For the UK to then use that as a study guide... well, that is a whole new sub-basement of idiocy.

It’s almost as if we might just save ourselves after all

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

She also got a great one of the #cat. Orange cat, orange sky.

Shepherd's delight in Co. Monaghan tonight #speirgorm My daughter took the photos, she's much better at it than I am!

It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I want to.

Cllr Yemi Adenuga and Dr Ebun Joseph: Cllr Adenuga (from 13 mins): www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... Dr Joseph: www.thejournal.ie/readme/racis...

“Then he came, the speaker. He stood in the square. He told us who to hate.” Been starting my mornings with William Stafford. Did not expect this one. (From The Way It Is) #poetry #writing

Lovely mural up on the North Strand today. There's a few people about the place who like to think it belongs to them and them alone, but it belongs to us all. Thanks to @dwmalone.bsky.social for the pic!

Irish Mammies: ‘If America went and jumped off a cliff, would you do it too, would yeh?’ #SpeirGorm

Peak #speirgorm

hands up if you already interpret the british or english flags as symbols of violence

Well, I won’t be reading this absolute tripe on behalf of the queer people who were tortured, the young women who were locked up, the women who died giving birth, the people excluded from jobs, condemned to unhappy marriages, forced into exile, hounded from public life, shamed from towns…

Harking back for the days when "happiness" was the suppression or emigration of LGBT+ people, 1% of the population was imprisoned, kids were beaten and alcoholism as self medication for trauma was rife so yes Breda things are better now. Better not perfect

I refuse to pay for the Irish Times while it has a homophobic iona institute creep like Breda O'Brien in it. Was Ireland healthier & happier when abused women couldn't divorce their abusers? When gay men were imprisoned for being gay? When unmarried mothers were enslaved? That's Catholic Ireland!

"For more than 150 years, the Catholic Church has championed the right to housing and dignified work," says Breda O'Brien, finding a whole new euphemism for the Madgalene Laundries. #FeckOffIona

Just back from spending time in Poland in the Carpathians and with my in-laws. Left a wedding gift from them in the taxi from the airport. The driver was an absolute gentleman, from Warrenmount, living in Rathcoole. What are the odds of finding him? #speirgorm

He civily argued that certain groups should be exterminated (for god of course). He argued with great civility that blacks were inferior to whites. I think you need to take some personal time and consider what is important in discourse. Terrible things politely said are still terrible.

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

The political attacks on LGBTQ+ people, especially trans people, are part of a concerted push to institutionalise authoritarianism. We can only defeat fascist ideas by refusing to coddle or sympathise with those who spread them. Solidarity with LGBTQ+ and other communities defending their existence.

Irish Examiner... #Aras25 #FeckOffIona

About fucking time.

German national airline Lufthansa has been illegally transporting missile components through Dublin Airport to the Thales arms factory in Belfast for the past year. www.ontheditch.com/missile-part...

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

“analysis also highlights an issue as half of migrants with critical skills work permits are leaving the country within five years to work elsewhere.” Migrating to another country is enormously expensive, it takes time, energy, leaving friends and family & everything you know. Why do they leave?

Research on LGBT pupils removed from Stormont's education department website www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is truly massive and the ‘Gender Critical’ are already boiling their piss dry over it. Archive link follows so the rag doesn’t get a click

Ok, I was giving JG the benefit of the doubt, but that's him ruled out. #Áras25

My Etsy shop's now open for my 5 sets of greetings cards:spring,summer,autumn,nature/botanical collections & tiny posies.I post to the US now too I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Once again I thank all the gods we are in the EU #speirgorm. If we lived 5 miles further north than we do, my son would have to drop out of school rather than go through unbearable torture under the new proposed guidance for schools in NI. My heart breaks for those kids and their families.

"Kildare Street shouldn't be telling Kerry what to do," says Maria Steen, who thinks Rome should be telling everyone what to do. #Aras25 #FeckOffIona

Missed this rather excellent article from @soozysuze.bsky.social

"We will blaze it, we will raze it, bring the mol-o-tov tov tov."

This is exactly where I am too, with the added difficulty that she reminds me very strongly of my mother (highly principled, highly intelligent, well intentioned, sometimes naive, ENTIRELY unable to utter the words "I was wrong".) #Áras25

Steen is one of the most insidiously awful people this country has ever produced. An empathy free self-regarding fundamentalist who wants to turn Ireland into a theocracy and who loves a microphone almost as much as she loves herself. I’d rather have the idiot fighter in the Áras

#speirgorm ... intriguing mash-up,it must be said💙📚

"address the needs of working-class communities living in the city centre. By focusing on the needs of people who aren’t rich, the direction of the city becomes honed on livability rather than “experience”. An experience is temporary. Everyday livability is robust and long-term" #speirgorm

Cauvery is one of the nicest people you could ever meet, and I hate that she has to write this. We need leadership and firm action now before the very worst of us succeed in dragging us all down with them

Lol I remember her showing off her new full length honey blonde mink fur coat to Enda Kenny in the atrium of leister house one day in 2012(ish), while the wheelchair association were in the snow protesting outside the gates about their carers respite leave being cancelled. She did a twirl.

I had a bizarre but pleasant dream last night that beavers had arrived in Ireland and the Council were putting up a "beavers crossing" sign at the end of our road. Then this morning I see this post. Sadly I fon't have a history of prophetic dreams but here's hoping.