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Up the workers #speirgorm

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Gavin Bazunu 💚⚪️🧡🇵🇸👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 The time has come for the rest of the players to stand alongside him and refuse to face Israel.

I'd love to know what stuff the people Pete investigates for his day job manage to get away with #TraitorsIRL

Some would want to tell Ed Sheeran to stop digging

Rooting the boots and the thermal top out for an ev eing game can only mean two things 1. It's autumn 2. It's the business end of club champo #speirgorm

Shite music and shite morals #edsheeran

Peadar Tobin on Morning Ireland with the sort of maths that wouldn't get you out of orodnary level Junior Cert #speirgorm

Sports people going out at the top of their game is a rarity. Well done Katie, an incredible role model #speirgorm

The comments section under an article on Enoch Burke is always instructive. You can easily pick pit the people you'd avoid like the plague in the real world.

Happy annual day of people 18 year olds would consider ancient giving twee life advice about state exams on social media platforms to those who celebrate. #leavingcert

Unloading the car after a busy weekend of reffing club champo. Youd think I was away for a month

I have to say it does the soul good to see Mayo still on wheel on the Wednesday after winning an All Ireland. Some dedication #speirgorm

Them trousers are both him preparing for a flood and letting the world know he skips leg day.

Limerick are streets ahead of Galway here. Physicality and pressure from them is immense #speirgorm

A Tinpot State led by frauds www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Child benefit reform is a no-brainer. So why has the Government not done it? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

People in Drogheda, apart from Tom Reilly

Sad news about Sam Neill. An incredible actor, he was excellent as Major Campbell in Peaky Blinders. In a show full of complicated characters he was one of the best

American Authoritarianism.

Picked up this morning that Simon Harris has met online finance influencers about his proposed investment scheme. Not the likes of Eoin McGee or Paul Merriman who have qualifications to go with their online advice though, it's the budgeting brigade 🫩

A glorious day for some championship football. Sun cream and sunburn, jellies and choc ices, chippers, programmes as sun shields where else would ya get it ##speirgorm

Happened to be in East Wall this afternoon and it was an area that got plastered in Tricolours last year. It's noticeable that they've all been left go to bits on the flag poles. Patriots that are so patriotic they don't give a shit about minding the national flag

Diarmaid Ferriter: ‘Neutral venue’ won’t placate the three in four fans opposed to Ireland playing Israel

The FAI moving the home game against Isreal abroad, as reported by RTE, isn't good enough. We shouldn't be legitimising them

Haven't read The Ragged Trousred Philanthropists in a while but this extract is really something. I'd also wonder at times how much have we actually progressed for workers in the time since it was written.

Big shout out to the makers of Apex. I watched it on Saturday and I'm still humming Chemical Brothers. Taron Egerton is incredible in it by the way

Solidarity with our members in the National Ambulance Service

Kneecap, our new gonzo shadow cabinet, stepped into the breach on Cuba www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

No, that's bait

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

We've gone up a level from "don't buy coffee and avocado toast to afford a gaff".

A couple of bright days really are good for the soul.

Head scratching for me that there is widespread condemning of the Iranian missiles yet not a quarter of it for the Isrealis and USA who struck first.

"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state" CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏 (Same goes for sport btw) #Speirgorm

Hopefully this is a continuing trend of a turn away from the current mess www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This isn't anything other than a policy choice at this stage

358 806 signatures for the full suspension of the EU-Israel association, more than 1/3 of what is needed and 4 of the 7 countries needed over 100%. tinyurl.com/mv8fzdhu ☑️Belgium 103% ☑️Finland 100.5% ☑️France 296% Ireland 58.7% Italy 79.8% Netherlands 31% Poland 51.4% ☑️Spain 111.9% Sweden 81.6%