Pat Kelly

www.rte.ie/news/ireland... I must correct @news.rte.ie here. The Tomb of the Unknown Gurrier was in fact a nickname for a floral arrangement covering the middle island of O’Connell Bridge, out there in 1954 for An Tóstal Festival and the Marian Year, and maintained for some time thereafter.

I will be at tomorrow’s anti Trump protest in Dublin. I will be keeping a list of who and what parties do not show up, or only show a token presence. Same surveillance of their social media output this weekend. Trump is the cause of high fuel prices. Let’s see who his friends are

www.rte.ie/news/munster... As a Catholic, I have to say that this reeks of the Gralton Affair. I cannot understand the concept of any church owning a public community hall. Churches will of course own church halls. Community halls are different.

The first 24 hours of Burnham as English PM has not been good. He has completely deflated people. Appalling appointments like Healey (who turns out to be unrelated to Denis), Kinnock to Wales, and Bryant who has to be one of the worst appointees as proconsul to the Six Counties. Won’t last.

www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster.... Nationalise it. Nothing wrong with state owned industries especially with EU support. This is more important than anti-state privatisation ideologies. Stop exporting for war.

www.bbc.com/news/article... That was in England but having recently cancelled Virgin Media here, I found the process difficult and the regulator in Ireland should look into whether the same call centre practices are used here.

And, yes, I turned off my television set. Just before the ads by the way.

@news.rte.ie this applies precisely to the interview going out on Six One this evening. Where is the alternative left of centre vision of the EU to be represented. Where is the voice to question militarism, to question deregulation, to demand a Delors and Palme type of EU?

@news.rte.ie I am very disappointed to see two speakers about to be interviewed from what any reasonable person would call the EPP/Renew Europe camp, and nobody from a social democratic or socialist viewpoint on the future direction of the EU. That is not a balanced interview. @cnam-ie.bsky.social

I have just seen a diesel train city bound pulling up at Clongriffin at 0922. From my bus. Something is moving again.

www.thejournal.ie/readme/irela.... This is a first rate article that everyone in this country of not just my son’s generation but also my generation should read.

For the Seanad By-Election, could I suggest that the broad republican left coalesce behind a single non party candidate such as Brian Feeney of Ireland’s Future, or Colin Harvey, with a view to a serious challenge that might win.

@irishtimes.com Rhun ap Iorwerth was elected by the Senedd as First Minister of Wales three hours ago, leading the first ever Plaid Cymru Welsh Government. His district is within 100 km of Dublin. Where is my push notification of this news? And you ask for a subscription? And you deny any agenda?

So yesterday Scotland and Wales elected pro-independence governments. On top of that, today, Europe Day, has been declared Republic Day in Britain, and an English Republican movement is operating alongside the ones in Scotland and Wales. With rallies. And a LibDem ex minister and MP has joined them.

@irishtimes.com Why is this not your headline this morning instead of pushing the far right racist angle? Why not a few opinion columns backing this? And you ask for a subscription?

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co... @tagesspiegel.de @gregorgysi.dielinkebt.de Siehe an Ende, über OB Wegner. Nicht gut für Wahlkampf. Ich muss sagen, in 2025 war der Deutscher Botschafter in Irland sehr verständnisvoll über dieser Sache. Es war ein Shitstorm in Irland.

@railusersie.bsky.social Only four carriages on the 1723 Pearse to Drogheda and it is jammed full at Pearse. No hope at Tara Street or Connolly

@news.rte.ie @irishtimes.com @irishexaminer.bsky.social All of you are pushing a theme about a non existent heave against the SF leader so much that it looks like acting in concert. I am surprised not to read headlines about “Sinn Féin open up 9 point lead over both FF and FG.” That is the story.

I have seen BS in my day, but this crap in the BP beats all. How in the hell do darker summer evenings save energy? Daylight Saving Time had to be reintroduced after the 1973 oil crisis having been stupidly abolished in 1969. Save our long summer evenings! What’s the real BP agenda here?

@irelandvotes.bsky.social There’s a Red C BP poll tomorrow apparently. All I know so far is FF 16% FG 16% leaked by Shane Coleman of all people in an advance promotion of his article. This is not good for the government.

Feachtas iontach dúinn don samhradh, ach ní foláir dúinn feachtas eile a bhunú, chun Gaeilge cheart chruinn a chur ar logainmneacha cosúil le Durlas Éile, Brí Chualann, Máigh Eala, 7rl.

Census 1926. Dev’s form is correctly filled out by him in Irish but the digitised version has him living in his next door neighbour’s house while the rest of his family is in his own house! Amazed that the digitisation people didn’t spot that and get it right.

The Government needs to demand a European windfall tax on oil company profits. Five EU Governments including Germany have signed a letter to the EU Commission calling for this. Why has Ireland not signed?

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... Meloni’s government supporting US corporate interests against the people of Ireland and doing Trump’s laundry for him, to my mind. Not good for relationship with Italy and not good for Meloni’s cheerleaders in Ireland.

www.rte.ie/news/world/2... Whoa! @news.rte.ie you are way out of line here. What do you mean referring to Iran wanting an end to “its” war with the US and Israel. That war belongs to the US & Israel. As a national broadcaster you must be a trusted source. You cannot spread misinformation like this.

Why is Ireland not one of the countries which has signed this letter?

Delighted with Council of State appointments. Especially Colin Harvey of Ireland’s Future, Donncha O’Connell, and Linda Ervine who has done so much to break down barriers. It was Linda’s brother in law David whose arguments persuaded me to vote yes and accept revised Articles 2&3 in 1998.

www.rte.ie/news/2026/03... Why don’t we get a bill through Dáil Éireann to set up a sovereign banking facility with cards as well for allocation of accounts to these ICC judges?

www.thejournal.ie/israel-churc.... Has our foreign minister got anything to say about this? Or indeed high profile Irish Catholic supporters of Israel and its current government? Any pretence that Israel is going to respect holy places has just gone out the window.

www.france24.com/en/middle-ea... The Meloni and Tajani government of Italy is starting to learn where consorting with Trump and his ilk leads to. What does Huckabee have to say about this?

I have a policy of refusing to drink any beverage produced by Coca Cola group. I always ask for the alternative. What I usually end up with is high quality local produce with a low carbon footprint and for the same price. This example in Wexford city centre today.

www.rte.ie/news/2026/03... This should be a resigning issue for our Foreign Minister. A Dáil resolution should be brought to mandate Ireland to issue a letter to the UN asking for its vote to be recorded in favour of the resolution against slavery.

www.rte.ie/news/connach.... The key piece of information that we need reported here is: who is legally challenging the cross-city bus link in Galway?

We have a great team again. They have given the whole country a huge lift. This will be controversial but if ever there was a World Cup to miss, it was this one, to be honest. Onward to Euros 2028 and World Cup 2030 nearer home. COYBIG. You did us proud over this past six months.

The Irish Times is happy to platform the far right (as gauged by the cheerleaders over on Twitter) in order to attack President Connolly and in effect support Trump. And they ask for a subscription…

www.rte.ie/news/2026/03.... Éist lenár Uachtarán! Listen to our President.

German Greens ahead of CDU in Baden-Württemberg state election, meaning that former federal agriculture minister Cem Özdemir will succeed the 15-year incumbent Green minister-president Winfried Kretschmann. The Greens overhauled a CDU lead of 8% in three weeks, helped by anti-conscription sentiment.

And freedom must mean freedom not just from the mullahs and their secret police, but also from the shah and his secret police that was there before 1978, and from US and Israeli hegemony. It must mean the restoration of independent social democracy as the Iranian people had under Mossadegh.

Remembering Olof Palme on his 40th anniversary. I wish the EU could have a leader like him.

The voice of the people of Ireland. Certainly speaks for me.

Today is the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of one of Europe’s greatest statesmen, Olof Palme, Social Democratic prime minister of Sweden. May he rest in peace. He is probably the greatest example of what the EU leadership could and should be. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Pa...

However, they are this afternoon running under Top Stories the declaration of a Cllr that he will seek the FG nomination for Dublin Central.