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An underrated upside of playing WoW again is Spencer can now use "Oh....my boyfriend plays WoW" as an opener to pick up Gen X daddies.

Far right protesters can walk into libraries to threaten people with a police escort and block roads asking brown skinned people for ID while the Gardai look on. The same Gardai will happily put a dozen leftie students in A+E for a week during an eviction protest. I hope this helps your analysis

“Polymarket, a major crypto-betting platform which is not currently regulated to operate in Ireland, also posted about it on Tuesday.” Why on earth is Polymarket posting about a DRCC video on consent? 🫠

Claire was invited to give a Pride talk at my old workplace by her granddaughter in 2021. She delivered a very funny and sad account of transitioning in 1980s Ireland while running a business and holding public office. She was a true Dub and a courageous force for good. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Just to add that what DRCC are talking about here is a long-standing, bog standard position in books about parenting and among child psychologists and social workers. This is something that was uncontroversial a quarter of a century ago.

Incredibly depressing to government ministers demeaning public information campaigns about consent based on right wing culture war trolling. That Jim shared his thoughts about how this ad was inappropriate on X is an irony too far

As I've said, I'm open to the debate on the Triple Lock, but the narrative uses to sell this doesn't hold water. We continue to send raw materials to Russia. We are removing supports for Ukrainian refugees. We refuse to sanction Israel. We allow US military at our airports. This isn't about peace.

We're smoking the Alberta separatist pack tonight

FF's attempt to recreate Leo Varadkar under laboratory conditions is going about as well as can be expected.

Up the workers ✊ #Speirgorm

I, a member of the public, do not wish to see my fellow members of the public who teach my children, heal me if I am sick, who administer the state and so on left worse off due to inflation each year.

I'm sure he'll resolve this with the same canny political instincts he deployed during Jim Gavin's presidential campaign.

Total Michelle O'Neill victory

The British doing this exact thing helped turn the 1916 Rising from a failed insurrection into a genuine moral victory for the rebels.

Once again, the greyhound industry received more funding than domestic violence services. There is no clearer indication of this governments priorities. There is plenty of luxurious spending in this budget, but it is not going to the people who are hardest hit and most pressed to the bone.

Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

I wonder if the CAQ regrets not fixing the electoral system?

This is written to fly under the radar, from today’s Sunday Independent (Ireland). The press council upheld a complaint about an offensive and transphobic opinion column by Brenda Power. Sindo was required to publish the decision. @mams4transrights.bsky.social @jesalady.bsky.social

Quebec is a great place to live if you want to experience Maximum Weather. No Mediterranean temperate shit here, bitch, just raw uncut seasons.

I'm quite sure they wrote Dublin "and major cities" because they can't name any others.

we don't have to budget by the seat of our pants like this. it's a mad way to run a country. the entire budgets of departments should not be up for negotiation once a year. how much public work hours are wasted every year lobbying for the budget

She’s been banging this drum since before the Hunger Strikes. This pretence of being in the process of abandoning her Irish republican background, mar dhea, has always been her USP.

The Troubles in NI arose at least partly because people saw that protests against injustice were not working. In this respect, state-sanctioned unwelcome sectarian marches into a neighborhood is a reminder about which communities have been empowered to impose their values over others.

La herbe est verte

Honestly a toss-up whether the dumber response to this comes from Jack Chambers or Darragh O'Brien.

As Terry Pratchett regularly highlighted, "privilege" means "private law". One rule for me and another for you. O' Callaghan is working hard to exacerbate that inequality and hurt those who effectively live and contribute as second class citizens in Ireland. It's just plain racism #spéirgorm

Finn McRedmond thinks "Mary Antoinette" was one of Henry VIII's wives. aren't editors supposed to catch their columnists when they betray their ignorance so severely it damages the credibility of the newspaper for continuing to publish them?

The cool thing about complicity is that it goes away if you just tell people you don’t have it

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Our government is pandering to the racist right with the new citizenship legislation The GAA has yet again proven itself to be a intractable misogynistic boys club And we are paying for a rapist to stay in the state guest house at Farmleigh Not a good week for the country

the most toxic dynamic in Irish politics right now is the endless dick-measuring contest between Jim O’Callaghan, Matt Carthy, Ken O'Flynn and Peadar Tóibín to see who can be the most anti-immigrant. just four utter dickheads bidding up the rate of public bigotry to pave their way to power

Just pure gutter racism dressed up in a suit. Appalling stuff. And I wish I believed the media would put on their grown up pants and deal with this properly but I suspect they'll soft-soap and both-sides it into reality.

I don't want to be more in line with the rest of the EU on citizenship. I want us to repeal the fucking 27th Amendement and return to our own tradition of birthright citizenship instead of the jus sanguinis shite that tells people born and reared here they aren't Irish if they have immigrant parents

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...