Stephen Cassidy

Life loving, fun having, markets observing, sports enthusiast...

[Stephen Cassidy @StephenCassid10]

@DKThomp @davidmcw evidence, even if from a different country, of the scale of the socialising problem you raised in a recent podcast

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@cullenroche This is all wrong. When you say monetisation, you mean a person(s) harvesting the financial benefit of a sport for themselves, justifying it on the cyclists salaries. TDF is all about impromptu shows of support from every vantage point along the way. You miss the point completely

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@Jared_Carrabis Dublin based but I’ll meet you there, Jared

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@davidflatman @SimonRaiwalui Nobody talked about “depowering” the scrum. What he said was that the scrum exists to restart the game (which it does) and as such, should not lead to a penalty unless there is foul play. Scrums should retain the power, they just shouldn’t be exploited 4 penalties

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Incredibly good.

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

“Seriously I can just come out and say it? Call him a liar?” asks @JonathanPieNews, a fictional broadcast reporter created and performed by comedian Tom Walker, in a satirical video about Britain’s Prime Minister.
“God bless America.” https://t.co/Hu6Q6q8TBp

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@ryle_nugent A few replies here suggest NZ are simply more athletic than Ireland so comparing our athletes to there’s is not relevant. What a defeatist argument. Our athletes can be as competitive as any, they simply need the same backing (funds&facilities) and kids need support and coaching

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@LiviamCapital Disregard what you thought you knew about value.

Don’t ignore the opinions of those you may not respect or appear crazy but are influential.

Don’t underestimate the price impact of apps that give people direct access to markets.

Never ignore those that feel disenfranchised.

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@davidmcw In a parallel universe, where we had a visionary economy and politics, this housing crisis could be an opportunity to add beautiful design / modernity into our cities. It’s not enough to throw up any old prefab things to solve these problems, they must be liveable and appealing

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Trickle-down economics has never worked.

It’s time to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out.

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Now that we’ve established that football is the working mans sport, we can get back to the breathless anticipation of who is going to buy Haaland for €300m and how many hundreds of millions a clubs ownership are going to ‘support their manager with’ in the summer 😂

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Stunningly negative. The only reason I’ve heard for an endless closure of (global) society is ‘variants’. There aren’t many acknowledgements for the cost lockdown has on lives and non covid health. Surely they must accept that life entails risk and adjust to give people hope

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

How soon after we get vaccines will things return to normal? @MrJustinMac asked a number of health experts about what can we expect as the vaccination roll-out continues https://t.co/Od0AybVXG5

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What is interesting to me is that NPHET appear to believe that they have infinite societal runway to continue lockdowns, when their daily negativity only shows people that their best efforts are not being rewarded. Cue inevitable outcomes. And we’re only in February @davidmcw

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Gardaí may be redeployed to beauty spots as crowds flock to parks and beaches https://t.co/ZwbbzHDdC9

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@MichealLehane @thisweekrte Any plans to actually investigate whether indefinitely keeping the lives of the entire nation in restricted isolation has any validity (old&vulnerable vax pending), or is your role simply to repeat what they say without question? NPHET very close to losing the dressing room now.

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@LeoVaradkar @DonnellyStephen can you just give us something to feel optimistic about please. Ideally it would be a truly ambitious & visionary vaccination program plan to really motivate the population. Enough with the relentless negativity, refocus on fast recovery please

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Very honest assessment of the wine selection in the local grocery store...

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6 weeks of lockdown still not enough for NPHET. How long will be enough when solidarity has been lost? Why are they not learning lessons to better inform their govt guidance? Everyone wants to control covid, but lockdown is such a blunt instrument that is creating its own misery

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

BREAKING: Nphet signals strong opposition to parts of plan to lift lockdown and reopen social and economic life next week https://t.co/yktcqSMu8s

[Stephen Cassidy @StephenCassid10]

The reply of a lady from Arizona to a question about the Trump vote from Sky News: ‘I question America. I question “are you voting with your pocket book or your conscience?”, because if it’s your conscience, I’m really scared. And if it’s your pocket book, how selfish of you.’

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@charliebilello You make it sound like there is legitimacy in people styling themselves as ‘deplorables’ and ignoring everything we know to be true about Trump, not least the fact that he hasn’t delivered for this ‘constituency’. Voting comes with a responsibility to accurately inform oneself.

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@NorthmanTrader The interesting bit is watching all the economics experts reacting to every market movement as if the latest stratospheric index/asset movement was as expected, when in reality they are just as clueless as the rest of us.

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I was 9, in the living room, just served my dinner by my mam, which then went flying everywhere moments after Davo scored his penalty. We were so happy. Went straight out to the street to replay the moment. Those were absolutely amazing days to be a kid in Ireland #RIPJack

[Ireland Football ⚽️🇮🇪 @IrelandFootball]

"Put 'em under pressure" 💪

Jack brought us so many iconic memories

Where were you when Packie Bonner & David O'Leary sent us to a World Cup Quarter Final? 🇮🇪