Now I'm wistful, remembering my trip to Dublin years ago. Of all the touristy things we did the most enjoyable and fun wasn't even on our radar until some locals told us about it. It was delightful. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...

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This evening in @tcddublin.bsky.social thanks to the Student Union. All welcome!

Anyway, I suppose I should bring this chart of local authority house building up to date.

This is an important part of the future of rural economies. There is no justification for forcing those of us who can work on laptops into crowded cities to tap the same keys we could tap anywhere in the world. If a manger can't manage us with telework tools, that's a skills issue. Not my problem.

There’s a weird attitude among many Irish people that no punishment is too great for the smallest of crimes. Plenty of Irish people are also racist. When those two things meet, you get the most disgusting opinions imaginable

When I moved to Dublin in '06 at the height of the Celtic tiger you could rent a very basic 1 bed studio in Rathmines for about €650 a month. Adjusted for inflation that's €910. You're lucky to get a similar spot for under 2k now!

They're right you know

Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/still-hurt-b...

“It is anathema to the government parties to ever try to cause a drop in house prices- or rent. And that is why our current policy machinery had failed to solve this social crisis for over a decade.” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

“Oops, so sorry, didn’t mean it! Unless….”

rare example of actually decent apology / reversal on "adult content" rules. unsurprisingly, payment processor pressure behind the scenes central to what happened at all

MOLTO BENNE DARREN

yeah, I tend to love AOC's framing, but this is the rare time something felt like a miss for me. I would like the North to pull up to the South & start listening to the civil rights activists down here who have been screaming that this was gonna happen since they started gutting the VRA.

Can anyone who lives within striking distance of Thames Ditton help give an elderly cat a loving home? #CatsOfBluesky

Re-upping this from last week. We have another collab with Black & Irish coming later this year – follow @littleislandbooks.bsky.social to find out more. Little Island will keep fighting for inclusion and hope and a better world for all our children. bsky.app/profile/litt...

Wow, it broke the top 150 😮 I didn’t think niche apps did that anymore. Thanks y’all! No self promotion intended, it’s free. I get paid in ego boosts

Mother of god

Attention Irish journalists and editors: If you feel you can report on the "alleged shoplifting", but not the alleged knee on the victim's neck (unlike the alleged shoplifting, it's in the video of the incident), you need to ask why you made that editorial decision.

Long-form analysis of the polls for the Dublin Central & Galway West by-elections. Looking at what the numbers mean for each of the parties & candidates, a deeper look at how transfers can influence the outcome of both, plus what we can or cannot expect to happen based on these numbers.

I teach Brazilian jiu jitsu, a grappling sport where the aim is to get your opponent to submit due to chokes and/or joint locks. Trained or not, anyone putting pressure on someone's neck knows all the possible outcomes, so this is not an accident or misadventure. Accountability is needed.

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

In Phibsborough, pilgrims gathered at a shrine to the housing gods. It started with a chicken baster, says artist Alison Byrne, which she would take with her to house viewings for luck.

For all my love of Williams' earlier scores, i never even knew her name until now.

A few weeks ago there was a discussion about Tordotcom novellas taking over award shortlists, and I had thoughts. Took me a hot minute to gather them together and of course, my thesis is— (you'll never guess) —MORE RECS. :D 🔗 ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2026/05/19/t...

My dad has printed a few postcards of these: most sets are still available! michaelcoxmoredaysthansausages.bigcartel.com?utm_source=i...

New painting by my dad. He's calling it 'What Cats Do When They're Out At Night'.

"If you introduce an infinite paper-writing machine to a system that defines productivity by the number of papers written, people will use it to write a lot of papers."

There were 648 cancelled spinal surgery operations in the last five years, according to new figures from Children's Health Ireland.

There is a vigil at Arnotts today at 12pm.

Queen Medb of Connacht, famed for her role in the Táin Bó Cúailnge and flanked by bulls Finnbhennach and Donn Cúailnge - formidable warrior queen, shrewd leader, seductive beauty, and one of Ireland's most powerful, strong-willed, and legendary women 🐂 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Gonna be honest, this Rorschach test slogan is not rebuilding any trust here. Enough *what*? I could read it as “time to tackle derelict housing, chronic public underspending, and the rise of vocal hatred”, while someone else will read it as “too many taxes, too much immigration, too much ‘woke’”.

ICYMI earlier, a new episode of the #DeejayCypherFitPod is out! Get some quality yaps with me and @deejayknight.bsky.social as we catch up in episode 8! Support the pod at: ko-fi.com/deejayknight ko-fi.com/tanya_hbic

A #painting for a brief distraction. "Dublin, Purple and Orange" I painted because Dublin is home, and what can one say about one's home? I can actually talk a lot, so could wax purple about it all day, but in this instance I decided to simply give you my Dublin - painted in purple. #art #SpeirGhorm

Also saying the motive was mental illness rather than terrorism doesn't automatically equal more lenient treatment, it's also just making clear that this isn't part of some wider network, that there's no-one else involved who might still be at large planning other attacks.

May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.

even if he had shoplifted the fucking Hope Diamond, the penalty for that is not death

Opportunist-populists deploy visceral rhetoric because it cuts through and delivers dopamine effects when audiences are desensitized to less provocative narratives. See Lembke’s work at Stanford.

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

I’ll be doing one of these on illustration. Check out the full list, there’s loads going on. #SpeirGorm

My very unpopular opinion is that this framing won’t play well in the South. And it might still matter. But what do I know?

I've always felt the best way to get people subscribe to @dublininquirer.com, is just to publish good articles and wait and hope. But I'm told, that people are busy and might have other things on their minds than us, so I'd better make a pitch, better ask. So here goes. 1/

If you're mad at this (and you should be): Tomorrow at 1pm 120 Schermerhorn in BK Rally to demand accountability from the absolute ghouls in our courts.

Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Shoutout to all of my fellow friends in LGBTQIA+ family and to all of our allies too. Proud be your friendly, neighbourhood bisexual. ❤️

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

I however found this comment, which was a rare opposition and conveys a hard and rather more realistic account of the long term effects of cars on rural Ireland, and is a well written example that parallels my own feelings on the changes brought by car dependency in the place where I grew up.

I’m looking for artists who make custom pet sculptures. Handmade ceramic, polyclay, wood, etc— one of a kinds, not just a custom paint job on a mass-produced blank.

Sligo Airport has a brilliant new Restaurant called The Blackbird but ALSO has THIS squeeeeee

Delighted to tell you all that I have a new series in @thejournal.ie where I get to grips with all things Ireland-coded! Have you ever stopped to think... what exactly is a parish pump? jrnl.ie/7040952

she’s in oakland, someone tell interpol