It is time for us all to sit down with a winter milk coffee and read the greatest Christmas story that was ever told about Christmas… bsky.app/profile/rich...

What’s the story with these rogue @irishtimes.com crosswords 😑

Last year’s winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, Nemo from Switzerland, has handed back their prize in protest at Israel being included in the competition this year. He joins five countries [Iceland, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands & Slovenia]. The competition is a slow-motion car crash.

One thing that rankles with me - slightly - about nepo baby discourse, is that seemingly 90% of successful actors in the UK have a massive structural advantage simply from being born rich. To obsess over the 1% who also have famous parents as if THAT'S the problem, misses the forest for the trees.

While the Burkes were off at shouting practice, Judge Cregan studied the blade. www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

A note from your friendly bookseller watching the #LateLateToyShow – here are all the books featured so you can show your local bookshop exactly which one you’re looking for 📚 Be sure to follow #BookElves2025 for more book recommendations all week long!

CMAT. I am DED. #LLTS

She's teaching her dog, Cooper, words in Irish. Call him Cooper Focal #LateLateToyShow #ToyShow

Toy Show: This is Child 1 Ireland: I would die for Child 1 Toy Show: Goodbye Child 1. Now welcome Child 2 Ireland: Never mind, Child 1 is dead to me. I love Child 2 now. #Toyshow #LateLateToyShow

My friends Neil & Katy from the Gougane Barra Hotel organized this raffle for Gaza. It ends in a couple of days. Please check it out www.idonate.ie/raffle/Gouga...

The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.

I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...

Take a minute.

The ref

If we keep being forced to hear dipshit CEOs opinions on matters outside their expertise because they're "geniuses", let's do the same for Nobel winners. Let a 70 year old particle physicist on TV to say how healthcare should be run.

It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.

🚨WINTER MILK🚨

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

Sunday Independent...

Collecting our luggage from the lockers in Berlin Hbf. Saw a girl on her way out for the night, renting a small locker and changing from her runners into heels for the evening. She is living in the future 💅

The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324

Daniel Kinahan is one of the most powerful cocaine traffickers in the world—but he lives a strikingly public life in Dubai, shopping at malls and consorting with famous boxers like Tyson Fury. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Haribo comment left me crying. 🤣

If anyone has some time to help out in transcribing old, handwritten weather records. www.met.ie/met-eireann-...

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is urgently seeking an additional 12,000 blood donations over the next four weeks as most blood groups have fallen to under three days of stock.

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

Got to love Dublin. #Speirgorm

I'm so sad to read this. Manchán was one of a kind. An incredible writer and storyteller. A warm and fascinating person with a great sense of adventure, brilliant mind, and a deep ghrá for our landscape, folklore, and language. He had so much more to give. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Meta’s AI has snuck in the back door of regulators and is currently helping itself to the contents of the house, including your children’s mental health. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

A reminder that today is Michaelmas, on which day in parts of Ireland rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.

Just rawdogged the morning commute. Very challenging, but I didn’t check my phone, didn’t read a book, didn’t even catch a nap, I just focused on driving the car.

Remarkable how much time is being given to analysing Steen's failure, none of which mentions that she has no political background or experience whatsoever. Hearing one ex-TD saying it was "rude"not to meet with her - why? You can't just show up at the game and expect the coach to play you.

Genuinely baffled by the wailing and pearl clutching about Maria Steen not being on the ballot. Why are people acting like she was basically owed the nomination, or we are obliged to have her on the ballot? She started her campaign like 5 minutes before the deadline and failed, she is owed nothing.

Miriam Lord: Maria Steen, opponent of marriage equality and abortion, championed as a symbol of choice

Genuinely just something so beautiful about two black migrant women (and someone from Donegal) winning this show given the state of the country and the world #traitorsirl

Clairv-Oyin-t has been amazing throughout but Nessa has been the MVP of the season for me because of the last few episodes. What a rollercoaster. Good on Kelley. #TraitorsIRL

Make Oyin a chief inspector in the Gardai IMMEDIATELY #traitorsIRL

Fuggen delighre #TraitorsIRL

People say that if you want to get the chef’s actual intention for a recipe you should resist the urge to put in more garlic than they say, because it’s been carefully worked out to balance the flavours properly. But I say leave me alone I will eat my cereal however I like.

On the plus side, after this ends, we all finally get to hunt that Very flamingo for sport. #TraitorsIRL

From a Fakebook account.

In no particular order, the top 3 where the UK leads the world. - The 3 pin plug - Motorway signage - Projecting hugely important images onto historic buildings

Irish Times... #Aras25 #FeckOffIona

🗣️ "How many tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and injured while Europe goes through its processes." Jennifer Whitmore TD says Ireland needs to act independently on Israel as "Europe is going very slow." #TonightVMTV

Anyone who puts their pissy runners on the seats need to be immediately murdered #TraitorsIRL

anyone furious that Tipperary County Council didn't nominate Maria Steen or Nick Delehanty should take it up with those responsible: Maria Steen, who didn't even ask their nomination, and Nick Delehanty, who sent an email but never followed up and didn't present to the council