Sean nós is where I draw the line. Oul lads taking the piss.

We need to change the entire presidential electoral legislation because the people who smear their ballot paper with shit and scrawl racist and antisemitic messages on them need a candidate they can get behind

The obvious follow up question would be “do you regard all people of colour in the U.K. to be immigrants?” It appears that question wasn’t asked. 10/10, no notes.

“If a paper keeps printing insulting vexatious bullshit, stop buying it.”

Just don't buy it. Don't read it. Don't even use it to light your fire (the ink is weird). Hopefully, it will go under someday soon.

Catherine Connolly.

Catherine Connolly wins more votes than any other single electoral candidate in Irish political history The Irish media: Yeah well what about the random chuds who drew a cock and balls on their ballots?

Today FM 3pm news: “the number of spoiled votes exceeds the number of votes received by Labour and the Social Democrats combined at the last election”. A radio station for pricks.

No image of a spoiled vote is any more valid or newsworthy than an image of a ballot with a simple ‘1’ beside Connolly. You’re posting it for your own numbers. Fucking stop.

We need to find the right balance between Mick Clifford-style “the right are nbd” and letting the right set the agenda all the time. ‘Spoiled Vote(r)’ lost. They lose because they are the minority. Racists, bigots, anti-vaxxers, ultra-Conservative Christians lost. Stop acting like losing is winning.

A spoiled vote(r) is no more or less interesting than a voter who stuck a ‘1’ beside Connolly and walked back out. If weirdos and cranks are to be afforded the oxygen of publicity, then the rest of us are entitled to oxygen too.

Cops and politicians told us midweek that ‘online disinformation’ feeds right-wing violence. Today, journalists are going to fall over themselves to make a ‘successful’ spoiled vote campaign *the story*, a campaign which has succeeded only in proving that right-wing conservatives are in the minority

I assume John Temple doesn’t have the means to put the money into the club that promotion requires. But these other lads are using the fans groups and now the papers to try force him out and it stinks. If this is what they are, then the next crisis is only a matter of time.

Tempted to go back to Twitter to find out what’s going on that’s how bad it’s getting.

Looks like Celje want to set the record straight in Tallaght tonight after gifting it to sham rovers last season.

I, too, prefer my sports cars to accelerate more slowly.

On a side note, many Irish "nationalists" have mutual respect and support for Tommy Robinson, who defends Soldier F and the likes. And they call others "traitors"

Where does AI go in the age of Wikipedia? (usually to Wikipedia)

If the Board of Dundalk Football Club spent their Sundays washing the feet of the club’s disciples, there’d still be some dipshit ranting about the club not caring about ‘cOmMuNiTy’ on socials.

I can only assume that the nonsense that exploded about the football club yesterday is a case of one guy with no money trying to extract as much as possible for his share and the other guy(s) putting dirt out there trying to force him out for less.

No doubt there are lots of unpleasant people on the “stop the genocide” side of the debate too but the handy thing is, that is *completely irrelevant to the question of whether or not the genocide should end now*, and whether the people responsible around the world should be prosecuted for it.

I put 1 or 2 euro into a load of crypto coins a couple of years ago just to see what would happen. Every single one got a pump and dump and are now worthless despite Bitcoin itself reaching record highs under Trump. It’s such a self-evidently stupid and worthless scam product.

Is it because Israel is a client state of America and has full-throated approval there for every crime it commits? What the fuck is the point of nonsense like this?

Very good statement, and should have been the statement all political leaders made.

Having a lawn is the worst of the normalised legacies the Brits left behind. Stupidly unnatural and labour intensive.

In every election I’ve been eligible to vote (since ‘97), Fine Gael have chased 20% of the electorate so hard that the other 80% always concludes that they’re arseholes.

Photographed this yoke the other night. You’d see its family around most nights. The main reason we haven’t seen a rat around here in ages. Fine Gael would rip it to shreds.

One candidate seems like a nice woman, who has been made to look better by the ham-fisted attempts to denigrate her. The other candidate has revealed herself to be quite unpleasant just by being invited to speak. It won’t even be close.

While we're talking about fox hunting it's worth remembering that Ruth coppinger tabled a bill to ban it this year and instead of just letting it progress as normal independent Ireland (expected) and sinn fein (bizarrely) voted against even having a debate on it

The next time I’m suffering from Imposter syndrome, I’ll remember all this and know that I’m less dumb than virtually every politician and media commentator in England.

Make workplace bullying (of people who use these terms) legal again!

I suppose when your attitude to the EU is this, anything else is naughty children disrespecting the grown ups.

Fine Gael has now been in government since 2011, and their attack line is evictions and reposessions?! Are they insane?

Someone needs to go full Bjørge Lillelien outside the offices of the Indo, Times, and Oirish Mail when Connolly wins.

Promoting Leahy from pox to scumbag.

as are, of course, the fine elected representatives of Cumann na nGaedheal

Israeli politicians will be queuing up to call Israeli police antisemites, presumably.

Your headline answers your question, lads.

Normal people look at the failing nations either side of us and their poison media, and think “no thanks”. Our media looks at them like 😍

If the Brits are going to insist that any criticism of anything Israeli, no matter the context, is automatically antisemitism, then it’s time to start demanding these people define ‘semitism’.

You could say this at any point since Starmer said Israel had the right to cut off water to Gaza, but my fucking god has Britain utterly debased and disgraced itself over Palestine. A nation of irredeemable fuckwits.

At the point now where I take enjoyment in seeing a newspaper’s pleas for subs and ignoring them.

8 cops at the Cobh Dundalk game getting into unnecessary verbals with drunk kids. Nowhere to be seen when the fash are hassling librarians in Cork city. Pathetic bunch.

What kind of team is this?! 😆

It must be a godsend to vapid suits like Micheal Martin, Simon Harris, and Leo Varadkar - men who believe in nothing except what their advisors and most persistent lobbyists tell them to believe - that they look like world class statesmen compared to the shits leading the countries either side of us

the Escape key on a keyboard... I don't think I've pressed it in 25 years and I don't know what it's supposed to do if i did.

Nothing will happen. Most of what they're doing will be so baked in by then, anyone threatening to rip it up will be seen as an extremist. The most mé féin country that has ever existed wouldn't have it any other way and the media - all of it - will be at the forefront of making sure of that.