He *was* risen

one time I was walking into the bar and saw someone beating the shit out of a guy who was already on the ground and before I could intervene a regular was like, oh, no, he was sticking his fingers into girls’ mouths. see that same kind of thing on here every day

Agreed. I remember doing polling before in 2006 and the case that is most fixed in my mind was a family in Kilmacud where all the lads were builders, it was the height of the building boom, Bertie had been in charge for a decade, and they couldn't work out who the Taoiseach was between them.

A chairde, just stop reading the Irish Times op-eds. No good will come of time spent there. Vote with your subs, spend it on something better.

Arguably the largest gap between promise and fulfilment since Charles proposed to Diana.

Manifesting

Today’s the day, in 1916, Roger Casement brought in the guns at Banna Strand. God bless him and happy Easter comrades ✊🏼

Easily the most unpleasant priest I ever came across was a convert from the CoI, where he'd been one of their priests. He immediately demanded that his new parish (in rural west Cavan, after the bust - when Quinn had only just fucked everybody) build him a new and better home, the mean fucker.

friendly reminder: lots of people don't have this weekend off, specifically so you can enjoy your weekend off, be very fucking nice to pub and restaurant and retail staff we are Not Having A Good Time and do not have a four day break coming up

And now, inevitably, Graham Linehan begins his turn to anti-abortion propaganda. You really have to wonder at what point are the so-called "feminists" in the "gender critical" movement going to get it? You're part of a machine that drives people Right, and Far Right.

Look, it's a nice castle, and it'd be a shame if anything happened it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lismore...

I guess, if they're going to be fragging their officers in foxholes again soon, they might as well get some practice in on base too

€1 billion my hole. It was a whispered €1 Billion before COVID, back when the stickerprice was €250m A ring road in Galway is either a timewasting auto-failure to keep Canney on-side, or a flooded fuck-up that's going to cost the same as the children's hospital www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

“Where she had written that “the policy of the Minister is to speed up and deport as many applicants as possible”, that was also hidden behind a black rectangle.”

I don't want to go too loud on this, in case I'm catching the end of someone else's April fools gag. But if they do actually announce a ring road around a certain Irish city, and if the thing is actually built, it's gonna cost more than the children's hospital before it's finished.

I can recall how, a generation and more ago, likes of RTÉ would carry reports from Defence Forces telling the Irish public what was going on in the Irish AOR as regards attacks by Israel and its proxies on the local Muslim communities. It appears that there is now a govt and media disinterest here.

Apparently, the appropriate response to your goddaughter staring at her younger brother and saying "My brother is going to die" is not "We're all going to die". My bad!

a new form of teen fuck-up emerges

Extremely Bluesky that there seems to be a split within the Trans Day of Visibility Beir bua, le chéile!

In late 2025, ISD identified 4 X accounts linked to a covert Iranian influence op targeting Ireland. Posing as Northern Irish users, they sought to insert themselves into local discourse posting on Irish unification, criticising the UK, US & Israel, & expressing solidarity with Palestine/Iran.

Trump is going to build a wall in the Strait of Hormuz and get the Gulf states to pay for it. www.ft.com/content/b948...

The phantom menace was the only one of the prequels that I kinda watched, and I didn't finish it so this undersea adventure is news to me. I presume Jar-Jar related?

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Does anyone have a decent guide for parents of young trans adults, which is irish/EU centred? #spéirgorm #ireland #lgbtqia #queer www.hrc.org/resources/su...

Behold the monstrosity I have grown from the single sprouted tomato seed that was in my burger king whopper

My favourite Norris story is when I was working late one night in an office on his corridor. There's was an enormous bang outside, and all the electricity went out. Moments later David bursts in and shouts excitedly: "The Revolution!!!! Has it begun??" Unfortunately just an ESB transformer blowing

The best thing about this is that it's actually in Győr which voted 60% Fidez in 2022. And it's only a 15 minute drive to the border with Slovakia in case he needs to run.

Tá mé faoi an spéir na hEorpa anois. Cuir click orm le do thoil! Mar ba mhaith liom a fháil amach an bhfuil sé seo ag obair?

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Do thuismitheoirí nach bhfuil Gaeilge líofa acu (mise) bíonn a lán rudaí deasa ag baint leis na páistí ag freastal ar scoil lán-Gaelach, ach go háirithe nuair a chuireann siad ceisteanna mar “What’s the English for dronuilleog?” ort

My fave Garner tale is that ostensibly each day, he'd ask the crew, "Do we wanna make money, or get home?" If they said money, he'd stretch and ask for multiple takes so they could get paid more. If they said home, he'd work tight and fast so they could wrap early. That's a thoughtful gentleman.

When the CIA were in the midst of fucking up their 1954 Coup in Guatamala (their plans leaked but unfortunately it didn't save Árbenz) the station chief there wrote home Dulles and asked him to plant crazy shite in the media, like sextuplets or UFOs, to distract people from the ongoing clusterfuck

Any time you see McDowell in the media you've to remember that he just says shit to get attention. The Seanad can't initiate legislation for a referendum. Being a Senior Counsel, he knows that, and he knows that aping the views of contrarian taxi-drivers gets clicks m.independent.ie/irish-news/m...

Spock looks like he's at a noname disco and saw that fella from the school throwing shapes

Baby for sale

If I'd had herself as a principal I'd have identified as Callisto and gone flirting with bears if I thought it'd get me out of her reach

McDowell stoked a moral panic over "anchor babies" and "citizenship tourism"which claimed that expectant mothers were flying into Dublin and heading straight for the maternity clinic The DoJ had the fool leaning full-body into racism and then he didn't even keep his seat www.rte.ie/news/2004/04...

Mairead McGuinness to become EU religious freedom envoy www.euractiv.com/new... #mastodaoine #speirghorm #iepol She previously worked to promote (US) Christian evangelism in the EU. www.opendemocracy.ne...

Someone somewhere is preparing a PhD proposal on the 2026 Iran-US meme wars but is being outmaneouvred with the funders by a classmate outspecialising them in the 2026 Iran-US Lego diss track battle

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

Peak nominative determinism.

Look, I never read the books because I was a grown up when they came out, and then I never watched the movies because, again, I was a grown up. But also, if yer man turned up at the school I went to he'd have been killed with hammers.

They're laughing with us, not at us www.thejournal.ie/trump-ceasef...

There are degrees of complicity in many European states, but Germany is (and German companies) by far the singular biggest European enabler of Israel’s wars and genocide. Supplying Israel half as many weapons as the USA, with an economy 7 times smaller than the USA.

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

And yet, approx one in five people who live here can't vote for a TD because we restrict the franchise to Irish and British citizens. I'd argue that too many TDs is less of an issue than too few voters.

We've the most centralised government system this side of Moldova. A stricter party whip system than the Brits. And a tradition where governments won't debate a motion that's critical of them, they amend it to talk about how good they are. The last thing we need is a greater concentration of power

They're going to end up giving their banking details to an Iranian prince, aren't they?