🎶Pass the poitín to the left-hand side🎶 "Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!" (Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)

Nai it's Christmas!!!!! With @wjorda87.bsky.social

Kingfisher along Six Mile river, Antrim, towards the Lough Shore #PhotoHour #EastCoastKin

My take-away from this is that "Ireland, awash with cash from a corporation tax bonanza paid by global firms with big operations in the country", is being told it should spend that money defending market assets, like cables under the Atlantic, rather than on housing and health.

#16 Píosa léitheoireachta déanta agam fá choinne mo chuid staidéir agus chuir mé spéis ar leith san aiste scríofa ag Camille O'Reilly, ar fáil anseo cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/langu...

The idea that Ireland's "vulnerability" is a major headache for EU/NATO strategic planners is simply not factually accurate. I spend a lot of time reading the work of, speaking to, and listening at conferences to these people, and I have literally never heard this mentioned! It's not on their minds!

Every other guy online is a debate pervert who gets paid like $750k a year by the Liberty Flame Institute LLC, which nobody has ever heard of, to alternate between saying that the age of consent is too high and that puberty blockers "destroy fertility."

This is not a passive process and we shouldn't talk about it as one

Please, in the year 2025, can we not do articles where we're like 'Why is climate action stalling?' where we don't talk about the vast sums of money being poured into lobbying and misinformation by the fossil fuel industry and a captured media that still barely discusses climate

Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy. Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference. Or both.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Is cúis díomá é nach dtearn an t-alt seo tagairt do cá tuighe a bhfuil 'tuairim an phobail' ag bogadh mar seo ó thaobh na hinimirce agus inscne de ar an dóigh céanna. (Tionchar airgid Mheiriceánaigh ar na meáin shóisialta agus aspa smaointeoireachta criticiúla, dar liomsa)

The entire migration debate is just three racist bitches telling eachother "exactlyyyy" (Jim O'Callaghan, Matt Carthy and Peadar Tóibín)

@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️‍⚧️ www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Bhí mé faoi gheasa ag an leabhar seo agus an scríbhneoireacht. Sheas Peadar go daingean diongbháilte lena chúis agus lena chuid comrádaithe, in éadan na ndrochghníomhartha déanta ag an Saorstát úr. D'fhág sé mé ag smaointiú gur truaigh é nár scríobh sé leabhar riamh ina theanga dhúchais féin.

Scannán atá suite i d'áit dhúchais Tír Dé, oirthear Contae an Dúin

Callaghan’s new “tough on immigration” rules will only affect a tiny proportion of immigrants—who also happen to be among the most vulnerable. The gov know that drastically reducing inward migration would be an act of self harm so they’ll pick on these asylum seekers as an act of performance. Sick

These are the "voters" Martin, O'Callaghan, Harris and the rest of them are pivoting to racism to please. If ever two groups needed reminding that Twitter and Facebook are not real life, it's journalists and politicians.

Na teangacha is fearr liom: Gráigis Feirstis Gaelscoilis Jaeilge Bleácliais Corcaíochais Geurla Béilge Gaelg

Nature: Winter is a time of slowing down, resting, conserving energy and recovering for the year ahead Capitalism: NOW IS THE TIME TO SELL SELL SELL, EXTENDED OPENING HOURS, CHECK OUT OUR SALES, BUY EVERYTHING WE SAY YOU NEED FOR AN ELABORATE LABOUR-INTENSIVE FESTIVAL, WORK YOURSELF TO THE BONE

With the disappointing progress at Cop30, evergreen reminder it isn't "we" or "humanity" failing to address the climate crisis — oil-producing nations and fossil fuel interests are actively obstructing action, despite heroic efforts by developing nations, Indigenous peoples, and many, many others.

Why can't they just analyse their data? Why is any computation or statistics called AI now?

IRELAND has dropped 4 places in the 2025 global Climate Change Performance Index. Alarm bells are blaring on the new coalition's attitude to LNG (liquified natural gas - which often comes from fracking in the USA) and data centre expansion...

Gordon McCoy, údar, taighdeoir agus múinteoir Gaeilge den chéad scoth, ar shlí na fírinne

“Hold somebody else’s chin at the waterline ‘til they get a chance to breathe because on one day that’s going to be you.” The unrivalled Bernadette Devlin McAliskey on solidarity and compassion Full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

this tbh

Our language was rooted out of our country by our colonisers in a specific effort to LITERALLY make us less Irish and more like them instead. If YOU feel less Irish take it up with THEM!!! Not the people reviving it!!

Like sorry if it makes you uncomfortable but if Irish society lost its unique features (language, cultural practices, etc), it WOULD simply be less Irish. "I'm not less Irish because I don't speak Irish" big picture please!! It's not all about you!!

irish times politics podcast griping that catherine connolly's focus on gaeilge, and the phrase "tír gan teanga, tír gan anam" means people without gaeilge are less irish they offer canada & australia as counter examples! they HAD native languages! colonisers destroyed them! that's less soul now!!

EU to rip up your privacy rights in order to feed your data to “boost” AI. Superb.

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I'll tell you something great about Cuba, there's no fucking ads in public spaces. Every now and then there's a billboard on the side of the road saying something like "big up the farmers, thanks lads" and shit like that but there's no ads for products it's fucking class and visually peaceful

We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our friend Dr Gordon McCoy, former UPNS Secretary and a valued scholar of the Irish language, anthropology, and place-names. Gordon’s work with Turas, his Gaelic maps of Belfast and East Belfast, and his research. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam uasal.

A loud, raucous screech told me to look out the bathroom window yesterday. There, in the rainforest just outside (and the lashing rain), was a very wet jay. Champion oak tree planters, and my favourite bird, they're highly secretive, so really great to see one only feet away. (Just a phone photo!)

The finest. Slán agus go raibh maith agat Micheal D Higgins. Fáilte ó chroí Uachtarán na hÉireann Catherine Connolly.

Farewell to an icon! #MichaelDHiggins

Anyone promoting, associating or sharing spaces with this man - what you permit you promote

Born and bred in Co. Down, I’ve always been struck by how the Union’s most vociferous defenders have done most to undermine it. They have made it a hopeless, unwelcoming, loveless Union.

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Alright just the one then

Tuairiscítear an bolgán IS sa ghnáth-mheán anois...

#14 Casadh na Taoide - seantéacsleabhar é a fuair mé saor in aisce ón Acadamh i nGaoth Dobhair - rud beag tur, b'fhéidir, ach taitníonn téacs liom a úsáideann na leaganacha ainmneacha galánta Gaelach, scríofa síos mar 'Art Ó Gríofa, Ruairí Mac Asmaint, Mícheál Ó Coileáin' srl, galánta ar fad

RMT taking its campaign to protect transport workers from losing their UK visa status directly to the Prime Minister. The RMT at Downing Street to demand urgent transitional protections for rail workers who, under changes to the Skilled Worker visa rules, are being told they must leave the UK

Valuable lesson here from one-time #climate “hero” Bill Gates: never, ever trust billionaires – on any subject. Only thing they care about is themselves, as I explained to Matt Cooper yesterday. Oh, and not sure about Micheál Martin either. www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

Na boic móra agus a gcuid barúlacha móra, is dóiche nach raibh bean ar bith ar fáil, leaids?