On Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other sites, here's Paul Giamatti reading my story "Blanca." Something about fear and terror loose in the land again.... open.spotify.com/episode/6UcQ...

Lot of guacamole under Westminster Bridge since “treason” was last in the mix

Random vibe. View from Girolamo Savonarola’s monastic cell Florence

Another fine mess Monday 😃

‘Goin’ my way? Hop in.’ 🤔

Garden path theory 😊

“We'll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis.” (Bruce Springsteen) Can’t say fairer than that💔✊✌️

Blimey! ☀️ First #washdaywednesday of 2026! 📷 #photography

Las Meninas (conjunta sin Velázquez) (30) (Cannes, Sept 1957)

Ola! 😁 How’d he do? 🤔

Spotted this cool customer in my local coffee shop 😊 (btw.. anyone know, will it ever stop raining?)

Have a great day ❤️ #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp

Did someone mention Greenland? Will America ever cop itself on?

Saturday stripes. 📷 #MagicalMundane ✨

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence ‘I wouldn’t have minded being a scrap-metal dealer.’

Hard to believe this was taken on a January afternoon in Dublin 🙂

“Howya head” Picasso: From the Studio, NGI

Ghosts of Dublin 😆

This nativity scene on a Dublin street reminds us that there is no ceasefire in Gaza and that Isreal is still blocking essential aid. And the world powers look away. #Gaza @aljazeera.com @democracynow.org #Palestine #genocide

If anybody thinks the backlash against Donnie's deranged brain-fart on Rob Reiner will seriously damage him - he did this 11 years ago - and was elected president twice.

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.