Ben Walsh

This must be absolutely hilarious if you're a particular sort of person.

I hear your da isn't taking it well

Young woman working in Phibsborough tonight wearing her Lula gear, I did an old-man attempt at Fa o L, good luck my friends 🇧🇷

They're the right shade

I'm not getting my coat back am I

I mean it's like, you know, six months from now, I can't see myself missing Michael any l more than I might miss Ross McLochness, or Erik ten Hag, or Ronnie Pudding, or Ruud van Nistelrooy, or Danny Upham, or Little Danny Schindler, or any of those.

I think I'm going to get an air horn for use in the bus

New Gist: The Petty Bourgeoisie This week Jim O'Callaghan, the Minister for Justice, had a rollercoaster ride through the media landscape, provided that rollercoaster was Oblivion, the vertical drop into darkness. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

It's really weird going to the George Formby page on Spotify, the public has very strange and wrong preferences. "Bless 'Em All" at number three is just insane. "Out in the Middle East" ahead of of "My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock" these people are just animals.

Simon @tupped.bsky.social is always well worth a read and today's Gist is one of his all time greats. His ability to convey a righteous fury while keeping to Queensbury's rules is particularly impressive. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

“The Government explained that non-consensual touching was OK, as long as the intent wasn't sexual. So, as long as it was meant strictly non-sexually, Jim O'Callaghan could slide his fingers up my nostrils. I don't want that for me. I don't want that for anyone.” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

The Justice Minister interfering with the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre consent campaign "because it does not represent the views of the Government" is unsettling. Interference like this risks creating a chilling effect and self-censorship within wider civil society. www.iccl.ie/news/justice...

It's a great rest I'll have now, and great sleeping in the long nights after Samhain

In one afternoon FF/FG ministers came down like a tonne of bricks on a rape crisis centre when they spent weeks hiding while Musk's Nazi website they use was producing CSAM. Like many of you, I really really hate these bastards.

The rain doesn't suit Amorim does it

1. A minister should not be able to censor the work of an NGO or advocacy group. The point of NGOs is to challenge, influence policy or act in the interests of their issue. 2. No one should touch a child without consent. 3. Jim O'Callaghan wants to be in the media every day this is a tactic.

Let's all be clear on this. Jim OC was catapulted into a senior cabinet position with almost no political record or utterance behind him outside of internal FF fluff. He has proceeded to reveal.himself to be incapable as well as malicious in office, and it is about time Fianna Fáil pulled him out.

If I had created Ali G, I would try not to remind people of the fact.

Turns out there was only one lock.

The Minister for Justice’s week just keeps showing him in a better and better light.

It makes me deeply uncomfortable that the Minister for Justice has used his Twitter account to create an online pile on of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. It also appears to me a dangerous precedent that this minister, and his dept. have instructed the DRCC to remove content that he disapproved of.

Is this statement from Gary Gannon the only counter position from the opposition yet to the Minister for Justice's new policy on downgrading consent as the universal and only basis for touching children. Where's Alan Kelly (Lab) or Matt Carthy (SF) on this? www.socialdemocrats.ie/justice-mini...

What are the chances of Sascha Baron-Cohen getting a divorce just as a new "Ali G" movie comes out that's amazing.

Heard your boyfriend has subscribed to Amol Rajan's Club under the Negroni tier, so he can get 30% off all Amol merch

To see his teammates openly weeping today said it all.

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ A Border Police officer violently assaulted Abed Azzam, number 9 on the United Arab List (Ra’am) candidate list, while he was distributing flyers in Nazareth. The incident took place after several activists were detained for identification.🧵

The Irish Lyndon LaRouche would have insisted on the ponc séiṁiṫe so damn hard

If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins.

🚨 Public sector strike for next Wednesday called off Preliminary talks to open negotiations on a full public sector pay deal will begin tomorrow - chaired by Kevin Foley, with Oonagh Buckley as employers rep and Owen Reidy as union rep Work to rule continues until further developments arise

Happy Friday from this cheerful doggo in the Galway Corporation Records for 1646 (Liber A - @uniofgalway.bsky.social Digital Library).

We wanted to assure you that Sally Rooney's books are still available to buy and to order online!

There's a woman wearing a red beret on the bus #Spéirghorm

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

I don't know if I'm the first person to read or see or care about these lines in 90 years written into @duchas-ie.bsky.social

If you're in Ireland with a Virgin 360 cable box you'd like to run seamlessly through your Google TV then I made this* #Spéirghorm github.com/benwalsh/360... * (in the @nedroid.com sense)

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

"We can't just throw public money at nurses and teachers willy nilly," The Minister for Public Expenditure has said in a statement. "They're not data centres, race tracks, angry people with tractors, Mark Zuckerberg, the NFL..."

No messing around. 300k workers out. That is more than 10% of *all* people in employment in the Republic of Ireland. www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...

It would be fair to have a democratic system of local government