My brother Paddy lived his short life in an endless vortex of uncertainty and upheaval, yet he continuously issued declarations of resilience and optimism, right up to the week of his death. These are my reflections on what would have been his 30th birthday. nothingiswritten.blog/2026/06/01/r...

"Of course, while Musk and co. are busy railing against Nolan’s casting decisions, institutes of higher education across the Western world are busy shutting down departments and programmes in classical literature and cognate disciplines." jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/you-dont-r...

A look back at the time Roy Keane characteristically took a handshake snub from Ronaldo Nazario and Diego Simeone in his stride. A much-memed moment of 'football heritage' from the 1990s. www.goal.com/en/news/roy-...

Consistently one of the best-performing articles on GOAL, this page of football quiz questions initially began life as the best 50 quiz Qs & As before expanding to 100. A useful resource for quizmasters and quizzers alike, I hope - & great fun to execute! www.goal.com/en/news/best...

Ah, good old 'AI'. An excuse for businesses to chop loads of jobs AND a way to exploit those same vulnerable workers when they seek new employment. Great work, guys! www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

Billions being forked out for tools that "may not work as intended". It's paying over the odds for a car with no doors that might take you from A to G sometimes instead of A to B every time. Great work guys! www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

These aggressively hyped-up tools have been available for years & they're still hopelessly unreliable. Why keep using them? Unfortunately, a lot of stuff is still mindlessly waved through by injudicious editors - even those at supposedly top-tier publications. They should be embarrassed & ashamed.

I wrote about why we should keep reading and writing www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

"Won't see the golden of the sun when I'm gone And the evenings and the mornings will be one when I'm gone Can't be singing louder than the guns while I'm gone So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here" The great Phil Ochs - 'When I'm Gone'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXVB...

8 years ago, I told a story which changed my life forever. Shortly after, an old pal from college asked if he could turn it into a film. So I am DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE that 'Me, Myself & Mary' is not only finished, but has been chosen to lead the Tribeca Festival's animated shorts roster this year.

"But with the Carpenter On the seat Way up in the Capitol town The USA Be on the way Prosperity bound" In light of recent nonsense around Trump, Christ and a doctor, it's worth listening to Billy Bragg & Wilco (inspired by Woody Guthrie). www.youtube.com/watch?v=v17g...

If you needed a reminder that time is a flat circle, here is the great Bill Bryson, in a book published 32 years ago, highlighting the classic pattern of demonising and pulling up the ladder on immigrants. On and on it goes.

The Termin8tor. 📸 Justin Berl/Getty Images

🧵✍️ Here is a collection of different articles I have written over the years, from match reports and miscellaneous football pieces to blog posts about personal loss, politics and social issues. 👇 (shares etc. appreciated)

🧵✍️ Here is a collection of different articles I have written over the years, from match reports and miscellaneous football pieces to blog posts about personal loss, politics and social issues. 👇 (shares etc. appreciated)

"Croesus then asked if he should make war on the Persians and if he should take to himself any allied force. The oracles to whom he sent this question included those at Delphi and Thebes. Both oracles gave the same response, that if Croesus made war on the Persians he would destroy a mighty empire."

Billions being forked out for tools that "may not work as intended". It's paying over the odds for a car with no doors that might take you from A to G sometimes instead of A to B every time. Great work guys! www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

These aggressively hyped-up tools have been available for years & they're still hopelessly unreliable. Why keep using them? Unfortunately, a lot of stuff is still mindlessly waved through by injudicious editors - even those at supposedly top-tier publications. They should be embarrassed & ashamed.

"Groups of people actually produce fewer ideas when using LLMs compared to when they are simply tasked with collaborating and bouncing ideas off of each other." gizmodo.com/researchers-...

You have to go back to June 2011 to find the last time Ireland won four games in a row. G. Trapattoni's team beat N. Ireland (5-0) & Scotland (1-0) in the 'Carling Nations Cup', then defeated Macedonia, as they were then, in a Euro 2012 qualifier (2-0) before beating Italy 2-0 in a friendly game.

"...a central conceit that plagues the whole AI field: a gross overestimation of the value of intelligence by itself to solve problems." www.persuasion.community/p/ai-cant-de...

"However discerning the humans behind these endeavors fancy themselves to be, A.I. remains a fundamentally tasteless technology." www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

“The cafés of San Francisco are full of highly paid tech workers clattering away on their keyboards; if you peer at their screens to get a closer look, you’ll generally find them copying and pasting material from a ChatGPT window.” —Sam Kriss

I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:

“BUY THIS BOOK AT ONCE AND HAVE A NICE DAY” Not only is Bill Bryson’s ‘Made in America’ a wonderfully illuminating book on American history and linguistics (in fact it should be required reading in the USA), the back cover of the 1998 Black Swan edition has great advice.

Submissions for issue 22 (autumn/winter 2026) are now open until 31 March! We’re looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays ✨ bansheepress.org/submit

Today’s podcast with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the incredible story of Labour Together Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/5tkr... Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

"But here’s the thing. There are 342 million people in the United States and as you drive you constantly wonder where everybody is. The hearts of American towns are often extraordinarily empty." From Keith Duggan's excellent snapshot of America in the @irishtimes.com today.

Looking forward to the next murder-mystery novel set in the Vatican, where a radicalised sect of AI-worshipping evangelists plot the overthrow of the incumbent who dared to stifle them. futurism.com/artificial-i...

*Love* this video from @transparencyuk.bsky.social - what a compelling case for taking big money out of politics. And who is that devilishly handsome Irish chap talking such sense in Parliament half way through 🤣

Despite having 'smart features' turned off on my Gmail, it appears that I still have no choice but to endure suggestions for alterations to (perfectly fine) sentences when drafting an email. It's like a hovering tutor obsessively pouncing on any opportunity to control and scold. Just fuck off.

The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.

God bless the archivists. This is worthy work from Miles, bravo.

In the New Statesman this week, I channel just some of my hatred toward AI Hype into 900 words. On the grifters and rubes surfing a bubble atop a pyramid, and the economy-shattering fraud the rest of us can no longer escape. www.newstatesman.com/science-tech...

University of Galway food bank forced to turn away hundreds of students each week

Don’t invest much into the moronic ramblings of cruel demagogues and the craven whims of billionaire dorks. Instead, regularly remind yourself about worthy concepts. ryandelarge.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/n...

Don’t invest much into the moronic ramblings of cruel demagogues and the craven whims of billionaire dorks. Instead, regularly remind yourself about worthy concepts. ryandelarge.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/n...

"The claim to deep thought can be a way of cowing the public... cod philosophy is used to launder dangerous ideas, to lend the ordinary corruptions of power an intellectual sheen." www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

A wonderfully candid interview in the Irish Times with Ireland Rugby captain Caelan Doris, touching upon vulnerability, going to therapy and persistent self-doubt. www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...

“…Our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be– who else? The people of the United States.” – Gore Vidal, writing in a Dec, 1994 edition of The Nation.

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

The Higher Education Authority has published its policy framework for generative AI in higher education teaching and learning. hea.ie/2025/12/22/h... Policy framework: hub.teachingandlearning.ie/genai/policy... Resource portal: hub.teachingandlearning.ie/genai Thanks to everyone involved.

Most excellent. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

My new work Redd is live on @Kickstarter It is a 7 year exploration of community interaction within inland waterways. Link for preorders here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gae... #35mmFilm #AnalogPhotography #FilmPhotography #PhotobookCollector #PhotoBookCommunity #KickstarterPhotobook

If you think that an entire estate shouldn't be summarily evicted by absentee landlords, lend your voice to this petition in support of people in Killarney. chng.it/Mt4JsYgD5Q

"...the idea of a sportsperson being so infantilised as to hail the arrival of a politician onsite as something that might turn a match around is just so eye-bleedingly ludicrous. But this is seemingly where America is at now." www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/2...

The great Phil Ochs came to mind recently youtu.be/gApvH1WDr_g?...