I think regularly about the far right lads getting a Garda escort into a library to harass staff. Never been explained. But sure how can that be explained in a way that doesn't suggest the very worst.

This "Connolly will upset the EU" stuff is also ridiculous btw. The EU can deal with Meloni, Orban, Fico etc etc on a day to day basis. The idea that a figurehead's words might somehow meaningfully damage Ireland's standing is genuinely deluded.

The Indo was a lot more sympathetic to repossessions when the Garda were depicted as helping

I did not realise that the stick I threw in anger was, in fact, a boomerang.

I'll Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Play Moate, Co. Westmeath Again). Only a couple of years before his 1993 comeback, Meat Loaf was reduced to touring the provincial towns of Ireland: here's a brilliant piece on how that went for him www.loudersound.com/features/mea...

'The plan? Stake our entire reputation on a huge group of Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans behaving themselves.'

Short piece by Jamie McLoughlin and myself in @thejournal.ie drawing on our article 'Does the Irish Constitution Forbid a Vocal Presidency?' in Dublin University Law Journal last year. In short, a political vocal presidency is constitutional. www.thejournal.ie/readme/micha...

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Me: so these crates are a bit heavy. Can you, you know, do your thing? Bruce Boxleitner: what

A shocking picture has emerged from Syria of a senior politician meeting with a murderous dictator.

Heather Humphreys claiming the "hard left" use defamation suits to "bully" people who criticise them is very funny given 1. It was her government which failed to deliver the promised anti-SLAPP legislation 2. That likely wouldn't have helped her anyway in this case of very unambiguous defamation

Humphreys only dropped the Green Paper because Simon Harris became Taoiseach and so much of his political reputation is based on his supposed concern for disability rights that he had to bow to activist pressure on those vile policies she wasn't brave, she was defeated

This will be the first presidential election I can vote in since becoming an Irish citizen. Is Catherine Connolly perfect? Nope. But if Ruth Dudley-Edwards, Ivan Yates, and Bertie Ahern all are against her, it makes me all the more certain of my vote. #SpéirGhorm

Heather Humphreys on the News at One asked about her government's failings on issues like housing. She points to what they inherited in the construction sector and the economy. Unrelated: She has thanked Bertie Ahern, Mary Coughlan and Mary Harney for their endorsements since yesterday. #Aras25

Please, please, please bring this to Dublin

It looks like Connolly just lost the Tory vote. I'm sure that that this will bring her campaign crashing to a halt.

Nobody: Irish News Media: ALL OF THE ENOCH BURKE, ALL OF THE TIME!! IT’S NON-STOP BURKE FAMILY UPDATES!! [Look at his sister, she’s going to do something weird!!] THE BURKE DRAMA IS OFFICIALLY GOING ON FOREVER!!

Gentle reminder…the Special Criminal Court was opposed trenchantly and for compelling reasons by Mary Robinson before she became President; its continued existence has been criticised by the UN Human Rights Committee, UN Special Rapporteurs, the Irish Human Rights & …

At what stage #aras2025 campaign will national media cover this? Owning 2 derelict flats Heather Humphreys has been central to @finegael.bsky.social ideology that's given us record levels of homelessness, vacant homes & dereliction But yet @catherinegalway.bsky.social is the problem #DerelictIreland

Dear Journalists, Muckslingers, adherents to the Ivan the Smearer playbook, and those who genuinely wish to know her position. Catherine Connolly on Russia/Ukraine. A thread of primary sources. Pinned on my page for anyone who needs it. 2022 "Blatant breach of international law by Russia"

The protection of the environment for the benefit of all is a left-right issue. Here’s why: Who benefits from environmental destruction? The rich. Who pays for it? Everyone else. Who pays the most? The poorest people in society. It doesn’t get more starkly left-right than that.

When looking for evidence of Heather Humphreys' stance on animal rights, I came across several articles about a withdrawal of a serious animal cruelty case following her letter in 2017: archive.is/202508280733... someone who Catherine Connolly hired in 2018 is used as media fodder, why not this?

This case involved a farmer with convictions for animal cruelty earned after he had already been banned for life from owning livestock. After Humphreys letter that latest abuse case was dropped. Why is she not being asked about it? @newschambers.bsky.social @drivetime.bsky.social

every day that Heather Humphreys is not asked why she refused to meet with disability activists during the Scrap the Green Paper campaign is another day of ignominy for the Irish press. she's running on her record, yet she's not questioned on it any substantive way

I really think “We’ve made up a rapist. He doesn’t exist. Why won’t you condemn him?!?” is some of the most bizarre Brass Eye stuff we’ve ever seen

Find someone who loves you as much as Alan Kelly loves attention

Does Heather Humphreys think she’s running to be head of the IDA, or President of Ireland #rtethisweek #aras25

One of the oddest things about this election are people pretending that Heather Humphreys isn't a conservative. It's something which has served FF and FG here for decades, they're the "centre", but it's still nonsense.

Last word on Jim Gavin-the former tenant & money story was important but his lack of answer/evasion around the #womenofhonour question is more revealing for me- both of Gavin & the media.The media ran with the money,the issue of violence against women,nothing, just ignored,typical #aras25 #speirgorm

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway We don't even have a word or a phrase for this! theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

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In addition to being totally pathetic, he's also completely wrong. EPA polls consistently show that the vast majority, across all ages, incomes , urban or rural, all want the government to take action. So by polarising, he must mean that Micheal o Leary,Amazon, and Tirlan don't want it

They say you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Martin just looks at the gasping horse, shrugs his shoulders and walks away. His only ambition ever has been to be Taoiseach. Not to do anything with the role, just to be. Not to lead or innovate or inspire, just be Taoiseach.

So bloody useless

Just finished my first Cathay lantern. The crew were a joy to paint and it’s kind sad how much they get lost when put inside the basket. The balloon itself was a slog though. Definitely not doing more than 2.

WHAT ABOUT CATERPILLAR CAKES? PERCY PIGS? CREAM FLOUR? this is so stupid and embarrassing for any MEP who voted for this

Not entirely sure the minister for justice has really thought thru putting himself front and center of a leaked Garda vetting story given how few people would have access to that information

So hang on the government line is now that the gardaí were aware that someone they deemed a potential security threat being let into Leinster House every day, but did nothing about it and told nobody? This story has never made any sense, even less so now

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

It's telling that lots of people who talk about the rule of law in Ireland are not bothered by a legally protected State database being violated to influence an election because the candidate in question is one they don't like.

Me every single budget day: STOP GIVING MILLIONS TO GREYHOUND RACING

"Can't afford" energy credits, can afford €1.7 Billion on corporate tax breaks. It's austerity in a time of plenty! The government sits on €20-25 Billion in rainy day funds, but the government refuses to invest any of it in infrastructure we desperately need.

It's crazy how they're trying to push the 'Russia having control over our decisions as a sovereign nation' nonsense, at the same time as the U.S. is actively gutting legislation in our parliament.

More money for greyhound racing than domestic violence in this year's budget. AGAIN

Absolutely fuming at this Derelict Property Tax move in #Budget25 - any change like this will take years to bed in, meanwhile any efforts to collect the legacy Derelict Site Levy will be abandoned while councils wait for new legislation. A gigantic win for property speculators. Smells like FFG.