See wha happens when yous are good chizzlers an behave yisserselves? Sanity is good to you and brings ye what ye want 🙏 @carlkinsella.bsky.social

What @carlkinsella.bsky.social doesn't mention in his roundup of 2025 is that he himself had a pretty fantastic year with his hugely popular, funny and moving memoir being released, as well as his weekly column having Ireland's leaders regularly reaching for the Sudocrem. jrnl.ie/6907732

Thank you @carlkinsella.bsky.social for delivering some form of catharsis through your weekly writing, especially in today’s. “A drab course charted by drab men with drab ambitions.” www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

Tremendous.

I have a million thoughts about SAIPAN but the headline is that Éanna Hardwicke absolutely nails Roy Keane. Spectacular performance.

2026 is the year we end 'relatable comedy' that's 99.9% relatable and 0% comedy. we don't need to relate to comedy. it's a joke not your cousin

Merry Christmas from your pal Carl

(Muppet Christmas Carol but Scrooge is cheeked up) there goes Mr Dump Truck there goes Mr Cake

more like it’s a wonderful movie! great movie

I sort of think that the Covid times for many people utterly killed any sense that we all live in this world collectively and that you are actually obligated to be mindful of other people, and I think it’s a problem that goes well beyond just the Covid denialists.

This story brought me into an actual red mist. Concreting over Wood Quay, in the teeth of mass popular protest AND THEN GOING NAH, ITS NO GOOD, LET’S MOVE‽

In place of my column this week is an extract from my book, At Least It Looks Good From Space, which you can buy in all bookshops as a Christmas gift when you panic shopping today. At Least It Looks Good From Space, a book for the weirdest person you know!

In place of my column this week is an extract from my book, At Least It Looks Good From Space, which you can buy in all bookshops as a Christmas gift when you panic shopping today. At Least It Looks Good From Space, a book for the weirdest person you know!

they finally got Walliams eh

Guys Ernie is still missing, he's the sweetest little boy who enjoys the company of humans. If you see him around Richmond Road/Clonliffe Road, please call his mam on 0892533727🙏🏽

Here are a few more pictures of Ernie. He’s super friendly but he’s an indoor cat with a slight vision impairment and he must be terrified

Here's a couple more. Please keep an eye out for this sweetie. 😭😭

O'Callaghan and Fianna Fáil are aligning themselves with the absolute worst people and politics in Europe, and journalists need to start asking them about it. To date, I have seen little evidence that Irish media is prepared to meet this moment, and I fear the worst.

Superb stuff from @carlkinsella.bsky.social, who is shaping up to be the most consistently nail-on-head Irish columnist since Gene Kerrigan retired www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

Pertinent. I’m 31, still sleep in my childhood bedroom, and feel totally unable to be an adult. I can’t bring someone home. I will never have utmost privacy. I’m stuck here until I die. And no one gives a shit.

My most fundamental belief is that we do not have to live like this.

deftly planning my pivot from non-fiction to fiction and working on my romantasy series, A Court Of Mouth and Hand Stuff

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

"It’s harder to date. Harder to think about having children. It’s harder to come to your own conclusions about what you earnestly want from life. It’s harder to realise who you are. It’s impossible to feel as though you are meeting your potential." This week's column, more personal than usual.

“…sees its responsibility when it comes to the broken housing market. Outsource as much of it as possible while behaving like something between a credit union and a student’s union…. ‘If your parents can’t help you then you, my friend, are absolutely cooked.’” #spéirghorm #Housing #IrishPol

“It’s one thing to be told not to despair by a peer in the same boat; it’s quite another to hear it from the white whale that’s been gnawing on the hull. The utter shamelessness necessary to have shared the video reaffirms what we already knew about how the Irish govt…” #about #Housing #IrishPol

Occupied Territories Bill to be limited to the parts of Ferrybank that are in Kilkenny

'Spot-on' article by @carlkinsella.bsky.social in @thejournal.ie 💥 This is why talented young ppl are leaving Ireland in droves 👇 Surrealing in the Years: 'How To Suffer Indignity' - a documentary by the Department of Housing jrnl.ie/6901435

Carl using his "particular set of skills" to show the Department of Housing's lack of them. Oh yeah, and Liam Neeson's idiocy thrown in for good measure. 💯

Yet again, all the more depressing because it's so on the nail.

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“It’s one thing to be told not to despair by a peer in the same boat; it’s quite another to hear it from the white whale that’s been gnawing on the hull” Incisive as always! 👏 Surrealing in the Years: 'How To Suffer Indignity' - a documentary by the Department of Housing jrnl.ie/6901435

There is no sharper blade of criticism than the one sharpened on the wheel of humour. 💯

if you would like to laugh and then sob over your morning coffee, read this by @carlkinsella.bsky.social www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

"It’s sort of like if the Department of Health shared a video explaining how to remove your own appendix with a pair of scissors." #IrishPol

Great column. As usual ❤️ (I loled at 'narrated by Liam Neeson')

"It’s harder to date. Harder to think about having children. It’s harder to come to your own conclusions about what you earnestly want from life. It’s harder to realise who you are. It’s impossible to feel as though you are meeting your potential." This week's column, more personal than usual.

I’ve been bitterly staring through my window with my arms folded since 5am, intermittently muttering to myself that the sky better be good again this morning

I would appreciate any help people can offer with this: Has anyone ever dealt with a housemate moving out and a large-scale landlord refusing to consent to any new housemate joining the property as a tenant?

there’s just a certain type of person who would show up to your writer’s group wanting praise for presenting work but violently rejecting any form of constructive criticism that might improve it, and that right there is the target market for AI

ah war again is it

it’s cool that fascism has pushed us so far that the Catholic Church is now Banksy

man it’s a hot one

full credit to @lostexpectation.bsky.social for actually finding the pics, I didn't even know you could post a photo gallery to TikTok, and they were tipped off by @carlkinsella.bsky.social mentioning it in Surrealing. but yeah, if it has fallen to me to publicise info, something has gone wrong

life passes you by and you don’t even notice yourself graduating from being the son in Little Miss Sunshine to being the uncle in Little Miss Sunshine

just a few more rocks back and forth and I should be good forever

you and I both know that the house is haunted you and I both know that the ghost is me