Dear editors, It's not just the phones causing your circulation to plummet.

New Gist, In which I explain exactly what kind of idiot I have recently been. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-no-...

If you haven’t, get out there and vote #connolly4president #aras25 #speirgorm

🇮🇪 Presidential Election Day 1918 was the first time Irish women were permitted to vote, & even then only ~women over 30 who owned property~ Is é do vóta do ghuth 🗳️ #Aras25 #SpeirGorm

Scenes from the walk to polling station #Aras2025 #Áras2025 #Spéirghorm #Speirgorm

Scribblestown, parish of Castleknock, Dublin. The Irish name is Bhaile Scriobail, 'Scrypple's Town', Scrypple being a family name. #speirgorm

Continuing the spooky theme, the Morrigan triple goddess - and the crows they are heavily associated with - is Irish mythology's foreteller of death or victory in battle ⚔️ Prints on sale at the moment here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

A púca for the season that's in it 👻 All prints of this one are hand-finished with gold paint, and they're also on sale (along with many other spooky prints) until the end of this month. www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

From the 1990 Presidential Election

“Are there any parades that don’t exist that you wouldn’t march in?” Now why don’t we try out this gambit in our presidential debates? Just mind-meltingly lunatic irrelevancies pitched at the candidates.

Knightley and Macfadyen both working with Rowling on the new audiobooks only confirms the 1995 Pride And Prejudice as the superior one

If you are sick of reading tendentious crap like this about "trans activists" being "woke" and want to read a nuanced novel about a trans woman trying to come to grips with her identity in a hostile world, head to the pinned post and go order my book! Sensitivity-read by THEE Aoife Martin :)

Browneshill Dolmen • Carlow Ireland has around 170 recorded portal tombs, also known as dolmens. They were constructed during the Neolithic period, from around 3800 BC onwards. The capstone at Browneshill is enormous! It is estimated to weigh well in excess of 100 tonnes. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Goodnight from the bit of the Kingdom underneath this (might need to throw the brightness up on a phone to see it) - highly recommend going outside for a look, helluva sky tonight 🌌

In today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social the two remaining presidential hopefuls told me about their daily lives, their hopes and fears for the future, their earliest memory and the one thing people don't know about them #PresidentialElection #Aras25 www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/he...

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane. They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

The second flotilla is now in the ‘red zone’ where Israel has previously abducted flotillas and trafficked them onwards to false imprisonment. We’ll do all we can to reach Gaza, but if they stop us it will likely be within 24 hours. Track us here: thousandmadleens.fr/tracker

Current mood

And it's Ciara Kelly with the big scoop just in the nick of time!

All the Very Serious Columnists who warned us that "this election will be boring without Maria Steen" owe us an apology.

Joking apart, has anyone got any Jim Gavin leaflets as I don't have any yet? #speirgorm

Your timeline is hereby thoroughly cleansed.

Found a link: www.instagram.com/share/BBGU-M...

Macnas is back in Dublin for the Bram Stoker Festival - for real, this time! bramstokerfestival.com/en/events/ma...

You would imagine that the people who called MarRef wrong and who called Repeal wrong would at some point ask themselves whether their underlying assumptions about the country they live in are wrong, but no.

Can't believe the Indo didn't credit Allthefood on this. Well, I can believe it, but it's shit.

A mad little story of brazen food PR nonsense, and a wider indictment of media context collapse in Ireland and everywhere else. Excellent work by @allthefood.bsky.social

sartre knew about trolls.

What a man

OK, I think it's time to start rowing back the amount of X, the Everything App screenshots on here. I feel sufficiently aware that many posting there have hypocritical, even incoherent, views on current events.

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Even more even more Only Connect intros youtube.com/shorts/CUMZ6...

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

The AI from WarGames: I have calculated every possible permutation of tic tac toe as well as the complex nuclear war stimulation it is a metaphor for and realized it is impossible to win. Standing down. Real world LLM: Yes, it's possible to win tic tac toe every time using 4 triangles in a row

It is bizarre to have "zero tolerance" for racial abuse in football and cricket from government, media & governing bodies, yet infinite tolerance - simply silence in media, politics & inaction - for unlawful racial hatred online against elected representatives of every party & other civilians.

Adams was great. If you’re not familiar with Philip K Dick’s entry, check out this similarly horribly prescient entry…

Knowing the difference between a purview, a bailiwick, a wheelhouse and a forte isn't my thing i'm good at.

CMAT did a Celtic Tiger style photo call on Stephen’s Green for the launch of Euro Country! With Marty Whelan. Iconic.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

London a Mad Max dystopia with flaming buildings and UN troops on the capital's streets - all precipitated, as you might expect, by an unspecified Chinese banking crisis, quantitative easing, the departure of the UK's beloved Russian oligarchs, along with footballers and the band One Direction.

Modern Columbo

“You can’t simply proscribe Sally Rooney and be done with it. You can’t reach into the London Underground and pull her books out of the hands of commuters who want to live vicariously and cathartically through her throuples and hunks on the verge of tears.” This week’s Surrealing.

Normal countries commit war crimes says the Holocaust historian. Still processing this quote among others

‘The people we have been starving were already quite ill’ is an admission of guilt not a defense.

You can access the survey right here ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Okay, being nominated for a prestigious award and it being canceled as a result is a little worse.

Happy 80th birthday to Animal Farm! My favourite review of it comes courtesy of the UK's greatest literary critic, Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4