Jim Duffy 🇮🇪 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

writer, political activist, freelance journalist. All views are entirely my own. Retweets don't necessarily represent my views.

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Ireland's referendum on marriage equality, 2015: https://t.co/wegphmJp8a via @YouTube

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@neglbaren @OKMagazine 'Diana, Princess of Wales'. Queen Elizabeth II went from 'The Queen' to 'Queen Elizabeth' on her death. Constantine II in Greece went from 'The King of Greece' to 'King Constantine of Greece' in 1973 as a courtesy title showing he had been deposed & Greece was a republic. (5/5)

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@neglbaren @OKMagazine . . . not used with titles unless (1) there are lots of people with the same title & you need to tell them apart, eg, two kings meeting, or (2) They no longer hold the title either because of divorce, death or deposition. So Diana went from 'The Princess of Wales' to (4/5)

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@neglbaren @OKMagazine The form 'Princess [husband's name]' could be used, eg, Princess Michael of Kent, but is normally not used if their husband has a peerage. A divorcee is in the form '[first name], [ex-title]'. Diana, Princess of Wales. Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. Using the first name . .(3/4)

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@neglbaren @OKMagazine 2. A Princess of Wales is NEVER 'Princess [first name] unless they were born a princess. Never ever. Diana was NEVER 'Princess Diana'. The media invented that name despite she telling them it was wrong. Officially she was Princess Charles. Catherine is Princess William (2/3)

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@neglbaren @OKMagazine Title rules are simple. (1) Use 'The [title]'. The definitive article MUST be used. Don't use a name with it. Catherine is 'The Princess of Wales'. So was Diana (1981 to 1996). So was Camilla but didn't use it. Example: The King. The Queen. The Prince of Wales. 1/2

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@DondeNiamh You were that clueless deluded nutter??? Wow!

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"Everyone knows someone who has grieved a life they didn't go on to build. And Ireland is that person: a country that a hundred years later is still so busy not being Britain that it never got around to becoming itself."
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@ChloeLou1010 @RepubesP @neglbaren @OKMagazine Diana never was or could be 'Diana, Princess of Wales' during her marriage. '[name], [former title]' means the ex-wife, not the wife. It meant Diana, who was previously Princess of Wales. When married Diana could be referred as 'The Princess of Wales' or 'Princess Charles'.

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@ChloeLou1010 @RepubesP @neglbaren @OKMagazine The media called her "Princess Diana". That was never her title. She routinely told journalists "I am not Princess Diana. My title is The Princess of Wales." They never listened. Ditto with Catherine. She is not Princess Catherine. She is 'the Princess of Wales.'

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@FollowedByFeds2 @sentdefender Another dumb clueless American.

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@NOGallagher The budget for Defence will have to rise substantially whether the triple lock is repealed or not. Ireland current 0.24% of GDP is a joke. The average spend of neutrals is 0.89% of GDP. It has to quadruple just to hit the average of neutrals.

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@NOGallagher Empty clichés.

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@Avabelly__ You are weird and unreasonable. It is NONE of your business. So what if he is topless. What is "offensive" about it?

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@MichaelPTKelly Bizarre clueless post.

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@DOWResponse @NYflightguy @SecWar Idiot.

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@donlav @ger_cosgrove @rtenews You can hardly expect a station that won't appoint a Defence correspondent to actually know facts about defence! Lol

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@donlav @kajakallas @rtenews @HMcEntee @MichealMartinTD @SimonHarrisTD Ireland is the third worst in the world in defence spending as a percentage of GDP. Only Mauritius and Haiti are worse.

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@ConorHogarty @roy_kinsella Excellent news.

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@nijineko33 Bullshit.