Just seen the clip of President Catherine Connolly shouting out patreon dot com forward slash tortoise shack as part of her inauguration speech and I now regret 8.3% of the mean things that I said about her.

I haven’t been following the news today. But hearing that James Bond carried President Catherine Connolly over the threshold of their new home in Áras an Uachtaráin is very cool.

Hey, I just met you, And this is crazy, You tried to kill me, So call me maybe?

Shoutout to Jennifer and Jim for allowing the outgoing Fianna Gael leadership to stand at the front at the President Connolly inauguration. A nice touch. Classy.

Catherine Connolly is our President. What’s next? New pod with the Head of Digital Campaigning with Connolly for President, Cian Prendville is out now everywhere podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Andrew kindly rejoined me on the Tortoise Shack earlier to discuss Sudan, human rights and why, despite appearances to the contrary, lots of people care. Read his piece below. Podcast out now on the tortoise shack.

Teachers, nurses and gardai should have studied harder and learned to be born into hereditary wealth. Simples.

Wrote this about the Sanctuary Runners a few weeks ago. This is Ireland at its best. No paywall: www.patreon.com/posts/141588...

Got my wee sign ready #MarchForIvan

I know it’s not the main story today, but just wanted you all to know that I’m one of only 8 people in Ireland over the age of 35 who haven’t had a picture taken with outgoing president Michael D. Higgins. It’s mathematically easier to win the lotto than avoid a Michael D. pic. #Proud #Groves2032

Giving a talk to RTE staff in the morning about how their unconscious bias jeopardises their credibility. Whereas I am fully conscious of my bias so my credibility is beyond reproach.

HI, HOW ARE YOU? WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME ON MY PODCAST?

Russian-Irish, US-based Prof Constantin Gurdgiev on the AI bubble, Trump’s attacks on economic data and the failure of politics to uphold the social contract Don’t miss it podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Myself, Noel Kelly, Miriam O’Callaghan and Seamus Dooley are organising the #MarchForIvan this coming Sunday. Assemble 12pm at Bauer Media, Marconi House, marching to RTE Donnybrook. If you can’t make it, please send cash to myself and or Ivan. Many thanks #JournoRequest

‘And I can assure my fellow Democrats, Resistance is Feeble!’

It’s the Pod Save crew who are the real victims here :(

After the 2016 election, I wrote this, about how Chuck Schumer was the worst possible Democratic leader at the worst possible time. He still is! theintercept.com/2016/11/14/c...

All this over a kebab?

In keeping with the vampiric tradition, Bram Stoker’s family home in Marino is available on Air BnB.

Remember me when I am gone away, Far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann'd: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray.

This is an attack on Access to Justice, championed by the “abundance bro’s” and media insiders who peddle government talking points in lieu of actual journalism

From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏

A look through a window into our capacity for evil.

Photo evidence of the massive flag pole earlier Ulster's Iwo Jima

Irish Twitter never died

Excited to be giving* the keynote speech at the Pro-Anti-Peace Summit this evening. *heckling Dan O’Brien, Larry Donnelly and Brigid Laffan

Starmer, Macron, and Martin walk into a bar. That was last weekend. They’re still waiting for the focus groups to deliver a clear consensus on what they should order. After a month, they leave without ordering, and blame immigrants.

Just back from the Centrist Rally. So inspiring. Hundreds of people holding hands chanting “Better Things Aren’t Possible!”

The darkest part of human nature is man’s inhumanity towards mankind.

The timing of this is interesting. A Post are currently fighting in court to deny Post Masters their rights (bogus self employment contracts) and McRedmond is well-got within FG.

The Ivan Yates debacle doesn’t mean that journalists are too close to politicians. And everyone on the Pol Corr-Govt WhatsApp group agrees with me. So ha!

Schooled the NIMBY @fplogue.bsky.social and so-called planning expert Sabrina Joyce-Kemper on the podcast this week. #IStandWithJohnCollison #TechBrosBeforeHedgeRows Listen: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

New podcast with Data Centre designer and LNG advocate @thinkorswim.bsky.social ;) The Lie of the Land. Yup! Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

So Connolly, Mamdani and Polanski walk into a bar. But they refuse to complete the joke as the format is part of the extractive neoliberal capitalist hegemony.

I just hope this weekend that a panellist on a national radio show finds the courage to say that “you can’t have a mature debate about immigration,” as part of the debate on immigration. That’s the type of brave people we are sadly lacking.

The Ben O’Clock News: I know you’re sad, but don’t worry. Things are going to get so much worse that you’ll think of this moment as the good old days.

I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college: “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”

Gonna make my fortune by selling comfort blankets exclusively to the men who cry like babies because the mainstream media is blocking them from having a grownup debate about immigration by having them on every mainstream outlet.

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!

New PalCast with Gazan writer and poet Sajood Bakroon - The World is a Hotel, Gaza is my Home. Out now. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Filmmakers and writers are on it as well

(Insert witty ‘unvetted, armoured.. of fighting age.. deployed.. etc etc’ comment here)

The anti-Coddle lobby pay accounts like this $7k per post to dunk on the food of the gods.

“The revolution is as eternal as Coddle.” Ernesto Che Guevara

It’s 2025 and the leader of Fine Gael is being forced to rebut accusations that he’s a racist dog whistler. No progression without regression.

The International Federation of Journalists and European Federation of Journalists have called for the reinstatement of the journalist who was fired for asking an EU Commission spokesperson if Israel should pay for Gaza's reconstruction

More Harris Hits. Who can forget this doozy. About as much feeling as a cinder block.

Personal Statement: Ivan Yates gave me media training. That’s why I’m such a big success. I’ll be making no further comment on this apart from on RTE Drivetime later and then in my weekly Irish Times column. Thank you for your understanding at this difficult time.

Sat in a room last week with human rights defenders from Gaza and Sudan saying how to get, transmit and verifiably archive video of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide People are risking their lives to report on drones wiping out families as GenAI destroys the ability to believe them.