This truly just sums up the Ireland in which we are living. It's no wonder people aren't simply "moving the dial", they're just switching off. @rteradio1.bsky.social

Really? Was Ivan Yates bluffing and puffing best first item in a new show with David McCullagh ? @rteradio1.bsky.social yawn - no reference at all to the regulations on conflicts of interest that govern all boardcasting licences during an election? Conflicts of interests are a regulatory matter.

now on RTÉ Radio 1, David McCullagh interviews Ivan Yates #speirgorm

when I was born, my father suggested I be named John but my mother disagreed, as there were already enough John Mc Mahons, she said. So you can imagine how I felt, many decades later, when doing geneaological research, when I found another John Mc Mahon, who died in France in 1916

In my first year of college in UCD, I learned to specifically tune up my 'regional accent' any time I met someone I felt suspicious of. I felt their reaction was a good judge of character. Bleedin mad yoke Dubs tended to pass the test. Caught out a few D4 goys, though not as many as I had assumed

Big 'jim gavin for President' energy

gonna go out on a limb here but I suspect the current govt is sitting on a bag of crises quite similar to the penalty points, whistleblower, GSOC etc scandals which hit Kenny's govt a decade ago. And they will all burst now that Martin looks wounded by Yates #speirgorm

the lads in CnaM must be loving this

am so deep in the geneaology all I can think of is plundering, spoils and depredations

If we're going to go full-on Gaelic revival can we drop 'died peacefully at home' and return to the Annals of the Four Masters style of 'died, having gained victory over the Devil, and the world' #speirgorm

I don't think FF & FG's turn against immigration is unconnected to the fact that the every single one of their TDs, plus their socials teams, as well as the vast majority of the mainstream media political corps, is still active on Twitter #speirgorm

I don't think FF & FG's turn against immigration is unconnected to the fact that the every single one of their TDs, plus their socials teams, as well as the vast majority of the mainstream media political corps, is still active on Twitter #speirgorm

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

There are a lot, really a lot, of Irish institutions, public bodies and politicians who need to follow suit. Far too many still there, and there is zero excuse for remaining on that rancid platform. www.ria.ie/2025/05/01/t...

If a PBP TD said that there were too many foxhunters in Ireland and then there was a arson attack on a hunting lodge that night, you can be damn sure that Simon Harris could join the dots. He really should resign.

Bad enough the Gardaí gave free run to the far right for years. Bad enough arson against immigrant centres became standard practice for racists. Bad enough we've already had race riots. The Taoiseach & Táinaiste poured petrol on all the above during the week, & we shouldn't be shy in saying it.

Haven't read Mantel before but I already know I'm in the hands of a master. Really gives lie to the whole 'no spoilers' aggro - she has told me a good chunk of the story before I've even read the first line. She is confident that these details will not detract from my enjoyment of the tale to follow

Torment Nexus is actually a misspelling of Torment Lexus, a famous Alan Partridge episode where he parks his car beside another of the same brand and struggles to pluralise them

The far right will eventually kill someone or lots of someones if our pathetic government does not act now to stop them … first step would be for politicians, including Government ministers, to stop repeating far right racist rhetoric #speirgorm

Strange way to refer to the Iona Institute but best of luck to them

think I found the last crannóg my paternal line ancestors lived in #AncestryHour

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is a Bad Film. Three different points-of-view add nothing to the storytelling, they simply repeat content we've already seen. The ending is a cop-out. It feels like they started to make a series and then lost interest after the first episode and just left it to the editor

A page from an unfinished Book of Hours, attributed to the workshop of the Bedford Master in Paris, in the early 15th century. Work on the book may well have stopped after the patron who commissioned it was killed at the Battle of Agincourt - Paris, c. 1415 (image, Sam Fogg Ltd)

“If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things. . . not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.” — C. S. Lewis

Sigh! Anytime someone, a journo / editor uses the term ‘woke’, ask them exactly what they mean? What is ‘too woke’? Was the hint of transphobia from HH part of ‘too woke’, of being unable to condemn fox hunting? It’s actually nonsensical- this from the editor of a national newspaper! #speirgorm

irritability as a governing philosophy strikes again

The Taoiseach is not coming to Dublin Castle for the official declaration of Catherine Connolly's victory in the presidential election. Whether intended or not, it's going to look very confrontational for the head of government NOT to be there to congratulate the new head of state

Coming up on today's show we discuss Catherine Connolly's seismic win as the left unity candidate. In studio we have Cathy McCatholicface from the Iona institute, the Cork voter who smeared shit on their own ballot paper, and the ghost of Heinrich Himmler

another thing that really got on my nerves was the other day when RTÉ did a voxpop with locals in Citywest and not a single one expressed any degree of sympathy with the people living in the facility #speirgorm

Spoiling your vote is a superb way of advertising the fact that you are a moron, no exceptions, next question #speirgorm #aras25

you know what would be great to hear on the radio? someone under 40 #speirgorm #aras25

jesus it's no crack at all. called before you have the breakfast ate #aras25

or somewhere safer

how #aras25 feels when it's a two-candidate dead rubber. Please, please, please powers-that-be, don't do this again

that Frank Sinatra quote about feeling sorry people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day, except it's about FPTP, and on count day because they don't have the excitement of tallies and transfers #aras25

it doesn't work because it accepts the framing of Trump as an autocrat - see George Lakoff

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

I'd be happy to let my home be used as a polling station too, if it meant our local primary school could stay open #aras25

When will we realize that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.” — George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

I would love to see more rich and famous people funding literary culture (they could still do something big with their names on it!) rather than pretending that they can write fiction.

🗣️ "Are we going to have a conversation, on the level that you are about deportations here, about the crisis of male violence against women in this country?” - News Correspondent, The Journal Eimer McAuley #TonightVMTV

not very impressed with how Humphreys has performed in this #aras25 campaign but I'll still give her a reasonably high preference lolol

I wonder will the way the establishment gets completely spanked in this election convince them to come up with some kind of positive ideology beyond FDI FDI FDI? probably not

it would probably be hard to explain to a young person now that the 'devices' part of the expression 'left to your own devices' didn't actually refer to anything

herbs on poached egg, ranked: 1. tarragon 2. sage 3. parsley 4. marjoram

a bit late to the party but of all the scummy things this government has done, I think this is the scummiest #speirgorm

Unsurprisingly, wildfire incidents skyrocketed under her watch, including a 700% increase in Kerry in the first quarter of 2015 relative to the same period in 14. These fires also occurred in Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas www.thejournal.ie/gorse-fires-... #Spéirgorm 3/n