Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president. He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron. The President’s term of office ends at midnight. ⁦‪@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social

"Why do you just attack democrats? Why don't you ever go after republicans?" Same reason I think it's necessary to warn people off an inexplicably popular restaurant that keeps giving everyone food poisoning but don't see the need to warn people off of eating directly out of an open sewer.

I'd really like to know where they're getting them fixed.

And as for 'British' immigrants in Ireland integrating....

'Contentious issues'.

Watching the receptionist at my doctors' surgery deal very patiently with a man chasing up a referral that seems to have gone astray, he with poor English, but beautiful manners and, the final touch, a bunch of flowers to brighten the place up. People can be good.

Long shot, but does anyone know anyone in Leeds/ W. Yorks more generally who could fix an old hifi amp for me? DMs open....

Fantastic record this - bought ages ago, maybe played once. Until now....

Just back from an early showing of The Mastermind where we had the cinema entirely to ourselves. We still sat in our booked seats, turned phones off and didn't talk.

I never realised how much I appresicated the Irish ban on fireworks until I had to deal with the confluence of Halloween and Guy Fawkes here - and they're still fucking at it on 8th November.

My club.

'The Anglo-Saxons have a humorous vision of the enormous ennui that characterises their social life' Henri Lefebvre. (In a somewhat pompous book, it must be said)

Post yourself from a different era. Leftie on he laft.

Upside down tele and ill-advised goatee - Star Heavens Band at the Bull and Gate, Kentish Town, 1986.

Long walk along the Meanwood Valley Trail this morning. Gloriously autumnal and very warm for November

Sheffield should be twinned with Detroit really.

This so translates to a recent Irish election.

I'm not sure I've ever said 'good man, Alan Kelly before ' but there's always a first.

See also Fintan O'Toole on Catherine Connolly.

That's not a knock down argument for keeping the Beeb...

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

Folks, just letting you know about some new funded PhDs ops at @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @mybcu.bsky.social www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc...

Honestly, being familiar now with Leeds and Birmingham, I shudder at what might have happened.

@richardmortimer.bsky.social you've prob seen this?

Great fun, and especially liked the captioned architects.

Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday? Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat? If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇

Review of Lee Hazelwood's Poet, Fool or Bum in the NME: Bum

You can't be on the side of ordinary decent people and tech bros. One or the other.

Exactly

Thank fuck for that

See Ireland trailing a few years behind.

Nothing scarier than Bohs taking an early lead.

You don't think recent comments by you, the Tánaiste, and the Minister or Justice have anything to so with these events, so you?

This is your fault O'Callaghan, almost as much as if you threw the firework.

'We are where we are' is the motto of both the civil war twins. No expectation that we could go somewhere else.

Dublin drag queen called 'Anne Anyways'

PARENTS BE VIGILANT check your kids' Halloween sweets, I just found two vast and trunkless legs of stone in an eternal king of kings wrapper 😠

Either a) the established parties have no idea what just happened because the appeal of fairness, equality and empathy is beyond them or b) they know exactly what happens and they are scared.

I thought the point of independence was not having to do everything the English do?

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

The leader of a political party founded by an immigrant who was the son of two immigrants.

Harris always looks like someone in his first suit going for his first interview and practising serious face in the mirror.

'Widely regarded' - the usual IT response of 'what will the neighbours think?'

I saw the best kings of my generation destroyed by time prowling the desert sands at dawn looking for their legs.

Does anyone remember The Queen and I? a radio series written by Sue Townsend, early 90s, imagined the Royals deposed by a republican govt and given a council house in the midlands. IIRC, Chas and the Ma got on with it, whereas Andrew, Margaret and the others did not adjust.

Superb

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

Our dog, Max, wolfed down a teacake inadvertently left within reach; as raisins are meant to be very bad indeed for dogs, we rushed him to the vet to have his stomach pumped. Expensive, possibly life saving. From now on we're calling him Teacake Max.

It's grim up north