Myles na gCup O'Lean.

'75% of the far-right narrative volume mentioning Ireland comes from outside the state.'

You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.

Ireland has some responsibility on this. One of the greatest contributions we could be making to collective EU & global democracy & security (far more useful then disastrous attempts to remove the triple lock) would be having the courage to step up to our role as digital regulator in a serious way.

Reminds me of how important Repeal Shield was during the 2018 referendum. The amount of mental space that was freed up by just ignoring the anti-choicers instead of trying to argue with them. It let us focus on putting forward our own points

Celebrity Deadpool but it's about the likely eventual title of Ryan Tubridy's ghostwritten autobiography; will it be "My Way" or "I Had A Dream"?

if Peadar Tóibín is suggesting that children need to get used to being touched without their consent, he should be asked why

Looking forward to the next general election when opposition parties rally around the hugely popular livewire issues of housing and neutrality but their fragile coalition shatters, catapulting FFFG and a few rural independent Hitler-particle emitters back into government.

There's a real sense of vertigo sometimes from reading US tech news. What the fuck do you mean your baby monitors have ads

15 years since his passing, and five years since this mysterious notice appeared in the In Memoriam section of the Irish Times. I haven't seen today's paper yet but I wonder were his friends here in Ireland sufficiently on the ball to get the notice in on time.

You will not be able to stay home, brother You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out You will not be able to lose yourself on skag And skip out for beer during commercials, because

it has been truly dispiriting to see people suggesting O'Donovan isn't fit for office due to his disability this week. some were gleeful he was hospitalised right after getting publicly upset about his own party colleagues briefing against him in the press because he's epileptic

When your mate *insists* on going to the Boar's Head when McNeill's is only a few doors up Capel Street.

It's criminal that our English curriculum doesn't discuss how many of our nation's greatest poets and writers were alcoholic perverts that had WWE-style rivalries with one another.

Catherine Martin introduced a guaranteed income scheme for artists. Patrick O'Donovan couldn't get your 16-year-old a cinema ticket.

It all boils down to "Ah, but what if I make the wire monkey look more lifelike?"

Way back when, I canvassed Twitter for similar tales. My favourite, and one I still think about eight years later, was this.

We once convinced an American friend to go into Paddy Power to pay the electricity bill in cash.

You can tell this is actually a fake cr*pto scam because no article about Glen Hansard in an Irish newspaper would ever feature the words "Sorry, he did what?" because they all knew damn well but never printed it.

RIP Jeffrey Archer, not a day goes by when I don't think about the judge in his 1987 libel case (which Archer "won" by doing a bunch of perjury) summing up for the jury by going "would a guilty man have such a hot wife". one of the most insane legal moments of all time

"How do you exempt locals from immigration checks without racial profiling?" “A human-rights based approach is adopted in relation to every individual stopped". OK then.

Very efficient to have them doing what DPER already does. My guess is this will be a half arsed DOGE for the Healy Rae and Michael Collins axis who'll get to haul a few woke NGOs into the PAC and cancel a bikeshed in Ennis.

oh look, it's Fedward

But it's not all *that* much to support money laundering!

@daimbarrs.bsky.social hammering the follow back button there. How's you stranger?

Dogwhistling wannabe politician has his grooming gang smashed

I suspect you'd get different results in an Irish paper, and if someone doesn't run this poll here in the next 24 hours I'd be very surprised.

Five hour DJ set at my friend's 50th birthday party this weekend just gone ended in the most spectacular way imaginable - a cop shining a torch in my face and telling me to shut down the tunes. We all felt like bold teenagers again, is there a greater gift than that for the day that was in it?

the Irish far right are so unpopular they have to trick people into going to their "protests" also, journalists need to stop using Tom McDonnell's remarks about "breeding" as their standard reference point. it makes him sound less extreme than he actually is www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

hands up if you think Peadar would be this dismissive if someone was reporting on links between the Soc Dems and a foreign political group directly connected to an international money laundering and bribery scheme involving the subversion of European democracy by a mafia state

The gardaí absolutely *are* the armed wing of the schools though.

“During meetings, platform representatives often appeared unfamiliar with the context of the unfolding election,” the report on misinformation in Ireland reads. “Many were unable to articulate the rationale for content-moderation decisions.” jrnl.ie/7139970

Wrote about Facebook, Twitter and TikTok having their European HQ's right here in Dublin, them being allowed to spread far-right, anti-immigrant content, and the government parties being terrified of upsetting them for fear of losing out on tax revenue dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

If anything, the fact that so many people who do poorly in it become 'business owners', influencers, personal trainers etc is a real endorsement of the Leaving Cert

critical to remember that for a lot of dolly's adult life she was a punchline - the reverence is recent. nevertheless she persisted etc

Dubs are coastal the way seagulls are. Youse may not like us but here we are givvus them chips

Mise Éire have announced the headliner for their "Risen People" event, and it's... Neil Oliver of GB News. apparently the Irish people need to learn how to be nationalists from a British unionist. you couldn't mock the Irish far right any harder than they mock themselves

The reason Dublin doesn’t follow suit is because it largely considers the people living in its city centre to be more or less subhuman inconveniences to retail and car traffic.

I have an idea percolating around a study on the social history of hotels in Ireland. Rebellions planned in them, so many hotels in old mansion houses, current use as emergency accommodation. I'd like to do a deep dive; anyone know if something like this already exists? #spéirgorm