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Bring back #HomeToRide: why I miss the golden days of Irish Twitter
Emer McLysaght: With Twitter in unsettling flux, nostalgia is already setting in for the heyday of #yokegate, #MassTweets and more
Snowstorms, windstorms and storms in the Dáil have all played out on Irish Twitter. Photo by Chris Delmas/Getty
Emer McLysaght
Fri Apr 28 2023 - 05:00
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