Ciarán Mc Mahon

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Exactly how much of taxpayers money is Jim O’Callaghan going to keep wasting trying to look tough in front of FF bankbenchers and Russian Bots on Twitter.. High Court overturns decision to deny Gazan student visa www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

reminds me of a yarn Colm Tóibín told about John McGahern being on a panel in France and some journo berating him for not having political content in his work, given the times of where he lived. Apparently McGahern snootily said 'a writer's job is to mind his sentences'

this would put Áras an Uachtaráin pretty close to the Hill of Tara, nice

Parents of Ireland, what do you do when your kids have reports? Hand them the ipad and let them loose on the open internet? Or dust down the Childcraft? There has to be a better way surely #speirgorm

The thing I find most disturbing about the present moment, as a parent, is that there is no modern equivalent of these. Cannot find a decent kids encyclopedia app. Unless I'm missing something obvious?

Parents of Ireland, what do you do when your kids have reports? Hand them the ipad and let them loose on the open internet? Or dust down the Childcraft? There has to be a better way surely #speirgorm

The thing I find most disturbing about the present moment, as a parent, is that there is no modern equivalent of these. Cannot find a decent kids encyclopedia app. Unless I'm missing something obvious?

I think it would be great to have a government which wasn't so completely Twitter-pilled #speirgorm

Done. You don’t have to be as articulate as Simon. Just let them know that you find it concerning that a minister seems to be taking his marching orders from Twitter and has come out in favour of touching children without their consent www.contactyourtd.ie

I think it would be great to have a government which wasn't so completely Twitter-pilled #speirgorm

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.

it should raise actual competence questions, both as a minister and a barrister, that Jim O'Callaghan is asserting consent only matters in a sexual context

The Justice Minister /apologising/ over a social media video about consent the day after he accused striking solicitors of deliberately sabotaging rape cases is quite something

VRTI warmly welcomes today’s announcement by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and James Lawless, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, supporting its development as Ireland’s National Platform for Digital History and Heritage from 2027. www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Ireland: There is no place in secure State care for a teenage girl who gardaí believe is being subjected to “horrifying” sexual exploitation by multiple men. Judge wants three Ministers told. Comment: They already know. They just do not see this as important enough to their careers.

The culture that Micheal Martin has created in Fianna Fáil ensures that only the crassest rise to the top

Imagine if the Ali G film is a poignant exploration of memory and loss

he could immediately fund more than half of this by scrapping the €150m allocation for "AI upskilling"

re. No One Goes Out anymore - I think it's absolutely correct to point to the pandemic though I'd argue it was only ever an accelerant, with Phones probably being the main culprit my evidence for this is this piece, which I wrote....in early February 2020: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...

was never a Joanne McNally fan but I love how she went 'everyone else is picking on this person, I'm not joining in' - that's a comrade #speirgorm #celebritytraitors

was never a Joanne McNally fan but I love how she went 'everyone else is picking on this person, I'm not joining in' - that's a comrade #speirgorm #celebritytraitors

recommend Irish followers to watch this clip. look at a map of our infrastructure - all roads lead to Dublin. we still have a colonial extractive economy #speirgorm

one of the main themes of this government, and the last, besides 'irritability as a governing philosophy' is that they come across as spectators of statecraft, the very best they are capable of is emoting to camera, and posting it to instagram #speirgorm

"Today's AI summit brings together businesses, governments and civil society together" Minister Peter Burke TD (fact: there are no civil society representatives, not in the list of speakers) #AISummitIE

It's the least they deserve.

I think you should only be eligible for the Noble Prize in Poetry if you have clearly demonstrated that you can rhyme

ah come on, we could've spent that money on greyhounds

over a decade ago, Trump leveraged himself into political discourse by tweeting patently unserious content and the Twitterati stupidly helped him along by rage-quoting everything he said. and yet here we are doing exactly the same with some AI voice modelling grifter

But that Zuckerberg lad is a great chap, sure didn't he give a few euro to a few GAA clubs. A lad who donates .06% of his net worth can't be that bad. Surely he wouldn't be complicit in suppressing left wing political activity. Coming to an election near you!!

the other day Adobe PDF reader tried to charge me for *rotating a document clockwise* so this is great news

Will be nice to be in the Dáil to hear the order of the budget policies, even nicer not to have to take any, as the entire contents were in the morning papers. Successive governments willfully ignore budget confidentiality. It should be put to referendum, isn’t tenable to ignore the constitution.

The last time a government TD's canvassers rang my doorbell, I asked 'what are her priorities for the constituency?' and got the blankest faces as if I had been speaking Sanskrit and some furtive mutterings about greenways #speirgorm

[All national infrastructure slides further into a sinkhole; A&E waiting times move closer to 13 hours; it costs eleventy trillion euro to buy a house] yay I have €750

when I was about 15, I read an entire Jeffrey Archer novel in a day, while at school. 500-odd pages. Kain and Abel I think. Not sure what that says about Archer or my schooling

if you thought giving ridiculous nicknames was a new feature of Irish culture, here's Feidhlim Fíon (Felim of the wine, so called because he only accepted rent in wine, not malt barley) thus described 200 years after his death. now you can slag him too, another 400 years later #speirgorm

RIP to everyone’s favorite p<0.05 factory

taps sign again

20,000 secondary school teachers are starting industrial action next week because the government refuse to pay them properly but sure let’s spend €300m on training people to use the fraud machine that turns your brain to porridge

"But Alternative Parade Route Wouldn't Allow Us To Pointlessly Create Tensions" Orange Order Confirm https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/28/but-alternative-parade-route-wouldnt-allow-us-to-pointlessly-create-tensions-orange-order-confirm/

it is also extremely revealing that, a generation later, the Orange Order are still intent on marching down a road where they are unwelcome. they have learnt nothing, they have matured not a jot, every day of peace and tranquility has been entirely wasted on them #garvaghy #drumcree #speirgorm

How on earth did the Parades Commission think that allow this parade after 28 years of peace and quiet, would be a good idea? the mind boggles at the sheer incompetence #drumcree #garvaghy

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Almost got the point - "Members then went back inside the hall, with Mr Dawson saying "there was no point getting wet unnecessarily". " www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/area/armagh/...