1️⃣ "On this day, 19 July 1984, the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began in Dublin, Ireland. Shop worker Mary Manning refused to check out a customer's South African fruit, as members of her union, Idatu, had voted to not handle South African goods. Manning was then suspended, and she and 11 of

I'd be on for ET in this ...

France put down the coffee cup, stub out the gauloise, and get up ...

Anglo-Saxon presenteeism 4 Gallic Shrugging in the face of a pointless task 0

Arsenal 3 up

Excellent goal from the Irish international

No Labour PM who took over between elections has ever won the subsequent GE. Tories have a rather better record in this. Just sayin'

The last lines of Frank Harte's sleeve notes to There's Gangs of them Digging.

Ulysses obviously, but a close second, a non-fiction companion to Joyce

Senator has a Bill 'ready to go' to implement ban on services with Israeli settlements jrnl.ie/7106438

Collins looking sceptical.

21 Grams

Well, this is good

Another record that turned 45 today. If you only know the A-side, then you need to check out side B. Salsa Rappsody (Dub Discomix) was a big tune at New York’s coolest clubs like The Loft and Paradise Garage ▶️ youtu.be/Pb4Vz9Gtbzs

When English politicians go ' for Scotland, Wales and *Theatrical emphasis* Northern Ireland', you know they know F- all about the others north.

Going to a 5 at the back too early = Shabhana Mahmood as chancellor

I would also like to know please?

My great uncle was the director of this theater until he passed last year. The attempted suppression of Palestinian cultural life shows that our culture is an important arena of resistance against Israeli control newlinesmag.com/reportage/is...

Somebody on Reddit just now wants to deport all Argentinian players from the EPL.

Politicians, whatever their views on trans rights, should be concerned about this. A small group of dedicated & influential campaigners, bankrolled by a billionaire, are aggressively going after the rights of a minority group, & after anyone who dares question their actions. Wildly anti-democratic

Coming Soon. Englishmen Don't Count: How we forget the real victims of history.

Poppy cocks

Job done in Gibraltar for Bohs. I'll admit to being more hypnotised by the inviting Med beyond the touchline than the game itself.

Bright sunshine streaming through every window making it clear how dusty everything is. 30 degree head making cleaning impossible.

A defence barrister in Australia was setting out the mitigating factors re his clients guilty plea for raping a 14 year old girl, he said it ‘only’ lasted for 5 minutes. Judge Ryan Haddrick interrupted and ordered the court be silent for 5 minutes, to show just how long it is. Powerful & necessary

Someone English on Instagram was going on to me about (O)Irish* self-pity this week.... * Yes, they went there.

Funded PhD opportunity klaxon! We at the Dept of Psychology are currently inviting applications for a funded Departmental Assistantship starting in September. More details here and in the following thread: www.mic.ul.ie/faculty-of-a...

Mutatis mutandis: We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.

There is something both inelegant and very funny about the once colonial power trying on the clothes of the oppressed. Your history has given you the prize of being a very rich country; you can't then enjoy the luxury of forgetting how you got there. Because the rest of us remember.

James Dillon, just before he became leader of FG in the early 50s, stood up in the Dáil and said that people weren't leaving the country in their thousands because of economic want, but because of an unpatriotic desire to better themselves and we were well rid of them/

I'm glad I don't work in a history dept. The humour is clearly savage.

6 defenders on the pitch and conceding 80% of the pitch and possession was not genius after all

Well now

One mildly annoying thing about this WC is that it's burnishing Beckham's inflated reputation. If you don't remember him as a player you'd probably think he was up there with the greats. Which he wasn't.

Scottish poster friend on ILX just now re this match: "It's like Auchinleck Talbot v. Largs Thistle but with less football."

War by other means so far.

Remember when footballers just wanted to buy a pub with their testimonial Dosh?

The residential care facility across the road (adults 18 -80) are having a party and the playlist is a perfect encapsulation of the 'songs everyone knows' folk pop canon. From Should I Stay or Should I go, Hi Hi Silver Lining, I will Always love you.... Songs with nothing generic in common except/

Couple arrive in Casablanca. Leave a few days later.

I suspect that most Scots will react the way Irish people do when being instructed to be 'mature' about the England team

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres desolé

" the sport has found a knack of riding out most attempts to cheapen it over the past month" From the Guardian report. True I think, but close.

Can the French Bastille this? (Non)

That Yamal 'goal' was sensational

Aux armes ...

Spain in control

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Listening to Sinatra's Only the Lonely on the back of Ian Penman's essay in It Gets me Home... Riddle thought it was his best work because he had a whole week to arrange and rehearse.

I won't be giving another penny to @amnesty.org unless they come out swinging here. If they only defend the human rights of some people, I will find a charity that defends all people.