallers who applauded them. Blame the room temperature IQ social media"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2000887983260442690)  2025-12-16T11:17Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements


"God someone help someone please please help me. This is what residents near Herbert Place heard at 12:30a.m on the 22nd of June morning in [----]. Minutes later Garda responded to the call discovering 21-year-old Sinad Kelly lying on her back on the bank of the Grand Canal. She had been viciously stabbed around [--] times in the neck chest and back. Poor Sinad was born and raised in Santry but by her early twenties she was struggling with heroin addiction and occasionally turned to street prostitution in Benburb Street and later the canal banks near Baggot Street. Just two months before her"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2015396947155169460)  2026-01-25T12:10Z 24.1K followers, 40.1K engagements


"Poker player and father of four Jn Jnsson visited Ireland from his native Iceland and evaporated. The [--] year old was 6ft 3in and came with his partner for the Dublin Poker Festival at the Bonnington Hotel on the Swords Road. At 11:07am on the 9th of February [----] CCTV footage shows him leaving the hotel in Whitehall turning right onto the Swords Road heading north in the direction of the airport. But he wasnt carrying any gear with him. His phone and passport and wallet were back in his hotel room. Why would any tourist leave any of those items and head out in to a foreign city Garda treated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2015762920764764568)  2026-01-26T12:25Z 24.1K followers, 38.3K engagements


"Latest Epstein file drop includes at least one Irish girl trafficked to his island"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017590559645319277)  2026-01-31T13:27Z 24.1K followers, 19.5K engagements


"@BarrettNatSocP Thats disappointing Justin. I'm very passionate about the past and the future of Ireland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017966412011106683)  2026-02-01T14:20Z 24.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@taxidamien @alanlambodublin He was some man a walking encyclopedia of sports and history. I never had the pleasure of meeting the legend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018006212374147440)  2026-02-01T16:59Z 24.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@mahonj You're a monster 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018644684269384135)  2026-02-03T11:16Z 24.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@angiebeeb I didnt know that Out near where me Da's family came from and also where they're buried. Cheers for that Angie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018676541048144212)  2026-02-03T13:22Z 24.1K followers, [--] engagements

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