Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries! UCC 19 February Boston College 11 March NYU Glucksman House 12 March Royal Irish Academy 25 March www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

Less than a week to get your application in #AcademicSky

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project News Last April, as some of you may remember, the Sarsfield Homecoming Project found itself at a turning point… 1/

President Catherine Connolly has called for action on war, genocide and climate change, saying the normalisation of war “has never been and will never be acceptable” to Ireland, a nation with a long tradition of neutrality and peacekeeping. #VMNews

Can borrow to buy lashings of pew-pews we don't have the personal to operate or maintain. Can't borrow to house the thousands of people officially homeless. Clearly the welfare of the people of Ireland is not paramount.

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.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

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

From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏

So today I sort of got nominated for a Grammy Award. True story.

An incredible result, an inspiring campaign that is already having an impact elsewhere, and instructive lessons for progressives everywhere. Great work New York!

Completely normal website legitimised on the daily by politicos, hacks and people willing to turn a blind eye to what it is, and what its owner uses it for.

Reminder! Our next research seminar takes place on 5th November, 12pm, LCB012!

What does it mean to call Ireland 'home'? This is what I'm trying to find out - still looking for suitable participants! Please get in touch if you or someone you know might be interested in sharing their story. #identity #ireland #spéirghorm

Springer/Palgrave Macmillan is running a Halloween Sale at the minute, so those interested can get 30% off my new book on C.S. Lewis’s Irish background/identity until Fri., 31 Oct 2025 at 23.59 EST. Just use the discount code HAL30 on the @springernature.com site: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

One just got elected with 63% of the vote my dude

This article is full of digs against horseshoe bats, planners & says “environmental goals have created stasis”. The @dublininquirer.com have already looked into the Collison backed Progress Ireland & identified links with US libertarian & Peter Thiel backed groups. We need independent journalism!

This is bull. Steen has done no public service and had ample time to prepare a campaign if she was actually bothered. Sheridan wasn't bothered to have documents right for LA meetings. Who else came close to actually trying to get on the ballot? Far-right twats who wanted the free publicity?

Catherine Connolly got more votes than any other president in history - any pol corr or commentator trying to convince you that the story is actually the spoiled votes is showing you their whole arse, and should be treated accordingly.

I need every journalist to point out that even if steen got the finger out and got on the ballot (she didn't), and even if all the spoiled votes would have gone to her (they wouldn't), she would have still come last

There are a lot of cowards in elite positions. There is a lot of courage in civil society. People aren't just taking career risks--though the spate of recent resignations and denunciations might rep. that--they're taking physical risks confronting ICE. They're organizing. Suing.

Wrote a thread, of disagreement, in response to this, which seems to equate 'people' with 'select elites.'

that's dr moloney to you

I wrote about culchure www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

For overseas followers: in Ireland every seven years we vote for someone to tell the Government they are a bunch of evil clowns and every five years we vote in the evil clowns.

Soundcheck before our show at the Belltable tonight (23/10), STRETCHED ON YOUR GRAVE: A TRIBUTE TO SINÉAD O’CONNOR. If any of you are in Limerick at 8pm and at a loose end, call into see us! limetreebelltable.ie/events/stret...

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

I don't think he's really talking about museums. 😉

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Humphreys as Social Protection Minister took a widower to the Supreme Court so that State wouldn't have to pay him. She was the campaign manager for the "Care Referendum" which changed the proposed wording so the State wouldn't have any obligation to carers She's championed plenty of pain

Sure, you've heard from human rights experts, but have you considered the professional bigot perspective?

I am delighted to be one of the panellists on this week's “Talking History” programme on Newstalk Radio. The episode is focused on Orson Welles (including his time at Dublin's Gate Theatre). It will be broadcast this Sunday at 7pm then available afterwards here: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill. Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

The book isn’t out until January in Ireland and March in the States, but if you’d like a copy eventually here is the pre-order discount code. I’ll share it again and have some launches planned in Bellaghy, Belfast and Dublin for late Feb/ early March. Do come along, I’d be glad to see you.

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

Hindsight is 20-20, but I really think they should have taken Maxwell's silver hammer away before the trial.

every day that Heather Humphreys is not asked why she refused to meet with disability activists during the Scrap the Green Paper campaign is another day of ignominy for the Irish press. she's running on her record, yet she's not questioned on it any substantive way

As someone raised in the diaspora and a past member of various bands, 🎸 I’m delighted to see my latest journal article (“Key Preoccupations in the Work of English Rock Artists of Irish Descent”) out in the latest issue of STUDIES: AN IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW!: www.studiesirishreview.ie/product/key-...

The wonderful @sarahmaintains.bsky.social #speirgorm

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

rehabilitation of prisoners and legal representation without prejudice are principles without which our entire justice system would immediately and completely collapse vs no they’re not

I think if we have reached the stage where people are pretending not to understand what a "lawyer" is in order to attack Catherine Connolly, that they really do have very little on her

Saw a man trying to fix a flat bicycle tire in the street today, a teenage boy stopped in front of him and sang a note perfect rendition of Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up” and this is probably the best thing I’ll witness this week.

A special afternoon talking about activism, compliant, feminism & movements that continue to shape us Thanks to hosts Dublin Theatre Festival & Abbey Theatre, panel chair Emma Dabiri & panelists Sarah Durcan Lian Bell Sara Ahmad & Catriona Crowe WTF Happened is available in bookshops nationwide

www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... Delighted to announce this open access book on Staging Beckett in London by Matt McFrederick - fascinating look at Beckett’s London Theatre homes Congrats Matt!

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She's Made President http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/08/maria-steen-turning-up-at-gates-of-the-aras-refusing-to-leave-until-shes-made-president/