I’m prepared to wager that’s the craziest ever Irish result in which we’ve scored more than one goal.

yuuuuuup the genius of TikTok was recognizing that "social media" was always a misnomer and what the mass public actually wanted was personalized tv with a comment section (and all of this is why despite all my posting I'm fully on board with Platform Temperance, this stuff is bad for the soul)

As @carlkinsella.bsky.social aptly pointed out, so much of what we engage in shouldn’t really be *called* social media when it’s just algorithms designed to keep me looking at all costs. I would argue ye olde chat rooms and BBSes were more social media than modern Facebook is.

Such a good feeling when your favourite bits of your own book also stand out to others

Slight deviation from the theme but was once discussing baby names with my family and I said I liked 'Levi' and my brother asked me if I was having a baby or a pair of jeans.

hard to reckon that i'm any better than a dog when my main thought upon starting any new TV show is "I can't wait to recognise people"

“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers.” The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

morosely deleting my 'James Bond: Sucked Back To Life' idea because Bluesky users have no concept of art

they never let me meet Michael D Higgins cos I’m always saying stuff that makes me seem like I’d do something weird if I did

Late to Michael D's message: "A truly inclusive society is one where all can live authentically and creatively, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression, where all can participate fully, and where all voices are not only heard but valued, in all their richness and diversity"🌈

‘so you’re not a the voice of generation? alright fuck it tell us about the muppets then’ - in this week’s RTÉ Guide

What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.

Moore rather gave the game away on Today just now when he mentioned climate change as one of the things on which the BBC should be impartial. Treating the truth and lies as though they are equal isn't impartiality, it's an abdication of the most basic journalistic responsibility

Postman brought me my long awaited @kennysbookshop.bsky.social order just now, @carlkinsella.bsky.social's book being star of the show

Watch this because it tells you everything you need to know about how the right-wing weaponise fear. First come the facts. Then come the views of the public, sick of politicians & the media spreading unsubstantiated fear. Then comes the journalist, ignoring the facts & the public to spread fear.

Michael D Higgins is different now that the pressure is off him. He just walked past my house with his shirt open drinking a can of Druids and gave me the two fingers and called me a big girl

"What should be occurring to us around this time, as we take stock of a prominent figure in politics and media, are questions like: ‘Did any of these people who pay Ivan Yates to share his opinion ask him if he had any conflicts of interest?’ Is that not a question we ask these people?"

"You may not know this, but there exists, among certain cohorts of the public, a perception that Ireland’s political establishment and media establishment are too intimately connected. And what on Earth would give them that idea?" Happy Saturday, it's time to read my column.

Thank you @carlkinsella.bsky.social Unfortunately Carl is right, until FF & FG actually consider thousands of homeless kids a crisis which effects them & thier voter base, they won't act. jrnl.ie/6866350 #supergluedpockets #speirgorm

Very fine writing, and depressingly on the nail.

This is it really. We really need to pause all buying dwellings from companies and people that already own several.

Read it and then learn it off by heart. "Is this really the best we can do?" TOP work by the impossibly brilliant, charming, handsome, erudite, modest, hygienic @carlkinsella.bsky.social

That last paragraph really hits the nail on the head of it.

If you have lived your adult life in Ireland you will know instinctively that politics & media is 'One big club and you ain't in it'. There is hope w/commentators like Carl pullling this apart. The stifling consensus between media & politics brought us the disaster of austerity, among other ills.

"You may not know this, but there exists, among certain cohorts of the public, a perception that Ireland’s political establishment and media establishment are too intimately connected. And what on Earth would give them that idea?" Happy Saturday, it's time to read my column.

when Catherine Connolly shakes Zelenskyy’s hand and makes a nice statement about him, which she will, will we get a thousand columns apologising and being like “oh yeah sorry we were wrong, turns out she’s normal”

the sweat underneath my clothes from walking through Dublin for ten minutes acknowledges the rainwater on my clothes from walking through Dublin for ten minutes

We had to listen to people talk about how terrified they are to walk through Dublin City, while also dismissing any significant rise in far right threat. Why not focus on real threats rather than imaginary ones, see how that goes

Some of us have been crying out about a campaign of far-right terror for years. Now we have this: "Right-wing extremist terror group planned destruction of Galway Mosque, court hears" www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co... #RejectTheFarRight

i could never be a pol corr because if i ever heard a TD mention Firhouse in the Dáil I'd be like 'Woooo!' the same as if i heard it at a standup set

it’s genuinely quite funny the extent to which we’re forced to argue over piecemeal changes to how the world works when the overarching system can pretty much be summed by the below. frogs arguing what to do with our little corner of boiling water.

Suggest a Citizens Assembly and watch their heads spin.

Funny watching Paul Murphy and John Clendennen on RTÉ the other day. Clendennen keeps saying "we need a debate about migration" to which Murphy says "okay lets have a debate", and then Clendennen just keeps saying "we need to have a debate". Its very clear what Fine Gael are trying to do here!

hahaha this is fucking insane

listening to damien rice first thing in the morning was a mistake i'll tell you that much

i don't know what the best feeling in the world is objectively, but i know for me it would be doing a DJ set in a packed club, in whichever timezone it was where it was like 3am when the news broke, and to scratch the record and be like "dick cheney is dead" and then go straight back into the music

it’s just gibberish

hahahaha clown car country

Wow the IT actually printed my letter #speirghorm

One guy helped tank two candidates, and was still part of the RTE election day coverage. The other one ran one the most successful campaigns in Irish electoral history, and she might as well be anonymous.

My last thought on the presidential elections is that we had to suffer through every stray thought that passed through Ivan Yates' brain, amplified by the media, without him ever saying he was being paid by one side, but it was only after the election that I read a 'who is Béibhinn O'Connor?' piece.

One of the things that makes me saddest about the AI craze is how many great minds we’re losing. The geek who should have sorted out the whole duvet cover nightmare is too busy building the Porno Torment Nexus.

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.

Simon Harris is a coward and a bully who would rather scapegoat innocent communities of vulnerable people rather than face up to the failures of either his government or himself as a leader, a Cabinet minister and a human being. Couldn't think less of him and have no problem saying it.

"However, Catherine Connolly’s historically successful campaign has certainly proved something about Ireland in 2025. The left can win in Ireland, and we may, at last, not be quite so centrist as those in the centre would like to believe." Yussss

"Connolly's... campaign proved something about Ireland in 2025. The left can win in Ireland, and we may, at last, not be quite so centrist as those in the centre would like to believe." FFG try pull us to the right but can't get us close to centre. The propaganda has rotted their brains, not ours!

to be on air, discussing the presidential election, making wild and bullish statements about what candidates should do, while omitting the fact that you’re literally working for a campaign… it’s just not very good behaviour is it. doesn’t suggest good character, does it.

A really lovely review of my book At Least It Looks Good From Space in this weekend’s Irish Examiner. That’s not me in the picture.

Here, read this from @carlkinsella.bsky.social as it touches on one of the two ideas I had drift through my head during the week- how complaints of not being represented ring hollow to me, a fellow who spent decades stoically voting for the losing side in Irish elections. bsky.app/profile/carl...

“If this was, as Harris framed it, a referendum on Ireland’s proud history of better-things-aren’t-possible centrism, then surely he must accept that his conceptualisation of Ireland is actually… wrong.” This week’s column is about how FG and FF have responded to the election results.