The great Ian Hunter, the Young Dude himself! How cool is that!? Thank you Mark Wilson for the super good vibes ✌️Keep on choogling 🙂

With pain in our hearts, we say goodbye to the great Pat Maguire whose skill, dedication & good humour brightened the lives of so many musicians including Horslips. His was a vocation. He’ll be missed by an entire community. Pic: Pat & Johnny Fean. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam 💔

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

“Hello there…”

“Hortus conclusus”

Trust Rathmines Library to have a cool portal 😄 #Dublin

Every year, they leave it late to arrive. But are all the more welcome as the days grow darker 🙂

That time of year again…

Your 'alternative media' will never deliver quality journalism like this.

400 boxes of BandAid/Live Aid archive material - correspondence, images, artefacts etc - have been donated by @bobgeldoffans.bsky.social to @nlireland.bsky.social which has organised a photographic exhibition at the National Photographic Archive in Dublin

Tonight we include American Roots music from Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, and a short tune from Navajo cedar wood and eagle bone whistle player R.C. Nakai along with the usual fine blend of Roots, Rock, Reggae, Folk, Funk, Punk & all the rest. 8-10pm. rte.ie/johncreedon.

Review time, with two Shearsman titles: ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/t... #poetry @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social @disruptedblue.bsky.social

I’m delighted to be part of @itsthewritestuff.bsky.social event at @Chaptersbookstore.bsky.social Dublin with Cathy Shah, Steve O’Toole & @runwaylights.bsky.social on Thursday. Should be a buzz 🙂✌️Check it here www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-write-...

Good morning! 😀

Fundraising Gig for Gaza .. Friday @whelanslive.bsky.social #Dublin

Memories of summer 🙂

I took this #Craviotto for a test drive on Saturday and wasn’t disappointed. #BoyRacer 😁 #BringTheBeatBack #HandCraftedSolidShell

The past is a foreign country? No, it’s not. No escape 😂 www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Despite the ongoing genocide there has to be hope. Check this out. The team at Reviving Gaza Volunteers across Europe have been fundraising and … The team of volunteers in Gaza allow for the successful delivery of all projects on the ground. #Dublin www.whelanslive.com/event/revivi...

Gaza.. W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming … .. Alaa Alaaisi captures pure horror that chills the soul. Truly, “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed” lithub.com/gaza-through...

Belfast Twilight, Liam Carson’s collection of sequenced haiku, has arrived and is most welcome 🙂

Spotted this ticket for The Animals in a montage at A New Form of Beauty: Dublin youth culture, street style and subculture history, 1960s to 1990s in Collins Barracks Museum. Can report The Animals were excellent, gritty, boisterous, musical & inspiring😃 (1966?..OMG!)

They’re everywhere 😁 … including Rathmines 💕

Count your blessings 🙂

Dublin & Derry Vigils today at 6pm, Dublin - NUJ deplores killing of Al Jazeera journalists.. A drone attack on Sunday hit a tent for journalists positioned outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, killing seven people.

No doubt a bout it . It’s a Wicked World youtu.be/6VqPWZIBydQ?...

✊🏽 #peterperret

Moyra Barry (1886-1960) Self-portrait in the artist’s studio 1920 @nationalgalleryirl.bluesky.social Self-portrait 1935 (private collection)

An art installation by Mannix Flynn, South William St, Dublin www.nobodycouldhearthemusic.com

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody. Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

Did Hilary Mantel ever write a less than sparkling sentence?

I’m looking forward to getting back to Dundalk on Thursday evening for an Event at Roe River Books. I’m sure it will be sedate 😂💥 www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/local-n...

Alert!! Pat Carty’s in da house! Mister Forensic reads the Pure Gold entrails. Check his file notes here @patcarty.bsky.social @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social @davegildedalm.bsky.social @jjohnfoyle1.bsky.social

For your amusement… ahead of event in award-winning Little Acorns Bookshop in Derry tonight 🙂 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002fwfp

“Clowns to the left of me…”

On Let's Talk with Anna Glowinski from 10.00CET, Nathan Dunne on 'When Nothing Feels Real: A journey into the mystery illness of depersonalisation', and  Eamon Carr with 'Pure Gold: Memorable Conversations with Remarkable People'.

It’s scorching in Rathmines today 😄

Crypto my backside

Random afternoon still-life. We’re among the lucky ones… 🙂✌️

I didn’t get the artist’s name 😄

“Tell you what, I’ll bomb, starve, shell and kill a few more thousands of our neighbours and nominate you for a Nobel Peace Prize. How about that, Donald?!”

Diamonds

Great crack with a few colleagues, after we did a lunchtime reading of extracts from Ulysses. Back at work now- honest! #bloomsday #jamesjoyce

A heads up from someone whose judgement I trust 🙂✌️🙏

Honoured to be invited to write a few lines for this marvellous resource for writers on scribbling Pure Gold 🙂 www.writing.ie/interviews/p...

“If you’re a thinking person, it’s getting more and more difficult to speak your mind. When people try to harass you [prevent you] from expressing yourself … We’re artists. We’re not politicians. We’re the ones who keep these doors open to all…” (Eartha Kitt, August 1990)

“As I’ve studied history, I’ve discovered England has never, never liked artists… Full stop. They think they’re weird. They’re troublemakers. Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wilde … they all had to leave. Same exists today. Everybody has to leave.” (Malcolm McLaren, October 1989)

“He was a great companion and a fascinating man. And full of horrors about his life. There were so many terrible things that had happened to him.” (J.P. Donleavy on Brendan Behan, 2008)

“The degree of esteem in which theatre is held is always a mark of the level of freedom of a country.” (Willy Russell, January 1990)

Pure lured to catch the #Dublin book launch in #BooksUpstairs of #PureGold- Memorable Conversations with Remarkable People by the legend - #EamonCarr author, historian, journalist & member of #Horslips. Published by #MerrionPress Copies available @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social #Derry📚💚🎶