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Mandy Johnston

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CEO Blue Yard Ltd, Broadcaster and Presenter of Newstalk’s Taking Stock (Sunday 9am) & Former Government Press Secretary.

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Mandy Johnston: ‘It was like that when I got here’ is not a credible communications strategy for wayward ministers On taking office, this government did not promise a revolution but competence, yet this has sadly been invisible in recent weeks

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30.03.2025 11:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Shamrock Rovers fans on plane informed me of another big result in Vienna.

Beer in ground included €2.50 deposit on glass that most were unaware of. Young Rovers fan (U-12) spent most of game scooping up discarded empties & presented them at f/t.

The €425 should cover his next trip

29.11.2024 21:53 👍 88 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 2
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Techscape on Taking Stock- How AI is or isn't featuring in the election | Newstalk In our monthly Techscape slot, with thanks to PWC, Elaine Burke, host of the For Tech’s Sake po...

The big issues in this election are things like housing and healthcare, but out of interest I took a look at how AI has been broached across the parties' manifestos for this chat with @mjnews.bsky.social on @newstalkfm.bsky.social. www.newstalk.com/podcasts/tak...

#GE2024

25.11.2024 16:01 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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25.11.2024 10:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Some more analysis from me today in the Business Post today ….

Before “that video”!

24.11.2024 09:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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As noted by @mjnews.bsky.social in her first general election column for the Business Post-

"Harris risks becoming a solitary figure, shouldering the weight of the campaign and, if things go wrong, the blame."

23.11.2024 18:55 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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a teddy bear wearing a red apron and a help button is standing in front of a shelf . ALT: a teddy bear wearing a red apron and a help button is standing in front of a shelf .

It’s Sunday.

Coming up on Taking Stock this morning on @NewstalkFM at 9 we go nuclear … and talk Ted Talks with the man who landed the Pope. Holy Lord!

24.11.2024 08:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My minxy little niece….

23.11.2024 13:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@louj.bsky.social are you who I think you are ?😜

23.11.2024 12:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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21.11.2024 19:59 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Jon Kenny to be laid to rest in Limerick today Tributes have poured in for the performer since his death was announced over the weekend.

Comedian and actor Jon Kenny will be laid to rest in Co Limerick today.

Tributes have poured in for Jon since his death was announced over the weekend. He passed away on Friday, aged 66, in University Hospital Galway. jrnl.ie/6545592

19.11.2024 09:09 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2

Many thanks Irial appreciate your kind words

18.11.2024 16:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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18.11.2024 15:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Are EWE looking at me? So so sorry.

18.11.2024 15:18 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What’s the point of VAR?

17.11.2024 17:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

5000-odd Ireland fans are much louder than 70,000-odd England fans right now

17.11.2024 17:20 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

McIlroy chokes back a few tears after signing off the year with a deserved win- he was ludicrously consistent over the year, really. Tom McKibbin also birdies the final hole to grab the last of the PGA Tour cards on offer for next year

17.11.2024 12:07 👍 36 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Introducing
Billie Wiz Bang

17.11.2024 12:35 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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At the Fine Gael manifesto launch, the party has had to defend pledged additional spending (tax and expenditure) of €52bn - insisting that it is keeping the ship steady.

Pledged spending is more than Fianna Fáil. #GE24

17.11.2024 12:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Up 8k in the latest JNLR figures thanks to all of you who are tuning in every week 💕

17.11.2024 12:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m only a trainee really 🤣

17.11.2024 12:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mandy Johnston: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil sniping could well let Sinn Féin in through the gap Harris’s “New Energy” promised a fresh approach, but instead, it has delivered a jittery, scattered tone that’s already starting to grate

My take on the Irish General Election 2024 so far.

www.businesspost.ie/politics/man...

17.11.2024 12:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

248 women are running in this year's General Election, a 53% increase from 2020 #GE24

17.11.2024 11:18 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

This is great thanks Triona a good start!

17.11.2024 12:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#downings #donegal

16.11.2024 20:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m listening…

16.11.2024 20:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0