Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA. It has made JD Vance very mad. It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?

Leonard Cohen, who died nine years ago today, recites W.B.Yeats at Lissadell House, Sligo, July 31st, 2010. youtu.be/n5vYpWCbHsE?...

Just added to my Etsy shop: 🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars 🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers) 🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos 💐tiny posy mental health kits Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

The moon hath raised her lamp above.

One for the Dead fans on here. Just seen it announced. RIP Donna Jean.

Our awful neighbours across the road have taken down their tacky Halloween decorations and put up their Christmas tree.

The soundtrack to the outdoor work continues. If the first album is a pencil sketch, they bring out the full box of oil paints for this one. Also, being unafraid to be thought preposterous is a useful tool for any artist.

The leaf clearing continues, with some musical assistance.

It’s like the dress rehearsal for the apocalypse outside, but it is Friday, so coffee and cake time. Playing the classics this morning, with the lemon drizzle/Americano combo.

please consider supporting this kickstarter, i really want to read this book (message to all zero of you following me...)

Will l let you in on a little secret? If you pop the code 15 in at checkout, you will bag yourselves a discount. Let's NOT spend money with the big boys. Support small Irish business. We really need you. Reposts would be wonderful. #SLATED #spheirgorm @conorvoice.com slated.ie

Theatre night. Two great friends in this show and delighted to be along to support them tonight.#speirgorm#livetheatre

Now playing. Following the recommendation of @dannykelly.bsky.social last night. Chose this at at random, as I don’t know the artist and I have to say, it’s superb. Veering from very dancy, joyous pieces to widescreen European melancholia. A new favourite. Thank you.

Venceremos ✊ #Aras25

@dannykelly.bsky.social Just listened to that Sebastien Tellier track you posted. Superb stuff, very cinematic, picturing myself strolling down some boulevard. He’s on Apple music and his essential album is “Sexuality”.All I can say is….

This Friday’s coffee and cake shot is a reward for having gone out and voted early.#speirgorm#Aras25

I enjoyed reading this thought-provoking essay on the #Aras25 campaigns by @benfraser.bsky.social

Excellent article #Aras25

Leonard and Hungry Paul review: Droll Dublin dramedy narrated by Julia Roberts is Normal People for nerds

Labour Party leader (and a barrister) Ivana Bacik, has published a statement on Fine Gael's attack ad on Catherine Connolly's work as a barrister, saying it "represents a craven and dangerous attack on a fundamental principle of the rule of law in our democratic system." #Aras25 Full statement:

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Israel says it is stopping the delivery of aid into Gaza 'until further notice'.

Big afternoon and evening ahead at @abbeytheatre.bsky.social Very excited to experience both plays on the one day.

I have the original of this on CD, somewhere in the archives. Enjoying this extended version as I lurk in the kitchen, trying not to disturb my wife’s book club.

#Music #NewJukeboxCafe John Lodge was a pioneering force of British rock’s most underrated band Michael Hann The late musician helped steer the Moody Blues into an exciting and groundbreaking new era of psychedelia www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Change of plans for today. Mrs mmch woke up with a very raspy throat, so the theatre trip is off. Big thanks to the box office staff @abbeytheatre.bsky.social who very smoothly and efficiently moved our booking to next Saturday.

"Saying the quiet part out loud doesn’t make it brave; it makes it bleak. It teaches [...] campaigners that integrity is a liability and that reputational violence is a sign of savvy. It tells the public that truth is optional, empathy expendable, and that politics is just performance warfare."

Much to my surprise and delight, I managed to book a ticket for this. Let those guitars jangle!

"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning." They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔

Oh man!

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/

Spoil your sex by writing Maria Steen on the contraception.

What a wonderful piece of pure cut unfiltered good news. Drink it deep!

Greetings from the Royal Box in La Scala. Not me in the photo, but really enjoying my weekend in Milan.

#Nowplaying Donovan – A Gift From A Flower To A Garden- UK 1968 stereo. #Donovan #psychedelic #rock #folk #1960s #rockmusic #Folk #vinyl #Music #Musicsky #vinylcollection #vinylcommunity

the left hate aspiration, that's why we're backing a woman who grew up in one of Ireland's first social housing projects and became a psychologist and barrister, before getting elected as a councillor, TD and the first female Leas-Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann

Time to play the music, time to light the lights.#HappySaturday

Malachy Clerkin: It’s getting very hard to separate American sport from American ugliness

Oh Danny Boy!#RoversvBohs

Details of the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV in today's Irish Independent. It starts on Friday 17th October at 9pm on BBC One. Do tune in!

Photos before and after ‘the’ photo. ‘Abbey Road’ was released 56yrs ago today. #TheBeatles

Well worth a read, has prompted me to re listen to stuff that I’m not very familiar with.

Off on a little cinema trip for the afternoon.

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In musical terms, this show was superb - I’m not sure how you learn just one of these songs, let alone a whole set - and when Mike Heron appeared, ultimately very moving. Thank you Broadside Hacks et al. 🙏 🦔 #ISB

Have orchestra and branding - will travel #MartyInTheEvening @rteco.rte.ie

I’m now unsafe at any speed. Happy Saturday evening one and all