From today's @irishtimes.com

Best letter in today's @theirishtimestoday.bsky.social There is no hole. It's 'hallow' as in 'Hallowed be thy name' and 'All Hallows'. Meaning 'holy'. Get it?

Frank McNally: A History of Ireland in a Hundred Hyperboles www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Quiz night tonight le cúnamh Dé. BBC2

[Exit King.]

Quiz night was moved to tonight. Yay!

No quiz night tonight. Football instead 😨

Hearing Trump's ráiméis going on & on set me thinking of some of history's great speakers. Cicero, Burke, Parnell, Churchill, MLK, JFK even Dev. Brevity is the soul of wit.

Any chance Trump could STFU?

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

Joe Humphreys: As a columnist, maybe I’m part of the problem

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...” apnews.com/article/pope...

Quiz night starting now on BBC2

Brancacci Chapel, Sta.Maria del Carmine, Florence. Filled w9th amazing frescoes by Masaccio & Masolino, whose day is today. So much genius in such a small space!

I seem to have written a buke

There's an army of Americans in Croke Park right now.

Still doing my bit for The Bard. BTW saw Macbeth last night in the Gaiety, magnificent.

Finn McRedmond champions the Bard on the curriculum in today's @theirishtimestoday.bsky.social Good on ya Finn.

'There will be middle-aged men and women wondering why 2024 and 2025 are blanked out of their memories...embarking on journeys back to the traumatic scenes they coped with by turning them into foggy and dreamlike figments. They will ask themselves how “no one realised they were witnessing genocide”'

For my European friends: Today is the day many Americans believe Rapture begins. Evangelicals will float to heaven & Catholics are left behind to suffer torments of Hell. Jews will gather on the banks of a River Jordan to convert, the Whore of Babylon will ride the Beast, etc. It’s a whole thing.

Patrick Kielty Late Late Show host here in Ireland ☘️💚 to talented #jimmykimmel (Hi to #StephenColbert also&the inimitable @jonstewartdaily.bsky.social #JohnStewart the #DailyShow #TheLateShow et al. &all the wonderful incisive writers who always present truth through the brilliant lens of humour)

Ceaptar go raibh suas go 25,000 ag freastal ar mhórshiúl i lár Bhaile Átha Cliath ar an Satharn ar son cearta teanga don Ghaeilge agus don Ghaeltacht jrnl.ie/6822548

Kamala Harris: "It feels chaotic, but what I would offer you is what we are witnessing is the swift implementation of a plan that was decades in the making. Project 2025 didn't just drop out of thin air. That's a product of decades of work. Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation ... "

Some people argue that 'the British Isles' isn't political and we shouldn't be bothered by it, which is why they're invariably so open to my suggestion that we should switch to 'the Irish Isles' for the next few hundred years while we work out a solution.

Publication week for The Lonely Only Dinosaur by me and Anna Sußbauer, out with Gill Books on Thursday, Sept 11th. Perhaps you're in Dublin on Thursday evening? Do join me and the loveliest book gang.

Quiz night tonight on BBC2

Noooooooooo

A rational letter from an @irishtimes.com reader in Stranorlar.

Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States is a must have. 👍🏻 And there’s a Young People’s version for the kids (link). www.zinnedproject.org/materials/yo... 🗣️@want.all.the.things (TT)

Costumes of the Irish, w/ women looking rather civilized (& holding hands) while men are barbarous warriors. By Lucas d’Heere, whose day is today.

"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷

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Saying it again. Thank the Lord for that extra bowl of stirabout our forebears must have had c.1847 which saved them from the coffin ships. Otherwise we could be ‘living’ in Texas, Alabama, Kentucky or some other godforsaken hole in the US.

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

It’s always a good time to have your books professionally handled. Beware amateurs or biblioquacks who can leave your books stressed and their plots in array.

Another deadly serious article about how the US *has already* slid into fascism. You guys have about six months to sort yourselves out. At most.

Monday night is Quiz Night. Interesting topics on Mastermind tonight.

For those not watching Trump or the Rose of Tralee tonight is quiz night on BBC2.

After lengthy conversations with family and friends, TonytheDog is pleased to announce his intention to run for President of Ireland and will be contacting County Councils for support. #Aras25 #VoteNo1TonyTheDog

Quiz night about to begin on BBC2

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Aga Khan Cup from the RDS starting now.

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."