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@siobhan_cork · 20 Jan 2026 · 09:40

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Siobhán @siobhan_cork · 20 Jan 2026 · 09:40

Ireland is neutral. I have said that my whole life like it was a personality trait.

This morning I found out it means "we have no idea what happens to us and no say in it either". Not a great feeling with a superpower going strange nine hundred miles away.

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