The SocDems have often taken a hammering over their opposition to the nitrates derogation. The question should be - why haven’t the other parties stood up?

Everyone loves having a go at teachers over long holidays - fair enough. But burnout and stress are not functions of the amount of days worked. The initiative overload being rolled at teachers and school leaders in the past decade has become a runaway train. www.into.ie/2025/12/09/i...

If anyone wants to track votes at other councils (DLR? SDCC?), besides DCC and Fingal, which we at @dublininquirer.com are going to do, you're welcome to have a section on the website with your name on it, which you update and take responsibility for. Get in touch: [email protected].

There's a bill to ban hunting foxes with packs of dogs coming before the dail on Dec 17th. Fuck 'rural pursuits' sign and share and contact your FF, FG, and SF TDs and tell them to support the ban my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe...

There was a piece on this on Morning Ireland this am in which the RTÉ correspondent informed us that it was “good news” that the derogation would continue, but bumps in the road lay ahead. Simply extraordinary.

Now’s the time to get your Christmas orders in. Our lovingly-made A2 art prints showing every Pat’s home kit ever are available for collection or delivery. So are our new ‘All-Time Saints XI’ A3 prints featuring club legends and copies of ‘Saints Rising.’ historystpats.myshopify.com

Home kit A2 art prints, copies of Saints Rising and our new All-Time Saints XI A3 prints are all available now at historystpats.myshopify.com Collection and delivery options available. Great Xmas presents for the Pat’s fans in your life - or yourself! 🔴⚪️

Fair play to the Toy Show organisers for promoting cash-strapped English Premier League clubs and their massive international sponsors!

So many of the shower who administer the people’s game are sociopathic creeps. There’ve always been dodgy characters running football, but they’re getting worse and more extreme. Everything good that happens in our sport is in spite of them, not because of them.

If there’s a Saint in your life this is an ideal present at any time #Speirgorm #Spéirghorm

Brand new! Our All-Time Saints XI was chosen by more than 4000 votes of Pat’s fans. Now you can get yourself a lineup print featuring one of four Saints legends. The A3 size card prints are available for just €12 each or €30 for the full set. 🔴⚪️ historystpats.myshopify.com

Happy birthday Paul McGrath - voted for by the fans in our All-Time Saints XI. One of our greatest ever. 🔴⚪️🇮🇪

Seven years today since I got a personal favourite letter published in the Metro.

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Surprised but delighted to see a renewed interest in my book, ‘Saints Rising,’ in recent weeks. It’s about far more than Pat’s - it’s a social history, and the story of a climb from bottom to top that’s unparalleled in Irish sport. Available for collection or delivery. historystpats.myshopify.com

Perhaps understandably overshadowed by the other motion, but the proposal to rename the Diamond Park would have been an incredible tribute to both Terence Wheelock and the ceaseless efforts of his family to have justice. www.thejournal.ie/proposal-to-...

Last shout for my article on Patrick Sex of Dominick Street, Dublin - a victim of the War of Independence he ended up having a huge funeral and his family being the beneficiary of two charity matches arranged by @bfcdublin.bsky.social abohemiansportinglife.com/2025/11/27/t...

The top posts X is boosting to millions of people about the anti-immigrant “New Republican Movement” in Ireland are coming from accounts based in the US, UK, and Canada

this is fucking obscene stuff. every western leader should be hounded by journalists over this kind of thing.

Rinne mé dearmad ar an séimhiú. ABL - Always be leniting. #SpéirGhorm

A bit weird to read about threats to your life in a national newspaper. Not for the first time. It has slowed down a bit as most anti-vaxx loons have graduated to far right/racism

Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

The people of #SpéirGorm have been very supportive of our new History St Pat’s art prints and our not-so-new Saints Rising book. Please keep on supporting us! 🔴⚪️ historystpats.myshopify.com

Hellooooo from Richmond Barracks We're here all day from 11-5pm! Lots of St. Pat's and other lovely league of ireland and sports stuff. Award winning children's book Irish book awards winner @shannonberginart is also here with me to help out for the day if you want her to sign your face 🤩

This is madness. All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale. The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”

No likes on #SpéirGorm for this - but two sales! Thanks! 🔴⚪️

10% off art prints and Saints Rising for today only at historystpats.myshopify.com 🔴⚪️

Christmas cards available now and shipping here and abroad, featuring a choice of either a traditional Irish Christmas fireplace, or an Cailleach, the ancient Irish bringer of winter ❄️ Traditional Irish Christmas: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/... An Cailleach: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Boiling the oceans for this absolute shit

Thirty years since the best reaction to losing a referendum was spoken! In 1995 one of No Divorce Campaign leaders Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna,on leaving the RDS as the 15th amendment to allow divorce was passed,shouted to celebrating pro divorce campaigners,’Go way ye wife swappin' sodomites’!#speirgorm

A deeply depressing read. The poor child at the heart of all this, and her family. This is where the panic merchants are bringing us. m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic...

Blue at no. 1 in the UK this week in November 2001, despite having just made one of the most notorious interview gaffes of all time: news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/...

One pair of numbers nicely illustrates where the Irish housing crisis actually originates. * There were 1000 housing units awaiting planning permission due to judicial review in 2024. * In 2024 there were more than 80,000 housing units with planning permission on which construction had not started.

5-star reviews all round. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Saints Rising is the only book on St Patrick’s Athletic. Great for any Pat’s supporter, Irish football fan, or someone interested in Dublin history. Buy online for collection or delivery. 🔴⚪️ historystpats.myshopify.com

Still my favourite example of why AI may be artificial, but it's definitely not intelligent

Why AI can’t be trusted. It can be programmed to say any old shit.

Ciara is another amazingly talented artist well worth checking out. Link in her post. Not only is her art deeply authentic and rooted in the best of us and what’s around us, she is a star to deal with. Don’t buy AI and mass-produced nonsense and support talented and decent people!

Barry is a brilliant artist whose art is imbued with so much love for football and our clubs. He is a gent to deal with too. Go check out his work and consider buying over the absolute nonsense on Amazon, Temu etc.

Are we still going on about our art prints? Yes, yes we are. They are beautiful and a great gift for any Saint for Xmas. The prints are A2 sized and come €35 unframed, €70 framed - v competitively priced and any money made goes back into our project. historystpats.myshopify.com

1/ Less than a week ago, Helen McEntee told a thousand principals she was fully invested in education because her own child starts school in September. A few days later she was gone. No goodbye.

This was peak 2020.

The article should clarify that Higgins is also an FG member. I’ve seen this proposal raised twice this week, and it effectively shifts responsibility for addressing the housing crisis away from the Government. Conversely it’s the reasoning FF/FG use for not implementing a ‘living’ wage.

We will have History St Pat’s art prints for collection (and a few for sale) at The Glen of Aherlow pub, Inchicore this Wednesday at 8pm. Why not drop by for a pint or a cuppa and take a look? Need we say it’ll make a great Xmas gift for any Pat’s fan. 🔴⚪️ More details - historystpats.myshopify.com

Some poster in fairness. Chub O’Connor is a great name.

“Rome did not fall, it privatised itself.”

I would love Ireland to qualify for the World Cup for all the usual reasons. But it would also be fantastic to have the whole country festooned in tricolours that haven't been put up by the "Ireland is Full" lot.

10% off books and prints for this eve only - DM me for the discount code. Cool people only. 🔴⚪️

The absolute best thing about this is that it gives younger Ireland fans their own legitimate magic moments. We need to stop going on about Euro 88 and Italia 90. Outside of Robbie Brady in Lille there’ve been very few in the last 20 years.

Heaven of Troy. ⚽️🇮🇪