Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel. lithub.com/irish-noveli...

The rate at which the Irish Times and the Irish Independent are publishing smear material on Catherine Connolly is having two effects: I trust both papers EVEN LESS than I already did, and I'm very definitely voting for her.

We got solar panels installed about a month ago, and we’re running at about 75% energy independence. In autumn. In Ireland. This is not some unsolvable quantum physics problem for god’s sake 🤦

I was passing there recently and thought what a pity it was that the hotel owned the space under the colonnade. They don’t! They're stealing it!

Go on, Dan!

My favourite part of the budget day scramble in journalism is the desperate selection of stock photos that turn up in the articles

Looking forward to the Jim Gavin biog coming Xmas 2026 where we might finally get a glimpse of why the lad decided to run for president.

Who said conservative Catholics wouldn’t have their views represented? “Jim managed to not pull out early enough and FF now find themselves required to carry his presence on the ballot to full term.” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-jim...

In memoriam...

Manchán 🕯️

Sorry, but this is some old baloney. But also, I have GDPR questions about the emergance of this story.

Anyone keeping count of the number of sports metaphors Jim has used so far? This is the sort of journalism that could make the campaigns remotely interesting.

Did yiz hear they have had to put in temporary seats on Hill 16?

I-own-a Hermés and couldn’t get on the ballot. A most undemocratic system. 👋

First up the Cabra posts. Not sure about that tagline?

Steen, Sheridan, McGregor et al had YEARS to do the work but they didn't, preferring instead to hurl from the ditch and then blame the referee. They are not serious political people. They are a bunch of staggeringly entitled pick-mes, and the system worked as it should to weed them out. #speirgorm

Someone who was 17, a child, at the time Linehan sent the tweets at, that he is in court on a harassment over, & damaged her phone is a "woman" and "activist" but Graham Linehan gets to be "The Father Ted co-creator" & "comedy writer" despite being a dedicated transphobe for years. Fuck you.

We’ve landed in Dublin on time but there’s no bus to take us to the terminal. And the Aer Lingus captain says he’s given a ring to the office inside to see if he can get one but it is a different company so who knows. Gas little country.

I like to follow the news from home so I keep my echo chamber from getting too echoey and coz I like spiking blood pressure at least twice a week. Today it’s the turn of FG councillor Bill Slattery.

Another day, another “I’d run for president if given the chance” and “I’d focus on housing”. RTFM.

Are FG shoving Humphreys into the mincer or is she willing going in of her own accord?

I delivered the 700 page business case and cost benefit analysis for MetroLink to Michael O'Leary's office yesterday. O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.

Haven’t been on the Enterprise in years. People buying cans in the bar since we left Dublin at 10am. What?! 😂🫠

Somewhat timely…

Never a delivery as well-timed as the order from @imbibecoffee.bsky.social right now…

RIP

Lost track of how many times I’ve had to remind friends trying to buy a home that the agent is working for the seller. The whole process is a garbage fire.

Home screen 2015. Weirdly, not that much has changed. Deleted/RIP: FB, Foursquare, Tweetbot Replaced: Fantastical, Hailo

Amazon 2024 Turnover $637.9B Net Income $59.2B If they ran under our model they'd have a $6B bonus pool shared equally among workers. They'd give $15B to good causes. They'd still be left with an obscene $38.2B in profit. Life changing stuff. Instead they're going to lay people off for AI.

Also, for what other medical procedure would you ever see reporting figures broken down like this in national newspapers? Whose business is it but women's and their doctors?

From Marcin Wichary, a history of Mac settings (1984-2004). The article includes several embedded emulators, so you can actually use the setting panels under discussion. Amazing. [aresluna.org]

Anyone know what protest is on Westmoreland St right now?

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

The pendulum constantly swings between “they’re a really dumb shower” and “they want to believe we are a really dumb shower”. The lies keep stacking up. Cheers to all y’all who voted for FFFG. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I nearly lobbed my phone at the tv in rage watching the poxy BBC news. The non-story of bands at a festival saying things that shouldn’t have been broadcast on the BBC PRECEDED reporting on more bombing and murdering by the IDF. How in the fuck did we end up here?

Hearing rumours Keir Starmer is going to proscribe Glastonbury as a terror organisation

Tell me again how a band playing a music festival are the real bad guys.

Solidarity with Ballymena Pride today ✊ But you know, the massive crowds out for Dublin Pride today *absolutely dwarf* the biggest gathering the far right have ever managed. Literally many hundreds of times bigger. They won’t ever win. They’ll just be loud while losing, like a dying wasp

Unless you’re a Palestinian queer in which case I’ll enthusiastically help genocide you while saying “Yaaas Queen”

Possibly my favorite summation of Pride

Loyle Carner is my BBC coverage of Glastonbury find so far. Booking tickets to his gig in the 3Arena before the weekend is out. Slag it all you like but this is how it can work wonders.

For me the question is why is Ireland so mediocre, on average, across the board? The longer I spend on this rock, the more I find. And it’s not new. Take the crumbled vision for Áras Mhic Dhiarmada and Busáras as just one example from the public realm.

Bitta newness around the Capel St side of Grattan Bridge pedestrian lights…

My money is on another Carroll’s and Tipperary Crystal “gift store” (aka Allied Imports Group). They need the space to maintain saturation of Dublin City. www.thejournal.ie/gpo-redevelo...

Feeling for my friend who was told last week they are going to an industry conference in the U.S. in a few weeks. The world still turns but no thank you please.

The reality is, taking into account inflation and debt servicing costs, the State lost a whole children's hospital in the AIB 'investment' that was really a bail out. I wouldn't let this govt - or any of it's permutations - in charge of the finances of a lemonade stand. #IrishPolitics #SpéirGhorm

First: tax breaks Airlines don’t pay fuel taxes or VAT on tickets in most countries. Trains do. So from the start, the system is tilted in favor of air travel✈️💸

I never share Irish Times links - their pushing of transphobia & racism has been absolutely shameless - but this one is worth making an exception for... www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

At some point there'll be committee set up to investigate into why Paul Reid has been gifted so many positions and it'll be chaired by Paul Reid.

We really don't talk enough about the fact that the leader of the EU not only never stepped back from her early support for Israeli aggression, but consistently doubles down on it.