Bitta history. Beagánín staire. The Govt made a solemn commitment to keep the Triple Lock in the “National Declaration” on neutrality during the second Nice Treaty referendum. That Declaration was responded to by EU Member States in their 2002 Declaration made at Seville.

This is obvious and also enraging. The programming on radio one works perfectly as it is. Now they’ve completely fucked it and scrapped it all for a new lineup. Nobody wants a full hour sports show mon-fri 7pm. That audience don’t listen to or watch Rte. watch the listener numbers plummet next time

Getting brought for a fancy dinner for my birthday. Which was in September. Better late than never. Yknow I’m ordering the steak and the prawns to make up for the delay.

Ohhhh

So Simon Harris (distinct from FG) seems to be on a kamikaze mission. Or several of them. First the lurch to the right on immigration and now wants to fuck off absolutely everyone by tearing up the triple lock we were guaranteed as part of the Nice treaty. Can anyone tell me wtf he’s up to?

Hyacinth = Bú Plural: búnna Hyacinth Street )Street of the Hyacinth) = Sráid an bhugha If in doubt, check out: Teanglann.ie

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.

Great piece by Donal and a short concise history of the poppy in Ireland and the Brits being at it as ever, probably more than ever, and missing the point of it by hounding those who don’t want to wear it. archive.ph/vxST3 #Spéirghorm

As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad! share.google/RS4MWp65kxNy...

One of the maybe three things Rte actually does well and on rare enough occasions. And they’re closing it down.

My column in this week's The Mayo News about the aftermath of #Áras25. Fake nomination attempts, smears, spoiled votes, the media - and FF and FG's all too predictable lurch to the right after making a hames of it all.

I see it's time for me to make the point again that the poppy is a fundraising campaign for the Royal British Legion, a specific, mundane entity that is not exempt from scrutiny and does not own the concept of remembrance. You can read its 2024 accounts here: storage.rblcdn.co.uk/sitefinity/d...

Eating sandwich. Chewed through inside cheek lump of cheek hanging off. It’s half hour later and still gushing blood. Any tips how to stop it?

President Higgins welcomes his successor Catherine Connolly to the Áras. Warm embrace between the pair, with President Higgins wishing Catherine Connolly and her husband Brian “health and happiness” and congratulating them on a “great achievement”. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

This from Una should have been a wake-up call, but Irish politicians and the media who cover them were and are too blind to admit that they are susceptible to the same rhetorical forces that have poisoned the discourse everywhere else.

Charity shop gold. €5 for the pair of them! Huge big slabs of delicious. I’ll be eating baked squirrels and chocolate key lime pie by Sunday!

100% this. FG & FF will hide behind fake civility & feign outrage when their now more open racism & scapegoating is pointed out. If their lurch to the right is not called out everytime, it becomes normalised, like in UK politics.

Simon Harris thinks there's too many immigrants, does that include the kids of the Lisdoonvarna Crew? The kids in direct provision? Cos he was content to use their song without permission. #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/cork-kids-ra...

79% of homes sold in Dublin this year were bought by landlords, 75% by large landlords. About 1 in 5 TDs are landlords. This is disgusting dog whistling. The problem has never been people seeking asylum. The problem is people seeking to endlessly profit from folks just looking for a home.

There’s an essay here on the role of good design/typography in successful campaigns!

Remember - if it's OK to call @paulmurphy.pbp.ie et al "far left" or "hard left" for saying that people deserve homes and basic services, then it's entirely OK for you to call politicians "far right" and "racist" when they try to blame a housing disaster they created on immigrants.

This person took this when they called the race

Update: The journalist, Gabriele Nunziati, has lost his job for asking this question.

If this was in Dublin we’d have threw him a loaf

If this was in Waterford we could say he threw him a boxty

Saw that tree on Reddit earlier and was sure it was AI slop. Then what do you know. Theres a few of them on Liffey st in the new planter bits. Or something like em

An escaped lion in Co Clare. Definitely one for @weratedogs.com

The Irish for whataboutery is fadúdachas.

So the tax hammers committed quitters, incentivises the strongest liquids and barely touches disposables. This destroys the economic part of the quitting model, but leaves vapes used by kids at the highest strengths and costing little more. This is why my partner's work friend went back on cigs. /

This tax adds €5 onto all of those bottles, regardless of strength. So it removes the incentive to step down, and actually penalises you for doing so. As bottles costed from €2 in a discount shop to €8 for the priciest, bottles are now doubling, or tripling in price. /

I support taxing vapes, banning disposables outright, mandatory plain packaging and making their sale dependent on a licence - a much stricter regime than the current one. I'll try to explain again why the recently introduced vape tax is irrational, counter-productive, and in some cases harmful🧵

Theres people being attacked daily, there was attempted murder of babies and children last week, there's been a load of elections over the 18mnths where migration was talked to death. SH is just so useless that he's trying to get the votes of people who make death threats against him

Crying about not being able to talk about migration while being one of the most powerful politicians in a country that has had almost 7 years of non stop talk about migration is top tier useless crybaby behavior

They were practicing firing cannons.. for our new our new presidents inauguration. Someone is taking the piss and I can only hope she sees the funny side of it. #Spéirgorm

Simon Harris let the mask slip during the election last year. He was irritable, stubborn and rude. When people show you who they are etc etc

Charity shop gold :) (Irony on the back when you see where it’s from ;) #Spéirgorm

That’s some read. And he’s right. “But of course Fine Gael doesn’t want to do any of these things. It just wants to point and shout, “Over there! Don’t look at us! Look at them!” #Spéirgorm

The Catherine Connolly campaign has reignited my urge to learn Irish. I have the Now You're Talking book and tapes from 25 odd years ago, but of course no tape player. Someone has handily converted the tapes to audio files you can listen to here: www.tripswithkevin.com/irish-on-you... #speirgorm

🎭✨ The streets of Dublin came alive at the weekend to Celebrate the legendary Irish author with the BRAM STOKER FESTIVAL 🦇🧛🎃

Niche but lol 🤣🤣

Ivan destroying two awful presidential campaigns in one go and about to take out a Taoiseach? #Speirgorm

elon musk: people in the uk live like hobbits. um let’s look at you for a second bro

@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social as you just said, perfectly innocent people’s lives shouldn’t be in danger on trains? Perfectly innocent trans people’s lives shouldn’t be in danger from the likes of Graham Linehan. But they are.