
Brendan O’Connor
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5 days ago |
thebaffler.com | Brendan O’Connor |Abe Beame
In the summer of 2023, Aron D’Souza scandalized the sporting public with the announcement of the Enhanced Games. The pitch was simple: let athletes use performance-enhancing drugs openly, honestly, and safely so they can push the limits of human achievement for the entertainment of sports fans everywhere and for the good of sports science. It would be the Olympics—on steroids.
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Jan 11, 2025 |
independent.ie | Brendan O’Connor
Brendan O’Connor: Why Ireland won’t escape the Age of the AssholeMark Zuckerberg announced changes to Facebook's fact-checking procedures. Photo: GettyJust to say at the outset, I am dispensing with fact-checking. I’m with Zuckerberg. Fact-checking is censorship. How can we even be sure of these so-called facts anyway. It’s not as if there’s some kind of set of actual “facts” that are actually true.
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Dec 7, 2024 |
independent.ie | Brendan O’Connor
Briefly, it felt like the political system was all about us. They couldn’t get enough of us around the country, shaking our hands and listening to us — well, mostly listening. And then they got what they wanted and they moved on and it’s not about us anymore. They’ve turned their backs on us now and are all having conversations we can barely follow. There are two parallel strands of conversations. First, there is the one happening publicly and openly on the airwaves.
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Nov 23, 2024 |
independent.ie | Brendan O’Connor
Brendan O’Connor: Unfortunately for Simon Harris, there was only going to be one winner in this exchangeA screengrab from the RTÉ footage of Simon Harris meeting Charlotte Fallon in Kanturk“Please let it be over” is a common feeling now — and that’s just among the politicians. So we light on random things.
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Oct 2, 2024 |
orlandomagazine.com | Brendan O’Connor
Since I’ve been on this planet, I’ve seen some things, and not all of them are explainable. Mostly because I wasn’t really paying attention when they happened, or I’d taken something from a shaman and was just told to buckle up and hold on. It could have been a shaman, though I’m guessing it was more likely a frat bro in a headdress. That being said, there is a big part of me that just doesn’t believe in the paranormal.
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