Patrick Brannigan

This is but one version of my work history. In it, I'm suggesting that social interactions are vital, hint at issues around managerialism and corporatism (see later episodes!); and how singing in a work choir was life changing... www.qub.ac.uk/sites/StaffG...

Leaving aside that the comparison is absurd and offensive, if I was Jim I wouldn't be evoking the organisations that tried so hard to keep Black Americans down in case someone asks the origins of their adjacent dislike of Catholics, and whether that's pure coincidence.

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.

Lecale lauds Lula.

Yes, it'll take ages to get family members, friends, communities off WhatsApp, Facebook....

I interviewed the brilliant Andy Irvine & by sad coincidence it came out the week his great friend Donal Lunny died. Andy spoke about wanting to make music with Donal again: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi... (there's also a great video made by @endaodowd.bsky.social in which Andy plays some songs)

Phillip King pays tribute to Donal Lunney on the South Wind Blows www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #SpéirGhorm @rteradio1.bsky.social As it's a late edit, the track listing is wrong.

An innocent time which has long gone - this is from an Irish commentator on Xitter, today: "Love seeing your tweets, Pxxxx - you’re a reminder of why I stay here."

"Grob, who earlier this year co-signed a statement along with other Wisconsin bishops critical of the Trump administration's mistreatment of immigrants, said he wished he had given more consideration to the "reservations" he felt about the meeting." www.ncronline.org/news/milwauk...

The moon over Slieve Patrick. The bit of light at the bottom is St Patrick's 11 metre statue lit up. Gives a sense of the scale of the clear sky. #SpéirGhorm #Lecale #LeathCathail #CountyDown #SpéirGhorm

Edendork - NIall Morgan

Next #Bandcamp Friday is Friday 6 November. blog.bandcamp.com/2025/12/03/b...

Super facility, Drumalis Retreat and Conference Centre. Larne

The political apolitical march. The doublespeak

Queen's University Belfast professor 'surveilled' by energy firm over oil terminal campaign. Family behind the company was ranked 2nd in this year's Sunday Times rich list for NI. Two of its directors are now suing the academic. On front of Mon 12th's NL 🗞👇 www.newsletter.co.uk/news/courts/...

Overheard in the Café - "it will be interesting this week, Israeli elections, to see if Netanyahu gets in..". Clearly the media have kept up their framing of this 'conventional state': it's just another election in a normal country (whatever that is these days).

I always thought that Bryson was an extremely banal figure who, as Gerry Kelly pointed out directly to him during the flag protests, is basically no threat to Nationalism and reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Still do. Sinn Fein strategists will be delighted.

Pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon .. Never an "excuse me".

When did EU leaders lose their humanity?

"The most important issue of all is the intergenerational justice issue. To know what is happening and to consciously choose not only to ignore it, but to actually expand on what's destroying it.” - Michael D. Higgins

Another view from our singing location. #CommunitySinging Latharna, Contae Aontroma #SpéirGhorm

Weekend's singing location, woods in Co Antrim

Dónal Lunny 🕯️ 1947 - 2026 Cuimhní cinn de Dhónail Lunny ag Fleadh na bliana seo 🤍 Chas sé 'The Wren's Nest/The Roscommon Reel' i dteannta Zoe Conway agus ba léir go raibh an lucht féachana faoi gheasa aige ✨

The Council of Europe Venice Commission guidelines on the Right to Freedom of Association (the screengrab below is from our report) outline the State’s obligations to organisations in receipt of State funding.

Dónal Lunny: 'it would be difficult to identify another figure who has had such a pivotal and influential role in shaping and developing folk and trad'. Tribute by Niall Keegan @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Tributes paid to musician Dónal Lunny after his death aged 79

They are both correct. I've been working on this issue professionally (not at DRCC) since around 2018 and the job is tough but simple: you have to communicate the facts as evidenced by mountains of studies and bitter experience. Your job is not to reflect government policy.

One field has the tall pole with the flag fragment, the next field a place of catholic devotion [Mother of the Hills] Dromara Hills. This would not be about theological matters.

Bigger flegs up and more of them. They'll be, often, there until they disintegrate in faux respect. Here's the state of one in rural County Down.

Rugby Road, Belfast near Queen's University Belfast. #SpéirGhorm

Suzanne Breen (Belfast Telegraph Political Editor): "EXCLUSIVE: DUP MP Carla Lockhart quits as a party officer in a move which could lead to her leaving the party. She's been on a collision course with Gavin Robinson over Drumcree as she wants him to collapse the Executive now."

River Lagan, while the rush hour trundles along in the background, this coxless 4 were otherwise concentrating. Such lovely light today. #Belfast #SpéirGhorm

#Elmwood Hall was built originally as the Elmwood Presbyterian Church erected in 1862. Queen's University Belfast converted the church into a concert hall; it is sometimes an exam hall. Queen's renamed it Elmwood Hall. The building was for a time the home of the Ulster Orchestra.

These folks are great company, great selections with the minimum of chatter. Great to be able to download via RTE Listen. I wish they would mark what you've listened to. Ellen Cranitch, Vlad Smishkewych, John Kelly, Bernard Clarke. #SpéirGhorm

Lovely surprise today, a friend whose age I had underestimated, was taught by Seamus Heaney as an undergraduate. He said he was a warm, clear, engaging lecturer.

River Lagan, while the rush hour trundles along in the background, this coxless 4 were otherwise concentrating. Such lovely light today. #Belfast #SpéirGhorm

#Elmwood Hall was built originally as the Elmwood Presbyterian Church erected in 1862. Queen's University Belfast converted the church into a concert hall; it is sometimes an exam hall. Queen's renamed it Elmwood Hall. The building was for a time the home of the Ulster Orchestra.

Palm House, Belfast Botanic Gardens #SpéirGhorm

Rugby Road, Belfast near Queen's University Belfast. #SpéirGhorm

Newton Emerson: Were bad landlords partly to blame for race riots in Northern Ireland?

Humanitarian, he says. Malevolent conscious malapropism.

Are they never going to lift the miscreant in the white house?

That horrible man will not gave his victims a break. Including the ones we don't yet know about. He will never own up. A stranger to doubt and self-awareness.

That horrible man will not gave his victims a break. Including the ones we don't yet know up He will never own up. A stranger to doubt and self-awareness.

The Narrow Water bridge is so significant

Moon, waxing Gibbous ~80.2% #Lecale #LeathCathail #CountyDown #SpéirGhorm